Chapter 252 (1/2)

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Aincrad’s first floor, labyrinth area.

A tower-like structure leading to the next floor consisted of 20 floors.

It has been a month since 10.000 people were trapped in SAO, the clearers have finally reached the 18th floor of the labyrinth area leading to the second floor.

The floor boss was located on the highest floor, on the 20th floor.

“I’d really love to solo the boss if that was possible though….”

Rozen muttered as he stood in front of the entrance to the labyrinth area.

“Goo!”

Rainbow Butterfly exclaimed.

Unlike mini-bosses that Rozen could deal with all by himself, the floor boss was the strongest monster on the floor. Not only it had a huge amount of hp, it also had various attack patterns and skills.

During the closed beta, players around level 5 to 7 would usually form several parties to participate in the boss raid and ended up being wiped out time and time again. Even though Rozen has already reached level 14, there was no guarantee he could kill the boss if he was alone, unless he has mastered Eye of the Mind.

If he has mastered Eye of the Mind, he’ll be able to see through every attack, thus evading it and landed crits in his counterattack. If Rozen could at least do these two things, he’ll be able to solo the boss.

Unfortunately…

“Too bad, I can only maintain Eye of the Mind for 10 seconds, it took several seconds for preparation too, sigh.”

He would’ve already mastered it if it was like any other magic.

But Eye of the Mind was different from normal magic, it emphasized on comprehension.

Therefore, there was no telling whether Rozen would be able to master it or not, all he could do was kept trying until he mastered it.

“Oh well, it can’t be helped.”

Rozen couldn’t rush things up when it came to this particular technique.

“Let’s get down to business first.”

After that, Rozen stepped into the labyrinth.

Any area in SAO had to be explored first before it appeared on the player’s map. Another method was buying a map scroll from another player who has explored certain areas on the map.

The map scroll was already a popular item, even during the closed beta. A lot of clearers sold their map scroll to earn a bunch of Cor.

Map scroll was still popular among players even after SAO has turned into a death game, but the situation was more complicated.

Rozen himself has already mapped up to the 19th floor, only the last floor where the floor boss dwelled left.

Rozen also encountered the mid-boss which haven’t spawned yet even until that moment on the 19th floor. That was where he got his current armor, The Thousand Layer Robe from.

Therefore, Rozen was familiar enough with the layout of the labyrinth area.

“According to Argo’s intelligence, that female swordsman was on the seventeenth floor up until this morning.”

Rozen ran as fast as he could while checking the map to pick the route where the least monster appeared and arrived on the 17th floor.

However…

“Huh?”

Rozen suddenly stopped.