Time travel at the same time: Is the golden finger actually me?

The night is like ink, and the fear is like needles, stinging my ears.

Asuna's face turned pale.

She finally mustered up the courage to trust others for once.

Did he fall into a trap that ensnares players?

Klein was also sweating profusely immediately, and moved quietly, standing further away from Rock.

However, Kirito was a little keen on the word "third day" because he remembered that day was the first time the first-line players met the big tree guard.

Kirito looked carefully at the "Wandering Knight Armor" on Rock.

Suddenly he remembered a person he had met.

Asuna came out a little late from the beginning of the guidance. She didn't follow the first echelon to fight the big tree guards. The things she heard may not be comprehensive.

At that time, there was a wandering knight player who was all red and kept trying to kill other players. He was very aggressive.

One player even died directly in his hands.

This made Kirito, who saw all this at the time, immediately think of the game mechanism of "invasion".

During the closed beta, beta players stay in their own worlds. If they want PVP, they need special props to enter other people's worlds and fight with each other.

After entering someone else's world, your body will be covered in a layer of blood-like red.

In order to prevent the opponent from continuing to kill people, Kirito and other beta players have been squatting on the opponent, and they have memorized what that player looks like.

But the guy only appeared once and then disappeared.

Kirito and the other closed beta players were all on guard.

Afterwards, in order not to cause panic, the closed beta players tacitly said that the player who died was probably accidentally injured and hoped that the matter would be over for now.

"Isn't it?! Could it be that the guy who invaded was killed by you?"

Kirito thought about this clearly and stared at Rock in horror.

Roque looks harmless, but he is actually such a ruthless person.

No wonder the other party didn't show up the second time.

"There was nothing I could do. That guy was targeting me and I was forced to fight back."

Rock obtained the armor of the Wandering Knight but never had any equipment. He just quietly blended into the first echelon as a useless person.

Not wearing armor is to reduce the load and silently keep up with the speed of the first echelon.

"You are really powerful for being able to fight back against the intruders of the Wandering Knight profession..."

Kirito was somewhat impressed.

Among the top ten initial professions, the Wandering Knight is the one with the best initial armor.

The Useless Man starts with only one stick.

Kirito thought it was quite impressive to be able to defeat the wandering knight with a useless person, not to mention that it was an intruder who had already killed the player.

"It was just a little trick." Rock shook his head, and the wandering knight's armor made a slight collision sound under his movements.

There are no occupation restrictions on the equipment of the magic circle, only attribute value restrictions.

After he killed the intruder, the opponent's armor naturally came into his hands, as well as all the runes of the intruder.

Kirito breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that Rock had killed the intruder.

He immediately explained everything that happened on the third day to Klein and Asuna.

Their tense bodies finally relaxed.

The stone in my heart also fell down.

But then Asuna asked with some confusion: "But even if you are afraid that the players will fight among themselves and cause panic, you shouldn't hide it like this. How can you just expose it like this?"

Kirito looked a little unnatural, not knowing how to explain to Asuna.

"Because it's not an ordinary player-in-fighting at all, or it's not the player-in-fighting in our world."

Rock, who had already put on the armor, his voice came out from the mask, looking a little deserted: "Right? Kirito."

Kirito stiffened, then nodded helplessly.

Rock: "Asuna, how many players do you think will play on the first day of a game's release?"

"Uh... ten thousand, twenty thousand?" Asuna has never played the game and is not sure.

Rock: "It seems that you have never been exposed to games."

"Yes, there must be more than 10,000 people playing in the Ring of Magic, but here..." Klein suddenly realized.

"But we only have close to 10,000 players here...right!"

This time even Klein understood.

During the closed beta period, each closed beta player enjoyed a world alone, invaded each other's worlds, and competed.

And during the public beta period...

"Every ten thousand players are divided into one world, and our different worlds invade and compete with each other. At the same time, only one person in all worlds can become the King of Elden!" Kirito raised his head and said.

"Of course...this is just the speculation of us internal beta players."

"That intruder may also be a player from our world..."

Kirito frowned. The pressure to survive in this shabby world was already huge, not to mention the unimaginable pressure of competition.

Stop living!

The spread of such uncertain news will only put another foot on the accelerator for players' moral decay.

