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'Iron' 55th Floor, Grand Sam...

In the corner of the city of Gransom, there is a silver-white building that looks like a castle...

It is like the king's palace, covered with flags and stone statues, but also like a fortress of war, full of a sense of deterrence, standing in front of this building, people's hearts will involuntarily produce a sense of insignificance, coupled with those flags fluttering in the wind, faintly, a sense of solemnity surging inside...

On the flag, a cross-like sword-shaped symbol is printed there, and the bright red flag reflects the cross sword, which makes it look extremely sacred, and if anyone who doesn't know comes here, they may think that this is the residence of a king or the residence of a general...

And this is the headquarters of the 'Knights of the Blood Alliance'!

After more than a year, the so-called excellent emerging guild at the beginning has now transformed into the strongest existence in the 'SAO', and the name of the 'Blood Alliance Knights' is spoken, and the people who don't know it are probably only those fools who have been forced to have a mental breakdown in the 'SAO', and there is not even a single one in the town of the first floor of the beginning who does not know.

As the strongest guild in the 'SAO', there are actually not many people in the 'Blood Alliance Knights', only a few hundred people, and it is a bit extravagant to live in this castle-like building, not to mention that some high-rise buildings actually have their own houses, so from the outside, it seems to be very majestic, in fact. There aren't many people living in it either...

Along the way, there were very few people inside, and I don't know if they went on a mission, or they all stayed outside, and they didn't come to this cold castle, all in all, the inside is completely different from the outside, and it is unusually deserted, such a place, it may be good to see. But as a place of residence. It really doesn't fit...

Having come to such a conclusion, without saying a word and observing the deserted walls and buildings, he followed Asuna towards the location of Heathcliff...

Seeing that he was speechless, he didn't look at his surroundings again. Asuna seemed to understand the wordless mind. I nodded very empathetically. After a moment's hesitation, he spoke softly...

"That, Xiexie you..."

Wordless blinked. The eyes full of doubts immediately turned to Asuna's body, expressing her doubts to her, seeing this, Asuna whispered: "That recipe has helped me a lot..."

Hearing this, he nodded wordlessly and waved his hand indifferently. "Well, it's good to be able to help you, you don't need to thank me, anyway, even without me, you should be able to make a good cookbook, with your dedication to food..."

"What do you mean?" Asuna squinted into speechlessness with some dissatisfaction. Attachment to food? Am I gluttonous? …”

"Sa, who knows..."Wordless looked directly at Asuna with a meaningful gaze and a slight smile, so that Asuna couldn't help but recall the way she ate in front of Wordless, her face showed a look of shame, her hand was on the hilt of the sword, and Wordless quickly looked away.

Asuna snorted coldly, and stopped talking to Wuyan, and walked forward with him, and if you looked closely, her pace was much faster, which made Wuyan laugh in her heart.

It's so childish...

After a few turns, Asuna passed a long iron-walled corridor without a word, and it didn't take long for a very imposing looking gate to appear in the sight of the two...

The figure was beyond the wordlessness, Asuna walked to the door, and without reporting, she directly pushed open the door, and as the gate separated, the scene inside the door slowly appeared...

Similar to the conference room, the area is large, but there is not much decoration, there is only a long desk in a huge room, and behind the desk, Heathcliff, dressed in a red knight's robe, sits there, looking at the wordless who walks in the door, and the flag of the 'Knights of the Blood Alliance' is still hanging on the wall behind him...

Wordless walked forward, paused at a distance of four or five meters from Heathcliff, raised his eyes to look at Heathcliff, Heathcliff also looked speechless, the eyes of the two were together, this scene, without the difference in the environment, was exactly the same as when the two met under the hotel on the second floor a year ago!

However, compared to a year ago, the identities of the two are completely different!

A year ago, Wordless was a budding player, and Heathcliff was the leader of a budding guild...

A year later, one is already the strongest player, and the other is also the leader of the strongest guild...

Seeing each other again after a year, the two of them did not speak, but looked at each other quietly, making the whole room dead silent, and the atmosphere was surging...

Asuna on the side held her breath, closed her mouth tightly, chestnut-colored eyes lingered on the bodies of the two figures, and her heartbeat accelerated slightly...

I don't know how long it took for Heathcliff to let out a laugh that broke the heavy atmosphere.

"It's been a long time, speechless—" Heatscliff spoke, and said this with an emotion that he didn't know what kind of emotion. It's been a year since then..."

Wordless nodded faintly, and his eyes pierced Heathcliff like electricity, as if he wanted to pierce his heart and see through his thoughts.

"You've changed a lot in one year..."

"Oh? Is it? Heathcliff smiled. "More or less a little, after all, the current situation is different from before, and I am also a person with status, so I can't be so casual."

"How? Wordless..."Heathcliff said to Wordless: "As you said at the beginning, I brought my guild to the top of the 'SAO', and the 'Knights of the Blood Alliance' has become the strongest guild in this shijie, do you have any feelings?" …”

"Thoughts? Wordless glanced around the wide room and spoke slowly.

"The gains outweigh the losses..."

Asuna on the side was stunned by the wordless words, and looked at the speechless in surprise, but did not refute anything, but agreed with it.

"Huh? Heathcliff's eyes froze, his face calmed, and he said, "Will Weishenme gain more than it loses?" …”

Wordless tugged at the corners of his mouth, and turned to Heathcliff with a smile. "Some of the powerful come at a price, Captain Heathcliff, what do you think is the price paid by the 'Knights of the Blood Alliance'? …”

Heathcliff was silent, but his eyes were always on the speechless body, and after a long time, he shook his head and said: "As I said just now, the current situation is different from before, if there are no rules, this guild will sooner or later be chaotic, or even dispersed, so some restraints must be had..."

Heathcliff said bluntly: "At least the current 'Blood Alliance Knights' are the strongest, this is undeniable..."

Hearing this, he didn't say anything anymore, and nodded indifferently.

"It's your guild anyway, for me, it doesn't matter..."

"How can it not matter? Silent King..."Heathcliff looked up and said, "If you join our 'Knights of the Blood Alliance', then don't you have to remember all this?" …”

Hearing Heathcliff's words, Asuna was startled, and after reacting, she hurriedly looked at Wuyan.

Wordless, he sighed with a smile and said to Heathcliff, "Do you think I'll join your guild?" …”

"No!" Heathcliff replied without hesitation, as if he didn't really want to invite Wordless to join the 'Knights of the Blood Alliance'.

"Honestly, you used to scare me!" Heathcliff said this, and his eyes became solemn for a moment.

"Captain," Asuna exclaimed.

"Fear? Wordless's eyes narrowed and met Heatscliff's face.

"Yes, fear..."Heathcliff took a light breath and said very seriously, "Before you appeared, I never thought that anyone in this shijie could do this, but you did..."

"So... I'm terrified..." (To be continued......)