Realms: Only I Traverse Through the Anime Multiverse

In the current SAO world, including Du Ming, everyone else shows their true face.

But Kayaba Akihiko is different. His disguised identity "Heathcliff" seems to be recognized by the world. Therefore, although players like Kirito have seen photos and videos of Kayaba Akihiko on the Internet, no player recognizes him.

If Du Ming had not been very impressed by Kayaba Akihiko in Sword Art Online, and remembered his disguised name, as well as Kayaba Akihiko's conspicuous red sword and shield, and the name "Heathcliff" on his head, Du Ming would not have noticed him.

In the original plot, the character Heathcliff was locked by Kayaba Akihiko's official blood lock, and he could not die.

If it was in this world...

Du Ming's eyes flickered slightly, he wanted to see the result.

"Mr. Duel, what do you mean?" Diabel frowned and asked curiously.

Du Ming put Argo's strategy book "Strategy Book for Each Floor" into his backpack, then tapped Asuna's back who had been listening curiously, and whispered: "Lend me that cooking book and that 'Life Strategy Book'."

"...Oh." Asuna was slightly stunned, took out two books and stuffed them into Du Ming's hands, curiously asking: "Du Ming, what do you want these for?"

"Look..." Du Ming smiled and held up the two books: "Everyone, does anyone recognize these two books?"

The first cooking book of these two books is Asuna's beloved Monster Cooking Collection: Aincrad Rice.

As for the other book 'Life Strategy Book'...

Du Ming looked around, except for him and Asuna, even Kayaba Akihiko and Kirito were the same, all showing puzzled expressions.

"Duel, this is..." Kirito asked curiously.

"That's right..." Du Ming looked at everyone and shook his head: "You are all top players in 'BOSS strategy', but relatively speaking, your understanding of 'life' strategies is limited to the extent that they are useful for BOSS strategies."

No one refuted, this is a fact, there is no need to refute.

Du Ming shook the "Life Strategy Book".

"This is a life strategy book compiled by SAO closed beta players and given to ordinary players for free. In fact, among the players participating in the closed beta, there are not only BOSS strategy players, but also life strategy players who focus on life skills!"

"Mr. Duel, let's stop here! Ya Wang has also said that he will temporarily stop asking about closed beta players." Diabel thought Du Ming was still entangled with what Ya Wang said just now.

"So, this is the limit of you pure BOSS strategy players."

Du Ming shrugged: "You didn't pay attention to the things I could notice."

"Duel, please explain it more clearly." Diabel asked.

"Deul..." Kirito held his chin with one hand, thinking, but he didn't expect it.

In the corner of the two people, the intelligence merchant Argo showed a curious look, and Heathcliff looked at him seriously, expecting Du Ming to say something.

"Du Ming..." Asuna was not a closed beta player, so she didn't know what SAO was originally like, but she knew that the SAO world was made real by the dimension gate, so she had some ideas.

Du Ming raised his voice: "It is mentioned in detail in the strategy book that to become an excellent chef, you need to constantly collect various recipes and materials, and constantly improve your cooking proficiency. But, it's strange..."

Du Ming took out another book: "Aingrand Rice".

"This cooking book was not made by a player, but by... Well, in words that everyone can understand, this book is the strategy book generated by the previous NPC Leo, that is, the system.

"But the strange thing is that the monster named 'Walking Mushroom' recorded in this book, and the cooking material 'Walking Mushroom Juice' that the 'Walking Mushroom' will drop, are not mentioned at all in the 'Life Strategy Book'.

"Not only that, the various monsters mentioned in 'Aincrad Rice' that can drop cooking ingredients in the first floor of Aincrad, such as 'Snake-tailed Chicken', 'Golden Ornament Pseudo-worm', and 'Wall Ghost Grass', are not mentioned in the 'Life Guide'.

"All of this makes me have a guess."

Du Ming said thoughtfully: "Is it possible that these monsters did not exist during the closed beta test, but only exist in this 'official version' now?"

Looking up, Du Ming asked: "Among you, there are closed beta test players with excellent observation and memory. Can anyone prove my point of view? "

The square was suddenly quiet.

No one answered.

Even though there were many closed beta testers here, they were unwilling to show up now.

Du Ming glanced at Kirito.

Kirito was struggling with his mind. He had an excellent memory of the details of the game and had encountered some monsters that he had not encountered in the closed beta version. Although he had some doubts at first, he did not think too much about it. He just thought that these monsters happened not to be encountered during the closed beta test.

After Du Ming emphasized this, he remembered all kinds of things wrong in the game, but he did not want to reveal his details.

Do you want to say it... or not?

Kirito clenched his fists and raised his head suddenly.

"Let me tell you..."

Just when Kirito decided to say it, Argo jumped down from the high wall in the distance and walked over.

"Rat?"

"Is it a rat?"

As an intelligence dealer, Argo is well known to everyone.

"Rat? Do you have any inside information?" Diabel asked.

"It's not inside information." Argo covered his face with his cloak and smiled: "But I can confirm that what Mr. Duel said is true. From my information, these monsters are monsters that do not exist in the closed beta version."

Heathcliff nodded slightly without leaving a trace. He knew the monsters in the game best. These monsters were not designed by him and should not exist in this game.

Although he was even more puzzled, why even he was sealed in this SAO game.

"Is it true?"

"I thought I didn't pay attention... um..."

Argo asked with a smile: "Mr. Duel, do you know any other information?"

Heathcliff listened attentively.

"Of course there is."

Du Ming handed the "Aingrand Rice" back to Yasna and opened the "Life Guide Book".

"Some other things mentioned in this guide are also different from the current game. For example, water is mentioned in the chapter 'Water Source' in the guide. Although the effect of water is well done, the movement of water is still very mechanical and can be predicted by human power. But in the current version, you will definitely find that the effect of water is exactly the same as in reality, more real and disordered.

"Based on this, it is easy to know that the current game version is very different from the closed beta version..."

"Enough!"

Ya Wang couldn't stand Du Ming talking, and shouted in a not very smart way: "The chattering is so noisy! So what? What does it have to do with our attack on the BOSS? !"

"Of course it has something to do with it."

Du Ming leaned back and chuckled: "Ya Wang... Use your not very smart little head to think about it. We have encountered so many monsters and details that are different from the closed beta version. What about the BOSS? You still want to use the 'Guide to the Dog-headed Lord Irfangu' that may be outdated to attack the BOSS? I don’t care, but if you die in the BOSS room, can you allow me to laugh at you? Let me sing a song and dance? "

"Wow————! !"

Du Ming's guess suddenly exploded in the square, making all the players look much uglier.