Agil, holding a battle axe, stood over there.
He was an "old acquaintance."
He was a bald Black warrior who used an axe.
However, compared to him, Asuna noticed King of Teeth on the other side.
King of Teeth—the must-farm target for every transmigrator.
If a transmigrator did not farm Bug Grandpa in Type-Moon or King of Teeth in Sword Art Online, it was basically the same as having transmigrated for nothing.
However, King of Teeth himself was not particularly skilled. He had most likely come here for logistics.
To prepare various supplies for the Strategy Group and the like.
If he was really going to show up, it would probably have to wait until they tackled Stormveil Castle.
But the Strategy Group had no plans to conquer Stormveil Castle. They only intended to open the road and head to the new map.
"Come to think of it, in the original story, wasn't the conflict between beta testers and ordinary players stirred up by the predecessor of Smiling Coffin...?"
Smiling Coffin had not appeared yet, but PVP players who took pleasure in murder had always existed. Those who stirred up conflict would all join Smiling Coffin in the future.
Asuna strongly suspected that the "original story" had also considered the conflict between beta testers and ordinary players unreasonable, so it tried to patch things up later by claiming someone had secretly instigated it.
But the more it tried to patch things up, the stranger it became.
In a story, such things could be called a bug, but this was the real world, so naturally it could not be handled that way.
Conflict would certainly exist, but it was hard to say who would stir it up and how.
People gradually arrived at the meeting place, until there were more than