"Wow~ Silica-chan, unexpectedly bold!"
Lisbeth covered her flushed cheeks with a shocked expression.
"Mm, I'm very happy."
Tenya smiled calmly, his face not red and his heart not pounding.
For him personally, this level of intimacy was too childish.
"Tenya, you seem very skilled..."
"In the real world, you must be a Casanova." Lisbeth's eyes were sharp.
...
Subjugation quest.
Clearing the surrounding groups of man-eating grass.
Tenya led Silica to continue hunting monsters and level up.
Swish!
Swish!
Equipped with Zangetsu, Tenya's attack power greatly increased.
Just with a normal attack, he could instantly kill a level 10 small man-eating grass with one slash.
"Consecutive Stab!"
With her brand new dagger weapon, Silica could also kill small man-eating grass individually.
"Ahead are level 15 flowering man-eating grass. Silica, stand behind me and act as support."
The two continued forward and unexpectedly found many traces of battle along the way.
Tenya narrowed his eyes slightly and immediately used his enemy detection skill.
It could detect presences ahead from a distance.
Level 12 rapier user
Level 14 scythe user
Two female players were engaged in a fierce battle with a group of flowering man-eating grass, and both of their HP had dropped below half, a situation that could be described as quite critical.
Bang!
The female scythe user was forced to the edge of a cliff, missed her footing, and fell down. She was not far directly in front of the passing Tenya and Silica.
"Uh oh! Not good..."
"Asuna!"
The other party had a long dark blue ponytail, a delicate face with a hint of heroism. Even though she was severely injured from the fall, with only 8% HP remaining, she was still worried about her companion fighting on the mountain.
"Um, are you okay?"
"Pina (familiar), use Healing Breath!"
Seeing this, Silica rushed forward immediately and ordered her familiar to heal the other person.
"You guys..."
"Please, I beg you, save my companion!"
The female scythe user looked at her teammate's status bar. Seeing Asuna in critical condition with only 5% HP left, she immediately became extremely anxious.
"Linear Attack!"
"Parallel Stab!"
"Meteor—!"
The rapier user Asuna performed a beautiful set of sword skills.
However, the number of flowering man-eating grass in front of her was simply too many.
"Ah!"
A thorny vine cut Asuna's wrist, causing her HP to drop further.
She immediately took out a HP potion from her inventory and drank it.
"This is the last bottle..."
Asuna gritted her teeth and fought desperately, but was still unable to break through the encirclement.
Facing the grass-like monsters with their gaping maws, Asuna was terrified.
This reminded her of the tragic scene she had witnessed not long ago, where a group of players were surrounded and killed by monsters.
"I don't want to die..."
"Mito, hurry and come here!!"
Asuna was filled with fear and panic, and could only fight based on instinct.
Down the mountain.
The female scythe user named Mito was leading Tenya and Silica, rushing up the mountain.
"H-how could this be...!"
Seeing the large number of flowering man-eating grass groups appearing on the narrow mountain path, Mito's face turned ashen.
With her current level and HP, it was impossible for her to defeat so many flowering man-eating grass.
"I'm sorry, Asuna..."
"I can't fulfill the promise."
Mito was in tears. Based on the current desperate reality, she had already decided to retreat.
The difference between one person dying and two people dying...
However, just then, a figure rushed towards the flowering man-eating grass group in front without hesitation.
"What?!"
"You're being too reckless by yourself!" Mito was instantly shocked.
Swish!
Swish!
Swish!
She saw Tenya cutting down three or four flowering man-eating grass groups consecutively, one with each slash.
"Such high attack power!"
Mito was very surprised by Tenya's combat power.
"Be careful! Its vines reduce your movement speed!"
Mito quickly reported the monster's attack characteristics.
However, Tenya ignored her and simply forced his way forward.
More and more vines wrapped around him, starting to severely restrict his movement ability.
Tenya's expression remained unchanged. He used his Overlord Body skill, becoming immune to all control effects for 2.5 seconds.
Bang!
Then, he, like a god of war, instantly broke free from all the vine restraints on his body.
He forcefully tore open a bloody path through the dense flowering man-eating grass group.
"Mito-san, let's follow!"
At Silica's reminder, the two closely followed the path opened by Tenya ahead.
Whoosh... Whoosh.. Whoosh...
Tenya used his Sprint skill, dodging like lightning, truly walking through a field of flowers without a single petal sticking to him.
"Such high agility, but what's going on with his reaction speed?"
"A human's naked eye shouldn't be able to see clearly at that speed."
Mito had a deep understanding of Aincrad's game settings.
A character's agility attribute determined their movement speed, but one thing that couldn't be ignored was human eyes. Normally, they couldn't adapt to such fast speeds.
What she didn't know was that Aincrad's settings would grant the player with the best dynamic vision a unique exclusive skill: Magic Eye, which could see through enemies' movements.
It could be said to be the "Sharingan" within the game.
Swish!
Tenya killed his way through the heavy encirclement of flowering man-eating grass.
Silica and Mito couldn't follow his steps and were blocked by the monsters.
"Tenya, you go save her first, we can protect ourselves here." Silica shouted loudly.
"Please, you must save my teammate!" Mito pleaded while swinging her scythe to kill monsters.
On the other side.
Asuna fought with all her might and killed the last flowering man-eating grass.
Looking at her HP, which was only 3% remaining, Asuna felt like she had narrowly escaped death.
"Huff..."
However, before she could catch her breath.
Suddenly, a huge dark shadow descended from the sky.
Bang!
In the nick of time, she subconsciously rolled to dodge.
The huge impact force sent her flying, and even the sword in her hand was knocked away.
Just the aftermath knocked off 2% of her HP.
She saw that the newcomer was a huge monster with a dog's head and an ape's body.
Level 22 Kobold Leader, a randomly appearing field boss!
"Roar!!"
The ferocious beast roared.
Affected by this skill, the target suffers a fear effect. The greater the level difference, the longer the duration.
"C-can't move anymore...!!"
Asuna lay on the ground, unable to move. At this moment, her body and mind were filled with extreme fear.
Am I going to die?
Am I dead?
Die!!!