I, Asuna, don't want to travel around the world

In Alpheim, nine races occupy eight regions, spread out around the continent.

However, in the center of Alpheim, there is a neutral area.

In that neutral area, there is a fairly large neutral city.

It is called the central city————【Arun】.

But Arun was built on the roots of an extremely large tree.

That huge tree is none other than the [World Tree].

"Inside the World Tree is a large dome-shaped temple. There is an entrance on top of the dome. From there, you can climb into the World Tree and climb all the way to the top. As long as you reach the sky city at the top and meet the Elf King Oberon, your race will be reincarnated as light elves, and the restrictions on staying in the air will be lifted forever. Therefore, all races have always set this as their goal and want to conquer the World Tree."

Leafa and Asuna sat under a tree, talking about the news about the Spirit King and the World Tree.

“However, in the temple inside the World Tree, there are a large number of NPC guardian knights!

They are very powerful. So far, every race in ALO has launched several attacks on the World Tree, but they were all wiped out by the Guardian Knights.

Speaking of this, Leafa was also very helpless.

"The Fire Elves, the most powerful of the nine races, almost conquered the World Tree and reached the top of the World Tree, but were eventually defeated by the Guardian Knights."

"So, even though ALO has been officially launched for a year, no one has been able to reach the top of the World Tree and be reborn as a light spirit."

Because of this incident, players have protested to [RECT], the operator, and demanded that the game balance be improved so that players can conquer the World Tree normally.

However, the final answer was "this game is operated under an appropriate balance", which caused players of all races to say that "there is no way to conquer the World Tree forever".

However, if two races are willing to join forces, according to the recent case of the Fire Elves who almost succeeded, as long as their luck is not too bad, there is still hope to capture the World Tree and allow players of both races to be reincarnated as Light Elves.

But would other races agree to this?

Everyone was agreeing on the horizontal line, but you wanted to overtake secretly?

no way!

Especially the Fire Elves, because their reputation is so bad, players of other races dare not join forces with the Fire Elves, for fear that they will be stabbed in the back during the fight.

If other races want to join forces, they have to be wary of fire elves or players of other hostile races, which will result in the alliance never being fruitless, and naturally no race will be able to attack the World Tree.

If no one can ever conquer the World Tree, then no one will ever be able to reincarnate as a spirit of light.

If you can never reincarnate as a light elf, then you will never be able to remove the restriction on hovering.

Players can only fly within a limited time and under limited conditions, as if their wings were shackled.

This is too uncomfortable for people who have experienced the freedom of flying, especially those like Dulifa.

Therefore, all races regard conquering the World Tree as the ultimate goal and continue to play this game.

However, due to various reasons, they were unable to reach an alliance and had to fight alone.

040 preparation

"However, I heard that the Fire Spirit has learned from the last lesson and is going to launch an offensive against the World Tree again."

"So these days, they have been collecting money and props, buying all the equipment and preparing all the props, and they are determined to reach the top of the World Tree."

At this point, Leafa's tone began to become unhappy.

"Because of this incident, the fire elves' already strong aggressiveness has become even more unscrupulous. In order to collect money and props, they do not hesitate to attack players of other races who are outside the circle."

The advantage of this is that it can threaten other players.

If you don't want to be killed in vain, then hand over all your wealth to me!

In this way, the fire elves don't have to fight and can get a lot of money and props without any effort.

And if a player resists and is killed, unless someone uses resurrection magic on him, the dead player will be teleported back to the territory one minute later, and the proficiency of the skills he has worked hard to train will decrease, which is not worth the loss.

Compared to the difficult-to-improve skill proficiency, money and props are not that precious. Therefore, when facing the oppression of the fire elves, most players will choose to surrender in order to avoid a decline in their proficiency.

Unless it is a very rare item, no one wants to be killed.

After a player is killed, in addition to the skill proficiency that will be lost, about 30% of the unequipped money and props on him will also be lost.

In view of this, in the eyes of those who want to kill and rob, these players are mobile warehouses that can be extracted at will.

If you don't resist, you will only lose money and props.

If you resist, not only will your skill proficiency drop, but also your money and props will be lost.

Therefore, compared to the more valuable skill proficiency, spending money to buy lives is more easily accepted by players.

Of course, if there are several players teaming up together, there will be a safety slot. The props placed in this slot in advance will be automatically transferred to the team members when they die and will not fall.

However, even so, this cannot stop others from wanting to kill and rob.

Team up? Is it useful? As long as you can wipe out the whole team, won't you still get very good rewards?

In addition, since the territories of the wind elves and the fire elves are adjacent, there is constant friction between them, and there is also a constant struggle between the forces.

Because of this, wind elf players have been "taken care of" by fire elf players and have suffered a lot.

At this point, Leafa's tone was filled with indignation, and it was clear that she had no good feelings towards those fire elves.

Although Leafa herself is very strong and will not be killed by the fire elf players and drop items and money, her friends are not like her and are all masters.

Even when forming a team, she was always targeted by the fire elf players and was unable to support her friends, which made her even more annoyed.

"If that's the case, then wouldn't it be great if we could conquer the World Tree before those fire elf players?"

Asuna stood up, held out her hand to Leafa, and said, "How about it? Are you interested?"

Leafa was stunned for a moment and said, "But, with just us..."

"How do you know if you don't try?" Asuna interrupted Leafa immediately.

