Now he has formed a guild. As the leader of the large guild "Holy Dragon Alliance", he has successfully organized many players, participated in activities such as boss battles, achieved results, and successfully unlocked the upper area. In the game, he is a A famous person.
I originally planned to attend the combat meeting that Diabel was holding, but I didn't expect that Diabel came here in person. It was really great.
I told Lilan this situation, and she nodded to express her understanding and said, "I understand." It seems that she has understood Diabel's situation.
Looking at Lilan and me, Diabell opened his eyes wide.
"Is this, is this a "familiar"... a so-called tamed monster?"
"Yes, I am the president of the Dragon Guild of the same name."
Diabell suddenly showed a surprised expression and looked around.
"What's the matter, Diabel?"
"Just now, I heard a voice that sounded like a girl...and it was in my head. Well, although it felt like it said something strange, it was true."
I looked at Lilan. Lelan can communicate telepathically, but it looks like it's not just me who can telepathically communicate with her. She seems to be able to communicate telepathically with any player.
Now, the essence of the "voice" Diabell heard is...
"Diabel, about that... the owner of that voice is her."
I pointed at Lilan, and Diabel shouted in surprise.
"Ahh!? Can it talk!?"
"To be precise, it speaks telepathically. It understands conversations very well"
"Yes, yes..."
Diabell cautiously spoke to Lilan.
"I'm Diabell. Nice to meet you, Kirito's "familiar" lady"
"I'm Lilan. Although I just met Kirito last night, I generally understand the situation."
Diabel showed a surprised expression and nodded slightly. I also heard the sound just now. It seems that they were telepathically communicating at the same time.
"Please take care of me, Lilan."
"Me too."
Diabel crossed his arms and said to me.
"But having said that, I really don't know whether you are lucky or unlucky. You have become something like an 'animal tamer' without even realizing it."
"I don't know why she suddenly appeared. But because she is very powerful, I treat her as a partner."
"Really. But she looks like she is built like a small animal. Can such a thing be considered strong?"
Well, looking at Lilan now, she does look like a little animal, and saying she is powerful is unconvincing. However, once she leaves the seal, Lilan is indeed very powerful. You can turn small monsters into powder with one blow, and you can even fight boss monsters. She was very confident in her own strength, as if she puffed up her chest proudly, Lilan made a "voice".
"If I leave the seal, you will be scared to the point of weakness. Well, just look forward to it."
"Yes, yes..."
Diabell turned from Lilan to me.
"However, with Lilan, you are no longer a single-player player."
"Well, you can say that. Now it is a "tamer", and it is indeed no longer a single-player game. Although she is not a player, but a tamed monster."
Diabell scratched his hair.
"Basically, I was the one who turned you into a single-player gamer... If I had said something at the time, maybe things wouldn't have turned out like that..."
Diabell had an apologetic expression on his face.
I had never joined a guild or fought in a group before. This is closely related to the battle on the first level.
That battle was won thanks to Diabel's excellent command. But at the same time, it was also a battle that cost two people their lives. Diabell disclosed his identity as a beta tester in advance and was not treated well by other players. However, in the first-level strategy meeting and the boss battle, he won high praise for his excellent command as a beta tester. When the boss battle ended successfully, everyone even lifted Diabel and cheered in celebration.
...Everything went well, but when everyone was about to leave the boss room, a man named King Kiba who participated in the boss battle suddenly began to criticize Diabel. The two people who died in the boss battle are said to be King Kiba's companions.
King Kiba criticized Diabell's strategy for being full of loopholes. If Diabell's strategy was more stable, his friends would not have died. He accused him of formulating a flawed strategy as a beta tester and used all malicious words.
Not only that, he also began to criticize Diabell. As a beta tester, he should have more good information. Why not tell other non-beta testers this information? Is he planning to monopolize good things? Such more selfish criticisms, he also Call on beta testers to come out and join in the cheers with their teammates.
As a result, the team assembled under Diabell's command was mired in suspicion as to who was a beta tester and who was not.
This is obviously just King Kiba's personal selfish criticism and bias against beta testers. However, everyone starts to wonder if they are a beta tester and can't stop.
Diabell, as a beta tester, was unable to calm the chaos. This criticism almost feels like a conspiracy on his part to exploit his status as a beta tester. As he considered how to quell this criticism, I took action.
"Diabel is both good and scumbag. Together with other beta testers, I climbed to levels that others could not reach and fought fiercely with enemies who used sword skills. I have more information than the intelligence room. If I reveal With this information, those two people will not die. However, it was really interesting to see you fighting hard, so I didn’t tell you."
