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Go back 12 days ago.

After receiving the task of the additional skill [Physical Technique"), An Yi successfully triggered the clue quest of the only exclusive skill in SAO because he met the trigger conditions.

Named "Emperor Wu" to get an exclusive skill.

Its precondition is the Advanced Quest Bonus Skill (Combat) of the Physical Technique, a skill that allows you to enjoy hand-to-hand combat with equipment bonuses without equipping a weapon.

The trial task of "Fighting" is to smash the boulder of the terrifying trial with a durability of up to 999 with your bare hands, and no matter how desperate you try, you can't increase your speed, so you can only grind it with time.

However, in this way, it is inevitable to face a reality, that is, the side quest of the second layer of the maze boss fails.

There are some situations that need to be mentioned here, the situation of Anyi's side quest is a bit special, so after careful consideration, he chose to abandon the completion of this layer of quests.

First of all, it's important to note that his side quests are special.

【Side Quest: Solo Player】

[Description: To become a hero, you must enjoy loneliness, either madness or brilliance. 】

[Mission Objective: Kill the boss in the maze area of each layer of Aingrunte 100 floors, no more than three people are allowed to kill in a team, and the player's contribution must exceed 50%, and there are additional rewards for single kills.] 】

[Quest completion reward: Cumulative collection, you can randomly get exclusive skills for every ten bosses killed]

[Mission Failure Penalty: No Penalty]

The Lord God is playing a game of words here, as unnourishing as ever.

This task can be seen from the task rewards and punishments, not a one-time completion, a one-time reward, but a cumulative result.

The so-called killing of ten bosses is not a mandatory requirement to kill ten consecutive layers of maze bosses, in other words, even if Anyi gives up a maze boss, it will not cause a failure to the side quest, and the impact of giving up a layer of maze boss will only make him lose the possibility of obtaining an exclusive skill.

But in reality, it is impossible to gather ten exclusive skills in itself, and the collecting habit is fine, but if it is used for actual combat, it is meaningless.

Please note that the task mentions every ten, Ayn Grant has a total of 100 floors, that is, 100 maze bosses, but the insidious part of the main god comes, once the boss strategy of the 100th layer is completed, it is equivalent to clearing the SAO game, in other words, the main quest of Anyi will leave here after completion, and at the same time meet the conditions to give the tenth exclusive skill, but ......

Meaningless! Everyone is gone, so what's the use of this reward? This is a game world, and he's only a body in the form of data here, no matter how useful it is, he can't take it out!

Moreover, exclusive skills do not necessarily have to be obtained through task rewards, for example, the clues of the "Martial Emperor" skill this time, the task reward will probably be the copied skill, and there may be the result of two knife flows to two knife flows, but if he has already obtained the corresponding exclusive skills, then it is meaningless to repeat it, which can be planned well, so as not to waste unnecessary resources.

So the tenth reward is a joke, and it can be completely ignored, so that there are 9 layers of layers that he can actually complete the task without having to force it, and these layers that can tolerate failure need to be carefully allocated to avoid a situation that is not in his favor.

It took Anyi half a month to complete the advanced skill task of "Body Technique", and when his last punch completely shattered the Trial Stone, the NPC old man who received the task appeared behind him.

"You're really the embryo of a very good martial artist." The old man with white hair sighed behind him, and after noticing him, An Yi turned around and bowed respectfully.

As early as the first layer, Anyi discovered the strangeness of the intelligence level of these NPCs, it seems that in the case of certain tasks, [intelligence] will be liberated, and the AI level is no different from that of humans, so appropriate etiquette based on normal values can also achieve a certain degree of favorability.

Named, modest.

"Because of the [Mandate of Heaven], I am destined to fail to achieve the teacher's goal, even if I work hard all my life, I can't reach her realm, this is the destined ravine of talent." The old man sighed and said to An Yi: "However, I failed to live up to the teacher's hopes, so I went to the first layer with the permission of the teacher, because I learned in the prophecy that the visitor who was an adventurer would appear on this level, I tried to put my hope on you, and it seems that it did not disappoint me." ”

"Since you have passed my audit, then I will tell you where the teacher is, if you pass her old man's audit, maybe you really become my junior brother, I am very optimistic about you, maybe I can reach the scene that I can't peep into in my life, and appreciate the true meaning of [Emperor Wu]!"

