"Let's go... Go to the third floor! ”

When everyone began to cheer, Klein surrounded Kirito with the group of "Wind Forest Volcano", and then frantically hinted that Ling Ze and Asuna should hurry up.

Ling Ze's face was helpless, why would Clay do this, in fact, it is easy to understand, this guy must have also noticed that Kirito grabbed the final blow of the three bosses.

"It's not that exaggerated, I've already got it."

Kirito is also in a cold sweat, Klein this guy is really good at work, although he understands that the other party wants to protect him, but there shouldn't be any need for this, right?

"Let's get out of here first!"

Klein still insisted, looking very vigilant, and there was no choice but to follow him towards the stairs that appeared at the end of the turn of the boss room.

At this time, the players were still celebrating loudly, and even if someone noticed them, there was no way to stop them.

Ling Ze and the others turned around, and a thick door with carvings gradually appeared in front of them, and the carved pattern could be seen as two swordsmen crossing their long swords in their hands, and they were standing in the ancient wood with many knots.

The one on the left has dark skin, while the one on the right has slightly fairer skin, and both are slender and tall, with long, pointed ears, which fit the image of elves in most MMORPGs.

This embossed gate foreshadows the story of the third layer, which is obviously related to these two elves with different skins.

"In a sense, the real SA0 doesn't start until the third layer."

After seeing this relief door, Kirito sighed, which made his companions around him very puzzled.

"Why?"

Asuna asked curiously, Kirito said something without a beginning or an end, like a riddler, and no one understood.

"emmm~~~ Because humanoid monsters will officially appear from the third layer, the kobolds on the first layer and the minotaurs on the second layer can only be regarded as subhumans, although they can use simple sword skills, but the appearance is completely monsters.

Above the second layer, we will face enemies who look almost the same as the player, and who can also talk like NPCs and use sword skills flexibly.

The real SAO Sword Art Online starts from the third layer, which is what Akihiko Kayaba, the man who imprisoned us here, once said in the SAO Special Magazine.

He said that the game of SAO is a symphony of light and sound, as well as life and death, intertwined with sword skills and sword skills. ”

Kirito explained seriously that the fact that he used to be a fan of Akihiko Kayaba was not a secret in the "Wind Forest Volcano" team, but it was the first time that he was able to memorize what Akihiko Kayaba said in "magazines" and "interviews", and so on.

"That's ......"

It's a pity that everyone doesn't have a lot in common with Kirito, after all, only Kirito here was once a brain-dead fan of Akihiko Kayaba, and only he can feel the pain of being disillusioned and collapsing his idol into a terrifying criminal.

"By the time these contents were published, Akihiko Chewba should have planned this crime, right?"

Asuna raised the question from another angle, and this was undoubtedly another blow to the "brainless fan" Kirito.

"I guess so."

Although Kirito didn't want to admit it, it was not difficult to deduce from Kayaba Akihiko's words before that Kayaba Akihiko had undoubtedly planned all this at that time.

After all, on the first day, Akihiko Kayaba looked down at the 10,000 players who were forcibly transferred to the "starting town", and said in person, "I created NERvGear and SAO to create this world and observe it, and now all of this has been achieved", if this statement is true, then let alone SAO, Akihiko Kayaba may have made this whimsical crime the final goal when he drew the first stroke of the NERvGear circuit diagram.

And the outflow of interviews that excited fans actually has a double meaning.

"A concerto of life and death, is this really just a speech about the player's sword skills intersecting with humanoid monsters?"

Kirito's heart is full of mixed feelings, but Asuna has already asked a new question, and this question, just like Kirito's words just now, is as confusing as it is, and she doesn't understand what she is talking about at all.

"What do you mean?"

This time, Kirito took the lead with a puzzled expression, and everyone in "Wind Forest Volcano" also looked like they were waiting for answers.

At this time, everyone has climbed the spiral staircase, and the structure of the round-trip staircase in the middle of the labyrinth area is basically the same, only the blackened relief on the wall is different for each layer, and if you look closely, you can find that the content of the relief is hinting at the scenery and story of the next layer.

"I think what Asuna means is that the concerto is not played in the form of reciprocity between instruments, and if it is reciprocal, then it is more appropriate to use a duet, and the concerto is obviously a primary and secondary relationship.

Although it may change slightly with the times, the concerto is basically a form in which the orchestral instrument is used as the background and then played by a single or a few solo instruments as the protagonist, and it is a large-scale instrumental suite that can show the personality and technique of the solo instrument. ”

It was not Asuna who opened her mouth to answer Kirito's doubts, but Ling Ze, who had been listening to them all the time, which made Kirito and Klein suddenly realize, and then their eyes when they looked at Ling Ze became more envious, Brother Ling Ze is really a winner in life, and he even knows this kind of thing so well.

"That is, is the concerto not one-to-one but one-to-many, or a handful of music for many?"

Klein concluded that they, the hard-working workers, obviously won't have nothing to think about a concerto.

"Is it a metaphor for the situation when the player faces the boss at the end of the level?"

Kiritto blurted out, but as soon as he said this, his face became even more ugly, because in this world, there is almost no picture of one player fighting against many, say, more than ten monsters at the same time.

In the SAO world, where there is no magic that can annihilate a wide range of enemies, and the attack range of range-based sword skills is only a little longer than the length of the weapon, being surrounded by many monsters is basically equivalent to death.

