On the last day of 2023, Heathcliff, the leader of the Blood Alliance Knights, called on the three major guilds, Aincrad Alliance and Holy Dragon Alliance, to jointly attack the BOSS on the fiftieth floor.
With the experience of heavy casualties on the 25th floor, the army commander Mu Fei hesitated. Then the next day, when the middle and lower guild members went to ask the guild leader Mu Fei, they discovered that except Mu Fei In addition, more than 60 high-level main players seemed to have disappeared from the world. Although their names were still in the guild menu and friend menu, they all turned into unreachable gray.
Having lost most of their main attackers, the other two guilds had no choice but to grit their teeth and send all their elites up. Naturally, Le Yuan, a celebrity among solo players, was also roped in.
A series of blows caused the team that reluctantly carried out the attack to begin to collapse shortly after encountering the BOSS. If Heathcliff, the humanoid BUG, had not stepped forward to resist it, and Le Yuan, Kiriko, and Asuna worked hard to fill the gap. The death toll would double. At the cost of twenty-four deaths, the strategy team completed the fifty-story strategy.
For a moment, everyone became panicked, and the sudden disappearance of nearly sixty people also pushed the Aincrad Alliance Army to the forefront. At this time, Dilbert stood up and resisted the pressure from the outside world and began to lead. The Aincrad Alliance's combat power has been greatly reduced.
Various rumors are rampant, such as Kayaba Akihiko secretly killing them out of fear of the Aincrad Alliance's combat power, or the Aincrad Alliance's top brass secretly intercepting and killing special monsters after discovering them, but were unfortunately counter-killed. Or maybe the top brass of the Aincrad Alliance found a bug that allowed them to leave SAO and successfully logged out of the game...
As the only one who can control SAO now, Kayaba Akihiko did not stand up and explain to everyone at this time, but allowed the incident to continue to ferment.
As Le Yuan, who has close ties with the top leaders of the Aincrad Alliance Army, naturally many people asked if they knew the reason, but Le Yuan's only answer was "I don't know." Although some people were unwilling to accept this, they had no intention of doing so. After all, no one can prove that Le Yuan told lies.
Le Yuan is still living a solitary life, and the only thing worth thinking about is the sudden addition of a skill to his skill bar - the two-sword style. That's right, it's the original protagonist Kirito's magical skills in defeating bosses, acting cool, and picking up girls.
This skill suddenly appeared in his skill bar on the seventh day after the army left the game. Le Yuan watched it N times and personally tested this skill. There is only one sentence to describe it: "The damage is off the charts! "
It is not impossible to hold two swords. There are no special restrictions in this game, but just like the purpose of this game - the world of swords. Long-distance strike weapons such as crossbows do not exist, and even if there are long-range attacks such as flying sword skills, ammunition limitations make this skill a poor prospect.
After all, the damage in this game is based on skills in addition to equipment and attributes. Although you can attack with both hands with two swords, the skill only supports one. The damage of the two swords does not increase much, but it is not equipped with one. The shield is safe, so basically no one does this kind of thing one month after the game started.
Of course, these are not the main points. Le Yuan looked at the damage-increasing effect of the "Two Swordsman Style" skill and couldn't help but sigh: "It is indeed a brave-specific skill arranged by Kayaba Akihiko. This is considered to be an outside level. But it should only be the one with the fastest reaction. Only players have it, am I?" Le Yuan tried hard to start thinking about other promotions with fast reaction speed. If we look at the agility attribute alone, Le Yuan believes that there are other players who have reached the full value of 30 points, but whether reaction speed is equal to agility is a big question. question mark.
Le Yuan was not happy after acquiring the "Two Sword Style" skill. On the contrary, acquiring this powerful skill also meant that he had been chosen by Kayaba Akihiko. Although he didn't know whether Kayaba Akihiko would monitor him all the time, but what happened in his eyes was like this. Players collectively disappeared. As the controller, he would not be unclear about the relationship between Le Yuan and the missing people.
In late January 2024, I met my old friend "Rat" Argo in a tavern room on the 52nd floor of Leyuan.
As an intelligence dealer, Argo is not a combatant, but she has made a lot of money by selling intelligence, and she still wears shabby equipment and a brown cloak that has not changed for thousands of years.
Le Yuan took a drink from the waiter NPC and handed it to Argo with a smile: "You shouldn't be so poor, right? Don't girls all like to dress up beautifully? Aren't you a girl?" Le Yuan said His eyes looked at Argo's chest as if they could penetrate the equipment.
Argo pulled his hair to his chest and shouted: "Humph, you are still the same as before, you are not good at pleasing girls at all. You don't know that your words have hurt my fragile heart." Are you girlish? Of course, if you are willing to pay 10,000 kels, I think I will forgive you!"
