Akanari thought, although the dean had warned that Curea might be targeted by other magicians, and it seemed normal for her and Fuyutsuki Mihoko to help protect her, but—

After all, Fuyutsuki Mihoko is also a magical girl who belongs to a magician. As her name is justified, it seems very reasonable to ask Currea to replenish her magic on the grounds that she will help her practice.

She sent another message telling Kurea and Fuyutsuki Mihoko to be serious.

Afterwards, they were put down on the third floor and waved goodbye to everyone.

………………………

Then, the three girls who met very little together temporarily formed a team, and after carrying out the necessary supplies in the town closest to the labyrinth area, they plunged into the Tower of the Sky Pillar on the third floor of Aincrad.

Follow the path you walked before, and kill all the way to the vicinity of the boss room on the floor.

"Argo, did you choose this team with high speed, high technology, high output, and easy retreat because you wanted to spy on the boss?" Akanari asked.

"Indeed, this is also a reason." Algo paused and said, "However, the information on this boss has been collected by Kirito and the others in the 'Elf War' stage mission, and the only thing left is the specific parameters. Now The situation has changed, since we know that the floor boss also has its own 'ecology', as well as the previous situation where the floor was passed abnormally due to a mission, we have to reconfirm. Come on."

Argo pushed open the door of the boss room, but it was still empty.

Like thieves, a few people tiptoed inside and took a few small steps, but they didn't see Nerius, the demon tree spirit, appearing from nowhere.

Argo came to the door leading to the upper floor and pushed it, but there was no response.

"Hmph, it really doesn't work."

She looked thoughtfully at the place that Yuuki and Akanari didn't notice—there was a treasure chest, but it was empty.

"What's next?" Akanari asked.

Argo glanced at the huge black area on the system map, and said: "Considering the possibility of the boss wandering around, it is more necessary to light up all the maps than in the past. After doing a good job of updating the boss's information Before making all preparations, it is also important to confirm its possible trajectory and area, so go explore the map."

When they left the boss room, Yuuki asked, "Hey, can I ask another question? It's about players."

Argo: "If it doesn't belong to personal privacy or paid information, then."

Yuuki: "I read the news before entering Sao and learned that the number of people trapped is 200,000, but the Raiders Group I know seems to have less than a hundred people, and most of them are people from our motherland. Why?"

Argo: "Most of the players on different servers do not understand the language, and people from different countries do not trust each other, which makes information sharing difficult. On the other hand, the existence of military players comforts most people to protect their own safety and wait for the outside world. Rescue. By the way, I don’t need to emphasize that Neon has no army, right?”

Akanari: "Indeed, this is what a normal person thinks. I heard from Yuuki that there was an experimental rescue, but it has not been successful so far."

Yuuki: "That's right. Then, what if the only condition for being rescued is to clear the level, and among the tasks for clearing the level, players from all countries must unite to complete the task?"

Argo: "Then there is no hope of clearing this game. Let's live here for the rest of my life—I will find new conditions for clearing the level, but I must be aware of this."

Akanari: "...No, you don't need to be so absolute, right? It's true that we don't understand the language, and we have very little communication with them. Are they all the ones we saw in the labyrinth area before?"

Argo took off his hood to reveal his yellowed hair, and said: "This hair is not dyed. I have foreign blood and foreign friends, so I still have access to information from other servers. The Donghuang server is fine. We If you go to the European and American servers with your true face, you will really be scolded and beaten. It’s enough for one out of a hundred people to have this idea.”

Yuuki and Akanari were speechless for a while, as if Argo had endured a lot of vicissitudes in this small body.

"The problem is more than that." Argo continued, "Although the history she described by the owner is the background setting of Sao, it is not wrong from the perspective of fantasy games, but is what she said true?"

"Argo, does that mean she's lying to us? But her relationship with the Great Sage..."

"If it's really all right, entering the dark elf domain doesn't need the dark elf quest that Kirito took over in advance, and the great sage will not set up a secret room mechanism that she needs to hand over to us to unlock. It's just the level of "Introduction to Magic" It seems far-fetched that books and the hourglass that seem to be able to assist [meditation] practice need to go to the great sage to get them. Since even the complex structure of the hotel can be easily conjured by magic, it should be easy to synthesize those props." Argo said .

"The biggest information revealed in this mission is nothing more than the identity of the shopkeeper, that she really belongs to the apex of this world, and that the current plot is not against the player or the npc that hires the player. These are just three points." She added.

"That is to say, the great sage may have been brainwashed to become a companion the moment she entered? In fact, there is a shopkeeper who looks like the final boss. He is not misunderstood, but the real final boss. After discovering that we players came to this world , intends to use our ignorance of this world to give us some sweetness, so as to drive us to achieve ulterior motives?" Akanari thought jumping to continue.

"Wow, Akanari's imagination is so rich." Yuuki exclaimed ~lightnovelpub.net~ aha. "Akanari rubbed her ponytail. After all, she had to tamper with witnesses' memories as a magical girl in reality. It was easy to think of the brainwashing plot and then connect some works with the kingly reversal mode.

"Indeed, this is also a possibility. Therefore, it is not surprising that a large-scale battle that gathers a large number of players at the end of the mission will result in a certain defeat battle." Argo said.

"But if the game is a must-lose battle plot, it will give us a chance to defeat the opponent in the end, right? Otherwise, the balance will collapse."

"But no matter how you look at it now, sao has lowered the balance in order to make the script closer to reality. If it's an rpg that pursues the plot, it's okay. Players who go to the wrong branch can be resurrected after death. If it's a stand-alone game, it can also load files, but we You only live once here," Argo warned.

"Then, what should we do?" Yuuki asked hastily, "This guess may not be true, so we can't just ask?"

"In short, since there is magic, learn as much as possible. With this excuse, try not to do tasks that will promote the plot of the shopkeeper."

(to be continued)