I am Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes

Gil blinked and glanced at the blacksmith.

Should it be due to the tragic failure of continuous reinforcement?

Generally speaking, NPCs who are specifically responsible for this aspect will be asked to help strengthen equipment, but generally speaking, for the same level of forging, the success rate of players is much higher than that of NPCs.

So, the man in front of me should have asked the blacksmith to help strengthen him, but he failed, right?

Because the man is using an iron hammer, which requires a higher skill level than the bronze hammer used by the NPC on this street, so the helmeted man would ask him to strengthen his equipment, right?

Unfortunately, in SAO, even if the proficiency is very high, the success rate of weapon enhancement will not reach [-]%.

Well, the highest is 99%, right?

Jill yawned, losing interest in the farce.

Find someone to strengthen your equipment.

After all, strengthening the equipment in front of you a few times will also help with things later.

He looked at the forger over there, hammer... maybe let him do it?

"Are you here to watch the fun?" A hand patted Jill's shoulder.

When Gil turned around, it was Kirito who had disappeared since the day the unique mission was completed.

"I'm just worrying about strengthening the equipment. Speaking of which, I haven't seen you for three or four days. Could it be that some girl asked you to go away to play?" Gil teased Kirito with a smile.

Kirito showed a headache expression and sighed deeply, "...If only this was really the case..."

Looking at Kirito's expression of bitterness and hatred, Gil always felt as if he had seen this expression somewhere before.

emmmm...forget it, I still don’t want to.

"Well, let's go. Do you want to go to the maze area again? Although I just came out of there." Gil smiled with his eyes narrowed and sent out an application to form a team.

"Since you are free, I can also accompany you." Kirito said with a shrug.

……

"... Zizi... Zizi..."

"...The template has exhausted its reserve energy. It can take as short as two years or as long as three years before the template can be restored..." The blond young man drummed the instrument in his hand, "Fortunately, the time flow rate in high dimensions and fantasy worlds is 1 :200, the template will be restored in about six or seven days..."

The dark-haired young man's eyebrows kept twitching, "If you're not going to participate in the battle of Az Dakarha, what are you doing here?"

"Hey, Chen Xi, there's no need to look at me so coldly, right?" The blond young man smiled softly and then asked.

"Otto, what are you doing? The devil in front of you -" Chen - no, it is more appropriate to call him Chen Xi. He grabbed Otto's collar and asked coldly.

"It should be said that thanks to Jill's efforts... we have more time, three full months." Otto smiled, "Another cosmology, Enuma Elish, Simulating the full force of the moment of creation, when the stars were turning..."

"If the enemy hit by Enuma Elish is a god, he will be banished to the universe. If he is not a god, his spirit will be greatly weakened if he survives the attack..." Ottoyan He raised his lips and said, "He has done something that none of us can do. Aziz Dakhar is now in the greatest stage of weakness."

"You can also say..." Otto gently took away Chen Xi's hand, "He left himself a way out. So, he must have opened those eyes..."

……

"Huh? BOSS strategy meeting?" Gil asked as he killed a monster with one sword.

"Yes, the BOSS strategy meeting on the first floor was originally completed, but who knew that the BOSS died." Kirito said.

"emmmm... Then, let's go and see it then... the BOSS strategy meeting."

Chapter No.17 BOSS Strategy, Begin!

2022 12 Month 14 Day.

Today is already the tenth day since the floor BOSS on the first floor was defeated.

Including Jill, a total of 48 people came to the waiting area in front of the BOSS on the second floor.

The eight teams assembled to challenge the BOSS, that is, the number of raids, is the system's upper limit of 48 people.

"Well..." Gil made a low voice while flipping through the BOSS information sold by Argo.

Jill previously bought a guide to the first-level defensive BOSS, but the things mentioned above...

wrong.

For example, the weapons used by the guard BOSS after the bloodline enters the danger zone.

Gil remembered that the weapon switched out by the guarding BOSS was the Nodachi.

But this is not what is recorded in this document...

Gil murmured in a low voice while looking at the BOSS gate in front of him.

Let’s talk about this later.

At this time, a team application popped up in front of Jill.

"...?" Agil sent a congratulatory message...ah, application for team formation.

Gil glanced at the bald man waving to him.

Then, he saw Kirito and Asuna beside him, then nodded slightly and clicked the agree button.

So Gil accepted the team application from Agil, and six HP slots appeared on the left side of his field of vision. At this time, there were still 15 minutes before the original start time of the strategy.

The noise coming from the front of the safe area gradually subsided. Gil glanced there and saw two players appearing in front of the closed door of the BOSS room.

One is a man with blue hair and wearing silver armor.There was also a man with a spiky head and a somewhat wretched appearance.

