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Chapter 581 Resurrection Item Get Daze~

December 24, 2023

10:30 am

In the meeting room of the Akusis Church, many people gathered here.

Kobayashi said as the host: "Although it is a bit sorry to force everyone to come here on this day when you may want to spend the night with someone, I think everyone here has received the email or known the intention of calling you through various channels."

The players gathered here are all familiar friends, and there is no so-called social opening remarks.

Besides, they are more concerned about other things.

Klein, the guild leader of Fenglinzan, slammed the table and shouted: "Kobayashi, the email said that there will be resurrection items dropped in this event. Is it true?!"

After he shouted like this, the expressions of others began to change.

You must know that SAO is a veritable death game. If the health value reaches zero, you will definitely exit instead of resurrecting from the Black Iron Palace. But this time there is a resurrection item. Its meaning can be imagined.

Kobayashi shrugged.

"I want to admit it, but rumors are just rumors after all, and no one can confirm it."

"But NPCs on each floor have begun to issue corresponding tasks and pass on the same kind of information. I think this should not be aimless, at least Kayaba Akihiko would not do such a boring thing."

Kirito said.

He admired Kayaba Akihiko very much, so he could guess a little bit of his thoughts. Although he was angry that he turned SAO into a death game, if there was a resurrection item...he couldn't help but clench his fist.

Then, a pair of hands were placed on it.

It was Asuna.

She nodded and said, "I also heard about the resurrection item from the leader. In fact, the Blood Alliance Knights originally planned to participate in this event, but the guild mission conflicted with the event, and the leader said he would give up."

"Really? That's really good news."

Haruko nodded.

Although Axis and the Knights of the Blood Alliance are both two major guilds standing at the top of Aincrad, the two guilds have different focuses. If the Knights of the Blood Alliance expresses their participation in this event, it is hard to say who will get the resurrection item in the end.

Agil said in a deep voice: "The problem now is that regardless of whether the appearance of the resurrection item is true or false, the players have attracted their attention to the event, and we have many opponents."

He is right.

After knowing that the resurrection item appeared, Xiaolin activated his face fruit ability and summoned familiar players to help Axis obtain the resurrection item. Among them are Klein's Fenglinzan, Agil's four people, Xiaochun and Rinko, and Kirito and Asuna.

It's just that Xiaolin's face is not that big, or in the face of the temptation of the resurrection item, many people want to get it. In this way, players who give face are needed to intercept players who don't give face.

"We'll talk about this later. Let's hear the information about the apostate Nicholas first."

Kobayashi pressed his hands down, signaling a certain intelligence dealer with a beard on his cheeks and a sly smile to speak.

"Argo, please."

"No problem!"

Argo stood up, first took out a scroll, and then took out a map.

"Let me explain it to you. First of all, I got this puzzle scroll from my multi-faceted investigation and exploration. Its function is to prompt the path of the apostate Nicholas. Then I solved the puzzle and learned that the apostate Nicholas will appear in the Lost Forest on the 35th floor at midnight tonight."

"Is the information accurate?!"

"Please remove the last word. Who do you think I am?"

Miss Mouse proudly raised her head with her chest puffed out.

She is the most famous and best intelligence dealer in the entire Aincrad. No information can escape her eyes and ears, especially when she is good at solving puzzles, which helps her go further and further on the road of intelligence.

By the way, Argo's first-hand information about the whereabouts of the apostate Nicholas was not sold to anyone else.

This is also the benefit of being on good terms with the information dealer.

"That's it."

Kobayashi spoke again at this time: "Although we know the time and place of the event boss, we don't know anything about its mechanism and value, and there are players from other guilds eyeing it..."

"This will be a tough battle."

Kirito added.

Everyone was silent for a while.

Klein seemed to be unable to bear this atmosphere and shouted: "Hey, hey, hey, why are you so cautious? When we attacked the boss, didn't we know the mechanism and ability? There is no difference, right? Besides, didn't the information leak out!"

"You can't say that..."

Koharu felt helpless about his thick nerves.

When attacking the floor boss, the top members of the strategy team worked together, and the condensed combat power and technology were the best in the game, but now they not only have to deal with the boss, but also other equally top players, and they may even be besieged.

"No, I don't think it's a big deal."

Agil said, "Have you forgotten? When we were on the fifth floor, didn't we also attack the floor boss while guarding against other members of the attack team? Mr. Klein is right, it's no different from that time."

