SAO.

The huge floating city Aincrad is a castle built of rock and steel, with a hundred floors. There are several cities inside, numerous streets and villages, forests and grasslands, and even a lake. Between the upper and lower floors

There is a connecting staircase, but the stairs all exist in a dangerous maze area full of monsters.

More than half a year has passed since the beginning of this death game.

Over the past six months, earth-shaking changes have taken place in SAO. After the first floor BOSS was conquered in the first month, players seemed to have found their fighting spirit and expectations. Not only did the death rate begin to drop significantly, but the conquering speed also increased significantly.

.Ten days after the first level BOSS was conquered, the second level was directly broken through by brave players.

Since then, people have seen the hope of leaving the game in their lifetime.

With hope comes motivation. Players began to carry out wasteland reclamation activities on each floor on a large scale. Among them, there were two groups of people who contributed the most.

The first wave was the group of people nicknamed the army. With the goal of liberating all players, they used the human wave tactic to clear many layers.

The second batch is a strategy group composed of a small number of elite players. Different from the people in the army, they have stronger individual strength, leading levels, and richer game experience. These players come from various free guilds, gather together, and constantly

Fight on the front line.

"The nineteenth floor was captured by those guys from the army."

Taking a newspaper, Shazhi suddenly broke into a small villa and said to the three people sitting on the sofa chatting about something: "The latest news!"

"Hey, is that so? Hey, you two, stop making trouble for now."

After Shota heard the news from Saori, he first said something to Kuroneko and Kirino who were criticizing each other's works, then took the newspaper from Saori and said: "Those guys are very quick to attack.

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"I guess I got the news that the strategy team will go there tomorrow to test the BOSS, so I decided to strike first."

Shazhi added next to it.

"Huh? Those guys are really disgusting."

After hearing what Saori said, Kirino said angrily: "Isn't it the BOSS? I want to rob everything."

"Kirino, you are also unhappy about being robbed of the BOSS."

After Shota said with a smile, he immediately noticed the news of three deaths written in the newspaper, sighed and said: "It's all for the same goal. Why can't the army wait until the strategy team has tested the BOSS information before going to get it?

Well, are these reputations more important than names?"

"Well, what Shota said makes sense." Saori nodded and said, "I guess they were anxious because the first kill on the 18th floor was taken away by Shota and you guys, right?"

"What's there to argue about?"

Shota recalled the BOSS ten days ago whose attack methods were all AOE, and said: "That BOSS should obviously be challenged by a few people. According to their style of play, I don't know how many lives will be wasted. Forget it, ignore them, we will eat.

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“Pork chop!”

"PIZZA!"

“Pork chop!”

The three girls habitually reported what they wanted to eat tonight. Shota sighed and said to Kirino, who was the only one who wanted to eat pizza: "I haven't upgraded yet, so I can't bake."

"Ah! You said three days ago that you could upgrade to PIZZA!"

Kirino suddenly raised his eyebrows and said to Shota, who had let him go for three days, "Are you kidding me?"

"Who knew it would be so difficult to get promoted at the last few points?"

Shota shrugged helplessly and refused to argue with Kirino, saying: "Let's eat pork chops with the others today. Tomorrow, I will definitely be able to level up tomorrow."

"I believe you for the last time!"

So Shota smiled and spread his hands, then walked towards the kitchen.

The level the four of them are on is the eighteenth floor, which is the place that was just breached ten days ago. In the past six months, the four of them are still ahead of most players. Not only because they are not bad in the first place, but also for a big reason

Because of the intelligence advantage, I can monopolize some good leveling locations.

A small part of their information came from Kirito, the black swordsman known as the Sealer, and the greater part came from the information dealer Kirito introduced to Shota - Argo, also known as the mouse.

Use your own exclusive secret recipe to make money, and then repay the money in exchange for information.

However, in general, they still make more than they spend, so after about half a year of accumulation, Shota and others finally bought a small villa on the 18th floor. They said goodbye to the days of staying in hotels all day and could live in it.

Now in a place I can call home.

Of course, since most players at higher levels are ahead, Shota and others have received invitations from the army and the strategy team. They say they are the strategy team, but in fact it is just a collective name for the players who are struggling at the top. Guild members, lone rangers

, can all become a strategy team. However, when defeating the BOSS, they will also join forces and attack together.

Of the nineteen floors so far, the attack team has captured seven bosses, while the rest have been conquered by the army.

Later, Shota and the other four people all joined the strategy group. It didn't count as joining. Shota and the others often followed the rhythm of the strategy to level up at the top level, so naturally they were included in the strategy group.

As for defeating the boss... Shota participated five times, and Kuroneko, Kirino, and Saori participated three times.

