All the players were stunned when they saw the message in the sky. "How could this be?"
"A hacker broke in. Were they trying to save us?"
"If the game is cracked, can we leave?"
"Won't Akihiko Kayaba kill us for this?"...
Conversations like these rang out across every floor of Aincrad. Everyone came from the modern world, where hackers were nothing unusual. Although Akihiko Kayaba held the highest authority in this world, it would not be easy for him to completely block hackers. However, he held the lives of roughly forty thousand people hostage, so the government would never allow such a large-scale intrusion to occur. No matter how skilled an individual hacker was, a personal computer could not break into this game. The computational power required was simply too great. Thus, there had been virtually no hacking incidents since the ordeal began.
At that moment, inside the Labyrinth BOSS room on the seventy-fourth floor, everything happened in an instant. Chen Fan felt that incomparably familiar power return to his control.
Chen Fan stood atop the BOSS, his sword embedded in its back to keep his balance. He slightly raised his right foot, then brought his heel down onto the BOSS's back.
"...!" The long-missed sound of his superpower activating rang out.
The enormous fifty-meter-long BOSS body, which was utterly impossible to control, suddenly seemed to have been struck by a massive hammer. It had no way to resist.
"Roar...!" Whether it was a cry of pain or simply part of its system settings, the Giant Centipede-like BOSS let out a miserable shriek.
Boom boom!! Smoke rose from the ground as the enormous BOSS's entire body was slammed flat against the floor. A huge crater appeared beneath it, ringed by cracks. It was as though the BOSS had