I like traveling the most

On the third day after Aqua got her familiar, they were still in the wild to gain experience and level up.

Just as Kobayashi was fully engaged, an email suddenly came to the system mailbox. The name of the email was only two words.

——Save me.

And the sender was Argo.

"We have to save people." Sato Kazuma slapped the table and said, "Argo has helped us many times before. How can we ignore our benefactor?"

"Calm down, Kazuma. We didn't say we won't go. We are discussing how to save them."

Darkness pressed down the impatient Sato Kazuma.

Kobayashi sneered. The reason why the devilish scum Kazuma was so nervous was purely because he had a deal with Argo, and a large sum of money earned from the concert was on the other party, so he was so anxious.

"Brother."

"I know."

Kobayashi touched Alice's head.

Argo was a very good intelligence merchant. She was not only a bridge to reconcile the relationship between the closed beta players and ordinary players, but also the eyes, ears and tongue of the Akusis Church. Besides, she has a good relationship with Aqua, Alice and others.

"I'm just thinking about who to send."

"——Of course, all of them!"

Aqua couldn't sit still any longer. She slammed the table angrily and said angrily: "Whoever dares to bully the Axis believers will be punished by heaven!"

As you can see.

Argo is an Axis believer.

Although she was not sincere, Aqua still protected her with the attitude of a mafia boss.

"That's why we came to discuss."

Kobayashi sighed helplessly: "Recently, the Murder Guild has been very active. I don't know if they are deliberately targeting Argo, or if they want to divert the tiger away from the mountain to do other tricks."

"Then..."

"After that, Aqua and I will go. Doesn't Alice still have idol activities? The activities that are held once a month cannot be cancelled. Ryuzi will stay in the guild for the time being. As the one with the strongest attack power, don't act rashly for the time being."

This is the disadvantage of having few people in the guild.

As the Axis Cult's base grew larger and larger, Xiaolin felt deeply helpless due to the lack of personnel - after all, the guild was full of life-oriented players, and there were only ten strategy-oriented players, so it was quite difficult to encounter such a thing.

Then the two went straight to the 22nd floor.

According to the email sent by Argo, the last location was the 22nd floor. I don't know what she is doing there, but of course this question is not important now.

"Xiaolin, are we going to the maze area?"

"... No, let's go to the place where Argo disappeared first."

The location of players in SAO can be detected, but the premise is that they are in the safe zone. If they are in the maze area or the maze tower, they can't find it. But it's not clear what happened yet, Xiaolin plans to go to the place where Argo disappeared first and then make plans.

The 22nd floor is a beautiful forest floor, and the forest occupies almost three-quarters of the entire floor. If there was no system prompt, I would have thought they had come to the wild maze area.

Crossing the small bridge and walking through the mountain road. They came to the place where Argo disappeared. But there is nothing here.

Aqua looked at the forest with nothing in it and scratched her head: "It's so strange... Is Argo really here? Should I ask someone?"

"I don't think there are any players on this floor."

Just as Xiaolin was about to shake his head, a small bottle suddenly fell from the top of his head and almost hit Aqua, causing the stupid goddess to curse. Xiaolin also raised his head and saw a jaw-dropping scene.

-A wooden house was flying in the sky!

And it was flying so high that it almost touched the floor of the 23rd floor.

"Ah??? This game finally has a bug."

Aqua was dumbfounded.

General games will have bugs, but so far, it's a pity that Xiaolin has not found any bugs that can be exploited, but has found more game features.

As for the house...

The durability of the house in SAO is infinite, and it will not decay or be destroyed by earthquakes, volcanoes, etc. The customization function of the player's house is limited to the exterior walls and roofs. It is impossible for someone to destroy the exterior walls or roofs after purchasing a house. Even the cathedral, the headquarters of the Axis Church, is the same.

"Do you see if there is anyone there?"

Aqua exclaimed softly, and Kobayashi looked in the direction of her finger and found that there was indeed someone there, waving at them from the window of the house.

