ALO
The entrance to Thrymheim
The party is currently waiting for Naruto to appear. They didn't need to wait long, as they saw a black portal suddenly appeared and from it Naruto walked out.
"Yo!" said Naruto and saluted them.
They all looked at him strangely. He blinked at their gaze and decided to ask.
"Is there something on my face?"
The party shook their head in negative and turn to the entrance. Suddenly Kirito noticed that Yui was deep in thought, sitting on his shoulder.
"What's wrong Yui?"
Yui looked down in thought a little then decided to fly up and says.
"Well, this is just a hyposis... But in one respect, Alfheim online is greatly differs from the other VRMMOs in the Project the SEED. The Cardinal System operating the game is not a stripped down version. It's the copy of full-spec version used in the former Sword Art Online..."
"Full-spec version?" repeated Kirito
"The original Cardinal System had an auto-generation system for quests. Via the networks, it gathered the traditions and legends all over the world and then used or rearrange the terms and story patterns from them to generate infinite quests" explained Yui
"Then, is this the quest an auto-generated one the Cardinal made?" asked Kirito. "From the way the NPC was acting, it's likely..." answered Yui.
"Which means depending on how the story plays out, it could go all the way to the myth's end" continued Wendy.
"Now that you mentioned that I noticed that this quest was like from the Norse mythology. And the culminates called 'final war'" said Naruto nodding his head.
"You are right uncle. And not only the frost giants will want to invade Alfheim, but the flame giants from Muspelheim will appear as well. And their goal is the same as the frosts giants, that is to destroy the World Tree Yggdrasil" said Yui.
"In the end it will end with a twilight of gods, Ragnarok. That's impossible! There is no way a game system would destroy its entire map" said Leafa at shock.
Yui shook her head and said
"The original Cardinal has the access level necessary to destroy the entire map when the game was cleared. Because the original Cardinal System's last task is to destroy the Aincrad entirely"
"What about the New Aincrad? Will it be destroyed as well this time?" asked Kirito.
Yui just looked at Naruto's calm face for a little and said.
"No, because the master of the New Aincrad didn't make it to be destroyed"
Kirito narrowed his eyes when Yui looked at Naruto.
"The master of New Aincrad... The one that brought New Aincrad to ALO... It is you isn't it, Naruto. The last boss on the 100th floor of Aincrad!" Said Kirito and pointed his finger at the closed smirking face of Naruto.
While the other widen their eyes in shock and surprise, except Wendy and Yui. There was a pregnant silence, when Kirito declared that. Naruto opened his eyes and looked directly at Kirito.
"That's right. You guessed right. I am the master of the New Aincrad and the last boss on the 100th floor by the name of Naruto the Dark Master. To completely conquered New Aincrad, you guys need to defeat me, the last boss" said Naruto calmly.
Klein decided to reacted and grabbed Naruto to the collar and shouted.
"Why try heck didn't you tell anything to us? How the heck are you the last boss? I can't just believe that! It's like deja vu except you are not Heathcliff and this is not a death game"
Naruto just looked calmly at Klein and respond.
"Even if I told you guys the truth it won't change anything. To completely conquered New Aincrad, you guys must defeat me"
Kirito smirked widely at that and declared.
"It's perfect then. After I obtained Excalibur, I will also settle things with you, Naruto. No, Naruto the Dark Master, the last boss of Aincrad!"
Naruto looked at Kirito's smirking face and also smirking.
"I can't wait for the fight then. But you know as the last boss my strength is double or triple right? Do you really stand a chance without the help of the party? I won't mind for the other to help you"
The girls were still to shock to say anything. They still couldn't believe that Naruto is actually the last boss of Aincrad. They felt betrayed by his action. Though Leafa suspected the moment he brought the New Aincrad to ALO. Though she refused to believe that fact.
Naruto looked at the entrance and said.
"I think we will worry about fighting me later. Now we must clear this quest and helped Kirito to obtain the Excalibur, didn't you all agree?"
Sinon was the first to snapped out of the shock and glared at Naruto.
"You are the last boss of New Aicrad now huh Naruto? It's perfect then in GGO I missed the chance to kicked your ass, but now that you reveal yourself as the boss villain. I will enjoy pumping you full of holes with my bow" said Sinon and had a wide scary smirk appeared on her face that caused Naruto to tremble at her expression.