The moment the old man's voice fell, the originally gloomy exclamation mark on the other party's head suddenly turned into a golden question mark, and An Yi also received a notification that the task was completed.

【Ding! The pre-task [Fighting] has been completed, and the related skill [Body Technique] has been detected to have an advanced relationship, and the two skills will be merged, and the corresponding skill can be unlocked in the skill slot.

[Obtain quest information about the exclusive skill [Emperor Wu)]

The experience value of the task completion made his experience bar jump a little, and at the same time there was a sum of Cole to the account, in addition to the experience points and Cole, the biggest gain is probably the skill called "fighting", the original "physical art" skill is just a simple hand-to-hand attack ability, but after the advancement, the "fighting" skill is more like a sword skill, which can point out the cornerstone skills of the skill tree.

Although the number is not as numerous as sword skills, it is already a lot if it is used as an additional skill, and a large number of skills at the top of the skill tree are gray, probably because of the lack of a prerequisite for "Emperor Wu".

Although there are a lot of skills, but due to the limitation of the number of skill slots and actual combat considerations, Anyi only chose three "fighting" skills, most of the sword skills have medium and long-distance displacement sword skills, and hand-to-hand combat is used at the same time when equipped with weapons, so this can be ignored, and it is more important to choose extremely close displacement skills with a short cooldown.

An ultra-short-range displacement skill called "Ghost Step", suitable for hand-to-hand combat, with a cooldown of only 1s, and a bit like Limbo Microstep, capable of making unexpected dodge moves.

In addition, there is also "Iron Mountain" for large monsters to interrupt their skills, and "Sweeping Legs" for small humanoid monsters to inflict a [Knockdown] effect.

These are all unlocked specifically for different types of monsters, and in general, this skill is worth wasting a layer of bosses to get.

Of course, he has already accepted his fate for the failure of this layer of side quests, but this does not mean that the boss has to give it up......

What are you going to do? Of course, it's a boss robbery!

With a pale rhythm from behind, An Yi shot at the Taurus King like a cannonball with a yellow-green light under the shocked gaze of everyone.

"Sonic impact? This guy wants to stun the boss? Kirito recognized this skill at a glance, and at the same time said in disbelief: "Impossible!" I've tried this skill, but it doesn't work, and I can't interrupt the boss's skill. ”

It was useless, but in his plan, the sonic impact only served as a displacement skill.

Although the sonic impact has a stun effect, the conditions for judging cannot be effective against the Taurus King for the existing player attributes, which is something confirmed by the strategy team.

So although everyone was surprised by this guy's identity, they were also laughing at this person's incompetence and ignorance.

Thought the last attack was so easy to take?

However, to everyone's surprise, the sonic impact did not work on the Taurus King, but this mysterious player made a move that surprised everyone present, he did not hand out his sword to attack but put it in a strange posture, like some kind of martial art.

〈Bajiquan Iron Mountain Lean〉

"Boom!" A tinnitus sounded in everyone's ears, and then they watched the Taurus King interrupt his skills as he was repulsed.

"Open...... Are you kidding! Neos couldn't accept it, and Chu Xuan silently pushed his glasses.

For a moment, they forgot that they were the Raiders team, and watched Anyi's continuous attack blankly.

"Beware of sneak attacks!" Kirito couldn't help but shout, although he knew that he should never have anything to do with this guy at this time, but he couldn't help but shout when he saw a refreshed Taurus admiral suddenly sneak attack.

However, An Yi didn't even look at it from beginning to end, and the moment Admiral Taurus's giant axe fell, he was like a phantom, and his figure slid to the other side at a strange angle, and he dodged the blow in extreme thrill.

Then, at the same time, he handed out the last sword and took away the last bit of blood of the Taurus King.

From beginning to end, he didn't let the other party use a sword technique once, nor was he attacked once.

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