Wang Shui, whose face was very stinky, stretched his waist, and then continued to bow his head and write the information silently.

Slowly, darkness enveloped the huge "Beginning Town", the street lights around the square were lit, and more than ninety percent of the people around them had left.

The players in the square just now were not all more than 220,000 people.

In the information released before the official operation of the game, the open beta data of the floating city "Ayn Grant" has been adjusted, the radius of the first floor has been changed to ten times, and the number of initial towns has been changed to six, so as to accommodate up to 300,000 players.

The players in the same novice village as Wang Shui are about three to forty thousand, but I don't know if Kirito is nearby.

The area of the map has become larger, and the biomes have also increased, and it is said that there will be more quests.

The gap with the closed beta is getting bigger and bigger, and the advantage of the closed beta players may be compressed.

While thinking about it, Wang Shui's writing work did not stop, and he was more glad that he had entered the game than the depression in his heart.

If you don't participate in the game, the chance of dying is only higher, and you won't know how to die.

The bell tower in the corner of the square rang twelve times, and Wang Shui also drew the final stop.

The rough paper in front of me was covered with dense text, because the writing was relatively fast, and some unimportant parts of the content were also very omitted.

And it needs to be detailed in place, and even there are fine drawings drawn with a red pen.

After eleven hours of non-stop writing, in exchange for two hundred and two precious materials, it took Wang Shui some more time to sort them into stacks, and then he could not bear the high-intensity and high-pressure data sorting work, and collapsed on the bench by the square.

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What wakes up aqua regia is the aroma of roasted grains.

The SAO virtual world doesn't starve to death, and the ferocious hunger will only torture the player all the time, and the amount of health is deducted in the setting - huh?

Looking at his extremely slow but indeed sliding HP and the shriveled stomach pattern next to him, Wang Shui was shocked.

[Real] alienation label, this setting suddenly came to his mind.

Does the so-real mean the impact on this virtual world?

Wang Shui stumbled to the bakery that had opened early, and only then did he realize that the currency information was under the inventory.

[Ker: 0]

The only thing in the inventory was the two pens he had bought with his initial funds, a total of 400 pieces of low-quality paper, a small sword from the beginning, and a simple coarse cloth suit.

You're not going to starve to death, are you?! That's a terrible way to die!

The ghost sent the gods, Wang Shui took out ten pieces of unused paper, and numbly said to the puppet NPC that he thought in his subjective consciousness:

"Boss, I'm hungry right now but I don't have any money, can I exchange these papers for some food?"

Before Wang Shui realized that he was stupid, the bakery owner, a skinny middle-aged man with a clean and small brown goatee, frowned very humanely, with an annoyed and helpless expression on his face.

"Today's first business was actually a barter? Hey, looking at you, it seems that you are a new adventurer, will the adventurer also lack this money? ”

With very smooth dialogue and language logic, Wang Shui opened his mouth and suddenly wanted to ask if this NPC boss was played by a real person.

"Okay, okay, don't show such a stupid expression in front of my shop, otherwise people will think that eating my bread will be stupid, alas, this is the smallest portion of whole wheat bread, the price is lower than ten sheets of paper, but I am not short of paper here, would you like to exchange?"

Wang Shui nodded hurriedly, then took the arm-sized stick of whole wheat bread and returned to the bench in a daze.

That's it, really?

Before entering this world, Wang Shui didn't pay much attention to the so-called alienation label, and the stall owner who sold his keys didn't warn him......

It turns out that the label has such a great impact on the plot, so why didn't the awakened people who came to explore it in the first two issues find out?

Oh yes! They don't know the plot!

Aqua regia takes a bite of whole-wheat bread, which is completely different from the food of the same name that aqua regia shared from a fitness colleague before he came into this world.

Sour, rough, difficult to chew, the mouth is going through a tribulation.

With the addition of a little fluffiness and cereal aroma just out of the oven, Wang Shui took out the opponent in two bites.

The negative status icon for the shriveled stomach disappears, and a fifth of the HP that has been lost recovers at a slower rate.

No matter how it tasted, I felt much more at ease after eating.

Licking his somewhat dry lips, Wang Shui suddenly realized that the players in the original book who had been living in the novice village or low-level cities had increased the difficulty of surviving in SAO, at least the problem of diet could not be solved by patience.

