Chapter 401 The Repaired Diamond Contract

The 1,400 trainers who left will never see their Pokémon again, and the 1,400 Pokémon who stayed behind also have their own feelings.

Some Pokémon are very sad and need some time to heal their inner pain.

They are not sad about parting with their trainers. In fact, Pokémon are easier to let go than humans.

They are very simple, so as long as they know that their trainers can still live well after the separation, they can let go. They may not adapt for a while, but they will not be sad for a lifetime, and will only silently bless them.

The reason why these Pokémon are sad is that these trainers are unwilling to take them to the 101st floor.

In the eyes of the Pokémon, if it were them, they would send their trainers home even if they were facing the risk of death.

It can be said that they have always done this in Aincrad.

However, their trainers failed to do this, even though the 101st floor is not actually their home.

The little guys looked a bit pitiful, and half of them chose to go "offline" directly back to Pokémon Island.

Some of the little guys were so slow that they didn't even realize that their trainers were unwilling to face the risk of death for them, or they might have realized it, but they didn't mind.

The Pokémon who didn't choose to "go offline" continued to follow the main group, preparing to finish this last "plot" and accompany SAO to the last moment.

Among the 3,400 players who stayed, at least 2,900 of them were in the middle and lower levels.

This made most people pessimistic about the next battle.

After all, it was already clear that the boss was "stronger", and it was for this reason that those trainers who were not determined enough chose to return to the real world.

So most players tended to develop safely for a while before challenging together.

But some people couldn't wait.

For example, Zack.

He took several members of the guild to find the location of the boss on the pretext of [getting information about the boss].

To open the teleportation array on the 101st floor, you need to find another boss hidden on the 100th floor first and then defeat it.

But no one knows where this boss is, and there is no way to investigate.

Because there is no so-called maze area on the 100th floor, it is wild everywhere.

Fortunately, the 100th floor is located on the top floor of the pointed cone floating tower of Aincrad, and the area is very small. Even if players use a carpet search method, it will not take much time.

On June 3rd, Zack heard that the [Trainer Association] had found the location of the boss.

Zack also rushed to the marked coordinates as soon as possible.

But when he saw the boss's appearance, he was a little confused.

The boss's name is [Kobold Lord].

That's right, it's the boss on the first floor. I didn't expect that he would become the boss guarding the teleportation array on the 101st floor.

No player rashly tried to launch an attack. After all, no matter how you think about it, you think that this kobold lord must have been strengthened or updated.

But Zack couldn't help but want to give it a try.

The opportunity to reach the 101st floor was right in front of him. He was really eager to try it. In addition, he was always ready to use the [Corridor Crystal] in his left hand, so he would not be killed instantly. It was not that he could not try it.

"At the very least, I have to try the strength of this thing and bring some information back to others."

Zack did not expect to kill the boss in the first attack, not to mention that he was attacking alone.

He had very low requirements for himself, just to try the boss's approximate ability value.

With this mentality, Zack swung the huge sickle behind him towards the Kobold Lord.

Swish.

The spinning sickle cut the Kobold Lord in half.

[Congratulations on defeating the 'Kobold Lord']

[Congratulations on obtaining: the teleportation crystal that opens the teleportation array to the 101st floor]

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Looking down at the crystal clear blue crystal in his hand, Zack fell into deep thought.

Could it be that Aincrad had a bug after being attacked?

Didn't they say a stronger boss?

Zack suddenly realized that the level of this dog-headed man lord was only Lv.10, exactly the same as the one in the first level.

With Zack's current level of Lv.100, he was naturally killed in seconds, and he didn't even have a chance to enter the second stage.

When Zack brought the crystal that opened the teleportation array back to the town and summoned all the resident players, everyone fell silent.

"So, is this a prank left by Kayaba Akihiko?"

Shangmei frowned and thought.

Anyway, after what happened in SAO, she felt that the man could do anything.

"No, this should be for 'screening'."

Kirito thought for a few seconds before speaking.

Kayaba Akihiko was his idol in the past, and Kirito knew about the other party. He thought that the man must have a deep meaning for doing this.

And this deep meaning is screening.

"Screening?"

