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Summary
Source: Personal Scans by 1caiser

Original source: http://lknovel.lightnovel.cn/main/view/38515.html

Translation
All of the «Forest of Wavering Mist».

Floating Castle Aincrad, Information of each floor.

3rd Floor

Design Theme is «Forest». However, unlike the scale of forest in Horunka Village surrounding on Floor 1 or forest in Southern region of Floor 2, the whole floor is covered by giant ancient trees. The southern part of the Floor is called as «Forest of Wavering Mist», is covered with heavy mist that could let player feel dizzy. Main street area «ズムフト» is at the southwest of the floor, and there're 3 giant tree which grow close to each other. Southern part and northern part of the forest would have Dark Elf and Forest Elf's campsite respectively, and they're the base of the first campaign quest in SAO. In the campsite, there're camps for residence, canteen and bath, players does not need to go back to street area when mission in progress. To access the dungeon area within the northern part of the floor, players need to beaten the wild boss which construct its nest in the only valley of the central mountain range.

Third Floor Boss is «Nerius The Evil Treant». This giant tree-shaped monster seem to have different attack mode from beta test age as like Illfang the Kobold Lord from the first floor and Asterios The Taurus King from the second floor.