My day was good
For the next couple of days, I had ate, slept, dreamed, and played SAO. me and Flynn had been clearing dungeons on the floors with ease, it's like the game had wanted me to do well in it. I was level five when we had reached the base of the tower dungeon on floor 2.
"Honestly speaking, I think we should leave this for tomorrow, what do you think?"
She tilted her head and looked up at the tower, "Well, You're level 8, I'm level 8, if we switch out properly, I think we can clear the dungeon and map the whole thing, how do you feel about that?"
I ran a hand through my hair, pondering this thought, "Are we going to leave the boss room alone?" I began to wonder how the guilds during the beta would handle this room.
"I'm sure the other players could clear it with no problem, you know Kirito can handle it by HIMSELF blindfolded." I laughed at her comment, she was right after all, Kirito was not someone to mess around with, he might have been the strongest beta tester, besides Flynn that is. I had no desire to argue at this point, so I agreed to enter the dungeon.
It was dank in this dungeon, unlike the other one that we were in. And I must say, the mobs were decently difficult. Just learning their attack pattern had almost gotten me killed, which hadn't happened thus far in to the game, and I was grateful for that. The monsters on this floor looked like serpent humanoids, kind of an odd mixture, but nothing out of order for SAO yet.
It seemed that no matter how far up we climbed, the boss room was always higher up. So we kept climbing, switching out when needed. I took forward as usual, she never seemed to let me take it easy, I guess it was for the better.
After about two or so hours of grinding down these mobs, we had finally reached the boss room, the door was a good twenty feet above me, and was steel plated, matching the stone brick castle type theme of the dungeon. "Well, we made it, and as promised, you may log out now, Brady." Flynn mocked a curtsy and smiled at me like a pleased maidan, her hair on either side of her face and het bangs drooping down in the front. It kind of blocked her eyes, and in turn her face, I guess that's what I found funny about it, Because for some reason, I was hysterical.
After my laughing fit, I hugged her and smiled, "PM me tomorrow, alright? Let me know how Kirito fairs."
She nodded and winked, "He won't be doing better than you, I can assure you. I actually have plans to go to a friend's tonight."
I swiped my index finger and my thumb down, leaving a white menu in their wake, I hovered over the settings icon and scrolled down to the log out button. I clicked on it with no hesitation.
After I logged out, I went down stairs to eat dinner with my family, "So, Brady, how goes the beta test?" my mother said to me in between bites.
"Well, it's actually really good, there are so few bugs that I wouldn't be surprised if this was the finished product." I replied with a mouth full of food.
She nodded, and my father chimed in, "I'm so glad that the developers had let you test this game, are you the only American playing it?" I shook my head and told them about Flynn. They took the news in surprise, I'm sure they don't really think of females as gamers.
After dinner was over, I headed up stairs for my shower, I checked my phone before I went in to my room for my clothes, Flynn had emailed me, asking if I could get back on, someone wanted to talk with me.
As I logged in, the world pixilated around me, forming trees, wild animals, the tower dungeon's stone bricks, and the grass, which swayed in the wind. "Hiya," as soon as my body formed, I heard Flynn call, I turned around to find her waving, standing next to a guy in a lab coat, Akahiko Kayaba.
"Kayaba-Sensai" I bowed respectfully, and he raised a hand as if to say 'at ease'
"Hello, Brady, how are you today?" He regarded me as If I was an old friend.
I nodded and smiled, "my day was good, how was yours?"
our small talk didn't last too long before he informed me of the nature of his visit. It lasted about an hour or two, he told me how he had been monitoring my actions throughout the game, and my behavior inside of the nerve gear. "So, I have yet to figure out what is with that red set of Nerve Gear, care to explain?"
He simply smiled and said, "It will be used to connect you to our master server in America. One cannot do with lag compensation in a VRMMO."
After our conversation ended I logged out. it was about 9:00 and I still had to head down to my friend's house, his name is Jacob, for a going away party he was hosting.
I showered up pretty quickly and got dressed with a little bit more decision making involved than when I go to school, I looked in the mirror and smiled, this outfit was going to get me noticed. Red shirt, black jeans, red billed black hat, and a pair of black converse to top it all off.
The walk to his house was nice, first time I had left the house in a while. I arrived before the party started just like I had planned, and my friend's house was huge! He had a pretty high ceiling with a chandelier that was about three feet in diameter. His kitchen was lie that you might see on a cooking show, or in a magazine.
I told him that I couldn't stay too long, and he just laughed at me as he handed me a beer. I couldn't help thinking about Flynn, however, we were talking earlier that day and she said that she was going to a friend's that night, so I didn't think that much of it. Jacob said that only people we knew were showing up tonight. And that's what I liked.
A couple of hours in to the party, I had stopped drinking, I guess I sort of was just not looking to drink tonight. Throught the party I was acting as a sort of security guard, breaking up fights and the such. At about midnight, my friend pulled me aside from everyone else, I'm pretty sure he was wasted at the time, he was stumbling all over the place, he told me that he had someone that he wanted me to meet. I just wanted to humored him for now.
We came to a spot in the back yard, there was this... Girl, she had dark red hair, brown eyes, and a black dress on that had a red trim. "Hey! Flynn! I want you to come over here and meet my friend!"
This was Flynn that I was meeting with? THE Flynn? There was no way that she was the other beta tester, boy was I wrong? she smiled at me, just like how she would in game and said, "Hiya, Brady right?"
I just nodded and smiled, probably looking like a massive fool, "Yeah, yeah, Flynn, if I'm not mistaken. It's good to finally meet you."