Chapter 16 Conflict

  The next day.

  Sunlight shone through the window of the inn and onto the face of Hachiguma Moku, who was lying on the bed fast asleep.

  The nine-tailed fox spirit, who looked even more beautiful under the sunlight, quietly lay on Bai Yunmo's pillow, stretching out her tongue to affectionately lick his cheek.

  Her long and beautiful eyelashes quivered slightly as Bayun Mo slowly opened her eyes.

  In an instant, the room seemed to brighten up a bit more.

  Feeling the wetness and softness on his cheek, Hachirou Moku turned to look at Shirabe beside him.

  The little fox was staring at Yayoi Sumi with sparkling blue eyes, looking curious.

  "Little guy, you're awake so early?" He stretched out his hand to gently tease Bai, and Yiyun Mo smiled as he propped himself up and sat up.

  Feeling the languid sensation that lingered in his body from just waking up, Yakumo Mokuto exclaimed: "Truly worthy of being Makabe Tsukasa... you're amazing... almost perfectly recreating all sorts of sensations from the real world!"

  Getting out of bed, Bayun Mo dialed out the system panel and directly clicked on the equipment bar. A flash of light passed, and "Tian Hu Changpao" appeared on Bayun Mo's body, replacing his original pajamas.

  Although various senses and the real world are very similar, games are after all just games, and there will always be some differences with reality.

  For example, Ba Yun Mo doesn't need to wash up like in reality after getting out of bed.

  In SAO, your body will never get dirty.

  The white one on the bed raised its head, looked at Bayun Mo and called out softly. It then jumped up, its small body landing on Bayun Mo's shoulder, once again wrapping itself around his neck like a scarf.

  He tucked a folding fan into his waistband, opened the door with an Eight Clouds seal, walked down the corridor and staircase to the lobby on the ground floor of the inn.

  At this time, many players in the living room have spent the least amount of gold coins to buy the cheapest breakfast from the hotel's NPC to eliminate the feeling of hunger transmitted by the body.

  These people are mostly just ordinary players.

  Yazhōu Mò appeared on the stairs and inevitably attracted everyone's attention in the living room.

  "My god..."

  "This equipment... looks like it's going to be quite formidable..."

  "Is that a demon on your neck?"

  "It must be the one who sealed it!"

  As players speculated about Yagumo's true identity as a tester, countless malicious gazes fell upon him.

  Jealousy, resentment, and greed.

  If SAO were just like any other ordinary game where players could log out freely, Kirito's so-called "beta tester" status wouldn't have incurred the hostility of the players, but rather their envy.

  But now, SAO has transformed into a death game. In this situation, the beta testers who have participated in the closed test and grasped various information that ordinary players do not know undoubtedly have a huge advantage, and this advantage can allow them to survive better.

  When life is threatened, all kinds of negative emotions in human beings will inevitably be exposed.

  What was originally admiration turned into jealousy and resentment, just like this.

  Baiyun Mo ignored the malicious glances of these players and walked straight to a nearby counter, saying to the NPC service staff behind the counter: "Give me the best breakfast."

  There was enough gold coins in the backpack, and Bā Yún Mò naturally did not want to be stingy with himself.

  He wouldn't be like those players who choose the worst-tasting food just to save gold coins.

  "Alright! Twenty gold coins!"

  Twenty gold coins, which is ten times the cheapest breakfast price!

  Now, it's only the second day since SAO opened, even those who participated in the closed beta test don't have enough gold coins in their inventory to support a luxurious lifestyle.

  But Ba Yun Mo didn't even bat an eye as he directly spent 20 gold coins, just to buy a delicious breakfast!

  The players around who saw this scene were even more envious.

  "You scoundrel..."

  A burly man with a menacing appearance stood up from his seat in the great hall, walked over to Hachirou Moku, and glared at him intently as he took breakfast from an NPC's hand.

  "It must be those damned sealers!"

  The players around saw someone preparing to find trouble with Yiyun Mo, and they all quieted down, revealing a schadenfreude expression on their faces.

  The hall was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

  Taking in the expressions of everyone in the hall, Hachirou Tsurugi let out a sigh in his heart: Is this really humanity's worst nature......

  He raised his head and expressionlessly swept a glance at the big man blocking him. Hachirin Moku said without any emotion, "How is it? Not... how is it?"

  "Bastard!"

  The big man, who was already on edge due to this death game, was thoroughly enraged by Yakumo Suke's slightly arrogant reaction, and he directly swung his fist, heavily punching the shorter Yakumo Suke!

  "Hmm——"

  A polygonal light shield suddenly appeared, blocking the Great Han's fist.

  Everyone was slightly stunned, and only then did they react, realizing that in the town's safe zone, players were not allowed to engage in PK behavior other than dueling.

  "Bastard!! Go die!!"

  Dahan's eyes turned red behind his glasses, as if he had lost some of his sanity, and he punched the dim, almost disappearing light shield again.

  "Bang!"

  This time, before the system's defensive light shield took effect again, Bachiko stretched out his right hand like lightning and grabbed the big man's fist.

  "First of all, I am not a hermit," Ba Yun Mo's eyes gleamed with sharpness as he stared at the big man. "Even if I were, what could you do about it?"

  "It's better to go out and level up properly, increase your strength, and live a better life rather than wasting meaningless time here because of these things."

  Baiyun Mo turned around and bypassed the big man, directly leaving the inn.

  After Yún Mò left, the originally quiet hotel lobby became noisy again.

  This time, the content of the players' discussion changed from the original miscellaneous topics to all about Yayoi Kusama.

  White robe, white fox, a beauty surpassing even the loveliest of girls.

  This is the impression of Yakumo Mukuro for all players.

  The massive floating city of Eingrant is divided into 100 layers.

  Each floor has a maze area that is relatively small compared to the entire floor, but is still extremely large on its own.

  Different levels have different maze areas.

  Unlike ordinary towns and fields outside, the map of the maze area will not be directly presented in front of the player's system map.

  To get a maze area map, either go to the maze area and open it up yourself, or obtain it from a player who has already opened up the maze area and obtained the map.

  Compared with external monsters, the monsters in the maze area are not only numerous and densely distributed, but also extremely powerful.

  Among all players, those who can hunt and level up alone in the maze area are countable on one's fingers.

  These people were all later well-known figures in the entire gaming world.

  And each maze area will have a hidden room that requires players to explore step by step.

  In this room, there is the BOSS of this floor's Guardian.

  A powerful BOSS that requires gathering all elite players to conquer!

  After leaving the town, Yayoi Sumi directly headed towards the first layer of the Labyrinth District.

  The monsters along the way were no match for him alone.