The Age of Heroic Spirits in the Eyes of the Reincarnated

Chapter 41: Expose Kayaba Akihiko!

SAO game world.

The difficult 67th floor was also successfully conquered by the strategy team, and there were 11 consecutive floors without combat personnel sacrificed.

Compared to this point in the original work, the players were still struggling around the 56th floor.

In that timeline, there are three classes: first-class, middle-class, and low-class.

The former and the latter two seem to be on the same front.

But in fact, everyone is just playing their own games.

Only a few people such as Grinserlu support the front-line strategy team in their own way.

This timeline is completely different.

"Liz, what weapon did you create this time?"

At the guild station, Li Xia met a girl who was jogging towards him happily, and he smiled back and said.

"Captain Li Xia, look, I made a Light Chaser for you using the crystal quartz ingot produced by the Crystal Dragon. The basic attack is over 700, with strength +54 and agility +18, which is not worse than your Elucidator."

The girl smiled sweetly.

"Another improvement, not bad, not bad, you put in a lot of effort."

Li Xia did not hesitate to give his encouragement.

"Crystal quartz ingot" is produced from the lair of the wild boss Crystal Dragon in the mountain range west of the 55th floor.

In fact, it is the crystal dragon that swallowed the crystal ore on the Crystal Mountain, purified it in its stomach, and finally pulled out the fresh mineral crystals.

This material is produced once a week.

The elite of the guild's strategy team implemented the "sustainable utilization" policy he proposed. Instead of killing the Crystal Dragon, they almost imprisoned it. Just to let the Crystal Dragon continue to eat crystals for purification, and then make refining materials.

Over two months, 10 high-quality crystal quartz ingots were produced in succession, bringing many swords comparable to the Dark Repulser to the elites of the Liberator Guild.

In the original timeline, Liz, a senior blacksmith, used this material and her own heart to forge a white sword, the Dark Repulser, for Kirito with "basic damage 680, strength +52, agility +12".

In this timeline, the girl who also chose the deputy position of blacksmith and received a lot of resources from the guild to cultivate, is undoubtedly even better.

Excellent blacksmith + high-quality forging materials, it is difficult not to think of excellent weapons.

And similar changes are not limited to the blacksmith industry.

Pharmacists and even cooks are also included.

It can be said that strong logistical support is one of the main reasons why the cohesion of the Liberator Guild has always been far ahead of the Blood Alliance Knights established by the old man Akihiko Kayaba.

And because Li Xia made the guild mode appear more than three months earlier than the original, the strategy group also appeared earlier. In addition, the middle and lower-level players can get the Liberator Guild's strategy group members to level up every now and then, so as to level up efficiently. While benefiting from this, the middle and lower-level players are naturally willing to use some of their gold coins as rewards to help the strong on the front line strengthen their equipment. The two sides interact a lot and each gets what they need.

Due to these details, there is not much gap between the three major player classes on this timeline.

In general.

Everyone is no longer a mess.

It's more like each doing his own job.

Because of these, the overall combat power of the players is much stronger than the same period in the original.

The difference between "starting a good start" and "starting a bad start" can be seen.

"Liz, come on, everyone can't do without an excellent blacksmith like you."

Li Xia encouraged.

"Well, I will work hard."

The girl clenched her fist.

…

On this day, Li Xia followed Xia Zhijin and Asuna as usual, and insisted on using wooden swords to fight monsters, accumulating [Real Critical Hits]; suddenly, a column [Dual Sword Flow] appeared in the skill list of the game character.

When he saw this skill, he was stunned for a long time:

"What's going on?

I actually got the dual sword flow?"

The dual sword flow is one of the ten special skills that Kayaba Akihiko set for all Sword Art Online players that cannot be copied.

When the proficiency of the meditation skill exceeds 500, as long as certain conditions are met, there is a chance to obtain it.

And because of the irreproducibility of these ten skills, it is first come first served.

In the original work, the male protagonist Kirito obtained the dual sword flow because he met the special prerequisite of "the fastest reaction among all players".

"In other words, I am actually the one with the fastest reaction among this group of people?"

"But this thing is actually of no use to me. What I want is another special skill."

