"It's not like you have to play this game called 'Shangri-La Frontier' with me, right?
You know quite a few people now, and they're all experts at virtual games."
As someone with social anxiety, Kirito had indeed had almost no friends in the Real World before.
However, he had made quite a few good friends in games like SAO and GGO.
Although SAO had trapped many players for two years, those Strategy Group members who had survived were undoubtedly now among the best in the gaming world.
After all, two years of experience in a Death Game was no joke. Once a character died, they really died.
The SAO players who had remained on the front lines under that kind of pressure had, over those two years, developed astonishing concentration and technical skill.
For those surviving SAO Strategy Group members, all future virtual games were truly nothing more than games.
After all, having genuinely struggled on the brink of death, their experiences and prolonged dive times were something ordinary virtual game players could never understand.
"I actually asked Asuna too, but her parents seem to have forced her to take some kind of elite course recently, so she has no time to play games.
As for Shino, she's a firearms-game player, but Shangri-La Frontier is set in a world of swords and magic."
Naturally, Kirito had asked others before Seiya as well.
After all, the Special Monsters in Shangri-La Frontier were not something one or two people could defeat. The more strong players they had, the better.
A large-scale team battle was unrealistic, but they could at least put together an elite squad. That would greatly improve their odds of winning.
"Apart from Asuna and Shino, aren't there Klein and Agil?
And have you forgotten that Nao is also quite