The BOSS on the second floor, which had been constantly changing, was finally successfully broken through by the "Aincrad Combined Army" at 2:00 pm on December 10, 2022, the thirty-fourth day of the death game. It took 6 days to enter the second floor, and the BOSS After two hours of fierce fighting, the breakthrough to the second level was completed.
Although this strategy was a bit hasty, if Argo hadn't dared to tell the real BOSS the information about the Golden Bull King, perhaps this strategy would have failed and ended sadly.
Because the strategy was completed with insufficient information, seven people died in the strategy team this time. In just two levels of battle, nearly one-tenth of the number of promoted people had died.
Now it is no longer a question of people in the army not wanting to prepare and then attack, but the issue of whether they can discover the BOSS room before other guilds do. This time the strategy has given commander Mu Fei a great inspiration. Their strategy this time In addition to facing battles with monsters in promotion tasks, the hard work of these local players is also a threat to them.
Defeating the defensive BOSS not only means massive experience points and a large number of treasured props and equipment, but more importantly, unmatched popularity. After defeating the second-level BOSS, the Aincrad Alliance has ushered in a new era. A round of membership craze.
On December 17, 2022, the seventh day after entering the third floor, and the second day after the Aincrad Alliance Army entered the maze area to explore, news came that the BOSS of the third floor defense floor had been killed. It was the Holy Wing Knights Guild led by Dilbert that accomplished this feat. After successfully forming a formal guild, Dilbert's direct troops also started preparations and secretly invited "lone player" Le Yuan. , Kiriko, and Asuna, it took an hour and a half to defeat the demon tree spirit Nerius, a BOSS with a larger range of poisoning skills than in the closed beta, and no one was injured.
On December 25, 2022, the Aincrad Alliance Army, which had been preparing for more than ten days, helped Tongzi complete her mission "Elf War" under the guidance of Le Yuan, and successfully obtained the help of four NPCs Participate in the fourth floor defense BOSS Seahorse Demon Fish. This monster is half horse in front and fish in the back. If it is not restrained by NPC, the Aincrad Alliance Army will have to pay five people if the Alliance Army wants to successfully conquer it. The above casualties, but now no one is dead.
On December 30, 2022, the newly rising guild "Holy Dragon United" completed the strategy for the fifth floor before the two established guilds. The overwhelming battle restored the hope of life to many people who had fallen into despair. The speed of floor strategy has increased rapidly. Faster and faster.
On January 3, 2023, less than four days after the fifth-floor guide, the two major guilds, Aincrad United Army and Holy Wing Knights, joined forces and successfully broke through to the sixth floor.
The seventh level lasts for 7 days, the eighth level lasts for 6 days, the ninth level lasts for 10 days, and the tenth level lasts for 12 days. So far, on February 7, 2023, which lasted 93 days, a total of more than 400 people participated in the battle, and 43 participants died, successfully breaking through one-tenth of the barrier.
At this time, the promoted persons except Le Yuan had completed the main mission one one after another, and even the least one person had completed one kill in the main mission two. Some even had only two kills to complete. Successfully completed main quest 2, and opened the content of main quest 3.
It was this main mission three that slowed down the Aincrad Alliance's attack speed slightly, and they began to choose to join forces with other guilds to participate in the floor BOSS battle, because the content of the main mission three can be said to be non-threatening, as long as it is enough If you work hard, you will definitely be able to complete it - "Completely acquire a skill."
Complete acquisition, as a skill setting of SAO, does not have a skill level threshold. Continuous practice of skills will only gain skill proficiency. The so-called complete acquisition means that the proficiency of a skill reaches the full value of 1,000.
As a lone player on the front line, Le Yuan cannot be said to be firmly number one in the frequency of using skills, but he can also be said to be the best among all players. However, even after more than three months, Le Yuan Among the Yuan skills, the one-handed sword skill with the highest level of proficiency is only just over 300. The average promoted person is generally just over 200 and close to 250. It will take at least nearly a year to fully learn it. This means that This means that even the fastest player will leave this world after a year.
Let’s not talk about other people’s matters. As Le Yuan, who has the heaviest workload, even though he is actively participating in the strategy guide and has narrowly escaped death 7 times facing the floor BOSS, he has now reached the 10% HP specified in the main mission one. The number of times was only 4 times, not even half of the completion amount was achieved, and only 5 orange-named players were captured in mission 2 with the help of Argo intelligence. In the early stage of the game, people's hearts have not yet collapsed, and they will commit crimes. There are still a few players.
Since there was no time limit, Le Yuan focused most of his energy on leveling up and doing tasks. Not much about ordinary tasks, and the "bakery owner's wish" that Le Yuan received on the first floor was also on the first floor. After defeating the BOSS, we entered the next stage - collecting thirty "Floor BOSS Essence". The so-called "Floor BOSS" Essence is the drop that Le Yuan will pick up after receiving the mission every time he participates in the BOSS battle. Although there is only a simple word "Quest Item", the three major reminders that it cannot be dropped, cannot be traded, and cannot be destroyed still illustrate its importance.