Li Xia put away the wooden sword and fell into deep thought.

The dual-wielding style is fine for fighting wild monsters. With two swords in hand, one can single-handedly fight most of the bosses below the 75th floor. But against Kayaba Akihiko, you can only take him by surprise, otherwise once the opponent is prepared, it is easy to be defeated.

After all, the dual-wielding style was invented by that guy.

Using the skills invented by others to deal with others, hehe.

In addition to the dual-wielding style, there is also the [Holy Sword] that GM Kayaba tailored for him, and there are also [Sword Drawing Technique], [Dark Sword], [Infinite Gun] and other tricks that I don’t know how to trigger.

And the one that Li Xia is interested in is the only exclusive skill besides the dual-wielding style that knows the triggering conditions and is most likely to threaten Kayaba Akihiko’s game character: [Critical Path].

As long as he gets this trick, his future attacks will be critical hits.

There is no reason to explain.

The specific condition for obtaining this move is: accumulate 10,000 real critical hits.

The so-called real critical hit is the kind of critical hit that does not rely on the characteristics of equipment.

For players who level up by killing monsters normally, it is good to hit three or four real critical hits a day.

Because Li Xia always kills monsters at their vital points, and often uses the wooden sword that is more likely to hit small monsters for practice, he hits real critical hits quite a lot, about a dozen times a day.

In the one year and four months in the SAO game world.

He has accumulated at least 8,000 real critical hits.

But he didn't expect that he got [Dual Blade Flow] before getting [Critical Path].

"Wait, it seems that they don't say that you can't have two of the ten special skills at the same time? If the dual-blade flow can be used together with the critical path, then even if I don't have the protagonist halo of Kirito, wouldn't the probability of defeating Kayaba Akihiko in the game world be greatly increased?"

"In addition, the dual-blade flow can completely improve my efficiency in brushing real critical hits!"

A sword can help him accumulate more than a dozen real critical hits every day. With two swords, the efficiency will not be doubled, but it will be much faster, right?

"What's wrong with you, Captain."

Aside, Asuna handed over a drink.

As a food expert, carrying food and drinking water in a backpack is a basic operation.

"Thank you."

Li Xia took it and tasted it with a smile.

The relationship between the two is actually just a layer of window paper away. Although they are not as vigorous as the original male and female protagonists, they are also peers who have been together for a long time under the premise of heroes saving beauties + easing the relationship between besties...

However, whenever Asuna mustered up the courage to take that step and wanted to express her true feelings in order to further confirm the relationship, Li Xia would change the subject.

After all, he was a trialist, and there would be a day when the trial would end and he would leave here.

The key is that he would lose his memory of this place.

Even if he thought about getting this girl out before he went out, as long as he left, this idea would be erased and would never come back.

In this case, if he still confirmed the relationship with Asuna, once there was a follow-up in this world and a spontaneous storyline, it would undoubtedly be a great harm to the girl.

Indeed, he had never been in love in his two lives; but he felt that it was wrong to do so.

As for what was wrong?

He couldn't say it.

…

As for what Wang Teng, Yang Jie, and Xu Che were doing?

On the one hand, they continued to work together to kill monsters and practice sword-drawing to see if they could obtain [Sword-drawing Technique], one of the ten major skills. On the other hand, they led the team to sweep the map, sweep the bosses in the wild map, and continue to maintain the advantage in experience and equipment.

…

April 2024.

The room of the ss.

Li Xia entered alone.

"Roar..."

This boss is the only big guy in the original work that made the male protagonist Kirito almost fall down.

A roar can make all players below level 80 fall into chaos.

However, facing its breath, Li Xia just pulled out the light chaser forged by Liz for him and waved it lightly. The boss's deterrent momentum suddenly turned into a breeze that could only blow his clothes.

Fight!

Dual sword style VS 69th floor boss.

It can also be regarded as a practice battle.

Early May of the 24th year.

He finally accumulated enough real critical hits and obtained the super passive skill [Critical Path].

The 74th floor guard boss: Shining Magic Eye.

This boss has a huge body, and his whole body is wrapped in muscles that bulge like thick ropes. The skin is dark blue, with goat-like horns on his head, which stand tall from both sides of his head to the back. His eyes are like burning blue-white flames, which is why he is called the Shining Demon Eye.

