The endless sky seemed to be incinerated by the sun hanging high in the sky, spreading infinitely into the distance.

Kirito sat on top of the clouds, looked around the surroundings, and looked down at the clouds, where he could clearly see something suspended in mid-air.

The strange shape of the front end of the cone looks like a beehive suspended in the air from a distance, but the inside is made up of countless overlapping floors, and the layers are even more beautiful, each with a different kind of mountains, forests, grasslands, lakes, swamps, towns, and so on.

This floating castle suspended in the sky is the essence of Ayn Grant.

Whether it is from the promotional materials of SAO at the beginning or the flyer drawing when buying game equipment, Kirito has seen this appearance more than once.

But at this moment, when he really looked at its entity from the outside for the first time, Kirito still had a subtle feeling of awe, which was self-evidently filled in his heart, and he couldn't help but hold his breath.

Because this steel giant is now gradually crumbling.

Part of the bottom level has broken down into countless pieces, some scattered in the wind, and more peeling downwards.

Prick up your ears and listen closely, and you can hear some heavy rumbling sound mixed with the wind.

Countless trees and lake water continued to fall among the building materials, and finally sank into the sea of red clouds, and each floor slowly collapsed layer by layer like peeling off a film.

"Great scene, right?"

A sudden voice suddenly sounded beside him.

Kirito subconsciously looked to the right, and at some point there was already a man standing there.

That's suddenly the Kayaba Akihiko in memory.

"It's you!" After seeing Akihiko Kayaba's figure, Kirito was shocked.

The other party is no longer the powerful and awe-inspiring Heathcliff, but the original appearance of being an SAO developer, and the idol that Kirito once admired the most.

Akihiko Kayaba was wearing a white shirt and tie, a white lab coat commonly used by scientific researchers and medical personnel, and her thin and indifferent face and distant eyes also looked at the gradually disappearing floating city.

Kirito tried his best to calm himself down, pointing to the floating city that was collapsing below, and couldn't help but ask loudly, "What the hell is going on?" ”

"Don't worry, this is just a symbolic expression, the SAO mainframe installed on the fifth basement floor of the ARGUS head office is using all the memory to completely delete the files, and in about ten minutes, this world will disappear completely," Akihiko Kayaba replied calmly.

"I'm asking the players inside, what happened to them?" Kirito asked with a solemn expression, and at the same time couldn't help but clasp his hands tightly, for fear of hearing an answer from Akihiko Kayaba that he didn't want to hear.

"Don't worry, except for you and the other person, all the other players have already finished logging out and returned to reality safely." Kayaba replied disappreciatively.

"-Whew!" Kirito breathed a sigh of relief, then thought about it, and asked with a complicated face, "What about those, the dead players?" ”

"All are safe." Kayaba's expression remained indifferent, and he put his hands in the pockets of his white coat, and then said, "Because of someone's interference, my plan has changed, and the original death game has become a hoax. ”

"You-" Kirito squirmed his lips, his handsome face mixed with various expressions like a kaleidoscope, and finally asked puzzled, "Why, why did you do such a thing?" ”

Kayaba was silent for a moment before replying, "Why? I've forgotten that long before the development of the fully stealthy environment system, I created this floating castle, or more accurately, a world that wanted to transcend all the frameworks and regulations of the real world. But—"

"Now, I've discovered something that even I can't believe, or rather, it's so absurd that everyone thinks about it and even doubts the truth of life."

As he spoke, Akihiko Chewba pulled out his hands from his pockets, took off the glasses on the bridge of his nose with his right hand, pressed the eye hole at the base of the bridge of his nose with his left hand, and suddenly asked, "Kirito, if one day, you find that the real world you live in is just a fictional world like SAO, and you and everyone around you are just virtual characters like NPCs, how would you feel?" ”

"What are you trying to express?" Kirito frowned and asked in understanding.

"Nothing." Kayaba Akihiko, who has always been calm and indifferent, showed a bitter smile on his face for a rare time, and then looked at Kirito and said, "I deliberately left you behind, intending to give you something." ”

"What's that?" Kirito asked suspiciously.

"Seeds of the World." On Kayaba Akihiko's palm, a certain silver crystal appeared, slowly floating in front of Kirito.

"What is this?" Kirito subconsciously stretched out his hands and caught the small egg-shaped crystal.

"After returning to reality, sooner or later you will know what it is, and how you choose to use it when the time comes is up to your own judgment."

"Goodbye, then."

After a cold goodbye, Akihiko Kayaba's figure disappeared.

Kiritto frowned, put away the mysterious crystal, and then looked again at the floating city below, which had completely collapsed......

……

Far away from the other side of the world, Yi Tiancheng also watched this scene intently.

Witnessing the end of SAO, Rao is ruthless like he can't ignore the lingering feelings in his heart.

Yi Tiancheng habitually waved his hand, trying to take out the fireworks from the inventory, only to find that all the game functions had already been frozen.

"How does it feel to be in this kind of scene?"

A sudden voice suddenly sounded beside him.

There is no need to turn his head, Yi Tiancheng also knows who the person who is coming, except for Aoba Jinghiko, there can be no one else.

"Okay." Yi Tiancheng replied flatly.

It's not pretending, but after seeing the whole world fall apart and come to naught, such a scene is really ordinary in the eyes of any veteran trialist.

On the contrary, from an aesthetic point of view, many floors of Aingrant are beautiful and unforgettable.

"Congratulations on mastering the game." The sound of the kayak, surprisingly calm.

Yi Tiancheng nodded disapprerovingly, and at the same time withdrew his gaze from the collapsed floating city, shifted to the man beside him, tilted his head and smiled: "Just a word of congratulations, it's too insincere, you are the ultimate boss of the game, you have to explode some valuable props!" ”

"-Huh?" Kayaba frowned, as if he didn't quite understand what Yi Tiancheng meant, the game had been closed, and what to do with the props.

"If I'm not mistaken, you've destroyed your real body and completely implanted your memories and consciousness into the online world! So—"

Yi Tiancheng raised his hand, lifted the bangs in front of his forehead, and said with a pointful smile: "The-Seed, that is, the production kit you created SAO, is useless to you, right, why don't you give it to me?" ”

"You-" A wisp of treacherous luster flashed in Akihiko Kayaba's eyes behind the lenses, and then the whole person fell silent, carefully looked at Yi Tiancheng for a while, and then took a deep breath and said, "Chengjun, in the end, you gave me another unexpected surprise!" ”

"When you leave the game, go to the fifth basement floor of the ARGUS headquarters, and I will transfer the 'Seed of the World' to you."

"So, I'm leaving, I'll see you later!"

After speaking, Kayaba Jinghiko's figure disappeared.

Above the clouds, Yi Tiancheng was once again the only one left.

However, just after Kayaba Jinghiko left, Yi Tiancheng's eyes, which were originally as calm as water, gradually overflowed with a rich murderous intent.

The floating city below has completely begun to crumble.

The huge bright red palace on the top floor of Ayn Grant also began to crumble, and the wave of destruction mercilessly surrounded the bright red palace.

It began to disintegrate into countless fragments from below, falling into the clouds, and with the scattering of the tallest spire, Ayngrunte almost completely vanished.

Immediately afterward, you can see the originally endless sea of clouds and the red sky, which are engulfed in white light and gradually disappear on the far side.

The erosion of light swept through the heavens and the earth, and everything was obscured by the light, and the white curtain completely obscured the place, and then turned into tiny particles and flew everywhere.

Yi Tiancheng's body also began to gradually blur, and finally completely dissolved into the light......