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After they fought the 12 Salamanders (Except for one) Kirito asked, "Now, it's your turn. You gonna fight or not?"
"No, my magic skill is about to reach 100 so I'd rather not die just yet." The remaining Salamander said, before flying off.
"Aw please! I wanted to put my Elmo mask on and torture you…" Wolf said.
"There we go, with the damn Elmo mask again. I think a bloody big bird mask would be scarier." Oblivion said.
"Aww… Don't hurt the poor guy like that," Artemis said to Oblivion.
"Guys, listen. We need to get to a town to stay at until tomorrow." Kirito said.
"Really? I could go on all night if I wanted to." Oblivion said.
"C'mon, we're wasting our time, let's fly over to Sylvain." Kirito said as he started to hover unsteadily above the ground.
"No! That's in Sylph territory! There is too many Sylph there, they can overpower you guys easily." Leafa protested.
"Wait, does that mean we can fight back in another territory? If we don't provoke them then we should be good." Kirito said.
"By the way Kirito, I've restarted the SWC guild in Alfheim. Would you mind joining?" Artemis asked.
"I'm a solo player, and you know that Artemis. Besides, PK'ing is one of the main features of Alfheim." Kirito said.
"Oh I know that, but you would benefit greatly, due to the fact that this guild's quest is to do exactly what you want to do, go find Asuna." Artemis said, "And we have the equipment required already, all we need is the support of a race like the Spriggans or Sylphs and we'll be good, however I heard from one of our spies that a Sylph is betraying his own race to the Salamanders, oh and Leafa, get that weirdo you call a friend, Recon, to find out which one it is, however I think he may already have an idea."
"Sounds like a plan, but first, before Kirito joins the guild and I message Recon, let's focus on getting to Sylvain." Leafa said.
The group flew to Sylvain, in Sylph territory. When they had gotten there, Leafa asked if Kirito knew how to land but he said no and he ended up hitting the tower in the center of town, creating a somewhat explosion type sound as he hit the tower. When they landed, Oblivion said, "My oh my, does this remind me of the most terrible shit ever, 9/11. Kirito, you're very evil, you know that?"
"Be quiet, I'm not that evil. If I was I would have hit two of them, but there isn't two of them." Kirito said.
"You both are evil, the both of you. You two are worse than Wolf with the Elmo mask." Artemis said.
"Shut it! I did that for fun!" Wolf said.
"Okay, I think we should end this topic right now before we get any ideas." Oblivion said.
"Ideas!? You are evil!" Leafa yelled.
"I know I'm evil! I'm the most emotionless being I know! Well, aside from Wolf here who tortures people while wearing an Elmo mask." Oblivion said.
"Bullshit," Artemis said, laughing, "Have you seen PoH, that bastard was more emotionless, than you, you weirdo, besides you have a girlfriend, what girl wants an emotionless scumbag."
"Well one, fuck PoH, second… Aw fuck you're right, I'm not even close to being emotionless, I just hate certain people." Oblivion said.
"Same, bro," Artemis said, laughing.
"This is great, we're learning stuff. Let's go get some drinks and then log out." Oblivion said.
The group then went to bar by the outskirts of town.
"I ain't wanting to log out, believe it or not." Artemis said, "I just don't want to admit that I actually liked SAO."
"Now that's emotionless and cold, much worse than PoH." Oblivion said.
"No, actually I bet PoH liked SAO too. He led a guild focused on PK'ing in a death game, I don't think anything compares." Artemis said, "I liked it because it was exhilarating to know that I might die in battle, truth is, I'm not emotionless, I'm crazy."
"Actually, Kirito hitting that tower was much worse than anything, nothing compares." Oblivion said, laughing.
"Ok, shut up, will you?" Kirito said, glaring at him.
"Wait a second, I just remembered why you don't have Dark Repulsor, it was destroyed in the fight against Heathcliff," Artemis exclaimed, catching the attention of everyone else in the bar.