I struck these words as a hammer upon King Kiba and his companions. Of course, it was just a lie, but they easily believed it and turned the blame away from Diabell and onto me, calling me a "cheater", a "cheating beta tester", abbreviated as "Beta" , issued criticisms one after another.
While they were distracted, I put on a black coat and left the battlefield. From then on, I was demoted to "bita", no one came close to me anymore, and I had to act alone.
Afterwards, Diabell disclosed all the information obtained in the beta test as a guide, regained everyone's trust, and then established the guild. As if running up the stairs, he liberated the upper floors one by one.
I haven't told Lilan these things yet. If I'm asked about similar things in the future, I'll tell her.
"No, no, it was clearly King Kiba's fault at that time. Maybe emotions were running high, but it was wrong to criticize Diabel."
"However, the two deaths were indeed my fault. However, in order to deflect your criticism, you took on the stigmatizing role."
Diabel is also a smart guy.
The next time I met Diabel again was at the boss battle strategy meeting on the 30th floor. Diabel was surprised to see me, approached me after the strategy meeting, and suddenly apologized and thanked me. Diabell saw through my actions on the first floor and knew that I deliberately played a stigmatizing role.
After that, he let me participate in the boss battle and invited me to join the Holy Dragon Alliance after the battle. However, there are certainly many people in the Holy Dragon League who don't think highly of me as a beta tester.
I was worried that if I joined the Holy Dragon Alliance, it would cause waves, so I declined the invitation and only maintained a cooperative relationship. Therefore, I was always a solo player until I met Lilan.
"That's good. Thanks to that time, you are now the leader of a large guild... a symbol of hope for everyone."
"Can't say that. On the contrary, I got a lot of help from you. I'm sorry that you don't get more attention and recognition."
"I see, you are a person who gives silently, Kilit."
"Yes, that's it. So Diabel, why did you come to me? There must be something going on, right?"
Diabell suddenly remembered something and said.
"Ah, by the way. Actually, I heard the guild members saying that you were bringing a dragon, so I couldn't help but rush over to take a look. I didn't expect it to be true!"
"Well, is that just for this!?"
Diabel shook his head.
"No, it's not. I thought this boss battle might be difficult without your help, so I'm here."
"With my power?"
Diabell turned his gaze towards the direction outside the alley.
"The battle meeting of the Boss expedition team is about to begin now. I hope you can participate, and Lilan will be with us."
"I don't care. Besides, Kirito's goal this time seems to be to defeat the Boss, right?"
Diabel's eyes widened.
"So that's it, Kirito."
"Well, yes... I might attract strange looks, but there's nothing I can do about it. Diabel, take me to the place where the war meeting is."
Diabell expressed his understanding and walked out of the alley. Lilan and I followed closely behind, walking out of the alley and heading towards the square.
Many players have gathered there, looking forward to Diabell's arrival, showing expectant expressions. But when they saw me carrying Lilan on my shoulders, their surprised expressions changed. Of course, following Diabel, a "beast tamer" appeared.
Standing in front of the commotion of players, Diabel calmed down the nervous players and people from the Holy Dragon Alliance because of the appearance of the "Beast Tamer", and started the usual combat meeting.
"Sure enough, as the leader of the Holy Dragon Alliance who leads a large guild, it is normal for him to give instructions to players." Lilan muttered, and Diabell continued. He compiled the information from completing the mission and getting boss information from the NPC. All the information obtained from the players, as well as the intelligence collected by the reconnaissance team dispatched, began to be introduced to us.
The name of this boss is "The Hecatoncheir". It is a colossus-type boss that looks like a Buddha statue. It uses multiple arms to carry out continuous attacks and range attacks, which should pose a threat. Although I don't know how powerful it will be, it is at least much more powerful than the previous boss.
"This is an important critical point...so am I being called in?"
“What’s that key point?”
The key point refers to dividing the 100th floor into four parts, namely the 1st, 25th, 50th and 75th floors. It refers to the point where the boss becomes extremely powerful as a milestone in Aincrad. Usually, Boss monsters mostly make the monsters in the field bigger and stronger. If you are familiar with fighting monsters in the field, you can resist them. But the bosses at key points are very different from those monster battles. They have powerful power and abilities that exceed those of first-line monsters.
We have already experienced the key point of the battle, which was on the 25th floor. The boss on the 25th floor is not a stronger monster in the field, but a two-headed giant with overwhelming abilities and attack power, which caused huge damage to our strategy team.
The victory was almost miraculous. It was because of this battle that a unit called the "Aincrad Liberation Team" left the strategy team.
Therefore, compared with other layers, it is more difficult to conquer key points and it is easy to cause sacrifices. Based on the information about the Boss, it is speculated that there must be a powerful Boss lurking at the key point.
