Infinite Trial from the Giant

Although Loki and Asuna were also involved in the discussion of the guild's name, they finally decided on "Dawn" which was proposed by Xia Tian. The other three also readily accepted this guild name that seemed full of hope.

After completing the formation of Dawn, the four of them stayed in Zimford temporarily to relieve the fatigue of continuously dealing with poisonous spiders and nebulae. Although the night elves' campsite was also an independent space that only four people could enter, Zimford, which belonged to the safe zone, would obviously make people relax more than the campsite where there were always soldiers patrolling and the atmosphere was tense.

After dinner, when the four were about to return to the hotel room on the upper floor along the yew tree stairs, a figure came up to Xia Tian and the others.

"Well, there will be a third-level strategy meeting held in the square around 3 pm. I hope you guys can attend." The visitor, wearing dark silver armor, made the invitation in a somewhat reserved manner.

A strategy meeting on the third floor?

Xia Tian then remembered that it was already the fourth day since they arrived at the third floor. During these days they had been carrying out related tasks in the night elves' camp and had not participated in the exploration of the third floor at all.

"Three o'clock in the afternoon? Got it. Thank you for your invitation." Xia Tian nodded and accepted the invitation.

Seeing that Xia Tian agreed, the other party didn't say much and turned around and left.

"It looks like the number of people who want to complete this game is increasing. We've even started organizing strategy meetings for the entire floor." Looking at the other party's leaving figure, Loki said with some emotion.

"Yes, there is a glimmer of hope after all." As she said this, Asuna also glanced at Xia Tian.

Compared to how many people participated in the front-line strategy, Xia Tian wanted to pay more attention to the information about the third floor BOSS. For Xia Tian, ​​the priority of completing the extra goal is naturally higher than the life-threatening goal, especially the reward of extra goal five. If you can get it, it will definitely play a great role in the subsequent extra goal six, killing Kayaba Akihiko. Considering that Sword Art Online has a total of 100 floors, the higher the number of floors, the stronger the corresponding floor BOSS will be. So if you want to achieve extra goal five with the lowest risk, then Xia Tian cannot miss any floor BOSS from the first floor to the tenth floor.

It's a good opportunity to attend the strategy meeting and see their current progress. If they are already trying to capture the floor boss, they may have to put the life-threatening target aside for the time being.

But it turned out that summer's expectations were too high.

As agreed, Xia Tian and his three companions arrived at the central square of Zimford, which is the center of the bottom of the three yew trees, at three o'clock in the afternoon. Only then did they discover that the current exploration progress of the third floor was only to pass the first territory BOSS. They had not even reached the maze area, let alone conquer the floor BOSS.

The main reason for holding this strategy meeting, in addition to determining the future direction of the strategy, is mainly about the recruitment matters related to each guild.

Even if there were no closed beta players, the mayor who issued the guild mission was standing in a conspicuous place at the edge of the square, so as long as the player group was determined to create a guild, they would basically not miss this mission. As early as two days before Xia Tian created Dawn, two guilds had already been established. The first one was the group of Ya Wang who had conquered all the way from the first floor. The name of the guild was eye-opening [Aincrad Liberation Army], and the other one was a guild composed of players who Xia Tian had no impression of, called [Justice Knights].

"Looking at it this way, the name Dawn is indeed a good one." Loki couldn't help but whispered after hearing the names of the two guilds present.

"If other people hear you saying this, they might beat you to death," Kirito reminded.

"Of course I won't tell anyone." Shrugging, Loki continued, "But I never expected that they would create a guild earlier than us."

"After all, Kirito took us to the night elves' campsite from the beginning." Asuna also joined the topic.

After hearing this, Kirito couldn't help but laugh dryly.

"Through the strategies for the first and second floors, I think everyone has already understood that in order to successfully conquer the floor BOSS on each floor, in addition to honing personal strength, cooperation between teams is also very important." At this time, the person who was giving a speech in the middle of the speech was a player named Lancelot, who was also the guild president of the Knights of Justice.

"If we only get together when we need to defeat the floor boss, it will be impossible to develop any tacit understanding in a short period of time. I think everyone will deny this."

"So, the purpose of establishing a guild is to allow everyone to fight side by side on a regular basis, to train their own skills and develop a tacit understanding of combat. In this way, I believe that clearing the game will no longer be a difficult task."

In response to the guild master's speech, the other members of the Knights of Justice applauded at this time. The only ones who applauded were the dozen or so free players sitting on the sidelines who had obviously not joined any guild yet, such as Xia Tian and his four companions, and the Aincrad Liberation Army led by King Ya who occupied the other side of the square. There was no response at all.

However, Lancelot was not embarrassed by this. He just continued, "So we sincerely invite players who have not yet joined the guild to join our guild. The current requirement for joining the guild is only to reach level 10."

"We only require level nine." At this moment, Ya Wang's loud voice spread throughout the field. After saying this, the man who had been sitting on the steps without saying a word from the beginning pointed his finger at Xia Tian and said loudly, "These things are not the main point. What we want to discuss today is mainly which guild they should join."

ha?

Looking at Ya Wang pointing in this direction, Xia Tian and the other three were a little confused.

"That's true." Suppressing his displeasure at being interrupted by King Ya, Lancelot looked towards Xia Tian and said, "Xia Tian, ​​the strength of you and your companions is obvious to all. So, after discussion, in order to avoid a huge gap in strength between the two guilds, if we want to approve you to join the guild, we have one condition. That is, you and the three people around you cannot join the same guild. You must join different guilds separately from them."