Rather than considering these players who are purely numerical bases, Kirito estimated that he took the first step as a lone player last night.

And there are many strong-willed players who are not willing to lag behind and are already practicing like crazy.

In addition to the beta players, there are also a lot of old birds who have only started playing in the open beta, as long as they are not frightened by Akihiko Kayaba's death declaration, these old birds are a solid force to attack this world.

Shui Wang is also about to start moving.

Thinking is connected to the personal information column, here, Wang Shui is not scratching the SAO menu screen. Instead, he opened the Awakened page of his boss, the [Dream System].

The biological brain [Computing Terminal], which directly acts on the brain, successfully constructed the picture, but Wang Shui keenly found that his basic attribute [Physical Fitness] turned gray.

The status bar, which has been empty, also has an icon called [Deep Meditation].

The only two production skills, "blacksmithing" and "mechanical engineering", have also turned gray.

It is not difficult to understand that the aqua regia with NERvGear now is judged by the biological brain to be [deep meditation], which is probably similar to sleep.

Moreover, the body of the game character who can perceive a large amount of environmental information is nothing more than a virtual existence constructed by NERvGear transmitting a large number of perception signals to the brain.

Therefore, the [physical fitness] in the basic attribute becomes meaningless...... As for the two skills he has, is it because they are not recognized by the SAO system?

Although he knew that there would not be much information about checking the transcendent attributes, he still had to be cautious and enter the unknown area to check his status first, which was told to him by one of Wang Shui's regular customers.

Next, Wang Shui flipped through the SAO status interface again, and a bunch of bare 0s and clean equipment slots were lackluster.

But Wang Shui still patiently clicked on the buttons to check and test each function, and at the same time, he kept stepping out of the city from the north gate of the town.

The scenery on the first floor of the floating city "Ayn Grant" is quite beautiful.

Beyond the north gate was a savanna with a few hills, and in the distance there was a dense forest like a deep green ocean, and in the sky was a metallic earth-colored sky—the second world.

The scenery in every direction is worth photographing and lasting forever.

The vast grasslands near the Town of Initiation are dotted with a number of blue boar monsters, and the diamond-shaped buoys above their heads are yellow, indicating that they are semi-active monsters that do not actively attack the player, just like the novice leveling monsters in other games.

To Wang Shui's surprise, there were not many players around the town.

In the original book, only 10,000 people were trapped in this floating prison, and it is true that for a long time after the game started, the vast majority of players were not active raiders, they crowded into towns and loaded ostriches, waiting for rescue from the outside world.

It wasn't until the money on them was almost spent that they hunted low-level monsters together...... Or hunt the same kind (other vulnerable players).

But with a player base of more than 220,000, there shouldn't be only a dozen or so leveling guys the next day, is it because it's too early?

Or did they go out to a village farther away on the first night?

Wang Shui thoughtfully, old players close to the second leveling echelon can lead Wang Shui so much, so for those third echelon or even the fourth echelon that are many steps slower, how strong will the [Raider Group] be?

Divergent thinking is a good habit, and more thinking will lead to more gains, but leveling things can't be left behind.

Wang Shui, who classified himself as the third echelon, pulled out the [small sword] on his waist, the type was the initial weapon of the [one-handed straight sword], and each person had one in hand.

The blade is narrow and thin, and the grip is short, holding it in the hand like holding a long dagger.

According to the strategy, there is a cheap weapon shop in the city, and you can buy good weapons such as [Bronze Sword] or [Bronze Scimitar] with 1000 kors of the initial capital.

The aqua regia, which had already spent all of Keer, had no choice but to use this long dagger to refresh the hand monster.

Compared with the joy brought by logging in to SAO at the beginning, the fantasy of his youth has finally come true, and Wang Shui wants to experience the core setting of SAO this world even more-

[Sword Technique] system.

A first-level player like Wang Shui only has two empty skill slots, and there are a lot of skills that can be equipped at level 1.

Weapon skills such as [One-handed Straight Sword], [Short Sword], [Curved Knife], and [Stick], as well as support skills such as [Concealment], [Enemy Hunting], and [Reaction Avoidance], under each unique icon, there is a proficiency system with an upper limit of up to 1000 levels, and a huge sword skill skill tree.

Yes, the so-called skills can be understood as passive abilities, and the hidden skill tree is the intuitive sword skills and auxiliary abilities.

