It has been a day since the warriors have been in Sword Art Online. The sun began to rise to create a new day, with a few dull clouds in the yellow gradated sky.
A few warriors are up early to be better warriors than many others. Those warriors are fighting monsters around the trail that sits between the central village and a smaller village that they need to be in. The village is said to have citizens that need assistance that could reward the noble warriors gifts for the better future.
The population of Frenzy Boar and Terror Wolves have slowly decreased, and the levels of virtual men began to rise.
A young man in a red shirt with intermediate armor and a basic sword and shield combo walks along the trail and examines the ambitious warriors battling the monsters. He stopped for a moment and looked to his right and had noticed a Terror Wolf at a horrendous state, unable to walk, but to crawl due to injuring it's leg. He also noticed a selfish teenager gleam at the helpless monster that is begging for mercy. As soon as the armed teen rushed at it, the man in red rushes towards that selfish swordsman. Before he knew it, the young man in red was right next to him, approaching him at a high speed, and clocked him in the face, causing him to fly a few feet in the direction where force was applied, with HP slightly decreasing. Lying on his back, he grew livid and confused due to the young man's actions, and decided to yell.
"What the hell man? That was an easy kill!", the teenager yelled to the young man
"Exactly" the young man retorted.
"This poor creature needs to be treated. Whether it is a monster programmed to oppose us or not, there could be hidden codes within these beasts" the young man explained to the teenager.
The teenager still looked angry and disappointed.
The young man examined the injury and simply pulled out a potion and helped the creature ingest it. The wolf felt well again and stood on all of it's feet. He snarled at the young man and prepared to attack.
Believing he was right, the teenager attempts draws his blade, but the young man extends his hand to block his path, indirectly ordering him to stand back. Immediately after, he pulls out a flab of Boar Meat and the monster tears it in half as it takes a bite. The monster grew calmer as the young man gave the rest of the meat to it, and the teenager was surprised. The wolf's eyes went from a demoniac red color to a righteous blue color, symbolizing the wolf becoming tame and obtaining a new master.
"These creatures are like turtles, there are soft and gentle creatures hidden within their shells" the young man said as he petted the wolf then walked away.
He noticed that the wolf followed him after taking several steps, and smiled at it.
"Would you like to accompany me?" He asked the wolf.
The wolf nodded his head with a serious, yet satisfied look on his face.
"Scout. I will call you Scout" he said to the wolf. The wolf barked back in a rather happy tone to show his satisfaction towards the name given to him. The two then proceeded walking to the town at the end of the trail.
The teenager had realized that the way the young man spoke as he stood there, watching him walk away, sounded familiar. "Wait! I know who you are!" The man shouted, but alas, it was too late for the sound to reach him.
The daylight finally gradates the sky from an orange to blue hue, and Kirito and a hundred others had made it to the next town. The town was small with a few houses and all the essential shops that the warriors need to progress through the dungeons and floors of Aincrad. Kirito had heard a man talking from the distance. As intrigued as he was, Kirito walks east towards the source.
However, the man wasn't conversing with another person, but was conducting a meeting for the purpose of announcing efficient ways to defeat the first floor boss. The conductor had an elegant face with blue hair sitting above it. The hair spiked on the back, pointing away from the owner, and two mediocre strands of hair flow down beside both sides of the owner's face. His shirt was blue, and was overlapped by the powerful bronze armor sold within the town. The man also had the most powerful sword sold in the town as well.
"My name is Diabel" the confident man announced proudly as if it was necessary for his audience.
Diabel explains his tactics on how to defeat the first floor boss. He suggested that the strongest warriors are in the front and the weakest in the back. As soon as the weakest warriors study the boss' attack pattern, then the warriors switch positions to have the weak gain experience as well. Also, as soon as the final boss is at it's last hit point bar, the positions of the warriors switch back from the way it was in the beginning of the battle due to change of attack pattern. He also explained the weapon it carries for each attack pattern: A battle axe for the first attack pattern, and a samurai sword for the second. Intermediate players will take care of the reinforcements.
One warrior in the crowd realized that Diabel was a beta tester in the first nonofficial release of Sword Art Online since he knew so much about the boss, and had jumped to the stage to make his stand against beta testers.
"Beta tester!" The warrior shouted to the crowd while pointing at Diabel, leaving them confused for a moment before he explained the negative things about beta testers.
The warrior had a great build, but is also short in height. His sienna hair spikes up like the end of a medieval flail, and has a scruffy goatee that shoots down to his chin. He takes over the meeting by changing the audience's focus from on the boss to beta testers.
"These mendacious bastards have information, regarding to Sword Art Online, and use it to take on the easier quests before the beginners, and they feed the beginners to the wolves by simply leaving them behind! I, Kibaou, will not allow such treachery!" the man yelled to the crowd, targeting them to feel sympathy while looking for beta testers within the crowd by observing their behavior.
Kirito swallowed guilt for leaving Klein behind, yet he kept it hidden from the angry commentator.
"Show yourselves, and give us all of your Col to make things even between us!" Kibaou demanded to the beta testers he couldn't find in the crowd, hoping that someone would step up and pay the price.
