"This guy's attack should use something the size of his body. Be careful of the range and power!"
"Don't tell me!"
As he spoke, Kaim pulled out his long sword, held it with both hands, and attacked the Ice Snake Dragon. The Ice Snake Dragon cut through the clouds and roared away.
Spiegel's weapon is the same as Sinon's bow, but unlike Sinon, it is a short bow called a "short bow", which is good at firing fatal blows between long and medium distances. ability. Personally, this is a weapon that feels like an assault rifle in FPS.
However, due to the nature of the weapon, even long-range weapons must be attacked at close range, so there is always the danger of being attacked by the enemy. To do this, one needs to improve AGI and always try to be able to get away quickly, but Spiegel's form and skills are strongly linked to AGI, as if he is well aware of this.
"Because of this, Spiegel's speed is the best among us." During the battle, he stood at close range without melee weapons, showing a strange gameplay of shooting enemies like a mountain of swords, giving people a A feeling of reliability.
Spiegel raised his short bow at great speed and fired a rain of arrows at the huge driftwood-like ice snake dragon flying in the sky. However, all the arrows shot were repelled by the ice snake dragon's cold carapace, and Spiegel retreated in surprise.
"This guy's arrows are dead!"
"That's not the case. Maybe the physical defense on the shell side is ridiculously high."
Even when I was in SAo, there were many times when I had to fight monsters like this. At times like this, though, there's a weak point that's almost hidden and I can fix it by attacking there. However, the situation is completely different now.
Granted, this is a game similar to SAo, but you can fly in the sky like this, and when you encounter an enemy with high physical defense, you can decide whether to attack with the same countermeasures or a completely different one, It will be all right.
"Everyone prepare for magic attacks! Find an opportunity to launch magic attacks! This is this guy's weakness!"
\"I understand! Leave it to me for magic attacks!\"
When we were swinging the sword in SAo, Kaim, who used magic more to fight than the sword, nodded, put away his weapon, and started chanting out of sight of the ice snake dragon. Although his voice was loud enough to be beaten by a blizzard, he still recited these words firmly and arranged them in front of him.
Then, when the Ice Snake Dragon noticed the sound and finished, a ferocious green tornado enveloped the Ice Snake Dragon's body, cutting it into pieces. The high wind attribute area magic "Tyrant Hurricane" - the ice snake dragon chopped into pieces by it screamed, and its body emitted a red effect, greatly reducing the "life bar". As expected, magic attacks are a weakness.
\"Okay, let's attack with magic!\"
As my command echoed across the snowfield, the three companions raised their voices at the same time. Lilan is no longer our only strength against monsters.
In the battle with the ice snake dragon Fritz Mold in the snowfield, although the opponent was a huge monster, only me, Cam, Spiegel, and Diabell had enough advantages in the battle. If I encountered such an enemy in SAo, I would have suffered a lot of damage without Lilan, but now I have not suffered any damage at all, and I can still fight with a few people.
Through these, we can feel our own growth, and most importantly, I can feel that SAo itself is a very difficult game.
No, first of all, that's a game where when you die, you really die, so the lack of that pressure is probably the main reason. Even though I told Lilan that Game of Death was too cold, I definitely felt that way.
Frismod was furious and released magical attacks with beam breath and cold air. However, while we avoided them all, he focused on attacking the parts that were not protected by Frismod's shell, and his physical strength dropped sharply.
As the seemingly one-sided battle continued, Frismold's health bar turned yellow in the blink of an eye. Well, just when we thought it would be a little longer, Frismod suddenly let out a loud roar in the sky, causing screams all around.
I covered my ears and closed my eyes at the deafening volume, but the roar didn't last long and stopped after just a few seconds. When I immediately looked up, Frismod's body was wrapped in something similar to a red aura, and his face became more ferocious.
Cam saw Frismod's appearance changing and warned everyone.
"I'm in an angry state! Your movements will become active and your attack power will increase. Be careful!"
"Wow, does this guy have one too?"
Different from SAo, monsters in ALo have a characteristic. When the HP bar turns yellow or the status is abnormal, that is, when they judge that their life is in danger, they will become excited and angry.
Enraged monsters become extremely active and have increased attack power, making them very troublesome. Also, fighting an enraged monster is often difficult to capture, as the attack pattern may even change when in an enraged state.
But on the other hand, enraged monsters may lose their defenses, so this is also an opportunity to deal a lot of damage and defeat them in one go. In fact, we've defeated a lot of monsters so far by targeting them while they were in their rage state. – One of them, Diabel, shouted when he saw the angry Frismold.
“Since the enemy is enraged, his defense should be reduced.
\"!Diabel!!\"
As soon as Diabel finished speaking, Frismold became furious and began to charge at an alarming speed. In front of her was Diabel, who made a stern voice. The panicked Spiegel immediately yelled to dodge, but Diabel suddenly put his shield on his back, held the sword in both hands, and stopped moving.
——When we were getting a little impatient about what we were going to do next, Frismold said this was his chance and rushed towards Diaber who was unable to move. The moment it was about to collide with its huge body, Diabel flew out of Frismod's attack range and flew to his abdomen at a speed that could be called teleportation.
Then, holding the sword, he rotated his body vertically at high speed, cutting on Frismod's soft abdomen, like a train, traveling continuously at high speed.
