Chapter 389 Skeleton Hunter

March 1, 3rd year of the Alliance Calendar.

37,000 SAO survivors, 4,600 trainers, and the 75th floor has been conquered.

Compared to the speed of last month, this month has been much slower even with the addition of Izuna.

However, we have already conquered the later stages, so it is understandable.

Now that we have reached the 3/4 node, all players are a little nervous. The main force of this conquest battle is the players, and the role that the Pokémon can play in this battle will be very limited.

The players have failed to conquer once.

The failure of the conquest does not mean that the whole army is annihilated.

Rather, the players are not well prepared due to poor intelligence, and the remaining props cannot support the next battle, so they can only use the [Corridor Crystal] to force them to leave the Boss room.

However, after the first challenge, they have already mastered a lot of information about this Boss.

The Boss of the 75th floor is called [Skeleton Hunter], a skeleton monster that is more than ten meters tall and dozens of meters long.

This boss is comprehensively enhanced, regardless of health, attack, defense, or even combat skills, it is difficult for even Izuna to deal particularly significant damage.

And it is not just because of these that this boss can stand on the 75th floor as the boss, the key is that it has three characteristics.

The first characteristic.

When its health drops to 10% for the first time, it will not immediately enter the rampage state, but return to the ceiling of the room to form a huge cocoon.

The boss will continue to recover its health in this cocoon until it recovers to full health or the cocoon is broken after five minutes, and then it will come again.

However, the ceiling of the room is 50 to 60 meters high, and it is difficult for players to attack the cocoon stuck on the ceiling.

Fortunately, Pokémon with flying ability can carry a few players with high damage.

The second characteristic.

The boss has a state similar to "anti-armor", which can rebound the physical damage received.

But the target of this anti-armor is not the person who caused the damage, but the weapon held by the player.

If the damage was done by the player, it would be easier to deal with. At most, you can bring more medicine to take. But it is the player's durability that is consumed.

It is okay if the weapon suddenly has no damage during the fight. Players cannot repair weapons in the maze. This is also the key reason why the first strategy had to be teleported back to the city.

The third characteristic.

Dominance.

The boss is in dominance throughout the whole process and cannot be controlled from beginning to end.

This is why the Pokémon cannot play a huge role in this battle like the 50th floor. Their control skills will no longer be effective.

At the same time, such a boss will not be frozen after being deflected by the knife. It can immediately launch the next attack.

This caused Izuna to feel a little helpless when facing this boss.

Facing such a boss, players can only use the most traditional RPG game play.

Tanks attract the boss's hatred in front and resist damage steadily, while others attack the boss from the flank.

In the boss room.

"Heracross, Armor, Kentaro, Kujira, and Beast."

"All retreat, let's switch to the next group!"

The trainer unit commander Shang Mei saw that the players and Pokémon at the forefront were all out of health, and immediately changed defense.

Some Pokémon can learn the skill [Sleep], which is simply a natural tank, and can also save the consumption of recovery items.

At the same time, on the flank of the boss's body.

"The health is about to drop, all go down!"

As the player commander, Madara saw that the boss's health was about to drop to 10%, and immediately asked the players who were frantically poking the boss's back to jump to the ground to avoid being dragged up by the boss.

"Is the flying team ready?"

Izuna saw that it was almost done, and prepared to let the flying Pokémon prepare for work.

All kinds of flying Pokémon took off at once and caught the target trainers who had been communicated in advance.

Even small flying Pokémon such as Pidgeot, Spearow, and Dove can take players to the sky. After all, everything in the game depends on the number. If the strength is enough, it can naturally catch people.

When the Boss's health dropped to 10%, a gust of wind spread around the Boss, and the Boss suddenly jumped up.

The players standing on the ground were well prepared and kept their bodies steady, so they were not hit too far.

The flying team also took those players with high damage to fly to the ceiling with the Boss, and started to fly to the cocoon and attack when the Boss just formed a cocoon.

Everything went on in an orderly manner.

SAO is a programmed game after all, and the probability of variables cannot be compared with the real world, so planned things are not easy to have accidents, and even if there are accidents, they are basically caused by the players.

When the Boss came, the health was restored to 45%.

This strategy battle can be said to be won steadily.

After 12 minutes, the 75th floor was officially breached.