Asuna was stunned for a moment, then came to her senses, "You mean, those trainers and derelicts who have left?"

"Yes, that's right."

Kirito nodded. He had the same idea and was 90% sure of this guess. "Well, we need to screen out those players who dare not take the risk of death to take Pokémon to the 101st floor."

"What's the point of this?"

"Probably. The 101st floor may have a 'reward' reserved for those of us who dare to stay."

Kirito pinched his chin and said his guess uncertainly.

One of the reasons why he made this guess was what Izuna told him before.

'Make a choice after careful consideration. '

So what kind of choice is it?

Izuna is part of the data in SAO, and it is obviously not ordinary data. So he must know about the 101st floor, so he gave Kirito the hint at the end.

"Is it what you said? We will know when we go to see it?"

Zack didn't care whether it was for screening or not.

He just wanted to know whether he could see floating bubbles again when he went to the 101st floor.

The next moment after he finished speaking, Zack crushed the crystal in his hand.

A blue vortex teleportation array instantly appeared in front of the players.

"Let's go."

Zack took the lead and rushed in.

After the other players looked at each other, they all rushed in with their Pokémon.

. . .

The 101st floor, Pokémon Park.

There is actually nothing special about this floor. It is just a beautiful natural park without any wild monsters.

In this Pokémon Park, there is a natural environment suitable for most Pokémon of different attributes to survive and play.

It is not that this floor is so exquisitely made.

The first 100 floors are the result of many years of hard work by Akihiko Kayaba. This floor was temporarily made at the request of Dark, and there are many scenes that overlap with the floors below.

However, the significance of this floor itself is not for players to watch or play with Pokémon. Its real value is just to provide players with a platform and place to say goodbye to Pokémon and make life choices.

However, this floor also has Easter eggs.

And players can only trigger the choice after discovering the Easter eggs.

"Hey~"

"Nui~"

"Meow~"

As soon as they arrived at this level, before the players could react, the Pokémons ran towards a small valley in front of them.

"Heracross, where are you going?"

"Follow them."

"This is the home of the Pokémons. They are very familiar with this place. We just need to follow them."

The players hardly hesitated and followed their Pokémons with doubts in their hearts.

Those "negligent people" took out the [Broken Diamond Contract] from their backpacks with a sense of feeling.

The broken diamond contract is actually a locked Pokémon ball that has turned gray.

And now the button of the gray Pokémon ball in their hands is "beeping" with a red light.

"Let's go, follow and take a look."

Zack looked at the large group of Pokémons that were constantly moving in a certain direction, and followed with the remaining negligent people.

As they continued to go deeper into the valley, they came to a fairly open grassland.

A huge stone tablet was erected in the center of the grassland.

Below the stone tablet, hundreds of Pokémon had been waiting there for a long time.

"Bubble~"

"Floating Bubble!"

When Zack looked at the Pokémon that was floating towards him while shouting, he recognized it at a glance as his floating bubble.

"Sorry, I was too careless at that time."

Zack rushed over and hugged the floating baby tightly in his arms, rubbing the soft little guy hard.

He was finally able to say what he had always wanted to say.

At this time, Zack was no longer the killer that made people tremble in SAO, but the boy who had just embarked on an adventure with his Pokémon.

[Repair: 'Broken Diamond Contract' (requires the approval of both the delinquent and the Pokémon)]

"Floating Bubble?"

In fact, Zack didn't understand why he still needed this diamond contract at this time?

He estimated that he would soon leave Aincrad.

But there is always such an obsession in my heart, that is, I want to leave a perfect solution for this journey. If there is no diamond contract, then this journey cannot be called perfect anyway.

"Bubble~"

Floating Bubble nodded.

The gray Pokémon ball quickly turned red and white, and the originally locked button opened automatically, and Floating Bubble could enter it again.

[Congratulations on obtaining: Diamond Contract]

[Memories are pearls, friendship is diamonds. ]

Until this moment, Zack deeply agreed with this sentence.

The other negligent people were only willing to come here, which was enough to make up for some mistakes in the past. They were forgiven by their own Pokémon and repaired the broken diamond contract.

At this time, they had the energy to look at the huge stone tablet.