One warrior was about to stand up with a sorrowful look on his face, but then another warrior interrupted their actions by raising his hand and asked Kibaou a question.
"May I say something?" Agil asked while sitting with the audience.
"Fine!" Kibaou said with a frustrated attitude.
Agil comes forth to the stage and stands next to the Kibaou, and is easily towering over him and outmatching him in strength by appearance. Agil reaches his into his back pocket and pulls out a a small, brown handbook, and explains all the information the beta testers and brokers of the server, which was provided to everyone within the server, to everyone in the meeting
"These handbooks prove that all of us are capable of accomplishing the same common goals as the beta testers" Agil claimed to support his stance.
Agil then looked down at Kibaou and asked "why bother complaining about the actions of a beta tester when you could have done the actions yourself?"
Kibaou grew angrier due to the fact that he knew he lost the argument, so he quickly and ungracefully turned his head away from Agil and sat back down with the rest of the audience. After that, Diabel was back in control after giving thanks to Agil. After Agil acknowledged Diabel, Diabel orders the warriors to group up for the boss battle.
Each section of the audience had a group of people that already knew each other, so a big percentage of the audience already formed groups the second Diabel ordered them to group up. Kirito, however, is part of the small percentage of the grouping ratio. He looked to his left and had noticed everyone that side was corroborated with one another. He then looked to his right and had found a hooded warrior that looked lonely. He shrugged at the fact that he needed to team up with warriors to defeat the first boss safely and strategically, and approached the hooded warrior slowly. Kirito was nervous and said hello nicely and quietly.
The hooded warrior looked at Kirito for a slight moment and said hello back nervously. The womanly voice of the hooded warrior left Kirito marginally surprised and dumbfounded.
"I just want to get out of here" the woman said with a depressing tone before Kirito could say anything else.
Kirito felt bad, yet he realized who she was because of the sound of her voice during the glitch fiasco.
"You were one of those people who yelled at that glitch before everyone went on a rampage. Right?" Kirito asked out of curiosity.
"Yes...I am" the woman said nervously.
Kirito grew even more confused since he figured that the woman was nervous around people and was not very talkative, yet she had a lot of confidence in her tone when she screamed at the glitch like a mother defending a child from a serial killer.
Regardless, Kirito was going to ask her to accompany him in his group, but Reginald snuck up on Kirito and screamed at him with a lot of energy and joy.
"Kirito!" Reginald yelled, happy to see Kirito again. This moment immediately made the woman and Kirito feel uneasy.
"I have heard everything, and I was wondering if you can team up with me?" Reginald asked excitedly.
Kirito looked slightly worried and disappointed because he wanted to ask the woman to team up with him, and he didn't want to say no to the young and confident Reginald.
"Please?" Reginald begged impatiently as he noticed Kirito making up his mind.
Kirito had an epiphany that states the more members of the group, the safer the mission would be for everyone involved, so he took Reginald's offer, leaving him happy, cheering obnoxiously loud and saying thank you many times to Kirito.
Reginald accessed his personal menu and tapped the third choice, which had two simple head logos, representing humans, overlapping each other, and was titled "Friends". After tapping that choice, he then tapped "Parties", then tapped "Add Member". Immediately after that, a pop up menu appears in front of him that required him to type the username of the player he wants to join. He typed in "Kirito", then sent a notification to Kirito, which resulted with a pop up screen appearing in front of Kirito as soon as Reginald's pop up screen transitions away. Kirito's pop up screen had Kirito choose whether or not he would let Reginald team up with him. Kirito tapped the circle on the pop up screen, which allowed Reginald to be a part of his team, and Reginald's username and HP stats shown right below Kirito's username and level stats at the top left corner.
Kirito smiled slightly as phase one of his plan has been complete, and asked the woman politely to join him and Reginald in a group.
Though Reginald didn't know who the woman was either, he still gave her the puppy eyes to her, attempting to lure her to the group. It barely worked.
"Ok, I will join you" the woman hesitantly said to Kirito and Reginald. After the whole process of adding another member, another username and HP bar appeared below Reginald's at the corner of Kirito's eye. The username was read as "Asuna".
Kirito smiled at the fact that Asuna joined him, and had noticed three birds flying from his left traveling to his right. Kirito targeted the birds until he noticed the birds were flying towards the sun. The birds sung beautifully to him, even though each bird performed differently as they travel the same direction.
Kirito then looked at his team, and advised them to prepare for the boss fight. Kirito and Reginald noticed that Asuna had left the scene without them knowing, which gave Reginald an opportunity to ask Kirito something.
"Why are you so interested in her?" Reginald asked Kirito in curiosity.
Kirito looked at him for a little bit, then looked down to his feet.
"I don't know" Kirito responded to Reginald.
"Now come on, we have training to do" Kirito said as soon as he stopped thinking about Asuna and Reginald's question, and when he looked at Reginald with a weak smile.
Reginald knew something was up, yet he didn't care since he had the opportunity with the great Kirito.
"Ok!" Reginald screamed in excitement.
The two warriors go off to the fields around town to defeat monsters to increase level and stat values as well as experience.
