Zongman, Rebirth of the Heaven-Defying Kirito

Chapter 36 The mysterious disappearance of a wild monster

The second level of SAO.

Since defeating the BOSS on the first floor, the area on the second floor has been unlocked. Since then, many players have flocked to the second floor, and even some players whose levels are not high enough do not want to take a look at this new area.

The environment here is different from the grassland on the first layer. It is a real wasteland covered with loess and rocks.

At first glance, huge and strange stones stood on the ground, and there was no green at all. After walking for a long time, I came across a tree, but I found that it had already turned yellow and withered.

Even in this layer, water resources are severely scarce. Except for the unknown underground caves mentioned by the NPC, no water can be seen on the ground.

When the player first arrives at the second level, he will find himself in a mountain. Although from an overall perspective, it no longer looks like a mountain. Its middle has been completely hollowed out, leaving only a circle of ring-shaped mountains on the outside.

The main city is located in a ring of mountains.

As game players, they do not feel sad about the scenes in the game and even talk and laugh.

The two people who are now walking out of the second-level main city are them.

Rikka Takanashi's ID: [Evil King True Eye User];

Togashi Yuuta's ID: [Black Flame User].

The name is very strange, and it is hard not to think that these are two people with middle school syndrome.

Chuunibyou refers specifically to the self-righteous thoughts, actions and values ​​unique to adolescent boys.

This includes a series of self-perceptions such as thinking that "I am the Devil King", "the God of the New World", "it's not me who is wrong, it's the world"...

Some dark histories would never be exposed in real life, but they are fine in the game.

is that OK?

At this time, Liuhua was gently pulling at the corner of Yuta's clothes and said excitedly: "Yuta, Yuta, we will be on the second floor soon. Are you excited? Are you excited?"

"I am indeed a little excited." Then he hit Rikka on the head with a knife: "Also, don't call me by my real name in the game, what if I get exposed?"

"It hurts so much." Liuhua half-knelt on the ground in pain.

Yuta watched silently and said, "Don't think I don't know. You already lowered the simulated pain value, so it didn't hurt at all just now."

Seeing that she was discovered, Rikka no longer hid and stood up again and said, "Since we can't call you Yuta, we might as well just call you the Black Flame User."

"No, no, it's even more shameful to use that name! It's like my dark history has been exposed."

Then Yuta began to roll on the ground, as if this method could help him forget the past.

However, it was useless.

"This won't work, and that won't work either. Yuta is really childish." Rika spread out her hands and sighed, as if she was taking care of a child who was making a fuss.

Yuta covered his heart, as if he had been hit hard: "Well, it's really humiliating to be told that by Rikka."

But if you think about it more deeply, the name is indeed a problem.

If you use your real name in the game, it is very likely that people around you will find out, and then they will point at your character and laugh, "Oh, so you are this kind of person, the Dark Flame Master~"

Isn't this completely unboxed?

No, instead of letting everyone know everything, it is better to hide everything under the ID.

I’ve decided that from now on I’ll use the in-game ID to address people, and not give real people any chance.

But think about it again, if you form a team in the future, your teammates will call you:

"Hey, let's fight monsters, Dark Flame Master."

"We are still short of one person. Are you coming, Dark Flame?"

"You are so strong, Dark Flame Master."

...outrageous.

That's better than being unboxed.

After making his inner decision, he said to Rikka earnestly, "Rikka, let's address each other by our IDs in the game from now on."

Seeing Yuta's serious expression, Rikka nodded: "I understand."

"Then let's not delay any further and try it right away, Dark Flame User! Dark Flame User! Dark Flame User!" Rikka called out over and over again.

After hearing this, Yuta felt overwhelmed again: "Once is enough. You don't have to call my name every time. It's very embarrassing."

"Since it's embarrassing, listen to it a few more times and try to get used to it." Rikka's voice was still repeating, and it was very excited.

After playing and fooling around all the way, they headed west to the 'Strange Rock Plain'.

Yuta, who was leading the way, suddenly stopped and stretched out a hand to the side to stop Rikka.

