Kirito admitted that the monsters in Shangri-La Frontier were considerably stronger than those in SAO.
But this was Seiya! The guy who, the first time he ever played a virtual reality game, had managed to fight an experienced Player versus Player veteran like him to a draw.
Even against a nearly cheating GM player like Akihiko Kayaba, Seiya had been able to beat him into the ground.
But now Seiya was saying that on his very first night playing Shangri-La Frontier, he had lost his virgin death!
If Kirito remembered correctly, Seiya had been playing MMO virtual reality games for two and a half years. This was the first time he had ever died, right?
"As for leveling, it actually felt pretty easy. I just kept grinding monsters, and somewhere along the way I seemed to take down an Area BOSS called the Three-Headed Lizard, which got me to level ten.
But right as I was about to log off, I suddenly ran into one of the Seven Supreme Species you mentioned—Heavenly Tyrant Jikvirm.
After fighting him for a while, that guy took my first blood.
And he even left me with a curse at the end, which unlocked a corresponding special scenario."
Seiya spoke in an utterly calm tone, while Kirito on the other end of the call was completely dumbfounded.
Just as Seiya had said, Kirito really had pulled an all-nighter grinding in Shangri-La Frontier.
Thanks to that, he had pushed his level all the way to twelve.
That leveling speed already put him near the top of all Shangri-La Frontier players, so Kirito had originally intended to brag about it to Seiya.
But what he had not expected was that Seiya had played for less than four hours last night and had already reached level ten.
Even