Warning! A Preventive Shot in Advance!...

Wu Yan could understand those feelings. He had seen the same anticipation in Asuna's eyes more than once, and he had never thought there was anything wrong with it. What he had not expected was that the deaths of ten percent of the Assault Team's players were directly tied to that anticipation!

"But..." Kirito's tone shifted, and his expression turned bitter. "As more floors were cleared, the Assault Team players grew more desperate. Now, with only three floors left, if we clear them, the players will finally be free and able to return to the real world!"

"Because of that, the Assault Team players have shown increasing signs of losing themselves to madness. In order to return to the real world sooner, some of them actually formed teams in private without anyone else's consent and went to challenge the labyrinth areas..."

By this point, Wu Yan's expression had already darkened...

It was understandable that the Assault Team players had become anxious with hope so close at hand. After all, the sooner the clearing effort progressed, the sooner the game would be completely cleared and the sooner they could leave. But trying to clear floors rashly in that state of mind would only do more harm than good...