Aincrad, Level 35.
The main street here is a townhouse with white walls and red roofs lined up side by side, full of pastoral style and rural atmosphere.
In the town of Mixie, players are active here almost every day.
Because the front line is now the 55th floor. This floor has already been conquered. However, the top players are basically not interested in anything other than conquering the maze area, so floors like this that have been conquered become the middle level. The player's main activity location.
However, mid-level players are different from the top players in the strategy group. There are very few players who truly aim to complete the strategy.
There are basically three reasons why mid-level players take risks.
One: To get the money needed for daily living, for hotel stays and food.
Two: In order to get the minimum experience points required to stay in the middle level.
Three: It’s so boring that I can’t stand it.
After all, we are in a game world. No matter how much we fear death, if the players really stay in the circle without being able to stay in a hotel or eat, and can only wander the streets doing nothing, then sometimes it is better than death. Still uncomfortable.
Although, in order to prevent even the slightest accident, or simply to say that they are extremely afraid of death and timid, there are still nearly a thousand players who have never come out of the starting town on the first floor. To put it another way, Other players began to leave the town. In order not to be hungry and to sleep on the hotel bed and get regular income, they went outside the circle and took up arms to fight.
Of course, in order not to lose precious lives, players will still be fully prepared to the point of being overly prepared before starting to take risks.
In the world of SAO, the main stage is the floating city Aincrad with a total of one hundred floors.
If it is a general role-playing game, then what level is suitable for activities on what floor should be consistent.
For example, the first floor is suitable for level 1 players to take risks, the second floor is suitable for level 2 players to take risks, and so on, until the 100th floor, which should be the floor suitable for level 100 players.
In ordinary games, this should be such an easy-to-understand setting, right
But sao is naturally something different.
Considering safety issues, it must be about 10 levels higher than the current floor to be considered a level where you will not die easily, which is the so-called safety level.
In view of this, the middle-level players active on the 35th floor are at least around level 45.
As for the 55th floor on the front line, level 65 is considered a safe level.
Therefore, the top players who belong to the strategy team are all around level 65. Only game geeks like Luo Zhen and Kirito can train one to level 78 and the other to level 82, which is very incredible.
On this day, Luo Zhen moved to the 35th floor and saw the middle-level players coming and going here.
"It really feels like an adventurer from another world."
The scene of players wearing various equipment walking by chatting and laughing with each other made Luo Zhen sigh like this.
A closer look revealed that although Luo Zhen had arrived on the 35th floor, Cai Die and Hua Die were nowhere to be seen.
That's a matter of course.
Nowadays, rainbow butterflies have completely become Luo Zhen's characteristics and characteristics. As long as people see two rainbow butterflies, they will immediately recognize Luo Zhen's identity even if they don't know Luo Zhen himself.
Therefore, when arriving at the lower level where there are many players, Luo Zhen needs to collect his familiars into crystal props, otherwise it will definitely cause a commotion.
"Who made the conditions for taming the Rainbow Butterfly so stringent that no one has tamed it yet?"
There are only seven ultra-rare familiars in the entire server. Naturally, it is not something to talk about casually. Let alone conquering it, it is one thing whether you can encounter it or not.
but…
"Not to mention the rainbow flowers and butterflies, there are other familiars."
After nearly a year, players finally realized that the real role of familiars is to assist rather than directly fight. At the same time, familiars are not simple monsters, but virtual creatures with their own thoughts. If they are not treated well, they will die in battle. Escape and even attacks are common occurrences.
This allowed players who had tamed their familiars to appear one after another, and were given a common title of "Beast Tamer" by the players.
However, the abilities of these beast tamers are naturally very different from Luo Zhen's, resulting in the fact that none of the hundreds of top players in the strategy group is a beast tamer.
"I wonder when there will be a beast tamer in the strategy team?"
Luo Zhen was bored and thinking about these things while walking towards a building.
It was a two-story building larger than the other buildings on the right side of the road.
This building is a hotel run by NPC.
"It should be here, right?"
Luo Zhen raised his head and looked at the building in front of him.
According to Argo's intelligence instructions, the Orange-named Guild, which Luo Zhen regarded as a target, has recently been operating on the 35th floor.
"Since they are operating on this level, there should be their hunting targets here."
Luo really thought so.
If it were other players, they would definitely think that the Orange Guild was ambushing other players outside the circle, doing things like robbery, but in fact, what the Orange Guild is best at is not only ambushes, but also infiltration.
"First send the green-named members to the circle to conduct intelligence investigations, find out the wealthy team, try every means to lure them out of the circle, and then set up an ambush. This is the usual method of the orange-named guild."
If it's just a simple ambush, then who knows when we can ambush a team with some wealth
Therefore, this is the best way to commit a crime.
This is also the reason why Luo Zhen came here.
I heard that in this hotel called Fengxiang Jiting, there is a quite famous player who has been living here recently. He has been welcomed and sought after by many players, so many player teams are inviting each other to join the team. .
"In that case, it should be easiest to find the members sent by the Orange Guild to infiltrate here, right?"
Luo Zhen came here for this reason.
So, Luo Zhen stretched out his hand, pushed open the door of the hotel in front of him, and walked in.
As soon as we entered the hotel, some lively scenes appeared.
I saw many players appearing in the hotel, laughing and chatting while eating various dishes.
"If you were on the front line, you wouldn't be able to see this kind of scene during the day, right?"
On the front line, top players will sneak into the practice area or maze area during the day and only come back at night. Even players who level up at night will hide in the hotel to sleep during the day and will not move outside. Therefore, it is lively The atmosphere can only be seen at night, and because there are fewer players on the front line, no matter how lively it is, it is not very lively. If there were not NPCs active in the town, it might be considered very deserted. .
Only at the middle or bottom level, players would not work so hard. As long as they earned enough money to live, there would be countless players who would spend their time playing in the town luxuriously.
"So, where is that player who is rumored to be very popular?"
Luo Zhen looked around.
The next moment, Luo Zhen discovered it.
In the corner of the Fengxiang Chicken Pavilion, many players are gathering together, surrounding a player.
Looking at this scene and seeing the player again, Luo Zhen raised his eyebrows at first, and then spoke with surprise and pleasure.
"It seems like things are going to get interesting now."