Kirito left early the next morning to do some of his own exploring of the second floor while the rest of the party were still sleeping in the room. The effect the system was given for that morning was foggy. It was a rolling hills with forest kind of setting. There were a lot of places for monsters to spawn. It was great to solo with his stronger gear. He fine tuned his gear before the girls spotted him in the room the night before. His armour was more meant for his current level and his new one hand sword was heavy in the right way, much stronger than his previous sword.

He wandered the fields and patches of forest, slaying any new monsters and checking their drop items and the rate for each item to drop before moving on to another spot. After about an hour of early morning exploring, he found he had wandered to the entrance of the floor's dungeon. It was different from the beta. The dungeon and landscape though they were similar, were different enough that looking for the dungeon was usually a thing. Because the dungeon was made to camouflage until it was close, it was sometimes a bit of a pain to look for. Especially with the foggy condition that was currently happening.

Kirito was about to turn around and head back to the town before a voice called to him from the entrance of the dungeon.

"Hey, black haired swordswoman right? Leader of the strongest group?"

He turned and faced the person who was calling him out. The voice was that of another obnoxious person. An older woman, maybe around ten years separating him from her. He was able to tell from the tone of her voice that she was there to cause some trouble.

"I am. I'm sure I don't need to introduce myself properly then?"

"Oh, you really are a confident young lady. How about...we have a duel?"

The woman from the night before who Kirito hadn't yet met stepped just enough in sight to make out the blood red hair and pale white of her exaggerated expression. She wore clothes which could be expected of someone aiming to not be detected.

"I'm pretty sure the rules for a duel is one on one."

Kirito pointed out that his detection skill was pointing out much more than the one person who was challenging him.

"Well, I'm game. Let's see how serious you are."

He had the reassurance of the regeneration speed enhancement of his new armour that he would be able to handle at least the damage from a few players even using skills. The defence of the gear paired with the regeneration left him nearly untouchable by the regular floor monsters. Another player would only have basic strength. Strength he could react to and turn against them.

The group of other players charged in from their hiding places in the forest clumps nearby and activated skills to cut through him as they approached. When the first barrage ended, he had all the information he needed.

"About 2000 damage in a full power assault, my regeneration speed is currently 1200 hit points per second. At the rate you all attack, you wouldn't be able to keep up with my auto regeneration from my gear. Now, jail time? Or do you want to get out of the game now?"

Kirito was confident he could handle the situation, but he wasn't a violent enough person to kill anyone. He would likely wound them and then heal them before sending them off to jail.

"Seriously, are you going to keep coming after me, or do I need to prove to you how serious I am?"

Those who were involved in the attacking lunged forward again. He didn't have the chance to hear it directly from them the night before, but he knew that a murder group were planning to go after him. The intention of leaving the inn room on his own early in the morning was to lure them out and stop them from bothering the rest of the group any further.

He pulled a readied teleport crystal for the prison and activated it to surround him and send anyone who got close to the floors of a cell they wouldn't make it out of any time soon.

"Well? You're their leader, right? Might as well join your friends in prison."

She stared at Kirito in horror.

"No...no way. That little girl was so full of herself, but you...you're a monster! How do you already have gear like that?!"

Kirito started to explain how he obtained what made him untouchable by other players at the moment. He spoke in a tone that was carefree and a little more childish than he was used to for the game.

"You see, there's this nice cloak which I got as the last hit bonus drop from the boss of the first floor. It has a few perks like additional regeneration speed and much more defence than I had before. Add to that my combining perk to give the regeneration perk to my armour, and everything I'm wearing adds to my regeneration. It's all very nice and light, easy to move in. It raises my defence to the current highest in the game along with the highest hit points in the game as of right now. Regeneration perk along with those kind of bonuses...what level did you think I was?"

She muttered a number that she thought, but it was lower than his level.

"Uh...er...twenty?"

"Oh, no...how disappointing. You thought I was a stupid blitzer like the beta test stories? No. My current level is thirty. Even with the rest of the raid team training all day yesterday, nobody but someone from my team might have caught up to my level. Levels are useful when you're doing a no death run of a game. Ever tried one of those in the older games which throw everything at you to try and kill you? Yeah, this game and those are the same. It's trying to kill you, but this time, you can't restart and refresh. You can't have another chance. There's no life to return to outside by dying here. That's why I'm being careful, see? Why don't I show you how useful my new gear is?"

Outside of a safe area, the harassment policy wouldn't activate when he dragged her into the dungeon by the wrist, finally deactivating the teleport stone and putting it back in his pocket. He readied his sword and walked through the dungeon as if he were playing with the level one creatures which infinitely spawned outside the town of beginnings. A single horizontal slash or vertical slash skill was all it took for his new sword to cut the enemies of the second floor dungeon down.

"I got a good gauge the other day when we fought the first floor boss. The difference in strength is actually quite massive compared to the beta, but then, I never got the gear that I have right now during the beta, nothing so nice and protective. I didn't need to be careful then. This armour, and this sword, are all much stronger than what I used to cut down bosses before. Now, I know the mechanics enough that I don't need to have a partner back me up. This will of course change when floors ten, twenty, twenty five and so on come along. Then will require a raid party to handle. An ultimate skill is so extremely powerful you know?"

In minutes, they stood in front of the boss room door. He pushed it open and dragged her in before tossing her to the floor and applying a paralysis ingredient to her so she wouldn't get in the way. The door closed behind them to lock people from joining the fight and he began. The giant boulder monster, a golem was definitely intimidating, but he had a good blunt skill to knock it down quickly. The ultimate skill wouldn't work on a golem type monster.

He used sonic leap to close the distance, cancelled it just before the strike, hopped back out of a stunning strike from the golem, leapt back in and used the blow back blunt skill of his one hand sword. The golem fell to its back, exposing its weak point. A core which shattered would instantly render it dead. Kirito found that out originally on the tenth try at it during the beta. Now, he finished the second floor boss in less than a minute. When the victory sound of the floor boss being destroyed sounded through the room, and the final attack bonus item appeared in his inventory, he checked, smiled, and turned back to check on the leader of killers he dragged in to show just what she was threatening.

"Oh, you never developed any resistances to your parameters...guess you'll be paralysed in the cell for a while. Do tell anyone who asks for info on me just how pointless it is. I have a teleport gate to unlock."

He pulled the teleport stone out of his pocket yet again, and used it to send her to the prison on floor one.

He climbed the stairs to the entrance of the floor three main town and the boss room door locked behind him. It was a short walk of browsing what kind of npc shops and stalls there were before he arrived in the teleport gate plaza. Almost a few seconds after he activated the teleport gate, it was being used.

Leafa Sinon and Asuna appeared as the first to find out that he fought and destroyed the second floor boss alone. He told them to keep it to themselves and he brought someone with him, but they knew the truth after he explained a very good reason for criminal players to be terrified of him. He alone sent a group of murder players to prison and killed a floor boss in less than two hours.