"Right, right!" Klein shouted as if he had found a companion.

Xiaolin also nodded: "Agil is right. Since you want to get the resurrection items, you must be prepared to compete with all top players. Of course, I don't think we will fail."

The game is quite unfair sometimes.

If we really go by the actual strength, even Sato Kazuma can easily defeat everyone.

"It's useless to think so much. No matter what, someone needs to stop other players. Xiaolin, let's allocate teams."

After Asuna became the deputy leader of the Blood Alliance Knights, she saw these things very clearly, and she quickly grasped the context of the problem.

Xiao Lin nodded.

"As Asuna said, I will be divided into two groups next, one to conquer the BOSS, and one to stop other players. The latter of the two tasks is very difficult. If you have any questions, you can raise them now."

Considering the special nature of Asuna as the deputy leader of the Blood Alliance Knights, she cannot stop other players and can only join the task of defeating the BOSS. As her temporary partner, Kirito could only join in.

In the end, the people who defeated the BOSS included Kobayashi, Ryuzi, Megumin, Aqua, Kirito, and Asuna. Only six people went to defeat the event BOSS, which was exactly the configuration of a small team.

Megumin has a guild flag. The Axis cult flag has been increased to +45, which can increase the attributes of guild members by 180% and also has various support effects. She is a famous flag-bearer in the strategy team - she can only run with the flag in every battle.

As for the purpose of bringing Aqua, it is very simple.

I don’t know why, but the stupid goddess especially attracts the hatred of monsters, and she is inexplicably targeted by monsters every time. With her here, she can ensure that others do their best. Originally, I was worried that her health would accidentally drop to zero and die, but now that she has Fei Yulong, she can restore health through various means, making it a very useful bait.

Others have no objection to this allocation.

Kobayashi had to achieve a balance of combat power, and even the group blocking the players had to have more combat power, so he merged Alice, Darkness, Kureia and others into the second group.

After that, the meeting ended and everyone went to prepare. Everyone knew that tonight would be a tough battle.

The time gradually came to 21:00 in the middle of the night, and the square was filled with couples walking arm-in-arm towards the hotel. While everyone was still immersed in the joyful atmosphere of Christmas, the Axis Cult group started to move.

Thanks to Aincrad's teleportation mechanism, they didn't need to run from the first floor to the thirty-fifth floor. They used the teleportation crystal to quickly reach their destination.

After moving to the 35th floor, we came to a very quiet square that was completely different from the front line. Perhaps because this place is still a little far away from the main battlefield of mid-level players, and the main streets are rural areas that are not worth visiting. However, they still avoided the sight of the players and ran towards the Lost Forest.

The maze on the 35th floor is divided into countless square areas. Because the connection points between the areas are alternated with random numbers, it is almost impossible to break through without map props. At this time, you need the map that Argo has cracked.

According to the map, stare at the marked blocks and work backwards to find the way there. After two unavoidable battles, they finally arrived at the block before the target fir tree.

There are still thirty minutes left on the clock.

Everyone did not speak, but silently arranged the props to prepare for the next battle.

"——Who is it?!"

Kazuma Sato, who had the highest enemy-seeking skills, suddenly shouted. Because of his shout, everyone subconsciously drew their weapons and looked in the direction of the forest.

Three seconds later——

"It's me! Please don't be nervous."

Several people walked out of the forest.

"...Xing, and everyone?"

Kirito was surprised. He didn't expect everyone from the Moonlight Black Cat Group to appear here.

Seemingly understanding Kirito's eyes, Keita, the leader, explained: "I heard that you were going to do a special mission, so I thought of helping."

fortunate?

Kobayashi looked at Sachi, who was hiding in the shadows, and then at Asuna. The low pressure emanating from the deputy leader of the Blood Alliance Knights made a certain black-clothed swordsman sweat.

Immediately afterwards, many players appeared from the transfer point behind.

The leader was Diabel, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, followed by Shinka and Kibaou from the army, and other large and small guilds. Hundreds of people appeared on the 35th floor.

I didn’t expect that this floor would be so lively one day.

Kobayashi and others acted very carefully. They relied on Sato Kazuma's high-level exploration skills and were not discovered along the way. So the only explanation is——

Keita looked apologetic: "Sorry, Xiaolin."

"We'll talk about this later. Just in time, don't you want to help too? Just join them in stopping these people. Kazuma, I'll leave this to you."

