It has been five months since SAO's death was gamified and players were imprisoned in this world.
Four months ago, players led by Luo Zhen broke through the first level of Aincrad, breaking the situation where the progress of the strategy had barely progressed within a month, bringing a glimmer of hope to players in this world.
After that, the players seemed to have completely worked up their energy, no longer afraid of monsters, and no longer sad for the current situation. As if they were racing against time, they broke through the famous Aincrad at an astonishing speed. A unique floating city.
Under such circumstances, when the second floor was conquered, only ten days had passed since the players reached this floor.
The third layer was breached even faster, and it only took players seven days.
In other words, although they were restrained on the first floor for a whole month, in about half a month after that, the players on the front line broke through two floors in succession and reached the fourth floor.
The fourth floor was conquered in only three days.
Yes.
Three days.
This is simply an incredible speed.
There are three reasons why this happened so quickly.
One: Players no longer feel hopeless and fearful of the current situation, and some are beginning to move forward resolutely.
Two: A large number of beta testers have joined the forefront, which has greatly increased the speed of the strategy.
Three: The man who carries the only familiar in the entire server and is later known as the "Magician", also known as Luo Zhen, has been the leader of the frontline players since the second level, leading a group of The top players broke into the maze area without fear, found the room where the boss was guarding the floor as quickly as possible, and then started to conquer it, and passed the level without any damage every time.
As a result, not only did the players become very excited and began to participate in the strategy one after another, the number of top players on the front line continued to increase, their combat power continued to increase, and the speed of the strategy increased day by day.
Of course, even if players start to move forward bravely, it is impossible to conquer a floor in only three days every time.
However, with the addition of Luo Zhen and the closed beta test player guild "Red Wing" led by him, the frontline team has been able to advance all the way to the present at a speed of about five days to conquer one floor.
Today, it has been four months since the first level was conquered.
As for the front line, it has already reached the 26th floor.
Not long ago, the 25th floor was conquered, which means that players have conquered a quarter of Aincrad.
However, the 25th floor is also a special floor.
In order to break through this floor, Luo Zhen also worked very hard not long ago, and it was only recently that he finally had some leisure time.
For this reason, in the recent period, Luo Zhen fell asleep for seven or eight hours almost every day, but he still looked listless when he woke up in the morning.
However, in the words of the members of the guild...
"Even without this reason, the president would still be listless every day."
That's it.
Luo Zhen came to this bar in this situation.
This is the base of on the 24th floor of Panareze.
Generally speaking, a guild will choose a place as its base. It is the place where guild members usually gather. The more powerful and wealthy guilds will even spend a lot of kel to buy vacant houses in the game and use them as the guild's base. use.
As the most powerful guild in SAO at present, Luo Zhen's "Red Wing" will not lose to other guilds in terms of strength and financial resources. It is simply a piece of cake to buy a house as a base.
In view of this, Luo Zhen made a decision immediately after seeing the environment here recently.
"Let's buy a house on this floor as a base."
Before this, Luo Zhen had no idea of buying a house and setting up a base.
Because, based on the speed of the previous strategy team, on average one floor would be conquered in five days. Then, the time spent on one floor is quite short. In addition, there are very likely to be people on the floors above. In a better place, Luo Zhen has no plans to buy a house and establish a base for the time being.
But since arriving on the 25th floor, the speed of the strategy team began to slow down, so Luo Zhen considered setting this place as a base.
Luo Zhen was greeted by the guild members and came to the bar of the bar.
There's one good thing about this bar.
That is, various alcoholic beverages can be stored in the bar's own toolbar and provided to players who order at will.
Don't underestimate this benefit.
You must know that in SAO, all food and drinks have durability settings. Some will reduce the durability as time goes by, and some will reduce the durability if taken out of the prescribed eating area. It cannot be It is always saved in the player's inventory and cannot be carried around all the time.
This bar can store all alcoholic drinks and even food such as snacks, so that the durability of food and drinks will not be reduced.
This is also the reason why Luo Zhen takes a fancy to this bar.
"There are also types of food and drinks that will increase the beneficial effect after consumption. These types of food and drinks usually have purchase restrictions and quantity restrictions. If you buy them and store them in the bar, they can be used at any time. Obtaining some buffs will help everyone in the guild carry out strategies more effectively."
Luo Zhen bought this bar out of such considerations.
So, Luo Zhen knocked on the bar and called up the menu list of the bar's own tool bar. After ordering a glass of wine with a low alcohol content, he just picked up the newspaper on the side.
This is a newspaper made by players.
Nowadays, in SAO, there are more than just ways to make money by going out and killing monsters.
In order to earn Kol, players have developed various production and life skills, allowing various businessmen to emerge.
Customizing the latest news happening in SAO, turning it into newspapers and sending them to every floor is also a way of doing business.
Luo Zhen picked up the newspaper, which cost only 10 kels to buy a copy of every day, and read the headlines.
"Big news: The former strategy group guild "Aincrad Liberation Army" merged with the mutual aid organization "mmotoday" in the starting town to form a new guild "Aincrad Liberation Army".
Seeing this news, Luo Zhen raised his eyebrows slightly.
"...?"
Luo Zhen murmured to himself.
"It seems you haven't given up yet, Kibaou."
This sentence was answered by a familiar voice.
"There is nothing we can do about this."
At some point, a petite girl wearing a cloak came next to Luo Zhen and said this while opening the bar menu.
"With that person's personality, even if all the guild members are almost wiped out and the guild's strength is greatly reduced, he will definitely not be willing to give up the struggle, right?"
It was Argo who said this.
This information dealer came here and said this.