Chapter 96: Wait, and Have Hope in Your Heart

After checking the information the main god had entered into his mind, Xie Ming proceeded to check the main task.

Main task 1: Kill tier BOSS individually, the number of five (05) additional kills will be rewarded according to the number of kills.

Main task two: level up to 90 or higher. (190)

Main task three: up to the 100th floor

If the main mission fails, 10,000 exchange points will be deducted. If the exchange point is negative, it will be obliterated.

“The main task is the lower level of the boss, the easier it is to complete, and the first few levels of boss data are closed and tested. Although somewhat modified, it is not harmful. It is not difficult to upgrade to level 90, it just requires hard work. Just kill monsters and upgrade.” Xie Ming thought silently.

“But the main task 3, we need to go up to the 100th floor… I remember that when the story protagonist Kirito found out Kayaba Akihiko on the 75th floor. How can this be avoided…”

Xie Ming was lost in thought. After all, he didn’t have a 1-point exchange point. If any mission failed, GameOver would be the case.

“Forget it, it’s just the beginning now, let’s talk about it then.” Xie Ming temporarily let go of this question, after all, it’s still a long time.

After thinking about these questions, Xie Ming began to look around. This is the first floor of SAO, the city of the beginning.

In the lively scene, everyone was smiling excitedly, chatting, talking and laughing.

Xie Ming sighed, opened his left hand to the air in front of him, and called out the menu. Character data, equipment, items, etc.

Xie Ming first checked the equipment, ordinary novice suits and weapons.

“Can’t you give me a shield?” Xie Ming smiled bitterly, and then walked to the most lively place in the city of Beginning. Why go to the most lively place? Apart from the shopping street, where is the busiest place in the whole town?

——————

I pulled a few seemingly skilled people to inquire about it, and learned about three important locations. Equipment shop, prop shop and hotel.

The equipment shop sells the most basic weapons and armors, as well as part-time equipment maintenance.

The item shop sells recovery items and items with negative states, as well as transfer crystals. Transferring crystals is equivalent to returning to the city props.

Hotel, a place to eat and stay. It is very important for the substitutes who enter the game physically.

After asking these questions, Xie Ming looked at the equipment bar, which contained various novice weapons. One-handed swords, rapiers, swords, spears, knight guns, heavy hammers, daggers, daggers and other cold weapons.

After Xie Ming first sold all weapons except Taidao in the equipment store, he bought a one-handed buckler, and then bought two recovery crystals in the item store, and he was ready to embark on the long road to upgrade.

In the City of Beginning, you won’t get lost yet, and you can easily lead to the wild. But what most novices are uncomfortable with is their sense of crisis facing monsters and not knowing how to use sword skills.

For Xie Ming, all the above-mentioned problems are not a problem. Facing the monster, is the earth dragon comparable? If you start the sword skill, you don’t even want to start it. Shield return to flat A is enough.

For Xie Ming, the biggest problem now is that his body cannot keep up with his reaction. Because his original physical fitness has been completely sealed by the main god, he needs to kill a few monsters to re-acquaint himself with the body. Only in this way can we single out a layer of BOSS as soon as possible.

Xie Ming, who had already come to the wild, looked at the wild boar in front of him, and decided to start with it to familiarize himself with his body again.

——dusk

Seeing the wild wolf in front of him disappear into pieces, Xie Ming stretched his body.

“OK, there is no jerky feeling anymore. By the way, it’s already time, and it’s almost time to be forcibly transferred to the square in the city of Initiation to watch Kayaba Akihiko’s performance.” Xie Ming checked his own Level, after a day of killing monsters, I also increased from level 1 to level 5, and then the Tachi proficiency in the game has also risen a lot.

Another benefit is that the next town can already be seen in the distance, indicating that Xie Ming has surpassed most of the 9,000 novice players in addition to the 1,000 closed beta players during this period.

After a day of hard work, Xie Ming was also liberated from a rookie suit, and replaced with equipment exploded from monsters, such as Wild Wolf Taidao, Wild Wolf Shield and so on.

