Chapter 7 Small Dragon , Big Dragon

As you guys may guess this chapter is focused around Silicas Unique skill which I will call Skyconquering and is basically that the pet gets the perfect size for a player of Akumas build to ride on it , which is mor then enough for Silica I think , it will also be granted acces to various breath attacks as well as his attack , defense , speed and health to increase as well , well yeah and on we go .

After the whole fight between Heathcliff and Akuma , the boss fight was not more than a small fly , the boss himself was called the Golem and was like the name suggested a giant stone Golem with a red eye on his head and nothing more and thanks to the tactics of Heathcliff it was defeated with minimal casualities on their side , after the reaching of floor 57 , Asuna suggested that they should visit a blacksmith that she knew very well , Kirito was with Asuna in this seeing as he thought that his equipment could really need an upgrade , Akuma said that he was already happy with his current equipment and thought that he would like to explore the floor and Silica just simply wanted to stay with Akuma and so the group splitted in half to go their respective ways .

Floor 57 was nothing special in appearance it bore a huge similarity to the first floor the only difference where the mobs and the dungeons that were easy to spot all over the place , so after finding on whose entrance was in a really big tree , they decided that the wanted to explore this one seeing as it looked kind of different to the others around .

And indeed that dungeon was different instead of going down it was more like the labyrinths , it went upwards and was completely builded inside the enormous tree so , they suspected that the dungeon of this place would most likely be at the top of the tree and so they made their way through the masses of harpy and huge squirels until the were half way to the top of the tree but that was where they had to stop seeing as they were standing in a huge open area with a stone socket in the middle but nothing else .

They went to take a look at the stone socket which had two strangly formed openings and a writing on it , which said : Those of you who seek to reach the sky and to challenge the lord of the heaven prove your worth by defeating the brethens of earth and water and return with their gems , then and only then will the path to the sky be granted to you and with it the path to enlighting .

After writng the text down , the two decided that they would ask Argo the Rat for help and so they went back to the floors city to meet up with her .

Argo arrived 10 minutes after them and after paying her a good amount of money she told them what was meant by the text .

"What you found there was actually a follow up quest that can be started by an npc on floor 10 , he will ask you to defeat Mizu the ruler of a sea dungeon on floor 17 , after that he will ask you to help a friend of him who will ask you too defeat the Ruler of earth Tsuchi , both of them will drop so called gem items , but the don´t have any use , well that was until now , now I can guess you two will try too complete this quests am i right . " said Argo with a smirk .

Akuma and Silica just nodded before they went to the teleport gate to activate the quest on floor 10 and it was just like Argo described , the first Npc asked them to defeat Mizu , a black human octopus mixture with a trident but seeing as this quest was to be completed when reaching floor 17 it was easy fro them to defeat Mizu and after its deaft it dropped a saphire blue gem in the form of a teardrop, their next stop was the npcs friend who sent them on the hunt for tsuchi who was living at the end of a mountain dungeon , and was a strange humanoid creature who kind of ressembled the boss on floor 56 , but like with mizu the boss was to be defeated when reaching the named floor so he was also no match for them and his gem was a warm orange and was formed like a half-cycle , with the two gems in their pockets they made their way back to floor 57 and the tree dungeon , but something had changed .

After they entered the dungeon this time the entrance closed and their teleport crystals were also disabled , the mobs also got stronger and the squirrels were exchanged for some kind of more aggresive guerilla - squirrel chimeras .

" Do you think that might have something to do with as doing the quests and obtaining the gems , Onii-chan . " Silica asked worried while standing back to back with Akuma and both of them surounded by the Chimeras .

" I am positive that , that is the reason for this but for know how about we get to the halfway point again before discussing this stuff . " he asked and charged right throug the crowd of chimeras with Silica following close behind , it went that way until they reached the halfway point and the whole way there , more mobs begun to follow there .

