Chapter 105: News from the 100th Floor

After stepping onto the teleport gate, Lingyun and the others felt a blur before their eyes, and then they appeared on a brand-new land.

"Is this the 21st Floor of Aincrad?" Asuna looked at the scenery before her and asked softly.

"That's right!" Lingyun replied.

This was a vast plaza, even wider than the Central Plaza on the 1st Floor. Surrounding the plaza was a circle of tall buildings; it looked like a relatively prosperous place. Although other players had not yet arrived here, individual figures were slowly walking by not far away, clearly the original inhabitants of this place.

"While the other players haven't arrived yet, let's go find if there are any useful quests!" Kirito extended an invitation to Asuna beside her.

Asuna hesitated for a moment before nodding.

Kirigaya Suguha, who was beside Busujima Saeko, suddenly bristled; she felt she was facing a great crisis.

"I'm going too! It was so hard to find my sister in this world; I won't allow my sister to leave me behind again!" Suguha jumped to Kirito's side and grabbed Kirito's sleeve.

Watching her younger sister looking at her with teary eyes, Kirito felt a headache coming on; it seemed that after entering this world, Suguha had become even more clingy. Rubbing her head hard, Kirito said helplessly, "Alright then, let's go together!"

"Yay, long live my sister!" Suguha looked excited, and at the same time, she cast a provocative glance at Asuna, leaving her feeling bewildered.

Busujima Saeko's gaze lingered on Suguha for a while before she said, "If you encounter any trouble, come back and find me!"

"Yes, Master!" Suguha nodded vigorously.

Watching the backs of Kirito and the other two as they left, Lingyun turned his head to look at Busujima Saeko: "When did you take on such a disciple!"

"I just saw that she is very hardworking and also quite talented, so I taught her a few tricks. I just didn't expect that she would start calling herself my disciple from then on." Busujima Saeko shrugged.

"She is indeed a good seedling!" Luo Yexi also spoke up: "Perhaps she will be able to inherit your sword path in the future."

"Alright, let's go too, and see what features this floor has!" Lingyun said.

Time flew by, and two months had already passed. During this period, the clearing of the floors in the SAO world had reached the 20th Floor. After the floor boss of the 1st Floor was killed, many people trapped in this world saw hope for clearing this Death Game, and more and more people pulled themselves together. A portion of the elite players among the players spontaneously organized themselves to fight for clearing the floor bosses. They were called the Clearers by other players.

Within the Clearers, several well-known guilds emerged, becoming the main force of the Clearers: Fuurinkazan, the Army, the Holy Dragon Alliance, and the Blood Oath Knights.

Besides these four major guilds, the solo players among the Clearers were also a force that could not be ignored. Some of these players were veteran gamers, and some were not ordinary people in reality; the strength of these people was in no way inferior to the players in the guilds, and even stronger than them.

Among these people, the one most admired was a team of five. This team was powerful to the extreme; of the 20 floors known to have been cleared, half were wiped out by them. That's right, not cleared, but wiped out, wiped out like autumn leaves swept away by the wind.

These five people each had their own titles among the many players: Phantom Sword Lingyun, Flame Sword Luo Yexi, Shura Busujima Saeko, Magician Alice, and God Gun Lingqi.

In an inn on the 21st Floor, Lingyun and his group were resting. After running in the Labyrinth Area for a whole day, Lingyun and the others felt a little exhausted. During this time, Suguha had been following Kirito, so she rarely teamed up with Lingyun and the others.

For some reason today, after their group stepped into the Labyrinth Area, all the monsters in the entire Labyrinth Area rioted and launched a crazy siege on them. Fortunately, the five of them were not ordinary people, so they managed to hold on through this crazy offensive. If it had been anyone else, even a top-tier player like Kirito, there would have been a possibility of death.

"Master, the situation today is a bit strange. Why would the monsters in this Labyrinth Area launch this level of siege on us? This does not conform to the rules of this world!" Luo Yexi asked with a frown.

"Perhaps something has happened in the Labyrinth Area, and it is targeted at us! I just reminded Kirito, but that situation did not occur on her side!" Lingyun frowned slightly.

"Ruoxi, do you know what happened?" Lingyun contacted Ruoxi in the Cloud Realm.

"It is indeed a bit troublesome!" Ruoxi appeared beside Lingyun, "I just received information transmitted from the 100th Floor!"

"You have communicated with those powers on the top floor of Aincrad?" Lingyun asked with some joy.

"Yes, I have made contact, but most of their power is currently suppressing the power of the Underworld King of the Apocalypse, so they don't have much energy to communicate with me." Ruoxi nodded.

"Ruoxi, what is the troublesome thing you mentioned?" Lingqi suddenly asked.

"Because Brother has killed 10 floor bosses during this period, the power of the Underworld King of the Apocalypse in this world has already sensed the intentions of you and Brother. Because Brother's actions have already posed a serious threat to its existence, it wants to eliminate Brother before he becomes strong!" Ruoxi said with a serious face. "However, most of its energy is spent on resisting other forces, so it can only split off a small portion of its power and descend upon the floor boss. The reason your group was attacked by so many monsters this time is that the floor boss is playing tricks!"

"Descending power onto the floor boss?" Lingyun's brow furrowed immediately.

He knew the power of the Underworld King of the Apocalypse was strong; just like Ziteng Haoyi in the High School of the Dead world, after being possessed by the power of the Underworld King of the Apocalypse, he directly possessed the strength of the Earth Tier Initial Stage. Not to mention a floor boss; its power was surely much stronger than Ziteng Haoyi's.

"Don't worry, Brother. Although the power descended on the floor boss is strong, it still cannot contend with the laws of this world. You must know that this Semi-plane has been blessed by layers of power and suppressed by various powerful forces; it is much stronger than the High School of the Dead world. Although this floor boss has been strengthened by the power of the Underworld King of the Apocalypse, its strength will not reach an invincible level!"

"It's not that strong?" Lingyun narrowed his eyes.

After experiencing months of struggle, the levels of their group were all 40, which was simply impossible in the eyes of other players now! After all, most players' levels were still hovering around 20. As the most powerful existence in a level, the floor boss, after being strengthened by the power of the Underworld King of the Apocalypse, would definitely be a one-sided slaughter against the current players.

"This boss must be handled by us!" Lingyun and the others looked at each other and made this decision.

Luo Yexi and the other two had all witnessed the bizarre strength of Ziteng Haoyi, so they voted in favor of Lingyun's decision. As for Lingqi, after hearing the name Underworld King of the Apocalypse, he had been sitting on the side in silence, not knowing what he was thinking.