Spring goes and autumn comes again.

The time spent struggling in SAO always feels extremely difficult, and it feels like it passes quickly.

In the blink of an eye, two full years have passed since SAO was officially put into operation.

Within two years, the Raiders team continued to advance to the front line, and finally reached the 74th floor.

In other words, the floating city of Ayn Grant, which has a total of 100 floors, has been attacked by nearly three-quarters by this time.

The remaining quarter of the floor, although it will take a long time to break through, but now, players have gradually begun to feel that there is hope of leaving this world, so that SAO shows far more vitality than two years ago.

And during this time, there have been a lot of changes in the frontline strategy group.

There are four specific changes.

The first change is the number of people in the raider group.

Due to the increasing number of top players, today, there are 700 players in the strategy group, accounting for nearly one-tenth of the surviving players, which is very impressive.

The main reason why there are so many top players is naturally Luo Zhen.

Because, after two years, Luo Zhen's record of leading the team without damage is still maintained, coupled with the resources left over from the dissolution of the "Holy Dragon Alliance" at the beginning of the disbandment were used to cultivate potential players, the combat power of the Raiders group has only increased, and finally reached the incredible number of 700 people.

This is the first change.

The second change is Kirito's status.

During this period of time, in the continuous strategy, Kirito finally showed the sword skills of "Two Sword Flow" in the 70th layer of the defender boss battle.

Every 10 layers, the difficulty of the medium range increases, and when it reaches the 70th layer, it has accumulated to a point where it is not trivial, even Luo Zhen did his best in that strategy battle, and Kirito is naturally completely powerful, so that the sword skills of "Two Sword Flow" officially appear in front of the world.

In light of this, the reputation of the second Unique Ability Holder has given Kiritto a huge boost in status, and his prestige in the Raiders has reached a peak, and there is already a tendency to compare him to Heathcliff and discuss who is the strongest player in SAO.

Of course, because of the relationship between the second holder of the unique skill in the guild, the reputation of the "Red Wings" led by Luo Zhen has also greatly increased, so that the voices that have always believed that the "Blood Alliance Knights" may replace the "Red Wings" as the strongest guild in the SAO have gradually disappeared.

This is the second change.

The third change is naturally Luo Zhen.

To be more precise, it should be said that it is Luo Zhen's weapon.

———— "Deep Blue".

Such a beautiful and powerful sword appeared for the first time in the 60th floor of the Defender Boss Raider, which greatly shocked the players of the entire strategy group.

With this crystal sword, which is beyond the performance of the current level, starting from the 60th floor and continuing to the current 74th floor, the LA rewards of all the defending bosses finally fell into Luo Zhen's hands.

The original rough-skinned, thick-blooded and high-blooded guard boss in front of such a sword, it is actually taken away a large amount of HP value every time, so that Derlo's output is really comparable to a combined force composed of attackers, which makes people wonder if there is any bug in this game.

Of course, this is also because Luo Zhen relied on the ability of "Heart Eye", not only increased the power of the sword technique to the highest level every time, but also triggered the relationship of knowing the heart every time, so that he was able to increase the output to such an amazing point.

But in any case, Luo Zhen's sword is completely famous, and after the color butterfly and the flower butterfly, it has become a major symbol of Luo Zhen.

This is the third change.

As for the last change, it was actually from Asuna.

The reason is simple.

For some reason, starting from the 60th floor's Boss Strategy Meeting, Asuna never contradicted Luo Zhen again, and openly put forward various suggestions that would be opposed by Luo Zhen at the Strategy Meeting.

This "Ghost of Raiders" seems to have suddenly become honest, that is, it is not as imposing as in the past, nor is it as cold as before, as if it suddenly has a human touch, with the passage of time, the personality gradually becomes much gentler, and often shows a smiling face.

Far from causing Asuna's popularity to decline, this change has intensified, causing her fan support club to grow in numbers.

For Asuna's change, Luo Zhen naturally saw it in his eyes, and was stunned more than once in his heart.

"What happened to cause this situation?"

The initiator thought about it more than once, and even once even said it directly in front of Asuna, only to get Asuna a glarer sharper than a rapier sword, and she turned around and left without saying a word.

Luo Zhen was suddenly inexplicable.

I didn't expect that my unintentional teasing would produce such a good effect.

In view of this, many years later, Luo Zhen would have a heartfelt emotion every time he thought of this incident.

"I didn't expect me to be so attractive."

Needless to say, such a shameless statement also made Luo Zhen tidy up by Asuna more than once.

That's the last change.

Four changes in a row have made the situation of the strategy group look new, and the players feel more and more reliable.

Only the players in the strategy group know that as the strategy progresses, it's not just good things.

Even if the front line is pushed to the point of the 74th floor, the next 75th floor is like a huge stone, pressing on everyone.

This is the third floor after the 25th and 50th floors to be significantly more difficult.

According to past experience, if you can break through this floor, you will be able to advance smoothly down the floor until the difficulty of the next interval of 25 floors is greatly increased.

On the contrary, it can almost be said that there is no return.

Therefore, although the 74th floor has not yet been cleared, the closer you get to the 75th floor, the more uneasy the players in the Raiders group become.

As a result, the progress of the strategy has slowed down a bit lately.

In the past, with the speed of the raider team, you should be able to attack a floor every ten days, and at most, you will be able to stumble a little bit when you increase the difficulty level every 10 floors.

But now, almost ten days have passed, and the room of the boss on the 74th floor has not been found, and even the map file has not been fully recorded.

Just when the strategy group ushered in such difficulties, Luo Zhen also encountered a great difficulty.

This difficulty does not lie elsewhere, but in the body of the colorful butterflies and flower butterflies who are its demons.

"Goo!"

"Whew!"

At this moment, in the labyrinth area on the 74th floor, the melodious cries of colorful butterflies and flower butterflies are echoing.

Two rainbow-like butterflies swept through the air like an aurora and slid down on a monster in front of them.

"Scared!"

With such a roar, the huge monster exudes a ferocious aura.

It was a lizardman who was more than three meters tall, wearing heavy armor and holding a huge steel spear in his hand.

Butterflies and butterflies swept over each other's heads, sprinkling yellow and black phosphorus powder one after another.

“————！”

The giant lizardman touched by the phosphosphor powder stiffened and fell into a negative state of paralysis and blindness.

However......

"Scared!"

In less than a few seconds, the giant lizardman's negativity was lifted, causing it to let out angry screams.

Seeing this scene, Luo Zhen finally reluctantly confirmed one thing.

"The limit of butterflies and butterflies is almost there."

This is the difficulty that Luo Zhen encountered.