After a bout of fooling around, everyone finally returned to the business at hand.
Luo Zhen coughed once before addressing the people in front of him.
"As everyone knows, this time's raid isn't taking place in Aincrad, but in Alfheim."
That was right.
The target everyone had settled on this time wasn't in Aincrad. Instead, it was within Alfheim.
More accurately...
"The place we're going to next isn't Alfheim, but Yuzheim."
Yui flew onto Luo Zhen's shoulder and stood there, bracing both hands against his cheeks with an adorable, serious expression.
"Yuzheim?"
Kirito tried hard to recall the information about that map.
"I heard it's another region beneath the elven realm of Alfheim, right?"
Asuna spoke softly.
"Yes." Leafa seemed to know quite a bit about it. "It was added before Aincrad was implemented as a new training ground. It's known as the Land of Eternal Night, filled entirely with evil-god-level monsters. It's a world of darkness and ice ruled by evil gods, an extremely dangerous area. Before Aincrad appeared, it was the most difficult training ground in ALO."
"Because of that, very few players go to Yuzheim, and there are even fewer player groups that hunt there regularly." Agil seemed familiar with Yuzheim as well, and added, "Even now, there aren't many players capable of hunting in Yuzheim. The evil-god-level monsters there are all incredibly powerful. Any one of them is as strong as a high-level training-ground boss. Without assembling a top-tier party of at least ten players, you'll basically end up dead and sent back to town."
"That dangerous?" Klein was dumbfounded. "There are only nine of us here!"
Not counting Yui, there were indeed only nine people in their party.
What was more, several of them could hardly be called top-tier players.
"I... I'll do my best