If you want to use the corresponding sword skills, in addition to equipping the corresponding weapons, you must also put the corresponding passive skills into the limited skill slot.

The operation is very simple, and you can drag and drop it directly......

[Abnormal, unable to learn skills!] 】

The bright red text on the small white pop-up window was extremely dazzling, and Wang Shui, who was still a little excited and looking forward to it just now, suddenly froze in place like the game was stuck.

Drag it again.

[Abnormal, unable to learn skills!] 】

Drag it out again!

[Anomalous ......]

After repeating the operation a few times like an idiot, Wang Shui took a deep breath and opened the panel given by his boss, the [Dream System] Infinite Company, and the talent awakening ability on it seemed to be shining:

[Arrogant Know-It-Er (Dark Silver): Unable to obtain a transcendent profession, unable to change the bloodline, can only obtain skills through learning, and the learning ability is not limited, and the learning ability is greatly enhanced. 】

…… Not, big brother? Why don't you leave me here?!

Here's the game! Game! It's the characters in the game who want to gain skills! I didn't get it myself, why are you here to make a mess now!

Hey, hey, is the Kayaba guy there? There's something here that goes beyond your system! Come and see if you wrote this error pop-up!

After half a year in the infinite world, Wang Shui, who had only worked as a blacksmith and repairman, collapsed, and this scene was something he had never imagined.

He began to pace back and forth on the prairie, scratching his ears and cheeks, and the sword in his hand poked into the grass at his feet.

A few days ago, he was still fooling Shina, talking eloquently, and his face was calm and calm.

He lay down on the grass, and a sentence "I'm Messi, I'm panicking now" popped up in his head.

Wang Shui, who has dispelled the old stalks, now just wants to take out his mobile phone and search:

[Hurry, I'm in SAO, I can't use sword skills, how can I hug the toes of the Raiders group? ] 】

Don't talk about toes now, just this degree of realism, no skills, it's a problem to live with money, food, and life!

When he was just sent to the [Iron Edge City] by the mud cart into the Infinite World Station, Wang Shui was so stuck, and then became a blacksmith to survive.

He is a bit path-dependent, and now he wants to go back to the town of origin to pick up the forging hammer......

It's a pity that his advanced forging skills are not recognized by SAO...... Go to the blacksmith NPC and learn from scratch?

With an electric brain, Wang Shui suddenly remembered a small tip on the strategy post he read a few days ago.

"When the player's skill proficiency reaches a certain level, the corresponding sword skill will not appear directly in the skill screen.

Players can either find their own skills or go to the Town of Origin to find the corresponding skill mentor to learn, and there are a large number of rare hidden sword skills to master in this way."

Skills Mentor ...... It seems to be more like a sword skill instructor, will they teach basic skills from scratch?

Moreover, it seems that there is a fee for learning sword skills......

I don't know what the road ahead is, Wang Shui, who has no choice, quickly runs back to the city.

In the alley to the northwest from the central square, Wang Shui came to the back street mentioned in the guide.

There are no shops in the backstreets, just a dozen or so training ground-like buildings with skill icon signs.

Wang Shui went straight to the [One-handed Straight Sword] skill mentor, and in the other party's humanized questioning gaze, Wang Shui's eyes narrowed, his mouth grinned, and he immediately cried!

"O Mentor! Ahhh Woohoo! Mentor, help me! ”

The NPC mentor, who has been highly realistic, suddenly looked confused:

"Stop, young man, I said stop, what's wrong with you?"

"Woo woo, Master Mentor, I'm me, I've been deceived! Someone, someone used this little sword to cheat me out of all the money! ”

The skill mentor still didn't understand: "Isn't this little sword that all rookie adventurers will receive?" ”

"But, but I don't know, they lied to me before I took the sword, woo woo, mentor save me."

Well, the skill instructor gave an idiot look very intelligently, and then said:

"It doesn't matter either, you also have a one-handed sword now, and you can go and clean up the monsters outside the city to make money."

"But, but I won't be able to ...... the [One-handed Straight Sword] skill" Wang Shui lowered his head and whispered, saying in frustration, tears falling to the ground.

"Wait, haven't the adventurers all completed all the basic skills training?"

