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They flew in silence, one of which Artemis did not like, but soon Artemis began talking, "Anyone know why the player's are siding with the frost giants, not the tentacle elephants? I mean they could just kill the monster's without the help of the frosty feet, but hey, I love Tonky just as much as the next guy, but still, we could just kill those who wish the blue man group to win this war," He said, causing Oblivion to chuckle a bit, and the other's to stare curiously at him.
Artemis clarified by saying, "Hey, I'm just saying we could prevent them from creating Ragnarok and destroying Alfheim, that's what'll happen if the frost giants win," when Artemis saw that everyone was just as confused as before, Artemis sighed heavily, "For fuck sakes, anyone read Norse mythology, or even know what it is?"
Leafa, who stared for a sec, before realizing what her boyfriend was talking about, said, "Oh yeah, that's right, if the frost giants win, they will attack Alfheim and destroy everything," she stood up, and looked over the edge of Tonky's back and saw player's attacking Tonky's friends.
"I wouldn't advise looking, as it's a very upsetting sight, now back to what I was going to say, there is a cold realm underneath Jotunheim that's called Niflheim and that is the true home of the frost giants and is also the homeland of primordial darkness, cold, mist, and ice. The first being, the giant Ymir, was born when ice from Niflheim and fire from Muspelheim met in the middle of Ginnungagap, the abyss that had formerly separated them. Muspelheim is the home of the fire giants, and is one of the nine worlds, like Niflheim. It is the polar opposite of Niflheim, it being the realm of heat and fire. Ragnarok is also known as the Twilight of the Gods, and involves every one of the gods killing each other and ending the world," Artemis sighed at the end of his lecture and looked to see everyone looking at him, surprised.
"How the fuck do you know all that?!" Wolf exclaimed.
"I've always been into Norse mythology, but I kinda surprised myself, I didn't know that I knew all that, I guess my research paid off," Artemis said nonchalantly.
A voice came from behind them, "It seems you have befriended my people."
Artemis turned and replied, "Oh hey, Uror, just giving my friends the necessary information to do your quest."
"And I thank you for that, it allows me to just tell you that I require you to go to Thrymheim and defeat the Ymir, king of the frost giants, before they destroy the rest of my friends," Uror said.
"Daddy, that's an NPC, but not any regular NPC, this NPC code is more like an AI than a regular NPC," Yui said, popping out of Kirito's pocket.
"Really?" Kirito said, looking at Uror.
"Of course, she is! Do you hear the way she speaks?" Artemis asked.
"Oh, uh, yeah," Kirito said, afraid of pissing Artemis off.
Uror handed Artemis a locket, that had a green medallion in the centre, and said, "Once the colour of the locket fades away completely, it means all my friends are dead, and that you've failed the quest."
"Already understood, now let's go and get that damned sword!" Artemis said, laughing.
Uror wished the group farewell and disappeared, "Now, as we are heading there, I will tell you right now, that the kill quest the players are doing is a fake, meant to give them Caliburn, a fake Excalibur, and Jotunheimr wasn't always ice, the World Tree extended into a pool of water and gave life to all that inhabited Jotunheim, until Ymir, king of the frost giants, threw the sword into the pool and severed the roots, and turned Jotunheim into a winter wasteland."
"Ok, so what are we doing sitting around, let's go!" Wolf said impatiently.
"Calm down! We are here now," Oblivion said as they pulled up to a plateau on the upside down ice pyramid.
With all the information they needed, they wasted no time in entering the palace.
They came across a few giant's but Artemis and Wolf put them down faster that a house of cards in a hurricane, and walking away with a smile on their faces.
Artemis warned them that there were some minotaurs ahead, which Wolf laughed at, but he didn't know that the bosses were scaled to the highest level person in the group, which happened to be Artemis. He knew this of course, and he told them not to be hit, as it was his level, and when everyone looked at them with their identification skill, they saw he was right, and everyone looked worried, as none of them had faced a monster that high a level difference yet, except for Kirito and Asuna, for they had fought against the floor 75 boss back in SAO long before they were ready.
"Be careful not to get hit, Wolf, Oblivion and Leafa would be fine, but everyone else should be very careful," Artemis said, before activating his sneak skill and walking around behind the monster for a sneak attack bonus, he stood up and jabbed the black minotaur in the back for 3X the regular damage, it screamed and turned around, but Artemis had already gone back into hiding.
The other's were curious as to why Artemis had gone back into stealth, but nonetheless sat in wait, when Artemis reappeared, he was behind the golden minotaur, and he did much the same thing, but only with a 2X damage hit, which confused the others, because they knew Artemis would hit it with all he's got, and they knew that with his sneak skill, he could do much more damage with that, but once again Artemis was in hiding again, so it surprised them when he reappeared behind them.
