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

However, once a monster is killed, the dungeon will immediately give birth to a new monster, so that there will never be a shortage of monsters in this area.

This feature is even more outrageously powerful on floors like the 51st.

Asuna did not hold back in her initial attack. Although she did not use sword skills that were comparable to magic, she was able to clear out countless rhino monsters in a short moment with just her swordsmanship and strong physical fitness. Not to mention that the invisible sword energy helped her slaughter the monsters behind her.

This also led to the dungeon starting to be supplemented crazily!

The hordes of monsters continued to attack Asuna violently, with roars and earth-shaking sounds continuing.

The monster in front of him died under the sword, and monsters on both sides immediately replaced him. A large army of monsters also surged in from the back, literally filling up the entire maze.

However, although the number of those monsters was terrifyingly large, their speed was much slower than Asuna's. They were like a small boat in the turbulent ocean. They looked shaky but were always easily defeated by the black waves.

Moving forward firmly.

“————?!”

Suddenly, just as Asuna was dealing with a black rhino monster in front of her, a color other than black suddenly appeared in the corner of Asuna's eyes? !

In this almost pure black monster frenzy, Asuna cast her eyes behind the charging black rhinoceros, and then she saw the true form of that strange color!

It was a yellow-green creature with a body reminiscent of plant skin. From the appearance, it seemed to be the larvae of some insect, but compared to those petite larvae, these monsters could be said to be ten thousand times more ugly!

Their upper bodies are bulging like hills, while their lower bodies are soft like snails, with countless short legs like centipedes, which are densely packed and look quite disgusting.

The monster's swollen, bursting yellow-green skin was covered with colorful lines, which not only failed to beautify the skin, but made people feel even more disgusted.

Compared with their huge and ugly bodies, their flat arms that seem to have no thickness at all stretch out from both sides of their bodies, looking extremely uncoordinated.

Moreover, there are four cracks at the front end of the arm, as if the fingers were directly separated from the arm.

Chapter 23 Disgusting Monsters and Detours

Looking at the monster, Asuna didn't know what words to use to describe it.

Like slime?

Slimes are creatures made of sticky liquid, and from time to time they are possessed by humans from another world, making them a potential race to become demon kings.

And this monster in front of me...

It has a substantial body, an appearance like a larva, and numerous short legs and flat tentacles like those of a manta ray that are densely packed to the point of killing someone with trypophobia.

Although there are many kinds of monsters in SAO, Asuna has never seen such a strange creature. When thinking of such an existence, the only word to describe it is disgusting.

A group of disgusting monsters of different sizes and shapes poured out from a corner of the maze.

They gathered together, like clumps of yellow-green meat or snot, wriggling forward and filling the entire passage ahead.

They crowded in the passage ahead, seemingly just to block the way, or to disgust the adventurers with their appearance and make them lose the desire to fight.

Anyway, Asuna was disgusted by the ugly monsters crowded together, and subconsciously wanted to use a light cannon sword skill to clear them out and make way for them.

However, before Asuna could use her sword skills, those ugly monsters took the lead and moved!

The front ends of the lumps of flesh cracked open, revealing a crack covered with disgusting mucus, like a mouth.

Seeing this scene, Asuna's eyes suddenly flashed with a gleam of light. Looking at the limp body that seemed to store countless mucus, a very unacceptable guess arose in her heart!

"Could it be..."

Almost at the same time, the larvae-like monsters opened their mouths and sprayed out smelly liquid.

Asuna's face suddenly turned dark, and she quickly rushed to a passage beside the maze.

“Puff! Puff! Puff!”

Asuna swung the rapier in her hand, leaving behind a trail of sword light, and rushed towards the passage on the side at the black rhino monster like lightning.

A purple-black smelly liquid fell from the sky like a heavy rain, forming a smelly torrent in the maze.

Like surging sewer sewage, it violently washed over the entire passage in front of the larvae monsters.

“Shhhhhh——!”

“Roar, roar ...

Along with a creepy corrosion sound, the purple-black liquid turned into a torrent and corroded everything on the passage it touched!

Whether it was the ground, the rock wall, or the ceiling that was hit by the eruption, all of them were corroded and left with hideous wounds.

The stone wall was already like this, and the black rhinos that were still charging were directly swept into the purple-black torrent, emitting bursts of shrill screams, and then, even their skin and bones were corroded away, like melted steel, making people's scalps numb.

Wisps of green smoke rose from the purple-black torrent, like the souls of the black rhinos, slowly dissipating.

