I like traveling the most

December 23, 2023

Recently, members of the strategy team have taken a truce.

After all, it's almost Christmas, and the members of the strategy team are human beings and need some rest. Therefore, Xiaolin took the initiative to suspend the strategy floor - mainly because members of the Axis Cult had withdrawn. The other members of the strategy group did not have a strong output, and they had to suspend the strategy when their sense of security plummeted.

I don’t know if someone will be brave and forcefully attack the floor, but given the lessons learned from Kibaou and others, they probably won’t dare.

Incidentally, Kibaou did not establish a guild, but instead recruited a group of people to join the army. Although he could only hold the position of vice president, thanks to this he was able to quickly return to the strategy team.

The nature of the army is similar to that of the Axis Cult, except that the Axis Cult hopes that players can do whatever they can to exchange supplies from the guild, while the army provides money to players even if they have nothing to do and are unwilling to face reality. Helping hand.

Neither side’s approach is better or worse, but their goals are the same and a good relationship has been established.

...It would be better to say that the Axis Cult, which controls 80% of Aincrad's trade, has established good relations with every guild.

"Xiao Lin, Xiao Lin, look at my clothes, how do they look? Does it look good?"

Aqua circled in front of him.

The silly goddess wearing a red dress and a Santa hat has a happy smile on her face. She seems to be enjoying this festive atmosphere.

"Not bad, very nice."

The idiot goddess is naturally beautiful and looks good no matter what she wears, but I don't know if she wears panties under her skirt. It's a pity that SAO can't just pull out people's pants, and Xiaolin can't say anything, so even if he's curious, he can only endure it.

Having said that, SAO is capable of XXOO.

——This is true.

Kayaba Akihiko (actually the author) seems to have considered this and specially created an anti-river crab mode.

Originally, when the game was first launched, there was no such and such thing. However, male players said they felt uneasy without it, so they later implemented it. The same goes for female players.

So much so that Kayaba Akihiko felt that since everything was safe, he might as well install XXOO, which would be able to relieve the strong energy of lonely men and women.

I wonder how many young men and women will stay in unknown hotels at Christmas? Are there enough hotels in Aincrad? Considering that we have already cleared the forty-sixth floor and it is a virtual game, there cannot be enough rooms, right?

No, no, no, what are you thinking about?

Xiao Lin shook the waste out of his mind.

Of course, if anyone is curious about this aspect, please read Chapter 16.5 of the original book, which is very exciting.

"Xiao Lin, what are you thinking about?"

"It's nothing, I'm just fascinated by it."

"Really? That's great! It's true that I specially asked Kazuma to prepare."

Aqua jumped up happily, her short skirt flipping up and down, but Xiaolin only saw the mosaic dedicated to river crabs. Is this worn or not?

"Okay, let's go when you're ready."

"Let's go!"

Xiaolin took Aqua to the street.

Of course, the Axis Cult cannot remain indifferent to such a major holiday as Christmas. At the request of the idiot goddess who loves holidays, they decided to distribute gifts to players and NPCs. The types of gifts are random, ranging from low-level potions to high-level props. It is precisely because of this that it attracts a large number of players to join in the fun.

"Huhahaha, Merry Christmas! Children, come and gather around Christmas Kazuma!"

on the street, and actually handing out gifts.

At this time, he was dressed just like an ordinary Santa Claus. The difference was that he wore a mask on his face - the same mask as Barnier. I don't know the reason for wearing it.

However, a lot of people gathered around him, including players and NPCs.

"Thank you Mr. Santa Claus for the gift!"

A little girl took the gift from his hand and thanked him happily. Huihui, who was on the side, also took out a gift and gave it to another child.

"I'll give you this gift!"

"Ah! I want this so much! Thank you, sister!"

The children hugged the gifts and thanked them loudly.

"Here, there are gifts here. Do you want to get one?"

"Great! Fortunately, I listened to my mother and was a good boy!"

Another child got a gift and ran away happily, while Youyou, who looked at her back, breathed a sigh of relief.

"Huh, I'm so nervous..."