This is also reflected in the game's monster design.,Almost all monsters appear alone.,At most, only two or three appear together.,As long as you don't deliberately gather monsters.,Or make the mistake of triggering the alarm bell trap.,There won't be a one-to-many battle.,And once that situation occurs.,No matter who is the first time to run away.,There won't be a situation where there are more than one enemy.。

So in this world, there will be no battles that can be compared to a "concerto", if you have to say, only the boss battle is more similar, but the boss has become the protagonist, and the "strategy group" composed of players has become an "orchestra".

Akihiko Aoba...... What a confusing guy. ”

After the silence, Ling Ze ended the topic, this should be the final answer, in Kayaba Jinghiko's opinion, the boss monsters he designed are actually the protagonists of this game, and the players, just to highlight the "orchestra" of the boss monsters.

This is a very shocking truth, the players who originally thought they were the protagonists of this "reality show", turned out to be in the eyes of Akihiko Kayaba, it turned out to be just to highlight the ingredients of those boss monsters.

"Well, I don't know how that guy reacted when he saw us break the boss level, but when I think about it, I find that I have more motivation for the strategy boss, and if we kill the boss one by one, that bastard must be very heartbroken, right? After all, the monsters designed by his own hands were killed one by one. ”

Klein reinvigorated, he said with a smug face, and waved his fist at the sky as he spoke, as if he was demonstrating to the Akihiko Kayaba who didn't know where to peep, this man can always be the first to be optimistic, this may also be a kind of personality charm, or even a kind of personality charm that can be the "protagonist".

"Maybe what Akihiko Kayaba enjoys is the thrill of the monsters he designed being attacked by the players one by one, otherwise why would he wait for the players to attack on the hundredth floor?"

Ling Ze smiled and dismantled Klein's stage, which made Klein a little helpless, it didn't make sense for them to say this here, because no one understood what Kayaba Jinghiko thought, but in order to go home, no matter what Kayaba Jinghiko thought, they had to continue to attack the boss, not for others, but for themselves.

As the group spoke, they pushed open the door to the third floor, and Klein stepped first onto the mossy stone floor.

As mentioned before, each floor of Ayn Grant will basically have its own theme, of course, to exclude the first floor, the first floor does not have a particularly unified design theme, it is a "everything" floor.

In addition to the varied wild terrain such as grasslands, forests, wilderness, and valleys, there are also many towns and villages outside of the main block, as if to welcome players with a lively atmosphere that best suits the atmosphere of an MMORPG game.

It's just that in the context of this death game, it is estimated that no one is in the mood to enjoy the change of scenery.

The second layer, on the other hand, has a fairly consistent design.

In addition to the multi-layered round-table mountains covered by green pasture and connected by peaks, most of the monsters that appear on the second layer are animal-type monsters, and the difficulty of the wild monsters is not too high, giving people a laid-back atmosphere, the theme is "pasture", but most players call it the "cow layer", well, after all, basically all monsters are "cows".

As for the third floor of Ayn Grant, the design theme is "forest", and the "forest" also appears in the previous floors, but the "forest" on the third floor is completely different from the "forest" around the "village of Horuka" on the first floor and the "forest" in the southern area of the second floor.

On the third floor, the trunk of the smallest tree here is more than a meter in diameter and at least thirty meters in height, and as far as the eye can see, there are some ancient trees that are completely indescribable, and the sunlight passes through the gaps in their overlapping branches and leaves, revealing a golden light green, giving people the atmosphere of being in a fantasy world.

"Wow~"

Asuna let out a cheer of surprise as she passed through the door and stopped a little farther away, spinning in the bits and pieces of sunlight, as if admiring the infinite expanse of the beautiful forest.

"It's great, just the scenery like this makes people feel that it's worth the ticket price to climb here, and the scene design is so beautiful."

Asuna stretched out her hand, as if trying to grasp the scattered light particles, her long chestnut hair reflected the shining light, her slender physique and outstanding cold beauty, making her feel as if she was the aboriginal spirit of this forest, and the air seemed to be sweet and moist because of her presence.

"It's really worth the price."

Ling Ze answered, Kirito and they all had the same idea, but it was not necessarily what they said about the scenery or people, after all, people and scenery are very beautiful.

"At this level, you have to prepare well and prepare to fight the boss again."

Looking at the brand-new scene in front of him, Kirito sighed, they had learned a lot of lessons from the second-layer boss battle they had just experienced, and every bit was precious.

The first one is "Gather Intelligence", in each floor, you have to complete the quest around the last village or labyrinth area, and collect information about the boss, Argo has proven to them how important this is.

And the second, of course, is that you should be prepared for the future bosses, all of which are psychologically different from those during the closed beta, and it turns out that there should be changes in each layer.

Therefore, in addition to collecting information through missions, it is also necessary to conduct pre-battle reconnaissance about bosses in the future, after all, the information available to them will only become less and less.

The latter is definitely not a simple matter, almost all the boss monsters have to go into the deepest part of the room, and then destroy the main object before pouring out, so the scout team may not always be able to leave safely.

Even if there are scout players who are proud of their foot strength, they can't avoid danger, after all, the boss room is changing rapidly, and the body of this kind of scout player is generally brittle, and once there is a problem, it may directly lead to death, which is also the main reason why scout players are almost extinct after this game has become a death game.

Ling Ze took a few steps forward and glanced back at the place where they came out, it was an ancient stone pavilion built at the base of a super tree, the stairs they had just climbed were opening their pitch-black mouths from the floor of the pavilion, and the voices of the players were faintly heard below.

"Let's go, don't think so much about it first, it is estimated that other people are about to come up, you guy who has pulled so much hatred should quickly hide away, so as not to be really surrounded."

Ling Ze patted Kirito on the shoulder, signaling this "tour guide" to lead the way quickly, there are not many opportunities for Kirito's knowledge to play a role, after all, he has reached the third layer.