earthworm’s digestive juices was probably the worst way of dying she had experienced in a year of playing ALO. Their luck seemed to be good however, as the earthworm didn’t appear to have a stomach. Their tour of its digestive tract lasted for a good three minutes before they were unceremoniously ejected from the other end of the earthworm, the mucus coating Lyfa’s body giving her goosebumps and a sense of revulsion. As she tried to slow her fall using her wings, she began to panic. She couldn’t fly. No matter how much strength she put into her shoulder blades, she couldn’t beat her wings. Straight down into the darkness she fell, with Kirito close behind, and with a bang, they landed in a deep snow drift. Lyfa was the first to recover and struggle out of the snowbank, and, upon looking up, she saw not the moon and stars but a canopy of stone extending as far as she could see. ‘No wonder I couldn’t fly, this is a cave,’ Lyfa thought as she inspected her surroundings. As she continued to look around, an abnormal shape appeared near the snow bank where she had first fallen. It was undoubtedly an «evil-god class monster», which she had previously only seen in pictures. Next to her, Kirito poked his head out of the snow. Before he could say anything, she quickly covered his mouth, understanding their dire situation. They were in the endless underground world, «Jötunheimr», the most difficult field in ALO. In other words, that giant earthworm wasn’t a trap to capture prey for food, but to transport players here to this land of ice. The nearly five story building tall, multi-legged evil-god finally moved away. Lyfa’s group then found this shrine to hide in, and