Invincible Starting From Sword Art Online

Chapter 179

July 6, 2026, 7:30 am.

Ocean.Turtle.

Yūki Asuna pulled the collar of the sweater while climbing up the dim spiral staircase.

Under the orange LED emergency lighting, whenever her footsteps made the sound of hard footsteps on the metal stairs.

I can’t help but remember that in the city of steel floating in the infinite space, I have climbed similar stairs several times.

That is the spiral staircase that connects the demon king’s rooms on each floor of Aincrad and the next floor that guards the floating city.

When Asuna was exhausted from endless battles, that person had also held her hand several times.

“Han Yu…”

Asuna climbed the stairs while calling out her lover’s name softly.

At this time, she could only push back the loneliness and fear that was almost overflowing into the bottom of her heart.

However, unlike the day before yesterday, Han Yu is no longer in a state of unknown whereabouts.

He was waiting for Asuna in the small room above the stairs.

Although there is no way to talk, or even to hold each other’s hands, the time for him to wake up is getting closer.

As long as the treatment goes well, the cranial nerve 14 network can be completely regenerated in the past two days, and it will enter the stage of regaining consciousness.

Although Asuna made up his mind to come to the Ocean Turtle floating in the Seven Seas of Izu, he didn’t explain the details to Yūki Shoji and Yūki Kyoko.

Although she asked Rinko Jindai for help, she left home with the excuse that she would visit the research facility of the most advanced company with her doctor for a few days.

But mother Yūki Kyoko just stared at Asuna for a long time, and then just said “Be careful on the road”. Maybe she had already seen everything.

Asuna won in just three days.

Tomorrow evening she will have to catch a regular helicopter flight from OceanTurtle to Xinkiba.

I’m not sure if I can return to Tokyo with Han Yu.

But if Nurse Lure’s speculation is correct, he should be able to see him wake up.

After stopping halfway through the spiral staircase and taking a deep breath, Asuna continued walking.

After climbing another twenty steps or so, there is still a circular hatch on the heavy metal ceiling that can pass through, but here is a short vertical ladder.

This metal floor, which is more than 20 cm thick, is a composite titanium alloy pressure-resistant partition that divides the OceanTurtle main shaft into two upper and lower parts.

Although Lieutenant Nakanishi said it can easily block bullets fired by automatic pistols at very close range.

However, this huge artificial mother ship, which is not a warship, shouldn’t happen like that.

What Mr. Kikuoka said to those people was too exaggerated.

Asuna muttered to herself inwardly, she climbed the aluminum ladder and passed through the cabin.

After arriving at the upper level, there is a dim spiral staircase, but the lighting has changed to green.

The lower part of the upper shaft where it is currently located.

The huge physical hub device “LightCubeCluster” with the “Alicization plan” is placed

It should be right next to this narrow staircase.

Because the information related to LightCubeCluster is considered the highest level of confidentiality.

So Asuna knows very simple, but I heard that it is basically the same as the name.

It is a collection of countless LightCubes.

In the center of more than hundreds of thousands of neatly arranged LightCubes, there is also a huge Cube.

There is no soul in it, but a huge “universal visualized memory file” of the people of Under.World is preserved.

This is the core of STL technology “MainVisualizer”

Although Higajian had violated his secret obligation, he told Asuna about the structure of the underground world.

But for such an explanation, Asuna has only unclear feelings in her heart.

Now that you have said so much, why not let yourself take a look at the actual LightCubeCluster?

Even if Asuna said so, Higa just smiled wryly: “The whole Cluster is covered by a metal shell, and it looks like a very ordinary quadrangular box.”

“Moreover, even Seijiro Kikuoka, who is in charge of the plan, couldn’t open the case.”

Therefore, Asuna can only paint the vague impression of Cluster in his head.

It was probably like countless small crystals neatly arranged in the dim space.

There are countless complicated subtle rays between the overall square crystal and the large crystal placed in the center.

It looks like the center of the Milky Way with many stars.

Thinking in his head, Asuna realized it was a while later that someone had come down the spiral staircase.

“Ah, sorry…”

She lowered her head reflexively, apologized in a low voice, and flashed to the left.

But the other party didn’t reply at all, just passed her slowly.

Every time you walk down a ladder, there will be metallic footsteps.

“Eh?”

Asuna, who was a little surprised by the sound of footsteps in her heart, finally raised her head and stared at the figure just passing by.

Suddenly, her pupils shrank, she immediately moved back and leaned her back against the wall.

What was in front of her was a human-like appearance on the whole.

But the skeleton is almost any painted metal frame, and several resin box cylinders are connected to the waist and hands.

The complex gear structure of the joint part is completely exposed, and there are signal wires of various colors circling around like blood vessels.

It also carries a large box on its back, and its face is made up of three large, medium and small lenses.

After seeing what this thing looked like, Asuna finally came back to her senses.

She held her breath for a while, and whispered in a hoarse voice: “Machine… robot?”

The robot stopped moving suddenly.

It stopped the foot that was going to go to the next step, and then the gear revolved and retracted the foot.

After returning to the same level of stairs as Asuna, he slowly turned to Asuna’s direction.

Although the large and medium lenses are black, the small lens flashes red in the depths, flashing irregularly as if looking at Asuna.

“Woo…”

Asuna made a small noise from deep in her throat and wanted to move back.

But the back is already leaning against the wall of the stairwell, so there is no room to retreat.

At this time, no matter if she was moving to the left or right, the red-lighted lens moved closely following her face.

There shouldn’t be monsters in the stairs connecting the floors?

Or it should be said that there are no mechanical monsters, right? This is the real world..

When Asuna, with a bunch of disordered thoughts in her mind, wants to walk back quickly.

“Hey, don’t be like this, Ichiemon!”

A voice came from above. At first glance, a man with a panic expression was rushing down the stairs.

Higajian’s voice suddenly came, and he was holding a laptop in his hand, and his expression was distressed.

As if it could understand Higa’s reprimand, the robot directly moved the focus of the lens away from Asuna, and then rotated his body ninety degrees again.

Asuna breathed a sigh of relief and looked up at Higa who was standing on the upper step.

Then asked him in a somewhat stiff voice: “Mr. Higa…what is this?”

“Um…it…it’s called “Ichiemon” whose real name is “ElectroactiveMuscledOperativeMachine” and abbreviated as EMOM, and then add the number 1 to make it 1EMOM. “Higa said with a proud look.

So Asuna glared at him before asking again, “Then what is this Ichiemon doing here?”

It turned out that the person who answered the question was not Higa.

“Because Biga wants me to help him test the program, he won’t be a student in the research room tomorrow morning.. Alas”

The one who said this with a wry smile was Rinko Jindai, who was dressed in a denim shirt and jeans with a white dress, and his hair was neatly divided aside.

“Morning, Miss Asuna.”

“Good morning.”

After greeting Rinko Jindai.

Asuna looked at the robot Ichiemon again from top to bottom, and asked the two researchers: “This is not also part of the Alicization plan, right?”.