The garlic mortar-shaped meeting hall surrounded by three huge baobab trees was bustling with a large number of players who had already arrived.

The clock struck five o'clock, and Zmuffert's clock was something that had cut the tongue and pillars whole out of the trunk of a huge baobab tree.

Excellence and Asuna sat down in the corner as they listened to the mournful melody that heralded the arrival of dusk, and watched as the players applauded as Tilberu appeared on the stage with the Tooth King and Lindh on the stage setting.

Immediately, Linde stood up and began to talk about some of the blue and green groups that had been the main force of the Raiders group until now, and finally became the official report of the guild.

Tilberu and Tooth King, who led another group, were also on the stage, but they were sitting in chairs, while Tooth King folded his arms and crossed his legs and remained silent, while Tilberu watched the players gathered in the audience without saying a word.

It was at this time that Linde, the leader of the Dragon Knights, said something completely unexpected.

"When recruiting guild members, we intend to lower the bar as much as possible. The current entry requirement is to reach level 10, and that's it. ”

"We're level 9!" The Tooth King stood up suddenly, shouted this sentence, and sat down again.

The other team leader, Tilberu, just sat quietly and laughed without saying a word.

'You're already acting as a behind-the-scenes figure, aren't you?' Tilberu, I have to say that you are really scheming. ’

Excellence ignored the two clown characters on the stage who were pinching each other, and instead squinted slightly at the other person, with a hint of amusement in his eyes.

Linde, on the other side, had green tendons on his forehead for a moment because of what the Tooth King said, but he immediately calmed down again.

"Those of you who have participated in this meeting, and have not yet joined any of you, should all meet that condition. So, if you raise your hand, we will be honored to greet you. However, there is only one condition that needs to be added to a specific person, and this is a decision I have discussed with Mr. Yawang. ”

"We also understand very well that this is a very unreasonable request."

The scimitar envoy who tied his long blue hair behind him, Linde, the first leader of the Dragon Knights Guild, said solemnly from the pulpit of the makeshift system.

"However, I beg you to understand one thing. Now that the top players are divided into two groups like this, we must maintain a friendly relationship between the two guilds and help each other in the process of strategy. ”

Linde's words were not spoken to the rest of the audience, but the sharp eyes of this guy were looking at someone who was very special even among the few Raiders who belonged to neither the Dragon Knights nor the Aingrunte Liberation Team.

"Mr. Excellence, Miss Asuna."

Hearing Linde mention his name, Excellence was not too surprised, for such a thing, he had expected it a long time ago.

And Asuna, who was deeply draped in her hood as usual, twitched her shoulders, and at this moment her expression was not even clear to the excellence sitting next to her.

In the end, these two men are nothing more than pawns of Tilberu, and this is the one who really came up with such an idea. ’

"And Mr. Kirito and Miss Kiriko."

However, Lind turned his gaze to the left and called out the names of the other two players.

This made a flash of surprise flash in the remarkable eyes, 'Are they here too?' However,It stands to reason that now because of my sideways,,Kirito shouldn't be called a well-known cheater like in the original book.,It seems that Tilberu is still not worried about this Kirito, who grabbed La a lot of bugs during the closed beta.。 ’

After examining Excellence and Asuna, who didn't say a word at first, he looked to the other side, probably to Kirito and Kiriko's side.

Lin Deqing coughed and said, "To recognize the two of you to join the guild, in addition to the level, there is a separate condition. That is, the four of you join the Dragon Knights and the Ayn Grant Liberation Force, respectively. ”

Hearing this, Excellence couldn't help but look to the other side where Linde was looking, and really saw two familiar figures, both of which were two brothers and sisters dressed in black.

Moreover, it can be seen that they also looked over to Excellence, and waved their hands politely, which can be regarded as a greeting.

Excellence also nodded in response, and Linde, who coughed loudly again, quickly added.

"As you can see from yesterday's boss battle, the strength of Mr. Kirito and Miss Kiriko is particularly outstanding even among top players such as me. After all, you've got all three bosses' La rewards. Of course, I don't blame you for this. It's just that, considering the future situation, I don't want the two of you to join the guild on the same side together. Because that will cause too big a gap in the combat effectiveness of the two guilds, which can be said to be equal at the moment. ”

'What a ridiculous bunch. Zhuo Zhuo shook his head helplessly, but there was a somewhat indifferent sneer on his lips.

