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

Chapter 32: Cheats and Crisis! (Please read on!)
2022, April 11.

It has been 20 days since the SAO game accident.

After three weeks of rhythmic leveling, most of the guild's elite members reached level 10.

But it's only around level 10.

Why is it stuck at this level?
One is that the wild monsters on the first floor can provide too little experience, after all, they are just wild monsters below level 10.

Another thing is that level 10 is a hurdle and upgrading becomes very difficult.

Since reaching level 10, everyone's leveling speed has been as slow as a snail. It is no longer possible to level up in one or two days. If you want to level up, it will take three or four days.

From now on, it would be inappropriate to describe it as moving at a snail's pace.

Because the snail's crawling speed is much faster than the speed at which the experience slot increases.

Furthermore, these players are intentionally "giving away experience".

Because of the humility of these hundred people, Li Xia and his companions, as well as the captains in the guild who were expected to become true frontline attackers, relied on the power of the guild team and used the team mode of finishing off wild monsters to gain more experience!

Their respective levels have reached level 12!
Among them, Li Xia and others even reached level 13!
There was an almost chasm-like gap between the captains and cadres and the guild elites.

There is a huge gap between them and ordinary players who are only level six or seven.

Is it fair?
It's definitely not fair.

Any complaints?
There were no complaints, but mostly voices of envy.

Because the other elite members knew that the captains' combat skills and combat instincts were much higher than theirs.

They are brave and hardworking, and they level up very hard.

I only sleep a total of four or five hours in batches every day!
The rest of the time is used for leveling!
After the level is increased, in order to hone skills and deal with life-and-death crises, all captains must go out alone to scan the first level of the SAO game world!
Find out and experience the cautious feeling that a lone player has!
Such high intensity and high risk are what many elite members claim they cannot do.

Therefore, the guild asked them to give up some experience so that the real strategy team could be formed quickly, so as to better prepare for the next first-floor boss and reduce unnecessary casualties as much as possible! Who would dare to refuse such a reasonable request?

It's not them who are going to challenge the boss.

They just give up some experience and make a small contribution to their comrades in the front-line strategy group indirectly; at the same time, they can ensure that their respective levels are always ahead of the vast majority of players, and even on par with the levels of the vast majority of closed testers. They are already very satisfied to be able to do this.

"Brother Xia, are you still going to the maze area today?"

Wang Teng and his friends who had gotten up early asked.

"No, let's go to the forest of man-eating grass."

Li Xia took out the map and pointed.

He originally wanted to act alone, but now as the president of the Liberator Guild, he was not only the spiritual leader, but also the majority of the guild's assets were in his hands. Therefore, he didn't believe that there were no eyes watching him in secret.

If these people went crazy and attacked him, how unfair would that be to him?
Therefore, in line with the idea that a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall, he brought along a few of his most reliable friends.

"Brother Xia, what are you doing in the Man-Eating Grass Forest?
It should be no longer worth exploring there for us, right?
The experience gained from killing large man-eating plants is far less than that of the dog-headed men in the maze layer, and the equipment that can be dropped can't keep up with our needs...

Could there be some hidden quests or rare monsters there?"

"Well, I learned from the information dealer that a rare wild monster that is rarely seen on the first floor will spawn in that place today.

If you kill it, there is a chance that a rare rapier will drop.

If any of you want to switch to rapier and slasher later, this might be useful then."

Li Xia explained a few words.

In fact, his main purpose was not for the rare rapier, but for something else.

of course.

Many story lines have already been changed by him, and it is hard to say whether the two will continue to appear in the Man-Eating Grass Forest to level up according to the plot of the patch set.

Anyway, just try your luck, you don’t lose anything.

The group of five moved quickly.

From the small town of Torbana in the north, we ran towards the village of Horonka in the southwest, following a road that had been opened up a few days ago.

A turn halfway along the road leads to a forest where man-eating grass is active.

...

Just before Li Xia and others arrived.

There are already some players here who have followed the few mountain roads into the forest to level up.

among them.

After many days of working together, the two girls have become more skilled in coordinating with each other and their sense of rhythm is getting better and better.

"Well done, Asuna."

The purple-haired girl half encouraged and half praised.

I feel sincerely happy and relieved for the rapid growth of my new best friend.

"Hey, let's catch all these man-eating plants right away."

The blonde girl was neither arrogant nor impatient, and her pace remained steady. But just as the two of them were maintaining a highly efficient leveling process, a rare rat monster appeared in their field of vision, not too far from the purple-haired girl.

And the young girl happened to see it.

When she saw this, her eyes suddenly lit up:
"Rare rat monster?"

It's actually a rare monster that can drop a rare rapier?
But the blonde bestie a few meters away reminded me again:
"Tu Ze, be careful, there is a man-eating plant on the left heading towards you."

Upon hearing this, the purple-haired girl glanced at the situation at the scene and confirmed that her best friend could deal with the few remaining man-eating plants well; so she immediately turned back to look at the location where the rat monster appeared, and found that the rare monster showed signs of leaving.

This made her think quickly.

"My favorite weapon is the scythe, and the one the rat monster dropped is a rapier. Although the rapier is not suitable for me, it is just right for Asuna to use."

Thinking of this, she no longer hesitated and asked her best friend:

"Asuna, can you deal with these man-eating plants?"

"what happened?"

The blonde girl looked back curiously.

"There is a rare rat monster over there. You can get some very rare equipment by defeating it...

Yeah, it's going to run away."

"I understand. Leave this to me. Go quickly."

Upon hearing this, the purple-haired girl Tu Ze hurriedly chased after the rat monster.

After a series of escape and chase, Tu Ze finally succeeded and obtained a one-handed sword called "Swift Wind Fencing".

"Yes!"

After getting the treasure, she hurried back to the blonde girl.

When she noticed that her best friend had used her own skills to grind down several carnivorous plants, leaving only the last one, she slowed down her pace and admired her best friend's growth during this period.

"That's really amazing, Asuna."

Such technology has been developed in such a short time.

He is indeed my best and most loyal friend.

Tu Ze secretly praised him with satisfaction.

She was just about to take out the rare Gale Fencing Sword she had just acquired from her backpack as a small gift to celebrate her best friend's rapid growth during this period.

Suddenly, she noticed a man-eating grass with red fruits growing on its head approaching quickly from behind the only remaining man-eating grass monster.

Seeing her bestie making a lot of mistakes that newbies make, she immediately became anxious:
not good!

"Asuna, stop now."

Unfortunately, it was too late.

Once the skill's opening move is fully charged, the sword skill will be released along with the body.

There is no way to stop in the middle.

then.

The blonde girl's sword skill not only killed the ordinary man-eating grass instantly, but also attacked the man-eating grass with fruit approaching from behind.

After being attacked, the latter immediately released a large amount of red mist.

Just a moment.

This area is surrounded by numerous large and small man-eating plants.

The sheer number of them is enough to make one’s scalp tingle.

This situation was originally the leveling method used by the elite group led by Li Xia for some time, but now it became a trap for individual players to claim their lives, trapping the blonde girl in a dense group of wild monsters.

“Asuna…”

Tu Ze was both anxious and worried.

Try your best to rescue.

But there were just too many man-eating plants gathering together.

It feels like there’s no way to kill them all.

If you kill one, two will come rushing over.

"Usagi..."

The blonde girl was also fighting hard.

In persistence.

(End of this chapter)