"Happy New Year!" "Happy New Year!"
Kirito, Lifa, Liz, and Celica paid their New Year's greetings in unison.
"Happy New Year!"
Rozen, Yasna, and Kurumi also paid their New Year's greetings to everyone.
With the arrival of Rozen and Yasna, the entire guild became livelier than before, and the joyous atmosphere kept rising.
As Kurumi said, Rozen and Yasna were the guild leader and vice leader, respectively. Especially Rozen, he was the spiritual pillar of everyone in the guild, and even everyone's faith. Seeing him, everyone subconsciously felt at ease.
Therefore, the appearance of those two finally made the guild full of energy as if they were celebrating the New Year.
Rozen and Yasna greeted everyone one by one.
Then, as the guild leader, Rozen paid out of his own pocket and gave everyone New Year's money on the spot. Everyone cheered again, and in exchange, the guild members shouted "Long live the guild leader!", bringing the atmosphere to another level.
The treatment of Red Wings had always been the best in all of ALO, which was also the reason why it was comparable to the nine races.
However, Kirito and Lifa did not receive any New Year's money.
Because in the real world, Rozen generously gave each of them a big red envelope, which was filled with real money, which made the two of them laugh like crazy. Naturally, they didn't care about Ulut in the game anymore and smiled apologetically on the side.
Rozen also asked.
"What about Xing, Klein, and Aikir?"
Among the group of friends, it seemed that they were the only ones missing.
And naturally, they were not absent for no reason.
"There's a New Year's celebration at Klein's company. It's in full swing now, and he probably won't be online for some time."
That was what Liz said.
"Aikir's bar is also very popular during the New Year. In order to make a good profit, he won't be online for some time, right?"
This was what Kirito had said.
"Fortunately, there is a tour organized by Moonlit Black Cats, and they are probably in Osaka now."
That was Lifa's way of putting it.
"We've only recently had the time to come online. Before this, we've been socializing with our relatives."
This was what Celica said.
That was why some of his friends were absent. It was possible that some of them would be absent in the future. It was understandable that they would be very busy during the New Year.
"Looks like everyone is the same."
Yasna sighed.
"Well, there's no rush to get together." Rozen shrugged and said, "In any case, the officials will hold a new year's event after this. That's when it will be the most lively."
On that day, everyone should be able to come online.
Therefore, there was indeed no need to rush to meet.
Everyone laughed and chatted harmoniously with each other in the New Year's atmosphere. It seemed that no one wanted to go hunting during this time.
Rozen and Yasna naturally had the same plan. They didn't want to go hunting for a while, and they wanted to spend the New Year's with everyone. It was fun to listen to everyone talk about interesting things in real life and in the game.
Even Yasna, under this atmosphere, the sadness and disappointment in her eyes disappeared unknowingly, and it was replaced by gentleness and lightness, which made Rozen secretly sigh in relief.
Everyone had already agreed that if they were free, they would go out for a picnic together.
The atmosphere had always been cheerful and cheerful, making people never feel tired of it.
Until …
"By the way, Rozen, Yasna."
Liz seemed to remember something and suddenly said to the two of them.
"You still don't know, right?"
The sudden words caused the two of them to be slightly startled.
"Don't know?"
Yasna tilted her head.
"What do you not know?"
Rozen also blinked his eyes.
Liz smiled mysteriously and approached the two of them.
"Recently, there's an incredible expert in our ALO."
Liz said such a thing.
"An … expert that we have no choice but to meet?"
Rozen and Yasna looked at each other, and their curiosity was immediately aroused.
"What kind of incredible expert?"
That's all Rozen asked.
There was no other way. A person that Liz called an incredible expert should be extraordinary.
This was not to say that Liz was very strong. As an Imp, almost all of Liz's skills were focused on Smelting. Even if she usually leveled up her Combat Skill proficiency, it was quite limited.
In Red Wings, Liz's strength was almost at the bottom level, not even comparable to the average guild member.
The members of Red Wings were either beta testers during SAO's time or experts who passed the guild's assessment. Even if there was a group of Players who specialized in improving their Production Skill and Life Skill, Liz was not much worse than them.
However, it was precisely because of this that Liz, who was used to seeing strong players in this guild, said that a powerful expert had appeared. This meant that the expert must be really powerful.
And that was the truth.
"Just between the beginning of this year and the end of last year, a Player appeared."
It was not Liz who said such a thing, but Lifa.
"The Player seems to have transferred from another game. His Ability Value is quite high, and his game skills are also very good. It is said that he mastered the Flight at Will technique a few days after joining ALO. He can fight high-level aerial battles, attracting many Players from various races and guilds."
Liz seemed to know something about this.
No, not only Liz, but also Kirito and Celica.
However, while Celica listened with interest, Kirito's face was a little gloomy, as if something was wrong.
Under such circumstances, Liz also spoke again.
"Many people wanted to invite that Player to join a guild, or even a race, but that Player refused to accept anyone's olive branch. Instead, he said that he will accept any Player's challenge under the huge tree on the 24th Floor's main street area, on the sightseeing island north of the main street area. Anyone who wants to challenge him can go there and duel with him."
Liz's words made Rozen's eyebrows raised.
How should I put it?
This so-called expert is really interesting.
Rozen could already imagine how many Players would surround such a boastful newcomer.
Back then, even when he was transferred to GGO, he received the same treatment.
Compared to Rozen, there was almost no difference.
Unfortunately …
"I heard that all the Players who decided to challenge this boastful ALO newcomer lost miserably."
That was all Xili said.
"They were all defeated?"
Yasna was a little surprised.
"Yes, and they were easily defeated by that Player." Liz added, "No challenger could reduce that person's hp by 30%. Even Kirito and Lifa failed."
This time, even Rozen was surprised.
Even Kirito and Lifa failed?
That was really incredible.
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