[A/N: alright so here's chapter 3.Ok, so in the last chapter I forgot to have Kayaba mention that Boss battles will be live streamed, the stream will begin once the boss room is found to a few hours after the boss is defeated... whoops.
Now I'm sure that people will be wondering why I decided to have Perseus use archery when he can't use it for shit at all. Well allow me to answer that before anybody actually asks the question.
The curse that Apollo had placed on children of Poseidon, the one placed on them because of Orion, wouldn't work in a virtual world that has a system that allows people to use skills automatically, and the curse only prevents their body's muscles from memorizing the proper way to use a bow.
The NG would correct this by implanting the knowledge, on how to propery use a bow, directly into his head in order to use a bow properly in SAO.
And the more you use a skill the stronger it becomes, so by the time Perseus gets out of SAO he will have had all the knowledge and skill to use a bow in the real world. Thus effectively eliminating Apollo's curse, but this wouldn't really affect Apollo at all, due to him liking Perseus (as a bud).
I gave him a spear because I have something planned for an event in the greek floor (mwa ha ha)
Now on to the disclaimer.]
Disclaimer: I don't own Percy Jackson or Sword Art Online.
With KiritoKirito leaned along a wall, watching the other players as they walked passed him.
"A whole month has gone by, 2,000 people have died so far, and to top it all off we have't even found the first floor room yet, let alone cleared the boss. I hope that this meeting that was called has something to do with the boss." Kirito thought to himself.
"*sigh* He's late," Kirito said outloud, before a box appeared in front of his.
New Message
Kirito knew it was from Perseus, who he was waiting for, so he read the message.
It read:
Yo, Kirito sorry I'm running late, got held up by a blonde princess with a knife, and a bunch of wannabe heroes trying to recruit me because of my name being based on the Greek hero. They call themselves the legendary braves btw.
Just go ahead to the meeting, I'll meet you there, actually I'm on the way there now, mostly because the blonde princess I meantioned wanted to go to the meeting and is dragging me their as I type this, so ... see ya there buddy ol' pal.
P.S. The blonde is fast, really really fast.
Your friend
-Perseus.
Kirito felt his eye twitch, really only Perseus could have gotten roped into something by a girl.
If only he knew the kind of trouble he, himself, would get into due to the future women in his life.
Kirito sighed and began to walk to the meeting place.
"I wonder if that girl from earlier will show up." Kirito thought, while walking.
With Perseus - a few hours earlier.
"Please!?"
"No."
"Pleeaase!?"
"No!"
"Pretty please?"
"For the last time... NO! I will not join your group!!" Perseus exclaimed in annoyance.
"Why not you chose you player name to be a hero's just like us?!" The "charismatic" leader of the future guild The Legendary Braves, Orlando asked Perseus hoping that he would change his mind.
"No, I didn't." Perseus said his eye twitching.
"But your name is Perseus, is it not?" Orlando asked.
"Yes it is, but I didn't chose that name because it was the name of a hero." Perseus explained.
"Then why did you chose it then?" Orlando asked.
"Because... Perseus IRL is long for Percy, my real name." Perseus explained, still annoyed.
"I... do not follow." Orlando said.
Perseus sighed in annoyance, "The name Perseus is the name... ya with me so far?" he began, Orlando nodded.
"... Perseus is the name that I was given at birth IRL... but I go by Percy IRL so no one knew my full name, that's why I used it as my Player Name. Do you understand?" Perseus finished to Orlando, who nodded.
"I see, so your real name is Perseus but no one knew so you used that as you PN." Orlando repeated, in understanding.
"Good, you understand..." Perseus sighed in relief.
"Then... that just means that you were Born to be a Hero, thus you must join the Braves, to free everyone of this world!!" Orlando yelled out, with a fist held up to the sky.
Perseus sighed in annoyance once again, due to his annoyance he didn't notice a certain blonde running at him at full speed, until it was too late.
Thud!*
The blonde collided with Perseus and they both went down to the ground, with the blonde sitting on Perseus' back.
"Ow.." Came the muffled sound of Perseus's pain, escaping his lips.
