Marianne Bell is going to meet the person who provides the method to obtain [Humanization].
The ID character used by that man was exactly the person Wales had in mind just now.
That person caused her to constantly encounter understandable but difficult resistance in the process of starting a business in this world. As a result, even though she had inherited the unique skill [Greedy] due to the characteristics of her soul and was able to achieve more externally, she could only do so.
Choose SAO and make a desperate effort to keep up with the changes of the times and become the leader.
"But that's fine. That world hegemon will soon become history. Just because of such boring reasons as players being disqualified."
Marianne Bell, who rose to power by playing with the human spirit and economic and political means but failed due to lack of combat effectiveness, deeply realized that this world similar to her first life would be the same as the world in her second life under the upcoming new laws.
Personal strength is more important than economics and politics.
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Aincrad, Floor 75——
"The Skull Reaper" - a centipede that has become undead with only a skeleton left. It is as long as a train, and its countless legs move together as fast as a train.
Although it doesn't have any sense of living beings, it won't have any ups and downs of emotions, but it is really a little upset at the moment.
It kept moving its huge body, using the two huge and sharp bone scythes in front of its body to cut all human adventurers on the path in two, or even three or four sections. If it was dodged, it would try to chop off its legs.
Just use a flick attack to last up the damage.
All killed in one blow.
It really doesn't understand why these people never give up to disturb its daze and sleep even if they keep dying?
What it doesn't know is that even though the opponent seems to have a large number of people, it has been forced to a desperate situation.
American players are almost completely finished. Not long after SAO turned into a death game, they implemented the policy of isolating and expelling players from other countries. They will also use nepotism to force SAO into their own service area before the open beta, which has greatly benefited them.
The underground maze with rooms used by staff to maintain core systems in emergencies is completely reserved for their own use, ready for their own logged-in technicians to analyze and crack.
The underground labyrinth provides the American servers with about 30% of the overall income of high-end food, money and equipment materials. However, the entrance to the core system maintenance room was set up by Kayaba Akihiko with a very difficult gatekeeper BOSS, making them completely unable to use it.
Although I tried strategies, they all ended in failure.
Even so, the role of the former alone allowed them to organize and assist those national player groups that did not have independent service areas due to the small number of players and tie them tightly to their own tanks.
As a result, due to the "earth cut", they were completely separated from the underground labyrinth. Most of their territory was divided into the sixty-eighth to seventy-fifth floors, and they were also separated from most of the Wanjia Group that became vassals.
This alone is not a big deal, but the previous policy offended the countries with the largest number of players. All American players scattered below the 68th floor were quickly arrested and imprisoned, or even directly eliminated.
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The American players in the base camp were also attacked by the furry bears assigned to the 51st to 65th floors.
The Maozi player deliberately did not immediately open the connection between the fiftieth floor and the transfer door below, and the following has no plans to conquer the fiftieth floor for the time being. It seems that some kind of tacit understanding has been reached.
Without the horizontal geographical barriers and the combat rules that have become closer to reality, the American players, who are somewhat disadvantaged in terms of numbers and toughness levels, withstood the truly bear-like offensive of the furry bears. They were unable to jump to the lower levels and the battle situation soon became worse.
It became one-sided.
Although he also considered using props such as transfer doors and transfer crystals to penetrate the opponent's sphere of influence and let the bear use rat weapons, the object of assistance that the bear received after accepting the task was a "bloody red riding hood" with a "silence" function.
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A sentence of "forbid Americans to speak" blocked their hopes.
If it is just "muted", there are ways to overcome it. You must know that there is a silent abnormal state in SAO. Although it hinders speech, it does not prevent vocal communication and code communication. However, no matter what kind of transmission function it is, it is difficult to use the system well.
The recognized standard pronunciation of shouting out the location word for word will not be effective.
Now, apart from facing the furry bear, they only have the option of going up to attack the BOSS and clear the floor to find new opportunities. If there are territories occupied by players from other countries, there might be hope.
However, I didn't expect "The Skull Reaper" to be so strong. It was obvious that the 70th to 74th floors were successfully broken through even though they were rushed and cost some casualties...
Even the tank players with the strongest defense were cut into pieces by the Skeleton Hunters like potatoes. They were killed on the spot with just one blow. So how could they fight?
If they had the technology of Mao Xiong, where ten people can activate heavy sword skills at the same time to superimpose the power of Mao Xiong, there might be a way, but that is not in line with the American style. They prefer to stack the thickest heavy armor for defense, and use long soldiers and throwing spears.
Safely output from a distance slightly behind the shield wall, because the income from the underground labyrinth they originally occupied was enough to support them in relying on equipment to survive.
There is nothing wrong with this tactic, but when the defense is completely useless, it is their death.
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real world--
"Have you started turning over the table?" Frenda sat on the bed holding a can of salmon and watching the news on TV "worryingly", as if she was worried about world peace.
The "ball treaty" countries headed by the United States are deploying six single aircraft carriers and quasi-aircraft carrier battle groups to the waters of the so-called first island chain.
In response, the world's most populous country and the world's largest territorial country also joined forces with friendly countries to conduct joint military exercises in the waters near the island country. A total of four aircraft carrier battle groups and more than 50,000 troops participated in the exercise.
Although it seems to have nothing to do with the fact that almost all the players in the beautiful country died, it is just an inevitable event that occurs in the competition between major powers, but anyone with a discerning eye should understand - it is certainly not irrelevant.
After all, SAO has demonstrated its ability to interfere with the human body. Judging from the current changes, it has reached the level of targeted genetic modification and racial evolution. As the world's most powerful country, almost all samples have been lost. How can this be accepted?
"The main body is still there playing hamster for fun. Once the war breaks out, no matter how complete it is, it must be realized immediately. By the way, Kakino has not been in contact recently. What the hell is that guy Aizen doing?
?We are not planning to gather those NPCs who are at a loss after materialization to form a virtual night palace to promote confrontation... Wouldn't it be better to call it Tiandao Palace?"