This was her first time giving a gift to someone.

"Really. How can Santa Claus be so stiff?" Megumin suddenly put on a strange posture and shouted: "I am Santa Claus! Wearing red clothes, the person who delivers gifts!"

"Don't, don't make such strange moves! It will scare the children!" Yuyou thought of the fear of being dominated by the second disease of the Red Demon Clan.

In addition, the two of them are also wearing the same Santa Claus skirt suit as Aqua.

"Hey, you three, good work."

Kobayashi and Aqua greeted them.

After Sato Kazuma sent away a child with a smile, he immediately felt unhappy when he saw the two people who had arrived late: "You two came too slowly, my face almost cramped from laughing! Hurry up and stop wandering around." Let’s distribute gifts together! Also, Aqua, your clothes look so stupid.”

"What did you say?" Aqua stamped her feet in anger and retorted: "My clothes are the same as Huihui and Youyou's, how can I be stupid!"

"You just look stupid."

"Haa——!"

The two wrestled with each other.

I really hope they can restrain themselves. This is the street, and there are children around. What if it brings psychological trauma to them?

"Huihui, Youyou, your clothes are very beautiful."

"Thank, thank you... for the compliment..."

"Of course! I am the first Santa Claus of the Crimson Demon Clan! This is no longer role-playing, but I have transformed into a real Santa Claus!"

The reactions of these two people are also quite interesting.

"Come back. Xiaolin, where is your Santa Claus costume?"

"Oh, I forgot."

It was all Aqua's fault that he forgot to change his clothes into Santa Claus's. But when he used the system to change clothes with one click, he found something wrong.

Xiaolin felt that his head was heavy, as if something heavy was pressing on it. He touched it upwards and found a hard object.

"This is..."

"Reindeer?"

It turns out that Krillin's suit is not Santa Claus, but a reindeer suit.

These clothes were prepared by Kazuma. He trusted Kazuma very much, so he didn't look at the clothes carefully when he received them. He didn't expect that they were different from others.

"Kazuma, what's going on?"

"Ahem. Well... Don't they all look monotonous? So in order to have diversity, I specially prepared a reindeer suit. Look, am I not wearing a mask too?"

Sato Kazuma's explanation was pale and weak.

Aqua rubbed her cheeks with both hands and said contemptuously: "He must have thought that Krillin would steal his limelight, so he deliberately prepared a reindeer suit, and then he thought he would be blamed, so he prepared Vanir's mask as an excuse. That abominable mask... Yes, that must be it!"

"That's right... That's not the case! Krillin senior, the reindeer suit is also a classic Christmas costume!"

The way he was sweating profusely, it looked like he did it on purpose.

"There's nothing wrong with reindeer." Xiaolin waved his hand and said, "By the way, where are Alice and Darkness?"

"They are delivering gifts on another street."

"Is that so?"

In fact, they are not the only ones. The members of the Axis Cult have joined the task of delivering gifts. However, considering that Aincrad has now cleared the 46th floor, the guild members have dispersed to each floor.

As for Xiaolin and others, they are distributing gifts in the first floor of the Town of Beginning. After all, there are many children on the first floor. They are not NPCs, but real players.

Although Xiaolin does not understand why there are children entering the game, they are all on the first floor at the moment, at least they cannot be allowed to fight monsters to level up.

I really want to ask Kayaba Akihiko, is there no age limit for this game? I have to say that we are still doing a good job in preventing addiction.

"Hey, you guys, you've worked hard."

When Xiaolin and others were distributing gifts, Xiaochun brought Rinko to the first floor.

"I didn't expect you guys to come."

"I heard someone was giving out free gifts, so how could I not come?"

Koharu looked like she was determined to take advantage.

"Then take this gift." Kobayashi handed her a box: "The items inside are random, you might get a good one."

"Thank you very much."

Despite saying that, Koharu didn't open the gift on the spot, but went to chat with Sato Kazuma next to him.

The atmosphere has been very wrong since the two of them met on the first floor. Kobayashi didn't stop it, and let it develop, and even told him not to give out gifts next time, and to go shopping with Koharu.

