Chapter 331 (1/2)

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Aincrad, 35th Floor.

The Main Settlement in this Floor was a medieval European style town, with white buildings and red roofs. A lot of Players were seen active in this town called Mishe.

The 55th Floor was the current frontline, and since the Clearers basically have no interest in anything aside from the Labyrinth, this Floor was considered to be the Middle Floor where Players mainly made their living.

Although as obvious as it was, the middle-level players were basically not that motivated to clear the game, unlike the Clearers.

There were basically three reasons why middle-level Players would leave the Main Settlement to fight monsters.

First: In order to earn the necessary Cor for their daily expenses like food and inn.

Second: In order to earn the minimum experience value to survive in the Middle Floors.

Three: They’re bored to death.

This was the game world, after all. No matter how afraid of dying people were, being unable to sleep in an inn or eat proper food was basically worse than death.

Although there were still nearly a thousand Players who were too afraid to leave the Town of Beginnings, the rest of the Players have made the resolve to leave town and kill monsters in order to fulfill their daily needs at the very least, and yes, of course, they’ll be fully prepared in terms of item and equipment if they decided to leave the Main Settlement.

There were 100 Floors throughout Aincrad. In most games, the recommended level usually suited the stage or, in this case, Floor.

For example, the recommended level for the 1st Floor was level 1, and the recommended level for the 2nd Floor was level 2, etc.

But SAO was different, the recommended level, or to be more precise. The so-called safe level was ten levels higher than the designated Floor.

So based on that knowledge, the Players who resided on the 35th Floor should be at least around level 45, and the safe level for the 55th Floor was level 65, which was exactly the Clearers’ average level, only a game hardcore like Kirito and Rozen who managed to reach level 78 and 82.

Today, Rozen teleported to the 35th Floor and saw middle-level Players coming and going out of the town.

“It feels like a completely different world here.”

The scenes of Players wearing various equipment, talking and laughing with each other, made Rozen feel that way.

When Rozen arrived on the 35th Floor, Saichou and Hanachou no longer perched on his shoulders.

It couldn’t be helped since those two Rainbow Butterflies were very famous right now. If they flew beside Rozen, everyone would know who he was, but if he walked alone, no one would figure out he was the Clearers’ commander since they didn’t recognize his face anyway.

So, Rozen always made sure to store Saichou and Hanachou into the Tamed Monster Crystal whenever he teleported to lower Floors to avoid commotions.

“Just who the hell comes up with such difficult conditions to tame Rainbow Butterflies? I haven’t seen other Player who managed to tame it anywhere”.

They were indeed rare since there were only seven of them throughout Aincrad, but let alone taming them, finding them was already close to impossible.

“Even normal Tamed Monsters were hard to tame, let alone Rainbow Butterflies.”

After nearly a year and a half, Players finally realized that Tamed Monsters were more suitable to be a support rather than to fight alongside Players and dish out damage.

In addition, Tamed Monsters were nothing like a normal monster. They possessed intelligence and capable of thinking on their own.

If it weren’t treated properly, they might die, escape, or even attack its tamer, which commonly happened among Players who had Tamed Monsters.

Eventually, the Players called Beast Tamers started to emerge. They were Players who were focused on training their Tamed Monsters. However, they were nowhere near Rozen’s ability in terms of drawing the Tamed Monsters’ potential and properly direct them during combat. As a result, among the hundred Clearers, none of them was a Beast Tamer.