"The golden one has a high defence against physical attacks, where the black one has a high defence against magic attacks, that is why my attack on the gold one did so little damage, and they will rotate out so the elemental skills will do the most damage to the golden shit pile, while the regular skills will do the most damage to the black cow, but do not use pure magic against the gold one or we will face a powerful duo, at the same time, and we don't want that, because I could only hold them off for a couple of minutes before they kill me and in turn kill you," Artemis said, and they nodded, getting ready to attack, to which Artemis said, "I'm gonna sneak attack gold, once you see that, charge him and let me tank the bastard, or at the very least, if things go wrong, don't let them hit you."
"Right," They said collectively, just below the detection level of sound. Artemis snuck behind the golden minotaur and readied an attack with his best swords, Hellfire and Shadow, his fire sword and his life drain sword. He knew his swords, due to the enchantments on them, would allow him the upper hand, for he did not need to prepare a special skill for high damage, whereas, people without enchanted weapons would be in a world of hurt, but even so, he readied a fire skill, just to enhance the damage even more, and he chose to do a skill connect as well, fire and demonic, would do nicely. He started his attack with Hellfire, and to add to the fire damage he used his fire skill on that sword, he then followed it up, knowing that he was still viable for another sneak attack bonus and still would be until he finished the attack, with an demonic attack from Shadow, dealing a ton of damage plus some DOTs (Damage Over Time effects), he once again followed up with another fire skill from Hellfire, and then another demonic skill from Shadow. He ended up striking 5 times and dealt ¾ of the minotaur's heath, but there was one thing he'd forgotten, you couldn't move for 4 seconds after finishing a skill connect. He was flung across the room, and slammed into the wall hard, dealing ⅘ his health in damage, which wasn't good as the minotaur charged him, but he was quick to recover and rolled out of the way of the attack, making the Minotaur run into the wall, dealing significant damage.
"Artemis!" Leafa cried, as she charged the beast with a wind attributed sword skill, "You bastard!" She screamed, and hit the monster as hard as she could, but even though she landed the blow, she was struck with a backhand, and was flung away. Wolf, infuriated by his friends being manhandled, swung his fiery khopesh into the back of the monster's leg, sending it to it's knees, but Kirito, just as mad, began his own skill connect, even though the monster was about to die from the DOTs began a fire and ice combo, striking it down in 4 hits, the final being a stab to the chest, blasting ice everywhere, and ending it's life.
The group was about to celebrate when Artemis reminded them about the other cow in the room, which they turned menacingly toward it, and charged it as a team, Oblivion landed the killing blow, with his lightning sword, using a lightning skill.
Artemis turned to Kirito, "You did good with your combo, however, as you are using a lightning sword and not an ice sword, you would have been better off using a lightning skill with it instead, would have done more damage," He said, smirking.
"Oh, shit, I forgot," Kirito laughed, and Artemis began laughing as well, understanding his plight.
"Welp, we gotta keep going, or we'll fail the mission." Artemis said, before heading down the stairs.
They went through a few more floors, killing the bosses more easily, due to Artemis being ready for the attacks, and making a plan for Wolf, who had the same stealth stat, to be there to block the attack coming Artemis's way when he finishes the skill connect.
They finished off the boss on the floor just before Ymir, and they were on their way down a passage when they saw a beautiful lady sitting in a cage of ice.
Klein's eyes lit up, and he went to save her, when Kirito and everyone else deduced that it was a trap, "We don't have time to deal with a trap right now, we will run out of time," Kirito said, before walking off.
Artemis laughed causing everyone to look at him, "All Klein see's is a lady in distress, and all I see is a man in a disguise, or more correctly, Thor, the God of Thunder, pretending to be Freyja, the receiver of the slain, the warrior goddess, and the one who taught Odin, the Allfather of the Gods, magic, and on top of that, she is the sole survivor of Ragnarok. No, it's no trap, we need her, for this will be one hell of a battle, and we must find Mjolnir, for when she touches it, she will revert back to Thor, and wreak face, literally," He said, once again surprising everyone of his knowledge of Norse mythology.
They nodded and but Klein was upset to hear that Freyja was a guy, but he still did the honours of freeing her. They walked down the hall and right when they reached the door, the frost resistance spell gave way, and Asuna was once again forced to cast the frost resistance spell again, but right after she does this, Freyja cast a max health up spell, which even increased Artemis's already extremely high health. Artemis thanked her before opening the door, and entering the room. He used a lightning spell on the ground, and he quickly found where Mjolnir was hiding, but as he touched it, and loud voice rumbled in the hallway towards the throne, "Who dare touch my prized possession!"