And Rinko didn't bother them, and took the initiative to take over the task of Sato Kazuma who left. It's good that she can be so considerate, but the fiery eyes that kept coming from the side made Kobayashi a little overwhelmed.

After that, the four members of Agil, Klein's Fuuinzan and other guilds came to show their support.

The last visitors were Kirito and Asuna.

Kirito is still dressed in black, but he has already quit the Moonlit Night Black Cats Guild. Xing and the others know that Kirito is accommodating and taking care of them, so they let Kirito leave the guild in order not to add burden to Kirito. Without Xing's death and the destruction of the Moonlit Night Black Cats, he did not become gloomy, but was much more cheerful than before.

"Merry Christmas, Xiaolin."

"Merry Christmas, Kirito, Asuna."

"... Hum."

Asuna is dressed in the guild costume of the Blood Alliance Knights. The already outstanding costume looks much better when worn by this beautiful girl.

The only problem is that Asuna doesn't like Xiaolin very much. The reason is that she refused to let her join the guild at the beginning.

Asuna thought that she was immature and her strength was not as good as those of the Axis Church at that time, so she was rejected. The reason for agreeing to Kiba was more like an excuse. It is true as she said that Kiba was just an excuse, but the real situation is that he was afraid that she would be in danger, so he couldn't let her join.

"Xiaolin, where's Miss Aqua?"

"She's right here... Hey, where did she go?"

The stupid goddess who was distributing gifts with him just now disappeared in the blink of an eye. Not only her, but Huihui and Yunyun were also gone, leaving only him and Rinko here.

Could she have gotten bored and ran away?

Rinko said: "Just now Miss Aqua said that she was going to visit Miss Darkness. I think she should be there now."

"Really? I see." Asuna took the gift from Rinko and said: "Thank you. Then I'll go there first."

After that, she hurried to find Aqua... I didn't expect that the stupid goddess was quite likable.

Kobayashi didn't care, but turned his head to look at Kirito: "I see, is it Asuna?"

"What?"

"I thought you liked the type of Xing. Sure enough, it has to be your favorite."

"Misunderstanding! There is nothing between Xing and me. I just treat her as my sister!"

"My sister said that purple is very charming?"

"...What are you talking about?"

Kirito, who didn't understand what Kobayashi was saying, was not worth being teased.

Kobayashi was still smiling.

"Xiaolin, your smile is weird."

"Nothing. I was just thinking, you didn't deny Asuna, right?"

"I, I...!"

"By the way, Kirito. Did you know that SAO actually implemented XXOO? Today is Christmas, you know?"

"Haa——!"

Looking at the dumbfounded Kirito, Xiaolin laughed heartily. To be honest, he really wanted to see Chapter 16.5. Unfortunately, if the two really performed that classic chapter, they would not perform in front of him, an outsider.

"Enough! Xiaolin, stop teasing me."

Kirito realized that he was being fooled, and hurriedly said: "I came here this time to discuss another matter with you."

"——Nicholas's treasure, right?"

Nicholas is a special Mob, set as a monster key to the task.

Most of them appear every few days or hours, but some of them have only one chance to attack, which is very close to the existence of the boss monster. Of course, the strength is not a joke, so it is usually necessary to form a large team like the boss.

About a month ago, all the NPCs on each floor started to talk about the same mission information.

It is said that on the 24th day of the 24th day of the 12th month, the legendary monster [Nicholas the Apostate] will appear in the woods of a certain forest. If you defeat it, you will get the treasure in the big bag on the monster's back.

Even the powerful guilds of the strategy team, which have always been interested in breaking through the maze area, have shown great interest this time.

Because the treasure, whether it is a huge amount of money or a rare weapon, can greatly help in conquering the floor boss. If this is the SAO system that has only taken things from players so far, how can you not collect it as a kind Christmas gift?

Of course, if it were just this, it would not cause a stir in Aincrad. The main thing is that Nicholas will drop an item, an item that everyone is rushing to get.

- Resurrection item!