Asuna rushed into the fork in the road and saw the scene in front of her. She rubbed her arms hurriedly and felt goose bumps all over her body at this moment.

And Asuna finally understood what kind of monster the expedition team of Loki's family encountered.

Not only do these monsters store large amounts of corrosive liquids in their bodies, but they also know how to use this type of long-range attack.

It's not just weapons. No matter what it is, as long as it comes into contact with the corrosive liquid, it will be corroded.

In the last expedition, Loki's family suffered losses at the hands of these monsters.

The weapons of Tione and Tiona were corroded directly after piercing the limp bodies of the monsters and are currently under repair.

If even the weapons were dissolved, facing such a monster with bare hands, even if it was a first-level adventurer of Lv.5 or Lv.6, whoever touched it would die. Even if he didn't die, he would be seriously injured.

Of course, if you clean the corrosive liquid from your body in time and then receive quick treatment, then there will be no problem, but the prerequisite is that you must be prepared to be naked in front of your clan members.

Otherwise, it is not recommended to go up and attack with bare hands.

A certain Amazonian girl named Tione is a good example.

The same was true for Ais's beloved sword, which first dealt with these monsters and then went to defeat the floor master of the 38th floor alone. If she hadn't been wearing the armor given to her by Asuna at the time,

I'm afraid Aisi failed in the one-on-one duel.

Moreover, if it were the backless protective gear that Ai Si wore back then... ahem, if any monster with high enough attack power came and stabbed Ai Si in the back, Ai Si would be in great pain for a long time and would lose at least a quarter of her combat power.

On the importance of good weapons and good protective gear!

Although weapons with the indestructible attribute can be guaranteed to never be damaged, it does not mean that they will not be worn out.

As long as it is a weapon, if it is used for a long time without maintenance and repair, its sharpness will decrease and its power will be weakened.

The same is true for weapons with indestructible attributes.

Even if it can be guaranteed that it will not be damaged, if it is used for a long time or even if the weapon comes into contact with corrosive liquid, its sharpness will definitely drop significantly.

Aisi's Sword of Despair has experienced two fierce battles, one with those corrosive monsters, and the other with a duel with the floor master. Because it was used too roughly, the maintenance and repair costs of the Sword of Despair continued to rise.

In the battle with Yves not long ago, the collision between the two damaged the rapier that the god who helped her repair her beloved sword had lent her...

If Aisi owes more money, it might be over 100 million, right?

"It's really disgusting. Although the sword skills can clear a passage in an instant...but..."

Asuna quickly dismissed the thought as she thought of the corrosive liquid splashing everywhere because of her attack.

"Let's take a different route..."

Asuna took a look, then rushed towards a passage on her right side.

Those larva-like monsters merely occupied a passage. Although her own loop would extend the distance, Asuna really didn't want to face those disgusting monsters.

It looks ugly, its body fluids are corrosive, and its soft flesh doesn't look strong. I'm afraid it will explode suddenly if attacked, and then the smelly purple-black liquid will splash all over me.

Along the way, Asuna killed the newly born monsters from the rock walls on both sides, and rushed into a maze passage on the right like a hot knife through butter.

Like a meteor streaking through the night sky, it quickly left the area where the larvae monsters were.

As long as I'm fast enough, the monsters won't be able to disgust me!

Chapter 24 A Short Rest

"call out--!!!"

On the stone pillars dozens of meters high nearby, a large number of deformed spiders were constantly spitting out spider silk to launch long-range attacks. Asuna swung her beloved sword, launching a storm-like slashing attack, killing the spider silk and the huge deformed spiders clinging to the stone pillars and walls.

Magic power is very useful, but only she can use it in this way, because other people seem to use magic and skills. Asuna has never seen such a way of directly covering the blade with magic power and forming an invisible blade attack as the rapier is swung.

The black rhino monsters still filled the entire passage, as if they had slowed down the birth rate in other places, concentrating on the passage where Asuna was, and quickly giving birth to new monsters.

However, this is still within Asuna's resistance range.

The rhino monsters behind him couldn't catch up with him at all, and the rhino monsters in front were all killed one by one with his slashes. Although the spiders on the stone walls and pillars were a bit troublesome, he could still destroy the spider webs they wove by waving his sword energy, but failed to intercept them.

"Shua——! Shua——! Shua——!"

Facing the charging monsters, Asuna struck them with a storm of slashes and cut them into pieces. Before the rhino monsters could attack her, she had completely stopped the monsters' attacks and kept them in a "passive" state of attack at all times.

As mentioned before, starting from the 51st floor, the dungeon finally began to look like an underground maze, and its structure was that of a regular maze.

