In the world of God's Realm, the game time is completely synchronized with the real time, so when the outside season reaches the late autumn, the leaves of various trees in the game world also fall to the ground with a "clatter".

"Rustling ......"

In the silence of the mountain forest, a thin figure stepped on the fallen leaves that were as soft as a long-haired carpet.

She wore a dark red leather tunic and chest armor on top, white leather pants and over-the-knee boots, and a brown hooded cape that reached her knees enveloped most of her torso, and her face was obscured by an unusually wide brim.

The skinny girl's name is "Asuna" - and that's just her in-game ID, of course, and after nearly 20 days in the game world, she's one of the very few female players who still insists on going her own way, or maybe the only one who dares to venture out of the safe zone on her own.

However, the reason why she is so bold is actually only because she has not been in contact with any players at all in the past 20 days, and she has not even been to many places where people gather, so she is completely unaware of the current situation.

After "that day", Asuna did nothing but hide in a cheap apartment for adventurers, eating the cheapest black bread until all the 10 copper coins on her body were spent.

Then, on the streets, she learned a good place from a passing "earthman" aunt - a temple where you eat and live for nothing every day.

So Asuna went to the temple again, ate black bread every day, slept on the cold stone bed in the simple single room provided by the temple, and waited blankly for the day when she would return to the real world.

However, after two weeks, when she opened her eyes and found herself still sleeping in a small single room with only a stone bed, she gave up on the idea that someone in reality would save her.

At that time, the number of players whose names appeared on the huge stone slab outside the temple had exceeded a thousand, but no one had found a way to clear the game - Asuna realized that the idea of waiting for other players to clear the game was futile.

The only option left is "how to die".

If she continues like this, I don't know if she will have to stay in this safe town for a few months...... Even for a few years, and no one dares to guarantee that the so-called "safe zone" will be safe forever.

Rather than hiding in a dimly lit room with your knees on your knees in a state of anxiety every day, it is better to get out of this safe shell and do your best to study, exercise, and fight.

…… If he dies in the end, at least he won't regret that he didn't work hard for his life, and he won't feel sorry for the lost future.

Get moving, move forward, and disappear...... It's like a fleeting meteor that burns up in the atmosphere!

- With this tragic realization, Asuna walked out of the temple and truly entered a world of MMORPG that she knew nothing about.

She inquired about what she had to do from the nuns of the temple, became a swordsman from the Warrior Guild in the Guild Building, and obtained a sword and learned skills from a career mentor......

And then she has been relying on her own strength to roam the wilderness - in fact, it is not a big deal, it is nothing more than repeated use of skills, and she keeps killing monsters and monsters and monsters.

As long as you are no longer afraid of death, whether it is fighting monsters or escaping, it is not too difficult to do, and the monsters of this world, or the monsters that Asuna has encountered so far, are actually not too difficult to deal with.

In order to reduce the cost of purchasing recovery potions, she had to try to keep herself as uninjured or as little as possible, and over time, she became more and more efficient at fighting monsters, and returned to the town less and less often to resupply.

Every time she returned to town, she would exchange all the money she had for a small amount of healing potions, enough black bread and water, and a tabula rasa sword, and then go back into the field, fighting until the last sword was running out of durability.

When Asuna first entered the wild, she had seen a group of rogue looking male players chasing a blonde female player with very large breasts, and since then she has not considered teaming up with a man, and has purchased a wide hooded cloak to wrap herself tightly.

However, if you fight alone, you will soon reach your limit......

Although Asuna learned more lethal skills from her professional mentor after leveling up, and had the money to equip more advanced weapons and armor, the new monster strength seems to have increased even more, making her more and more inefficient at fighting monsters.

Originally, online games weren't played alone - even though Asuna had only played some free-to-play games on her mobile phone before and hadn't touched MMORPGs, she knew the least of them.

However, as a female player, and quite pretty, a pretty female player, Asuna was somewhat resistant to teaming up with a male player.