"N-now, who said I am the villain just because I am the last boss of New Aincrad. I am still your friend, see? I still help you guys to clear this quest"
"You know Naruto-kun, now that you revealed yourself as the last boss of Aincrad, I want to smash you head to the ground, I still not forget what happened in the hospital with Aki-san. It's the perfect time for me to unleashed all that frustration" said Lisbeth and began to swing her mace. Naruto's face ifpossible began to pale even more.
Kirito sweat dropped and wondered what will actually happened when they decided to fight Naruto.
"I pity him. Even as the last boss, he won't stand a chance against those tigresses. They will tear him apart the moment we decided to fight" muttered Kirito looking at the scene before him. Leafa looked at the amulet and noticed it became darker and darker.
"Onii-chan, Naruto-kun! We don't have much time. Let's put all the matter behind to clear this quest first" said Leafa.
"Leafa is right. We must hurry before it's too late" said Kirito
With that the party opened the gate and entered Thrymheim.
Second floor of Thrymheim
The party is fighting two huge Minotaurs with axe in their hands. Though one is mediating and if you don't defeat the other you won't be able to fight the other. Kirito and Leafa charged in and used their swords to strike the Minotaur, but it deflect all their strikes. Even when Kirito and Leafa managed to strike it, it's HP barely changed. Sinon decided to shoot the one that meditate, but the one standing before them catch the arrow and crushed it with a roar.
"It's bad Onii-chan. The yellow has a really high resistance to physical attacks" said Leafa not taking her eyes from the boss.
"Yeah, I know that" said Kirito also looking at the Minotaur.
"If it's immune to physical attacks, then I will take care of it" said Naruto stepped forward, the wind began to blow his cloak dramatically. Naruto touched his face and the fox mask appeared, it was the same mask he wore as Menma. Naruto began to chant the incantation
"Kumen Sowaka... Sei, Byaku, Shu, Gen, Kū, Nan, Hoku, San, Gyoku... Kumenjū!"
Just that a symbol appeared before Naruto and from it nine masked creature appeared and began to engage the Minotaur. The girls and Klein were surprised, though Kirito and Leafa recognized the spell that once saved her life. But even with all the nine creatures attacks it still barely managed to scratch its HP. Suddenly, it began to raised its axe and prepared for the shock-wave attack.
"Shock-wave attack will be in two seconds" warned Yui. The party prepared to dodge the strike, after hearing Yui's warning. Just that the Minotaur slammed its ace and creates a shockwave powerful enough to blew everyone away and decrease their HP considerably. Though Naruto was not among them, they looked around and wondered where he disappeared. Asuna focused on chanting the incantation and healing everyone, though he also wondered where Naruto disappeared. She looked closely behind the Minotaur and saw a black smoke appeared behind it and when from the smoke the hand with Kusanagi appeared and stab to Minotaur's stomach caused it to roar in pain. It began to swung its axe at the appeared figure of Naruto. When happen next cause all of them to gasped in shock. The Minotaur managed to strike at Naruto, but on Naruto's showed the black smoke and he disappeared like he never there. Suddenly, he appeared on Minotaur's right and slash it with his blade that full of black smoke. When the Minotaur slashed at him again, the result was the same as before. The party looked in awe, as Naruto holding his own against the Minotaur.
"What the heck is that? Why the Minotaur couldn't touch him? And what is that black smoke?" asked Klein in shock.
Leafa looked at the fight and said
"I recognize it. It is a very powerful and advance dark spell called Kyouka Suigetsu. Naruto-kun create the illusion of himself with dark magic in order to confused the Minotaur, at the same time hiding in his own shadow and strikes the Minotaiur when need. All the Naruto-kuns that were hit are actually the effect of Kyuoka Suigetsu. You won't be able to tell who is real and who is not, without Alpha-Stigma, that only Onii-chan now possesses"
Then Leafa looked at the crystal and saw that became even darker than before.
"Onii-chan, it is already 70% dark, we must hurry and helped Naruto-kun to finish off this one and to advance to the second floor" said Leafa.
"Let's hurry up everyone, don't saved up the MP anymore unleashed all the magic sword skill you have. Naruto is holding up pretty well now, but he will eventually emptied all his mana, we will assist him then" said Kirito and looked at everyone.
Naruto while fighting against the yellow Minotaur looked at his MP and cursed it nearly empty already. He jumped back to avoid the strike from above from the Minotaur.
"Naruto! Step back, you've done enough. Now we will take care from here" shouted Kirito.
