After coming out of the exit of the maze tower, the first thing that appears in front of you is a path that runs through a dense and dark forest.
The forest is located in front of the grassland in the growing twilight, and is lined with intricate ancient trees.
Since the outermost periphery of each floor of Aincrad is an open space except for a few pillars, the Labyrinth Tower is located exactly on the outer part. If you come out from inside, you can just bathe in the sunlight that shines at an angle.
The sunlight also hits the forest, giving the trees a fiery red color. The dense mist flowing between the tree trunks shines with a mysterious light after reflecting the sunlight, adding to the noisy chirping of birds and the swaying of the treetops. All seemed lively.
"If it were in the real world, it would be really hard to see such a scene."
Luo Zhen was walking on the path, looking at this situation with emotion.
"Goo!"
"Woo!"
The colorful butterflies and the flower butterflies also seemed to be affected. The previous listlessness was swept away, and they started chasing each other and playing, flying non-stop in the forest, causing the phosphorus powder-like special effects light to swirl around their bodies, making them look... Especially beautiful.
Luo Zhen just let the two naughty little guys play on their own while he walked slowly.
As long as he keeps walking along this path, Luo Zhen will reach Kamdit, the main street on the 74th floor, in about thirty minutes.
Using Camdit's transfer door, Luo Zhen can return to his base of Floria in one go.
This is a beautiful city located on the 47th floor.
The 47th floor is also called the Flower Garden.
Because, here, not only the city streets, but the entire floor are covered with flowers.
Especially in Floria, which is its main district, the streets there are surrounded by countless flowers, and the number of flower beds is even more numerous. All kinds of flowers and plants are blooming all over the ground, showing off their beauty in a dazzling way. , it is a very famous dating place for couples in SAO.
Just half a year ago, Luo Zhen finally made the decision to move the guild base located in Panareze on the 24th floor to Floria on the 47th floor.
That's not only because this floor is very pleasing to the eye, but also because the colorful butterflies and flower butterflies are particularly happy in this garden. They also triggered a very secret mission on this floor, which gave the two familiars a very special reward. After tremendous growth, Luo Zhencai decided to move his base here.
In this regard, the members of the guild did not object.
"Anyway, we just need to have a base where we can gather."
"I'm not in the guild during the day."
"We usually go back to our respective homes."
"Although other large guilds seem to have the habit of treating their bases as their residences, who makes us the closed beta players?"
"Sometimes you have to walk alone."
"that is."
The members of the guild used this reason as their argument and left it all to Luo Zhen to decide alone.
Of course, the guild members still had to decide on one thing.
That is…
"Kirito is prohibited from entering the base!"
"That's right!"
"Anyone can do it! Just don't let Kirito come over!"
The guild members reached this decision unanimously.
"Why!"
Kirito was shocked on the spot.
But it’s understandable that everyone would make this decision.
"This is a garden of flowers."
"The floor rated as the best date spot for couples."
"If Kirito is allowed to enter and leave the base freely..."
"Right?"
The guild members spoke tacitly.
The reason is naturally that our "Black Swordsman" has a heated relationship with a girl from the Black Cat Group who is not far away from joining the strategy team. Once the base is set in Floria, it may be used as a secret date place. .
This is something that singles will never allow.
And this is only second.
The most important thing is that Kirito's luck seems to have gotten better recently.
Just after Luo Zhen introduced Liz to Kirito.
"I heard that little Liz seems to have become Kirito's exclusive blacksmith, right?"
"And it was little Liz who suggested it?"
"Lately, this guy Kirito has been running to the Linda Division."
"How suspicious."
"It's really suspicious."
Kirito was hated by all the guild members.
"No... nothing suspicious! We have a normal business relationship! It's normal!"
Kirito yelled like this more than once, but according to reliable information provided by a certain rapier user, I heard that Liz had made a declaration in public.
"I'm chasing a certain swordsman in black!"
This was Liz's declaration with a slightly red expression, but she still made it openly.
After hearing about this, Luo Zhen was silent for a while, and then had a conversation with Kirito.
"Have Liz and Sachi met?"
"No...no..."
"… Yeah?"
"...Why do you look at me with sympathy?"
"It's nothing, I just want to tell you that you'd better take care of yourself."
"..."
No one knows about this conversation.
However, what is certain is that Kirito's future will never be too peaceful.
To sum up, at the unanimous request of the guild members, Kirito was prohibited from entering and leaving the base freely. He could only come when Luo Zhen issued a summons.
"I...I am obviously also a member of ...!"
Kirito's tearful accusation was naturally ignored by everyone.
At this point, the guild's base was settled in Floria on the 47th floor, which became a place Luo Zhen had to go back to every day.
“Although it’s a bit unpleasant to have to be bullied every time I go back.”
After all, the 47th floor is a famous date spot with quite a lot of couples.
The members of "Red Wings", who have been highlighted by this group of lovers, have also been in love lately. In addition to daily strategies, they have actually begun to pay attention to cute girls.
"These guys won't develop in strange directions in the future, right?"
Luo Zhen watched these guild members who showed signs of puberty with such worry.
By the way, Luo Zhen himself is not much better, and he often feels sad recently.
"Let's try dating a cute girl."
It can be seen that choosing the 47th floor as a base area not only has benefits, but also brings an unimaginable mental blow to everyone, making Luo Zhen doubt whether his original decision to use this layer as a base area was correct. Get it right.
"It's better to find time to move the base area again."
Thinking of all these things, Luo Zhen walked slowly while muttering such words as if he had nothing to do.
"Dang!"
At this moment, a flashing cursor appeared in front of Luo Zhen.
"message?"
Luo Zhen was startled for a moment, then stretched out his hand, clicked the cursor in front of him, and opened the message.
The person who sent the message to Luo Zhen was an intelligence dealer whom he was already familiar with.
"Argo?"
Luo Zhen cheered up a little and checked the content of the message.
It says something like this.
"It has been confirmed that the seventh Rainbow Butterfly was discovered by a team of mid-level players on the 58th floor yesterday. Although they tried to conquer it, they were unable to succeed and were finally killed by a player in the team."
Looking at this message, Luo Zhen was silent for a while, and then sighed.
"It's still like this."