The hideout is part of the Shipwright of Yore and Elf War questlines. The fallen elf hideout on the floor is located in a submerged dungeon in the eastern mountains to the south of Rovia. Like the forest of the third floor, the branches and leaves practically obliterated the view of the sky, but unlike the equivalent on the third floor, the ground of the Bear Forest is covered with thick, wet moss and little springs. Formerly a dry and desolate forest in the beta test, the Bear Forest in the official service of Sword Art Online was brimming with life.

The Bear Forest is a large forest located to the southeast of Rovia. As stone-paved roads were replaced with waterways, gondolas were needed to different areas of the town.

Although the city had a rather plain and boring design in the beta test of Sword Art Online, it became a bright white town in the middle of a square lake. The main town on the 4 th Floor, named Rovia, is located on the north side of the floor, to the southeast from the stairs that led to the 3 rd Floor. A single tree that grew uninflated swimming rings, which the players could use to navigate through the floor, was located at the north end of the island, beyond the pavilion that housed the staircase. In the official version, the hill was surrounded by water from all sides, thus becoming an island. The stairs between the 3 rd and 4 th Floors were located on a hill, thirty metres across, that was surrounded by cliffs looming over the nearby area, except for two paths to the southeast and southwest respectively, leading to separate canyons. Settlements and Notable Locations 3 rd-4 th Floor Stairs Īlthough the terrain was mostly the same in the official version of Sword Art Online, the once sandy cliffs were filled with water and the reddish-brown land was covered in lush greenery. The players had no choice but to travel through the canyons, and the sand made it significantly hard to traverse, while the complexity of the intersecting canyons made it easy to lose one’s way. In the beta test of Sword Art Online, the entire 4 th Floor was a gravelly, reddish-brown land that consisted of a crisscrossing web of narrow, intersecting canyons that were sandy at the bottom and impossible to scale.

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