(After I was careless and downloaded the Oriental Deep Secret Record, I found out that the game does not support XP...... it! Dusk is so irresponsible! ）

Main Quest: If you are a man, you will go up to 100 floors, and the progress will be 100/49.

DevilMayCry, Progress: 100/0

Side Quest: Single-player Big Touch: Progress 5/5

No injuries in the whole process: in: 1/1.

Turning off the holographic projection, which was a bit tired of looking at, Nidhogg sighed.

It's been a year.

It's been a year since the 1st and 2nd floors of 'Ayn Grant' were cleared.

A year is not a long time, but for players living in 'SAO', this year is longer than any previous year, or ... Particularly long......

There have been so many things going on in the year that even the intelligence traffickers who gather information are too busy...... The most exciting piece of information is undoubtedly the progress of Ayn Grant's strategy.

After clearing the 1st and 2nd floors, the progress of the strategy in 'SAO' has progressed by leaps and bounds, although it still happens from time to time that things are trapped in the 1st floor for a whole month, but because of the clearance of the 1st and 2nd floors, the players who realized that "this game can be played" have hope and hope, and all the players who are somewhat motivated are almost full of effort to attack the 'Ayn Grant', and they are no longer as muddy as they were on the 1st floor.

Even so, the appearance of 'SAO', which has changed greatly after the open beta, still brings a lot of difficulties to players, but many masters who have appeared among the transferred players have made the progress of the strategy still steadily increase.

In the course of the year, 'SAO' still reached the 49th floor.

Now, those people or guilds who are at the forefront of the campaign and are at the top of the player's peak have formed a strategy group, aiming for the top floor of 'Ayn Grant', and continue to fight on the highest floor of the strategy. ”

Although the players in the strategy group are only a small part of the more than 90,000 people in the 'SAO', it is not a small number based on more than 90,000 players, and their level and equipment are not comparable to ordinary players, and the 'Ayn Grant' can reach the 49th floor in a year, and most of the credit is on them.

Now, the players who make up the strategy group are roughly divided into six camps.

The first camp: the "Wind Forest Volcano" guild, the president Klein, the original protagonist Kirito's friend. It's a decent guild with a good reputation.

The second camp: the "Holy Dragon United" guild, compared to the "Wind Forest Volcano", has a bad reputation and misconduct, but the number of members is the second largest in the 'SAO'.

The third camp: "Knights of the Blood Alliance", the leader of the group, Heathcliff, the trumpet of Akihiko Kayaba at the end of the original book. His guild is recognized as the most powerful guild, with many noble members, and Asuna is the vice president. It is also the guild that Nidhogg and other hosts focus on, mainly to find out how much GM permission is left for that guy Akihiko Kayaba.

The fourth camp is the guild "Edge Watch" that was not in the original book. The number and strength of the members are medium.,Basically, they're foreigners from Europe and the United States.,The style of action is biased towards the Holy Dragon Alliance.,But it's slightly better.。

And the fifth camp is a very unexpected team of five people "Corona". The captain is Xiao Chenxing, known as the "Blazing Demon Sword", and the members include "Wind Whisperer" Lolita, "Decapitator" Miyamoto Kazuhide, "Drawing Knife Zhai" Scarlet Village Kenshin, and the legendary strongest player, "Demon Sword Messenger" Nidhogg.

This squad is the only one of five people in the entire 'SAO', but it is far stronger than most player organizations.

The last camp of the Raiders group, and the weakest one, is the lone player camp.

There are only two players in this camp, one is named Achill: the owner of a prop house, a shrewd businessman, who spends a lot of effort on the cultivation of mid-level players in private, although he does not join any organizations and unions, but is a force in his own right.

The other person is the protagonist of the original book: Kirito.

Although Kirito was not excluded from the first layer like in the original book because of Nidhogg, and he was not involved with the "Moonlit Night Black Cat Troupe" to cause psychological blows, Kirito seems to prefer a single machine to Nidhogg. Even if his friends are not as rare as in the original book, he has hardly teamed up with others, but his strength is undoubted, although he is not as popular as the most popular "Demon Swordsman", but the name of "Black Swordsman" is also known to everyone.

