Kirito listened to the sounds of marching feet, it was time to do what anyone else would have done and that meant patrolling the nearby areas.

The players would stay clear of any of the villages or towns so that they didn't affect the people in them, this was mostly to keep everyone from getting bored and to gate the players familiar with the territory.

None of them were to get into any fights with any adventurers they met, after all, they were people doing their jobs, and the players themselves weren't in any position to fight anyone just yet.

"Kirito," Heathcliff said to him

"I need you to go with Auna and a couple of the guards, they're going to bring something that survived the destruction of the castle."

'You don't need to do anything just keep guard while everyone else figures out a way to bring the Black Pillar to the fortress" Heathcliff said to him and Kirito could see several players that had beasts waiting for him at the entrance of the fortress.

"Sure but why do you need me? I mean the pillar shouldn't be too hard to move considering that all of the mounts can move something like it without any problems" Kirito said to Heathcliff who just looked at him

"The truth is we have the farmers in that area quite a scare when we arrived, so Asuna is going to try and smooth things out with them, and considering you're married to her " Heathcliff began to explain

"I might be able to smooth things out with the farm girls husband" Kirito interrupted Heathcliff by finishing his explanation

"Glad you agree, Asuna is already waiting for you," Heathcliff said to him before walking off

Kirito had to admit that whenever he laid eyes on a Kujata it always took his breath away, the monsters were giant, but didn't eat a lot and unless a person was close to them they didn't attack.

Of course, by close Kirito meant that if the thing couldn't smell you then it wouldn't attack and they were taking three of them, this meant that they would arrive at that farm in less than half an hour.

The Kujata were each pulling a wagon that could be disassembled to make one big wagon, the wagons themselves were attached to the Kujata by large heavy chains.

Kirito heard Asuna call him over and the moment he took his seat next to her, the Kujata let out a loud moan and began to walk towards the direction of the farm.

The sounds of trees being broken as the Kujata used its giant horns to break the trees and open a path could be heard for miles and Kirito could see people staring at them as they moved past the villagers and adventurers.

[Cow Girl ]

She was done for the day, the cows had been milked and her uncle was tending to the fields, she had already fed the chickens and fed the pigs, she just needed to take care of the laundry and that was it she could have the rest of the day to herself.

Then she heard the loud moans, at first she thought that it had been the cows, but the sound was too loud and the ground was shaking.

CowGirl nearly let out a scream when she saw the giant beasts and its eyes moved and stared at her, yet the creature just kept on moving, as if her presence wasn't anything important.

then she noticed that someone was riding on the giant bull's back and he was waving at her, without knowing what to do Cow Girl wave back.

Out of all of the three massive bulls, the last one stopped and she found herself watching a group of knights getting of a large wagon and bring down a small table begin to build a tent.

She watched as a knight that wore white armor walked up to her and she felt herself tremble as the man stood in front of her.

She had heard stories about this, how knights would expect the women in villages to attend to them and how they would force them to...she didn't want to think about it, she felt herself about to cry when the knight spoke

"Lady Asuna wishes speak to you, she would like to offer her sincerest apologies for whatever discomfort we have brought to you and your family," the knight said to her

CowGirl looked down at her clothes and she heard the knight speak.

'You don't have to worry about your clothes, it was us who arrived without an invitation, if it's a bad time we can come back another time" he said to her

"No, I... I can...I have time today" Cow Girl said to the knight who escorted her to a tent the knights had set up right in front of her.

The smell of tea reached her nose and she found a woman with long brown hair and hazel eyes sitting on a wooden chair waiting for her, next to her was a man wearing black armor.

CowGirl realized it was the same man that had moved faster than her old friend had, there were knights on every corner of the room and cowgirl realized she was in the presence of a noble

"Please sit down," Asuna said to her and cowgirl watched as a knight pulled a chair out for her

A knight poured her a hot cup of tea and CowGirl watched as the Noblewoman in front of her took a small sip from the cup she had in front of her.

"Do you not like this kind of tea?" Asuna asked cowgirl who immediately drank from her cup

"You don't have to be so nervous, it was I who came to your home and asked you to meet with me," Asuna said to her as she watched how tense cowgirl was in front of her

"I wanted to say I'm sorry for scaring you and your family when we arrived here," Asuna said to cowgirl who immediately smiled at her

Neither of them said anything after that, Cowgirl was too nervous and hadn't spoken to a lot of people in her life and Asuna didn't know what to say.

"Do you want to hear a story?" Asuna asked Cw Girl who nodded

"Along time ago, there was a castle in the sky where an evil sorcerer lived"

"The sorcerer filled the castle with all sorts of evil creatures and monsters, the castle was as large as an entire kingdom"

"He filled it with creatures that resembled people and even had them act as if they were people"

"The castle had one hundred floors and then the sorcerer did the cruelest of things"

"He pulled people out of the world, people that had never fought monsters in their lives, the people were brought to a town and they watched as the sky turned red and rained blood"

"The sorcerer told the people, if you want to be free you will have to reach the top of the castle"

"Men- women and children, were trapped in that castle, twenty thousand died, either from the monsters or because they couldn't take it anymore and so they killed themselves"

Then one day the strongest of the knights opened the last door and together with all of the survivors they fought the sorcerer and the most powerful of all of the monsters"

CowGirl watched as Noblewomns smile [Asuna] was filled with sadness

"In a way the people were free, but they were left in a world that wasn't their own, maybe it was but it had changed, moved on without them," Asuna said to CowGirl, as she finished telling CowGirl the story of the death game while leaving out some bits of information

CowGirl closed her eye and she began to tell Noblewoman [Asuna] the stories of her past how she and her old friend would chase after rabbits, how they would often chase one another along with the other children, the two of them laughed as they told each other of the fun times they had during their childhood.

For a brief moment, neither of them remembered that they were from different worlds and soon CowGirl watched as Noblewoman [Asuna ] left with the giant beasts that were now pulling the Black Pillar that Goblin Slayer had found.

She heard her uncle call to her and she told him that the knights and one of the nobles had come to apologize and she watched as her uncles' panicked expression became one of relife

[Change]

"I think its time we get out into the world"

"There's no point in us staying inside the fortress, the Guild leaders have agreed that as of this moment everyone that wants to go to this worlds guild and start taking quests"

"Go ahead" Heathcliff announced to everyone

The moment those words left his mouth the feeling of excitement filled a lot of the players, they liked not having anything trying to kill them but staying inside the fortress was boring and there wasn't much to do besides cleaning the place out and repairing some damage

It was time to see just how good they were when they were put against the monsters of this new world