On December 19, 2023, more than a year has passed since the game of death in the blink of an eye, and the second Christmas in SAO is about to begin, but just a month ago, a message kept coming out of the mouths of various NPCs.

A boss, a special boss, named Judge Nicolas, is defined as a legendary boss that far exceeds the preciousness of the boss on the floor, it appears for only one day, no, maybe a few hours, at twelve o'clock in the evening of December 24, it is said that it will appear under a giant fir tree in a certain forest with a bag full of precious items, and if you defeat him, you can get a treasure beyond imagination.

From the day the news came out, the entire SAO set off a treasure hunting frenzy, whether it was ordinary scattered players or members of the strategy team who had been concentrating on breaking the labyrinth, they all suspended their work to study the information of the Confessionist Nicolas.

The past year can be said to be changing, starting from the boss strategy of the twenty-fifth layer, the combined army of Ayn Grant and the combined force of the Holy Wing Knights have suffered an unprecedented heavy blow, in order to attack the boss of this layer, the two guilds have died nearly thirty people, the Holy Wing Knight is almost collapsed, Trubel led some people to join the United Army of Ayn Grant, and the deputy head Xinka chose to lead the rest of the people to retreat to the Black Iron Palace on the first floor, and began to be in charge of maintaining a layer of law and order.

From the twenty-sixth floor, a ponytailed man named Heathcliff appeared in front of everyone and persuaded Asuna to become the deputy head of the "Knights of the Blood Alliance" he formed, and Kiriko was half-tied to his chariot.

Heathcliff made a splash in the 26th floor boss battle, and then developed the Knights of the Blood Alliance into a large organization second only to the Irongrun Combine Army at breakneck speed.

Although the current Blood Alliance Knights are not as good as the Irongrant United, but surpassing it is just around the corner, and now the Irongrant Coalition looks strong, but this is when the army's promoters are still there, but after a year's hard work, more than ninety percent of the remaining sixty-three army promoters have completed the three main tasks. After discussion, they have given up the optional quests, and only plan to leave everyone as soon as the main quest is completed.

Optional Quest 1: Complete Strategy

Description: Break through the 100 floor of Ayn Grant, reward points 5000 points, experience points 200, attribute points *5, limited B-level lottery *1, lottery chance *2

Optional mission two: The culprit

Mission Description: Find the culprit Akihiko Kayaba and present enough evidence to identify him in front of at least thirty people. Earn 3000 points and 100 experience points. Attribute Points*3, C-Rank Limited Lottery*1, Lottery Chance*1

Note: You can complete the promotion by completing the main quest, and the main quest does not issue task rewards, but the completion of the main quest determines the evaluation of the promoted character

The current army promoters have been a bit passive in battle, and in order to ensure that more people are promoted, they have begun to reduce their losses as much as possible, if it weren't for Le Yuan's tough attitude and the task has not been completed. may also be like Luo Rou and the others, who are "protected" in the guild building.

In a small alley in the forty-nine-story main block of Mukien, Le Yuan looked at Argo, who was still dressed in earthy clothes, and couldn't help but say, "Hey, you don't even know the basic survival skills of a woman, you can't dress up, right?" Otherwise, if you go and practice more with Asuna, you might be able to gain proficiency. ”

"Hmph, your mouth is really unpleasant." Argo said in a nasal voice, "I was going to give you the exclusive information. But now......"

"Hehe, dear Argo......" Le Yuan rubbed Argo's head and said, "Haven't we been close partners for so long?" Can you just bear to watch that boss being snatched by someone else? ”

"Well, don't treat me like a child." Argo was immediately furious. Knocked off Le Yuan's hand and said: "Actually, this is what Kiriko asked me to pass on to you, she asked me to help her thank you, I don't know what it means, but this is a text message she gave you." ”

"Kiriko? It's been so long?,I haven't seen Kiriko in the last two raiders.,I thought she forgot about me.。 Le Yuan clicked on the text message and glanced at it, then immediately closed it and said, "Thank you Argo, but can you find out a message for me?" ”

"Hmm, what is it? I've been spending a lot more on intelligence lately! Argo said, looking away.

"Don't worry about the cost, I want you to help me check someone." Le Yuan said as he looked at Argo, whose face was half covered by the cloak.

"Who?" Probably because it was strange who Le Yuan, the person who had been chasing the orange player, was targeting, Argo asked without raising his head.

"Captain of the Blood Alliance Knights, Heathcliff, especially before the news appeared on the twenty-sixth floor." Le Yuan said lightly.

"What did you say?" As if thinking that he had misheard, Argo suddenly raised his head to look at Le Yuan, but seeing that Le Yuan was already looking at him motionlessly, he nodded and agreed: "Okay, I know, I will investigate." ”

In the next five days, Le Yuan was in the midst of crazy leveling, and the level had broken through to level 72 unprecedentedly, far exceeding the number of floors.

As a death game, the general number of floors plus ten is the security level of the leveling area, and the number of floors plus fifteen or even twenty is the security level of the boss on the raider floor, but there are very few who can really make the level exceed the number of floors by twenty, in other words, the current Le Yuan can be said to be the highest-level player in SAO.

At 4 p.m. on December 24th, Le Yuan returned to his temporary residence on the thirty-fifth floor and began to prepare for tonight's boss strategy.