Naruto smiled tiredly and nodded his head. Just that Kirito roared loudly and charged at the Minotaur with a flame sword in his hand. Then everyone charged at the Minotaur with their element sword skills. Klein used his flame sword skill jumped up high and slashed at the torso if the Minotaur. Leafa's sword glowed green and she slashed up the wind blades towards the creature. Liz's mace glowed yellow and sparks began to appeared around her mace. She yelled loudly and strikes the creature to its leg. Silica twirls her glowing aqua dagger and stabbed it from behind to its back. Sinon stood not far from them and shot an arrow to the creature's jaw. Kirito charges at the creature with the flame sword and strikes it rapidly. From all their strikes the creature's HP has reached the yellow zone. Naruto looked wide eyes at the performance of the party. Though the party used up all mana and couldn't move now. The only one that can move are Kirito, Naruto and Asuna. Kirito glared at the creature and suddenly his second sword glowed blue caused the party to open their mouth in surprise. Kirito yelled loudly and slashed the Minotaur to mid-sec and stabbed it with his ice sword. Then he slashed up to its jaws and about to use his flame sword skill to continue the assault, but he suddenly stumbled. The Minotayr took that chance and was about to finished Kirito off.
"Haaaaa!"A voiced from behind the Minotaur caused their intention. They looked at that direction and saw Naruto with the wind blowing around him with a black Kusanagi in his hand. Naruto charged forward and dissapeared then reappeared, it just repeated like that many times.
"Phantom... Sonic... Rush!" screamed Naruto and multiple Narutos appeared and charged at the Minotaur and slashed at it. The party and Kirito was shocked once more they never knew Naruto has that skill. Then all Narutos disappeared and only one was left sheathing the Kusanagi to its scabbard. The yellow Minotaur roared one last time before it disappeared to the blue polygon. The black Minotaur began to stand up and prepared for battle. Though it was far weaker than his partner and the party defeated it with ease. Then a panel with 'Congratulations!" appeared. With that they began to cheered loudly.
"We did it!"
Kirito sheathed back his swords, that moment Klein decided to ask.
"Anyway, what was that?"
"Do I have to say?" asked Kirito.
"Of course. I've never seen anything like that before... The same with you as well, Naruto. What the heck was that skill? It's like you multiplied yourself" said Klien and also turned to Naruto's direction, who had been glared by Sinon and Liz, waiting for the explanation.
"It's a non-system skill. Skill Connect" answered Kirito.
"Skill Connect?"
"Yeah, you remember how the last updated brought Sword skills to ALO? But that didn't include the unique skills such as dual-wielding or Holy Sword even Naruto's Hiten Mitsurugi also not include" explained Kirito.
"Eh? Really? But I saw you used both swords" complained Klien.
"That is not dual-wielding. I just used the one-hand sword skill in succession with each hand. You can only do that without delaying three or four times, if you are lucky. Though, I am more I interested in what Naruto had to say. His Hiten Mitsurugi skills has disappeared and now the new skills has takes it place" said Kirito and looked at Naruto's direction.
Liz and Sinon were tapping their feet impatiently and said.
"Well? Explain mister! What is that skill?"
Naruto sweat profusely, coughed a little and started to explain.
"The day I find out that I lost the Hiten Mitsurugi skills, my skills changed to that of dark type and also focused on speed, but each skills allowed me to blend with the dark or create illusion to hide myself. When you guys saw multiple me it just the multiple afterimages creates by the skill" explained Naruto scratching his head.
Asuna looked at Naruto then Kirito and said
"Now I have an incredible sense of déjà vu"
Then she recalled about 2 years ago in SAO, Klein asked the same thing and Kirito answered the same, even Naruto also surprised them with his new sword skill.
"You just imagine things. Now let's go before too late" said Kirito.
"If what I guessed is right and this dungeon has four floors in total. Then we only have 30 minutes to defeated the boss" said Naruto brought his finger to his chin.
"It doesn't matter. You just need to kick that king of giants ass right?... Then the blond big bad boss of New Aincrad will be next. Am I right?" said Liz cheerfully then smiled even more at the second thought. Naruto just shook his head in negative and tremble in fright. Kirito and the others just giggled at that.
"When everyone's HP and MP will recover we will head to the next floor" said Kirito.
Third floor of Thrymheim.
