Lilan and I fought off Silica's annoying tentacle plant monsters and headed towards the Hill of Memories. Silica would join the battle midway, inflicting great damage to the enemy and knocking it down, constantly gaining experience points and improving by one level. gave in. It seems that having Silica deal with the enemies in this maze is really effective.
While doing that, I continued walking inside, and soon came to a place with a stunning view that could be called a hanging garden. The flower fields stretched to the distant horizon. Silica was mesmerized by the stunning scenery that suddenly unfolded before her eyes, and then I realized that this was the top of the hill in my memory. If you look ahead, you will find some strangely shaped rocks.
That must be where the Purnema flowers grow. Just as I was about to say this, Silica ran towards the rock, and I followed hurriedly. After a while, when Silica walked to the rock, I stopped. pace.
When the "Beast", which had lost its important "familiar", approached, light appeared on the horizon of the rock. Soon, the light turned into the shape of a flower bud and bounced away. The sudden appearance of the white budd flowers is startling, and the flowers bloom with a bell-like sound and grains of light.
Silica stretched her hand towards the flower and wrapped it gently. The lower part of the flower disappeared quietly. Silica held a lovely white flower in her hand.
After confirming the name, it turned out to be the flower of Purunaima. That's right, that's the rebirth tool of the "familiar".
"This... no, this is Punaima's flower..."
Lilan peeked inside Sirika and made a "sound".
"It's so beautiful...Is this the flower that brings us back to life after death?"
"Did it succeed? In this way, Pina can survive."
Silica turned around with a smile on her face and nodded.
"Mr. Kirito, Miss Lilan, thank you. Thanks to you, we can bring Pina back to life."
Looking at Silica's smile, even I couldn't help but feel happy. Maybe it's because it's also "The Beast".
However, this is a difficult maze... It might be a bit dangerous to resurrect Pina here.
"If you want to resurrect Pina, let's go back to the city."
Silica put the flowers into the storage room and nodded again.
After that, we walked back along the way we came and finally came to a bridge over the river. Until then, Silica's steps looked happy, and even I felt happy, but this thought disappeared when we passed the bridge.
From now on, we can use the search skill to detect the auras of players other than ourselves. And now, this breath is concentrated in the shade of the trees in front. …Someone followed us here, waiting for us to come back from the innermost part.
I put my hand on Silica's shoulder, made her stop, walked to the front of Silica with Lilac, and shouted.
"Who is hiding there? Come out quickly!"
My voice sounded softly around me, and a figure moved from behind the tree to the front of us. Just when all this was clearly visible, Silica behind her made a surprised sound.
What appeared in front of him was a female player wearing a red and black battle uniform, with blood-red hair curled up gorgeously, and holding a cross gun in her hand... It was Rosa whom she met on the street last night. Leah.
"Ah, it's amazing that you can see through my Gordon skills."
Rosalia smiled slightly.
"Looking at you, it looks like you got Punema's flower. Congratulations. So, that flower
Leave it to me. "
Rosalía's expression turned into a villainous smile, and Silica was startled again.
"What did you say suddenly?"
"I guessed it. Rosalia...no, she is the captain of the criminal guild 'Titan Hand'."
Rosalia's expression instantly turned into surprise, and then turned into a lewd smile.
"Oh, you know what?"
"I know that you attacked a guild called Silverfrages before, killed four people except the leader, and took away their belongings and money, didn't you?"
Rosalía fiddled with her hair and Silica said to me from behind.
"But Miss Rosalia's cursor is green, not the color of criminals."
It seems that Silica still can't understand the mechanism of Rosalia doing bad things but still being green. This is difficult to detect under normal circumstances, so of course.
"It's simple, right? The guy's modus operandi was to lurk in the party, lure members into an ambush area, and then use the criminal's associates to kill them so his cursor wouldn't turn orange."
I pictured in my mind the voice and face of the man who commissioned me. I asked the frontline strategy team to avenge me, but I was rejected several times. Finally, I found the man who asked me to avenge my companion. Although my companion was killed, he said not to kill the murderer, but to imprison him. The cell will do, and the cloister crystal will be handed over to my gentle man.
"The captain of silverfrags...that guy cried from morning to night looking for someone who could avenge the frontline attack team, and finally came to me. Can you understand the feelings of the man who killed your companions?"
