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Artemis and Leafa were exploring a Jungle biome in the south-east part of the map, and Artemis and Leafa were dealing with a pack of arachnids, they were put to rest quickly however.
"Well, that was easy, so, where to next?" Leafa asked.
Artemis spotted a dungeon in the distance and said, "That way, I see a dungeon over there, we should take a look at what's inside." The two walked over and entered the dungeon, and they were met with a mossy and damp cave. They saw two hallways going to the left, and the right, and there were two burnt out torches on the ground. Artemis picked them up and handed one of them to Leafa, he then lit them both with a piece of flint and some metal.
"Let's go down the left one together, and if we don't find anything, we go to the right." Artemis said.
"Could be a trap though, but I guess there's only one way to find out." Leafa said.
The two walked down the hallway to the left and was closed behind them. "Shit." Artemis said, before lights lit up, revealing a room with multiple stone tiles with different markings on them in a grid formation. Artemis then saw a note to the left and read it.
"Only a master of magic can make it through this puzzle without effort." Artemis read from the note. "Well I got one spell here, called Mage's Path. This should help me find out which tiles to step on."
Artemis then activated his spell and revealed a line of blue light, leading to the other room. Artemis and Leafa stepped on the correct tiles and proceeded. They were met with a dead end, though, they found a chest as well. Artemis opened it and pulled out an amulet, with an enchantment that will allow Artemis to clear himself of any status effects at any point, he had had it since SAO.
Artemis yawned, "I wanna go back to headquarters and take a break from exploring, in fact, with my level, this tends to get boring, just going out killing things I can kill in one hit, but hey, least I'm not dead, right? Now let's see if our teleport crystals work in here." Artemis said, pulling out his teleport crystal and luckily they were able to teleport back to the gates of their empire. Upon opening the gate, Kirito ran to them.
"Man, there's this crazy drunk guy at the porch of his house throwing bottles at his neighbor's windows and breaking them, he won't listen to anyone in fact he threw a bottle at one of the guards." Kirito said.
"Holy shit, all right, let me handle it." Artemis said. Kirito led him to the house and then man was indeed throwing empty bottles everywhere and through the windows of the other houses, and heck, he even got one of Oblivion's windows, which Artemis knew he'd be pissed about.
"Ah c'mon, why'd you go throw that bottle through my friends window for? C'mon, get up and we'll send you to another town for now until we figure out what to do with you." Artemis said, though, the man yelled and swung a bottle at Artemis, though, Artemis grabbed it and took it from his grasp. Artemis then dropped the bottle and had the guards take him away.
"There, easy. Now we gotta get someone to fix Oblivion's window. Man I hope he wasn't in there." Artemis said. Him and Kirito then walked over to Oblivion's house and knocked on the door. A little while after, Lisbeth opened the door.
"Uh oh, you don't seem happy. I mean of course some drunk asshole through a bottle through the window, but something seems different, like you're extra mad than you should be." Artemis said.
"Are you kidding? He's knocked out cold inside the room, the bottle hit his head!" Lisbeth said.
"Oh shit, well what the hell? He's just been lying there?" Artemis asked,
"No, he's on the bed, still unconscious." Lisbeth said. The two then walked up the stairs of the house and went into the room to find Oblivion waking up and looking to Artemis and Lisbeth.
"Um, what happened?" Oblivion asked,
"A drunk asshole that's what happened. Like fuck, look at your window." Artemis said.
Oblivion looked at the window and turned back with a face full of shock. "What the fuck!? Oh right, I walk in here and next thing I know, a fucking bottle comes through the window and knocks me the fuck out." Oblivion said, angrily.
Artemis chuckled, "Well looks like you two won't be doing that thing until we get the window fixed."
"Oh shush, will you? We have another bedroom anyways. Now look, how long should it take to get that window fixed?" Oblivion asked.
"I'll get some guy's to get it done tomorrow, we're running low on glass and a few people are going to get some sand for the glass tonight." Artemis said. "Okay well, I'm going to headquarters, might plan on doing another outpost raid."
Artemis left the house and went with Leafa to the headquarters and sat down inside the dining room to find Kirito, Klein, Sinon, Asuna, and Nero inside, having dinner. "Heard about those two raids you guy's went on earlier. Another PK'ing guild I'm guessing?" Asuna asked.
"Yes and in fact, I believe the previous leader of Laughing Coffin is the leader of it too. Wait, what the hell are you wearing Nero?" Artemis asked.
"What!? I found a kangaroo costume lying in the plains, I wanna torture someone with you guy's, like PoH for example, if he's in this game." Nero said.
"But dude! That's a fucking ridiculous costume! Who put that in the game!?" Artemis said, laughing.
Nero then jumped up on the table and broke the table and said, "I'm a kangaroo bitches."
Everyone started laughing and Nero started jumping around the room. "Nero!? Aren't you 33 fucking years old now!?" Artemis said.
"Hey, Klein told me to do it! For entertainment! I'm a kangaroo!" Nero said. Nero then stopped, and looked at Oblivion who just walked in, "What's gotten you into such a bad mood?" Nero asked.
"Some asshole threw a bottle through my window and knocked me out, thankfully Artemis was around and cleared things up," Oblivion replied. "And why the fuck are you dressed like a kangaroo and-? Did you fucking break the table?"
