Chapter 742: The twos journey and the labyrinth (1/2)
Aincrad, 99th-floor...
At the crack of dawn, the players started coming out of the teleport plaza with energetic looks. They started heading towards their respective destinations.
The players operating here are very high leveled and some of them are barely strong enough to fight on this floor. Then, there are players who are lower than lvl80, these are novices who can't even fight in the fields, forget the labyrinth.
This didn't stop the flames burning within their hearts. There are tons of players who came here from the lower floors just to look at the stone spire that pierced the sky. Their eyes were br.i.m.m.i.n.g with hope.
If they can conquer that tower, they will all be able to ascend to the last floor, the 100th-floor.
They came here with a singular dream in their minds. They wanted to clear this floor. If levels weren't a concern, the players would have stomped the labyrinth into oblivion with their sheer numbers.
In a sense, these players were more self-conscious than the raid members.
With 100 floors, Aincrad looked like a weirdly-shaped pyramid with area increasing the more one descended from the top. At the 99th floor, this floor is a bit cramped compared to the lower floors. The stony labyrinth guarding the stairs to the next floor were encircled by four NPC towns around it. Aside from that, the outer areas were neutral fields.
With only four towns here, being cramped is an understatement. Any city in the real world would easily be larger than the 99th-floor.
Ding
Asuna and Wu Yan arrived via teleportation. Their visions blurred for a second and they lost sense of balance until they returned to their consciousness with the labyrinth staring back at them from the distance.
The platform is moist, it probably rained a while back. The two looked at the heaven-piercing tower which looked rather impressive.
They stared at the tower in silence, n.o.body knew what they were thinking about.
”Let's go.”
Asuna sucked in a deep breath. Her stern look unseen since her time as the vice-captain returned. The Demon of Conquest has returned.
After ditching her t.i.tle as the vice captain of Knights of the Blood Oath, and the Demon of Floor conquest, Asuna kept only her t.i.tle as the Flash.
”Are we diving into the labyrinth?...”
”Yeah, without any delay!”
Wu Yan walked down the teleport platform.
”We are high-leveled enough to deal with the labyrinth monsters, barring abnormal situations...”
Wu Yan stopped and he asked Asuna.
”Are you sure about this? Yui must be dying to stay together with you...”
Wu Yan already knows what she's going to say. He arranged for Sachi and the other girls to look after Yui...
Wu Yan relied on this to make sure Asuna stays at home. Asuna knows about Yui's true ident.i.ty so she knows Yui can take care of herself now. On the contrary, with game master privileges and access to the game's databse, an AI designed to understand and repair human mentality definitely knew how to take care of herself and she probably knew more than Wu Yan and Asuna.