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Oblivion is owned by Urolutze
1 month later
Artemis awoke in ALO for the first time since the Suguo incident, he was excited to see the new patch coming in for ALO, he knew that Aincrad was coming, however there was something different, the patch notes said that all of Aincrad was coming, not just the first ten floors, something that was different from the anime.
"Well looky here," A voice came from his left, "A kid wearing a grown man's armor, get 'em boys."
Artemis looked to at his attacked casually, before, simply shifting to the side, and the ducking a horizontal blow. He laughed as he dodged every attack they through at his, knowing, however, that if they hit him, nothing would happen due to his Battle Recovery skill. Add that with his life drain sword, Shadow, he was nigh unbeatable.
"Wow, is that all you got, stop trying to hit me and fucking hit me, fuckers" Artemis yelled, laughing. The men, infuriated, attacked recklessly. Though none of their attacks hit, Artemis was starting to get tired of their bullshit. He drew Hellfire, and dashed past one of them, slicing his stomach open as he did so.
The men saw their friend defeated by such a measly blow, began to realize that they were greatly outmatched. They turned and ran from the laughing murderer. "Aww… come back, I was just starting to have fun!" He called, laughing.
He received no response, other than them running even faster. He laughed until he saw Leafa standing behind him. "Oops," he muttered.
"What the hell is wrong with you!?" She yelled directly into his face.
"What gives? They attacked me first, without provocation at that!" Artemis complained.
"Well, all I saw was you killing that poor man, without him attacking!" She replied, annoyed.
"Yeah, he was the first to attack, I dodged every attack waiting for them to stop, well guess I may have provoked their second attack, but not the first, they said I was a little kid," He rambled.
"Fine, I guess you win this one, but remember, don't attack innocents," She said as she flew away, higher and higher, into the clouds.
Artemis followed her, and he saw her hit the flight limit, and fall into his waiting arms. "What did I tell you about flying too high?" He asked.
"That, if I do it when anyone isn't around, I would fall to my death," she said, grumpily.
"Well, what now?" He asked, "I don't know what to do while waiting for the patch to come about."
"But the patch is already here isn't it?" Leafa asked.
"You didn't read the patch notes, did you?" Artemis asked, laughing.
"Um… I guess not," she muttered, ashamed.
"Why are you so down? There's nothing to worry about, it's better a surprise anyways," Artemis said, comfortingly.
"What do you mean by, surprise?" Leafa asked as they both flew away from the moon.
"You'll see…" Artemis said.
Once Artemis stopped, Leafa stopped by him and asked, "Why are we here now? Something big is happening, right?"
"Oh, it's pretty big, and it's the last thing you'd expect." Artemis said, smiling.
It was time, Aincrad was slowly moving in front of the moon. When it came into view, Leafa asked, "What the hell is that thing moving in front of the moon!?"
"Somewhere we'd been to before." Artemis said.
When Aincrad stopped moving, and the lights flashed from it, Artemis said, "Now we can finally enjoy what Kayaba created, rather than just trying to beat it with the risk of death. I wanted to beat the first and second floor bosses on my own, Before anyone else gets there. Artemis then flew towards Aincrad before Leafa had a chance to react. Artemis flew towards the first dungeon at full speed. When he got there, he quickly fought the enemies through the dungeon flawlessly. He ran through the dungeon and got to the boss room without any problems remembering the layout of the dungeon.
When Artemis entered the room, he quickly charged the boss, activating his Demonic Empowerment skill. He ran towards the boss, drawing Shadow and Hellfire, crossing them to block the boss's first blow, which came at him from the left. He pushed the blade away without effort. Artemis then activated Black Flame Fury and then swung both his swords at the boss until he knew it had died. When it died and he'd got all the items, he quickly flew up to the second floor and then flew to the next floor. Again, he flew through the dungeon and killed the boss much the same way.
When he had finished off the second boss, he noticed he had gotten a rare metal. This metal he had never even heard of and must've been a part of the patch, or might have been in ALO already, before the patch. The metal was called "Bloodlust Ingot." It had enchantments which he never even heard of. One of them was called "Blood Burn," which said that when you cut through an enemy with a weapon with the enchantment, it would deal more damage depending on how low your health was. Another one was called "Blood Freeze," which would freeze a person's limb you cut through from the inside to the outside. Artemis thought he might get new weapons with the enchantments.
Artemis flew up to the third floor and then flew to the third floor dungeon. He had whipped through the third floor dungeon easily, but it took a little more time than before, but still quickly. Before he had opened the third boss room, he heard footsteps from the behind. When he saw a group of people behind him. In front was Kirito and Asuna, behind them was Wolf, Oblivion, Nero, Agil, Klein, Lisbeth, Silica, Sinon, and Leafa, which Kirito spoke first and said "Well you must've gotten excited to leave your girlfriend behind to beat the first two bosses."
"Yeah sorry about that, but I did get a rare metal from the second boss which I'll give to Leafa if I get anything better." Artemis said.
"Yeah? What kind of metal?" Leafa said, as she walked up to Artemis and glared at him.
"Bloodlust Ingots. I've never heard of them before." Artemis said, showing Leafa the metal from his inventory.
Leafa read the description and asked Lisbeth to take a look at it. Lisbeth noticed that the metal was added to the patch that was released. She also noted that it was a high end metal in ALO and New Aincrad, which was better than most metals. "Well this metal can be used to upgrade everyone's gear by a good amount, since a lot of it is from SAO, and a lot of the new metals and weapons are higher level." Leafa said.
"I'll hold on to them then until I find anything that interests me." Artemis said.
Artemis opened the door and quickly charged the boss when it came into view. He drew both his swords and quickly got ready to block the first blow. When both blades struck together, Artemis quickly pushed the blade away and swung towards the boss's wrist, stunning it. After, Artemis called everyone except for Wolf, Oblivion, and Nero to keep the boss down, while Artemis, Wolf, Oblivion and Nero activated all of their unique skills. They then charged the boss and attacked it with everything they got. The boss died within 10 seconds.
After the boss exploded, and everyone got their boss completion loot, Artemis saw that he'd got the final attack bonus. He'd got a new metal. It was called "Elemental Ingot," which had enchantments for each of the elements, Fire, Water, Air, Earth, Lightning, and Ice. It also described that the metal can be used to create a long list of weapons and armor. He let Lisbeth take a look at the metal and turns out, if you smith it into a weapon and you want a specific element, you have to use a magic spell called, Smith's Wishes, and during which you must say the element required at the end of said spell, luckily, since Lisbeth is a blacksmith, she already knows the spell, and has the required skill to use it, as her skill is maxed out.
When Lisbeth told Artemis this, Oblivion yawned and said "It's 12 in the morning, I gotta get going."
Everyone else said they had to log off as well, and so everyone logged out.
