Evolution of a Girl

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A figure appeared on the other side of the river.

It was a woman wearing a hood.

Kirito looked at the woman across from him.

Asuna on the opposite side was also looking at the maid here.

Asuna was deeply impressed by the little maid, because after meeting the little maid, the death game officially began.

After this, Asuna went all the way to the depths of the map.

"Ah—you are—?"

Kirito looked at Asuna, who was wearing a hooded cloak, so her true appearance could not be seen. However, Kirito felt a subtle familiarity in the hair hanging from the hooded cloak and half of her face.

"Asuna." Asuna reported her online name.

"Kirito." Kirito felt like he had heard this name before.

He asked curiously, "Are you alone?"

"I'm playing a dungeon. The actual difficulty of this dungeon is very high."

"The real difficulty..."

Kirito was surprised.

"Real difficulty" is notorious among the player community.

Dungeons below the true difficulty level are basically the same as the real world, and players will experience pain, fatigue, and even muscle soreness.

Moreover, this mode is extremely cruel. The enemies are treacherous and cunning, and may even use human shields. Some copies even have broken limbs, which is really scary.

Kirito couldn't handle this full-scale simulation mode. He was a skilled gamer, but not a skilled real-life player.

After realizing that the other party was in a dungeon, Kirito immediately realized another problem: "Is there a goblin's nest ahead?!"

"Yes, a large-scale dungeon," Asuna said. "On normal difficulty, it's not a big deal; you just have to clear it all. But on true difficulty, it's very difficult, and there are a lot of captured women."

——The goblins in Sword Art Online were actually based on the information provided by Goblin Slayer.

Goblin Slayer is not a frequent visitor to the dream world, but the fact that he occasionally goes there to exchange information has given Kayaba Akihiko a lot of inspiration, so he used the description of Goblin Slayer to create the goblins in Sword Art Online.

Asuna walked deeper into the map and discovered several nests.

The normal difficulty of the lair is usually just to defeat the boss. However, the high difficulty and true difficulty are different.

For example, the real difficulty this time is to rescue the captured female knight in order to complete the mission.

Asuna had failed several times before.

But she changed her mind and realized that the real mode only needed to use the same methods as in the real world, so choosing to sneak in or pretend to be captured would also be a good idea.

But it is not so easy to sneak in, so Asuna plans to kill some monsters first, and then level up to conquer this dungeon.

I didn’t expect to meet an old acquaintance just after I came out.

"Maybe this is my target too," Kirito said.

"Give up. Even on normal difficulty, it's hard to conquer it alone." Asuna was able to conquer it entirely because of her innate advantages. Asuna didn't care about equipment attributes at all. Her attributes were actually very bad, but if others dared to use Asuna's panel to enter the dungeon, the grass on their graves might have been more than a meter high by now.

"How do you know if you don't try?" Kirito was quite confident.

"..." Asuna looked at the other party.

This "girl" wearing a maid outfit and looking heroic is really impressive.

And this is how Asuna and Kirito truly met in the world of Sword Art Online...

……

After all, it is related to Tianyin, so I will describe it, but because it is not the main line, I will write it briefly.

After that, we will fast forward to the story of the Smiling Coffin. However, this Smiling Coffin is different from the original. It just borrowed the name. After all, it is a public beta test with millions of people 2333~

But the plot might be a bit heavy.

Fell asleep, woke up with back pain... lie down on the bed... uncomfortable Orz

Chapter 516: The Development of Aincrad

The world of Sword Art Online has a population of millions.

These people come from all over the world, with different languages, customs and societies.

After the game became a black death game, players did start to work on strategies at the beginning. But within less than two weeks, the initial order began to collapse.

At the beginning, players just regarded this world as a game, and everything seemed to be the inertia of the game world.

But later on, everything changed.

Because they have gradually realized that this world is not just a game.

Cultural differences will lead to conflicts, and the distribution of resources such as maps and experience will also cause conflicts.

In the past, this was just a battle of pride within the game.

But now, the matter has turned into a struggle for survival.

And more importantly, in the game... you don't have to consider the order of the real world.

A million people are enough to form a huge city, and in many countries, there are only a handful of such cities.

Sword Art Online also has its own rules, but compared to the real world, the rules of this world are not maintained by a violent organization like a country, but are more like pure rules - just like the laws of nature.

Then people began to lose their sense of awe.

It is hard to say what humans who have lost their sense of awe can do.

There are now many guilds in Sword Art Online, and the people in these guilds form groups and become forces and organizations.