Asuna and Klein were completely speechless.

If there are players like them struggling to stay alive at the same time, and they still have to compete with each other...

Just thinking about it makes me feel like my life is over.

Rock didn't speak, but squatted down and grabbed a handful of soil from the ground.

The feeling given to him is detailed and real.

He is very sure that this is a world of data, but sometimes he can't help but doubt it all...

Rock remembers that the props for invading other worlds were given out by the NPC White Mask.

White Mask was chopped down by players on the first day of this world.

On the third day, players from other worlds invaded this world...

Rock doesn't think this is a coincidence.

He did not rule out that this was White Mask's revenge.

But in this case, is it the same NPC shared by players in all worlds?

Are NPCs unique?

Perhaps this is also the reason why I couldn’t meet the initial guide NPC Melina.

There is only one Melina, but she has to choose a person whose destiny has faded among hundreds of thousands of players.

However, there is still too little evidence.

Rock couldn't come to a conclusion so early. Only by meeting Melina or the witch Lani could he solve this doubt.

"But, how about it? After knowing that I have killed people, do you still dare to join us?" Roque turned back to look at the other three people.

"Of course!" Klein clenched his fists: "I promised them that I would live with them!"

"Me too! I must live well." Asuna also raised her astrological staff.

Kirito was silent for a while.

Originally, he felt that there were too many people and it was not safe to level up at night, but now it seems that Rock's strength is not weak...

Maybe you can really level up with the Grek soldiers in the forest north of Airey Church.

But let’s forget about Jinlin Cave...

After he thought about it, he raised his head and said to Rock: "Let's go. I know where there are Grek soldiers in the forest north of the church. I will take you there."

…

The map is larger than Rock imagined, but as Faded Ones, if they go all out, they won't be too slow. After all, it's not far from Airey Church.

The soldiers in the forest ahead were patrolling at night, but Kirito looked cautious.

It's okay during the day, but at night, the soldiers' night combat qualities are much better than those of the players, and many players even suffer from night blindness at night.

But the soldiers who survive in this world seem to have long been accustomed to fighting in the dark.

"Rock, Klein, you two, be careful. You are wearing armor. It is easy to make noise in advance to attract the attention of the soldiers."

But before Kirito could continue to explain the tactics.

A black shadow beside him rushed out.

"Wait, Rock——" Kirito thought.

But the next moment, he was surprised to find out.

"No sound?! How could it be?"

Even though he was wearing heavy armor, Rock didn't make a sound.

This is the ancient magic technique "Evading" that he learned at Hogwarts, and the secret ninja skills he practiced in the Ninja School.

Like a black shadow, it appeared directly behind the Greg soldier.

"Puff——"

The straight sword passed through the chest, and he stabbed quickly in the back.

One hit triggers execution!

Execution will enhance the damage of the Faded One's blow, and when the enemy is instantly killed with more than 150% damage, the runes gained will be increased by an additional 20%.

If you add that the executed monster has the gift of the golden tree and has five times the runes of golden pupils...

Rock's movements did not stop. He was obviously wearing a knight's armor, but he was as nimble as an assassin, executing every enemy he saw with one sword after another.

So strong!

Stronger than me!

Kirito looked carefully at Rock, who was killing the Gray soldiers under the moonlight.

He thought about the fact that he had previously rejected Klein's companions because of their numbers, because he did not dare to make such a guarantee.

Once he agreed to Klein at that time, it meant that he would be responsible for the lives of Klein's companions. This was a promise that needed to be carried with his life.

If something happens to Klein's companions later because of his instructions, even if Klein doesn't say anything, he will definitely blame him in his heart.

Kirito thought like this and subconsciously looked at the golden tree in the distance.

People will always trust those who are stronger than themselves. This is a heavy expectation.

In order to escape this heavy pressure, a strong person who is trusted will pursue a strong person who is at a higher level.

Until this expectation reached its limit, the strongest king of mankind was born.

To become the King of Elden, how much power is needed, and how many expectations do you need to bear?

Kirito doesn't know.

But at least at this moment, Kirito wanted to pass on his hope to Rock.

If someone could really get through this rotten world in one life, he felt that that person might really be Rock.