"Oh sorry, I wasn't watching where I was going, I wanted to get to the meeting as fast as I could." The blonde explained getting off Perseus and helping him up.
Once he stood up he looked at the blonde girl in front of him.
She had blonde hair that curled like a princess'. She was about his age, 10 years old. She had stormy grey eyes, that seemed to hold an intelligence beyond her age.
Her only weapon was a long bladed dagger, with a straight single edge blade the was pointed at the top, It seem to be mostly for slash attacks than piercing attacks.
She also wore basic light armor.
After examining the girl, Perseus smiled and said, "No problem, I was just headed there myself. Name's, Perseus by the way."
"Oh really, then do you want to head there together? I mean, it would be smarter, if two go there than only one at a time. And my name Is Annabeth." Annabeth asked/explained/introduced.
"Sure why not, though I need to message my frieEEEND!!" Perseus' agreement when Annabeth grabbed him and sprinted towards the meeting place, with Perseus flying behind her.
Leaving Orlando, forgotten and in the dust.
"I'll just message him on the way..." Perseus mentally decided.
Five minutes later
Perseus and Annabeth finally made it to the meeting point.
"Come on let's go find my friend." Perseus told Annabeth.
"Why?" she asked.
"Because, I was supposed to meet him, before we met, and head over to the meeting. Plus we've been partner's for a long time." Perseus explained to Annabeth, who nodded.
After about a minute of searching they found Kirito, sitting next to a girl in a red hooded cloak.
"Yo Kirito." Perseus said as he walked up to the dark themed teen.
"About time you got here..." Kirito said annoyed.
"Yeah, sorry I got held up." Perseus said sheepishly.
"So I've heard." Kirito said before turning to the blonde next to Perseus.
"So is this the "Blonde Princess" that you talked about." Kirito asked.
"Yep, this is her." Perseus said with a shrug, ignoring the look that Annabeth was giving him.
"I see... nice to meet you I'm Kirito." said teen introduced.
"I'm Annabeth." she introduced.
"So, Kirito aren't you gonna introduce us to your girlfriend..." Perseus asked with a sly smirk on his face.
"She's not my girlfriend, and if I new her name I would introduce you, but she's just someone I met this morning after you went hunting solo." Kirito explained, the red hooded girl just stayed silent.
"Ah... let me guess... she was about to die and you saved her and asked her to attend the meeting." Perseus said shocking Kirito and the hooded girl, who twitched at the "saving her" part.
"Yeah, how did you know?" Kirito asked.
"Because, you're always saving people, that's what you do, then you claim to want the map data when you've already mapped out the entire floor already." Perseus deadpanned.
"..." The hooded girl looked at Kirito in shock, but stayed silent.
"Do I really do that, I never noticed..." Kirito shrugged.
"Oh you noticed, otherwise you wouldn't have asked for the map data, and just left." Perseus deadpanned again.
"... ok fine... sheesh." Kirito relented.
"Good." Perseus nodded in satisfaction, and sat down next to Kirito.
Annabeth watch their antics and giggled quietly, before sitting next to the hooded girl.
"Boys, right." Annabeth said to the girl, hoping to strike up a conversation.
The girl nodded, but still didn't say anything.
Annabeth seeing that the girls didn't want to talk decided to just leave her be.
After a few second a man with blue hair, heavy armor, a shield and a long sword stepped out into the center of the amphitheater.
He was accompanied by a blonde haired electric blue eyed, with a small scar on his lip, boy with a heavy chestplate, but he had light armor for the rest of his gear.
He had a spear as his main weapon.
Annabeth narrowed her eyes at the boy, there was only one person she knew who had electric blue eyes like those, and she was dead.
The blue haired man began to speak.
"Hello everyone, I am Diabel, and in this game I am of the Knight class." Diabel introduced, accompanied with a joke.
"Hey... there's no class system in this game." a random player shouted, catching on to the joke.
Everyone laughed, except for Kirito and the Electric blonde, but both still smiled nonetheless.
"Alright alright, now I'm sure you've all been wondering why I called you here." Diabel began lightly, before his face changed into a serious expression, causing everyone to calm down.
