My boss! !

In October 2024, the labyrinth area finally broke into the 74th floor barrier, and finally took another big step forward from the players' goal.

During this period of time, the relationship between Liz and Kirito has continued to heat up. Although it has not reached the point of glue, the two have already made an agreement. After clearing the game, they must find the real each other. .

During this period of time, except for the necessary boss battles, Asuna basically maintained a teaming state with Ling Xue for the rest of the time, and all guild activities were rejected as soon as they could be pushed.

Asuna's feelings for Lingxue, and Lingxue, the group of people Asuna is familiar with can see it, and the impatient Liz has wanted to talk to Lingxue about Asuna more than once. , and even wanted to point it out directly, but was stopped by Asuna every time. Some of Klein's friends often reminded him from the side, but Ling Xue seemed to have turned into the hardest wood, and became incomparably dull when it came to feelings.

However, what surprised Ling Xue the most was Heathcliff's reaction.

Heathcliff, one of the trapped players in SAO, created the large guild of the Knights of the Blood through hard work. He is currently the leader of the Knights of the Blood, the owner of the rare ex skill, and the holy sword. However, these are just his superficial identities. He also has a hidden identity, that is, the developer of the sao game, Akihiko Kayaba, who trapped 10,000 players in the game and killed half of them. the culprit.

Asuna has been forming a team with herself, and as the deputy head of the Blood Knights, she doesn't often stay at the guild's residence, which of course caught Heathcliff's attention. Once, Ling Xue brought Yui and Asuna just out of the labyrinth area, and happened to bump into the square. The player in bright red armor is also the leader of the Blood Knights, Heathcliff.

It stands to reason that Yui is an emotional support program designed by him, so the appearance should be familiar, but he doesn't seem to know Yui, just glanced at it. but. Do you really not know each other? Perhaps Ling Xue understood something from the fleeting surprise that flashed in his eyes.

After the conversation, Heathcliff walked up to the front desk, and only said to Asuna that he would still serve as the deputy head, but there would be no additional tasks. He only needed to guarantee the level and participate in the strategy.

Although it was strange why Heathcliff would behave so normally, Ling Xue said, you play your leader game, and I will be my player. Just don't mess with me.

74th floor. . Labyrinth area. . .

"Hiss!!"

The roar of the monster resounded with the splashing of sparks. A green lizard soldier wearing worn-out armor stuck out a long sharp tongue, slashed the scimitar in front of his eyes, and was moving flexibly. maroon figure.

boom!

The attack of the scimitar flashing with blue light failed without any suspense, and it was cut on the ground, splashing a burst of dust, but above the dust, the maroon figure kicked in the air with one foot, and adjusted his posture. The rapier brought a green light, turning into a rain of light. A steady stream fell on the lizard soldiers.

"Well, how about drawing out the monster's skill, and then taking advantage of its stiffness to ensure the skill's 100% hit?"

Ling Xue, who was also holding a silver katana, couldn't help nodding slightly when she saw Asuna's skillful movements. Since Ling Xue and Asuna have been forming a team with her all the time, when Ling Xue and Asuna are opening up wasteland in the maze, Ling Xue will guide Asuna's skills when she has nothing to do. After all, both of them are walking at the main speed flow, so Asuna is also very easy to get started. Although the speed is not as fast as Ling Xue's, the name of Flash is indeed worthy of the name.

"Lingxue, get ready to switch!"

Her small combo was about to end. Glancing at the monster's remaining health bar, Asuna turned her head and shouted at Ling Xue behind her.

"Understood!"

"Ha!!"

After receiving Ling Xue's reply, Asuna's rapier lighted up, and the pink light enveloped the blade. Although the monster's shield had already been raised, the goal of Asuna's sword was to bounce the monster away. There was a soft shout, and the pink light flashed out. With the sound of "Dang", the rapier hit the shield, splashing a few sparks, and the monster staggered in response, and took a few steps back. Asuna, on the other hand, kept her move and stopped there, apparently in a state of rigidity.

Seeing the monster's scimitar slashing again, Asuna, who was in a stiff state, didn't show any panic on her face, what was just as indifferent as before.

Whoosh.

As the scimitar became bigger and bigger in Asuna's eyes, there was a clear sound of piercing through the air, and a white afterimage emerged from behind Asuna, with a ray of silver light across the lizardman's broken body. body. Immediately, the monster stopped there as if it had been immobilized, and then let out a soft cry, turning into fragments of light.

"What a cool move, Lingxue...it hurts so much."

Asuna, who had recovered from her stiffness, smiled slightly at first, but soon covered her forehead and said cutely with tears in her eyes.

"Stop being cute."

