Chapter 62 – Sword Art Online (30)
It has already been a month since the world’s first VRMMORPG ‘Sword Art Online’ officially started service. In an average-sized MMO, players who have reached the initial level will gradually appear and the world map will be explored around the time.
However, even among the top-class groups in this SAO, their level was only about 10 on average. Even the floating castle Aincrad, which served as the stage for the game, was only a few percent of the total area destroyed.
Because currently SAO is a game, but it is not a game, it has become a death game. Voluntary logout is impossible, and the death of the avatar means the death of the player himself.
In such a situation, how many people would want to enter a dungeon full of dangerous monsters or traps? In addition, the gender of the player and the avatar are forcibly matched by the game master, but in this world, the number of women is overwhelmingly small.
Even now, a month later, most of these people would be staying in the
In the huge dungeon 《First Floor Labyrinth Area》, Seo-Jun and his party saw female players other than themselves only two or three times.
So is it?
Seo-joon and his party became famous without their knowledge.
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The floating castle Aincrad has a structure that becomes thinner toward the end, so naturally the lowest floor, the first floor, is the widest. The nearly concentric floors have a diameter of 10 kilometers and an area of about 80 square kilometers.
Thanks to its size, the topography of the first floor is very diverse.
At the southernmost point, there is a
If you pass through the meadow to the northwest, you will find a deep forest, and if you go to the northeast, you will come to a swampy area.
Even after passing through these places, mountains, valleys, and places like ruins await the player along with a group of monsters that match the atmosphere, and at the far north end of the floor, a blocky tower with a diameter of 300 meters and a height of 100 meters, the first floor labyrinth station towers. .
In addition to the starting city, small and medium-sized villages and villages were scattered all over the floor, and the largest among them was Tolbana, a valley village close to the labyrinth area.
The first players arrived in this quiet town lined with giant windmill towers three weeks after the start of official SAO service.
At that point, the total death toll had reached a whopping 1,800.
In fact, all of them survived, but for players who didn’t know that, it would have been a bleak result.
Seo-joon didn’t pay much attention to it, and with his party, he worked hard to find a good place to level up and grow through the honey information that Argo occasionally asked.
So, their level has passed the average of level 11 at the point of just one month old.
The highest level was Seojun, who achieved level 14 alone. Probably the highest level among the players currently inside Sword Art Online.
“You seem to have a lot of interest today.”
Seo-joon left the forest and passed through Tolbana North Gate.
[INNER AREA] Purple text appeared in my field of vision, indicating that I had entered a safe residential area.
At the same time, the eyes of many players are stuck.
As most of the players were male, the majority of the eyes were male. The fact that someone like Nam Jeong-nae was looking at him made Seo-joon slightly offended, but he smiled inwardly when he realized that those gazes harbored envy and jealousy.
The reason why he was sending that gaze was because of the appearance of him with 7 girls with outstanding looks beside him among the female players who are absolutely lacking in numbers.
He felt superior.
“Ahhh, hunting was hard today too.”
“Hu, I feel a little more comfortable now that I’m in the safe area.”
“Because it really is. It would have been terrifying if it hadn’t been for Jun.”
Doran Doran.
The girls talked.
“Come on, they say there is a strategy meeting at 4:00 PM today, so let’s all take a break and meet again then.”
Yes!
The women who answered gathered in twos and threes and scattered.
The flying flies will be twisted, but unfortunately, their hearts were only Seo-joon’s single-mindedness. There was no gap to squeeze in, so I was relieved.
“Is Sinon with me?”
“Huh. There is nothing else to do.”
Sinon nodded slightly.
Since she had nothing to do, she stayed by Seo-jun’s side. Originally, she wouldn’t have done it because it was burdensome, but in reality… And since the time spent in this SAO was by no means insignificant, they were quite friendly now.
‘Although we’re dating beyond being friendly.’
Well, anyway, Seojun led her.
Then, we went on dates all over town.
Well, it was a date, but like SAO based on a medieval fantasy world, there weren’t that many things to enjoy.
Dessert or restaurant at most?
You had to go out to the field to see the scenery, and there was nothing to see in the town on the 1st floor.
Still, Seojun and Sinon put their meaning in spending time together.
‘I want to go to the second floor quickly.’
Starting from the second floor, a new system is opened.
It was the original sword skill, abbreviated 〈OSS〉.
OSS was added in 〈 Alfheim Online 〉 of the original Sword Art Online, and it was a system that allowed players to create their own sword skills and pass them on to others.
However, in order to be recognized as OSS, a contradictory condition is required that a speed that cannot be reached without system assist is reached without system assist. To put it simply, you need to show the speed at the level of receiving system assist with your own skills.
In addition, since all single-shot skills are already registered as sword skills, all of them can only be used as continuous skills. Because of this, it is naturally more difficult to create a sword skill with a large number of consecutive attacks.
Because of this penalty, few users succeeded in making OSS during the beta test. And even the people who made them gave up after creating one or two.
However, Seojun was different.
During the beta test, he was the only one who created OSS with 17 consecutive hits. That’s why I wanted to quickly open the second floor and quickly create new sword skills.
‘That way, the power will be strengthened.’
The ‘sword skill transmission’ system that exists in OSS.
If you use it, you can pass the OSS you have successfully created into a ‘secret book’ of skills that cannot be copied a second time and passed on to other players.
If you use this, the strength of the girls including him will greatly increase.
Well, whatever
Seojun had a pretty good time with Sinon.
“Haum, chung, pjjok, jjoob…”
Paha.
After a short kiss in the alley, Seojun looked down at Seonon.
Her face was bright red. There was a gap that was different from the usual cool image of Sinon, so it was annoying.
‘It’s still too early to lift the ethics code.’
If you use Ethics Code Cancellation, Yasu is possible even within SAO.
The reason why this is possible is because the five senses, including pleasure, were very well reproduced. Pain, of course, was excluded.
Because it only discourages play while playing the game.
Well, anyway, so I was looking forward to the later. In reality, everyone was shy, so I thought to finish all the raids here because I couldn’t do it in the end.
“Shall we go soon?”
“Huh… ♥”
Judging from Sinon’s face, it looked like she wanted to do more, but unfortunately it was nearing 4pm.
Before it’s too late, I have to go to the central plaza to hold a meeting to clear the first floor. So, Seojun and Sinon came out of the alley and headed towards the central plaza.
“This way!”
“Brother, here!”
As they approached, the party greeted the two.
Seo-joon, who joined like that, entered the central plaza and took a seat and waited. And after a while, along with the sound of claps and claps, resounding shouts flowed out into the square.
“Yes! Then, although I’m 5 minutes late, I’m going to start soon! Everyone, go a little further…, There, take three more steps this way!”
Indeed, the one who spoke confidently was a tall swordsman wearing shiny metal armor all over his body. He had a pretty handsome face, and his long hair, which flowed in waves down the sides of his face, was dyed a vivid blue.
The shop on the first floor didn’t sell hair dye items, so he must have been aiming for a rare item that had fallen from a monster.
Cough, he cleared his throat and opened his mouth.
“Thank you for responding to my call today! Some of you may know me, but let me introduce myself! I’m playing ‘Dear Bell’, and Class is playing ‘Night’!”
Then a group of people near the fountain burst into laughter and whistled and applauded.
It looked like he and Diabel knew each other.
Still, the atmosphere softened considerably because of that bullshit. Diabel, who was aiming for that, soon got to the point.
