Kirito silently raised his hand as well, asking for wages. After all, he couldn't work for free, could he?
Akasaka replied to Kirito, "When the time comes, your share will be split evenly among the four of us when we fight the boss."
The four, of course, referred to Asuna, Usagisawa Misumi, Akasaka, and Kirito.
Kirito rubbed his chin, feeling that this arrangement was quite fair, and nodded in agreement.
Three days later...
Inside a boss room on the 58th Floor of Aincrad.
At that moment, Akasaka, Asuna, Usagisawa Misumi, Kirito, and Argo had formed a five-person party and were fighting the boss.
The boss of this floor was a five-meter-tall red orc.
Holding a spiked club-like weapon in its hand, it was about to swing it at the enemies beneath its feet.
Asuna sprinted forward, her rapier poised for a thrust. She turned into a streak of light and charged before the boss, lightly kicking off the ground and leaping up. In midair, at the boss's chest, she stabbed eight times in rapid succession.
It was Flash Eightfold Strike.
It was the highest combo count Asuna could currently use.
Since the boss was simply too tall, Asuna could only leap up to attack this floor boss's sole weak point: a red gemstone embedded in its chest.
After completing that attack, Asuna's body fell toward the ground.
But it wasn't a big problem.
The boss was only five meters tall, so a fall wouldn't do much to her.
Besides, Asuna had nothing to panic about, because someone would give her a hand.
She had teammates by her side.
The next moment, Usagisawa Misumi stood on the ground, raised her scythe, and assumed a swinging stance.
That brought the scythe's height to nearly two meters.
Asuna's toes landed steadily atop the