Frismod probably didn't expect that in addition to being able to dodge the incoming attack, he would also receive a spinning slash counter. Frismod's abdomen had a blood-red effect, and he let out a scream and lost his balance. Lots of snow splashed. They piled up and fell into the snow. A strong shock wave came with the roar, and thick snow clouds flew up, slightly covering Frismod's body.
——Although we didn’t expect to fight back against Frismold, the three of us were speechless, but Diabell’s screams immediately rang in our ears.
"What are you doing! Your opponent has fallen, this is your chance to attack!"
"Oh, I see!"
After hearing the words of the person who made the unexpected move, we came to our senses and flew towards the place where the Ice Snake Dragon fell into the snow smoke. When I cut through the snow smoke that wrapped its body and came to the ice snake dragon that fell on its belly, I activated my sword skills and magic at the same time.
"Tea ah ah ah!!!"
While roaring, I waved the sword with both hands alternately to the right, horizontally, and diagonally, constantly cutting the ice snake dragon's weak point-the abdomen, as if dancing. As soon as the 16-consecutive sword skill "Starburst Style" that existed since SAo exploded, Frismod made a fragile sound, and at the same time his health value dropped significantly, indicating danger and about to become red.
"how about this!!"
Spiegel immediately rushed forward, set up his short bow, climbed onto the ice snake dragon's body, and shot out a rain of arrows. Due to the tactics that only Spiegel had mastered so far, countless arrows were pierced, and part of the Ice Snake Dragon's abdomen instantly became like a mountain of swords, and its health eventually flushed red.
"This is the end!"
Finally, the wind attribute fairy Kaim arranged a long string of words vertically. When they all lit up, a green tornado that was bigger than the ice snake dragon's body felt when it was scratched for the first time turned into an ice snake. The dragon wrapped it up. Around the monster's body, the carapace and muscles were cut off, as if it was being cut into small pieces. "Tyrant Hurricane" is one of the most powerful secrets in wind magic, and can only be used by wind elves.
After the activation was completed, the Ice Snake Dragon lay on the ground again, reducing its already red "life bar" to a minimum, reaching a state where it could be defeated with just one more blow. blow.
"This is the end!!!"
Then, finally, the elf knight Diabel, who smashed the flying Ice Serpent Dragon with a spinning slash, rose into the air, with the blade facing downwards, and swooped down towards the Ice Serpent Dragon's head. Perhaps noticing the sound at that time, the Ice Snake Dragon moved its face, confirming Diabel's attack. As if this was the last struggle, cold air gathered in his mouth, trying to release his trump card "frozen breath", but before that, Dilbert's sword had already reached the ice snake dragon.
The Fairy Knight's whole sword pierced deeply into her eyebrows.
The movements of the Ice Snake Dragon stopped completely, and the surrounding snow and wind sounds also completely stopped. The snowfield that had become a battlefield was shrouded in silence, but soon, this silence seemed to be broken. I saw that the Ice Snake Dragon of the Eyebrow Knight Immortal collapsed fragilely on the spot, and its body turned into a light blue figure, which immediately exploded into countless glass fragments and disappeared.
The surroundings were enveloped in silence again, but soon, a loud and high-pitched victory sound effect sounded out of thin air, praising the boss for defeating the ice snake dragon in the sky (congratulations!!), and the character appeared.
——We completed the mission without any casualties, and all four of us are in good condition.
"Okay, it ended safely this time, thank you for your hard work!"
"Well done everyone!"
"Well done everyone!"
"Okay! You won today too! Well done!"
Everyone encouraged each other in this battle, and as we got closer, a window appeared in front of me. The content is to announce that they have obtained the trophy, and it has a name that I have never seen before, "The Great Ice Shell of the Ice Snake Dragon". Looking around, no one reacted as if they had obtained an item. It seemed that this item was something that only players who received the mission could obtain.
Kaim noticed that I was Yui, someone who reacted differently than the others, and shouted to me.
\"Ah, Kirito, do you have anything?\"
"Yes. It's like a piece of his shell. Judging from the name, it was probably used to make weapons."
\"But it was Diaber who did the final work, right? But was Kirito the one who took over?\"
"Maybe, but it seems that those who receive the mission can get it. I can transfer this."
Then I turned to the Fairy Knight who had been with me since SAo. Different from SAo, the rules of ALo this time seem to be that only the person who accepts the task can receive the item, not the person who kills the boss. However, the mVp of this battle is very clear, it is Diavel.
With that gorgeous spinning counterattack, he shot down the Ice Serpent Dragon and even blocked it. It is not an exaggeration to say that he was the person who contributed the most at that time. Diabell like this is the player who deserves to receive this item.
\"Diavil\"
"What"
"I'll do it. This is the final attack bonus."
Diaber must not have expected that he would suddenly receive the item.
\"Uh. What did you say all of a sudden? This is what you get.\"
\"That being said, Dialbert is definitely the hero of this battle. If you bring it here, you might be able to make a new one-handed sword.\"
"Is it really good?"
"It doesn't matter, just take a look, don't hesitate, just accept it."
Saying that, I operated the item window, selected the loot from the previous mission, and clicked the send button. When I specified Diabell as the destination and sent it out, a project window appeared in front of Diabell, and his eyes were directed there. Soon, Diabel's face became a little unclean, sometimes looking at me, sometimes looking at the prop window.
