Attribution

"The reconnaissance team is completely wiped out?"

Mana and Chen Tian only found out that when they chatted leisurely with Asuna Kirito, the lives of more than a dozen people ended, and the team sent to investigate the BOSS room was locked inside after entering the room After 5 minutes, the door reopened, and there was nothing in the dark room, neither the boss nor the dozen or so people.According to speculation, it should be the crystal invalid area.

The head of the Knights of the Blood Alliance issued a call. Even if there are many crises, they cannot give up the strategy. They can only gather as many troops as possible to take risks.

The time for the boss battle is in the afternoon, and the battle deployment will be carried out within an hour before the battle. For some reason, Mana can't calm down, as if something is about to happen.

There will be an extremely difficult battle in the afternoon, so this morning is the rest time. Mana doesn't know what to do, and she won't use this time to hunt monsters in the maze area. Recovering to the best state is the first priority now.

She sat on the window sill and looked at the scenery outside the window. It was a very sunny day. The lake outside was calm and waveless, with a beautiful halo in the sun. There were ducks swimming on it, which was very pleasant.

However, this peaceful scene could not soothe the restlessness in her heart. Armed all over, she silently clenched the hilt of the sword placed aside, seeking a sense of security.

Her tense nerves did not allow her to notice Chen's approach in time. Chen put his arms around her shoulders from behind, held her hand holding the sword, and gently pressed his chin against the top of her head.The sense of crisis made her nerves tense. After thinking about who it was, she immediately relaxed and let her body lean against the chest of the person behind her.

Obviously I had so much fun yesterday, but today I feel exhausted. The war has not started yet, and my state is far from enough.

"Don't force it." Chen's voice came from the top of his head. There was a trace of repressed heaviness in his cold voice, which made Mana clearly understand that this person was very worried about her and was thinking of her.

"There have been similar situations before." Mana chuckled, and now she is much more confident than before. "I didn't flinch back then, and I don't intend to hide this time."

"You, have you thought about running away?"

Mana had thought about it, she had good protection around her, and Chen and the others were very powerful people, but this was still not enough to give her enough sense of security. She had thought about escaping from the battlefield, but she no longer Starved to death in this world, she can make a living by fighting ordinary monsters, she obviously doesn't need to stay at the forefront.

However, she stayed. She couldn't help looking at the figure in front of her, couldn't help caring about him, and couldn't leave him. This allowed her to survive on the cruel battlefield. It can be said that she will live until now. It is because of Chen, Chen has become the whole meaning of her being strong in this world.

Chen didn't speak, but she knew the answer, and now she just leaned against him quietly, feeling very at ease, happier than seeing any beautiful scenery, happier than eating all the delicious food.

Chen's strength and frankness moved her. How can someone not be afraid of fighting at all? Although this is inseparable from his living environment, it still moved Mana very much. She was so moved that she wanted to give everything to him. Smile more.

Mana and Chen arrived at the gathering place almost on time. They didn't plan to participate in the strategy meeting. Mana just wanted to follow Chen closely, and Chen, driven by anxiety, just wanted to protect the girl who relied on him. Compared with Mana's safety, the life and death of the raiders has nothing to do with him. In this increasingly difficult boss battle, he doesn't think he can spare any extra energy to take care of others.Now that the goal is clear, what's the use of participating in the strategy meeting?It's better for two people to be alone for a while, which is a happy activity for them.

After the BOSS battle on the 74th floor, Kirito has completely become the focus of attention. When Mana arrived at the assembly point, she subconsciously searched for him. Don't worry, he is a strong man after all, and he is a strong man who has acquired a unique skill. I believe that everyone who pays attention to Kirito has this kind of mentality more or less.

With so many expectations on his back, Kirito must also be under a lot of pressure.

Another factor that made everyone feel more at ease was that Heathcliff, the head of the Blood Knights, had never lost HP in the battle, and even defeated Kirito, a dual swordsman.

The Knights of the Blood Alliance made a big move. The leader this time was Heathcliff. He stood in the center of the square and opened up a fast passage for everyone with the corridor crystal connected to the door of the boss room.

After a dizzying twist, everyone arrived at the destination directly. In an instant, a bad feeling attacked everyone's brain, making people nervous involuntarily.The coercion of the boss room after the seventieth floor is obviously higher than that of the previous floors. The two closest floors are even all rooms with crystal nullification, which makes people wonder whether the future floors will be so difficult.

Heathcliff said some morale-boosting words, and then he pushed the heavy carved bronze door. The moment the door opened, the raiders rushed in. Mana and Chen, who stood at the end, ran with the crowd and entered. Put on a defensive posture behind the dark room.

The room was quite large, and the dome-shaped space was almost as big as the duel venue between Kirito and Heathcliff.There was nothing in the room, just a panicky darkness. Chen probably wasn't afraid of this level of darkness, because there were still torches on the wall anyway, but they couldn't illuminate where they were. In other people's hearts, most of them It must be panic.