"I ...... My situation is a bit special, I come from a nearby remote village, and people are relatively stupid, I only learned the skills of the [short sword] system with my dead brother, and my brother said that one weapon skill is enough, as long as I can help the town clean up the low-level monsters nearby, I can live well......"

The atmosphere has come to this point, and there are only three results.

First, the skill mentor's AI personality is relatively tough, and if you drive Wang Shui away, then Wang Shui will change his rhetoric and go to the [Dagger] mentor next door to try it.

Second, the skill mentor is soft-hearted, but he doesn't want to teach stupid people, so he simply sends an initial dagger to Wang Shui, then Wang Shui goes to the [Dagger] mentor next door, takes out the dagger and says that someone tricked him into buying a dagger, but he can only use one-handed sword skills, and asks the mentor to teach him, and he doesn't even need to change his words.

Third, the skill mentor was soft-hearted and promised to teach him the [One-handed Straight Sword] skill, if he could master it, he would go to the [Dagger] mentor next door...... Oh, I don't think I need to go this time.

Anyway, it's probably this idea, it's nothing more than a performance, and there is no other way for the time being.

Fortunately, Wang Shui once studied the two strange books "Self-cultivation of Actors" and "Social Engineering", and he was very thick-skinned.

In Wang Shui's pitiful expectant eyes, the skill instructor sighed and said:

"If you don't master all the skills, you can't become an adventurer according to the town agreement, I want to deprive you of your adventurer status, prohibit you from going out of the city to fight monsters, and also prohibit you from learning skills again."

Depend on! What the hell is the protocol?! Player Terms? You cheated me again!

Things seemed to have gone too far, and Wang Shui subconsciously wanted to rush out of the door, at least to keep his identity as an adventurer first.

But at this time, the skill mentor suddenly sighed:

"Well, but then you're going to have to live on your own in the town, and look at your stupid appearance (huh?). ), probably going to the slums, where the situation is complicated, and two powerful bastards have been in charge of the slums for years......"

Hey, hey, big brother, you're going astray! Don't talk about it anymore, if you tell the story again, you're going to have a question mark on your head, I don't have skills or levels now, and I can't do your task!

"Your dead brother is right, in fact, mastering a weapon skill is enough to clean up the monsters that break in from the wild from time to time. By the way, what is the name of your brother who is so insightful? ”

"Black, I call him Brother Hei, and he died a miserable death."

The slightest hesitation is an insult to Brother Hei's humanity.

"It's an adventurer who hasn't heard of it, and it's not bad to have this kind of rational adventurer inheritance in the nearby villages and towns, unlike most people, who thought they had mastered a lot of skills, and they were stunned by the high-level monster of the strategy, and they died early."

Mentor, you're a little poor, you know? Talking about the point, it's okay, I'll go to the [Dagger] mentor next door if it's nothing.

"Alas, it's come to this, it's just a matter of teaching you the basics and moves again, so that you don't end up in the slums and become the thug of those two bastards, oh, I don't know your name yet."

"Mentor, my name is [Half Heavenly Book]."

Wang Shui is talking about the game nickname, which is the nickname he commonly used on the Internet before he was occupied by the mud car.

It seems to be quite lofty, but in fact it is just a ridicule of his former classmates and colleagues, which is dejorative.

In his hometown, this word means a bottle that is less than half a bottle but likes to sell knowledge, which is a curse word.

Wang Shui has obsessive-compulsive disorder in learning, and especially likes to read all kinds of professional books, but he is always hot for three minutes, knows a little about everything, is not proficient in anything, and has a fast mouth and a strong desire to express himself, so he is often overly and hated.

But Wang Shui is a ...... The cheek has already been practiced to the realm of spitting and drying itself, so he simply uses the ridicule of [Half a Heavenly Book] and [Half a Bottle of Water] as online nicknames, and similar to [Wang Banxian], [Xiao Zhuge ] and other high-shame alternatives.

"Half a book from heaven? What a strange name. The tutor couldn't help but complain.

Okay, I haven't called [Gunship] or [Walmart Shopping Bag] yet, I'm afraid I won't pass the trial.

"Alright, half, let's go to the training ground inside."

Eh, teacher, will your name [Book from Heaven] be more pleasant?

Half of it sounded like it wasn't finished, and I was so uncomfortable.

"Half of the part of you are still stunned, half of it is coming, half of it is talking?"

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