"This morning, my party was exploring the dungeon, when we came across a large door, larger than and door on this floor, that we've come across. We decided to open the door." Diabel told them.
"When we did we saw it... we saw the boss." The blonde boy finished, in a strict, military-like tone.
Once the news was said, every player began to murmur.
"WAIT!!!" a voice shouted, silencing everyone as they turn to see who shouted.
It was an orange spikey haired man, with nearly zero gear except a curved sword and leather armor.
"My name is Kibao. Before we continue, I have something I want to say." Kibao said.
"Very well, then go ahead and say what you need to." Diabel said kindly.
"Thank you... Some of the people here need to apologize to the 2000 people that have died so far. You all know who I mean, right? The beta testers!!" Kibao said with a dark undertone.
"When the game launched they just disappeared, taking all of the best hunting spots and loot for themselves." Kibao continued.
"So, all of the testers who are here in the audiance should get on their hands and knees and give us all of the items and equipment that they horded." Kibao finished with a smirk.
People were muttering, clearly swayed by his words.
Kirito and Perseus were furious, a lot of testers were among those who died, there were only about 200 testers left since the game began.
Meaning 800 beta testers have died since the game started.
Perseus stood up and walked down the steps towards Kibao.
"Huh what do you want, kid!?"Kibao asked/demanded.
"Ya' know something... I'm a beta tester." Perseus told Kibao, who looked shocked that someone so young could be a beta tester.
"Then you should-" Kibao was interrupted by Perseus.
"Did you also know that 800 of the beta testers have died since the start of the game." Perseus said, his eyes shadowed.
"..." Finding that out silenced Kibao and the mutters.
"The testers didn't disappear, they went out to get stronger so the rest of the players wouldn't have to die. And yet, you mock their sacrifice, calling them thieves and horders. Eventually when word got back to the rest of the remaining testers about how many testers dies, they decided to compile their information and map data, and give it to Argo the Rat, the one who wrote the guide book to help the other players stay alive." Perseus said as he looked at Kibao, who took a stepback when he saw the rage in Perseus' eyes.
Just then a large black man walked up and put his hand on Perseus' shoulder.
"I'm Agil, and what this boy says is true the guide book was made by the beta testers. And it was sold for free in the town of beginnings." Agil confirmed.
"..." Kibao stayed silent, and just sat down to reflect on everything he just learned.
"Yes, now that that is taken care of.. let's get back to business shall we?. The boy next to me is Jason he is my second in command and our current strategist for this boss fight, he will be the one to explain our plan to you all." Diabel said breaking the silence.
Jason walked up and said in his serious tone. "Alright, here's the plan..."
IRL- Mount Olympus, earlier.
The Olympian council was in the meeting chamber, waiting for the boss battle, Hephaestus having built a machine that would play the battle for them.
Normally, the gods wouldn't care about the humans stuck in that death game, however some of their children were stuck in that game, because of them gifting them the game and NG.
Athena watched as her daughter ran into a dark haired sea green eyed boy, her eyes narrowed on the boy, just by looking at him she could tell that he was Poseidon's son.
She already hated him...
The rest of the gods were watching the scene take place, each realized who's son the boy, who introduced himself as Perseus, was.
Zeus turned towards Poseidon and sighed. "You broke your oath didn't you."
Poseidon stared at his brother, eyes narrowed.
"Yes I did, and I don't regret it for a second." Poseidon said defiantly.
"I see..." Zeus muttered.
The rest of the Olympians stared at Zeus in shock, normally he would have shouted at tried to kill Poseidon with an arguement.
Hera was worried about Zeus, despite him having cheated on her multiple times she still loved and worried for him.
She had noticed that he had been acting differently ever since he turned his daughter into a tree, he acted almost depressed that she died.
"*Snort* Hey, the meeting's starting." Ares pointed out arrogantly.
"Then let's watch it shall we!?" Apollo cheered.
"... shut up Apollo." Artemis said to her twin, who wilted.
They watched the beginning of the meeting, everyone noticed Jason and turned to Zeus.
"He's Roman." Zeus said simply
Then Kibao showed up.
