Inside the gray-shrouded ruins, two figures walked.

They shrunk one after the other, groping cautiously, not daring to touch the ruined wooden houses on both sides.

The man walking in front of him held a parchment map marked with blood-red markings in his hand, and his eyes were full of doubt.

Behind him, another man, clutching his coat with a pair of white hands, poked his head out from time to time to point at the person in front of him.

These two are Zeyi and Argo, who have been here for three hours and have not found anything.

"Are we lost?"

Zeyi compared the map again, and turned his head to look at Argo uncertainly.

Argo snatched the map, carefully compared it with his surroundings, and nodded frequently.

"What do you see?"

Seeing Zeyi ask himself, Argo pointed to an inconspicuous corner of the southeast of the map with his right hand with a hook claw.

"We're here now." Argo said as he slid his hook on his right hand all the way up the map, "Follow this road to reach your destination." ”

Zeyi took the map, looked at the scratches on the hook claw, and found that the road was indeed feasible.

"How do you know where we are?"

Knowing that the surrounding environment is almost identical, Zeyi can't see any difference at all.

"The ruined wooden plaques all around are carved with scratches of varying lengths and numbers, and you just need to be careful to know where we are now."

Following Argo's words, Zeyi did find scratches on the wooden plaque, but he still didn't know how Argo could have known this.

"I studied this place with other players during the closed beta, and although it has changed slightly after the official launch, it is still roughly the same as during the closed beta."

"You...... Is it a closed beta player!? ”

Argo said as a matter of course: "If I hadn't been a closed beta player, how would I have made such an accurate strategy book."

At the end, she added: "This counts as 1,000 kölls, which will be deducted from your remuneration."

Zeyi jumped to his feet, pointed to Argo's mouse-like face, and shouted.

"Hey, I didn't ask you, why did you deduct my remuneration if you said it yourself!"

Argo glanced at Zeyi contemptuously, walked behind Zeyi, and grabbed his coat again, "Hurry up, Zeyi-kun." ”

"You haven't explained why you're withholding me!" Zeyi said indignantly: "If you grab my clothes, you have to pay a reward of 2,000 kels, otherwise I will throw you here."

Argo chuckled and twisted Zeyi with his hand, "Could it be that Zeyi-kun wants to deal with girls?" ”

Zeyi suddenly found that he couldn't say Argo, he was a master bargainer, and he couldn't say anything more than an amateur businessman.

Thinking of Argo's tempting honorarium at that time, Zeyi felt cheated.

So he could only remain silent and walk towards the marker on the map, hoping to solve the task quickly and leave the vicious merchant as soon as possible.

After walking some distance along the scratches on the map, the two heard a powerful roar.

The gray mist dissipated in an instant, and the remaining wooden buildings collapsed in an instant, and a wave of reddish air swept over the marked spots.

"Are you sure it's just an ordinary task? How do I feel a sense of crisis against the final boss of the first layer? ”

Facing that powerful aura, Zeyi couldn't help but sweat for himself.

The locations marked on the map are the last and most difficult part of Argo's quest.

But Zeyi didn't expect it to be so difficult, I'm afraid it was no less than attacking the labyrinth area.

I saw a giant snake with a height of a two-story wooden house slowly swimming out, and on the huge head ten meters above the ground, a pair of blood-red eyes were exuding bloodthirsty colors. When he saw the comer, he let out a shrill roar.

With the roar, a bunch of system settings appeared around it.

On his arrogant forehead, a row of purple names appeared, and to the left of the name, three rings of blue blood grooves appeared, and even more deadly, the dark purple cursor between its name and forehead indicated a great crisis.

"Look at you."

Argo let go of Zeyi's cloak and walked away from the scene quickly.

"Meow Meow"

Looking at the giant snake dripping with thick saliva, Ze Yi turned his head to Argo who was tinkering with the inventory and complained, "Then what are you doing here!"

Argo took out a dark green crystal, "As long as you grind its HP to one level, you can use this thing to kill it instantly." ”

"It's that simple!"

At the same time as Ze Yi complained, a sharp voice exploded in midair, and the snake tail wrapped in gray scales was thrown towards him, which was quite unstoppable.

Zeyi dodged, and then took the opportunity to step forward and stab the sword with his right hand.

"Shhh

The giant snake that ate the pain opened its large mouth full of saliva, swooped down, and bit towards Zeyi. The sharp fangs, which are up to 5 centimeters long, appear even more penetrating when exposed to the sun.

Zeyi dodged the bite of the giant snake with a left roll, and then straightened his posture and was about to do the starting pose of sword skills.

bang

The violent impact from his back threw Zeyi into the white sand, and the ensuing pain of his skin being torn made him almost lose all his strength.

Looking at the one-fifth of the blood volume on the top of his head, Ze Yi knew that he only had 5 chances, otherwise he would definitely die here.

But the giant snake in front of him seemed to be stiff as if it had not attacked, and it could swing its body at will, which made Zeyi very puzzled.

Then he tried to unleash his sword again, and sure enough, he was knocked to the ground by the giant snake again.

Zeyi, who stood up, was covered in white ash as if she was rolling in the sand.

Just as he dodged the serpent's attack and was about to unleash his sword skills again, Argo's voice came from behind.

"Zeyi, try not to rely on the assistance of the system, and release your sword skills independently!"

As soon as Zeyi jumped up to dodge the snaketail's attack, Argo's voice rang out in time.

"Try to strike a swing when the attack is about to hit and unleash a sword move."

There is another type of attack in SAO that is a "player who is confident in himself", which is completely different from the attack style assisted by the system.

In that mode, players can control their bodies more freely, and the sword skills they unleash are more deadly.

But there are advantages and disadvantages, that kind of attack is a great test of one's own ability, there will be attack deviation, and even the danger of failure of the attack.

Of course, more importantly, that method is firmly in the hands of closed beta players, and it is not revealed to official players.

After all, it was a magic weapon that they could stand on the heights of many players under the same conditions, how could they give it to others for nothing.

If it weren't for the fact that the situation was very critical this time, I'm afraid Zeyi would never have been able to master this different way of attacking.

After hearing Argo's reminder, Zeyi rushed out and made a sword skill starting move without the help of the system when he was about to reach the giant snake.

This time, the giant snake did not interrupt the release of the sword technique, only to see the dark blue thin sword accurately stabbed on the rough skin of the giant snake.

Then when the attack of the giant snake was about to come, Zeyi tried to jump back, and it really succeeded.

This kind of attack, as if there was no attack stiffness, made Zeyi full of confidence in killing the giant snake.

He stepped out with his left foot, his silver sword swinging horizontally across his chest, and then galloped past it like a meteor flashing across the night sky.