His weapon is a big sword.

In the original timeline, this big guy was slightly consumed by a team of more than ten people, and was narrowly defeated by Kirito with the high burst skill of [Double Blade Flow], with only the last bit of blood left.

This time.

Li Xia not only mastered [Double Blade Flow], but also [Critical Path] to give each attack a critical hit effect.

Therefore, before his own blood bar dropped from green to yellow, he killed the opponent by himself.

"1+1 is much greater than 2."

After finishing the Shining Demon Eye, Li Xia's level also reached level 90.

The benefits of enjoying the boss experience alone have been maximized.

However, in the future, it feels like the experience slot will need to accumulate for more than half a month before it can be upgraded to a level.

"The boss on the 75th floor is very different from the boss on the 74th floor. It's safer to rush up with a group of people."

While the players from the major guilds were exploring the 75th floor and preparing for it, he also stole a half-day of leisure.

Took Xia Zhijin and Asuna to visit the 1st to 61st floors.

Go outing every day to visit the wonderful floors of the floating city "Aincrad".

The second floor, the strange crater, everyone watched the sunrise together...

The third floor, the dreamy and primitive misty forest, watch the forest together...

The fourth floor, the complex and winding canyons and waterways, float together on a boat...

The fifth floor, the ancient huge ruins, first taste the famous food here together, and then explore the history of the ancient city together...

The seventh floor, the arena full of calculations, watch the competition together...

The 22nd floor, the huge lake, fishing together, barbecue together, take a photo together in the sparkling lake...

On the 24th floor, in the artificial island and artificial city in the middle of the vast waters, we happily experienced the comfort of Venice on the water...

On the 47th floor, in Floria's Flower Sea Square, we admired the flowers together, held hands together, and spent a warm and beautiful afternoon together...

Until the 61st floor, almost all of this floor was occupied by the lake, and this was also the floor where Asuna bought a house and settled down. Everyone finally had dinner together here and fell asleep together...

The journey of more than half a month seemed to have ended in a lifetime.

…

Unfortunately, good times always pass quickly.

The time came to June 3, 2024.

On this day, Nobuyuki Sugo was kidnapped by a shadow clone in the night.

Another shadow clone temporarily replaced this guy with a transformation technique and obtained the "second-rank" management rights of Fairy Dance, a game built with all the original codes of SAO as a template.

The next day.

In the SAO game world.

The people who had just completed the 75th floor strategy looked at Li Xia in astonishment, who suddenly drew his sword towards the Blood Alliance Knights "Heathcliff".

Aiming at the back of the head with an extremely tricky sword, he hit the "purple exclamation mark" on the man who claimed to have "absolute defense".

"Captain Li Xia, what are you doing?"

"Are you crazy? You just finished beating the boss and you backstabbed your companion?"

"Captain Heathcliff, are you okay?"

At this moment, some of the first strategy team formed by the elites of several major guilds glared at Li Xia.

Some showed concern for the trumpet of the old man Kayaba Akihiko.

Only Li Xia looked at him coldly:

"Mr. Kayaba, is this game fun?

Personally lead everyone to overcome all the difficulties, and finally transform from a leader of the righteous path to a giant of the magic path and become the final boss.

Give everyone a little hope, and then kill all the light of hope.

You are really a guy with a bad taste."

Mr. Kayaba?

Killing hope?

Bad taste?

What does that mean?

Everyone in the exhausted field was surprised at the two people who were confronting each other in the center.

However, when someone noticed the purple exclamation mark on Kayaba's trumpet, which was the purple mark of "indestructible", their eyes almost popped out.

"What is that mark?"

"It is a special existence that is protected by the system and cannot be destroyed! It is an immortal attribute to the system!"

"Immortal attribute? What is that?"

"It is the yellow area where HP will not drop to half blood no matter what happens! Characters protected by the system!"

Li Xia gave a positive explanation.

"How can a player have such a thing?"

"Yes, we players can't have it, and we shouldn't have it! Only him, only he has it! Damn Heathcliff, he is indeed problematic!"

"What the hell is going on? Captain..."