"Is it really okay?"
\"You said it doesn't matter. Look, I have Lilan. It doesn't matter even if I don't have rare items. Take it, Diabel.\"
\"Diabel, you should take it. Kirito is now connected to five ultra-rare items, namely Lilan and Sinon, so if you want, you can take everything in Kirito's item box Let's go. That's about it.\"
"Oh, hey Cam. No matter what you ask, what am I going to do in this game from now on if this happens?"
Diabell burst into laughter as he began to argue with Keim, who suddenly interrupted. When Cam and I turned away with blank expressions, Diabell said with a smile.
"Okay, I'd appreciate this."
"Yes, please do."
After saying thank you again, Diabell accepted the delivery of the items I sent and closed the window. At the same time, the object that seemed to be stripped from the ice snake dragon disappeared from my body. Then, Spiegel, who had been silent, opened his mouth.
"Now, let's hurry home. It's almost dusk."
"Oops, that's right, this game doesn't match reality and time."
When I open the state etc in this ALo, there are two times. One is real-time and the other is in-game time. In order to respect the gaming styles of various players, this game is not synchronized in real time like SAo, and is often quite different from the real world.
The current ALo time shows 11:15 AM, but if you check the real world time it shows 6:10 PM. It was already dusk, and it was time for Suguha to prepare dinner and wait. As Spiegel said, it's time to get back to the real world.
"Okay, everyone is tired, let's go back to the city."
After saying that, they all nodded, spread their wings, and flew into the sky. After that, I also grew wings, jumped into the sky, and began to fly towards the World Tree City where my base is located. Perhaps because the owner of the snow-capped mountains has died, the snow-capped mountains are no longer as windy as when we came. The sky over the snowfields and snow-capped mountains has also cleared up, and the snow is shining with rainbow colors under the sunlight.
Yggdrasil city game time 11:20am, real world time 6:15pm
We left the snow-capped mountains and returned to the World Tree City, which is the city located at the foot of the World Tree in the game. Although it was already dusk, there were many players and NPCs in the city, maintaining the excitement before leaving for the mission. We had to leave once, but that wasn't the case with other players either. No, instead, it's time to play.
As I walked through the town, where players were coming and going, and reached the central square, I turned to see my friends.
"Okay, student users, it's time for you to leave here. What are you going to do next?"
"I'm still logged in. Yuuki and I have a date from now on. It's still a long time before dinner."
\"Huhu, it seems that your relationship with Yuuki is deepening.
\"Don't be stupid. You and Yuuki are not in that kind of relationship!\"
Keim has been a non-realist so far, but while I was at SAo he came into contact with ALo and eventually found out he was a body that could save AIDS patients. You saved Yuuki.
It was the same in SAo, but when Yuuki talked about Kem, she seemed happier than when talking to other people, and she spent a lot of time partying with Kem. The other person doesn't seem to realize this, but I guess Yuuki is about to develop a romantic relationship with Kaim.
\"That's it, that's it. Let's enjoy it from now on, Kem-kun. So, it seems that I am the only one who has quit.\"
"No, I have to leave now because I still have things to do and I have to go back now."
"It was Spiegel who stepped up." According to his teacher Alice--precisely the relationship between the attending doctor and the patient--he seemed to be a student about our age, and he was also going home at the same time same as me. It must be time. ——It is taboo in VRmmo to ask others for details, so I didn’t ask anything.
"I see, then Spiegel should go back before me. Thank you for accompanying me to complete today's mission."
"Well, there will be an update tomorrow. See you in the new continent!"
With that said, the silver-haired shadow elf Spiegel waved slightly and left us in a hurry, heading to the large hotel that World Tree City is proud of. Okay, from now on, I'm going to exit that room.
Just as I was thinking this, Kaim, the fairy in Japanese clothes, also said, "Thank you for your hard work today." Then his wings appeared and disappeared over the World Tree City. Kaim is basically not the kind of person who lies and deceives people, so I guess he really has a commitment with Yuuki from now on.
——Although everyone says that I am a riajutsu, in the eyes of people around me, even Kaim, who has a good relationship with Yuuki, is completely worthy of riajutsu. Moreover, according to Leafa, the lord player of the Elf Territory, Ms. Sakuya, likes Keim’s personality and abilities very much, and seems to be dependent on and close to him.
Hearing that guy's story, it was strange that I once managed the Bloodsworn Knights, the largest guild in the world, and now I was reduced to such a player, and I felt regret and a little sad.
I swallowed my complicated feelings and called Diabell, the water fairy who stayed behind.
\"What will Dilbert do now?\"
\"I'm going back to Undine's territory. There are many players who want to learn combat methods from me.\"
"I see, it's just like when I was in the Holy Dragon Alliance."
"Yes, the Holy Dragon Alliance is gone, but the current situation is somewhat similar to the feeling I had when I was in the Holy Dragon Alliance. It's not that I don't like it, on the contrary, it's quite comfortable."
The same is true for the man Dilbert. When we fought side by side in SAo, he was the leader of the Holy Dragon Alliance. This large guild was on par with the Bloodsworn Knights that I led in the middle. But now he is the leader of SAo and has returned to the position of a player. time.