Originally, there was also a guild faction in the strategy group: "Army". A guild with the largest number of people and the largest scale, and its strength is no less than any guild in the strategy group, but it was heavily damaged due to playing in the 25th floor of the strategy, plus it had a conflict with the 'Corona' team, and a conflict broke out for half a month, which was also the famous battle of the 'Corona' team. In this battle, the "army" withdrew from the strategy group with all face, and was not very active in the strategy, although it was still active in the front line, but there was no sense of existence anymore.

Thanks to the efforts of the guilds and players of these strategy groups, nearly half of the complete clearance of 'SAO' has been completed, and a lot of contributions have been made.

A quarter of the 50 floors of 'Ayn Grant' were taken by five people.

That's right, just five people......

These five people are the "Corona" squad. Among them, Nidhogg brushed three levels in a single way, for the quest.

If the players in the strategy group are the idols of ordinary players, then the "Corona" squad is at the level of Uranus superstars, and Nidhogg is no different from a god in the eyes of ordinary players and even players in the strategy group.

It is the god of strategy!

Ahem, just kidding.

With just one person, he defeated the bosses of the 1st, 2nd, 11th, 23rd, and 45th floors, so powerful, he can be a guild alone!

Nidhogg rarely appears in the player's sight, and even if he occasionally hears of someone spotting him, he is already gone by the time others go to find out, and even the tipsters can't tell where he is. According to Xiao Chenxing, the captain of the "Corona", "Every time he reaches a new layer, he goes back to the maze area to farm monsters, and when he gets bored, he will go to the wild to wander around." ”

In fact, because the captain of the "Corona" Xiao Chenxing is relaxed and easy-going, there is no shelf, players know that the "Corona" is a strange squad, loose discipline, and always uneven personnel when acting, only when attacking the maze boss can people see all the members of the team, it seems that there are two or three people in this team who like to be alone. In particular, the Demon Sword Envoy Nidhogg is not present when the player sees the "Corona" in public.

This result has cast a bit of mystery on the legendary team, and the appearance and temperament of the team members are above the horizontal line, that is, their appearance is very high, so that they all have a lot of fans......

The members of the Corona squad are named after their fighting styles, and Lolita's excellent archery skills and swiftness as the wind are perfectly suited to her professional reputation as Windrunners. The magic sword envoy Xiao Chenxing does not allow pure magic because of 'SAO', but his sword skills are all sword skills with elemental attributes, among which he especially likes to use fire, known as the "Blazing Demon Sword". Miyamoto Kazuhide uses a rare heavy weapon gun axe, and often uses the axe blade to cut off his head when killing monsters, which gives people a deep impression, especially when the otherworldly monster will spew blood, that sour...... Although those who came into contact with him knew that he was a very gentle fellow, the terrible appearance of the monster's corpse still frightened many people, and the "decapitator" came from this.

And Scarlet Village Kenshin, according to Xiao Chenxing, is the only inheritor of ancient Japanese swordsmanship. The stormy attack after each knife draw is terrifying, and someone has heard that the members of the Corona Squad have told him to draw the knife, and he has also learned the same. As a result, the title of "Drawing the Sword", which he was given in the dark period, was reproduced in 'SAO' and became a title full of respect, and the world is impermanent.

As for Nidhogg, everyone who had seen him was impressed by his silver greatsword, which looked rather evil and weird, with a slight sense of religion. And what he once said when he taught the Tooth King on the first floor was also somewhat specious, and some people once commented that he was "killing an unknown number of people" as a demon, although those who called it like this were basically beaten by the crowd later...... But the demon's name was retained, and he was called the "Demon Swordsman".

Later, Nidhogg was happy when he heard about it, and when he completed the mission, he would indeed have demonic blood, and these guys accidentally touched the truth.