"Umm, no." Nero said.
Oblivion laughed, "Well, looks like you're gonna have to build a new one for us. Well change back into your normal attire and we'll forget this even happened, well, when you get us a new table that is." He said, sitting down at the table by the broken one.
"Well, I'm gonna get rid of this shit, but I'm gonna need help." Nero said.
"Hmm, I'll pass, you broke it." Artemis said. The others kind of stared at Nero, who sighed and proceeded to clean up on his own.
The Next Day
Artemis was walking through headquarters with Leafa, and he heard someone speaking to a guard of a new biome, he stopped and listened.
"Someone found a new biome far up to the north, called the Ice Desert. Apparently the sands are made of ice, silt, and slush. I wonder if Artemis might go there." The guard said.
"Yeah, well someone's gotta go there, its newly discovered, heard the guy who found it died shortly after entering the cold temperatures. It sounds dangerous." The guy said.
Artemis continued walking down the hall and outside the headquarters and sat down at a bench and checked the world map to see where the ice desert was. It was far up north, and Artemis saw a small discovered area and it was the ice desert.
"Should we try heading up there with a frost resist spell?" Artemis asked.
"I don't know, it seems dangerous, the spell might run out and we might freeze on the spot." Leafa said.
"The game would give you some kind of warning that the spell is gone and it needs to be activated again. I say we invite Oblivion and Lisbeth too, just so we have the extra backup." Artemis said, messaging the two.
Artemis leaned back in his seat. "The game does get boring sometimes." Leafa said.
"Yeah, but hey, we're inside the game, moving around and living, not playing the game by using a controller, back in my last life I always wanted to jump around and run through the game itself without the need of the controller, I want to feel the wind blow through the air, I want to be inside the game not outside." Artemis said.
"Yeah but sometimes I prefer not to be in the game if my life is on the line, and I'm more worried about Lisbeth." Oblivion said, walking towards Artemis and Leafa.
"We'll get outta here, hopefully, won't be too hard. Now, we're going to a biome up in the north to see what we can find there." Artemis said.
30 Minutes later, Ice Desert Biome
"Well shit, you weren't kidding, the sand here is ice." Oblivion said.
"Yeah well that's what some guard said. Didn't think he was serious." Artemis said.
Leafa then activated a frost resist spell and they entered the biome and walked through.
"Imagine how much of a pain in the ass it would be to try and get to the biome further than this one." Lisbeth said,
"This biome is actually rumoured to be a huge border around the entire map and when you get past it, you can find another part of the map outside with rare items everywhere. I don't think we'll be getting past it anytime soon, though, we should be able to sometime." Artemis said.
"Strange." Leafa said, she looked to the left and saw a pyramid. "Let's go see what's inside that pyramid."
"Might as well, see if we find anything interesting in there." Oblivion said.
The group walked over to the pyramid. They entered and the entrance closed in behind them, and soon, the place started to shake, and a ghost like figure emerged from the surface, a rare boss, called the cold spirit. Artemis knew since it was a ghost like boss, that it could only be hurt by magic, though, something popped in Artemis's head, he decided to try and use Hellfire on the boss, to see if warmer temperatures kill it.
"Only magic will kill the boss, or heat, but I'm going to try and swing Hellfire at it and see if it does anything." Artemis said, drawing Hellfire and charging the boss, the other three stuck back and fired spells at the boss. Artemis jumped towards the boss and swung Hellfire at the boss's arm, and it seemed to have melted away as Hellfire fazed through the arm of the boss, and soon, the arm poofed away into thin air.
"Okay, that works, but what about real magic?" Artemis said, activating his fire element magic and setting the boss on fire, soon it seemed they have killed it, though, the place started shaking and another boss, three times the size as the other one came from the ground and Artemis saw bricks falling, he grabbed Leafa's hand and quickly got out with Oblivion and Lisbeth, leaving the boss to be crushed by the pyramid.
Artemis had a menu open up in front of him, it said he got a new metal, called Freixz ingots. "Ooh, you guys want new weapons?" Artemis asked.
"Could use a new sword." Oblivion said.
The others nodded and they pulled out their teleport crystals and teleported back home. They walked to Oblivion and Lisbeth's shop and walked inside and Artemis placed the ingots on the counter and said, "Make sure you have enough to make my kids their own too."
They nodded and Lisbeth and Oblivion went and made their weapons, an Ice sword for Oblivion and a mace with the Frost Burn enchantment on it for Lisbeth, and then they made Leafa a new katana. The two walked to the counter and asked Artemis what enchantments he wanted for each sword.
"Actually, I have this one Nightmare Ingot left from SAO, an extra from Kayaba, and I want you to make Yuno a Life Drain sword, but Leo is gonna have to go with the Frost Burn sword." Artemis said, handing Oblivion his second last Nightmare Ingot.
Oblivion nodded and he went to make Yuno's sword, while Lisbeth made Leo's sword. The kids walked into the shop and Oblivion and Lisbeth handed them their blades.
"There you go, now, don't go off swinging those around everywhere." Lisbeth said.
Artemis thanked Oblivion and Lisbeth and Artemis, Leafa, Leo, and Yuno left to their house.