Even with a map, if you accidentally take the wrong path, you will immediately be dizzy and then be swallowed up by the groups of monsters that keep breaking out of the walls. Eventually, your strength and props will be exhausted and you will end up being eaten by the monsters.

Under such circumstances, the most important thing to avoid when entering the 51st floor is undoubtedly forced march.

Once you are in a hurry to get on with your journey and take the wrong path, and become trapped in the maze, then even if you are a strong team, you will die sooner or later if you don't find the exit back to the 50th floor.

However, this "maze" does not actually play any role for Asuna, because the map in the upper left of her sight is constantly updated as she advances, completely avoiding the incident of Asuna running into repeated passages.

Moreover, with Asuna's current strength, except for those disgusting larva monsters, other monsters that appear in front of Asuna can basically be killed with one sword, and they can't withstand the second attack at all. If it really doesn't work, Asuna can also directly smash the walls of the maze and enter other passages.

So, as Asuna continued to advance and screen, the passage leading to the 52nd floor slowly surfaced.

After using her sword skills with built-in laser cannons to clear out the monsters, Asuna then smashed the walls around her with her laser cannons. Countless debris and boulders instantly filled the space in front of Asuna, blocking the path between the fifty-first and fifty-second floors.

"Cough cough cough-"

Asuna quickly covered her mouth and nose and retreated, evacuating the rubble area filled with smoke and dust.

"As expected... Livilia's magic is more useful."

Looking at the gray dust, Asuna couldn't help but think of Livilia's magic.

Summon fire and ice at will.

It's not hot in the summer and not cold in the winter. Livilia alone should be able to afford the cooling and heating for the entire Loki clan, right?

If Livilia were here now, she could just freeze the passage on this level. Unlike me, I have to destroy the surrounding stone walls, causing smoke and dust to rise, which is not only choking but also dirty. If she had frozen the passage, there would be no such trouble.

"Let's go back and try to find a magic book... I heard it's very expensive, but I seem to have gained a lot this time. I should be able to buy one for Belle and Alisa as well."

The materials and magic stones in the deeper layers are very valuable, and in order to find the passage to the 52nd floor, Asuna ran through almost all the mazes on the 51st floor, killing countless monsters, and the magic stones and materials dropped were beyond others' imagination.

If other families were to go on an expedition, in order to ensure safety, they would only collect the magic stones and materials they had knocked down on the way back after the expedition. During this collection activity, they would inevitably encounter attacks from dungeon monsters, and naturally they would miss a lot. However, Asuna did not need to collect the materials by herself. She could just fight, and the warehouse would do the collecting herself.

Moreover, this was only the fifty-first floor, and my goal was the fifty-ninth floor. The rewards from this floor couldn't be enough to buy even a few magic books, right? !

He had to keep some magic stones and the like, because the magic power needed for his sword skills was mostly supplied by those magic stones.

Because she needs to train the numerical values ​​of various abilities, Asuna usually consumes all the magic power in her body before using sword skills, and then uses the magic stones in the warehouse as a substitute energy source.

Unlike the adventurers here, Asuna will not feel mentally exhausted or faint when her magic power is exhausted. She will just feel a little tired. After a short rest, she will be able to recover her spirit. As for her magic power, it will also slowly recover as she rests, which is completely different from the other adventurers.

After thinking about what she needed to do next, Asuna sat down against the wall and took out some snacks from the warehouse and started eating.

There was no one else here, so naturally there was no one for Asuna to chat with.

Although her physical and mental strength had been consumed a little in the previous battle, it would not hinder the next battle at all. However, to be on the safe side, Asuna decided to stay here for a while.

After all, even if the physical and mental strength consumed is very small, it would be too stupid to die in the monster's mouth if you lack just this little bit of physical and mental strength at the critical moment.

Although Asuna has not yet encountered the kind of floor master or monster that can withstand several of her sword skills and light cannons, no one knows what kind of monsters are in the depths of the dungeon. So far, Orario's expedition record has never exceeded the 60th floor. The unknown is often the most terrifying.

If she encountered a monster that was immune to magic and had a high regenerative ability, even Asuna would have to run away.

Safety and saving one's life are the two things Asuna needs to keep in mind the most.

After all, if I died, I would never see my family again.

"If I go back... I don't know if I can break the rules of the system..."

Asuna imagined it in her mind and finally shook her head.

What are you thinking about? Games are games, reality is reality, how can they be affected by human consciousness?

Chapter 25 Sniper and White Snake

After resting for about ten minutes, Asuna stood up again.