Futuristic Swordsman Ch. 4

In a tavern

"Cheers! And here's to Kirito-san, the man who saved our lives!" A guild member cheered. Everyone else in that guild cheered causing Kirito to bow his head in embarrassment. "Cheers! You saved us. Thank you" Another member of the guild thanked Kirito. "It was nothing" Kirito told them smiling. "I was really scared, then when you came to save me, I was so happy." The only girl of the guild told him. "Um, Kirito-san…I know this is really rude to ask, but what level are you?" A member of the guild asked him. "Around Level 20" Kirito told them as he eyed his Level 50 tag on his stats.

"That isn't too different than ours. It's really amazing that you're a solo player. My name is Keita by the way. That armor looks cool by the way. Where did you get it?" the same member who asked him is level told him. "Keita, you don't need to be so polite. Solo players just target isolate enemies. It isn't that efficient. And the armor I got it as a gift for discovering a hidden room." Kirito told Keita before lying about the armor. "Oh…Oh, I see. In that case, Kirito, what would you think about joining our guild? The only one we have who can occupy the vanguard is Tetsuo, a mace user. Her name is Sachi, I'd planned to have her switch to sword and shield use, so she could fight in front. But she says that she isn't really sure how. Do you think you could show her the ropes?" Keita asked him.

"Don't talk about me like I'm useless. I can't go out and fight in the front rank, I'd be scared." Sachi pouted. Just hide behind your shield. "You've always been a scaredy-cat." Keita tells her. Everyone in our guild is from our school's PC Research Club. Ah…but don't worry. You'll fit in soon. Right!" Keita told him. "Sorry guys. I already made my guild. We can have an alliance if that is what you guys want." Kirito told them. Tetsuo nodded eagerly. "Yea thats cool. The guild name is Black Cats. Kirito opened up his guild menu and searched for a guild name Black Cats. There was only one so he invited them to the alliance. Tetsuo received a notification for guild alliance and he whistled.

"Woah Terran Enforcer. Wish we could get a name like that. But since Sachi is here we had to stick with Black Cats" Tetsuo said wistfully before accepting the guild alliance. A notification popped up in front of him.

The Guild "Terran Enforcer" is now allied with the guild "Black Cats"

They spent the night staying up and talking about what they should do tomorrow.

The next day- Forest

Sachi almost gets attack but dodges, Kirito runs in "Sachi, get back. Kirito blocks the monsters attack "Tetsuo, switch!" "Right" Tetsuo replies before rushing in with a swift hit destroying it for good! He wins 352 EXP, 190 Col, and 1 item. Tetsuo celebrates "All right" and Keita says "You did it!

Tetsuo looked at his level before he looked at Kirito. "So the lead group made it through Floor 28…Amazing! Hey, Kirito. What's the difference between the lead groups and us?" Tetsuo asked him. "They all know all the fastest ways to get EXP and they don't share them." Kirito told him. "I'm sure that's part of it. But i think it's willpower." Tetsuo told him. "Willpower?" Kirito repeated confused.

"I suppose you might say it's a determination to protect one's friends… No, everyone. Right now they're still protecting us. But I'd like to think my will is just as strong. Naturally our first priority is our friend's safety. But someday, we want to make it up there, to the top, with the rest." Tetsuo told Kirito. "I see, you're right." Kirito told him smiling at the piece of knowledge. "Heh, maybe." Tetsuo laughed out until one of the guild members pulled him into a headlock.

"So, we're going to be up there with the Holy Dragon Alliance and the Knights of the Blood Oath?" The random guild member asked. "What? There's nothing with setting big goals. First we all hit level 30!" Tetsuo told him. "That's impossible!" came the frantic voice from the same person who asked the question. "If the Black cats ever do grow up and make it to the front lines, Keita's ideals could change the insular atmosphere up there." Kirito thought to himself. "I have an announcement for you. As of our last hunt, we've saved 20,000 Col" A random guild member announced to them all.

Many guild members started chattering about getting a home for each of them. "Hey I know, why don't we get more equipment for Sachi?" Keita called out. "No, I'm fine as I am." Sachi said frantically. "Don't worry about it. We can't make Kirito protect us forever." A random guild member laughed out. Sachi bowed her head in embarrassment before looking at Kirito with a blush on her face. "I'm sorry." Sachi told Kirito embarrassed. "I don't mind. Don't worry about it." Kirito smiled at her causing her to look away. They continue fighting mobs the rest of the day and the Black Cats left to get some sleep. Kirito sighed before activating his teleport crystal.

"Terran Enforcer HQ" Kirito muttered quietly and he vanished in a shower of blue sparks.

Terran Enforcer HQ

Kirito popped inside of a high tech building with drones that flew over him going to do their normal duties such as construction, mining, transportation, or farming. He found out a long time ago that he could build these kind of things. They couldn't attack for him which sucked since then he boss battles would be a breeze. But there were was other stuff he could use which he intended to keep a secret.

There was a long list of items that he could make but all of them required a high cost. When he started mining there was another skill that popped up for mining. At level all he could do was mine stone. He slowly made his way up to level 4 which let him start mining Iron. At level 2 he was able to mine coal and at level 3 he was able to mine bronze. He used the coal he had and some iron to make steel.

Steel was worth a lot of money in the NPC brokers. He then bought iron at a cheap price compared to the steel and just mined coal from then on. He just cycled the method and was making a killing of money. Once his col reached up to the millions section he got a stocks skill. Apparently the game was teaching you how to live your life from scratch.

But it was all good since he found out that this was the same as the real life system. He bought off half of the stores on the next floor that was useful in this game every time a floor is cleared. So far his col was around 30 million. He could buy off an entire floor with that but he put all the money into the mining, farming, and construction skills. The money just flows to him so his current money would be doubled once everyone started going onto the next floor.

He had mostly invested his money around weapons shops, brokers, apothecaries, and restaurants. Those were the most visited shops throughout the game since lots of people always stock up on health potions, food, trading, and weapon shops. He still had money flowing in because there were people buying a lot of food from restaurants. He opened up his mine's menu to find how much coal is there. He found around a thousand or so since it didn't take that long to mine. He put the coal in his inventory before he placed decided to start mining iron.

He pressed the iron button and the mine went back into life now changing it's function. A window popped up in front of Kirito's visor.

Notification: Mine 250 more iron to level up

He nodded at the notification with a smile before he closed it and headed to his workshop. Inside his workshop was 2 floating drones that were finishing up a task that he had started a little while ago. He had only discovered this thing recently so he just started on it. He couldn't move onto the next thing until he finished with this task. The workshop had opened up a notification for him which he looked at it.

Halo Spartan Armor Mjolnir Mark II Construction Complete!