"I still have many friends who are as capable as me but haven't entered this game yet. If I call them over to play together, it will increase my chances of winning, right?"

"Is...is that so?"

Leafa naturally knew who those friends Asuna was talking about, and she couldn't help but hesitate.

If we, the elite wind elf players, add Asuna and the other survivors of SAO, we should be able to... conquer the World Tree, right?

Although Leafa did not learn from her brother how thrilling the battle in SAO was, it did not prevent her from looking for some information on the Internet.

SAO's bosses are, to a large extent, higher in strength and difficulty than ALO's.

After all, the former is a death game, while the latter is simply a real game that allows players to fly.

If that's the case, maybe it really works!

"OK then."

Leafa held Asuna's hand and stood up.

"Even if we fail to capture the World Tree, we should be able to disrupt the Fire Spirit's capture..."

"Okay, okay, before that, take me to fight outside the circle first."

Asuna quickly interrupted Leafa.

After all, strategies and the like are not that important to Asuna, since she has only just started playing this game.

Moreover, she has great confidence in her friends.

world Tree?

Is it difficult to have SAO?

If you really don't want to do it, why not just call your friends and come together to plan it?

Everyone has their own small circle, but if these small circles are gathered together, they will become a very considerable fighting force.

Then we just need to let them log in to their SAO accounts...

It shouldn't... be discovered by the GM and have the account banned, right?

Asuna couldn't help but feel a little guilty.

After all, it's their own game. Isn't it a bit inappropriate to target it so much?

Forget it, let’s talk about it when the time comes.

"The wings seem to have almost recovered." Asuna took out the novice equipment from her warehouse, looked eagerly into the depths of the forest, and said with a smile: "Let's go for a walk, and if we encounter a boss that we can't beat, how about evacuating?

"Okay! It's settled!"

"..."

Leafa was speechless.

She knew that no matter what she said now, Asuna would not listen to her.

About an hour later, Asuna returned to Siilban with a satisfied look on her face.

On the contrary, Leafa looked tired and listless. People who didn't know her would think that the two of them went out alone to do something.

Let those spectators start to imagine again.

Then, under the leadership of the listless Leafa, the two of them ran to one weapon store or prop store after another in front of the surprised and weird looks of the onlookers.

"I want the highest performance equipment I can get right now. Don't worry about the money."

With Asuna's money paving the way, Leafa took Asuna to many expensive famous stores, and even found many famous production or merchant players to buy the latest high-performance equipment from them.

What? No suitable equipment?

It’s okay. Leafa and I just fought a lot of bosses together, and we have a lot of materials. Please help me use these materials to create a suitable high-performance equipment!

So, after the two of them had gone to who knows how many shops and spent most of their money and dropped materials, Asuna finally managed to gather together the equipment that met her requirements.

Looking at the few hundred thousand dollars left in her pocket, Asuna couldn't help but sigh that sometimes, money really doesn't last long.

041 The gap between players

"How's it going? Not bad, right?"

At the door of a store, Asuna showed Leafa the equipment she had just put on and smiled faintly.

Now, Asuna's obviously inferior initial equipment has disappeared, and has been replaced by an outfit similar to that of the female adventurers in Orario.

To be more precise, it is similar to the dress of those elf adventurers, extremely beautiful, and even gives people the illusion of "Does such clothes really have defensive power?"

Not only that, you can vaguely see a few pieces of jewelry on Asuna's body, proving that Asuna has collected all the equipment on her body without any missing pieces.

Leafa's face turned slightly red and her heartbeat quickened involuntarily.

Not to mention Leafa, even the onlookers around were attracted by Asuna, staring at the two beautiful girls below with dull eyes.

Coupled with Leafa's previous absent-mindedness, fatigue and other behaviors, it made them play out a big drama in their minds.

Asuna was also very satisfied with Leafa's performance.

As for this set of equipment, although it cannot be compared with Asuna's equipment in SAO, this game was only operated for one year.

In comparison, the equipment Asuna collected during SAO's one year of operation was not much different in performance from this set of equipment.

Of course, this is without any reinforcement.

If it was when SAO had been in operation for a year, Asuna's equipment would certainly not be much different from what it is now, but that set of equipment had also been enhanced many times, and some of it had even been enhanced to the limit, which was much stronger than the current set of equipment that had not been enhanced.

But even so, Asuna was satisfied.

Being able to gather equipment of this level in such a short time requires more than just spending money.

It also required a little bit of luck and the connections that Leafa had built up among the wind elves, which allowed Asuna to purchase high-performance equipment from many famous players.

After all, sometimes it is difficult to buy good things if you have money but no connections.

So, even though Asuna had spent most of her fortune on this, and even almost used up all the money transferred from SAO, she was already very satisfied to be able to get such a set of equipment in a very short time.

To be frank, the equipment Asuna is wearing now is definitely comparable to that of top players. Even Leafa, who doesn't pay much attention to the performance of equipment, is not as good as Asuna now.

Therefore, Asuna has now upgraded her weapons.

To be honest, if it weren't for Leafa's help, it would have been an absolute pipe dream for Asuna to reach the ranks of top players on the first day of entering the game.

With Leafa's introduction, Asuna's equipment was all purchased from famous players and merchants.

Leafa even hired a number of famous blacksmiths to help Asuna forge equipment, which shows how famous and well-connected Leafa is in ALO.