Player?

Or NPC?

If it was a player, his HP would definitely be reduced to zero if he fell from that height.

Wait, could it be Argo?

That guy was trapped in a wooden house flying in the sky for some reason, and because he was not in the safe zone, he could not send emails or determine his location... The more he thought about it, the more likely it was.

"Aqua, can you let your familiar fly up there?"

"No."

"Why, it's a flying familiar, right? Is there a restriction prohibiting flying here?"

"Not that. Actually..."

Aqua took out the flying feather dragon with red cheeks and circles from behind.

"It's drunk."

"You stupid goddess!"

Kobayashi couldn't help but knock her on the head.

The stupid goddess is useless, so we have to think of other ways.

Coming to the bottom of the cabin, there is a towering tree, about 20 meters high. In reality, it is a rare lush tree, but this is a game, and it can only be said that there are many trees that are more lush than it. And the height is not high enough, so it is impossible to use it to climb up to the cabin.

"I thought that if I went directly below, I could barely hear someone asking for help."

"The distance is too far, there is no way."

Just as they were thinking about how to get up, a dangerous breath - actually an enemy search skill warning, made the two people nervous.

"Woof woof woof!"

But when a shouting little milk puppy came in front of them, they relaxed again.

"So cute!"

Aqua picked up the puppy and held it in her arms, rubbing the dog's head angrily.

"I say, this may be a trap, is it really okay to be so careless?"

"It doesn't matter. Look, its tail is shaking like this."

"I mean, aren't you afraid that Emperor Jer will be jealous?"

The puppy that suddenly appeared wagged its tail in a flattering manner, and it seemed to have no hostility. Kobayashi also knew the name of the puppy through the cursor on its head - Toto.

It didn't seem to be a species name.

"Is it the dog's inherent name?"

"Kobayashi Kobayashi! Let's also subdue it as a familiar!"

"... No, it seems that it won't work."

Kobayashi saw a question mark appear on the puppy's head, which was a symbol for a mission, and the question mark meant that it was in progress. But they had just arrived here and had never seen this dog, let alone accepting the mission. That means -

"That?"

Looking at the house above their heads.

"Then next, we have to find out why the house flew into the sky."

Perhaps Kobayashi's words triggered the keywords, and a whirlwind rolled up the puppy, and without saying a word, they rolled them into the sky.

"Waaaaa————"

In the stupid goddess's ghost howling, the two of them spun and jumped in the sky with their eyes closed, and when they fell, they were forcibly sent into the chimney and drilled in from the only entrance above.

"It hurts!"

Aqua cried out in pain, but most of her body was pressed on Kobayashi, so she shouldn't have been hurt much. On the contrary, Kobayashi felt that his butt was split in half because of his heightened sense of pain and reduced defense.

"——!"

A black shadow covered Kobayashi.

Looking up, I saw a short figure with a cloak and a beard on his cheeks. As expected, she was Argo.

"Good afternoon."

"If you all come here, it will be meaningless, okay!"

"Hey, I don't think I have any reason to be blamed. I don't know who sent a distress email and then disappeared. I dropped everything and ran over to save you. Thank you with gratitude!"

"Hmm."

Argo was at a loss for words, and he pouted for a long time before mumbling a sentence. Kobayashi didn't hear it clearly, but it was probably because he was too late and Kobayashi was at the top of the email list, so he sent the email.

It should be when he was rolled up that he realized something was wrong and thought of asking for help, but it was too late at that time, so he sent a help email as quickly as possible and then sent it to Xiaolin.

This wooden house is not big, with a 1DK layout.

Whether it is furniture or decoration, it gives people a slightly warm feeling.

"Is this Argo's home?"

"No. Whose home is in the sky?"

"So."

Xiaolin sat down on the sofa, raised his legs and said, "What is going on? Explain it to us."

