"What should I do?"

Asuna asked in a tone of bewilderment.

The reason why they have fought so far in the maze area is that the ultimate goal is to find and defeat the boss in the maze, but when the boss room appeared in front of them, they didn't know what to do for a while.

Is it to retreat, spread the word among the players, and then lead the army of players back?

Or do the three of them go in first and try it out?

"If you look at the strength of the closed beta, the three of us alone can't clear the customs." Kirito said: "If it's just a boss, we might be able to try it, but the problem is that the 12 guards that are spawned intermittently will completely disrupt the battle." ”

"Closed beta?" Xia Qianshi glanced at him.

"Hmm." Kirito nodded, "With your strength, you should have participated in the boss strategy during the closed beta, right?" ”

Xia Qianshi shook his head and said, "No, you seem to have misunderstood something, I'm not a closed beta player." ”

"Wait...... You're not a closed beta player?! Kirito's eyes widened instantly.

"At least I'm not." Xia Qianshi said.

"Me neither." Asuna shook her head as well.

“……”

Suddenly, Kirito didn't know what to say.

A large part of the reason why he approached Xia Qianshi and Asuna was because he regarded them as closed beta players.

After all, the swordsmanship of the two is too proficient, and the skill of 'releasing skills with body movement commands' can be used in the entire game at present, and I am afraid that it is no more than a slap - at least a few closed beta players that Kirito knows have not been able to use it so far.

This technique requires a lot of time to practice, so it is only natural that Kirito will treat Natsu Chishi and Asuna as closed beta players.

But now they are told that the two are just ordinary players.

Quietly, he took a few steps back......

"What do you think, Asuna?" Xia Qianshi asked the opinion of the Rapier Envoy.

"Since the boss is right in front of you, you can't turn a blind eye anyway-"

If it had been a week ago, I would have given such an answer, right?

Anyway...... Everybody's going to die.

After only a month, two thousand people died.

And now, the first layer has not been broken through, and it is impossible to get through this game.

Nowadays, the only difference is where to die, how to die, and early death...... Or die late......

With the desire to die in battle, she walked out of the Initial Street, and this boss battle is not the best platform given to her by God?

And yet now......

Asuna took a deep breath and said in a steady tone, "Let's go back to Baltona first, gather enough players before we come." ”

"Since you're all saying so, let's decide."

The three of them went back the way they came, because the system had already mapped them out, so they didn't have to go through the wrong paths in the maze.

The shortest journey took just over an hour to return to the village of Baltona, which has an iconic windmill.

……

……

"Her name is Argo, and she's an in-game intelligence merchant."

After returning to the village, when Natsu Senshi and the others discussed how to get the word out, Kirito said that he had a friend who could do it for him.

So just two minutes later, there was such a female player who came to the front of the three of them.

This is an extremely distinctive female player, with an extremely petite figure wrapped in a brown cloak, but the hood of the cloak is removed to allow her face to be seen.

Truth be told, her face is cute at best, but the three animal whiskers painted on either side of her cheek are so personal that she looks like a hamster.

In fact, she does have the title of 'Rat Argo' in the game, and is a well-known intelligence merchant, and now the "Beginner's Strategy Manual" is written by her collection of dozens of closed beta players and sold to ordinary players for free.

If I had to say, she is definitely the one who has contributed the most to all players in the game so far.

However, such a very great person, at this time, she came to Xia Qianshi and Asuna with a smile on her face, and the three whiskers on her cheeks made her look a little funny and cute, but the words that came out of her mouth were not cute at all:

"Hmm...... Isn't this a couple of gamers who have recently made a name for themselves? Kirito, you've introduced me to a nice clientele again. ”

"Huh?!"

Xia Qianshi and Asuna widened their eyes at the same time, glared at Argo angrily, and shouted almost at the same time: "Who is a couple player?!" ”

"Aren't you guys a couple player?!" Kirito and Argo's eyes widened at the same time, looking even more surprised than Natsu Senshi and Asuna.

"She and I are not couple players!"

Xia Qianshi and Asuna pointed their fingers at each other almost at the same time, but because of this high-sync action, the two turned their heads at the same time in embarrassment.

"It's all like this, and he said that he wasn't a couple player......" Seeing the two of them acting like this 'tacit understanding', Kirito shook his head and muttered to himself.

"The famous couple players in "SAO", Xia Qianshi and Asuna are having a relationship crisis......"

Argo recorded this sentence in the intelligence very undisciplinedly, thinking about how much he could sell it for.

Seeing that there was no end to the quarrel like this, Kirito had to play a round and say, "Okay Argo, I called you over this time, I have something serious to ask you." ”

In order to avoid being interrupted again, Kirito did not pause at all, and said quickly: "This afternoon, the three of us finally reached the 20th floor of the maze area and found the boss room in the deepest part, so we hope to gather players tomorrow morning and go to the boss together." ”

For a moment, Argo was also serious, because she knew very well what Kirito's words meant.

"Time, place." She asked very dryly.

"It's tomorrow at 4 p.m., in the square in the middle of the street, where we're going to hold a meeting of the boss of the Raiders."

"Wrap it up with me, I'll be sure to spread the news to everyone's ears!"

Argo patted his chest very confidently, but Xia Qianshi heard a shameful echo - well, it was empty.

"How much is this commission?" Kirito asked, ready for a massive hemorrhage.

"Free, no money."

"Hmm...... Well?! ”

Kirito could barely believe his ears that the money-hungry intelligence merchant who believed in the theory that 'every piece of information is valuable' would do things for free?

"I'm not a battle-type player, so I won't be attending tomorrow's strategy meeting, but anyway, let me contribute to this strategy."

Listening to Argo's words with a grinning face, Asuna suddenly felt an inexplicable emotion begin to boil in her heart.

As long as there are such players in the game, maybe one day, they will be able to play this game!

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Thank you for the Demon King, Zhou Jie, Heart Ruowu Sword, Aini Shiito Nai, and the reward from the end of the world