Zongman started from grabbing girls with Wuhe Shidao

According to the experience during the beta test period, in order to defeat the floor demon king without any victims, it is best to be able to form two combined forces to attack alternately, but the current number of people is not even the upper limit of one combined force.

Lin Mu, who was sitting with Kirito at the moment, couldn't help but sigh slightly.

And Kirito raised his eyebrows slightly, and then reconfirmed the faces of the players gathered in twos and threes in the square.

There are about five or six players who know each other's names. In addition, there are about 15 people who have seen in the city or maze near the front line, and the remaining 20 or so are almost unfamiliar faces.Of course men far outnumber women.

To be precise... there is not a single woman. Although [Yarugo the mouse] can be seen sitting on the high wall on the other side of the square, she probably won't participate in the battle against the Demon King.

These people wanted to challenge someone they had never seen before—of course it was Aincrad this time—the first-tier demon king. HP is zero, that is, the crisis of death should be the highest among the large-scale battles that have been fought on this floor so far.

This also means that everyone gathered in the square has the awareness of death, and also accepts the fact that it will become a reference for future players to come here... But...

"Hmm... that's not necessarily the case..."

Lin Mu could not help but roll his eyes when he heard Kirito's unexplainable murmur beside him, this guy always said inexplicable words.

And at this moment, a clear voice spread throughout the square with the sound of clapping hands.

"Attention! Although we are 5 minutes late, we are about to start! Everyone, please move forward... over there, please go forward three steps!"

The person speaking with a generous attitude at this moment is a one-handed swordsman with a tall body wearing various shiny metal armors.

He jumped onto the edge of the fountain in the center of the square without a run-up.Judging from the fact that he can reach that height in one jump while wearing that kind of equipment, it can be seen that his muscular strength and agility are quite high.

After seeing the one-handed swordsman who turned around, some of the forty or so people made a small commotion.

In fact, Kirito at this moment can also understand their feelings.Because the man standing on the edge of the fountain is a handsome guy who makes people wonder why this kind of guy came to play VRMMO, although he is completely incomparable with the silver-haired guy next to me...

In addition, the long, wavy hair on either side of his cheeks was dyed a vivid blue.

Since there are no hair dye props sold in the store on the first floor, it can only be obtained by picking up rare treasures from monsters or buying them from players who have props.

Although I thought to myself that if he had worked hard to design the hairstyle and hair color for today's stage, then besides 【Yarugo the mouse】, there is not even a single female status that should make him very disappointed. .

However, this handsome guy with blue hair said with a hearty smile: "Thank you for responding to my call to come to this place! Although some people already know me, I'd like to introduce myself first! My name is Diabel, Mentally think that my profession is [Knight]!"

As soon as the words fell, a group of people near the fountain immediately had a commotion, followed by whistles and raised hands.

"Actually, you want to say brave!" voice.After all, there is no [job] in the SAO system.

Each player can freely choose various skills and set them in the "skill grid" to practice.

Speaking of exceptions, players who mainly use production or trading skills are usually called [blacksmith] or [tailor], [cook] and other occupational titles——

[Knight] or [Hero] careers... probably don't exist.

But in this way, it is of course personal freedom to claim to be engaged in what kind of occupation.

Upon closer inspection, this man who called himself Diabel, in addition to his chest, shoulders, arms, and ankles being covered with bronze armor, had a large straight sword hanging from his left waist, and a kite-shaped mask on his back. shield.

This is indeed the so-called knight equipment.While staring at his graceful appearance from the back of the crowd, Kirito quickly searched the index in his head.

Although it was a bit difficult to recognize because of the different equipment and hairstyle, I felt that I had seen that face many times in the villages and cities on the front line.As for before that—wasn’t it the words in “Another Aincrad” here...

Can't remember the name...

"Hey, Kirito..."

"Ah... what's wrong?"

"That guy is so stinky, tsk, it's really annoying, he looks so ugly..."

"..." Kirito was speechless. It is estimated that only this guy is qualified to say this. After all, if the value of handsome and ugly is only seen, there can be fifty. Then this guy and handsome The numerical difference I saw... probably could be one hundred, of course, this person is one hundred numerical values ​​higher than the definition of handsome... ...

So, just when Kirito was about to say something, Diabel spoke again---

"Everyone is invited to be active at the forefront like this, that is, the reason why capped players come here, I think it goes without saying that everyone already knows..."

Hearing Diabel start to speak again, Lin Mu and Kirito paused their thoughts and focused on him.

The blue-haired knight quickly raised his right hand, pointing at the huge tower in the distance of the city - the labyrinth area on the first floor, and continued: "...Today our team found the stairs leading to the top floor of that tower. That is Say, tomorrow... the day after tomorrow at the latest will be able to reach the room of the Demon King on the first floor!"

There was an immediate commotion among the players.

Even Lin Mu was slightly surprised.The labyrinth area on the first floor is [-] stories high. Today, he and Kirito sneaked into the neighborhood from the [-]th floor to the [-]th floor. They had no idea that the map file on the [-]th floor had been collected.

"One month. It took us a full month to get to this place...but we still had to tell other players waiting in the starting town that there is always something to be done in this death game by defeating the demon king and advancing to the second floor. One day it will be completely conquered. This is the obligation that the high-level players here should take on! Everyone is right!"

There was applause again.

This time, other people besides Diabel's companion started to clap their hands.

There is really nothing to criticize in what he said.

No, it should be said that there should be no intention to propose a counterargument at all.

At this time, I should also applaud this knight-sama who took the initiative to unify many front-line players——

"Mr. Knight, wait for me." At this moment, a deep voice suddenly came out.The cheers stopped suddenly, and then the human wall in front of them was divided into two halves.

Standing in the middle of the gap was a man with a small but rather strong body.From where I was, I could only see the slightly larger one-handed sword on his back, and the spiky brown hair that looked like some kind of cactus.

Cactus Head, who took a step forward, whispered in a muddy voice that was completely opposite to Diabel's bel canto: "Before this, if I don't clarify this matter first, I can't play a friendship game with you." In response to this sudden interruption, Diabel's expression remained almost unchanged.

He waved his hand with a smile on his face and said: "What are you talking about? Well... No matter what it is, everyone is still welcome to express their opinions. But if you want to speak, you should give your name."

"Humph..." The cactus head snorted vigorously, then took a step or two forward, and turned around when it came to the fountain.

"My name is Kibaou." The cactus-headed one-handed swordsman said the name of the brave character, and immediately stared at all the players in the square with his small but sharp eyes.

When his sweeping gaze came to Lin Mu and Kirito, he seemed to pause for a moment——

Lin Mu frowned instantly, he didn't like that look in his eyes, he always felt that there was something inexplicably wretched.

Lin Mu has never heard of the name "King Ya", and he doesn't remember where he met him.

"That guy... is a bit annoying." He entered the room and murmured, and Kirito on the side also nodded slightly.

It took Kibaou a while to look at everyone, and then he said in a low and hoarse voice, "There should be five to ten guys here who need to apologize first."

"Apologize? Who are you apologizing to?" [Knight] Diabel, who was still standing on the edge of the fountain behind him, raised his hands handsomely.

But Kibaou didn't look at him, and just threw out such a sentence viciously: "Ha, what's the point? Of course it's for the 2000 players who have died so far. Because those guys monopolize all the resources, so the [-] people will die in one month! Isn’t it like this!” The forty or so audience members who were still talking in low voices fell silent instantly.

Only then did everyone finally understand the meaning of what Kibaou said, and of course I did the same.

Under the dull atmosphere, only the evening BGM played by the NPC Orchestra could be heard quietly flowing on the scene.No one was going to speak.