"Since it was separated from the earth, it has lost its magic, so what is the reason for the formation of this floating island?"

Ling Ze asked, but he felt that there should be no definite answer to this question, and these "dark elves" should not understand, and it was still unknown whether there was a "solution" to this answer in the setting.

"I don't know, we've been trying to figure it out."

Sure enough, Kizmael shook his head and said that they didn't know either, this should be the question that all the inhabitants of the Floating Island wanted to answer, of course, only the intelligent race, and those real monsters should not matter.

"Actually... Brother Ling Ze, it's not that I don't care about the background setting... It's that the official didn't give a perfect background setting at all......"

Seeing that Ling Ze no longer talked to the "dark elves", Kirito immediately came up to explain that things were not as Ling Ze thought.

"Huh? And this kind of thing? It's all been closed beta.,As a result, the game didn't even have a complete background setting at that time? That's too distracting, isn't it? I don't feel like Akihiko Kayaba is such an undedicated guy. ”

Ling Ze was suddenly a little surprised, this was a little different from what he imagined, it stands to reason that Kayaba Jinghiko plans to use "life" to create such a game, as his dream all along, if the background plot of this game is so weak, it is inevitably a little too hasty, right?

"It's true, I've read countless reports, reviews, and developer interviews since the game was published in magazines and on the Internet, but the only information about the game's background above is that the game is set in a huge castle floating in the air, and it's made up of a hundred large maps stacked on top of each other."

Kirito said firmly, as a brain-dead fan of Akihiko Kayaba, of course he will not forget to study the background setting of the game, it's not that he didn't study, but there is nothing for him to study at all.

"Actually, I've always thought it's weird, because whether it's a multiplayer or single-player game, as long as it's an RPG game, if you want to do it well, the importance of the game's background setting should have about the same proportion as the gameplay, but SAO Even when it was in closed beta, the setting of the world view was still quite weak."

Kirito's face is helpless.,He's always felt very incredible about it before.,Such a cross-era game.,But it's like a lame leg.,There's only gameplay.,But there's no perfect plot and main quest.,Obviously you can wait for the game to become more perfect before releasing it!

"This elven war activity mission, at the time of the closed beta, was a simple content such as the forest elves and the dark elves fighting because of the sanctuary, without any expansion, and the most outrageous thing is that it didn't explain what the sanctuary was at the end of the mission."

Kirito whispered, which made Ling Ze instantly feel like his blood pressure was full, as if he had replayed the previous games that were released without even being half finished.

"I think that Akihiko Kayaba's previous declaration should have explained the reason, didn't he say that the stage is ready for us, let's create the story ourselves? We who can't be resurrected, and the NPCs in this game don't seem to be much different, you see this dark elf, isn't it like a living person? ”

Klein suddenly interjected, which made Kirito fall silent for an instant, in fact, he had always thought so.

The performance of these NPCs is not at all like they have not been seriously designed, and the information that comes out of the mouth of this NPC also seems to illustrate this, and this game obviously has a very rich background setting.

"However, the backstory of this world is not perfect, and it doesn't matter now, does it? After all, these have nothing to do with the first goal of returning to the real world in the complete strategy death game, isn't everyone's goal to go home? Who cares about the game's backstory? ”

Ling Ze said with a smile, this moment made Kirito and Klein nodded thoughtfully, and said a thousand ways and ten thousand, now the only way to go home is to hurry up and clear this game, as for the background setting of the world, let whoever cares about it care.

"That's right, we're here to do this quest, but it's just because you can get a lot of experience points for each part, and the quest rewards are also very high."

Kirito took Ling Ze's words, this is indeed the main reason why he supported this mission, but this sudden change disrupted his original plan, in fact, his original plan was to return to the main town to rest and then come back after getting the key dropped by the elf's death, who knew that he would be suddenly dragged over by Kizmail.

"Come with me, there's our camp ahead."

Kizmael continued to lead the way, and at this time they were in a small canyon, surrounded by steep rock walls on the left and right, and one of them had a gap of about five meters, and on the left and right sides of the gap stood slender pillars, and the flags dyed with horn flutes and single-edged knives on the black background they had just seen were fluttering in the breeze at the top of the pillars.

As they approached the pitch-black flag, the thick fog had magically vanished, and their vision became much clearer, apparently protecting the camp.

Ling Ze looked at the camp in front of him, and in front of the two flags, there were "dark elf guards" who were slightly more dressed than Kizmer, and they stood with slender long-handled knives in their hands, and they looked quite imposing.

Kizmael walked over with everyone, which made Asuna, Kirito, and Klein a little nervous, as if they were worried about whether there would be a conflict, and Kiri's heart was also very uncertain, after all, the plot was completely different now, and he didn't know how to deal with it.

But they obviously thought too much, Kismael walked over and said hello to the two guards, the two guards looked at Ling Ze and them a few times with suspicion, but they didn't say anything and let them go directly, it seems that Kizmer still has a bit of face, no matter how he says it, he is also an elite monster.

After continuing to follow Kizmel for a while, the narrow valley suddenly became wider, and then it was really reached the camp of the "dark elves", which was a circular space with a diameter of about 100 meters, and there were nearly forty purple-black tents of all sizes set up in it, and the beautiful dark elf warriors walked everywhere, which could be said to be a fairly large camp.

"That's a lot more than the lockdown camp."