Rosalia snorted and shook her head.
"I don't know. I should say, you are an idiot. You take it so seriously.
There is no evidence that if someone died here, they would die in reality. "
impossible. People who actually die in this world really die in reality. It is indeed something that cannot be confirmed here, but this is what Kayaba Akihiko said personally when he first took to the streets, and he also told me that someone has died in reality.
This game is not a play, it is a real death game. However, these guys thought that was a lie and were doing bad things, and in the process of doing bad things, they took human lives as if nothing had happened.
"Besides, it's better for you to worry about yourself."
Rosalia snapped her fingers, the nearby trees shook, and a dozen poorly equipped men appeared from the shadows. Looking at the cursors, all but one are the color of criminals - orange. I immediately understood that the only man wearing a green cursor was the murderer who eavesdropped on our conversation yesterday.
"I see, those people are your accomplices! Are they the people from Green who overheard your conversation yesterday?"
"Yeah, you and Silica were so unexpected. We originally planned to arrange a party including Silica and strip them naked, but Silica escaped halfway. In order to fall into the killzone again , I took a closer look, because you were here...But the harvest was very high. The Punai horse flowers owned by Silica were sold very expensive...The result."
Rosalia said impatiently, and a man next to me stared at me as if he had noticed something.
"Wait, wait a minute. Black clothes, a one-handed sword standing still, and a wolf-like dragon on the back... Could this guy be the 'Black Swordsman'?!"
The man's voice made everyone around him react.
"'Black Swordsman', is that the single-player game that just ended its beta test?! The one who drove the dragon and defeated the monster boss in the middle!?"
"R-Rosalia, that guy is awesome!!"
Rosalía laughed suddenly, avoiding the voices of the bewildered men.
"Strategy team! That means having a lot of rare items and money! Besides, even the strategy team and dragons cannot be defeated by so many people! Kill them and strip off their clothes!"
"Yes, yes! The one who challenges the boss is the strategy team, the guys with rare items and money! Isn't this a delicious prey? Kill it!!"
After hearing Rosalía’s words, the men seemed to get angry. They raised their machetes or straight swords and slashed at me and Lilan excitedly.
Then, starting with the initial blow, the men's sword skills exploded towards me and Lilan one after another. However, when I saw the simple status of the men that could be confirmed by pointing the cursor, I realized that there was no need to move, so I told Lilan that there was no need to move either.
"Me!!"
"go to hell!!"
Facing us who were motionless, the men excitedly continued to unleash their sword skills. He seemed to get pleasure from attacking each other, and an evil smile appeared on each man's face. I looked at Rosalia, who was leading these men, and she looked at me with a mocking expression on her face.
He just turned his eyes and looked at the "HP bar" in the upper left corner. The counter did decrease due to attacks from the men, but quickly returned to full. If you keep looking, you will see that reduction, recovery, reduction, recovery is an infinitely repeated process.
I didn't think about anything, just looked at the remaining life. Soon, the men around me were out of breath and stopped attacking. An expression of cold sweat and confusion appeared on his face at some point.
"What? This guy and the dragon... won't die even if they attack!"
"What happened?!"
He touched his neck and moved his mouth.
"The maximum damage limit of a combined attack is 400 every 10 seconds. My level is 78, and the maximum physical strength is 14500... The automatic recovery skill I equipped brings 600 recovery every 10 seconds, and I can continue to attack for several hours. It won’t end.”
I turned back and looked at Lilan's remaining life. Like me, despite that attack, Counter healed.
"The dragon over there also has exactly the same skills. The level is 78, the same as mine, and the maximum physical strength is 65900, which is more than mine. It also has automatic recovery skills, and the recovery amount every 10 seconds is 1700. No matter how many attacks there are, I can’t fight either.”
One of the men gathered around muttered.
"Is there such a thing?!"
Hearing this sentence, a surge of anger suddenly surged in my heart, and I said fiercely.
"Of course. Just increasing the number will bring about a huge gap. This is the unreasonableness of hierarchical MMO. When my number exceeds yours, the victory or defeat has been decided."
He reached into his arms and took out the last thing he got from the man - the Corridor Crystal, and showed it to the people around him.