One man recognised Artemis immediately and, unfortunately called the group out, as he was there during the last boss fight, "Hey Artemis, that you?"
Artemis cringed, as much as he ended up gathering it, he hated attention, "Yup, that's me, the guy that died just before Kirito killed the bastard, Heathcliff."
"That's not what you're remembered for, you protected many players from dying at Laughing Coffin's hands," The man said.
"Oh, I thought everyone thought I was dead," Artemis muttered.
"Well because of that, we all, grieved, but now that we see that you're alive, we can stop grieving and celebrate," The man said, hearing Artemis.
"Ok, but first, we must conquer the World Tree, as Asuna, of the Knight's of the Blood Oath, is trapped inside this game, if you wish you may join my guild that I created, based off my old one, formed so that we could free the 300 remaining players of SAO stuck in this game, who's with me!" Artemis called, changing his answer to a call to join his guild. Little did he know that he would add 20 people to his guild so soon. He sent them to his headquarters in Spriggan territory, to be trained by his best trainers currently. He then messaged his trainers that he was sending new men to them tomorrow, that he was letting these men rest before sending them off to train, he told them that they should be there by the end of week, that being in 3 days.
Three days later, Sylvain
"Okay, now I want to bring to your guy's attention that there is no city at the top of the world tree. It's a big lie. This big phony loser, named Suguo used this game just to trap SAO player's. They can only log out if they have access to GM commands, meaning they have to get to a command console." Artemis said.
"Suguo? Yeah, that pedophile, is the reason why Asuna is trapped inside of ALO. The dumb cunt thinks if the Yuuki family adopts him, apparently that means it'd be like he married her and shit and then they can actually have a wedding." Kirito said.
"Well technically speaking, if he does that he ca-" Leafa said, until Artemis interrupted.
"Or, how about we kill the bastard, plain and simple. We can all wear Elmo masks too, and let's do it IRL, oh that'll get everyone up in a tizzy." He said, smiling like a madman.
"Yeah but how would you cover it up? He's part of a big company after all." Oblivion asked.
"I'll put his body and the weapon in a furnace, clean the blood, then done!" Artemis said.
"Yeah but where are you gonna get the furnace?" Oblivion asked.
"I was going to drug him, put him in my car, drive him to Wolf's torture room, then he puts an Elmo mask on, we torture him, and then we put him in the furnace alive." Artemis said.
"Dear god Artemis, are you okay?" Leafa asked.
"Oh no, I'm more than okay, I just can't wait to kill that fucker, once and for all!" Artemis started cackling madly.
"Jeez Artemis, this guy must be a total fuckboy if you want to kill him that badly." Oblivion said.
"Oblivion, shut it, I know exactly why I want to kill him. He's not just a total fuckboy, he's a rapist, that's why we gotta get Asuna out of this game, at the moment, she's his personal toy." Artemis said.
"In that case, Suguo will be my little plaything before Asuna becomes a little plaything of Suguo's. Suguo is not allowed to have playthings." Wolf said. "And yes, when I torture him, I will slap on a bloody big bird mask oh his head."
"But the thing is, she already is a plaything, so that's why we gotta go now!" Artemis yelled, startling everyone.
"Suguo is not allowed to have playthings! I will slit his dick until it's dysfunctional…" Wolf said, insanely, as he got up out of his chair, pushing it over.
Central Tower
"You know, if we just flew up here instead of take all of those stairs, this would be easier." Oblivion said.
"Hey, it's good exercise." Leafa said.
Oblivion just stared at her with a slightly angry face and said, "We're in a game, I'm becoming fatter as we walk up the stairs, not thinner."
"He's got somewhat of a point. You wouldn't become fat playing a game." Kirito said.
"That was a metaphor. I wanted to refrain from talking about how we pretty much looked like zombies after SAO." Oblivion said.