"Typical male, blaming somebody else for your problems." Artemis muttered in disgust, as she listened to Kibao's complaints
Aphrodite groaned at Artemis, who glared at her.
"Hmm, that mortal's words are swaying the rest of the troops. This will turn every one against these "beta testers"." Ares told them.
"Wow Ares you just said something smart." Athena mocked.
"Hey look Poseidon's son is getting up." Apollo pointed out.
They listened to Perseus' speeched and were somewhat shocked at the fact that 800 of the 1000 beta testers were kill, and were shocked at the fact that he was a beta tester himself, there was only one American beta tester and apparently that was Perseus.
All eyes turned to Poseidon, who shrugged and said it was a birthday gift.
They saw the large black man confirm that what Perseus was saying was true.
Then they saw Jason begin to tell everyone their plan of attack, which was basically group up into teams and have several attack the boss and have other teams keep the minions off the other attack group.
"Hmm, a good plan for someone so young." Athena acknowledged, dispite Jason being a Roman.
"Of course he is a Roman." Ares boasted, dispite not getting along with his Roman self.
"Indeed." Hera said.
"Can we not talk now, I want to watch this go down." Hephaestus said annoyed.
Hera raised an eyebrow at her son.
"Why, do you have any children in there?" Hera asked.
Hephaestus nodded.
"Really, who?" Hera asked.
"My son Leo Valdez." Hephaestus told her.
"... You put Leo into that Death Game... WHAT THE CHAOS WERE YOU THINKING!!!" Hera yelled at her son.
"Well exuse me... I didn't expect a madman to trap his in an game... and how do you know Leo!?" Hephaestus asked/yelled.
"I ... babysat him ... on occasions." Hera mumbled, embarassed.
"You ... what?" Hephaestus asked not believing his ears.
"I was his babysitter a few times." Hear said blushing, out of embarassment.
"Why?" Hephaestus asked, stunned that his mother, who hates demigods, would babysit his son.
"Because... he reminded me a lot of you when you were a baby, minus the throwing you part, a regular firestarter just like you were." Hera said sadly
"... let's just watch the battle." Hephaestus said now ignoring his mother.
SAO 1st floor boss room - Door.
Perseus watched as everyone got their potions ready to use, just in case.
After the debriefing, Perseus had grouped up with Kirito, the hooded girl, whose name was Asuna, and Annabeth.
There were no monsters to fight on the way to the boss room, so there wasn't much fighting.
Perseus sighed as he equipped an elemental sword skill, it was Ice themed.
Elemental sword skills were only able to be unlocked once you hit level 10, which Perseus and Kirito had hit last week, mostly due to nonstop lvl grinding.
Perseus also had about 10 lvl points to spend. so he put them into his prefered stats.
The stat system was different than most video games. Instead of having Int, Str, Agi, Vit, of any of those other stats, SAO only had Str and Agi. Vit went up by 100 everytime you leveled up, so by level 10 players would have 1000 health, 10 times the basic 100 health. There were also a few quests on each floor where you get a permanant health booster item that gave a 200 hp boost, so just farm that and you'll be set on health, which is excactly what Kirito and Perseus did.
Each stat started at the basic lvl of 5, except for Endurance and Defence those are at a base lvl of 100.
And every time you lvl up, you get five stat points to spend however you want, that just depends on the player's preference.
Str and Agi also controlled defence and endurance, respectively,
Kirito perfered to put 3 points into Str and the remaining 2 points into Agi. While Perseus prefered the exact opposite, 3 in Agi and 2 in Str. Everytime they lvl up.
And since the basic stats were 5 each plus 2 or 3, depending on the stat, that made their stats like this, once Perseus added in his 10 points.
Kirito: Hp - 2400 Str - 35 Agi - 25 Def - 135 End - 125
Perseus: Hp - 2400 Str - 25 Agi - 35 Def - 125 End - 135
Asuna and Annabeth's stats were unknown, because Kirito and Perseus never asked them.
But due to their speed, Perseus and Kirito were pretty sure that the put the most points in Agi.
Once Perseus finished putting all of his points in he walked to the rest of his group and waited for the door to open.