After reachin their destination , Akuma stopped and activated the Iron Wills shield to block the way of the mobs until Silica was behind him in the still completely empty room , after she got their he switched to the Iron fleshs attack increasing and activated his berserk mode and in 1 minute the count of mobs that were following them was reduced from 200 to 0 .

Seeing that there were no more mobs left , the two then went to the socket and place the two gems inside of it and then they stepped back .

The socket begun to glow before disappearing into the ground and in its place appeared a beam of white light , and a voice was heard : Those of you who were deemed worthy shall recieve the blessing of tep and them and their followers shall step into the light to comfront the Ruler of Sky Sora and prove their worth one last time . The blessing of tep was a strange orb with a picture in it , well that was the case with Silicas , because in Akumas case it was , well empty . but there was not really time to think long about it because they still had a boss to defeat and a dungeon to escape and so they stepped into the light and they had to close their eyes because it was so bright .

Once the light disapeared and they were able to see again they noticed that they were ontop of the trees crown and that , there was besides a few places to duck behind nothing else , so they started to look around but they were interrupted when suddenly a shadow appeared in the middle of the crown and when they looked up they saw him , or better her Sora the ruler of the Sky was actually a woman with feathers instead of ears , long green hair , fair skin and lightblue wings that were sprouting from her back but what was the most outstanding was the wound that was clearly seeable on her right wing .

When Sora saw them she streched her hand towards them but then she collapsed and the voice from before was heard again . Now brave heroes defeat the ruler of the sky and prove your worth . Akuma begun to walk towards Sora , his sword ready to strike anytime , but then to everyones suprise Pina suddenly flew up to her and begun to poke Soras face like a animal child would do with its mother and at this moment Akuma and Silica understood that something wasn´t right with this setup , the two rulers they defeated before were grotesque creatures and were in perfect health , but this one was hurt and looked more human than animal and so they stood protectively over her .

Fools , i gave you the chance to strike her down now you will feel the wrath of Reiza , after that a lightning spiltted the sky and there he was the real enemy that was meeting the criterias from before , Reiza was a fusion of Raiju with a human and so he looked like a Gargoyle made out of lightning .

They were prepared to fight but there was one problem Reiza stayed int the sky and so he was out of their reach .

Reiza was preparing to launch a lightning towards when Silica feelt a hand on her pocket and she turned around to see Sora touching it , understanding what she probably meant Silica took out the bleesing of tep and gave it to her , while Akuma was already busy blocking the flurry of lightnings from Reiza with his Iron Will .

The Blessing disappeared and Silica recieved a window which said New Skill Skyconquering , Silica wasted no time and activated it and Pina was enveloped in a blue light and when it died down Pina had grown into the tenthfold of his size and he motioned with his Head for them to get on so Akuma picked up Sora and jumped up with her on Pinas back , with Silica close behind , now they were under even conditions and so the fight begun .

Thanks to Pinas new abilities , Reiza was defeated fastly and Silica received an item called Raijus Fang , which was a light blue dagger that would paralyze an enemy if they were hitted succesfully . After Pina landed on the base of the tree and Silica and Akuma got down together with Sora , Pina returned back to his original size and Sora thanked them for saving her and her kingdom from the evil conquerer Reiza and for taking care of one of her children , after that they wished her goodbye and went then back to their house to report their adventure and to listen to what had happened to Kirito and Asuna .

And another chapter done , well this whole adventure happened while Kirito , Asuna and Liz were collecting the materials for Dark Repulsor and until their fifth member joins them every single one of them has their special weapons , if some of you don´t know I will count them for you now

Kirito: Elucidator , Dark Repulsor

Asuna: Lambient Light

Akuma: Crimson Inferno

Silica: Raijus Fang

?: Amethyst Cutter (currently in Akumas possesion will be given to the owner upon joining )

And now a list of the unique skills with owners .

Kirito: Dual Wield

Asuna: Zap Step

Akuma: Iron Warrior

Silica: Sky Conquerering

?: Time Flood

Well guys thats all for now

DarkDevil2411 over and out .