――Worried that the other party has bad intentions, this is one thing, and on the other hand, she doesn't like men to be courteous around her.

In the real world, Asuna already knows very well how most men behave when facing themselves, and maybe some women like the feeling of the stars holding the moon, but Asuna has no interest in it.

But teaming up with a player with a female surname...... Perhaps this is even more of a headache than teaming up with a player with a male surname, and the attraction of different surnames and the rejection of the same surname are not just the special surnames of magnets.

Just as Asuna mechanically swung her thin sword to stab at the subhumanoid monster's vital point, while thinking about the way out of her mind, a reflective figure suddenly appeared in the corner of her eye.

“！”

Asuna's mind was shocked, but her body still accurately followed the trajectory of the "skill" and successfully plunged the tip of the rapier into the throat of the subhumanoid monster, taking away the last bit of its health.

"What's the matter with you?"

Asuna, who had struck down the subhumanoid monster, did not sit down and take a break as usual, but turned vigilantly to face the male player who had quietly appeared near her, while pricking up her ears and sneaking into the surrounding woods, guarding against the other party's accomplices surrounding her.

"The attack just now spilled over."

The male player with a pair of flat glasses pushed down his reflective glasses with a blank face, and said in a dull voice that seemed to be as smooth and uninhibited as a machine.

"Attack overflow?"

Asuna didn't understand what this answer meant, and she didn't want to understand, she just clenched her sword harder, and at the same time bowed her body slightly, so that she could accelerate to escape here at any time.

"Relax a little, holding the sword so tightly will only stiffen the muscles in your arms."

The expressionless man in glasses on the other side seemed to see Asuna's vigilance, but he didn't care at all, and just faintly pointed out the shortcomings of the "self-taught" Asuna with a rigid tone that was not much different from the electronic synthesis voice.

"Attack overflow is the situation where the damage value of the skill you use can cause is greater than the monster's health, theoretically speaking, the damage caused by the attack just makes the monster's health zero, and every bit of damage is not wasted, this is the perfect battle.

Because in the world of "God's Realm", the damage value caused by players to monsters is not fixed, so as long as you arrange your skills reasonably and don't waste every MP. ”

The man with paralyzed glasses standing in the shadow of the trees explained to Asuna very seriously what he meant by "attack overflow", but Asuna did not thank him, still watching his every move very vigilantly.

Because she was in the middle of the battle, Asuna put away the hooded cloak that covered her graceful figure and beautiful face, and she wasn't sure if the other party coveted her beauty before she came to talk.

No...... It's nothing to come over and talk to a beautiful girl after seeing it, but in such a barren mountain range, even if there is a surname disturbance protection system, it doesn't mean that female players will not encounter any danger from male players.

"Who are you? What's the matter with me? If it's okay, I'll go. ”

Asuna asked again about the other party's intentions, and at the same time began to slowly back away, if the man with the paralyzed glasses did not answer her, she would not hesitate to leave the place, so as not to fall for the other party's delaying tactics.

"I'm Chu Xuan."

Chu Xuan pushed down his reflective glasses expressionlessly, and introduced himself to Asuna in an unusually brief self-introduction in a boring voice that was as smooth and uninhibited as ever.

Asuna raised her eyebrows after hearing the name "Chu Xuan", but this was just because of his "foreigner" status, after putting down the hand that pushed the glasses, Chu Xuan continued to say to Asuna:

"When I came to this neighborhood, I saw your battle.

Looks like you haven't studied swordsmanship in reality, have you?

Although this is just a game, it doesn't mean that you can't use a sword if you don't know how to use a sword, but I would like to remind you that it is best to go to your professional mentor and ask you to start with the basics of using a sword.

After that, the career mentor will introduce you to the boot camp, where you can learn practical basic combat skills for free.

- Of course, these basic combat skills will not appear in your skill list in the form of 'skills', but if you continue to practice, your actual combat ability will definitely be greatly enhanced. (To be continued.) )