Moreover, Diabell spent more time leading other players in the guild than fighting alone. So I wasn't used to the feeling of being alone, and thought I was in trouble, but Diabel was always attracted to people, and even now he is attracted to other people just like when he was in the Holy Dragon Alliance. Windian race. He seemed to be adored by the people.
"My ideas are basically baseless."
\"That's good. Since it's about Diabel, I think it won't be easy to handle after the Holy Dragon Alliance is disbanded.\"
\"I'm not that weak. By the way, I will return to Undine territory soon. Tomorrow is the update day, please log in well, Kirito.\"
"That's it, I'll go with Lilan. Comrade, please log in."
When I said this with a smile, Elf Knight Diabell let out a "haha" laugh, and then light blue translucent wings appeared on her back, and she jumped into the sky like Cam, and then Walking towards Wendina. territory. I walked towards it. As a result, I was the only one who went on the Snow Ice Snake Dragon Hunting mission just now.
Then I opened the status screen again and checked the game time and real world time. Since Cam, Spiegel, and Diabell and I were having a relaxed conversation, five minutes had passed and the time for me to quit had also passed.
"Yes, me too"
\"Hey, Kirito.\"
Suddenly I heard a voice behind me and I turned my head in surprise. What is different from other fairies is that she has platinum wolf ears on her head, and the same platinum wolf tail grows on the root of her buttocks. Next to her stands a well-dressed, waist-length blonde with red eyes. girl. Place your hands on your hips.
——I called out the name of my partner from SAo. He is a superior species with the ability to transform into a boss-level dragon. His name is Fafnir, "Holy Wolf Dragon".
"Isn't this rebirth?"
\"Ah, by the way. It seems that you were still on a mission not long ago, but is it over?\"
\"Ah. All the tasks I wanted to complete before the release of \"Black Alfheim\" have been completed. Why did you suddenly appear?\"
"I used the teleportation crystal to come back. Everyone else said it was time for dinner. As soon as the mission was over, I teleported to the hotel and exited. That was Leafa."
"Yes, he has been busy cooking since he came back from reality. Now he cooks most of our meals."
\"That's it, that's it. So, does that include you?\"
"Lilan must want to go on adventures with me from now on." But I must also return to the real world like that Leafa. I used to find it creepy when I heard it, but a few months after starting ALo, a player died of exhaustion without eating much because he was too focused on ALo.
After hearing this story, Leafa\/Suguha started saying, "I won't let you do this. Come back to reality then." I made this rule at home. So if you are late, Suguha will get angry. I had a feeling that I wanted to explore with Lilan.
"Well, I have to go back, but I'll be back after dinner. Let's do the mission then. Well, it seems that the update started at 12 o'clock in the evening. I may not be able to log in soon."
"There is no need to force yourself to do tasks. On the contrary, starting from tomorrow, there will be many new activities. Shouldn't you take a good rest now and prepare for tomorrow?"
"What?" I thought Lilan would definitely want to go exploring with me, but he said he would take a break tomorrow. Just like in SAo.
"That's true, but ALo is not a death game. Don't worry too much. I'm very happy."
"It's been a long time, but I can't seem to shake that feeling. I should know this game is a safe one, but when I heard you guys were going out to fight the boss, it was weird. No one died today though I heard that you went on a mission to defeat the boss\"
As he said that, his partner lowered his head, and his expression suddenly became gloomy. Indeed, Lilan has been there since the beginning, and he knows many parts of that world where he has seen many players die. So, even if he escaped from that world and came to a world where no one died, his senses would still be the same as before.
I don't know what that feels like - I thought as I put my hand between my partner's head and the wolf's ear. The next moment my companion looked up in surprise.
"No one can die anymore, Lilan. That's why you don't have to bear such a heavy burden on your shoulders. I told you from the beginning that this is such an empty game. You can already die."
"Yes, there is more"
"So you don't have to worry so much. But as a partner, I'm happy to worry about you. Thank you."
Hearing what I said, the blond girl with the appearance of a wolf and a dragon in SAo purred slightly, and then smiled. It's hard to tell when he was a wolf dragon, but now I can quite understand his expression and what he was thinking.
"I'd be happy if you said so. Once the update is done tomorrow."
"In that case, I'll borrow your power again. I'm relying on you, man."
“Ah, leave it to me.
Hearing my partner's reliable words, I let go of his head. There will be various tasks starting tomorrow, and powerful bosses will also appear at the same time. To deal with such people, the power of boss nemesis Lilan should be reliable.
And the pleasure and enjoyment of fighting the boss as a human dragon is definitely more intense than SAo!
"I'm really looking forward to tomorrow's update. I'm taking today off to prepare for tomorrow."
\"That's good. Then Kirito, we will face the New World tomorrow.\"
"Of course. Good night, Lilan."
Hearing my partner say "good night", I left the square and went to the First Hotel in World Tree City. Spiegel also went there, lay down, executed the logout order, and returned to the real world.
"I can't stay in this world for a while, huh?"
Not only in VR, but also in MMO? When the entire game has a major update, no one can log in, and any player who tries to log in to the game will be logged out.
This can be said for Lilan and Yui. They are AI and players, but their home is the game itself and they must go back. Even if the owner logs out, the world will continue to move.
For some reason, Lelan didn't like it.
