"This is the sixty-fifth floor."
Fang Zheng looked at the dilapidated town before them, took a deep breath, and spoke.
"Our pace is getting faster and faster now."
Leafa excitedly clenched her fists and kept waving them around.
"In just a few months, we've gone from the fortieth floor to the sixty-fifth. At this rate, we'll clear the game before the end of the year! Maybe everyone can even make plans to visit a shrine together for New Year's!"
"That probably won't be possible..."
Yuki shook her head.
"While we've been fighting nonstop in the game, our bodies in reality have been lying motionless in hospital beds. We might need rehabilitation for a while before we can move around again..."
"But it's always good when things are going smoothly."
Aoba raised her little fist as well, encouraging everyone.
"With the 3D Maneuver Gear Mr. Fang Zheng made, it's easier for us to dodge enemy attacks and fight, isn't it? Especially the boss on the fiftieth floor. Honestly, I thought we wouldn't be able to beat it, but after we got the 3D Maneuver Gear, we cleared it so easily!"
"Yeah, yeah."
Eriri nodded at that.
The fiftieth-floor boss had been far more difficult to deal with than the one on the twenty-fifth floor. Fortunately, Fang Zheng had decided as early as the forty-fifth floor to teach the other members of the raiding party how to use the 3D Maneuver Gear. As a result, the girls of the raiding party had flown around and around before taking down the fiftieth-floor boss.
But not everyone was happy about it.
"Don't you think... this floor feels kind of scary?"
Asuna huddled tremblingly behind Gabriel, carefully inspecting their surroundings as she spoke uneasily.
"This place... doesn't seem quite right."
Only then did everyone shift