Aqua also sat down next to Xiaolin obediently.

Seeing that things had come to this, Argo sat down helplessly and said, "Boss, you should have received the task."

"I guess so. But compared to clearly accepting the task, it feels like someone picked up a task that was thrown away halfway through, and then was inexplicably involved."

"That's really ugly."

In SAO, top players believe that tasks should not be completed halfway, which will make people feel that he does not have the style of a high-level player, such as now.

Argo whistled.

After a long while, she could no longer bear Kobayashi's gaze and explained, "It's not my fault... Forget it, let's start from the beginning."

Recently, Argo received information about a strange new mission in the lower levels of Aincrad, and it happened to be the eve of the release of her strategy manual, so she came to investigate, but there was a problem with the content of the mission.

"What's the problem?"

"Well... I also have some things I am good at or not good at..."

She spoke vaguely, but her eyes could not help but glance at the dog in Aqua's arms.

So that's it.

"Argo, you are afraid of dogs."

"There's nothing I can do! Take it away quickly!"

Instead of being considerate, the stupid goddess exposed Argo's weakness and even forcefully stuffed the dog into her arms.

Sometimes the stupid goddess is too much.

"So, although you successfully accepted the mission, because the key character was the dog, you ran to this wooden house out of fear. Then the mission moved forward and the house flew into the sky. But the dog didn't enter the house, so the mission was stalled. As a result, you were in the house flying in the air and sent the email during this time, right?"

"That's not funny, boss!"

Xiaolin's explanation of holding back laughter made Argo embarrassed.

"In this case, the boss will be trapped in this hut for a while!"

"Eh, it's no big deal."

Aqua said stupidly: "If there is a chance, can't we use the transfer crystal to fly to the town?"

"No, probably not."

Xiaolin didn't think Argo had never used this method, but she was still in this room, which meant that the transfer crystal could not be used here - even emails could not be sent, so the transfer crystal was of course not useful.

"Although it was caused by the task, such forced events basically prohibit teleportation."

"That's it. But as a last resort, jumping out of the window and teleporting before landing on the ground is not impossible."

I have to say that she proposed a clever way.

"Boss, this opportunity is rare, do you want to try it? If it succeeds, this is a great discovery, and it may bring a lot of convenience to other players."

"... Forget it, I don't want to try it."

The idea is a good idea, but good ideas are often accompanied by extremely high risks. Xiaolin doesn't want to take such a big risk to do something with extremely low returns.

"Hey, that's not right, Kobayashi."

Aqua seemed to have thought of something and said, "If the reason for the mission to stagnate is that Toto was left outside and came in... this point has been solved, right? Does that mean that the progress of the mission will continue to advance?"

"You have become smarter?"

"What did you say-"

"Aqua, you are right. In fact, I have already felt that this wooden house is moving. I think it is probably approaching the mission location, but you just chatted and didn't realize it."

Kobayashi pushed away the stupid goddess who tried to bite him.

Argo jumped off the sofa and walked to the window in two or three steps to look down.

"It's true! It's about to land!"

"Really?"

Aqua also came up.

"Yeah! If everything goes well, we can go back before dark!"

"Great!"

The two women smiled happily.

Soon, the wooden house landed, and the three people, the dog, and the dragon walked out of the room. They did not leave the 22nd floor, but rather they did not leave the forest at all.

"Okay, since we've already landed, let's finish the task quickly and go back."

"Hmm..."

Argo had no objection to the two people blending in. After all, if it weren't for Xiaolin and Aqua, she would still be floating in the sky.

"By the way! So, the name of this task is "The Witch of the West and the Three Treasures" - that should be it."

"So ordinary."

Aqua couldn't help but complain.

But when they saw what appeared in front of them - a lion beastman wearing cloth clothes about two meters tall, a medieval full armor but no human inside, and a scarecrow with an exclamation mark on his head waiting to accept the task.

"How can it be ordinary? It's obviously super expanded!"