The pace of the strategy team is relatively stable. They will first test, then discuss, and then move forward step by step. Therefore, although Kirino and the others have participated in three BOSS battles, the level of danger is not even as high as on the first floor.

For the sake of the team, Shota felt that it was necessary to occasionally participate in one or two BOSS battles, under the condition of protection, so that Kirino and the others could learn how to deal with crises.

As for Shota himself, he participated twice more than them. The first time was because he went there secretly behind Kirino and the others' backs. When he came back, he was discovered and given a severe lesson, and everyone played tricks on him.

PLAY. Later, in order to avoid this situation happening again, he simply took the three girls to participate in the strategy.

Anyway, there are very few girls in the strategy team. If you occasionally bring them here, the male players will be like a chicken blood, vying to express themselves. Of course, it is not said that Kirino and the others are holding back. In fact, they are also

Barely reaching the level of the strategy team. Black Cat is even better. Even in the strategy team, there are only about ten players better than her. After all, the name of the black and white sword flower of the strategy team is not for nothing.

Due to her personality, Saori gets along well with male players and is very popular. As for Kirino...

Do you expect her to be able to lower her face and communicate with those people?

But don't mention it, some male players' sex attributes were fully activated after being scolded by Kirino... Some players - specifically the man named Klein, also formed some kind of "KIRINRIN" Queen's Guards.

Expel all those who dare to express dissatisfaction with Queen KIRINRIN.

Shota was originally going to find Klein for a duel, but it turned out that he was just panicking, and he came up with this kind of organization because he really had nothing to do and was looking for something to do. It also didn't affect Kirino's normal life, so he put this plan aside.

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As for Kirino, after learning about this incident, she naturally asked Shota: "Does it surprise you that I have a FANCLUB?"

Yes. Kirino is a model. Although she is not a famous model, there are still fans...

Therefore, Shota made up his mind to leave SAO and eliminate those fans who wanted to get close to Kirino all day long.

I mentioned the Black and White Sword Flower before, and Black refers to the fallen angel black cat - of course, this nickname was decided by herself. White refers to Asuna, the shining rapier. Speaking of Asuna, she seems to

I have been doing well recently, and I have even joined a guild called the Blood Alliance Knights - a guild composed of only a few elites. And another old comrade from back then, Kirito, was a lone ranger even in the strategy team.

He has always been far ahead. Of course, he will still participate in the BOSS strategy.

The second time Shota participated in the strategy battle alone, it was the strategy battle for the 18th floor BOSS. Since there were fewer tactical designators, there were only ten people in the strategy team, and Shota was one of them. Also participating was Ya.

Sina and Kirito.

As for today, according to the date, it should be Sunday, which is a rest day customized by Shota and the four. Today, they do not do any tasks, do not go to fight monsters and level up, they just stay at home and relax. Saori is used to running out to find people to collect

Some information, or buying some weird things or ingredients. As for Black Cat and Kirino, they never forget their otaku nature even in the game. When they are bored, they just write "Mei Lulu" and the dark one.

What kind of fan fiction.

Sorry, Shota said that after more than half a year, he had forgotten the name of the anime that Black Cat liked to watch.

Today, Shota's level is 1, and everyone else's level is 9. Of course, Black Cat is almost 0, while Kirino and Saori are just at level 9.

They are all within the top 100 levels among current players. As for the current highest level, it is probably Kirito's level. Maybe, by tomorrow, he will reach it.

"Deng Deng Deng."

Just when Shota was preparing to cook, he was suddenly reminded that a visitor was coming, so he didn't even bother to take off his apron, etc., and walked directly to the door of the room and opened the door.

"Hey, Asuna, why are you free to come here today?"

What appeared in front of Shota's eyes was Asuna, who was fighting alongside him ten days ago.

However, after hearing Shota's words, Asuna's mouth seemed to twitch slightly.

"It's better to come early than to come late. It's just right. We are just preparing to cook. Let's come in and eat together."

Shota smiled and extended his invitation, but Asuna suddenly said unhappily:

"Captain Heathcliff asked me to ask if you are free tonight?"

"Yes." Shota nodded and said: "But, just send a message to talk about this kind of thing. I came here specially...ah, you really want to come and have a meal. It's okay, I won't mind..."

Asuna's expression became even more unhappy.

"Hey, Shota, Asuna is here too."

Just when Shota and Asuna looked at each other, a young man wearing a black cloak suddenly walked up the street. After saying hello, he walked up and looked at the two of them strangely and said, "What's wrong?"

"Hey, Kirito is so lucky today."

"Eh?" Kirito asked with some confusion: "Didn't you say after the boss battle that Asuna and I would come over to have a meal together on Sunday?"

"Ah, it seems like this is really happening."

Shota nodded.

Then he met Asuna's gaze.

"Oh! Isn't this the famous shining Asuna?"
Chapter completed!