Once the door opened, everyone went onto high alert, ready for anything.
Once the boss appeared the main attack group charged and began to attack it, while the other group killed off the minions.
However, the boss, Illfang the Kobold Lord, ws different than the guide book said.
The book said that Illfang had an axe and a talwar, however this Illfang had an axe and something else.
Once Illfang's health reached it's final bar, it threw it's axe and buckler and pulled out a sword.
"Stand back I'll take care of this." Diabel said.
"What is he doing, this isn't part of the plan!?" Annabeth muttered.
"He must be after the rare item from the boss." Perseus told her.
Kirito stared at the boss, or more specifically the sword it was carrying, the was NOT a talwar.
"Perseus, look at that sword." Kirito told said boy.
"... oh shit!!" Perseus realized.
"Diabel get out of there!!! That's not a Talwar that's an Odachi!" Kirito yelled to Diabel, who realized his folly too late.
"... shit!" Diabel swore before he tried to force himself to move backwards, his efforts spared his head from being cut off, but he still got a deep and fatal wound to the chest, which sent him flying back, before landing on the ground.
"Diabel!" Kirito and Perseus yelled as they ran towards him, and held his body up in order to give him a health potion, which he denied.
"No, I don't think that will help, my Hp is depleting fast, to fast to heal." Diabel began.
Diabel looked at Kirito and said "You were a beta tester as well right? Please... please show them that there is still hope, please beat the boss and show them that we c-can be free of t-this game." Diabel said to the two before he shattered into pieces of blue glass.
The two stared at the glass that was Diabel, their eyes shadowed by their hair.
They stood their for a few seconds, before they turned to each other, then they rushed back into the battle field, Asuna and Annabeth behind them.
Annabeth and Asuna were the first to get there.
Annabeth got into Illfangs guard and released a flurry of quick but deep slashes, before jumping back. Asuna took her place and attacked with lightning fast fencer thrusts with her Rapier style sword.
Illfang attempted to swing his Odachi at the girl, only for her to duck, the sword caught her cloak and ripped it off revealing long chessnut colored hair that was connected to the beautiful girl in her early teens.
Perseus then appeared above Illfang, his shortsword glowing an ice blue color. He swung at Illfang's sword arm twice, in an X formation. And blue energy arced off the blade and froze Illfangs arm and swung his still glowing sword again in a verticle slash, cutting off the frozen arm.
That was Arial Frost, the most basic ice based elemental sword skill. [1]
Once the skill was comlete and Perseus landed, the lag took over, so he was stuck.
But that wasn't a problem because Illfang only had about 150 health left.
Kirito then took Perseus' place and activated a sword skill. His Anneal Blade began to glow blue and entered Illfang's left shoulder and went through his right side, only to reenter his side and exit through Illfang's head, and Illfang... shattered.
The rest of the raid party was breathless at the fight, it was so quick and efficient. Slowly everyone began to clap.
Kirito, Perseus, Asuna and Annabeth, rested after their battle, when they heard the clapping.
They turned to see the rest of the raid party, all, but three, among them was Kibao, clapped.
"STOP IT!!" One of the three who didn't clap yelled, surprisingly it wasn't Kibao, who was looking at the place where Diabel died.
Everyone turned to the three.
"Why!? Why didn't you save Diabel!?" the one who yelled.
"You... you knew the boss' attack patterns, so why didn't you tell us, and save him. You must be one of those beta testers!" The man yelled.
The rest of the raid began to look at Kirito and the man, before siding with the man.
"This is bad, if I don't do something now the beta tester's will get an even worse reputation." Kirito thought, before an idea came to him.
And so Kirito began to laugh, darkly.
His laughter drew the attention of his group and the rest of the raiding party.
"What's so funny!?" A random man asked/demanded.
"Why you of course... the fact that you're lumping me in with those noobs who could barely lvl up, in absolutely amusing." Kirito said with a false dark look on his face, something that Perseus, Asuna, and Annabeth noticed.
Perseus then realized that Kirito was going to be a scapegoat. Well he wasn't doing it alone.
