Labyrinth Walkthrough | Echoes of Aincrad ( SAO EoA )

Labyrinth Summary

Your party makes it to the Labyrinth but Saayu messages in distress. You and Iori check on her and she reveals she and Clark are hiding against resentful players who learned they were beta testers. She wants you all to form a party to stay safe together but you decline since you already agreed to joining the raid.

At the raid, you finally go and fight the boss. All goes well until the second phase where instead of the known weapon Illfang was supposed to have, it goes for something else. This change in weapon ends up killing Diavel.

After the battle, Kibaou starts accusing a young man of being a beta tester that withheld information and being the one that caused Diavel to die. The young man turns out to be Kirito, a beta tester who reached a lot of the higher floors in the game solo during the beta test. After much heckling, Kirito leaves, and your party feels distraught from the treatment the other players gave Kirito.

Labyrinth Walkthrough

[1] Go to Saayu.

You arrive at the Labyrinth and try to contact Wyzeman but he won't answer.

Someone else does message you though...it's Saayu! And it seems like she's in trouble. She's asking you to come find her in the Town of Beginnings.

Zash says it might be better to go help her since the raid has a lot of people and Saayu needs a friend. He also won't mind being a bit more prepared for the raid since he woke up so late.

Zash leaves to go to the Smithy while you and Iori head to the inn to find Saayu. Go to the chest room to find her.

Saayu fortunately did find Clark but they ended up running to the inn to hide because others found out they were beta testers. There seems to be a lot of resentment against the beta players right now.

She urges the two to stay with her until they explain that they're actually joining a raid to go against the boss of the first floor.

Saayu is surprised but she understands and apologizes for taking up their time. She warns them to be careful because of the beta tester situation.

[2] Return to the raid.

You guys meet up with Zash and explain the situation, twisting the turth a little bit to protect yourselves.

Time to climb this dungeon! It should be noted that the labyrinth is a bigger dungeon than Teardrop Cave so exercise caution. It also lives up to its name, full of confusing twists and turns in its layout. Remember to weigh whether the chest will be worth the exploration or not!

[3] Defeat the Kobold Champion.

After the first set of random corridors, you will find a Safe Area just before a boss-class enemy.

This fire-wielder is QUICK. You are better off dodging and rolling off than guarding. It is also easy to lose health because of burning so keep an eye on your HP. There are times when the boss is stationary and it is best to attack then.

[4] Meet up with the Raid Group.

After another floor of the Labyrinth, you finally make it to the raid group just before most of them enter the boss room.

Wyzeman is happy to see all of you make it in time. He says our job is to focus on the Ruin Kobold Sentinels that aid the boss and ignore the boss itself, as a different group will take care of it.

[5] Defeat the Kobold army.

There will be a wall between your party and the rest of the raid. A mix of weak Kobold, shielded Kobold, regular Kobold, and elite Kobold will keep spawning in waves. You have to get rid of them as you wait for Illfang's HP to drop to zero.

During the fight, instead of a talwar, the boss gets a different weapon, and Diavel gets killed. However, you still have to defeat the boss right here and now. Keep fending off the waves of kobold until the HP of the boss is lowered to almost 0.

When the boss' HP gets low, Asuna and Kirito (the young swordsman) will deal it with hard fatal hits.

After the battle, Kibaou will blame the young swordsman for Diavel dying. You know, even if he saved everyone else. He gets accused of being a Beta tester that withheld the information purposefully.

Zash notices your troubled faces when the rest start insulting beta testers.

Kirito tells others not to compare him to all the other beta testers because he was a solo player who cleared several levels on his own.

He is called a beta cheater or a beater by another player and they start heckling him some more. Kirito walks away from all of them.

Meanwhile, we have no choice but to move on forward.

Go and exit the boss room.

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