Chapter 734: It's more like a party than a wedding ceremony?
Aincrad, 59-th floor...
This is a floor with a rather complex geography. There are mountains, hills, highlands, forests, and even caves here...
Walking around on this floor is like travelling the world in the sense that the scenery changes from an area to another. It's like somebody downsized the world and turned it into a floor.
There are scenic areas and then there are not-so-scenic areas. If you're lucky, you can find places where the scene can give the Garden of Flowers on the 47th-floor a run for its money. Of course, there are also places that are so frigid it's more desolate than the western area of the snowy mountains on the 59th-floor.
In a small town known as Danac, the scenes here are to die for.
Located in a wide, open, hilly grass fields. The color green is a very familiar color for the players here. When the breeze arrives, one can tell from the gentle swaying of the grass here. The buildings here are also old-fashioned. It looked like a town constructed with conservatism in mind. There are nostalgic chimneys at the top of the houses here. This didnât spoil the experience for the players here, it was refreshing in its own unique mannerâŠ
The wedding ceremony between Lisbeth and Kirito will take place on a grassy field with a boundless horizon.
Kirito and Liz only invited close friends to this nuptial ceremony. Unlike Wu Yan & Asuna who invited major guilds and top players, effectively involving the entire player base of Aincrad.
This is one of the reasons why they chose this place to hold the wedding. It wouldnât get as crowded even if the players found out. Itâs unknown if Liz preferred to keep her big day low-key or because Kirito preferred to stay out of the publicâs view, either way this event turned out to be a small-scaled one.
Wu Yanâs two cent on the matter is that Kirito didnât have that much money to throw a lavish wedding, even if his wife is the boss of one of the best equipment shops in this game.
The 59th-floorâs labyrinth isnât that far from Danac. The players who tried their hands at the labyrinth know about Danac for the most part. When Asuna led the raid team, she made this place their temporary holdout. This is why they were familiar with the layout of Danac.
Thus, the household of three descended the teleport platform with Asuna leading them.
It has been 3 years since SAOâs server fired up. The raid players working hard to clear this game are operating on the higher floors. The 59th-floor is still a challenging floor for sure but it isnât as hard as the upper floors. Few players came to this place. On the way here, Wu Yan, Asuna, and Yui didnât spot a single player.
Walking on the dirt road, the buildings were sparsely distributed to the left and right sides. The NPCs are going about their daily chores, drawing water from the well, washing clothes, making food, and jogging. Come tomorrow, these NPCs will still be doing the same things and it didnât look like they had any complaints.
Their repetitive actions formed a part of the beauty that made up the soul of this beautiful little town. A scenery is only beautiful when life is bursting at the seams. The NPCs played a crucial role in giving this place an exuberant air.
Soon, there were no more buildings to be seen and the NPCs also stopped appearing. Grass replaced the buildings as the color green took over everyoneâs vision. A great grassy plain appeared in front of Wu Yan & co.
On this vast expanse of grass, a few white-clothes-lined tables were set up with a giant tree providing the shade. Dozens of players could be seen going around the tables. They were either chatting loudly or busy with whatever they were doing with their hands. They could faintly discern the sound of cheerful laughter from where they were.
Wu Yan & co knew they came to the right place.
âOh~~~â
When Wu Yan & co approached, the sharp-eyed Klein noticed them first. He laughed heartily.
âThey are here! They are here! The model family is here!â
Wu Yan and Asuna both exchanged a smile. They accepted Kleinâs praise with relatively grace. Quickening their steps, they approached the venue.
âIt has been a while, youâre still as quirky as everâŠâ
Wu Yan teased Klein.
Klein didnât take it to heart.
âOh, your achievements as the Fae Swordsman is something I regularly see on the news!â
Souta nodded. He started praising him.
âI didnât think you could clear the 96th and 97th floor consecutively, you sure live up to your title as the strongest playerâŠâ
âIt was pure luck. I found the floor boss room so I just went in there and wasted the bossâŠâ
Agilâs lip twitched and he rubbed his smooth bald head.
âI think youâre the only player in this game that can talk about killing a floor boss like youâre just farming a bunch of creepsâŠâ
âYo, you guys cameâŠâ
Wu Yan , Asuna, Yui, Klein, Souta, and Agil turned around at the same time. They saw Kirito emerging from behind the giant tree with a white tuxedo. He looked at Wu Yan and he started laughing out loud.
âIf you came a bit later, I would have barred you guys from entering the venueâŠâ
âWellâŠâ
Wu Yan shrugged.
âI would like to see you or anyone else tryâŠâ
Kirito pursed his lips as he threw Wu Yan an annoyed look. Asuna congratulated Kirito with Yui in tow.
âKirito-kun, congratulations!â
Yui passed Kirito a box containing a gift.
âUncle Kirito, congratulations. This is our gift to you two!â
âOh?...â
Kirito received the present and he rubbed Yuiâs head.
âThank you guys so much!â
Alas, we will never know Kiritoâs reaction to the box filled with fishes that were stacked on top of the clothes Asuna made.
Well, clothes canât get stained in SAO and fishes donât smell bad like they do in the real world so it should be fineâŠ
âA present?...â
A hand reached from behind Kirito as the owner excitedly scanned the gift.
âA present from you two? I am looking forward to unboxing thisâŠâ
âLiz!â
Asuna started telling Liz who was wearing a white bridal gown off.
âItâs your wedding, mind your mannersâŠâ
âItâs fine, itâs fine!â
Liz waved her hands.
âWe all know each other here, thereâs no need to put up a front!â
âYouâŠâ
Asuna wasnât sure if she should cry or laugh.
âLiz!â
Sachi, Shion, and Silica came running over. They glared at Liz while panting hard.
âThe guests over there are waiting for you to greet them, donât run off on your own like that!â
âAhahaâŠâ
Liz scratched her cheek in a bashful manner. She started defending herself.
âI am properly greeting the guests, look, Asuna and her gang came!â
âOnii-san, you guys cameâŠâ
Sachi beamed politely at them. She shifted her gaze downwards and she squatted down to greet Yui.
âYui-chan, you came too?...â
âNn!â
Yui nodded her head repeatedly.
âYui wants to see the wedding!â
âThereâs nothing much to see hereâŠâ
Shion mumbled.
âYou should have seen Yan and Asunaâs wedding, now, thatâs a wedding. It was huge and fun. This wedding ceremony⊠meh.â
Silica nodded when she recalled the wedding between Asuna and Wu Yan back then. Of course, Liz got mad.
âYou girls!â
Liz gnashed her teeth.
âItâs my wedding today. If youâre gonna say stuff like that thenâŠâ
âWah!â
Shion and Silica yelped as they scampered off. Liz yelled: âGet your butts back hereâ, and she gave chase while the others couldnât do anything but gasp at this scene.
Is this a party or a wedding ceremony?
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