While they occupied the land and upgraded, they also fought with each other, and some people even wanted to kill each other.

——For some people, racism and terrorist activities are probably just commonplace.

So, after the initial half month of working together, people gradually began to split apart.

The entire first floor of Aincrad has almost become a lawless zone without order.

Fortunately, this chaos only lasted for a few months or so, and it was still based on the time in the game world.

After experiencing the initial division, the players finally realized one thing: if they continue to insist on this kind of thing, they might be trapped in this world forever!

Strategy game! Get out of here!

At this point, many people finally reached a consensus.

But not everyone agrees.

Because one day in the real world is five days in Sword Art Online. In other words, in Sword Art Online, it is almost equivalent to extending your lifespan five times!

But no matter what, everyone finally started to get serious and began to move towards the same goal.

Asuna also knew these things, but she never paid any attention to them.

In fact, Asuna rarely returns to town unless she needs to resupply.

It feels great to show off your strength and abilities in the wild world.

Every time his sword pierced a monster, he would feel a sense of exhilaration surge through his body.

Just can't stop.

However, after indulging herself for a few months, Asuna finally regained her rationality. At this time, the players gradually united and began to explore the depths. Asuna would occasionally see small teams.

After this extreme emotional outburst, Asuna gradually returned to normal. The treatment the psychiatrist had described was being achieved within this inescapable death game.

But after feeling empty, Asuna felt a little lost again.

Sometimes she is not really attached to the real world.

The virtual world was completely realistic, so Asuna's body felt the same as it did in the real world. And this world itself was so clean and natural, without the discomfort of the real world. So, purely for survival, this world was actually quite nice.

However, the habit had already been formed. Although Asuna was in a daze, she never stopped swinging her hands to chop at the monster.

And it was in this world that Asuna met the player named "Kirito".

A cute little maid.

In fact, Asuna had already recognized him. After all, the way he looked in a maid outfit was quite similar to the way he looked in women's clothes at home.

"Phew, solved."

Kirito breathed a sigh of relief.

The real difficulty copy has been solved.

At first, Kirito felt that realistic difficulty wasn't suitable for a homebody like him. In this mode, enemies had no UI, and the strength gap was huge. It was clearly like the real world. But then, Kirito realized that the sword skills and other abilities he'd mastered in the game world were still there, and he calmed down.

After getting familiar with each other a few times, the two men finally rescued all the hostages and destroyed this evil nest with smoke.

And just now, they finally completed the task.

"Is it okay for you to fight like this?" Asuna asked Kirito.

During the battle, Kirito basically held up her skirt with one hand and fought the monsters with the other.

"Because this skirt is a little inconvenient..."

Kirito lowered his head in embarrassment.

The maid outfit he was wearing was a long skirt, and the hem was so long that it almost reached the ground. Because of this, Kirito had to hold up the skirt when he moved.

"Asuna, you are really good at fighting. Those goblins are no match for you at all!" Kirito remembered that during the battle, Asuna's movements were very fast, like a flash of light.

Such style is really eye-catching.

Instead of leaving, the two sat in an open space near the nest and chatted.

——This was also part of the mission. The two rescued several captured female knights. These female knights had basically lost consciousness and were unable to move freely, so they had to wait for the rescue team to arrive. However, this gave the two time to chat.

In fact, this kind of plot is also a wonderful design of Sword Art Online. Completing the task is sometimes not just a cold reminder, but also to make the whole story seem real.

"The dungeon is still there, but the real mode is gone. I don't know if it's because the mission was completed or because we've already cleared it."

Kirito has never heard of anyone clearing the real mode copy.

On the one hand, it was because of the difficulty, and on the other hand, it was because the extremely real world without a health bar made them feel too dangerous.

Although this is a world where "one life is enough to pass the level", even so, many people still have lingering fears about this "real and fragile life".

Now many players who participate in the strategy guide are most worried that the first level of "World Master" will also be of "real difficulty".

But based on what Kirito has experienced, this kind of copy is actually nothing.

No, maybe it’s because there’s an “old driver” next to me…

"Asuna, how come you're so skilled? With such combat skills... are you a soldier or something...?"

This is what Kirito cares about.

Kirito had met him before.

That was when I was working in a tavern, well, also as a maid.

However, the other person was also wearing a hooded cloak, so Kirito didn't recognize him.

"Pfft-"

Kirito has always felt that Asuna is a rather cold woman.

But this smile has a kind of...girlish feeling?

"You haven't recognized it yet."