Infinite Trial from the Giant

Xia Tian disagreed with Zhao Chen's idea of ​​staying in this place to escape the control of the arena.

As early as in the training world, Xia Tian contacted the Survey Corps and made full preparations to capture the trio. However, after failing, Xia Tian knew that the arena had been observing these fighters, and there was also the message he received as soon as he entered this world:

"Due to the needs of the trial, the arena has been adjusted to a certain extent to fill in the relevant content of this Sword Art Online world."

From this information, it can be seen that the arena is able to intervene in this trial world.

It is highly unlikely that you will succeed in preventing the game from being conquered and just staying in this world as Zhao Chen said. Judging from the final result, you will be worse off than Liz who chose to quit long ago.

But even if there was a possibility of success, Xia Tian never intended to accept such a result.

If he had not been in the safe zone, Xia Tian would have killed this fellow fighter. Now that he knew the other party's purpose, and also understood Zhao Chen's character during the conversation, Xia Tian followed the other party's words and created a common purpose to eliminate the trouble that the other party would bring.

As long as Zhao Chen feels that he has the same goals and ideas as him, then there will be no problem. Xia Tian is best at this kind of comfort and encouragement.

Zhao Chen naturally didn't know that he had been fooled by Xia Tian as if he were a 'follower'. He thought he had found a powerful ally and was fantasizing about his carefree life in Aincrad.

Xia Tian had just turned out of the neighborhood where Zhao Chen lived when she was stopped by Argo. The girl came over with a playful look on her face.

"Xia Tian, ​​do you have any information to share with me? I can trade with you."

"I want to know who the person who is looking for me is and what's the matter, right?"

Already used to Xia Tian guessing his thoughts, Argo did not hide it and asked directly: "Is it about Linde's previous incident?"

Xia Tian didn't care about Lind at all. He didn't even mention this person in his conversation with Zhao Chen just now. Now when he heard Argo mention it, he thought about it and roughly guessed what happened.

"The one who killed Linde should be Sandavel, who has been dealt with by me. The guy who met me this time was involved in the conspiracy but was planning to stop. He met with me to ask me to spare his life. He is willing to contribute to the attack." Xia Tian gave an acceptable explanation almost without thinking.

"Why kill people?" It was obvious that Argo cared more about the reason for killing Lind.

"Then we have to ask that Sandavier. But looking at his violent appearance, I guess he is a bad guy in reality. Now that he is here and there is no law to restrain him, he probably took action."

"Is that so..." Argo lowered his head, then murmured, "Are they free from their restraints? Xia Tian, ​​do you think there are people like him? Most of us are thinking about how to leave here, but they ignore all that and want to kill us."

"There should be some, but right now most players have already formed guilds. Those who mainly use life skills and don't want to participate in the strategy are mostly in the safe zone. These people probably don't dare to be too rampant. As long as we prevent them from gathering together to act, there shouldn't be too many problems."

"Gather together...you mean..."

"A guild of murderers is a murder guild."

After hearing Xia Tian's words, Argo's eyes flickered, and then he nodded: "You're right, let's do this for now, see you next time." After that, he quickly turned and left.

Considering that the Murder Guild is indeed a trouble for him, Xia Tian doesn't mind giving corresponding warnings in advance. In this way, Argo will surely start to pay attention to collecting intelligence on players, and Xia Tian will have another way to obtain intelligence on other players.

What is Kayaba Akihiko's game ID?

It's Heathcliff, right?

Thinking of this, Xia Tian also returned to the resting place.

The attack on the third-level boss went on as planned. When everyone arrived outside the boss's door, Xia Tian took a special look around, and as expected, he did not see Zhao Chen.

"Before we begin, let's recap the boss's intelligence one last time."

"The boss of the third floor is a demonic tree spirit during the closed beta test. It is huge in size. In addition to physical attacks using roots and branches, the most important thing to watch out for is large-scale poison attacks. Everyone check whether there are enough antidotes. If not, please let me know immediately."

"In addition, you have basically participated in the first and second level strategy. I don't need to emphasize again that the information during the closed beta period can only be used as a reference. You must always pay attention to the coordination of the team and don't rush in alone. Doing so may not only harm yourself but also implicate your companions."

"Get ready, let's go!"

After completing the pre-war mobilization, Lancelot pushed open the Boss door in front of him, and the players, full of fighting spirit, rushed in shouting.

Unlike the first and second floors, the floor of the boss room on the third floor was a patch of black grass. In the middle of the field stood a black tree nearly five people tall. When the players rushed in, a group of eyes flashing yellow light suddenly opened on the black and dry bark, and at the same time, the dozen or so leafless branches on the tree twisted and waved.

"Team A! Go!"

Following Lancelot's command, the players rushed forward, and according to the discussion in the strategy meeting, Xia Tian was currently in Team A, which was responsible for the first attack, while Kirito, Loki and Asuna were also assigned to a team respectively. Their main task was to parry the attacks and create an output environment for their team.

Seeing the players rushing over, the boss, the demon tree spirit, immediately extended the branches on its body and swept towards them.

Phantom moon!

The Lord's Blade left a cold light in the air and collided with the branches of the demon tree spirit. The players following Xia Tian immediately rushed up and used sword skills to attack the branches.

The first way to deal with this boss is not to get close to it, but to find a way to cut off its arm-like branches first. In this way, its threat will be minimized, and then you can get rid of it directly by getting close to it and attacking it together.

This strategy had been decided long ago, so each team began to attack in turns according to the plan, and Xia Tian, ​​as always, used his sword skills to connect with each other, and carried out subsequent pursuit damage while blocking the boss's attack, so as to increase his damage contribution to the boss.