"Wait a minute, Asuna!"

Before the battle between Lizbet and Asuna began, Yuki, who rushed over, hurriedly stopped the two.

It's not too early, and if this one is also 'driven away', I'm afraid they can only prepare to let Naoba or Lanzi go to change jobs.

"Asuna, after so many fights, you should be tired too, take a little rest, and leave it to me next."

Without giving Asuna a chance to object, she motioned for Lanzi and Naoba to 'do it', and the two quickly stepped forward and hugged the millet girl to the edge of the flower bed next to her and sat down.

"Huh? But—"

However, looking at the way she looks back from time to time, it seems that she is still unsatisfied......

"Whew...... I'm sorry, but the players are temporarily swapped, it's okay, right? ”

Yuki breathed a sigh of relief when she saw someone fall, and then said hello to Lizbet with some apologies.

"It's okay, I don't mind."

With the hammer on her shoulder, Lizbet was more strange and didn't care.

Anyway, she only came because this team is all girls, with an attitude of curiosity and trying.

"So, let's start over."

"Hmm."

Purple text immediately appeared between the two of them, and a green blood bar appeared above their heads.

（…… The foundation is very stable.,It doesn't seem like the first time I've chosen this type of role.。 ）

Carefully observing Lizbet's movements and pace, Yuki nodded secretly.

After going through so much, she still has this eyesight.

(Then next, it depends on the actual battle, whether it is qualified or not.) ）

Selecting teammates requires accountability to the entire squad, rather than relaxing the criteria just because the opponent is an 'acquaintance'.

Leaping forward at the speed of a normal player, the lower slash and subsequent combos are steadily blocked by the opponent's round shield.

(The defense is solid, though...... ）

Using his sword to block the mallet blow of the opponent's counterattack, Yuki kicked the ground and jumped up.

When the opponent subconsciously made an upper defense, the black-haired girl did not attack, but suddenly lowered her body after landing on the ground, and attacked the opponent's lower plate with lightning speed.

"-Ugh?!"

Obviously, this assault Lizbet did not react in the first place.

But soon, although the opponent's pace was a little messy, he still made a counterattack.

Instead of choosing to use a war hammer, he launched the assault with the round shield closest to Yuki.

Turning his head sideways to avoid the oncoming shield attack, Yuki had a wicked smile on his face.

And Lizzebet also had a 'bad' expression when she saw this scene.

The defense was broken and she fell into a period of stalemate when the attack missed, and now she was open to the eye.

（…… Aside from the lack of combat experience, otherwise it's pretty good for a novice player to the game. ）

With such a decision, the tip of the sword stopped in front of the other side, and Yuki smiled at the pink-haired girl who had 'resigned herself to her fate'.

"Hmmm! Qualified! ”

“——！”

The black-haired girl held out her free left hand as the other party lowered her sword in a stunned expression.

"Welcome to you, Miss Lizbet!"

……

After recruiting the team and walking to the second level of the western part of the plains, a wasteland area with higher-level monsters, Lizbet, who had just joined the team, was still reminiscing about the previous battle.

"Really? You're going to participate in tomorrow's boss strategy...... But also, Yuki, you're so powerful, especially the last one before, I didn't react at all. ”

That kind of smooth movement like reality, I didn't expect it to be really possible in the game.

She exclaimed.

"Hey, hey."

calmly accepted the other party's praise, this time she didn't 'hang up', it was completely based on her own efforts.

As mentioned earlier, she is ready to use this world as her starting point.

This kind of workout that seems to start from scratch can make up for her mastery of strength and combat skills.

If she were to return to the world of Covenant now to face the battle of Reverse Erya, she would be confident that she could end the battle before her spiritual power was exhausted.

（…… ）

Shaking his head and waving some kind of nostalgia, there is a wasteland ahead, Yuki encouraged everyone in the team.

"Everyone! Time is running out, grab the opportunity to level up! ”

"Oh——!"

What I got was a very imposing response from the girls.

……

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- The second floor of "Ayn Grant", southeast of the main block, near the small village of "Marlon" where the labyrinth area sits

It's been three days since Knight Diaberu's strategy meeting, and today is the day for the various temporary guilds and players who form teams to launch a crusade against the second-tier boss.

As for why it is temporary, because most guilds now just claim to be or continue their previous game combinations, and if you really want to form a guild, you must reach the third layer.

So this raider is also a good opportunity for them to make a name for themselves and recruit talents.

……

"I always feel that the atmosphere seems to be very scary......

In the rest place provided in the village, seeing the players gathered in twos and threes, talking about the strategy with solemn expressions, Sirika said with some depression.

"Hmm...... There's no way around it, after all, it's not a game anymore...... This is the first time that players have played a floor boss strategy, and in the face of the threat of possible death, it will take enough courage to come here. ”

A little forced laughter, and Lizzebet's face was visibly nervous.

“……”

Sitting on the other side of the wooden table, Asuna, Naoba and Lanzi were also a little uneasy in their hearts, this was the first time they had experienced such a battle.

Perhaps the only one who is interested in 'enjoying the scenery' is Yuki.

……

(This number of people is really beyond imagination...... ）

Walking to the door and looking at the growing crowd on the street, the entire small village can be said to be saturated with players.

Just a rough estimate, there are probably hundreds of people.

It seems that the rapid breakthrough of the first layer has given many people the courage to pick up their swords.

However, although so many people came, Yuki estimated that most of the players came to witness more.

Use your own eyes to confirm the fact that there is still hope for this game to be completed.

Because the upper limit of the number of floor boss raiders is 48 people, that is, 8 squads.

And this time, several major groups that have established prestige on the first layer have spoken out together, asking players to form a squad to carry out the strategy, on the one hand, to reduce casualties, and on the other hand, it is also to cut off selfish people to compete for the props dropped after the strategy is successful.

The boss drops items of great value, which is a tacit secret at the top of the major groups.

As for whether there are any transactions among them, Yuki doesn't know.

"Let's go too, it looks like we're about to start."

Finding that the flow of people began to move, Yuki glanced at his friends behind him.

"Hmm!"

After all, they have to adapt to these on their own.

Half a month after the first layer was broken, the second layer of boss strategy is about to begin.