"I am Diabel... I once organized you to participate in the strategy of defeating the first-level BOSS... Although the BOSS has been defeated by an unknown team, this time we have discovered the location of the BOSS in advance. . I believe that many people have read the BOSS strategy book I have distributed, and there are still some things that need to be paid attention to."

Diabel, a young man with blue hair and silver metal armor, had met Gil once before, the day after the second floor was opened, and wanted to ask Gil if he knew the team that defeated the BOSS.

Then it was interrupted by Gill's quality combo.

He didn't bother Gil again after that, so Gil didn't have much impression of him.

"Okay, then let's form a coalition! Among the eight teams, Team A, B, and C are our [Dragon Knights], Team D, E, and F are Mr. Kibao's [Liberation Team], and Team G is this Mr. Orlando’s [Bra ves] participated next, and Team H are the remaining players. The responsibilities are assigned as follows: six teams from A to F are responsible for attacking the BOSS, while G and H clean up the mobs around the BOSS. Lose……"

"...That's it. Let's work hard and strive to reach the third level today!" Diabel said.

"Oh!" Many people echoed Diabel's words.

When Jill saw that the time was right, she raised her hand and said, "Please wait a moment, I have something to say."

When Diabell saw Gil walking forward, he was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes showed a bit of surprise.

"You are a member of the team that participated in the battle with the first-level gatekeeper boss, right?" Diabell's words suppressed the voices around him saying "Children, please don't cause trouble."

"Yes, I have something to say." Gil looked at Diabel, "This level of BOSS will probably not be completely consistent with the guidebook."

"What..." Gil's words stunned Diabel for a moment.

"This guidebook records the information about the first-level BOSS during the closed beta period..."

Gil said, "It is recorded here that the BOSS will switch to attack mode after its health bar reaches the danger line, right?"

Diabell nodded, "That's true..."

"The attack mode switched, according to the records, is a scimitar..." Gil shook his head, "But what I faced was an attack from the Nodachi (Odachi)."

Then, these words made some people around him change their expressions.

"Yes, a closed beta is just a closed beta after all." Jill put away the guide book, "The content of the test needs to be modified before it can be launched online, right?"

"So..." Diabel's face looked a little ugly, "You mean, the BOSS on the second floor will also be modified?"

Gil nodded, "The possibility is very high. I remember that the BOSS's guards were mentioned here, right?"

Gil flipped through the book, "There is only one escort of the intermediate BOSS, which is almost the same as wild monsters during the closed beta period..."

"In other words, can there be plural guards...?" Diabel frowned and said.

"Yes." Gil nodded, "Be mentally prepared. By the way, there is one more thing I didn't say..."

Gil walked towards the door of the BOSS room, "When the BOSS on the first floor was breached, there was no such thing as a [attack team]..."

"Boom..." Following Jill's movement, the door opened.

"From beginning to end, I was the only one who killed the BOSS on the first floor!"

"Oh, by the way..." Gil narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Actually, I'm not very good at so-called team formation..."

Immediately afterwards, the welcome ceremony that seemed to mock the players appeared again, and the entire BOSS room lit up.

Standing at the deepest part of the room is the guard BOSS on the second floor.

The muscles and bones are bulging under the dark red short fur, and a luxurious golden cloth is wrapped around the waist. The upper body is made of the strong muscles of the tauren family, and the chains hanging on the shoulders are also golden.The war hammer held tightly in both hands also glowed with a dazzling golden luster.

It is worth mentioning that many of the mobs in the maze area on the second floor are tauren, and the skills of the guard BOSS on the second floor are just extended versions of the miscellaneous soldiers——

With extended version of DEBUFF.

The attacks carried out by monsters on players can be divided into two major categories in the system.

One type will reduce HP, which is a direct attack.

The other type is [DEBUFF attack] which does not reduce HP even if hit, but sometimes causes very dangerous situations.

Kayaba Akihiko, who designed this death game, probably at least considered taking care of novice players. The mobs and bosses living in the first-level maze area will almost never use DEBUFF attacks.

That BOSS can actually cause DEBUFF, but it's a pity that he encountered more violent players.

"Moo——" With such a cry, BOSS's eyes lit up.

The second floor BOSS strategy battle begins!

Chapter 18 Isn’t he the real gatekeeper BOSS?

"Ha... bastard, come on!" Gil surprisingly did not follow any arrangements and immediately exited the team state and rushed directly to the BOSS!

"Hey!" Diabel was startled by Gil's bold behavior and frowned.

"Hey, screw him, that arrogant brat, I don't believe he can take down that BOSS by himself." Kibaou spat and cursed.

"Hey, let's go too!" Kirito and Agil didn't look at Jill, but also rushed forward.

"At least get rid of that guard first -" Diabel also ordered immediately.

"Come on, come on!" Jill felt the blood in her body boiling.