Sword Art Online: Unital Ring VI, Vol. 27 by Reki Kawahara and abec

Author:Reki Kawahara and abec [Kawahara, Reki and abec]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2023-08-22T00:00:00+00:00

7

Fortunately, there was no second boss before the exit of the staircase dungeon.

Including the battle with the golem, we climbed a total of six hundred feet inside the earth-enclosed tower in only an hour before leaving through the half-crumbled great doors on the other end.

The damp night breeze caressed my face. Up in the sky, a scythe-like crescent of white hung over a pitch-black curtain.

I looked around. The torchlight alone didn’t show much, but I could tell that the area was grassland that rose and fell slowly. The rest of the raid party members followed us up out of the staircase’s exit, a stone enclosure that looked like old ruins. It reminded me of the exits from the staircases between floors in Aincrad.

“All right, people! Ten-minute break! If you wanna log out and use the restroom, now’s the time!” shouted Holgar, the leader. A few people took a knee and opened their ring menus. The instant they hit the LOG OUT button, their avatars slumped lifelessly. I thought I was used to the way Unital Ring did not remove a player’s avatar after logging out, but it was still a bit nerve-racking to see so many of my companions looking utterly comatose like this.

Obviously, the rest of the gang couldn’t read my mind, but Klein walked over anyway and kicked at the ground, as though testing it out, just in case.

“Hey, Kiri, is this really the second tier of UR?”

“I don’t know why you’re asking me…”

“Well, fine, point taken. But it just doesn’t feel real…I figured there would at least be an obvious difference in the environment graphics, or some cute NPC girls to congratulate us…”

“……”

If Agil were here, he would have pulled Klein aside at that moment and said, Congratulations! in his beautiful baritone voice, but Dicey Café was hosting a party that was renting the place out, so both he and his wife, Hyme, were out this evening.

After a bit of thought, I said, “Come over here,” and dragged him behind the staircase enclosure. It took less than sixty feet to reach the sight—no, the vista—I expected to see.

The ground simply vanished up ahead, as cleanly and totally as though God’s knife had cut it loose.

Below was forest and grassland, glowing in the pale moonlight, as far as the eye could see.

“Hooooooly…crap…”

Klein marveled at the view and started to approach the sheer cliff edge for a better look, until I quickly reached out and grabbed him by the back of his bandana.

“Hey, chill! You fall, you’re dead!”

“I know, I know. It’s just…man, what a view…”

“Now you can believe that we’re on the second tier, though, right?” I said, equally blown away by the sight before us.

The entire stretch directly below, covering probably hundreds of square miles, was the Great Zelletelio Forest, the base of our adventures over the past six days. A little blob of orange light visible from here had to be good old Ruis na Ríg.

Farther off in the distance was the surface of the Maruba River, shining with reflected moonlight.

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