It has been a year and a half since the Aincrad Liberation Squad suffered heavy losses on the 25th Floor and was almost annihilated. King Ya led the remaining members back to the Town of Beginnings on the 1st Floor and merged with MMO Today to form the Aincrad Liberation Army.
In the past year and a half, this guild has been entrenched in the Town of Beginnings on the 1st Floor, with the goal of helping each other to survive. They jointly managed the obtained items and collected information. They also occupied the Black Iron Palace in the central square of the Town of Beginnings to stock up on supplies and gradually grew stronger. They no longer participated in the frontline Raid.
Although they didn't participate in the frontline Raid, the Army gradually expanded under this policy. Now, there were a terrifying number of 3,000 people.
Of course, although the number was large, most of the Players in the Army just didn't dare to go out of the circle. They still stayed in the Town of Beginnings, or they could only move in the Lower or Middle Floors, unlike the large guilds in the Clearers, which were basically composed of top Players.
In the Army, there were only about a dozen Players who could fight in the frontline.
Now, in the Army, there were twelve Players who said goodbye to the Town of Beginnings and came to the front line, the 74th Floor.
How could this not cause a commotion among the Players?
"Aren't they no longer aiming to clear the Dungeon?"
"They haven't appeared in the frontline for a long time."
"Since the 25th Floor, this should be the first time the Army came to the frontline, right?"
"Who knows."
The Players around whispered to each other.
Rozen stood alone outside the crowd, also watching this scene, he was lost in thought.
Until this time, Rozan Can remembered something.
"I remember Argo did mention to me that the Army has recently advocated a change in policy, and they are preparing to move to the Upper Floor."
This policy was naturally proposed by King Ya, who was currently the Deputy Commander of the Aincrad Liberation Army.
Originally, King Of Ya's goal has always been to clear all Players. He once led the Aincrad Liberation Squad to fight on the frontline, determined to liberate all Players.
However, after the 25th floor suffered great damage, the King Of Ya had no choice but to change his strategy from clearing the game to strengthening the organization. He no longer went to the frontlines.
But now, after a year and a half, the size of the guild, which was ridiculed as an "army" by the Players, had grown to an incredible size.
Since that was the case, it was only natural that the King Of Ya would suggest going to the frontline again.
Argo had mentioned this to Rozen.
"Because of this incident, the King Ya seems to have a lot of disagreements with the leader of the Aincrad Liberation Army. The Aincrad Liberation Army has gradually divided into two factions. One faction is led by the leader of the Aincrad Liberation Army and advocates to continue to help each other to survive. The other faction strongly wants to return to the front line and fight for the Aincrad Liberation Army's reputation."
This was also because of the large size of the Aincrad Liberation Army. As a result, the Players gradually ridiculed the Aincrad Liberation Army for being too big and useless to clear the Instance Dungeon at all.
With King Ya's character, he certainly couldn't stand being criticized like this, and he must be trying to make up for it.
The group of twelve people in front of him was probably sent to the frontline for this reason.
If they could show enough activity in the frontline and get enough results, then such voices will disappear, and the opinion within the guild will gradually lean toward the Raid Strategy.
In other words …
"Is this likely to be King Ya's action?"
Rozen made such a guess.
And that guess was confirmed in the next second.
From the group of twelve people, a Player walked out.
"I am Lieutenant Colonel of the Aincrad Liberation Army, Cobartz."
The Player who called himself Cobartz and gave himself the title of Lieutenant Colonel said so loudly.
"From today onwards, we, the Aincrad Liberation Army, will officially stand out in the frontline Raid Strategy and achieve results that will satisfy all Players. We will eliminate those ignorant rumors and tell everyone that we are not just an organization with a large scale. Please wait and see!"
The surrounding players exchanged glances with each other when they heard Corbaz's words.
"Sure enough …"
Rozen slowly narrowed his eyes.
Cobartz deliberately said this in front of the crowd, was he trying to use this to promote the intention of the Aincrad Liberation Army and change the direction of public opinion?
But …
"It's too hasty."
Rozen gave such an evaluation.
Admittedly, such a public declaration might seem impressive, but it was a double-edged sword.
If Aincrad's Liberation Army could really produce results that would satisfy everyone, then Aincrad's Liberation Army would become famous.
But if the Aincrad Liberation Army suffered a setback, this declaration would become a laughingstock, and the Aincrad Liberation Army would once again be pushed to the forefront after the 25th Floor.
It would be a different story if he was prepared to do this with the attitude of 'I'd rather die in glory than live in dishonor'.
But he was afraid that King Ya didn't consider the risk at all and rashly sent the Aincrad Liberation Army to this place. This was no joke.
"They haven't experienced the frontline battle for a long time. Can they adapt to the rhythm and clear the Dungeon safely?"
Rozen was thinking about such things.
The Aincrad Liberation Army began to move in the direction of the labyrinth under Cobartz's instruction.
Upon seeing this, Rozen pondered for a while and then made a decision.
"Let's follow them and see."
Although the life and death of the Aincrad Liberation Army had little to do with Rozen, Rozen was the leader of the Clearers. If the Aincrad Liberation Army wanted to return to the frontline, they would have to go through Rozen sooner or later.
That being the case, it was reasonable for Rozen to follow them and investigate.
So, Rozen took out the Tamed Monster Crystal from his waist pouch.
"Saichou, Hanachou, you two go in first."
Since they planned to follow them, it would be too conspicuous to bring Saichou and Hanachou with him.
"Goo!"
"Woo!"
Saichou and Hanachou made a sound obediently, and then disappeared into the Tamed Monster Crystal.
Only then did Rozen activate Concealment and quietly followed behind the Army's members, leaving the Teleportation Gate Square.
Just like that, Rozen didn't notice that just after he left, the Teleportation Gate Square lit up again, and a rapier user with chestnut-colored long straight hair appeared.
However, the rapier user looked a little anxious. As soon as she appeared, she immediately rushed out of the circle.
Almost a few seconds later, a man with a gloomy face also appeared, and when he saw the rapier user, he immediately chased after her.
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