"At least it would be nice if we could update while the AI is still able to log in"
If you look around you'll see a lot of players walking around talking about quests, monsters, and items in typical MMO player terms. I'm sure they will be forced to quit by then. The faces of the players who had received the forced offline notice appeared behind his eyelids. Lilan smiled unconsciously, but at the same time, he could also imagine the moment when the players' faces were filled with joy.
“I think there will be more interesting things tomorrow.
He muttered in a voice no one could hear, and Lilan made his body tremble as he opened the window to search for his sister Yui and their whereabouts. When I was still in SAo, there were powerful monsters running behind me, as well as people with sinister wills such as Alberich and "Smiling Coffin Luffin Coffin".
"What's behind you?" isn't just a player either.
"Who are you!?"
A figure appeared in Li Ran's scarlet eyes. He screamed and turned around. She is about the same height as Asuna and Shino, but her chest-length hair is a strange mixture of gold, silver, and jade, and her white and green kimono is very distinctive. Wearing an outfit that cannot be called a shrine. Wearing a girl's outfit or combat uniform, wearing a breastplate, bird-leg-like boots, and a mask with jade vein-like patterns, this is a strange woman wearing a mask to cover her face.
"If that's all, I would think he is just a player." However, translucent green wings always appear on the back of the female player, indicating that she is an elf with wind attributes. Even though it wasn't in flight.
Moreover, he exudes a strange aura that is completely different from the surrounding players. Lilan cheered up and purred.
"Who are you?"
The strange female player didn't say anything, and because she was hidden behind a mask, I couldn't even see her facial expressions or even the color of her eyes. I'm right there.
"Are you really a player? Why are you covering your face with something like this?"
The next moment, without saying a word, the masked fairy spread its wings and flew straight into the sky at high speed. Lilan wanted to chase him for a moment, so he let the red fairy wings produced by the salamander appear on his back, but at this time, the masked wind fairy had disappeared. There, Lilan purred softly again, folded her wings, and thought of the masked wind elf.
"That wind fairy is very strange." Although only the player can see it, the aura emanating from that body is not just for the player. So I think Vasak Casals and Alberich were as close as natural enemies when they were in SAo.
But as a result, they failed to return from that world to this world. That's why I don't belong to this world. Although tomorrow will be the biggest update since the game began, Lilan found herself feeling a strong sense of unease.
“What the hell is this?”
Lilan stared at the sky where the masked fairy disappeared.
"Dedicated to all viewers living in front of TV sets across Japan. From now on, Tomorrow TV Station will conduct an emergency broadcast tomorrow. In order to allow as many people as possible to watch the TV broadcast, we ask for the cooperation of viewers in front of TV sets."
\"Alfheim online\"Update At 6:30 pm the day before, I returned to the real world and stared at the TV with my sister Suguha.
After completing the tasks I wanted to complete before the update with reliable companions such as Diabell, Cam, and Spiegel, I disbanded the team, had a relaxed conversation with Lilan in the square, and then headed to World Tree City hotel. Come out and return to the real world.
I left the room as usual, walked down the stairs, met Suguha-san in the restaurant on the first floor, exchanged greetings of "Welcome home" and "I'm back", and then sat down on a chair at the dining table. A place where straight-leaf dishes are lined up. multiply by
Suguha makes my favorite dish - beef stew. With such a mood, I turned on the TV and was about to put the beef stew I scooped up with a spoon into my mouth when an accident happened.
\"What, what is this, what are you talking about!?\"
The TV is playing a station called "Tomorrow TV". The content is a holiday news program, and the content is daily content such as the weather of the day, the course of the incident, whether there has been an accident, etc. News programs that seem to represent peaceful Japan seem to be available on any TV station.
While Suguha and I were watching, we planned to go have dinner. It was originally like this, but there was a sudden noise on the TV screen, and I stopped unconsciously.
When the TV is about to be scrapped, there will often be noise on the screen. I thought the TV had reached the end of its service life. He seemed to understand his mood and said, "It's just a bad signal." Again, so don't worry. "
It's true that so far I've been watching TV with occasional noise due to temporary deterioration in signal conditions, and it's not the end of its life yet, but it's been a while since I implemented a TV tuner. Passed. After thinking about it calmly, I decided that the noise was not strange, so I stopped worrying about the TV for the time being.
This was originally the case, but voices that seemed to be complaining about malfunctions appeared one after another on the TV screen, and finally a sandstorm appeared on the screen. Suguha, who said she didn't need to worry, probably didn't expect the sandstorm to happen, so she was surprised.
Immediately afterwards, the scene suddenly switched to a strange scene in a two-dimensional news studio, where an announcer holding a two-dimensional deformed illustration spoke with a mechanical voice.
"Today, I must announce an important news to all the viewers watching TV tomorrow. In our TV news tomorrow morning, Japan will participate in overseas activities——"
The two-dimensional announcer with a mechanical voice continued to announce in a flat tone. The video makes it clear that this is not what people at the network are doing, and my heart is spinning.
"What is this, what are you talking about?"
\"Why is this brother doing this\"
I immediately turned to my sister, who was also staring at the TV. There was a look of panic on his face, as if he couldn't believe what he was seeing on TV. Like something unexpected happens in a place like ALo.
"Sugu, do you know what? What is this? This is obviously not done by the TV station!"
\"Brother, this is a 'fugitive' attack on the TV station!"