The entire battle lasted 37 minutes, the longest battle since the launch of SAO, but the number of deaths and Pokémon also broke records.

Not refreshed upwards, but refreshed downwards.

0.

It is true that the Skeleton Hunter is very strong, but he is the boss that looks most like a normal game monster among the 75th floor of SAO.

For this kind of normal boss, players know how to attack it very well. Even without instructions, they can spontaneously know what to do next.

[75th floor 0 death strategy]

Such a headline was announced in Aincrad at the first time, which shocked all the players who wanted to return to the real world.

At this speed of attack, perhaps in three to four months, they can return to reality.

How desperate they were at the beginning, how much they are looking forward to now.

Some middle and low-level players even sold all their weapons, equipment and various props, and donated the gold coins to the players in the strategy group for free.

But not everyone is so happy.

Especially the trainers.

The 22nd floor, Kirito and Asuna's nest.

Now they have married in the game, and even have the reality of husband and wife. The two promised to be together in the real world.

Asuna was not in a good mood after finishing the strategy for the 75th floor. As soon as she got home, she lay on the bed without saying anything.

Heracross stood by the bed, not knowing what to do. New Leaf Meowth gently nudged Asuna's head with its head, but there was no response.

Kirito knew what Asuna was thinking.

Because he had the same idea in his mind.

He walked towards the lake alone with a fishing rod in a depressed mood. Ura glanced at Kirito and smiled, but did not speak, just followed quietly.

In the room.

Asuna rested for a while, tilted her head slightly, and then her face was suddenly pounced on by the soft New Leaf Meowth.

"Meow~"

New Leaf Meowth stretched out its tongue and licked Asuna.

"Don't, Coconut, it's itchy."

Asuna reached out and patted New Leaf Meowth's head.

Coconut was the name given by the three trainers.

"Heracross, come here."

Asuna put the coconut aside and waved to Heracross, who was standing like a minion beside the bed.

"Hey?"

Heracross took two steps closer and came to Asuna's side.

".Will we meet again in the future?"

Asuna reached out and touched her Pokémon's hard face.

In fact, when they first met Heracross, Asuna was a little scared. After all, every girl is afraid of bugs, let alone such a big bug.

If Heracross didn't look silly, Asuna would have run away at that time.

Even now, Asuna thinks that the appearance of coconut is much cuter than Heracross.

But no matter what, for Asuna, Heracross will always be the best Pokémon in her heart, and a family member that no Pokémon can replace.

What's more, Asuna thinks that Heracross is also very cute after looking at it for a long time, especially his simple and gluttonous personality, which makes Asuna like him very much.

If, after SAO was conquered, she could not see the coconuts.

Then Asuna would be sad for a while at most.

However, if it was Heracross.

Then Asuna would be sad for a lifetime.

Perhaps in the future, she would become an insect girl who specializes in raising rhinoceros beetles in the real world. Whenever she sees her own rhinoceros beetles, she would recall the past when she fought with Heracross in Aincrad.

"Hey!"

Heracross reached out and hugged Asuna, smiling happily.

He told her firmly: 'I will.'

Asuna smiled, but her expression did not improve.

Because she felt that Heracross might not understand what she meant at all. After all, Asuna always felt that her Pokémon was a little stupid. Maybe what he was thinking in his head was 'Can we meet again tomorrow? '.

Asuna now does not know what the meaning of Heracross's answer is.

Pokémon are different from players. They know very well what this world is like, and they are also told in advance what the future will be like after this world is conquered.

That's why 5,000 Pokémon are willing to come to this world.

Otherwise, who would be willing to waste so much time in such a place?

Pokémon are not stupid, and Dark will not force them.

Compared with Heracross who is still willing to answer, Ura who followed Kirito out is completely a black-bellied monster.

Heracross is too stupid to notice what Asuna is worried about. He is a straight man and can't guess a woman's heart.

But Ura is a very smart kitten.

However, Ura has no intention of telling Kirito the truth.

First, he thinks it's more interesting to develop like this.

Second, all Pokémon have agreed with Dark before entering this world that this is a confidential matter and cannot be told to others, otherwise they will be "banned" immediately.

No matter what worries Asuna and Kirito have, they will continue to attack upward.

Even if they don't want to return to the real world, just to help those "negligent" become trainers again, they will work hard to fight.