Walking up the narrow spiral staircase, a door appeared before their eyes again.

"This is the door to the second layer area, let's go over there first and activate the transfer door and then find a place to rest, after all, we just took the first layer of the boss strategy, we should take a good rest, right?"

Putting his hand on the door, Excellence turned his head to the girls behind him and asked.

"Well, listen to Yue." Bai Xueji, who was closest to Excellence, nodded.

When the other girls heard this, they also glanced at each other, and they all nodded to Zhuo Zhuo, indicating that they had no objection.

As for Asuna, whose identity seems to have nothing to do with Excellence, although she was standing behind Snow White and the others, she still saw Excellence's gaze on her.

She knew it was asking for her opinion, and nodded her head, and Asuna responded.

"I'll follow you until the day the agreement ends."

The agreement that Asuna said was actually what she promised Excellence to team up with the five girls for a week with Heiyukihime.

Well, although it was an agreement in exchange for a cheap strawberry mousse cake

"Well, let's go! Cough cough to the new world, sorry, I just made a slip of the tongue and I wanted to say the second layer."

Excellence was quick to speak for a while and caused a slip of the tongue, and covered his face helplessly.

Hearing this, the girls who knew what it was couldn't help but laugh.

Youba held back his smile and half-covered his mouth, "I thought you were going to yell 'I'm going to be the king of the pirates' next."

It's just that because she hasn't been to the world where Excellence lives, Asuna is a little confused, and she doesn't understand what Excellence is talking about.

"I don't quite understand what you just said."

Although she was embarrassed to interrupt, Asuna was a little curious about the topic that made the five girls laugh.

"You'll find out in the future."

Hearing Asuna's question, Kaedeko's face appeared with a meaningful smile, and she didn't explain anything to Asuna.

“”

Kaedeko's inexplicable smile gave Asuna a strange feeling.

Although she couldn't tell what it was like for a while, she knew that the source of this feeling must have something to do with excellence.

"Ahaha, let's not care about this topic now, okay, let's go to the second layer now."

Somewhat embarrassed to look at the girls' gazes at him, he snorted weakly and scratched the back of his head.

Then he turned his head and pushed the hand that was placed on the door a little harder.

After pushing it open, a boundless view suddenly came into view, and the exit from the first floor to the second floor was set in the middle of a steep cliff.

The staircase below the narrow platform floats on the rock face and extends to the left.

"This is the second floor, let's go to the main block for a rest."

As he spoke, Excellence stepped onto the area of the second floor.

Seeing that the women who had just changed the topic after Excellence had just been deflated, they did not pursue some of Excellence's previous thoughts, but silently followed Excellence's footsteps.

The variety of composite terrain differs from the first, which is made up of rocky mountains in a circular shape from one end to the other.

The mountains are covered in tender green grass, and large bison-type monsters stride forward.

Excellence and the group were making their way to the second floor of the main block.

"What kind of man is he?" Asuna asked in a low voice to Kaede in front of her.

As if he had just discovered his intentions, Kaede's delicate little hand lightly covered his small mouth.

It's just that you can still see the smile on her face, as if she is very happy.

"What kind of people? I guess he's a scumbag. ”

After saying that, Fengzi looked over to Zhuo Zhuo's side, and the jade hand that had just covered her small mouth combed her hair behind her ears.

"Scum?" Kaedeko's words made Asuna fall into deep thought, and then smiled, "It's really apt"

I have to say that Asuna's smile just now is the most knowing smile since she entered this death game, very beautiful, so beautiful that it is breathtaking.

"Then you know that he is a scumbag, and your mind about him will not change?"

Hearing Asuna's question, Kaedeko's gaze took off Excellence and looked at Asuna beside her.

"Hmm," Kaede nodded noncommittally, "He's a poppy to us, and we know that being with him will be painful, but it also brings us joy." ”

"It's like a bottomless black hole, once you get in, you can never escape, and you will fall deeper and deeper."

――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――

The second main block of Al Ain Grant, "Ulbas", is like hollowing out the interior of a flat-topped mountain range about 300 meters in diameter, leaving only the outer edge of the town.

Stepping into the street from the south gate, the "Innerarea" sign appeared in the group's field of vision, and the slow-paced background music of the neighborhood sounded in their ears.

Unlike the first layer of music, which is dominated by strings, the oboe main melody with a mournful tone is played.

There are also subtle differences in the costume design of the nPcs that come and go, probably "coming to a new floor", and the concept should also be renewed.

Walking to a position about ten meters away from the door, Excellence looked around, but did not see a single player head that showed green.

However, this is also taken for granted.

Because, the subhumanoid boss Ilfang, who guards the labyrinth area of the first layer leading to the second staircase, was only eliminated by the Excellence Twenty minutes ago, and the other players have just gotten the word that the transfers on the second floor have not been activated.

Those players can't always reach the second layer in an instant, so in other words, at this moment, there are only seven players who exist in the vast space of the second layer.

This is a little redundant, and of course, this state of affairs will not last forever.

Two hours after the boss is eliminated, the "portal" that exists in the center of the main block on the next floor automatically activates, connecting with the main block on the previous floor.

At that moment, the waiting players should be pouring out of the door like a tidal wave.

But, on the other hand, if the thought came to mind, for the next hour and forty minutes, the street—or the entire floor—should be in a sense monopolized by the seven of them.

The group walked straight north along the block avenue of Ulbas, climbed the wide staircase and reached the square in front of them.

In the position of the so-called floor transfer door, Excellence slowly walked to the central door.

Although it is a door, it is only an arched object made of stone, and there is no gate, door or window structure, and you can see the scenery from the other side.

However, when I looked closer, I noticed that the space in the center of the arched object shook slightly, as if it were passing through a thin film of water.

Excellence slowly extended his right hand to the swaying transparent membrane, black leather gloved fingers, the moment they touched the wide vertical surface of the water.

A dazzling blue light shines into the eye of the remarkable.

Concentric circles of light spread at a rapid speed towards the inside of the arched object with a width of about five meters.

When the space is filled with light, the portal opens, that is, the "street opens", but Excellence does not have time to watch this growing phenomenon, but turns away.

Walking towards Kuroyukihime and the others, unconcerned about what would happen next.

I just silently left here with the girls, which was decided early in the morning, "after opening the transfer door, I will go find a place to rest".

After a while, the inside of the door suddenly emitted a dazzling luster, and the nPc orchestra somewhere in the square played a loud "opening loud music".

In an instant, a large number of players in various costumes poured over from the cyan glossy door.

Some people stood in the middle of the square, looking around.

Others looked at the map they bought from the tipster and left quickly.

Others clenched their fists and raised them high, "Come to the second floor!" Such a roar was made.

However, this noisy scene has nothing to do with the outstanding group that has already left here.

to be continued