Raiding the Floor Boss was the most important thing in SAO, and it was the same in ALO.
Only by successfully raiding the Floor Boss could players enter the higher floors, obtain better items, more Gold, stronger weapons, better materials, and even more exciting Exp. If a player wanted to be at the forefront of the Players, reach the highest floor as fast as possible, and become stronger faster than anyone else, then raiding the Floor Boss was the most important thing.
As a result, the various Guilds and the nine races couldn't afford to ignore the Floor Boss raid. In addition, players who defeated the Floor Boss would receive an astonishing amount of rewards, as well as Fame and Glory. Hence, the Floor Boss had become a target that countless players sought to defeat.
But even so, it was still impossible to ignore the Floor Boss raid. Even Rozen, who cleared the Floor Boss in SAO without losing any Exp, couldn't do it in ALO. There was no doubt about the Floor Boss' strength.
Of course, the reason for this was also because Rozen didn't command seriously.
After all, ALO was different from SAO, which was a death game. It was more entertaining, and Rozen didn't want to waste his brain to think of a strategy to clear the Floor Boss without losing any Exp. Anyway, with resurrection magic and items, the Players wouldn't really die, so the strategy he built was naturally the most convenient and fastest way to clear the Floor Boss. For this reason, Sacrifice was also a rare opportunity, and Rozen didn't mind using it.
But again, Rozen was an exception. He couldn't be compared to ordinary Players. It was impossible to achieve the same result as Rozen.
At least, in Rozen's view, even if the other five Players in Sleeping Knight had the same strength as Uji, it would undoubtedly be quite difficult to defeat the Floor Boss if they joined forces.
It wouldn't have mattered if they were on the lower floors, but they were already on the 27th floor. The higher they went, the stronger the Floor Boss became. Trying to take down the Floor Boss with such a small number of players wasn't a pipe dream. It was as difficult as ascending to the heavens.
Putting everything else aside, the 26th floor had taken a combined team of elite members from several large guilds to clear with great difficulty.
Therefore, even if Sleeping Knight was strong, the probability of defeating the Floor Boss with just the six of them was less than 5%.
In fact …
"In fact, Sleeping Knight has already challenged the Floor Boss on the 25th and 26th Floor."
Asuna said something like that.
Rozen was stunned.
"Are they crazy?"
You defeated the Floor Bosses of the 25th and 26th floors?
Wasn't that just asking for trouble?
Not to mention the 26th floor, just the 25th floor alone was a floor with a significant increase in difficulty every twenty-five floors. Even Eugene, who led Fire Elf's elite troops to challenge it, was annihilated. Rozen had to mobilize all of Red Wings' elite troops, and he even dispatched two whole squads of mending and resurrection magic. It took them a lot of effort to successfully defeat the 25th floor. Eugene and the others were simply looking for death to challenge it with only six people.
As for the 26th floor, there was no need to talk about it. The higher-ups had already mentioned it, and it was easy to imagine how Yuji and the others had ended up when they challenged it.
"After all, it hasn't been long since they moved here, so they don't know how scary the Floor Boss is. They definitely don't know how difficult the 25th Floor is.
Yasna sighed.
"But even so, let's not talk about the 25th Floor. On the 26th Floor, Eugene and the others almost succeeded, but in the end, they were annihilated because they didn't have enough Health Potions. When they rushed over again, the Floor Boss had already been defeated by a large group."
That was commendable.
If Eugene and the others succeeded at that time, the record of having the lowest number of people to defeat a Floor Boss would have to change.
However, that was that sentence, Rozen's incident didn't count.
"I really admire them. They actually managed to do it with only six people."
Rozen couldn't help but smile.
He guessed that Sleeping Knight's goal was to defeat the Floor Boss, and he also guessed that they must have failed, but he didn't expect that they only had six people.
But it was undeniable that they didn't want to give up.
"I heard from them that they met in an online community outside of the game, and they immediately felt that they were like-minded and became friends. It's been about two years since they met."
Yasna's tone began to soften.
"In the past two years, they traveled to many worlds together and went on many adventures, but unfortunately, because of real life reasons, they could only go on adventures together until this spring, so they decided to do something that will forever be remembered by everyone before disbanding the guild."
At this point, Yasna's tone was really soft.
Rozen could understand.
Because whether it was the two years, or the many adventures they went on together, they were able to resonate with Yasna, or to be more precise, resonate with SAO's players.
After two years of SAO, whether it was Yasna or other players, they were all deeply moved, right?
"They decided to find the happiest, most beautiful, and most exciting world among the countless VRMMO worlds, and then work together to complete one thing, so they kept moving, and finally arrived in this world."
"In this world, whether it was the Elven Kingdom of Alpheim or the Floating City of Aincrad, they were all places that they couldn't stop praising. All of them flew over the beautiful streets, forests, grasslands, Yggdrasil, and this castle, and then decided to leave their footprints in this world."
At this point, Yasna looked at Rozen.
"Since you have guessed the purpose of Sleeping Knight, then you should know why they want to defeat the Floor Boss, right?"
Hearing that, Rozen nodded and immediately answered.
"Because as long as they defeat the Floor Boss, they can leave their name on the Swordsman's Tablet in the Black Iron Palace in the Town of Beginning, right?"
During SAO's era, there was a huge stone tablet in the Black Iron Palace, the Tablet of Life.
On that stone tablet, the names of all SAO Players were engraved. Once a Player died, their name would be erased, and the date of death and the cause of death would be written on it.
Now, that stone tablet was replaced.
Originally, there was no player's name on this stone tablet, but if someone successfully crushes the floor boss of any floor in Aincrad, the name of the crusader will appear on this stone tablet.
That was the Swordsman's Tablet.
The goal of Sleeping Knight was to leave everyone's name on the Swordsman's Tablet.
In this way, they wanted to complete the common goal, to leave a footprint that was enough to prove that they had adventured together.
However, they failed.
In the end, in order to achieve their goal, they wanted to find another Player who was strong enough to join them and defeat the Floor Boss with them.
That was the reason why Yuji would use the Hymn of Our Lady as a bet to continuously challenge Players on the 24th Floor's tourist island.
She wanted to find a Player who was as strong as herself or even stronger than herself to fulfill her goal.
But Rozen was too strong. If he really got serious, he could defeat the Floor Boss by himself, and Sleeping Knight's members would be reduced to spectators.
Yuji didn't want to let her and others' dream become a joke. She wanted everyone to do their best to complete this goal, and since Rozen was the guild leader, it was impossible for him to leave the guild and join them temporarily, so she gave up and invited Yasna instead.
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