Rikka behind him didn't expect Yuta to stop at all, and bumped into Yuta's back.

Then he rubbed his bumped nose and said, "Well, why did you stop suddenly, Yuta."

"Look over there." Yuta pointed to the road ahead.

Following the direction that Yuta pointed, there was a special stone in the middle of the road.

The rock is gray, completely different from the surrounding yellow land, and it stands out.

"I thought it was something else? Turns out to be an ordinary stone." Rikka said as she walked towards the stone.

Seeing this, Yong Tai hurriedly wanted to stop him: "Hey, what are you doing? Don't do anything stupid..."

Before she could finish her words, Rikka pulled out her umbrella and knocked it against the stone.

Then a string of numbers floated out: HP-32.

How can an ordinary stone have blood volume?

The stone rose up quickly and rushed out of the ground at an extremely fast speed, causing a lot of dust. The two men had to cover their faces with their hands.

Rikka said, "We fell into a trap, Yuta. That stone was a disguise of the enemy."

In this situation, anyone could tell that Yuta was complaining in his heart.

Seeing that Yuta didn't say anything, Rikka continued: "In this case, we have no choice but to fight. Yuta, you come to cover me."

Then he began to chant: "Explode, the reality! Shatter, the spirit! Exile this world!"

After the chanting ended, Rikka pressed a button and the automatic umbrella in her hand opened.

Rikka gripped the umbrella tightly and swept it around.

The dust raised by the monster was actually blown away by the wind created by the umbrella!

Yuta couldn't help but sigh: "Is this true?"

As the dust cleared, the monster's true form was revealed.

[Rock Giant lv 20]

Its body is made entirely of rock, it is over two meters tall, and it holds a dagger made of rock in its hand.

In front of it, Rikka looked extremely small, and the umbrella in Rikka's hand added a bit of funnyness to the atmosphere.

Now that things have come to this, there is nothing we can do but move on.

Without thinking too much, Yuta drew out his sword and joined the battle between the two.

Cross slash and piercing attack.

After using two skills, the monster in front of me didn't lose much blood. It should be said that it is worthy of being a monster made of rock. Its defense is really amazing.

Rikka was also outputting: "Eternal Spear! Avalon Smash!"

Every time a skill is used, it will be called out as a very powerful skill name, but in fact they are all ordinary skills and the damage caused is also very average.

It was also a good thing that there was no one else around, otherwise Yuta would have been embarrassed as well as Rikka.

As the two of them worked together, they gradually understood the Rock Giant Soldier's attack method. As an ordinary monster, it could only use normal slashing attacks.

Perhaps because its entire body is made of rock, its defense is very high and its speed is relatively slow.

Its skills can be easily avoided!

It is also because of this that the two can maintain a stable blood volume while continuing to cause damage.

After a long period of scraping, the monster's health finally reached the bottom.

It’s finally over. The monsters on the second floor are really tough. It would be great if there were rare rewards, Yuta thought with an unrealistic mentality.

The health volume has dropped below 10%, and the opportunity has come.

Behind a rock not far away, a man in black began to move.

Rikka also saw that the monster's health was almost low, so she shouted to Yuta: "Yuta, last hit."

"Oh, let's go together." Yuta responded.

Just as Yuta was about to make the final move with Rikka, a dark shadow appeared in front of them.

The two had no choice but to stop.

Looking closely, the figure was illusory, wrapped in a black cloak, and motionless in mid-air.

Yuta didn't know the truth: "What is this, a phantom?"

As he spoke, he wanted to touch it with his hand, to test it out.

Then a strange phenomenon occurred. The phantom became a real entity and threw some glowing object at the giant rock soldier.

"Hey, I'll take this monster's head!" This was the last sentence left.

Then the man in black disappeared.

After being hit by the light, the rock giant's health dropped to zero, and it finally turned into pieces and disappeared.

The battlefield fell into a momentary silence, as if nothing had happened, as if the monster had never appeared.

Weird!

Yuta reacted and yelled, "The monster we fought so hard for was robbed!"

The same thing happened elsewhere.