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As the shivering salamander felt a blade against his throat he head Leafa tell him to say everything that he knew about this attack. The salamander was a male mage, and he did not even bother to tell them a thing, he simply flipped them off. Romina did not take kindly to that gesture. "If you don't tell me, I will have my friends kill you every time you go out of your territory. Make no mistake, I have many friends, and in many races. You will not escape. You will never gain exp again." The young man had to tell her that if his leader found out about it, then he would be called a renegade, and he would never be able to play with anyone ever again.

Kirito laughed, and he smiled as he walked to his guild members. "Is that all? Tell me what you know and you may join the Spriggan Mercenary Guild. By telling me this, you will show that you will be loyal to the guild." The young man told him that he had no reason to believe him. That guild was one of the best guilds there was. How could a strangely dressed spriggan guarantee such a thing. He told him he could be a liar, that wants the information and would lie to get it. "Alright, how about a bet? You tell me the information. If you don't receive the invitation in 20 minutes, I will give you every single col I have, but if it does arrive, you will spy for the guild till I tell you otherwise. Deal?"

The salamander told him his name was Junta, and that they were told that they needed to kill them, because they could interfere with a major plan. He told them that he saw a massive group of salamander's getting ready to fight a major battle. Kirito wrote his name in a form and sent it to him. Junta was practically salivating at the idea of all the free col he was going to receive. But much to his own shock there was the message, the invitation to join the previously mentioned Guild. He of course accepted and as he accepted Kirito told him not to forget to equip his guild gear. Junta did not understand what he meant, until he received the standard welcome message, the rules and a box of gear attached. He looked at the gear and saw that the gear put what he was wearing to shame. He noticed something weird about the guild symbol and as he saw the roster of the current active members he saw Kirito's rank. "How will I be able to spy if they see me in guild gear?" Kirito told him to finish reading the message. In the message he was told to read the description on his breast plate. It said that the guild symbol had the ability to disguise the gear into any race standard color and look. "You will head towards the headquarters and undergo your training after this operation." Yunta stood at attention, "I will send you information if I learn anything new, Guild Master." Yunta left a whole lot happier than he was when his day began.

Leafa suddenly felt like asking Kirito yet again if he did not care that some members were from other races. "I know that might have been seen as a spur of the moment decision, but let's face a few facts. Yunta has a very decent control of his fire magic, and his physical abilities were not that without merit. His fireball spell had some real kick to it, he casted faster than his own leader. and the fact is others would have died when I held his in my grip. He is no weakling, with training in our guild, he will be a fire mage to reckon with." Romina almost wanted to ask what abilities he was told about her. "Well, I was told that you were a very hardworking, focused and able user of both resurrection magic and healing. Since the ones that told me were Thinker and his wife, I don't think my old friends would lie to me." Kirito began to look at his mailbox. He began typing his code to see private messages. As he walked towards the village Leafa was not that happy that he did not mention her skills. She kind of felt sort of left out. He was her brother, maybe he did not think that much of her, and only let her join out of concern. Both Romina and Kirito asked her for how long was she going to stand there. Leafa noticed that she was simply standing there, while she was thinking.

Leafa quickly walked to catched up to them as they entered the village. He got some weird looks from the village guards. He never understood why the female NPCs always reacted differently to him than every one else. As he walked into the village he could have sworn that one of the lady guards was blushing when she was looking at him. He of course was oblivious to the fact that in his monster form they could really see the way his body was, so muscular, and making the armor in his monster for strain of his muscles flexing, the two guards had seen the entire change and they saw something that made them both blush. As Kirito walked into the village one told the other, "Don't you wish you had that in your bed, every night?" The red head looked at her fellow guards and could only touch her face and let out a heavy sigh, "And how." where the last words that she said.