After checking his own day’s gains, Xie Ming nodded contentedly, and then heard the bronze bell of the city of Beginning in the distance begin to ring.

Then, a burst of blue light appeared on Xie Ming, and Xie Ming was forcibly transferred to the starting city square.

Seeing the players who were constantly teleporting here, Xie Ming smiled bitterly, then leaned against the wall and closed his eyes and waited.

Before long, the bell stopped, and all online players in the square had gathered. All the unsuspecting people were a little nervous, confused, and at a loss, but they weren’t panicked yet.

Xie Ming looked up at the sky, the red warning flashed continuously, and then continued to expand, finally covering people’s sight. This square was illuminated in blood red.

Blood slowly seeped from the sky and gathered into a huge figure wearing a red cloak. Players still have an entertaining mentality at this time, thinking it is an activity.

The red cloak in the sky began to speak, and he slowly opened his hands.

“Dear players, welcome to my world.”

“My name is Akihiko Kayaba, and I am the only human being able to control this world.”

“Players must have noticed that the logout button (exit the game) in the main menu is gone. But this is not a problem in the game.”

“Repeat, this is not a problem with the game, but the original gameplay of SwordArtOnline.”

“You can’t voluntarily quit the game, and outsiders can’t stop or disarm NERvGear. If you try, the high-power microwaves emitted by NERvGear’s signal unit will destroy your brain and stop your life activities.”

“Unfortunately, so far, relatives and friends of players have ignored warnings and tried to force contact with NERvGear. As a result, 213 players have left Aincrad (the name of Sky Castle) and the real world forever.”

One webpage news after another appeared around the red cloak

“As you can see, the news of a large number of dead people is being repeatedly reported by various media.”



“Therefore, it can be said that the risk of NERvGear being forcibly removed has been reduced. I hope you can rest assured of the strategy game.”

“But, I hope you can pay attention. From now on, all the resurrection methods in the game will be invalid. The moment HP becomes zero, your roles will be permanently eliminated, and at the same time…” It paused deliberately.

“Your brains will be destroyed by NERvGear.”

All the players on the square were stunned, unable to believe this fact.

“You have only one condition for liberation.” The red cloak continued, “It’s enough to clear the game.” A schematic diagram of Sky Castle Aingrand appeared in front of him.



“Now you are at the lowest level of Aincrad, the first level. Raise the labyrinth areas of each level and defeat the defending boss to lead to the upper level. Defeat the final boss of the 100th floor to pass the level.”

“Then finally, there are gifts from me in your storage box, please confirm.”

Xie Ming opened the menu and saw the item in the storage column-a hand mirror.

Click to take it out and look at your original face.

Blue flames appeared on the players who took out this hand mirror, and then their characters became their own appearance and figure in reality.

A blue flame also appeared on Xie Ming, but a reminder of the main god appeared in his mind.

“Please set your own character name.”

Xie Ming was silent for a moment and said: “Edmond Dantes”

“Are you sure to use this character name?”

“confirm.”

Xie Ming smiled and continued to look at Kaaba Akihiko.

“You must be thinking about’why’ now. Why does SwordArtOnline and NERvGear’s developer Akihiko Kaaba do such a thing.”

“My purpose has been achieved. I just created SwordArtOnline for the sake of creating this world and viewing it.”

He raised his head slightly, “And now, everything is done.”

“The above is the end of the official operation tutorial of SwordArtOnline. Good luck to all players.” After saying this, the figure in the red cloak began to vaporize and slowly disappeared, and the red cover disappeared, leaving everyone who was dumbfounded.

“…” Xie Ming was silent for a moment, and then slowly uttered a sentence. This was the words spoken by Edmund Dantes, the protagonist in his favorite work [Count of Monte Cristo].

“Wait, and hope.” Then he turned and left, the target, the next town.

It’s just that he didn’t see that a figure with long chestnut hair that was standing still, when he heard these words, slowly turned his head.

What the young girl saw was Xie Ming’s slow but firm figure.

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