Currently, the Main World is divided into 12 regions, mainly featuring beautiful scenery from various places, such as snowy mountains, deserts, tropical rainforests, and so on.
They all have an otherworldly style.
It's suitable for very casual players, and also for players who like to travel and explore.
Normally, there are no monsters in the Main World, but there are some high-level food items, like wild rabbits or fruits from rare fruit trees, and rewards from secret treasure chests.
This undoubtedly stimulates the interest of this type of player.
Plus, the game has an auction house. If you get a good reward from exploring, you can sell it.
The main battlefield for all players is [Aincrad], floating above the World Tree.
Looking from below, you might think it's not as big as the World Tree, but inside [Aincrad], each floor is a world in itself.
It might not be bigger than the [Main World] map, but it's not far off, enough for many players to explore.
As for the World Tree, it's purely a big tree, with no other function, and no Elf King's palace or anything.
All players use a teleportation array to reach the top of the World Tree, and then another teleportation array to reach the first floor plaza of [Aincrad].
"Fight monsters, of course~"
Ako gave the answer directly.
"Oh? Don't want to look around here a bit more?"
"We don't have any money to spend, Mom! So let's hurry up and fight monsters to earn some money!"
Ako didn't know yet that Kaito had a GM account, so she instinctively thought about fighting monsters for money.
Normally, that's indeed the case.
The three of them couldn't scrape together even 1 gold coin combined. While on his way to meet them, Kaito had also learned about the current currency and purchasing power.
Not sure if it was due to plot changes, but the currency units were more comprehensive.
In short, it was a decimal currency system: Iron Coin -> Copper Coin -> Silver Coin -> Gold Coin.
Given that 2 iron coins could buy a loaf of bread that restored hunger, you could think of it as 2 Yuan.
So, 1 gold coin = 1000 Yuan. To really buy things in the royal capital, they'd need at least a dozen gold coins on you.
Prices here were generally expensive.
"Sigh... but I just saw a very beautiful robe outfit..."
"Mom, that costs 2000 gold coins! Besides, our level isn't high enough to wear it anyway!"
Speaking of that robe outfit, Ako remembered it too.
But precisely because she remembered, Ako was now burning with the fighting spirit to level up!
Fight more monsters, earn more money, level up more!
Then she could easily buy it, right?
"Alright, alright. Let's go, Mom, we're going to fight~"
"Ah, ah, okay, okay, I got it."
Clearly someone who completely slacks off during fights, now she was more enthusiastic than anyone.
Mika could only be helplessly dragged along by her daughter, while Kaito smiled and followed behind.
Regarding money and levels,
With his GM account, he could indeed use GM functions anytime now.
Summon any weapon he wanted, increase his money to 999999.
But there was no need for now.
It's like playing a game; once you turn on the cheats, no matter how fun the game is, it quickly becomes boring.
It's convenient, but it also reduces a lot of the game experience.
"Oh dear... I shouldn't have agreed to play with my daughter. Now I'm even lost..."
'Huh??'
Kaito paused, then turned his head to look at a corner.
'Good grief, what a good grief!'
'She, like me, didn't change her appearance?'
'If she didn't change her appearance, then this person is none other than Yuki Asuna's mother, Yuki Kyoko!!'
'But I'm not sure if the age was lowered?'
The Yuki Kyoko before Kaito was very young, just like Mika.
And she had more nobility than Mika, as well as the calmness and composure of a truly mature woman.
She even had a "strangers keep away" queenly aura.
Well, Yuki Kyoko was, after all, born into a wealthy family and was also a professor. It was normal for her to have this kind of temperament.
"Kaito, what's wrong?"
Mika noticed Kaito hadn't followed, immediately stopped, and asked him, while also following his gaze to look at Kyoko.
'Hmm, this woman was very beautiful, had a kind of office queen vibe.'
'But in other aspects, I shouldn't be inferior to her.'
'So the question was, why was Kaito staring at her?'
'Why was he staring at her???'
'Was I not attractive enough? Was I not gentle enough??'
"I once had a fragmented dream about the future, and in that dream, this woman appeared."
Kaito looked at Mika, who was entering a darkened state, and promptly pulled out the ability he had previously fabricated.
Since he said that, then his stopping to look at Yuki Kyoko because of it was normal, right?
"I see... What's with that woman?"
Sure enough, upon hearing this explanation, Mika quickly returned to normal. She reached out, grabbed his arm, pressed against him, and asked again.
Now Yuki Kyoko also turned her gaze towards Kaito. She was first a bit surprised by his appearance, while also curious why this handsome stranger was staring at her.
"I don't know, but I always feel something will happen, and we'll end up partying together or something."
Kaito made up an excuse and then looked to the other side.
At this moment, Yuki Kyoko's daughter, Yuki Asuna, also appeared.
Sure enough, it was Asuna around 17 or 18 years old.
After she appeared, she kept running over, and only when her stamina bar was empty did she catch her breath and slowly walk up to Kyoko.
"Sorry, Mom, for keeping you waiting!"
"...No, actually, I was the one who got lost. Making you run an extra lap was my fault."
Kyoko silently shifted her gaze from Kaito to her daughter, and her usually cold eyes gradually softened.
Now she only had this one daughter, Asuna, left. No other closer relatives. So, whatever requests her daughter made, Kyoko would agree to.
For example, Asuna wanted to play this game and thought playing alone would be boring, so she invited her.
For the sake of her daughter, Kyoko agreed, even though she didn't really like playing games.
But in the end, Kyoko was a complete gaming novice. Even with a map, she took the wrong path and got lost...
"Hehe, Mom, don't say that about yourself~"
"By the way... Mom, that big brother you were looking at just now... what's with him? He was looking at you too?"