At this time, the town is exceptionally quiet in the early morning, except for the birds chirping in the sky.

There is a player walking on the pine and cypress path, and he is Zeyi who is alone.

At this time, he was located in the nearest town to the forested area.

Since most players either survive in the "Startup Town" or have already gone to the most famous town, "Urbaatar", Zeyi is the only one in this town (self-opinionated) except for a few NPCs.

Since he and the Tooth King, Zeyi first asked Nezhha to join up with the other companions, while he continued to practice alone, and in a trance, two weeks have passed.

In the course of two weeks, Zeyi completed large and small tasks, accumulated a large number of Ker, and also obtained a good piece of equipment.

At this time, he was walking towards the grocery store, in order to sell out the materials he had obtained from yesterday's leveling.

Everyone in SAO has a strict weight value, and if you exceed that value, your agility will decrease.

The reduction in agility is very lethal for dodging mob attacks, especially in SAO, where there is only one life, and there is no resurrection after death.

Therefore, players will usually sell useless materials quickly after leveling up on the first day, so as not to affect the next day's actions.

Of course, there are exceptions to everything. There is indeed a player in SAO who does not need to do this, and that is the player with a shield. After all, they didn't need to move for too long, they just needed to block the attack and act as a meat tank.

Coming to the grocery store, Zeyi called up his inventory column, checked the materials on it one by one, and then clicked the "Sell" button in the lower right corner, with a burst of effect sounds, the inventory was almost blank, and the number of Kel below was 2400 Ker more.

As soon as the play materials were sold, the communication bar popped up, and a translucent window displayed a message that had just arrived.

"Where are you going now?"

In the past few weeks, Zeyi has earned 30,000 kor intermittently, and he can be regarded as a local tyrant. Now, he's wondering where to spend it.

Ze Yi pondered for a while, looked at the earthy yellow sword in his hand, and walked towards the blacksmith shop.

The rapier in his hand, named "Feng Yan", was dropped while killing a wasp, and he was really surprised by his luck.

However, it turns out that the equipment dropped by the mob is not very high, and this sword only increases its attack power by 15, and has no other attributes.

That said, though, this rapier is at least a little better than the ones sold in the store.

This time, I went to the blacksmith shop in order to strengthen Fengyan in order to prepare for the first layer of the strategy boss.

In this world, a variety of equipment that can be strengthened has been set with the attribute of "Enhancement Attempt Limit". That's not the maximum number of possible enhancements. It's a number of how many reinforcements can be attempted. For example, the initial equipment of the "Small Sword" has only one attempt limit, and if it fails, the sword will never go up to +1.

What's even more disgusting is that the success rate of enhancement depends to some extent on the number of points that the owner has worked hard to operate. It's a matter of course to find a forger with advanced kung fu skills (in the extreme, you can practice your forging skills to the extreme, but that's unrealistic), and the more luxurious the materials necessary for enhancement, the higher the success rate.

Typically, players forge weapons using cheap power-up materials with a 70% success rate. If the client wants to increase the success rate, they must pay for the items or collect them themselves. Of course, you can also entrust NPCs to strengthen it. But that would be a higher cost.

However, since almost no players will choose the "forge" subclass at this stage, it is still necessary to get rid of the expensive NPCs to forge it.

When he came to the blacksmith shop, Ze Yi immediately asked, "What materials do you need to strengthen this curved thin sword to be successful?"

The NPC glanced at Feng Yan and casually said what he needed.

"20 bee needles, preferably poisonous bee needles, and 10 pieces of high-quality steel."

Feng Yan is accidentally dropped by a mob, so the number of enhancements is only two, and since Zeyi has decided to use it in the raiders, he pays great attention to the success rate of reinforcement, so he will not use the additional materials provided by NPCs (materials that increase the success rate of enhancement).

He pondered for a moment, high-quality steel could be purchased here, so the most important thing was the 20 poisonous bee needles, and he knew that he would not sell those materials.

As he pondered, he pulled up the window and looked at the merchandise inside. The quality of steel varies from poor to superb, and the required Kel varies widely.

Compared with the high-quality steel and the best steel, the difference between the two is 200, but correspondingly, the success rate of the reinforcement of the best steel is 10% more than that of the high-quality steel, which is also worth the money.

"Hmm~ It takes 500 kor for one enhancement, and 1000 for two times, it's so expensive!"

However, for the sake of his own life, Zeyi had to strengthen it.

"Let's go collect the materials first!"

With that, Zeyi left the blacksmith shop and walked towards the forest outside the circle.

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In an NPC's idle room, a millet figure was looking at the grassland in the distance, her goblin-like face covered with haggardness, and her hazel-colored eyes revealed deep despair.

Her name was Asuna, and she had stayed in this hut since the declaration of Akihiko Ashiba's death, and she never stepped out of the house even though she was hungry.

It's been two weeks, she's been here for two whole weeks, and every night she's hiding under the covers and crying, constantly avoiding this heavy reality.

She often hated why she walked into her brother Koichiro's room, picked up the cage-like game and read "Link· Start".

How she wished it was fake, but it was all so real, she was really stuck in the game.

She also learned a little about the "Death Leaves the Game" statement two weeks ago, and at that time she was hoping to return to reality in a few days, but now ......

The death toll has exceeded a thousand, but the original labyrinth has not yet been breached.

Maybe it's really futile to completely raid the game.

Then the only thing left is the choice of "how to die".

Rather than worrying about the future, it is better to get out of this street than to stay on your knees and hide in a dimly lit hut. Learn, exercise, fight as best you can. If you eventually exhaust your energy and fall, at least you won't regret your past rashness and regret the lost future.

With this in mind, she straightened her clothes, took a deep breath, and opened the closed door with all her might.

For a moment, the harsh sunlight shone on her long, millet hair, which made her even more beautiful, but she didn't care about it, and walked straight to the weapons shop.

She was going to spend all the money and then head to the northernmost labyrinth area, where she would die after trying her best.

Like a meteor that burned out in the atmosphere, it was amazing and short-lived.

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