Just when everyone's passion hadn't calmed down, the door of the room was suddenly closed, all the torches were extinguished, and the room was completely dark. It was as if cold water had been poured into everyone's hearts. Heathcliff inspired Morale was gone, and all that was left was the human instinct to panic about the darkness.The door to the room will only open again if either the boss or the clearing team fails.

The surroundings have been checked almost all over, but there is nothing, not to mention the appearance of the boss, not even the oppressive feeling from the boss that should be there, only the endless darkness that makes people panic.

After a while, someone who couldn't stand the tense atmosphere shouted "Hello."

It was followed by a pleasant female voice. Mana had talked with her recently so she knew it was Asuna's voice.

"above!"

Asuna's voice revealed panic. Following her voice, everyone raised their heads and looked at the top of the dome. There was something sticking to it. The four blood-red rays of light were like four big lanterns, just like in the past. The eyes of the two-headed monster seen.

It was a very large and very long, reptilian monster.

The body is more than ten meters long, and the body is composed of many bone-like body segments. It looks like a centipede. Each segment is similar to a human spine and has sharp feet protruding from the outside. The head is a long, ferocious face. A terrifying skull with four eyes, and on both sides of the skull there are two weapons that may be hands that look like huge death scythes.

Put your eyes on it, you can see the name - The Skullreaper bone hunter.

While everyone was watching it in fear, the skeleton centipede moved, wriggling its sharp, knife-like feet, and crawled around the ceiling, and then suddenly, all its feet relaxed, Fall straight down.

"Don't stay there, get out!"

Heathcliff reminded the people who were stunned that Mana and Chen were in a very outside position and easily ran out of the range where the monster fell, but a few people were still in shock from the skeleton centipede and could see it at a glance. Clear the trembling of their legs.

"Come here!"

Hearing Kirito's shout, they came back to their senses and ran sideways, but it was too late.

After the skeleton centipede fell, the ground shook, and their gait suddenly lost stability. Before their stiffness recovered, the skeleton centipede swept across the huge bone sickle, causing their HP bars to go from full to full at an extremely fast speed. The grid's green field fell to the red field and then disappeared. They turned into fragments and scattered under the scythe of the skeleton centipede.

What an attack!With just one blow, the lives of three raiders were killed!

Mana couldn't help holding her breath, the cold feeling from head to toe made her not know how to move.

In any case, the blow was too exaggerated.

After the player's level rises, HP will also rise accordingly. Regardless of skills and attack power, as long as the level is high enough, the player will not die so easily. There is no low-level existence in the Raiders group. Even if it is a BOSS attack, it should be able to withstand the attack in theory Two or three hits.

However, the Skeleton Centipede didn't want to give them so much time to react and be sad, so he immediately waved a huge sickle and attacked the nearest player.

"Wow ah ah-"

The players in the direction where the bone scythe attacked all ran away yelling. No one dared to deal with this monster head-on after seeing that kind of scene. This is really a real monster!

Among that group of people, the person who raised his shield to meet the attack of the skeleton centipede looked very lonely.

Heathcliff's shield blocked the Skeleton Centipede's right scythe, and when the collision occurred, it made a terrifying impact sound that would almost burst through the eardrums.

But the Skeletal Centipede had two scythes, and the other immediately swung it again.

What blocked the scythe was Kirito's black and white double swords, but it looked a bit reluctant, and Mana, who saw everything in her eyes, trembled all over, not knowing what to do.And at this moment, another sword appeared between Kirito's swords, it was Asuna's rapier, and the two of them resisted the heavy attack together.

Kirito, Asuna, and Heathcliff, the three defended against the strongest attack method of the bone centipede, and the task of the others was obvious, to attack from the side and reduce the HP of the boss.

"Don't be dazed, those two children are working hard, don't lose to them."

Chen seldom said such words of encouragement. Generally, under such circumstances, she was often asked to step aside. At this moment, Mana looked at the back of Chen who had already rushed to attack, and the arm holding the sword seemed to have some pain. It seems that infinite power is emerging.

"Sister Mana, follow us, let's attack from the rear."

In order to put her in a safe place, Chen just pushed her towards Olivier and Payne who are not far away. The tail is the shortest part of the pointed feet, so it can be seen that the attack power is not very high, but this monster is not very The high attack power is also comparable to those monsters with high attack power in the past.

Olivier's assault rifle, Payne's rapier, and the tacit understanding the two have cultivated for a long time makes the cooperation of the two seem to be integrated. However, this does not mean that the addition of Mana will affect them. If the three of them, Even if it is a slightly unfamiliar combination, it can produce an attack level similar to that of Chen and the others, and it can also speed up the HP reduction of the boss, and it can also minimize the pressure on Kirito and Asuna.

