Artemis sat and listened to the before battle speech that he had listened to many times before. He sighed, and then grabbed for his Dragon's Blade and drew it slowly and deliberately, and breathed in deeply, and steadied himself. He was scared, but not for himself, he couldn't care less if he died protecting his friends, it was an honorable way to go after all, no it was Leafa who he was worried for, as he'd fallen for her completely, and even though she was an excellent fighter, he worried about what would happen if she stumbled or missed a strike.

He knew he would have to believe in her, he knew they'd be fine as they were at least 5 levels higher than the highest level players in not in their group.

Diavel called out to everyone that it was time to enter, and Artemis took his sword and flicked it to his side and then charged in beside Kirito. Illfang the Kobold Lord charged at them with his minions. The two groups clashed in the middle of the room, Artemis charged at the minions, just like the plan said that his group should, and he slashed, cutting a kobold in half as he passed it by, he then a 360 turn to do an upward slash at one on the kobold, killing it. Her then dodged out of the way as one did an overhand swipe at him, he stabbed it in the gut, putting it out of the fight for a bit, as he turned and blocked an attack from behind, then sliding his sword up the kobold's blade and as it slipped off the blade, a load ringing sound was emitted from the two swords. Artemis then slipped out of the way from a strike from the previously downed enemy he'd stabbed. As he dodged, he sliced at it and managed to lob its arm off, before switching his grip on his sword to kill off this kobold and block the strike from the second, he then punched it away into Leafa's killing frenzy and she cut it down quickly.

Kirito was actually teaming up on the smaller kobolds with Asuna, they switched out with each other to let one finish off a kobold while the other found another minion to kill, they were very effective at keeping off the minions, but then saw everyone stop attacking the boss and he noticed it's health drop to the red.

Artemis also noticed this and before Illfang could draw his sword Artemis saw Diavel go alone, calling out that he had it, "Don't do it Diavel, don't go alone!" He yelled as he charged for the boss, but he was too late, Diavel was sent flying by a confusing jump attack that left everyone stunned.

Kirito ran up to him as he was lying on the ground, and attempted to give Diavel a health potion, but he refused it, telling Kirito to finish the boss, "I need you to finish it, for me, and everyone here," he said as his body shattered.

Artemis growled and came up beside Asuna and Kirito as they were about to storm the boss, "I'll keep the aggro, while you guys deal the damage, you got that," he then snarled and charged the boss.

He slashed at its back as it was attacking, gaining aggro and as the beast turned, it saw Asuna charging it. The Kobold Lord then swung at her, shearing her cloak off, leaving a very beautiful 15 year old girl in the blades wake. She then struck out at it, but Artemis then hit the beast again but was simply shrugged off as it backhanded him away. Kirito then blocked a strike and Asuna struck. It went on like this for until Artemis got up, when Kirito was slashed and he flew back into Asuna, knocking them both off their feet. Artemis charged it again and saw Agil smash away a potentially fatal blow, preventing it from landing. Agil was soon joined by many players who were easily knocked away. Illfang jumped and was about to kill Agil but Artemis jumped and smashed it out of the air, where Kirito charged it and cut it down, swinging so he would cut through the body and head of the beast, killing it.

Artemis came up beside him, "Cool, you got the Coat of Midnight, good job!" He said as the rare drop came up on his UI.

"This victory goes to you, Kirito," Agil said, and everyone started cheering.

"STOP CHEERING!" Kibaou yelled, "Why, why did you do it huh? Why did you let Diavel die?" He asked viciously.

"Let him die?" Kirito was shocked that such a question was asked.

"That's what I said," Kibaou said, "you could have warned him about the boss, but you didn't."

"I know why he knew, he used to be a beta tester!" one of Kibaou's followers said, "Think about it, he knew the bosses attack patterns, but he never said anything about it, and I bet he's not the only one here, come on, show yourselves."

There was hesitation among the crowd, but they then heard a very creepy laugh, "You think I used to be a beta tester, ha, you shouldn't put me in the same class as those noobs."

"Hey!" Artemis protested, then he remembered why Kirito does this, he did it to take the blame from the other beta testers.

"Of course not you Artemis," he laughed, "You were the only one to beat me, of course you probably forgot that because of your amnesia, now, back to you," he said as he turned back to Kibaou, "Most of the other beta testers were noobs, the were so green that they didn't even know how to level up. Me and Artemis here made it to higher floors than the other beta testers, that's a fact, I knew the attack patterns because I've fought monsters with way more sword skills on higher floors."

"If that's the case, then you're worse than a cheater, you're a goddamned mother fucking cheater, that's what you are," Kibaou exclaimed.

Leafa looked shocked while, someone called them beaters, "Beater, I like that, ok, you can call us beaters, so long as you don't confuse us with those beta testers anymore," Kirito said as he put on the Coat of Midnight. He smirked at Kibaou and turned and walked away.

Artemis quickly followed, shortly joined by Leafa. As they were climbing the stairs to the next floor, Asuna called to them, as she caught up Artemis turned, along with Kirito and Leafa.