Kirito and Li Xiang took over the task in the village of Horuka.

Kirito is tasked with collecting the ovules of a man-eating flower. The man-eating grass is a special monster in the forest to the west of the village, and the flowering man-eating grass is the man-eating flower. The Piranha Flower has a very low refresh rate, and only the Piranha Flower is capable of bursting ovules. Therefore, the content of this quest is to keep hunting the man-eating grass until the man-eating flower is defeated.

Li Xiang's mission is to help the village blacksmith defeat the steppe wolves in the northern grasslands and collect the wolf teeth of the steppe wolves. The number of wolf fangs required is 50. It is also a quest that requires a lot of monster hunting.

However, the two had planned to hunt all night in Horuka Village to upgrade to level 5, and in some ways such a mission was also suitable for the two of them.

"Kirito-kun, when will we be able to find the man-eating flower?"

Li Xiang's feet were slightly wrong, his upper body twisted to avoid the vines wielding the man-eating grass, and his backhand sword stabbed into the weak position of the lower part of the man-eating grass blade, resulting in the life of the man-eating grass monster.

"It's a matter of probability, and I don't know when the cannibal will appear."

Kirito kicked away a man-eating grass that swooped up from the side, then strode to the left, dodging the corrosive liquid that the piranha spewed out.

"My luck has never been great. Kirito-kun, what about you? ”

Li Xiang quickly caught up with a man-eating grass that Kirito had repulsed, and killed it cleanly.

"It's very unfortunate that I'm also unlucky."

Kirito counted the contents of his backpack. At the same time, he glanced at the durability of the novice sword in his hand.

"The durability is almost halfway, and if we continue to hunt for a while, we will need to go back to the village to repair our equipment."

They had just hunted nearly one hundred and fifty man-eating grasses and had already reached level 2, but still hadn't obtained the ovules of the man-eating flowers.

"Hopefully we'll find the Man-Eating Flower before the two of us reach level 3."

Li Xiang shrugged his shoulders with a helpless expression.

It seems that the Lucky A of the Dumb Hair King didn't have much effect on him.

Kirito unleashed his enemy-seeking skills and continued to search the forest for the figure of the man-eating grass.

Since they are hunting in teams of two, they are able to kill monsters at a faster rate. Even if you face more than two monsters, you have the power to fight.

The player has two skill slots in their initial state, and the composition of skills is an important part of the player's game character.

In Sword Art Online, the ability to master a certain type of weapon falls under the category of skills. As a result, the player's first skill will always be mastered with different types of weapons.

For example, Kirito's first skill is one-handed sword mastery, which is simply known as the "one-handed sword" skill. And Li Xiang is a two-handed sword. Others include curved knives, large knives, long-handled axes, and so on.

In addition to weapons mastery skills, there are other types of skills in Sword Art Online, such as cooking, tracking, and more.

With the exception of certain special skills, the proficiency of each skill increases with the number of times it is used. The bonus or effect of the skill will also become stronger.

Kirito's second skill is the Enemy Seeking Skill, which is able to spot monsters, players, etc., that cannot be found with normal vision within a certain range. At the same time, it has a certain effect of improving hunting efficiency.

And at Kirito's suggestion, Li Xiang's second skill chose the weapon defense skill. This skill increases the defense of weapon blocks. It is very useful in battle.

While Kirito was looking for monsters, Li Xiang was bored and observed his surroundings.

Li Xiang suddenly felt a cold feeling rushing from his spine to the top of his head, and he felt that this passive skill had helped him dodge the monster's attacks many times so far, so when this palpitation just appeared, Li Xiang quickly turned around and looked at the dense forest behind him.

However, Li Xiang found nothing.

Could it really be that I was wrong?

"What's wrong?"

Li Xiang suddenly entered a state of alert, which made Kirito a little confused.

"Nothing, maybe it's my delusion."

Li Xiang shook his head and signaled that it was okay. But silently kept an eye on it.

"Well, let's go a little further west, and not far to the west I just spotted several man-eating grasses, one of which looks like a man-eating flower. Let's take a look. ”

"Is this mission to kill the dead finally be completed?"

Li Xiang looked up to the sky and sighed, motioning to Kirito to lead the way.

Less than thirty meters had advanced, and a man-eating grass with flame-colored flower organs on its top appeared in front of the two of them.

Kirito secretly clenched his fists and finally found the quest monster. Next, as long as you defeat this monster, you will be able to obtain the ovules of the mission item Maneater.

Upon completion of this quest, the quest publisher will reward the weapon "Sword of Forbearance", which, with appropriate enhancements, can be used all the way up to the third level of the Labyrinth.

"Wait a minute, Kirito-kun, what kind of monster is that, why haven't I seen it?"

Li Xiang held down Kirito, who was about to rush out, and pointed with his left hand at another monster in the form of a man-eating grass that appeared not far away on the other side.

The bottom half of the monster was exactly the same as the man-eating grass that the two had killed before, but it had a bloated sac on its head.

"Oops, it's the man-eating fruit, it's a trap monster of the same race as the man-eating grass. As soon as he receives an attack, the fruit on his head will immediately burst. Then all the surrounding man-eating grasses will be attracted to it. With our current level and equipment, once we fall into a siege, it is almost a life and death. ”

Kirito hesitated for a while, and finally said with a regretful face:

"Let's give up, the distance between these two monsters is smaller than their hatred. If we attack the Piranha Flower, we will inevitably attract the Piranha Fruit to attack us. If you mistakenly attack the man-eating fruit on the way, the monster trap will be triggered. It's too dangerous. ”

"But let go of this man-eating flower, and I don't know how long it will take to find the next one. Is it possible that as long as you don't attack the man-eating fruit, the trap won't be triggered? ”

"Yes."

Li Xiang licked his lips, and Kirito on the side saw her seductive movements, his old face turned red, and he turned his head to the side.

"Well, I'll attract the man-eating fruit's attack, and you can take the opportunity to kill the man-eating flower. Hey, why is your face so red? ”

Sword Art Online is somewhat exaggerated and programmed in terms of the player's emotional performance, such as Kirito's current face, which is really red like a monkey's ass.

"Nothing, what did you just say?"

Kirito tried to cover it up in vain, but Li Xiang, as a female character with a straight male soul, obviously didn't think about being shy because of the seductive nature of women.

"It's that our soldiers are divided into two ways, I'll contain that man-eating fruit, and you will deal with the man-eating flower. Once you've dealt with the Piranha Flower to get the quest materials, we'll run away. ”

Li Xiang didn't think much about it, but thought that Kirito had just been distracted and didn't hear it, so he explained it again in detail.

Kirito, who came over with a positive color, immediately agreed to Li Xiang's proposal.

There are no must-hit magic attacks in SAO, and all sword skills and melee attacks have a certain track. Theoretically, a person with perverted judgment and reflexes can dodge all attacks.

So far, Saber is the closest player Kiritto has ever seen to this level. It was only fitting that the task of attracting the attention of the man-eating fruit was entrusted to her.