The Age of Heroic Spirits in the Eyes of the Reincarnated.

Chapter 29: Exploring the Crypt, Treasure Chest Trap! (Please read on!)
Don’t say the cloaked man is puzzled.

Even many elite members of the guild were puzzled.

"Because in my eyes, everyone has his own value. I am a greedy person, so I can't give up any of them."

Li Xia didn't lie.

At the end of the level, every person who survives will be rewarded with freedom points.

Not to mention anything else, just this, he would not be able to force those ordinary players into the abyss of despair.

He is an old farmer.

Then all players are the leeks in his vegetable garden that need to be protected as much as possible.

"Captain Li, we are all elite players among the closed beta testers. It is not a wise choice for you to abandon us for those ordinary players with no potential."

"I know.

You are all really outstanding. You were able to come to me decisively at this time, which shows your vision.

However, some things have two sides.

You can easily survive by killing monsters and leveling up in the wild, but if some members of my guild who are not good at fighting were thrown into the same situation, they would probably lose the courage to live. Do you understand what I mean?
Of course, don't worry, I understand your desire to join the Liberator. After the guild is upgraded, I will reserve a place for you and notify you as soon as possible."

"Hmph, you womanizing fellow, let's go."

The cloaked man left first.

The others followed without hesitation.

It was obvious that the man in the cloak was the real leader of the other team.

People are gone.

The tavern was quiet for a while.

It was Andrew who first broke the strange silence:
"Captain, is it really okay to reject them?"

Upon hearing this, Li Xia glanced at the captains of several teams that arrived at Horenka Village in the next few waves. These captains all had complicated expressions at the moment.

Seeing this, he nodded secretly with satisfaction.

As he just said:

There are two sides to looking at things.

It was easy for him to kick people out, and replacing them with those people could indeed increase the team's combat effectiveness a little, but the reputation he had worked so hard to gain in the past two days would most likely be thrown to the bottom in an instant, and the cohesion of the guild would plummet.

He destroyed his own base just for a few testers who could kill people with just a wave of their hands.

He must have been kicked in the head by a donkey to do such a stupid thing.

"Have a good sleep tonight, and go to the east of the village to level up tomorrow as planned. Try to get everyone to level 6.

The day after tomorrow, I have a big move.

Those who are below level 6 can just stay in the village and fight around."

"clear."

Everyone said in unison.

Morale is high.

...

The fifth day into the SAO game world.

Wang Teng: Level 7.

Li Xia, Xia Zhijin: Level 7.

More than sixty elite members of the guild’s first sequence: level 6.

Several hundred testers: between level 5 and level 7.

(Kirito, Level 7.

Tu Ze, level 6.

Asuna, barely level 5.)
Although the level of the game character does not determine a person's true strength, it determines the length of a person's health bar, that is, the ability to survive.

A difference of one level often means that you will be attacked one or two more times by a wild monster of the same level.

I won’t say much about how precious these two things are.

"Have you repaired all the worn equipment? It can't be too durable."

“They have all been repaired.”

"Where are the relevant potions? Did you bring enough of the most important stamina potions?"

Li Xia continued to ask.

"Captain, we have at least 15 bottles on hand, no more, no less."

"Captain, each of us needs at least 18 bottles, and our wallets are almost empty."

"... "

The captains of each elite team responded with a smile.

"Well, how are the professional staff members doing with their lock-picking skills?"

Li Xia asked again.

"Captain, we have learned the upper limit of our current level."

The three guild tester elites who chose locksmith as an important secondary job grinned.

"Okay, let's go."

At the command, a team of more than 6 people, all above level , set out from the northern exit of Horenka Village and headed straight for the underground area where goblins and rock monsters were active.

At this point in time, any scattered team of testers would have to retreat when faced with such an elite team.

Li Xia's straightforward act of showing off his muscles did have a considerable deterrent effect on some closed beta testers who had complained about the Liberator Guild's behavior of stealing wild monsters and NPC tasks.

Just keep all your complaints to yourself for now.

...

Crypt area.

No one would explore here alone before level 7.

Although this is the place with the most treasure chests on the first level of the SAO game world.

But it is also the place with the most traps. "Captain, we found a treasure chest by the bushes ahead on the road. What should we do with it?"

There is news coming from the vanguard team.

Li Xia raised her eyelids after hearing this:

“The team spreads out, and those who can pick locks should be careful.