On the tenth floor of Ferdinand's main street, with the development of the floors, various players who majored in non-combat skills began to devote more time to life skills. All of a sudden, various apothecary shops and blacksmith shops sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Of course, compared to the general "stable" system blacksmiths and pharmacists, the works of ordinary players are a little rough, but they can't stand the cheapness and uncertainty. Everyone hopes that they are the lucky one who can get great value with their small fortune. thing.
Le Yuan walked on the busy street and kept looking at the blacksmith shop surrounded by people. It was so crowded that it was impossible to squeeze in. Le Yuan was walking and suddenly came across a small stall with no customers. He saw a pink-haired girl trying to sell something to a war hammer user wearing blue metal armor, but the war hammer user turned around and left with a look of disgust on his face while waving his hands. He left the stall, and the pink-haired girl started over again in disappointment.
Le Yuan approached her stall and picked up a one-handed sword and began to check its properties.
"Poor, very bad." Le Yuan's first impression when he saw the properties of the one-handed sword. Although it is a bit harsh, the properties of this sword may still be useful in the first few levels, but after the tenth level, even the system blacksmith There are many swords in the shop that are better than this, not to mention Le Yuan who can also shoot exquisite swords from monsters.
"Hello, I wonder what this gentleman wants? Lisbeth's blacksmith shop is at your service wholeheartedly." The pink-haired girl named Lisbeth in front of her saw Le Yuan and greeted her quickly.
"Can I ask about your skill proficiency?" Le Yuan asked. Although a person's skill proficiency cannot reflect his true level, it also affects his true ability to a great extent.
"This..." Upon hearing Le Yuan's request, Lisbeth was stunned for a moment. She understood that Le Yuan wanted to ask her about her forging skills. She glanced at the sword on Le Yuan's back and said happily: "Cut Weapon Making 163 , thrust weapon production 152, metal equipment repair 166... "
Upon hearing this, Le Yuan discovered that her skill level was not low, but the equipment on the stall in front of him did not look like it was made at her level. After thinking about it for a while, he asked: "Are these equipments of yours made of low-level materials?" Forged?"
"Huh? How did you know? Because I bought too many mineral materials before, I tried to use those materials to build these equipment after reaching the tenth floor. As expected, it was not popular. No one even looked at it." Liz Bate shook her head and said.
"The forging skills are not low, so can you handle this sword?" Le Yuan took down the sword on his back. This is a new sword dropped from the ninth-level wild elite BOSS - the power of the God of War Till, by the ninth-level NPC. The blacksmith integrated the previous sword into it and strengthened it 6 times. Now he is in need of a skilled blacksmith to continue strengthening it.
"Hey, one-handed sword?" Lisbeth took the sword, lowered her hand, held the sword firmly with her back hand and said, "Such a heavy one-handed sword has such high attributes, even if it wasn't dropped by the boss on the floor. , it is also a high-quality product produced by the elite BOSS, has it been strengthened six times?"
After looking at it carefully, Lisbeth returned the sword to Le Yuan and said: "Guest, I can strengthen this sword of yours, but I don't have much strengthening materials here to strengthen it. May I ask? Should you prepare it yourself, or should I purchase it for you?"
Strengthening materials are divided into basic materials and additional materials. Basic materials are naturally necessary for strengthening, while additional materials are to reduce the probability of strengthening failure. You must know that in Aincrad, no matter how high the skill level is, the success rate of strengthening cannot be reached. 100%, so most of the time we rely on additional materials to reduce the possibility of failure.
"Of course. With your skill proficiency, you can increase the success rate to 95%. I have enough to use up the number of enhancements." As he said this, Le Yuan added the "Spar of the Wind" and " The Black Iron Essence" was traded to Lisbeth, and he handed her the sword at the same time.
Lisbeth took the sword and placed it on the forging table, took out her forging hammer, added materials to the auxiliary forging window, took a deep breath, and then hit the sword hard with the forging hammer, "Ding —" As the sword flashed with white light, the forging ended.
Lisbeth breathed a sigh of relief and said, "A success!"
Le Yuan looked at her extremely nervous look and comforted her: "It's okay. You have to believe in your own level. Besides, don't you still have my additional materials?"
Lisbeth nodded, and knocked down the hammer in her hand three times again. "Ding, ding, ding, ding -" three sounds sounded, and Le Yuan's sword emitted a red light, which could even be seen by the two nearby shops, and the strengthening was completed. The sword has also undergone a slight change. This is the performance of the weapon after it has been strengthened to the extreme.
Lisbeth handed the sword to Le Yuan and said, "As expected, this is your sword."
Le Yuan took the sword and looked at it with satisfaction as he handed the enhancement fee to Lisbeth.
"Is this the fully strengthened sword?"
"I didn't expect her to be such a powerful blacksmith?"
“Let’s come to this restaurant and give it a try in the future—”
"Boss, I want to strengthen it, so please strengthen my sword as well."
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Le Yuan's success attracted a large number of people to watch, and at the same time brought a large number of customers to Lisbeth. Le Yuan chuckled and wanted to leave, when a system window suddenly appeared.
"Lisbeth would like to apply for you as a friend. Do you accept it?"
Le Yuan looked back and saw Lisbeth smiling brightly at him and gently pressing "Yes" with her hand. He had one more good friend.