I was stunned by the words that came out of my sister's bewildered mouth. \"Broken Man\". In the past, it was just an existence that could easily shake the online world, but now it has turned to target the police, media, and even politicians, launching unilateral and powerful attacks such as revealing the information they want to hide. , the existence of the threat plunged Japanese society into chaos.
We met the "Runaway Man" in SAo and became hostile to him. The real name of the "fugitive" is Nobuyuki Sugou/Alberich. On the surface, Asuna's father is one of the leaders of Rector and the boss. He deceived many players and finally used Lilan to destroy the Smiling Coffin.
However, we fought him on the 100th floor of Aincrad and won. In this way, Sugo will go to hell, and Japanese society should completely get rid of the threat of "fugitives".
\"If he is a "fugitive\", then is Su Wu still alive?!?\"
\"That's not true! Because Sugo was in Lilan at that time!\"
\"Ah, Asuna said she saw it with those eyes, and the body was found.
"But why is [Crash Man] still attacking?" He left! ? "
When my sister looked at me confused and made a robotic sound in my ear, I immediately took out my smartphone and displayed SNS. If you try to display the complaints of netizens there, you will see "The God of Justice will appear on TV tomorrow", "[Destroyer] Kita——!!", "Our Lord God has appeared!!" and so on. Content. "Written the way you like it.
Looking at the way it's written, I'm convinced that the identity of the strange video being aired on TV tomorrow is "The Fugitive."
"[Runaway] why why?"
"Brother, is it Hannibal!?"
Yes, Broken Man is not to blame. Of course, Sugo as "The Broken Man" created an organization called mnemosyne during SAo and used the players there as material for his own experiments, but when he was finally cornered, Sugo "Hannibal" tells us . He acted under the guidance of Hannibal's presence.
Only then do we learn that the "fugitive" is not the mastermind of this incident, but a poor victim who is forced to dance in the palm of Hannibal's existence. In other words, the culprit of the "Broken Man" incident was not the "Broken Man", but Hannibal.
Sugo was never a "runaway" from the beginning. It is precisely because Hannibal came into contact with him and inspired him in many ways that he became a "runaway" who was able to do such a thing. In other words, if Hannibal instilled the same thing into another person and taught it, that person would immediately become a "runaway" as well.
"Hannibal created a new "Fugitive"!!?"
"That's all I think but maybe"
"perhaps?"
"I think Sugo created an AI and let it do it.
Indeed, Sugo has the technology to transform existing AI into combat AI, which is why he is able to become the leader of Rector. I wouldn't be surprised if I could create my own artificial intelligence.
I'm sure what Suguha is trying to say is that before being defeated by Lelan, Sugo created an AI to attack the media, and the attack on Tomorrow TV was due to that AI. but-.
"News reports this morning said that Japanese activities were held in France, but there was a problem. In fact, in this event, a group had illegal acts.
"We deliberately deleted it, and then reported it as if nothing had happened."
Two -dimensional broadcasters told the news this morning with a mechanical voice. In other words, in order to broadcast this, you need to watch the news of this morning, process information quickly, choose the correct information on the Internet, organize it, prepare machine sounds and images, and create a video.
"This is unlikely, but this is not what other artificial intelligence can be done."
"Can this be what AI can do? If there is AI to do this, it is Lilan or Yui"
Then I felt cold back. Perhaps Yui, Streya, Liran, and Jupiter were out of curiosity, checked the information of \ "Fugue \" and imitated it.
No, but they can't do this -I am driven by two thoughts, I instinctively operated my smartphone and called partners living in the Internet world. Within a few seconds, the phone stopped, and I heard a voice.
\ "Hey, and people? What's wrong?"
"Lilan, can you hear me talking? What are you doing now?"
\ "What, I am eating in the restaurant in the world in the world. Jiyi, STREA, and Judge are nearby. \"
"So, all the AIs are there."
"Dad, what's wrong?"
\ "Kirito Yeho, I heard it-!? \"
\ "Kirito classmate, what happened? \"
I kept heard the voice, so I knew that Lilan's information was not a lie. I tune my phone into a free -term mode and put it on the table, turned to TV, and saw that the two -dimensional broadcasters were still revealing the fraud of the news this morning.
"Calm, listen, Lilan. The TV is broken tomorrow, and he is playing strange broadcasts.
\ "Escape \"? What are you talking about, Kato? "Broken people" fell into hell at the time. So it no longer exists. More importantly, what is the situation of television by hackers? is that true
I think he never thought about the re -appearing of the "escape". Just after he heard the confusion of Lilan, he heard the calm sound of Yi Yi.
"Sister, it seems real. When I browsed SNS just now, the keywords of" running men "and the information of" running men "appearing on TV tomorrow are flying.
"Lie! But Alberchi was defeated by Lilan at the time!? I can't believe I am alive! \"
I can hear Sterrea's surprise. The reason why Jupiter could not hear in that case was probably because Alice had been in the storage room of Alice at that time, and the information was cut off.
"It should be. But the Rover will appear on TV tomorrow."
\ "Isn't this possible? I thought this might be the AI left by SUGO. Do you know the situation of the Lan, Yiyi sauce, STREA Sang and Jupiter?
\ "That's impossible, Mr. Li Fa. We just eat it like this, and we haven't seen news this morning. \"
\ "And, if you can do this, there is only Lilan here.