"As for Mr. Excellence and Miss Asuna"

The Tooth King, who had been silent all along, suddenly stood up, "Together with the other five players, only seven people have conquered such a feat as the first layer of the boss, and now everyone knows about it, although I don't know where the other five players are at the moment." ”

After a pause, the player, who had a wonderful cactus hairstyle, stretched out a hand to Excellence and Asuna, and said again: "But the seven of you have divided the experience of the boss on one floor equally, not to mention how strong your combat power is, but your level may have been ahead of most of the players here now." Therefore, for the sake of the equal combat power of the two guilds, please also join the two guilds separately. ”

Glancing coldly at the Tooth King and Linde, Excellence focused on Tilberu, who was the owner of the two dogs.

"I have to say, Tilberu, you have played a good game, but, for me, the beam-jumping clown is always the beam-jumping clown, and you are too arrogant to provoke me with these two idiots, right? Is it too much power that makes your IQ start to drop. ”

Standing up, Excellence looked at Tilberu, who had been seated all along, with a disdainful gaze.

This man named Tilberu concealed the duplicity of leading the Raiders group while hiding the fact that he was the original tester.

Although it is a tightrope job that is not surprising when he is discovered and questioned by everyone, it is because of this that he becomes strong and attracts people's hearts.

As a result, because of this, he recruited many high-level players on the first layer, forming the current strategy group.

It can be said that most of the players in the strategy group here now are his people, even Linde, the leader of the Dragon Knights.

The reason why Lind, who dyed his hair blue like Tilberu and wore silver armor, commanded the Blue Group, chose this path was because he respected Tilberu.

Excellence also recognized it, this Linde had appeared at the first tier strategy meeting held in Tilberu before.

"You bastard, what are you talking about!"

Hearing Excellence say insults to Tilberu, the two dogs on the stage barked like they were defending their masters.

And the players of the two guilds in the audience also looked at Excellence with hostility.

The atmosphere at the moment seems to be a little tense, and it seems that Excellence has become the target of public criticism, but Excellence is not impressed.

"Do you think I'll be in the same guild as a bunch of idiots? Besides, I didn't expect you in the first place. ”

"Don't be too arrogant, don't think that this is in the circle, and the people here will let you go!"

The Tooth King is like a mad dog with its teeth, always revealing the idea of wanting to bite Excellence to death.

"Looks like the lesson I taught you last time wasn't enough, Cactus." The corners of Excellence's mouth pulled an eerie arc, as if he was laughing at the person he was talking to.

It is estimated that he was provoked by the "cactus head" mentioned by Excellence, and this time the tooth king's forehead appeared with green tendons.

But Excellence looked at him from afar as if he didn't care about himself, and the smile on his face became more and more obvious.

Immediately, glancing to the side, Excellence noticed that Asuna was in a posture with her hands and feet neatly together.

Although the side face peeked through the gap in the hood was very calm, it was so remarkable that she could see that she was in a very bad mood.

Because in the depths of Asuna's narrow pupils, a flickering blue-white flame ignited.

"What's wrong?"

Asked with some concern, Excellence didn't think that he had angered Asuna, but that he should have provoked the Tooth King's previous very excessive request.

In the final analysis, Lindh and the Tooth King made a condition for Excellence and Asuna that if they wanted to join the guild, the two of them would be separated.

However, in the end, the premise of "if you want to join" is no longer valid, because no matter which guild it is, Excellence has no intention of joining at all.

Not only should Linde and the Tooth King know this, but Tilberu, who is their master, should also know it very well, and for the Tooth King, when Excellence was on the first layer before, he gave him a hard slap on the horse, and it is estimated that he didn't want Excellence to advance.

"It's nothing, excellence, you just let it go, don't pay too much attention to my feelings."

Maybe because she was too angry, she let Asuna directly call out the full name of the excellence, and even forgot to use the honorific.

"Oh-" nodded, and Excellence looked back at the stage again.

"You're not going to have anything to do with the guild, can I understand that, Mr. Excellence?" Tilberu, whose eyes had become sharper, finally spoke at this moment.

to be continued