The battle lasted for an hour. After the BOSS disappeared into dazzling fragments, no one had the energy to cheer anymore. Payne leaned on Olivier's body at once, watching their exhausted appearance, Mana looked at him. Looking at Chen who was sitting in the distance, he said hello and went to find her whereabouts.

Sitting silently beside Chen, putting his hand on Chen's hand leaning on the floor, he seemed to have a lot of emotions in his heart, but he couldn't think of a reason after thinking about it carefully.

Now, just stay quietly for a while.

However, a sharp sound broke the tranquil atmosphere. It was the sound of sword skills being activated. Looking through the sound, one could see the black swordsman's sword stabbing at Heathcliff, the only person standing in the audience.

A purple command box of "Unable to destroy objects" appeared above Heathcliff's head. Mana heard from Liar that this kind of command appeared on Yui.

In an instant, a frightening sense of trembling hit, and Mana hugged Chen's arm tightly, trying to seek warmth.

Chen looked coldly at Kirito who was confronting Heathcliff, and let Mana hug him vigorously.

Probably, this girl is very disturbed and frightened now.

"Is that man..."

Mana saw Liar laughing, laughing when it was obvious he shouldn't.

"Although there are speculations, but it has been confirmed, it really feels like a bad feeling."

Remembering that Liar said that Heathcliff must be watching them somewhere in this world, Mana once again put her complicated eyes on Heathcliff.

The tall and straight figure has always been the idol in everyone's heart, the strong man in the target, and has always looked down on other eyes.

Is that really a look of pride?Mana carefully looked into Heathcliff's eyes. She had never looked at this person carefully before, but only now did she realize that those eyes looked around them with pity.Like the Creator, despise everything.

"That's right, he's really wicked enough to abandon us after reaching the [-]th floor."

McGee also smiled, looking at Heathcliff with fiery eyes, which was the light of worship.

They probably didn't know how Kayaba Akihiko would appear before. After all, Heathcliff is very prominent, and it is hard to think of the creator. These cautious guys may have doubted it, but they may not have put their minds on it How many.

Now, with what kind of mentality do they look at the person who is challenging Kirito over there?

As a manager, Heathcliff used the paralysis command on everyone present except Kirito.

Mana was almost lying on Chen's body, and the paralysis did not make Chen fall down. He maintained the previous sitting posture, and was not overwhelmed by Mana's fall, but instead became Mana's support.

He quietly watched the duel between Kirito and Heathcliff, not knowing what he was thinking.

Mana couldn't see the people in the duel from her angle, only the voice echoed in her ears, and she heard Asuna's voice: "I'm sorry, goodbye."

"what happened?"

She could only turn to Chen for help, because Asuna's voice was followed by the effect sound of fragments scattered when the character died.Chen described Asuna's death to her, and with Kirito's heart-piercing cries, she knew the cruel fact.

That girl, that powerful, beautiful, strong, dazzling girl, disappeared...

There is a feeling of wanting to cry but unable to cry. I don’t know whether Asuna’s death is resistance or motivation for Kirito. Although he was beaten badly by Heathcliff, in the end, he picked up Asuna’s sword , was victorious.

Mana felt sad for Kirito and Asuna as she heard Chen describe the battle to her in a calm voice.

After Heathcliff was defeated, there was a harsh siren, and after the siren stopped, there was a soft mechanical female voice.

"Now issue an urgent notice to all players."

The artificially synthesized electronic sound is the sound that I wanted to hear when I was locked in the game at the beginning, but I couldn't hear it.This is the sound of the announcement.

"The game is now operating in a mandatory management mode. All monster and item transactions have been stopped. All NPCs have also been withdrawn. All player life is fixed at the maximum value."

"At 55:[-] Aincrad Standard Time, November [-]th, the game guide is complete."

"We will ask players to exit the game one by one. Please stay where you are and wait. Repeat..."

In the past two years, the wishes of all players have been realized in this way.

"You can return to the real world."

Chen looked at Mana calmly and helped her up, the paralysis had been lifted.

"Soon, you will be able to go home."

There is a persistent light in his eyes, but it also reveals endless loneliness and reluctance.

Mana lowered her head, held Chen's hand with both hands, and after contemplating her words, she gave Chen a very bright and happy smile.

"I've wanted to tell you from a long time ago that it's great to meet you."

"If we can meet again..."

Mana swallowed the following words, shook her head, and let go of Chen's hand. She took a step back with a smile, and nodded to Chen.

Her consciousness was peeling away, so she said what she had always wanted to say, and in this way, the two years of her life came to a perfect end.

The girl's figure disappeared into the misty bright white light, as if something had been hollowed out in her heart, Chen stood there, his eyesight could no longer see clearly, probably this was the feeling of being forced to log out, this kind of self It really sucks to feel uncontrolled, but it's irresistible.

Two years, SAO, is over.

The author has something to say: the main text is over, so thank you for your support all the time, those who love SAO alone can draw a full stop here. .

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