"Daddy I really think we need to get you some better monster gear. I don't think mommy would be very glad seeing other react to how those guards did." Yui told her dad as she stuck her head out of her pocket. "Yui, your mommy knows my heart is only hers, like hers is mine. She trust me to remain faithful, and I trust her the same way. Yui I have told you before, trust is the bases of any good marriage." Both Leafa and Romina could not understand why the mysterious spriggan acted that way with his private pixie. "Kirito, would you mind clarifying one thing for me?" Leafa asked her brother. He walked to a nearby bench and sat down. "Sure you know you can ask anything." Leafa asked him why he treated his private pixie the way he did, and why he had set her up to called him daddy? Kirito simply told her because she was not his private pixie, but his precious baby girl, his one and only daughter. Yui was blushing several shades of red as she heard her daddy say that. Romina asked him if he used illusion magic and how he knew how to change into that monster? Kirito took out a small crystal tapped it and threw it into the air, and it activated. "Ok, Privacy Seal active. I did not use any spell. What I am going to tell you must be a secret you take to your grave. Can I trust you to never betray me and reveal this information?" Both Leafa and Romina swore that they would not say anything. "Ok, Yui and Cardinal change." Yui and Cardinal took on their original forms. "This is Yui. I was married in Aincrad to my late first wife. We both conceived and had my precious little girl, Yui. Cardinal is my all knowing and caring friend from Aincrad. Why did I look like a monster? That is simple, because I was a titled fiend in Aincrad, I was the Crimson Eyes Fiend. Captain of the Red Kings royal guard. My wife Asuna is being held captive by the supposed fairy king. Now I need to check my information reports to see if Recon found anything out."

As the privacy seal deactivated, they could hardly believe what they heard. They both had heard stories from friends that had been trapped in Aincrad. Romina even told Leafa that there was no one monster tougher than the fiends and fiends with titles could take on 50 players on their own. If she felt that Kirito was strong before, now she understood that Kirito had been holding back.

As Kirito read the reports Recon did see something unusual. Leafa's former leader Sigurd had been sneaking around having secret meetings with several lady salamanders. The members of his inner circle would always tell anyone that asked, that their leader was a chick magnet. But Recon did not believe a word of it, he treated women as if they were his playthings, and his arrogant and selfish ways would never attract anyone to him. Thanks to his guild gear, he was able to blend in and hide in plain sight. He found out what was really going on about. He found that the traitor was working with the salamander leader Mortimer to cause the death of the leaders of the Caith Sith, and the Sylph. They were supposed to have a secret meeting to form an alliance. If both leader's died then the salamanders would be able to take over the territories, and brutally abused them to make as much col as they wanted, for a limited time.

This was not good, he needed to call both Thinker and Agil to tell them the news. If they both sent enough forces they could be force the salamander's to leave the Caith Sith and Sylph alone. But he knew that Thinker would tell him that he was better than most of his own warriors, and Agil would not move against the salamander's without both clear proof, and a justifiable cause. Most his own guild was training, and those that weren't they were in deep undercover missions. There was no alternative he had to tell Leafa and Romina what was going on. If they did not feel like taking the risk he would go alone, but it would be better if they did accompany him if anything for moral support.

"Look, I just found out that the salamander's will attack the alliance meeting between the Sylph and Caith Sith. If we leave now, and fly at top speed we should be there in 30 minutes, this is a highly risky mission, and if you do not want face the risk of the death penalty. I understand. You two are without proper training. But I need to know are you coming or going to headquarters?" Romina just stood up and told him. "Of course we are going, why are we wasting time. Let's go. I can heal the wounded and Leafa can help me with minor injury cases." The group decided to fly through a heavily monster populated area, they each managed to grow at least 6 levels by the time they left the underground cave exit.

As they flew Leafa asked him, "Why don't you work with the salamanders?" Kirito did not even look back. "Many are player killers. I don't think they would be able to work well with others. They obey their leader out of fear, they are not loyal." Leafa understood what he meant. It was bad enough to have to fight against really powerful monsters, but to have to watch their backs for possible traitors really made a situation hard to work together. Kirito ask Yui if they were going to reach in time. She told him, "No, daddy they will reach the Sylph and Caith Sith delegates 10 minutes before we get there."

He knew if anything Eugene would be there. Mortimer would not trust a mission this important on anyone else. He was going to have a serious hard time convincing Eugene that he was an ambassador, with his gear looking like it did, and with so little in the form of escorts. But he knew that if Eugene did not believe his words, he would be made to believe him, with the use of force. He just hoped to arrive to save the two leaders. Maybe he could manage an alliance and add them to the alliance between the Undine and Sylph. 4 Races working together would make raiding the world tree happen a lot sooner. He needed to raid that tree as soon as possible. The sheer fear of his beloved Asuna's suffering would not allow him to waste a single second. He could enjoy the game when he was with his beloved wife, but for now her rescue was priority one.