"I agree Kirito, they were noobs. Don't lump us with them, we are far beyond their levels." Perseus said as he walked up beside his friend.
"You... aren't you the tester who stood up for the other testers?" another random person asked.
"Yes I am..." Perseus said.
"Then why are you claiming that they were beneath you..." The same person asked.
"Simple, I pitied the poor fools, dying on the first floor, the weakest one." Perseus shrugged.
"Besides unlike the other testers Kirito and I were the ones who got the highest." Perseus mocked.
"Then you're not just a beta tester, you're also a cheater!!" the man shouted
The raiding party began to chant cheater and beta tester, before the names were mixed into one, Beater.
"Beater... I like that, you can call us what you want, just don't lump us in with the beta testers." Kirito said darkly.
He equipped the Item he got from the boss, the cloak of midnight shadows, before turning towards the entrance to the second floor, with Perseus following behind him.
Just before he opened the door, Kirito said to the group, "If you don't want to die then don't follow me." then he opened the door and walked up the steps of the pilliar, followed by Perseus.
Annabeth and Asuna stared at where the two "beaters" left. They were about to run after them when they were stopped by Kibao, Agil, and Jason.
Jason went to talk to Annabeth, he asked her to deliver a message to Perseus.
Agil and Kibao, did the same with Asuna, for Kirito.
With their requests accepted, the two girls ran up to the top of the pillar.
When they made it to the top, they gasp at the scene before them.
The second floor was mostly grass lands, and full of cow themed monsters. Currently it was sunset, the setting sun painted a beautiful setting over the land.
They also saw Kirito standing with his back to them, and Perseus sitting in the grass, his back also to them.
The two girls then walked to the two boys.
"I thought I said not to follow." Kirito said to Asuna, not looking at her.
"Yeah but we both know that you wouldn't do what you said you would." Asuna smirked.
"Yeah... I guess you're right..." Kirito sighed.
"I have a message for you... from Agil, and another from Kibao." Asuna told Kirito.
"Agil said that he was gonna start up a shop and sell items he's collected, and that when it opens he wants you to be his first customer." Asuna told Kirito, who chuckled.
"And Kibao said, "I acknowledge your strength but ... I will find my own way out of here." what ever he meant by that..." Asuna told Kirito, who nodded.
"I see, well then... I'm gonna go activate the town warp gate, you should head back down to the others." Kirito told her.
"Yeah, see ya later ... Kirito." she said turning away, and walking to the door to the first floor.
"Later ... Asuna." He replied
Meanwhile with Perseus and Annabeth.
"Hey..." Annabeth said as she sat down beside Perseus.
"Hey." Perseus responded.
"I ... I brought you a message from Jason." Annabeth said.
"He said to tell you that you are strong and wanted to know if you would dual him once dualing is allowed." Annabeth told Perseus.
"Tell him to that we'll dual someday." Perseus told her, she nodded.
"Right... Hey Perseus?" Annabeth asked said boy.
"Yeah?" he asked.
"Do you think we'll ever meet again?" She asked.
Perseus stayed silent before sending her a friend invite.
"..." She stared at it for a few seconds, before accepting.
"There ... now we have a reason to meet again." Perseus said.
Annabeth stared at him for a few seconds before smiling slightly.
"Right!" Annabeth agreed, before getting up and looking at Perseus.
"What are you gonna do for now?" he asked.
"I'll stick with Asuna for now I guess." she answered.
"I'll just stick with Kirito..." Perseus told her, she nodded.
"Right, I better get back with Asuna." she said as she turned to follow Asuna, who just left Kirito.
Before she was out of earshot she heard. "Later Princess."
She stopped and said back "Later ... Hero."
With that she left, following Asuna down the staires to the first floor.
[A/N: Finally finished. so yeah we've covered a bit of ground with this chapter. Stat systems, the boss and everything needed.]
[1] Arial Frost is an original elemental sword skill. It is performed in mid-air. It is a pair of cross slashes in the form of an X. The frozen energy is released upon each slash. And a final vertical slash that shatters the frozen target. Cooldown time: Long.
So I hope you enjoyed the chapter.
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