. Jupiter, I, and Yui can't do this. In addition, some people can benefit from things like TV stations. \"
"No..."
"They basically don't lie, so they must be true." As Sterre said, no one here will benefit from the TV station that invades the news program. They do not judge right and wrong like Sugo or Hannibal, and they are artificial intelligence that can think correctly. As I thought at the beginning, there was no culprit among them.
"Sorry, I suspect you. Then, the appearance of the" escape "is definitely not the heritage of Su Dog."
"Dad, I asked you again, today the TV was cracked, is it?
\ "Ah, Yeah. What's wrong, Yui? \"
"I think I know what it will happen. At that time, we really stopped the" escape \ "from Xuxiang's extension.
However, what we prevents "escape", he is like an end organs, and we failed to stop the original Hannibal. As long as Hannibal continues his activities, I believe countless \ "escape \" will continue to be born. "
"After all, my daughter's thoughts are quite similar." We defeated the messenger of Hannibal, named "Escape" -whelly, he didn't seem to realize that he was one of those who were forced to dance in Hannibal. ——Bly we did not pursue Hannibal himself. As evidence, why Hannibal took such actions, it was unknown.
However, what I know is that a new "crushed person" was born. At least I don't know that the "broken man" is dancing on Hannibal's palms, as well as online society, mass media, police, politics and society. The business world, everything is in the mastery of Hannibal. The political and financial circles, the police, and the mass media only mastered the "broken runner", but did not master the existence of Hannibal, and they did not know that the "broken runner" was working with Hannibal.
I don't know what Hannibal's intention is. But causing such a big chaos, this must be Hannibal's intention. All kinds of things have made progress at Hanyne's expectations.
"Because we are a person who knows the" collapse "under the command of Hannibal."
\ "No, and others. We are a person who understands Hannibal himself. It seems that \" Fugen \ "is not just announced the existence of Hannibal.
"Of course, if this happens, Hannibal will immediately erase them, and if ordinary people try to approach Hannibal, they will be forced to dance on Hannibal's palm immediately and deal with it in some way .”
\ "Alice may say that, Corporal classmate. \"
I responded to what I heard from Yopitt, and Upit didn't speak much because I was pushed by John, Lerland and Streya.
"Yes, when I talked about Hannibal with Mr. Alice, I got such an answer. I thought it would be processed, and that's it in the past."
"I can't say it for sure. Su Ge sought help from Hannibal, but Hannibal didn't do anything. It is probably because no Sugo is needed. Now, the new" escape "does not know that he is just Han Han was just by Han being Han Han was just by Han being Han. Use Nepal, but act under the command of Hannibal
Naoye and I turned to TV again. The screen is released on a dumbfounder that makes people feel more stupid. From a speaker, the actual situation of scam news programs is used to use machine sounds like reading software.
According to the news I heard from Naoye, after being attacked by the "escape", the news show began to tell the truth, but it was cracked like this, the news content of this morning, and so on. Things have been exposed, and there may be more situations where deliberate forgery information happens.
The two -dimensional broadcasters who have been talking suddenly stopped talking, and both of us thought: "Wow?"
"Today's emergency broadcast is over. We still accept complaints and protests. In order to improve the broadcast of our radio station, we solicit the opinions of the audience."
At that time, the studio where the two -dimensional anchor was located finally disappeared from the TV screen. As soon as it was released, the color screen that stopped playing was reflected, and there was no sound at all. ——The moment when the attack of \ "escape \" is over.
\ "Is this the attack of" Running \ "just now? \"
\ "Yes. When my brother went to SAO, many such things happened. I want to do a surprising thing on the TV station tomorrow. \"
"This must be a fuss. I want to report this to Alice, but I don’t know what happened."
\ "Oh, then, I haven't seen Teacher Alice recently.
\ "Yes. \" The last time I saw Alice held a party in the bar in the world in the world of SAO. From then on, Alice may not have logged in. \"
Listening to the conversation between Naoye and Streya, I was taken aback.
Alice \/Alice has disappeared from our vision, but Shi Nai and I know what Alice does in the real world. However, among my friends, only Shi Nai and I knew about it, and even her children Lan and Yui didn't know.
\ "Ah, that, SUGU and Yui don't know the background of Alice Sang. Actually -\"
For the first time, I told outsiders what psychiatrist and artificial intelligence scientist Qin Ze Elis did. After the story was over, Naoye made a surprise voice.
"Hey! Teacher Alice, you came back to study artificial intelligence again."
"Yeah, she has been saying this for several months. She is doing AI now, and she didn't tell me which company was doing it."
\ "It turns out that this is the case, the brothers and sisters of Yui continue to be born where we don't know \"
"So, since there are more brothers and sisters, shouldn't you be happy? Especially the three daughters Streya."
From a smartphone similar to speakers on the table, she can hear the third female artificial intelligence STREA she created with confusion and dissatisfaction.
\ "Eh, eh. If my sister or brother was born when I didn't pay attention, I would be unhappy. We can't meet, we can't live together! \"
\ "But unfortunately. At this time, if I talk to Teacher Alice, she may give me some good suggestions. \"
I agree with the sound of Naoye's disappointment. If I can ask Alice at this time, I can hear some plans, and she may come up with a way to approach Hannibal. In fact, I tried to come up with something myself, but there were still many things I couldn't compete with Alice, and most of the time I couldn't do it.