Kirito said with some surprise, it stands to reason that this kind of activity map shouldn't need to be overhauled, right? After all, this is not a "hidden mission" that only they can do, but every player can do it, in other words, this is similar to the nature of interacting cutscenes, and many players can trigger this mission at the same time, but in their own mission space, after all, they must not affect each other.

"Is it a big change?"

Ling Ze opened his mouth and asked, in fact, it is not incomprehensible, isn't it natural that the public beta is better than the closed beta?

"It's quite big, it looked shabby at the time, but now it feels like the real thing, like a real army camp."

Kirito was very emotional, and he explained the situation to everyone.

"In other words, we're now temporarily disappearing from the third layer, and then we're in a special separate scene?"

Asuna, a newcomer to the game, tried to understand, and I have to say that this Yuuki family's eldest lady's comprehension ability is really good.

"It's amazing."

After receiving an affirmative answer, Asuna was surprised because they didn't feel the change at all.

As the crowd whispered, Kizmer led them to the largest tent, the Chinese tent where the "Commander of the Dark Elf Advance Force" was stationed.

It was a male dark elf, his level was very exaggerated, not to mention Kirito and them, even if Ling Ze was added, it was estimated that it would be difficult to kill this guy.

The value of this commander is completely crushing for the current players, and there is no need for any bells and whistles at all, after all, this is a game with the concept of "level, attributes", and it is really difficult to make up for it if the gap is too big, and attribute suppression specializes in all kinds of bells and whistles.

However, the commander was very pleased with the survival of Kizmel and the recapture of the "Emerald Key", so his attitude towards Ling Ze and the others was also very enthusiastic, which was directly reflected in the mission reward he gave.

In addition to a sizable number of K'err, there is also equipment with excellent performance, and the equipment is also a Comfort mode that can be selected from several options.

Under the guidance of Kirito, everyone has chosen jewelry, because this is a rare rare prop that will directly give attribute bonuses, plus the jewelry itself is relatively rare, and the cost performance of choosing jewelry is obviously the highest.

Of course, after receiving the reward, they also successfully activated the next mission, and everything went smoothly.

By the time they came out of the Chinese army's tent, it was not early, the sun was about to set, Kirito, Asuna, and Klein were all tired on their faces, and Kizmer, who had been accompanying Ling Ze and them, also stretched out greatly after coming out, and it seemed that this NPC was also tired.

"Terran swordsmen, thank you again for helping me, and I will entrust you with the next battle."

Kizmael turned, and seemed to notice the tiredness on their faces, and she thanked them again.

"No thanks, please give me a lot of advice later."

Asuna replied politely, she obviously had a sense of substitution, but I have to say that this game is indeed very real, and the performance of this Kizmel and the commander can be said to be vivid without a sense of disobedience, and even makes people wonder if they are pretending to be staff.

"By the way, what a faux pas, I didn't remember until now, I haven't asked your name, let's get to know me officially, my name is Kizemer, what about your name?"

Once again, Kizemer surprised everyone, and it would be understandable if a normal "dialog" game had this kind of name-asking dialogue, but now it's a little too real.

"My name is Ling Ze."

Ling Ze replied dryly, which made Kizmail's face a little embarrassed.

"It's really hard to pronounce the name of the Terran, Ling Ze? Right? ”

Although the tone is a bit strange, I have to say that this NPC really said Ling Ze's name, and after Ling Ze corrected it, she said it correctly, and Kiizmel also called out the names of Kirito, Asuna, and Klein, which naturally surprised players who had never seen the world.

After all, even the previous "old man of physical arts" had never called them by name, and the intelligence of these NPCs seemed to be getting higher and higher, more and more like living beings.

"The time to set off for the battle is up to you, if you want to go back to the Terran town first, I will send you to the neighborhood with a spell, and if you want to rest in the tent in the camp, it doesn't matter, you can stay temporarily."

After exchanging names, Kizmer proceeded to go through the quest process, which calmed down the wide-mouthed Kirito and things were finally back on track.

"Let's stay overnight, the beds here are quite high-end, the food is delicious, and the room and board are free, you can leave a lot of money, which you can't enjoy in the town."

Kirito secretly reminded that after discovering that Kizmel's intelligence was very high, they were becoming more and more careful in what they said, and they almost changed to text messages to communicate with each other.

"Then let's rest in the tent, trouble."

Klein's eyes lit up, this is cheap and not taking advantage of it, it's a bastard, I finally have the opportunity to pick up the wool of the system, this kind of opportunity must not be missed!

"No thanks, it's as it should be, please come with me."

Kizmael said as he began to lead the way in front.

The crowd was taken to a tent, and the cruel truth was that there was only this empty tent, so all nine of them had to rest here, and if they were all boys, it would be fine.

After all, the area of this tent is more than enough for nine people to lie down, but if you add a girl, it will be very embarrassing, because you can't keep your distance, and the premise that nine people are more than enough is that the distance is very close.

"Kizimail, the eight of us live here, can we let Asuna rest with you? It's very inconvenient for her to be a girl. ”

When everyone was embarrassed, Ling Ze suddenly opened his mouth and said to Kizmail, this is obviously an unfolding that Kirito didn't expect, is it really useful to put forward conditions for NPCs? As soon as this thought arose, they thought of the way Brother Ling Ze faced that "old man with physical skills" before.

"Yes, no problem, I'm in my own tent."

Kizmer nodded directly in agreement, without any hesitation, which made everyone look at each other, sure enough, Brother Ling Ze seems to have a special method of communicating with NPCs, and can always do something they can't do.