Kirito opened his eyes and found Asuna speaking to several of the guild and team leaders, he noticed her turn towards him and immediately she stoped her conversation and handed him a glass of water.

He was about to say something, but he wasn't able to talk considering the hangover he was having, he drank the glass of water and turned his attention to Asuna again.

"Asuna," Kirito said but that was as far as he got because Asuna began to explain everything to him

"The guild leaders and team leaders agreed to keep our groups together or let anyone that wants to leave do so"

"We don't know what or where this is and unless we have any real information we cant just move on, so, " Asuna said to him and Kirito already anticipating her next set of words spoke for her

"And so we're going to live here from now on," Kirito said before realizing that he had a hangover, this was surprising because the game imitated a lot of things from real life but it couldn't imitate certain things, and having a hangover was one of them

Asuna immediately placed a sheet of paper in front of him but before he could say anything she began to explain the rest.

"I have good news and bad news"

"The bad news is that there aren't enough hotels or rooms for all of us to rent, the good news is that we can move into any dungeon - abandoned fortress or whatever"

"The bad part about doing that is that we immediately become responsible for the maintenance and security of the said place. Not to mention that considering that the lands are technically still part of the kingdom we will be expected to pay taxes"

"Hold on give me a moment," Asuna said as she read what was written on the back of the paper.

"And we will be expected to send help if we're ever called to help the kingdom fight a war," she said to him

"Wouldnt it be easier just to start a new town?" Kirito asked Asuna

"You would think so, but no, we would still be taxed, and considering that we would be exposed to attacks, and let's face it, we can't win any real fights right now," Asuna said to him as she signaled around the room, showing Kirito the state everyone was in

Kirito noticed a waitress walk past him and he noticed that she was giving beers to everyone that needed them.

"Hey can I get one of those," he said to the waitress who immediately nodded to him

"So who is going and who's not?" Kirito asked Asuna, Asuna immediately exhaled and looked around the room

"We have a lot of players that either can't fight or arent condition to fight so we're going to be splitting up into two teams"

"One stays behind to guard the civilians and the other goes to kill everything inside the place that gets piked we can worry about cleaning it up later. Asuna answered Kirito who just nodded

In the end, the guild leader managed to get the Adventures Guild to give them an Idea where some places were and everyone agreed to check out an abandoned fortress.

Luckily for them, the entire place was empty, there was some water damage but nothing they couldn't handle.

So after they managed to get everyone to the fortress, they all began to clean it up as best as they could.

In all honesty, the work that the players had to do was the only thing keeping them from falling into depression.

Candles were placed on the ceiling and torches were light so that the fortress could have some light.

Kirito looked around and if he had to be honest, it was a good place, the walls were strong, it was only three days away from the town they arrived to and had more than enough room for all of the players and everything they had with them.

Hell, they could pile a bunch of eighteen-wheelers on top of each other and they would have trouble filling up the main room.

Slowly everyone began to warm up to the idea that, they couldn't go back home anymore and concentrated on finishing their jobs, so they could go deeper into the fortress and do who knows what.

They know that the Adventurers Guild of this world had been keeping an eye on them during all of this, but none of the people they sent ever tried to talk to them`

Still, Kirito had to admit that despite the way they arrived in this new world their luck hasn't been too bad, they haven't run into any monsters and the land outside is good for farming if they decide to clear out the trees and use it for that.

Hell, they might just decide to keep all of the trees around as an extra layer of protection in case monsters or people try to attack.

This brings a problem that has started to show up, the player [knights] are all veterans of the death game and as such need to keep up their training regardless of what it is.

The problem is that they know little to nothing about this world and they neither have the tools required or any of the materials needed to do any of the tasks they did before.

On one hand, they discovered that the whole touch something and it automatically becomes something else method still applied to, but that didn't mean that it applied to everyone else, after all, they were players of the flying castle, not these new lands.

And even if this method still applied to them, the players themselves cant do a lot of things because they neither have the ingredients or materials required to do a lot of the things they needed to do, like weapons maintenance and so on.

Normally things like polishing armor- cooking food and even cleaning floors aren't things people tend to worry about but thas because people take those things for granted, clean armor is an armor that doesn't stink and normally that means well-polished armor.

Somewhere along the way, someone suggested going on quests again to learn about this new world, but that the players should only take the jobs no one else wanted to do or low-level jobs that would give them an excuse to walk around towns and villages.

This would allow them to keep a group guarding the fortress - both gather information and either start earning money or the materials they needed.