By the way, in order to hear Alice's voice, Shino seemed to try to make a call several times when Alice had completed his work, but every time she connected to the answer service, she could not speak with Alice. cannot.
Moreover, according to Shi Nai, Alice said she often logged in to ALO, but she has not logged in since the party. Shi Nai was very disappointed at the time, but when I told her that Alice was doing research, she might be so difficult, she managed to hear.
I am convinced that AIRI's work is almost the same as that of Lilan, Jupiter, Yui, and STREA, or an AI development that improves them, unless she becomes alienated with us, she cannot do this. Something like that. The other party probably thought that he could get time to do Alo, but he couldn't do it.
\ "But I have relied on her since SAO. Now it is time to no longer depend on her. Besides, at that time, \" Fugue "attacked me, so let's fight together." I think about it, I think about it, But now \ "Fugen \" has not launched an attack, so I think Alice will not give you a particularly good answer. \"
"It's true, but after all this happens, I worry that that 'escape" will attack me again. "
"At that time, it will just fight together with hand in hand. On the contrary, you should worry about the delay of ALO update due to the appearance of \" Broken Man \ ". In doubt, all aspects of Japanese companies are in a high degree of alertness. Lexto should be one of them. \ "
When he heard the partner on the mobile phone screen, the two "ah" again. Tomorrow is the day when ALO is updated, but this happened on TV, and it is not surprising that the update delay is not surprising. I've been looking forward to it!
"Oh, no! Are you ready to update the New World!
\ "Then, you can only want to update not to delay \"
I nodded like the voice of partner Li Lan, and praying in my heart to pray in my heart that the update of ALO can go smoothly. At that time, for the first time, I realized that the impact of the attack on people would be serious.
"Finally here, Swaltiahhhham, the floating continent of the black elves !!!"
The first thing I heard was the voice of a partner girl, and her voice seemed very excited. All users including me and Naoye are worried that TV will be attacked by "Broken Man" tomorrow, and RECTO will be completely affected to stop updating ALO. I did this the day after tomorrow.
\ "Alfheim Online \" has been successfully updated, bringing SVART Alfheim for our players, which is a continent containing almost unlimited new elements.
\ "Breakman \ "'s re -emergence in Japanese society surprised me and felt some uneasy, but the implementation of the new world made all my troubles disappear, as if I had forgotten all my troubles. He started Amusphere and jumped into the virtual world Alfheim Online.
In the fairy tale world ALO, my partner Lilan, my daughter Jieyi, and my friend stream like me like Naota \/leafa, waiting for this moment with joy. Welcome to our arrival.
When I went to the portal with them, it was there. A new city that existed until yesterday was called "Rhein, the capital of the sky". We chose a city we have never seen before and sent out. The blue mask shrouded our field of vision and body. When it eventually was sunny, the scene we had never seen before jumped into our field of vision.
Some fantasy buildings are basically built by stones, with different sizes and shapes, reminiscent of ancient relics, and medieval Europe. Although they are different from ancient relics, there are many stalls that are reminiscent of.
In ALO, there are countless players such as fire lizards, elves, dwarfs, water, ghosts, Sperigan, Casey, Pucas, Little Fairy essence and other different races in cities and towns that are completely different from the world of the world.
"Great! Is this Svart Alfheim!"
"The floating continent where light and darkness meet, its largest urban Tiandu Line looks here.
I nodded for Lifa's swaying words around. There are tens of thousands of ALO players in Japan, and there are also players logged in from overseas, so there are 100 million people logging in ALO. They are looking forward to this update like us. Because everyone gathers on the Jiu East Line like this, such congestion will definitely appear.
However, when I looked around again, I found that there were more people than I thought, and I was surprised like Li Fa like Li Fa. With so many people, it seems that the weight of the player will cause the floating continent to fall to the continent below.
\ "Ah, finally found it. Kirito! \"
In the excitement of the players because of the scenery of the update and the unknown area, we heard the familiar voice, and all of us turned their heads at the same time. A girl with a white light blue hair, wearing a dark green combat suit, a big ears with wild cats on her head, and a tail with a tail on her butt was suffocating in the crowd. He left and walked towards us.
As soon as I saw the girl in front of me, my heart felt happy, and Yui's eyes lit up.
\ "Poetry! \"
"Mother!"
\ "Kirito and Yui, it's still early. I just logged in. \"
"Oh, yes. It's not just me and Yi. Lilan and STREA are there."
Listening to me, Shi Nai smiled at the SAO partner, Lilan and Streya behind him. I believe he is glad to meet well in the New World.
"Li Lan and Stream are here too, isn't it?"
"certainly.
\ "Thanks, Shi Nai is here.
"There are indeed so many people.
Indeed, there are so many players log in. Some players are preferred. Some players often fall out, but this ALO is the thickest in Japan. The game is responsible for RECTO. He has a line, so the line will not be dropped even if it is a bit fast. In fact, Lexto himself said in the advertisement that one of ALO's selling points is that the line never drops.
\ "Don't worry, after all, it is the Rato game of Asuna's father as the boss. To be precise, it is the company's subsidiary, but its line is the thickest in Japan. So you will not be forced. . "
"I hope so, but"
\ "Ah, found it! Kirito Jun, Shi Nai-! \"