"I'm still too naive." Le Yuan half-covered his face and said with a headache: "Argo, as an old friend, don't you tell me where you spent all the money? It should be now There aren’t that many newbies who need your help, and besides, isn’t Agil also supporting players? He doesn’t seem to be so poor as you.”
"How about I tell you a thousand kels?" Argo brought his businessman's nature to the extreme.
Although Le Yuan usually cannot say that he has no desires and needs, but with the large amount of funds he obtained from defeating the judge Nikolas before, he now has a deposit of almost one million kels. The little money Argo mentioned is naturally not enough. Taking it to heart, he transferred Cole to Argo's account with a wave of his hand.
"Hey, actually, I am also responsible for taking care of a lot of children. Of course, the more money, the better. Besides, how can I spend it casually to maintain the liquidity of information trading?" Argo accepted the money and said.
"Children, are they on the first floor?" Le Yuan couldn't help but think of the good fortune of taking care of the children on the first floor. After recalling it for a while, Le Yuan calmed down and said, "How is it? Is there any news about the intelligence?"
"Of course." Argo immediately became serious when he talked about business. "The newly emerging orange-named guild 'Hand of Titan' seems to be operating on the thirty-seventh floor. This is their recent activity track."
Le Yuan looked at the information provided by Argo carefully. At this time, Argo suddenly said: "Le Yuan, I have found the information about the person you asked me to find. Do you want to see it now?"
"Huh?" Le Yuan raised his head and looked at Argo. The man naturally pointed at Heathcliff. Le Yuan said quickly: "Please give it to me immediately."
Argo sent the information to Le Yuan without saying anything. Looking at Le Yuan who was studying at the same time, he couldn't help but said: "I have checked Heathcliff. Almost all the players in the closed beta test know nothing about this ID. And judging from Heathcliff’s behavior and tone, he is definitely not a closed beta player, and although I found information about him before the twenty-sixth floor, there seems to be something wrong.”
"I understand, thank you for your information, Argo!" Le Yuan said after closing the information window: "I hope you can continue investigating Heathcliff. I will solve the problem of the Titan's Hand first. You can take your time." Drink, and I'll settle the bill."
Leaving the fifty-second floor, Le Yuan passed through the portal and came to the "Dua" neighborhood on the thirty-seventh floor. When Le Yuan described the appearance of the president of "Hand of Titan" to a one-handed swordsman player in the tavern, the person on the opposite side The players immediately thought of it.
"Ah, are you talking about that woman? She is such a rare beauty. I can't forget it after seeing it once." The one-handed swordsman took a sip of wine and said, "Two days ago, she I joined the team 'Wings of Freedom' and have been leveling up in the forest area to the west these past two days. They are really a bunch of lucky guys."
"To the west?" Le Yuan thanked him and hurried over immediately.
Just as Le Yuan was approaching the center of the forest, he suddenly heard a cry for mercy.
"Please, we give you the props, please let us go." A middle-aged man's voice said.
"We are all players trapped in the game, please let us go." This time it was a young man who spoke.
"Alas, since you said so, please hand over the props first." A charming female voice said.
Le Yuan came behind the tree and activated the enemy-seeking skill to observe the situation in front of him. He saw four paralyzed people surrounded by eight orange players led by a green-named rose-haired woman.
The rose-haired woman unparalyzed one of them and put a cross gun to his neck to force him to hand over the item.
"Wha—" A strong wind stirred up dust, causing a group of players present to close their eyes. When they looked at the encirclement again, they saw a man in a bloody coat holding a black sword against the neck of a rose-haired woman. , said sternly: "Rosaliya, the president of the orange-named guild 'Hand of Titan', you are suspected of robbing and killing players. I will send you to prison now."
"Stop joking, do you dare to kill me in the name of Orange? Then you will become a murderer!" Rosalia didn't seem to believe that Le Yuan suddenly appeared.
"Sorry, I'm just a solo player. I only need to stay in the wild for a while in my little orange status. Do you think you can threaten me?" Le Yuan's sword lightly scratched Rosalia's neck. It was a small cut, but just such a small cut caused Rosalia to lose nearly a third of her HP.
"With that attack power and his outfit, could he be the lone-wolf Scarlet Executive who has been chasing the orange player?"
"That top player in strategy battles?"
"Can we, can we deal with him?"
… …
Le Yuan took out the corridor crystal with one hand and said: "Now I give you two choices. One is to go into prison by yourself, and the other is to be killed by me. How do you choose?"
There is no intimidation skill in SAO, but when these eight orange players saw Le Yuan's eyes, they felt as if they were seeing the God of Death for some reason. They felt that their lives were completely in the hands of the opponent, and they could not even run away. Don't dare to run away.
After sending the nine-life player to the first-level prison, Le Yuan's main mission two finally came to an end. At the same time, Le Yuan's main mission three appeared in front of him.
Main mission three: Liberation
Mission description: Successfully liberate all players from Sword Art Online.