"If I didn't do rehab, I could have scared everyone into thinking that there was a zombie apocalypse." Wolf said.
"Let me guess, that was a metaphor too?" Oblivion said.
"Actually it wasn't. All of that could have happened accidentally." Wolf said.
"Now would you look at this view, I feel like I can just touch the sky right now, but Suguo is mean bastard and he won't let us do that." Oblivion said.
"You mean that Suguo is a rapist cunt and should just die in the corner of an alleyway." Artemis said, smiling.
"There has got to be a reason why you want him to die that much." Oblivion said.
"Oh you'll see exactly why when we get to the world tree." Artemis said.
"Leafa!" A very obnoxious voice said in the background.
"Who said that! I will kill every single one of you!" Wolf said, agitated by the voice.
"Hey, calm down, it's just me." Recon said, walking in from behind.
"What do you want Recon? We're on a very important mission right now and we can't waste anymore time." Leafa said.
"You can't just leave like that! How come you did?" Recon asked.
"Well, she left because we are going to kill a rapist cunt who owns this game." Artemis said, smiling.
"Um, Leafa, is he okay?" Recon asked.
"Oh god, I don't know, that's what I'm gonna find out when we get to the World Tree." Leafa said, rolling her eyes.
"Well I'm coming with you!" Recon said.
"Actually, I told you to investigate someone? Remember?" Leafa asked.
"Oh right… Alright then… I'd best be going then…" Recon said, gloomily.
As Recon left, the group flew towards a huge mountain, which came over the altitude limit, so they had to go through a cave. Before they did, Leafa said, "All right, so two of us will log out and then the other three will have to guard their avatars."
"I guess that's fair, I'm getting hungry after all, and I'm sure some of you guy's are too." Oblivion said.
"How about this, me and Kazuto log out and have something to eat first, and then you three log out and eat." Leafa said.
"I guess that's fair." Oblivion said, as Leafa and Kirito logged out. Just after, Yui flew out of Kirito's pocket.
"Oh hey Yui. I'm getting the feeling that something or someone is watching us, can you see if there is anyone around?" Oblivion said.
"No, I don't sense any player's in the area, though there might be a tracker spell put on one of us." Yui said.
"Yui is right, there is a tracker following one of us. We'll have to kill it in the caves that way it can't just fly away." Artemis said.
"How do you know that for sure?" Yui asked.
"I was reincarnated from a world which had an anime about the events of SAO, and the events afterwards. If you think about it, I pretty much asked God to create a world much like it that I can be reincarnated into." Artemis said.
"I don't understand." Yui said.
"Yeah well I don't think an AI will know what reincarnation means. I'll tell you, it means to die in one world and then to born in another world." Artemis explained.
"I- I think I get it. You died in another world, and then a God reincarnated you into our universe you're saying?" Yui asked.
"Pretty much." Artemis said, as Leafa and Kirito logged back on.
"Okay, it's your guy's turn." Leafa said
"I'm not hungry, Wolf, Oblivion, you go ahead and eat." Artemis said.
They logged off, and Artemis sat on ground, glaring at nothing, "If you won't kill him, I will, Kirito, he may try to kill you when you end this and log everyone off, but you you aren't man enough to kill the one who killed you," He muttered under his breathe, but sadly Leafa heard him.
She grabbed his shirt and yells, "This guy will try and kill Kirito!? Why didn't you say this before!?"
"I'm sorry, but I will be there, even though Kirito will get attacked at Asuna's hospital, Kirito wins either way, but this time, Suguo will die," Artemis said, glaring at her, "I will kill him, and I will do it in such a way I can never be blamed for it."
"Okay, now I see why you want to kill him." Leafa said.
As Wolf and Oblivion logged back on, Oblivion said, "You guy's talking about Suguo? I bet he's a skinny fuckboy who can't keep a relationship for more than a week." Oblivion said.