Treasure chests in the wild are usually set with traps by the game system, so he should be careful not to fall into the trap. Especially watch your feet.

Oh, let him leave the team first. Some traps are set according to the number of people in the team. A trap triggered by him alone may not be very dangerous; but if a trap is triggered by the whole team, it will definitely not be simple. "

"Okay captain."

After the team formed up, one of the three people who knew how to unlock the door volunteered.

The moment the treasure chest was opened, a red system warning immediately spread to the surrounding ten-meter area.

Soon after, something was seen rapidly emerging from the ground around the treasure chest. The people who were thirty meters away looked closely and saw ten wild monsters called "small man-eating grass".

“This number is a bit small.”

“It feels like there’s not enough for everyone to share.”

"Okay, safety first. What's there to be dissatisfied about after picking up a treasure chest for free?"

"Stop talking nonsense and go support Xiao Sao! He has to face ten level 4 man-eating plants at the same time! It's very dangerous!"

Ten seconds later.

All ten small man-eating plants were killed and turned into broken light lenses and dissipated.

At this time, the young man who was a secondary locksmith and successfully opened the trap box came running to Li Xia with a scroll in his hand:
"Captain, it's a treasure map of the crypt."

"Not bad, I didn't expect there would be an unexpected gain."

After this little episode, everyone continued to move forward, clearing out wild monsters.

After about another half an hour, we finally arrived at our destination.

The entrance to the dungeon is a very ordinary stone door built at the bottom of a cliff.

If you explore a little deeper, you will find that this place is connected in all directions. There are caves of ten or more meters in width connected one after another.

"According to the plan, we will split into three groups to conduct a deeper exploration... Is everyone okay?"

"no problem."

The team of more than 60 people was quickly divided into three groups.

Each group should have at least 20 people.

In addition, each group will be divided into 4 small teams.

Among them, there is a team with specially enhanced reconnaissance capabilities responsible for exploring the way ahead.

In the center are two combat teams.

Another five-man team is responsible for making route markings and drawing maps of the crypt. They are also the team the team's locksmith is in. If a high-intensity battle breaks out ahead or something unexpected happens, they will serve as external aid.

If a treasure chest is found, the order of the team will be reversed.

The last team is responsible for opening the treasure chest, while the other three teams are responsible for watching over them not far away to prevent traps from being triggered.

It is also worth mentioning that the team members who open the treasure chest are equipped with a sword in one hand and a shield in the other.

Having a shield in hand can greatly increase your survival rate after falling into a wild monster trap.

The three teams quickly separated.

Not long after, the team that Li Xia and his two companions were in encountered a rock monster.

After dealing with the rock monster, the team continued to explore forward.

Along the way, they did discover something, such as two treasure chests.

But one of them was empty and had been opened by someone.

The other one was a transformed wild monster, and was easily killed by everyone working together.

But just when they killed the seventh rock monster, faint human voices came into the ears of the people in front from deeper in the passage on the left in front of the cave.

"Did you hear that?"

"There seems to be someone."

"So should we go left or right?"

"Go and have a look."

Li Xia frowned slightly.

After approaching that place for several dozen meters, everyone could already clearly hear the shrill and terrified screams and the continuous sound of metal clashing.

And those screams were definitely made by humans.

"quick."

The group's pace became much faster.

I was worried that something had happened to someone in my other team.

The reason for this worry is that this place is interconnected and it is easy to get lost if you don’t leave any signs.

Even if markings were made, there was a high probability that two exploration teams that separated near the entrance would collide at some point.

Li Xia and Wang Teng arrived at the place first, but they did not rush out of the corner. Instead, they shrank into the corner and only stuck out half of their heads to check the situation on the other side of the corner.

This glance was both surprising and somewhat natural.

The situation over there is:

An exploration team consisting of four closed testers triggered a trap when opening a treasure chest, and are now besieged by at least thirty goblin monsters of high levels.

The situation is extremely serious!

What’s even more interesting is that in another passage not far away, two girls poked their little heads out to take a look at the treasure chest and prepared to run away!

"Usagi, should we help them?"

Asuna was moved with compassion and wanted to save him.

But she was pulled back by her bestie:
"No, there are too many monsters. We can't help much with just the two of us."

That's a high-level goblin whose level is no lower than theirs.

(End of this chapter)