Kiriko's text message a few days ago only had a few sentences on it: "Judge the Cultist Nicolas in the thirty-fifth floor of the random labyrinth 'Lost Forest' coordinates 4921, 1921. Extremely dangerous, be cautious. ”

Le Yuan took out the sword he had built not long ago, the Guilty Fang, which was made of a bloody black crystal with a quality of "S" level as a reward from the wish of the owner of the A-level mission bakery, which can be said to be one of the few super weapons that can match the magic sword-level weapon, and Le Yuan can barely equip it after reaching level 70.

Carrying the sword on his back and checking the durability of the equipment on one side, Le Yuan filled the inventory with items such as recovery, antidote crystals, and potions that he had treasured for a long time.

Less than two hours before midnight, Le Yuan walked out of the door and walked towards the random maze labyrinth labyrinth forest.

Le Yuan walked slowly along the way, except to avoid unnecessary battles. Le Yuan was also extremely vigilant in opening the fully acquired "Seeking Enemies" skill to prevent anyone from following him.

However, when Le Yuan completely entered the Lost Forest, he found that no player appeared here except him.

"Huh, it should be said that Argo is still very disciplined, and he didn't sell the news of Tongzi." Le Yuan breathed a sigh of relief at this time, compared to fighting the boss, the battle with the player is the most tiring.

When Le Yuan came to the coordinates given by Kiriko, there were less than ten minutes left before 12 o'clock, and Le Yuan looked at the huge fir tree with almost no other trees, a square block covered with snow and glowing pure white, this was a natural battle field.

Time is passing bit by bit on the side of the perspective, when the time comes to the moment of zero. A bell suddenly sounded overhead, and Le Yuan looked towards the top of the tree, only to see the dark night, scattered snowflakes fluttering, and two rays of light in the sky not far away.

When the light approached, Le Yuan noticed that a group of strange animals on the optical fiber were pulling a sled.

When the sleigh reached the top of the tree, a huge black shadow jumped from the sled, and Le Yuan couldn't help but jump backwards to avoid the splashing snow.

When the snow cleared, Le Yuan realized that the person standing in front of him was more than five meters tall. Possessing long arms, tiny red eyes, and an unusually ugly humanoid Santa Claus.

I saw that it was holding an axe in its right hand and a large bag full of it in its left hand. Said to Le Yuan without knowing what to say: "Ahhhh

"Death!" With a loud roar, Le Yuan rushed towards the apostate Nikelas in front of him.

"Hmm-" Although the apostate Nikelas seemed to have difficulty moving with a bag on his back, he could swing his axe at an astonishing speed, but Le Yuan was not easy to deal with. One of his most powerful single-shot skills, "Desperate Heavy Strike", accelerated away from Nikolas's axe strike, and the blade of the sword flashed with blood-red light, and Le Yuan's attack range suddenly doubled. Stabbed it in the head.

"Boom-" The Fatal Strike knocked the apostate Nikelas to the ground with a huge impact, and Le Yuan also said that this opportunity had passed the stun time of this skill.

The apostate Nikelas struggled to stand up, and Le Yuan picked it up and slashed at his head with a high-level sword skill vertical quadruple, and the black sword light hit Nikolas's body four times in a row, knocking it to the ground again.

"Uhh

"Horizontal arc slash" Le Yuan only had time to use this move to shoot down the snowball in front of him, but the dense snowballs continued to hit Le Yuan's body, although each shot did not hurt much, but dozens or hundreds of shots still hit Le Yuan's HP to less than half, Le Yuan took out a tube of recovery potion at that time, and his health returned at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Wow whoa-" The giant axe in Niklath's hand flashed a white light, and then slashed down towards Le Yuan, and in an instant, the original axe shadow turned into three.

"Reverse wheel!" In the face of the menacing giant axe, Le Yuan used the only counterattack sword skill, and after consuming one-third of his health to block this blow, the sword in Le Yuan's hand turned into two meteors and pointed directly at Nikolas's heart.

This battle began to evolve into a tug-of-war, Nyorath did not have the strength to kill Le Yuan with one hit, and Le Yuan did not have the skill to quickly output damage, Le Yuan could only rely on the supplies in the inventory to grind with Nyorath little by little.

At 1:47 a.m. on December 25, 2023, with only one recovery crystal left in Le Yuan, he ended Nikolas' life with a fatal blow.

By the time he retracted his sword into its scabbard, Nikelas had dissipated into the snowy night, along with the large bag with it.

A large number of new item names appeared in the inventory, including weapons and armor, gems, crystals, and even ingredients, but Le Yuan didn't have time to observe this, but stared at one of them.

Its name is "Soul Resurrection Crystal", and as the name suggests, it has only one function - resurrection.

Click on the "Resurrection Crystal", and you will see that it says, "Select from the automatic menu of this item, or hold it in your hand and shout "Resurrection: Player Name", as long as it is used within the time between the death of the target player and the complete disappearance of the effect light (about ten seconds), the target player can be resurrected. ”

This is the SAO's explanation, and the most special one is an explanation from the "New Territories" system.

Resurrection Saint Quartz (Special)

Grade B+

Priority for excellent quality 55

Attribute: None (Placed in the inventory)

Effect: When the wielder dies, he can choose to revive in a semi-complete state for 10 seconds, remove all debuffs, and have 3 seconds of invincibility (cannot damage anyone)

Take-out: Yes

Notes: This is a magical spar and a rarity.

The unique resurrection prop is now in Le Yuan's hands. (To be continued.) )

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