"Actually, the world I was reincarnated from had a guy just like that. A skinny fuckboy gangster wannabe who can't keep a relationship for more than a week. You have no idea how much you and me wanted to beat the shit out of him." Artemis said.
"I can only imagine. Let's get to that cave now." Oblivion said, getting up.
The group walked through the cave. It was too dark to see in there, so Kirito activated a spell that allowed them to see inside the cave. They kept walking through and heard a squeaking sound, like a bat would make. Leafa then took the group over to a split in the paths and then activated a spell which created a rock wall. She told everyone to be quiet as it would break the spell.
"That can't be a player, it's got red eyes, like a bat." Kirito said. Leafa then moved out of the split path and then activated a spell, which she used to shoot bright yellow beams at the bat, which killed it.
"C'mon guys, they're coming!" Leafa said.
"They!? Who is coming!?" Kirito asked.
"The Salamanders! If that was a high level tracker, they must have a high level mage! C'mon, we gotta hurry!" Leafa said.
"Ooh, look at the lake! I'll jump right in there with an Elmo mask and kill all of the monsters in there!" Wolf said.
"Shut it! We need to get into town before it's too late!" Leafa yelled.
As they were running towards the arch that goes to town, the Salamanders activated a high level earth spell, creating a barrier at the door. Kirito jumped up to try and destroy it, but as the sword impacted on the wall, Kirito was knocked back and fell on his back.
"That's a high level earth spell, doing that won't do anything." Leafa said.
"W-Why didn't you tell me that before?" Kirito said.
Artemis drew both his swords and ran towards the Salamanders at the front, using shields. Kirito asked Leafa and Oblivion if they can heal them in battle, as they were both Sylphs, they were specialized in healing spells. Wolf drew his khopesh and ran towards the Salamanders, not caring if he killed them even though Wolf was a Salamander himself.
Artemis quickly jumped over one of them and stabbed him through the back, but had jump back because the mages at the back were activating a spell which would hurl flaming boulders at them at an impossible speed.
Leafa and Oblivion quickly healed them and they ran towards them again, but didn't reach them because the mages were already activating the spell again. Kirito and Artemis fell back but they were hit again by the spell.
Leafa and Oblivion healed them again. As they did, Yui said, "Put a shield around them, now!"
Leafa didn't understand why but Oblivion was already casting it on Artemis.
Artemis instantly used a dark magic spell that would create an explosion that, in theory, could destroy a mountain, but as he had already used it once, saw that it was much weaker, what it did was technically a sticky bomb, casting it on one person, and leaving an explosion that could destroy anything within 10 feet of the creature, the only way to get rid of it is touching another creature, meaning that it creates the most dangerous game of tag ever.
Leafa saw this and cast a shield of Kirito, as she did this Artemis blew up his chosen man, and Kirito began to cast his own spell.
Kirito finished casting his spell and grew 10 feet in size, he then formed into a monster, Gleam Eyes. He charged the group of attackers and tore them to shreds, he even ate a guy.
As he finished, they looked for Wolf, and saw his remaining light, he was hit by spell after spell because he never fell back, he had killed 4 of them before he died it seemed.
Artemis pulled out one of the spells he had learned and revived the ungrateful bastard, "What the fuck took you guys so fucking long!?" He yelled at Artemis, who shrugged.
"Sorry, we had a bigger problem than someone who doesn't know when to fall back," Artemis said, "I could have let you disappear, if only to be rid of your ungrateful attitude."
"Oh shut up," Wolf grumbled.
"You want to die again?" Artemis said, "And by the way, I can't use that spell for another 10 minutes now, so do you want to take that chance?"
"Urgh, you're lucky I want to kill that bastard Suguo." Wolf said.
"Hey! Will you two just stop? Let's just get into town, Kirito, we'll wait for you while you get info from that grunt." Oblivion said.
The group walked into town, Leafa checked her messages and saw one from Recon. She logged out for a moment to find out she missed a ton of calls from him...