"no problem!"

Sato Kazuma held a short sword and turned his back to face the other guild members. Klein, Rinko Koharu, Agil and others also followed suit.

"Go, Senior Xiaolin!"

"Okay, let's go!"

Kobayashi led a few people into the final teleportation point. At the end, Aqua hesitated to go in. Sato Kazuma kicked her in the butt and flew in.

"Asshole Kazuma!!!"

The only thing left in the labyrinth area was the wail of the stupid goddess.

After entering the teleportation point, the huge fir tree stood quietly in the place I remembered, with the same curved shape I remembered. This square area with almost no other trees was covered with snow and emitted a pure white light, looking like a plain where life was completely extinct.

The moment the clock in the corner of the vision reached zero, a bell rang from somewhere, and several people raised their heads to look at the top of the treetops.

With the dark night sky, or more precisely, the bottom of the upper layer as the background, two rays of light continued to extend. Looking closely at the domestic products, it seemed that it was a huge sled dragged by some strange monster.

When it arrived just above the fir tree, a black shadow flew down from the sled, and Xiaolin and others followed it and took a few steps back.

The monster who kicked the snowflakes and landed on the ground was about three times the height of an ordinary person. Although it still looked human, its arms were abnormally long, and it almost rubbed against the ground because of its body bending forward. The small red eyes radiated light under the shadow of the abnormally protruding forehead. The lower part of the face is covered with gray curved beards, which are even long enough to reach the lower abdomen.

Strangely, this monster is wearing a red and white top, a conical hat of the same color, holding an axe in his right hand and a large bag full of things in his left hand.

The developer who designed this guy probably wanted a large group of players to feel both scary and funny when they see this ugly version of Santa Claus.

Then Nicholas began to speak.

Kobayashi didn't listen, but took this opportunity to call on everyone to prepare for the attack.

"Meihui!"

"Good! The flag is coming!"

As soon as the little loli came in, she inserted the flag into the snow without saying a word, and the attribute amplification effect fell on Kobayashi, Ryuko and Aqua.

"Great! Let's go!"

Kobayashi led Ryuko and rushed towards Nicholas with Kirito and Asuna.

As for the stupid goddess Aqua... she was being chased by the BOSS at this time, howling and running away.

Nicholas's level is not high, so it is not a numerical monster, but strangely, it does not have any special mechanism. The only thing to be careful about is that it will occasionally spill things from its handbag. Sometimes it is a pitch-black potion, and sometimes it is some monsters of the same level.

But these are very weak, including Nicholas, and they killed him in less than 30 minutes. The remaining bags also turned into light and disappeared. Of course, they did not really disappear, but were all collected into the system.

It was incredibly smooth.

After all, Nicholas is an event BOSS. The meaning of its appearance is to give benefits to players. If the difficulty is the same as that of the floor BOSS, what kind of benefit is it?

And if you want to get the event rewards, the biggest problem is to confirm the location where Nicholas appears, and how to deal with other players' snatching, and Xiaolin did all these with his face.

"Everyone, look for the props list to see if there are any resurrection props."

Hearing this, everyone started to make lists.

The new props column is lined with an outrageous number of props, weapons, equipment, gems, crystals, and even ingredients. It must be said that the rewards of the event boss are generous. Unfortunately, Xiaolin did not find the resurrection item in his list.

Kirito and Asuna also shook their heads.

Ryuzi also said that there was no item.

"Aqua? Stop crying, and check the item list quickly."

The stupid goddess was being chased by the boss just now. From the beginning to the end of the battle, Nicholas did not pay attention to others, as if the hatred attribute was completely gone.

Could it be that the apostate meant that he was unhappy with any goddess?

Aqua was crying and looking through the item list, and her expression changed from crying to laughing. It seems that she also gained a lot.

"Resurrection item... is this it?"

She turned the window to everyone.

[Saint Crystal of Resurrection]

Select to use from the automatic menu of this item, or hold it in your hand and shout "Resurrection: Player Name", as long as it is used within the time from the death of the target player to the complete disappearance of the effect light (about ten seconds), the target player can be resurrected.

"This is too useless."

The stupid goddess complained first.

Her resurrection magic can perfectly revive even if ten hours have passed, let alone ten seconds. She certainly despises such useless magic.

But in the eyes of Kirito Asuna, this item is already very good. Think about it carefully, how can those players whose brains have been damaged be resurrected?