As time went by, the sun gradually sank, turning the forest faintly visible in the distance into a dim color.
"Woo!"
The rainbow butterfly was sprinkled with phosphorus powder while flying rapidly towards the forest with sparkling special effects.
Of course, in front of him is Luo Zhen as the master.
Luo Zhen and Kirito ran on the grassland as fast as possible, heading towards the forest.
"..."
Along the way, an unspeakable silence filled the space between the two of them.
The two of them didn't even have a single conversation, they just ran forward with their heads down.
Since you want to improve your strength, in this game world, there is only one method that comes to mind first.
upgrade.
Only by upgrading can the character be strengthened. Not only can attributes and skill grids be improved, but the upper limit of HP can also be increased to make oneself safer.
Luo Zhen and Kirito planned to improve their levels.
However, there are relatively safe practice areas around the main street, and the monster levels are also very low. Although it can ensure more life safety and not be killed by low-level monsters at once, in the game , Risk and reward are directly proportional. If you don't take some risks to hunt high-level monsters, apart from other things, the efficiency of gaining experience points alone will be relatively low.
In addition, once the players react to the reality of the death game, there should be many players who decide to act like Razen and Kirito and arrive here first, right
After all, although the efficiency of obtaining experience points is relatively low, it is also relatively safe. Players will definitely start exploring near the starting town and improve themselves bit by bit.
However, in SAO, monsters are refreshed in a certain amount according to a certain time.
That is to say, within a certain period of time, the number of monsters is fixed, and they will not be refreshed unless it is time to re-emerge or the conditions for emergence are met.
Under such circumstances, the safe practice areas around the starting town will definitely be occupied by a large number of players, and the right to kill monsters will also cause various frictions, leading to conflicts between players.
Then, the number of treasure chests in the wild is also certain, and some rare tasks also have a limit on the number of times they can be taken. These resources will become the targets of players' competition.
Whoever gets more resources can become more powerful.
That's why Kirito said that.
"We must monopolize all resources that can make us stronger."
This is what I'm referring to.
Of course, this is a thorny road.
Because of their experience in the closed beta period, most of the closed beta players will definitely have such plans to widen the gap between them and ordinary players and rise above the top players in this world.
Of course, the average player will definitely feel angry, lamented and even resentful about this situation.
Just because of bad luck and not being qualified to participate in the closed beta test, the closed beta players were deprived of the opportunity to become stronger and the right to obtain more resources. In the future, ordinary players will definitely treat the closed beta players Produce huge rejection or even hatred, right
There was no way Kirito didn't know this.
However, he still chose this path.
because…
"I don't want to die..."
The words Kirito murmured inadvertently reached Luo Zhen's ears clearly.
In this regard, Luo Zhen didn't say anything, he just kept running forward with his head buried in the ground.
Although his starting point was different from Kirito's, Luo Zhen also had no intention of giving up the rare closed beta experience.
Selflessly sharing the experience during the closed beta period, sharing in-game resources with all players, and becoming stronger together, Luo Zhen is not that great.
Therefore, Luo Zhen and Kirito rushed to a place together.
It was a small village called Horuka located northwest of the starting town.
Compared with the starting town that occupies the southern end of the first level of Aincrad and covers an area of more than one kilometer, Horuka is a very small village, but it not only has hotels, weapon shops and prop houses, but also It's still within the circle, so as an activity base, it's not too bad.
Of course, this is not the most important thing.
The most important thing is that there will not be too powerful monsters in the surrounding forests, and the efficiency of obtaining experience points is higher than that of the training area around the starting town. In addition, the other players must not have arrived there yet, Luo Zhen and Tong The NPC can monopolize the surrounding monsters, gain a lot of experience points to upgrade the level, and also have the opportunity to get better dropped props and dropped materials. There is no reason not to choose it.
In the first level, there are actually several such villages.
But the reason why Luo Zhen and Kirito chose this village was because they could receive a very popular mission there during the closed beta period.
The mission is called The Secret Medicine of the Forest.
The content of the task is to obtain the ovules of a predatory plant monster in the forest for an NPC aunt in Horuka to refine a medicine that can cure her daughter's disease.
As long as you complete this task, you can get very good rewards.
That reward is something worth pursuing with all your strength for Kirito, and it is also a very effective strengthening method for Luo Zhen in the early stage.
Therefore, Luo Zhen and Kirito were silent all the way, rushing into the forest as fast as possible, and while avoiding all monsters, they moved forward along a trail.
Soon after, Luo Zhen and Kirito arrived at Horuka Village.
Just like during the closed beta, Horuka's area is very small. Even if you add up the number of shops and hotels, all the buildings only have a dozen or so. The NPCs living here are not aware of the sudden change. The two teenagers who broke in had no obvious reaction. They were doing their own things according to their own settings.
Luo Zhen and Kirito were standing at the entrance of the village.
Immediately afterwards…
"Qing...no, Luo Zhen..."
Kirito finally spoke and wanted to say something to Luo Zhen.
However, Luo Zhen had already guessed what Kirito was going to say.
Therefore, Luo Zhen answered first.
"Let's go to the weapon shop first." Luo Zhen said straightforwardly: "Don't worry, I don't really have no weapons, just a familiar with a pitifully low HP and even the throwing props have been used up." The Flying Sword> skill is here to clear monsters.”
After saying that, Luo Zhen headed towards the weapons store.
"Wait...wait!"
Kirito quickly chased after him.
About ten minutes later, Luo Zhen and Kirito appeared again.
However, there were changes in both of them.
Kirito had a brown leather open-collar top on his body, and his original cloth clothes were replaced by leather clothes. Apparently he had purchased new armor to improve his defense.
As for Luo Zhen, the equipment on his body has not changed, except that there is an extra weapon on his waist.
It was a one-handed sword made of bronze.
In addition, Luo Zhen and Kirito also had a lot of medicine bottles in their pockets, and Luo Zhen also had a lot of throwing props in his pockets.
Obviously, both of them used the money they had effectively to achieve the best enhancement so far.