Withdrawing her hand from beating Asuna's forehead, Ling Xue gave Asuna an angry look, and then said: "When switching obviously, wouldn't it be fine to use a skill with a shorter freezing time? Why do you have to spend such a long time of freezing. I don't know if this is very risky."

Generally, when teaming up to spawn monsters, when switching with teammates, everyone will first bounce off monsters or back up by themselves to keep the safety of the switch and alternate with teammates When coming in, the attack path is smooth. So some small skills with knock-up or knockback effects become the first choice. This skill has a short freezing time and a short cooldown, so it is often used by players.

"Hey, seeing that your skill's stiffness is so long, it can't be a buff effect skill?"

"Well, that's right." Asuna put down her hand covering her forehead, then stuck out her tongue, and said with a smile, "It's a skill I accidentally found. The name of the skill is Armor Break. When using this skill, force Deduct 100 points of hp and knock the monster back. The most important thing is to add a debuff to the monster for about ten seconds. This negative state will deduct 50% of the monster's defense within ten seconds. But I didn't expect The stiffness of this skill is actually so long. Hehe."

"It's really as messy as before." Lingxue shook her head helplessly. Glancing at the map that has recorded about 80% of it, he said to Asuna

"Then let's continue and try to open all the maps before lunch." If Yui and Xiaowei's pigeons are released, these two little guys will really go crazy." Asuna covered her mouth and smiled. There are also a few wisps of smile in the eyes. Obviously remembering what happened when he came in the morning.

In the morning, Asuna delivered breakfast as usual, and then went to open up wasteland with Ling Xue. And Yui originally wanted to follow, but was stopped by Asuna's words.

"Yie Jiang, you can stay at home with Xiao Wei, don't you think it's pitiful for her to be alone at home all the time. And, if you stay at home in the future, I will cook a big meal for you at noon every day. "

Recalling what Asuna said in the morning, Ling Xue shook her head helplessly. This is probably the so-called sugar-coated cannonball.

As for Asuna's purpose in doing so. Yui knew it, and Ling Xue naturally guessed it too. But what can I do? I can only pretend not to understand.

"Hiss!!"

Land reclamation continued, and three red crescents exploded on the bodies of the three lizardmen. With the lizardman's soft cry, the three monsters were shattered into pieces again, which became the experience of the two. .

"Ah!! Where is the boss room in this broken maze!" Ling Xue walked while retracting the Taidao into its sheath. While looking at the small map gradually recorded, he said a little madly.

When they came, the land reclamation rate of this map was 67%. Now the morning is almost over, the time spent fighting monsters is not counted, the two of them just spent a lot of time walking, because many of the mazes are dead ends. But now that the land reclamation rate of the map has reached more than 90%, the big red dot representing the boss room has not yet appeared.

"Do you think the boss's room is so easy to find? If it were so easy to find, our strategy team wouldn't spend so long every time. So it was all your luck in the past~" Asuna Raise one hand. The outstretched slender fingertips swayed casually in mid-air, with an extremely leisurely posture. "Young man, your patience..."

While talking, the two came to a semi-elliptical door, and Asuna hadn't finished speaking. She stopped her words in a daze, or stopped in embarrassment, because Ling Xue clearly saw the fleeting embarrassment in Asuna's eyes.

"Asuna-chan, what did you just say?"

Glancing at the azure-blue door in front of him with dots of black, and then at the eye-catching big red dot on the map, Ling Xue turned her head away with a smile. Picking my ears, as if I didn't hear clearly, I jokingly said, "Can I trouble you to say it again~"

"Huh." Asuna snorted softly, turned her head away, and asked angrily, "Then what's next?" What are you going to do when you get down?"

"Then why do you need to ask?" Ling Xue pulled out the silver sword from her waist, licked the corner of her mouth, and said excitedly, "Of course I just push the door and go in, and knock down the boss."

" Ah!?" Asuna turned her head in surprise and said, "Now?"

"Of course." Ling Xue said as a matter of course, "If you don't go in now, you'll have to wait for the raiders to grab it again!"

The first time she found the boss room, but Asuna directly dragged her away, Ling Xue couldn't help being a little bit aggrieved. Such a good boss just fell into the hands of the bad guys, this time for sure. . . Must fall into my hands, hehe~~

Ling Xue just wanted to push the door to enter, but her body froze suddenly, she turned her head stiffly, glanced at the slender hand on her collar, then at Asuna who was a little excited there, and said with a mournful face : "Asuna, don't~~ You see, we have something to discuss, let me go in and overthrow the boss first, okay?

" Go to the safe area, "Check it out for me and come here!!"

"No, my boss!!"