Chapter 71: Half a Year Later
The floor strategy is thriving!
The time is March 3, 2024
Once again, SAO has changed dramatically.
Reach the 70th floor!
10,000 players, and now there are about 7,000 left!
Since the 57th floor's injury-free strategy, the subsequent strategies have gradually reappeared casualties.
As the floors continue to rise, the strength of the lord boss also grows rapidly.
It's impossible to get a loss-free strategy.
Therefore, the front-line strategy team can only be mentally prepared and minimize losses as much as possible in the strategy.
In the past period of time
It's not just the floor strategy that has changed in SAO.
The 'Smile Coffin', the murder guild that appeared in the original work, also appeared.
Quite a few players have already been targeted by the red players in the smiling coffin, and some have even lost their lives.
The appearance of the red name player also made the other players in SAO panic.
Because no one knows if they are being targeted.
And the word 'Grim Reaper' is once again famous in SAO!
Incident Resolution for Red Players!
Once again, you can tackle a layer of lord bosses alone!
All of them let this name spread throughout SAO, which can be said to have reached a kind of exaggeration that everyone knows and everyone knows.
Because of the resolution of the red player incident, Lu Qing officially became the idol of most players in SAO, and more and more players became loyal fans of Lu Qing.
Nearly half a year
Lu Qing has only been back to the Forest House a few times, and the rest of the time is spent outside brushing levels, or walking all over the scenic places in the SAO floors that have been raided.
All the places with good scenery were noted by Lu Qing and wrote down all these places.
In the past half a year, the communication between Lu Qing and Asuna has been pitiful!
In total, I'm afraid it's less than a hundred.
This amount is sometimes less than the number of communications between the two of them in the previous day.
But, what the two are doing, the other basically knows!
Asuna has been staying in the Knights of the Blood Alliance and the Frontline Strategy Group, and in her spare time, she goes to Liz to gather alone, and the rest of the time is busy with the strategy.
There weren't that many things to keep Asuna busy in the Blood Alliance Knights, so Asuna's focus was all on strategy.
Seventy floors of Ayn Grant
In the base of the Knights of the Blood Alliance
Asuna stayed alone in the room, looking at the paper in her hand with dense characters, a faint smile on the corner of her mouth, and a look of longing flashing in her light brown eyes.
"It seems that your excellence cannot be concealed at any time......"
"You saved them like a hero, and you saved ......"
"Why, I want to forget about those things and act as if nothing happened."
"But why, I can't help but think of you......"
"It's been so long since we've seen each other, do you miss me?"
"What have you eaten every day for so long? Are you used to eating? ”
"If you had to do it again, would your choice still be the same?"
Gentle whispers rang out in the room, and Asuna's expression became a little complicated, and her voice was full of pride, happiness, confusion, and worry.
Twenty-two floors of Ayn Grant
Outside the forest house
A slender figure almost enveloped in a black cloak slowly approached the place along the road.
"Hoo ......"
An exhaling voice sounded, and the figure looked up and removed the hat from his head, revealing his face.
This person is none other than Lu Qing!
Standing outside the house, looking at the unchanged wooden house, Lu Qing looked a little emotional.
"I haven't been back for three months since I last left!"
In half a year, Lu Qing's level came to LV.88.
At this point, the experience required to move up to the next level is simply terrifying and unimaginable.
In fact, since the level was raised to level eighty-five, the experience required to level up was terrifying and unimaginable.
Looking at this level, Lu Qing also stopped brushing for the time being, planning to rest for a while.
As far as Lu Qing knows, the average level of players now is only LV.62, and he has already exceeded more than 20 levels.
Even Kirito's current level is only LV.83, which is several levels away from him.
With a reason to rest, Lu Qing returned here as a matter of course.
There are some things that may be almost time to be resolved.
It's been long enough, and no matter what, it's time to end it!
Come to the forest house
Looking at the empty but dustless room, Lu Qing couldn't help but feel a little distracted.
After a while, Lu Qing came back to his senses, shook his head and smiled bitterly, and wisps of longing appeared in his eyes.
"This feeling of being alone is really uncomfortable!"
Shaking his head, Lu Qing stopped thinking so much and checked his inventory.
At this time, Lu Qing's inventory was already full, except for some rare props and equipment, all the others were rare ingredients.
For example, there are two S-grade rare ingredients, and more than a dozen A-grade ingredients, and the rest are B-grade ingredients.
Now, with C-grade ingredients, Lu Qing is already a little unsightly.
Considering the space in the inventory, all the C-grade ingredients that were obtained were thrown away by Lu Qing.
It's a pity that Lu Qing doesn't know the skill of cooking, and he didn't learn it.
Therefore, in the face of so many ingredients, we can only stop.
For half a year, Lu Qing ate half a year's worth of dry food.
Tsk tsk, that taste is simply incomparable to the dishes made with the ingredients.
Turning off the inventory, Lu Jun sat on the sofa, opened the friends list and sent a message.
"Are you free now?"
A few minutes later
"Free!"
"Come to the forest house, I have something to ask you for!"
"What's the matter?"
"I'll find out when you come!"
There was a moment of silence on the other side
"Good!"
“……”
Turning off the communication panel, Lu Qing closed his eyes and leaned on the sofa, his hands crossed on the back of his head.
Drip, drip!
Suddenly, Lu Qing received a communication message.
"Huh?"
Lu Qing opened his eyes and looked at the communication panel with some confusion, and when he saw the person who sent him the communication, he immediately frowned.
"Heathcliff, why did he message me all of a sudden!"
Lu Qing's friend list doesn't have many people, and Heathcliff is in it.
But among the people in the friend list, Lu Qing has the least communication with Heathcliff.
Because Lu Qing knew who Heathcliff was.
Coupled with the fact that Heathcliff always wanted to let him join the Blood Alliance Knights, Lu Qing had the idea of deleting friends.
"Death King, I wonder if you have time to go to the fifty-fifth floor?"
“……”
Looking at the message sent by Heathcliff, Lu Qing pondered with his eyebrows, puzzled in his heart.
The fifty-fifth floor of the 'Iron Capital', where the headquarters of the Blood Alliance Knights is now located.
But this time......