The party is fighting some kind of creature that is a cyclop with the body of a reptile. In its hand is a long staff. Kirito, Klein and Liz were fighting in the front while Silica strikes it from behind. Sinon stood not far from her behind and shouting arrows. Naruto used transportation magic to appeared right in front of the creature with Dairasenringu in his hand and smashed the creature to pieces.
"Okay, now only the last boss is left" said Kirito.
With that the party began to run to the entrance to the last floor. As they are running, Kirito noticed someone was trapped in an ice cage ahead of them. It was a very beautiful girl with long blond hair and emerald eyes. She was strapped by shackles to the wrist and looked down on the ground helplessly. When Klein looked at her, he immediately blushed like no tomorrow.
"Please... Let me out..." said the was about to free her, but Kirito caught at the back of his collar and said.
"It's a trap"
"Definitely a trap" said Liz with a deadpan eyes.
"Of course, it's a trap" said Sinon.
"Y-yeah, it's a trap right? A trap or maybe..." said Klein wanted to free a beautiful girl badly. Meanwhile Naruto just stared at the girl silently.
"So what do you think Yui?" asked Kirito looked up his head.
"It's NPC. But like Urd-san she is also AI. Though there is one thing difference is that she has a HP bar" answered Yui.
"If she had HP bar that means we might have to fight her" said Kirito looking at the NPC.
"Not necessary that. There were cases when the boss of the quest is too hard to beat and there is a supporter to help in clearing the quest" said Naruto still not takes his eyes of the girl.
Leafa felt some kind of jealousy, seeing Naruto staring at the NPC so intently and even defend her. She huff and said.
"It's a trap"
"A trap" said Silica
"I agree. It's a trap" said Asuna.
"Even if you say that, Naruto... But we didn't have any prove and didn't have anytime time to waste" said Kirito looking at Naruto.
"But what if without her, we won't stand a chance against Thrym? She maybe a mage that had special spells to help in defeating Thrym" said Naruto and turned to Kirito.
"I told you before we don't have time to waste and the possibility of this is a trap is greater. We are moving forward" said Kirito and run to the entrance with the girls.
"Please... Someone helps me..." plead the girl in the ice cage. Klein was about to run ahead, but Naruto's voice stopped him.
"You wanted to free this girl, right? Just do what you feel is right"
Klein turned to Naruto then to the party and sigh. He closed his eyes then opened them and said.
"I know this maybe a trap. But even so, I can't leave the helpless girl where she is now. Even if we failed the quest, I can't leave her there"
With that he rushed back to the location of the girl, to free her. Naruto just smirks at Klein's decision. Klein slashed at the ice cage and caused it to disappear. The girl looked at Klein with grateful eyes and said.
"Thank you, fairy swordsman"
Klein wanted to make an impression on her and said
"Are you hurt? Can you stand up"
His face completely differed from his original face with a sparking teeth. The party just looked at the scene with a deadpan look. Naruto though giggled silently at the scene.
"Yes, I am fine" said the girl and tried to raised her body, but she was too weak. Klein decided to help her out.
"It's a bit of a ways to the exit. Can you get there yourself?" asked Klein. The girl looked at Klein and said.
"I can't leave this place, until I retrieve my families' treasure, which Thrym the king of frost giants, stole" Then she looked at Naruto and said.
"Please, Dark Hero, help me to the Thrym's room and help me to defeat him"
Naruto looked at the girl then answered.
"Ok, if you wanted I will help me you to get to the Thrym's room. Though I don't know why you called me Dark Hero" The NPC smiled brightly and said
"Thank you, Dark Hero"
Then before Naruto a panel appeared that will you agree to key the NPC join the party. He pressed accept and the party was created. Means there are two party consist of Naruto, Wendy and NPC, the second party are the rest. Klein was so disappoint that he couldn't be in a party with a pretty girl. Naruto looked at the girl's name when she joined the party and muttered.
"Freyja?... If I am not mistaken that is the name of the goddess of love and beauty in Norse mythology. Seems I was right after all, she is a supporter to help in fighting Thrym. Her MP is very high means she has tons of supporting spells"
Naruto saw that she still couldn't stand properly, decide to approach her then pick her up bridal style. Liz, Leafa and Sinon saw that and widen their eyes in anger and jealousy. All three of them has murdeous aura around them. Kirito just sweat dropped looking at the three of them.
"Alright, we will head to the boss right now. If what I guessed is right, then Freyja will support is in defeating the boss. Let's go" said Naruto and run ahead with Freyja in his arms.
Klein was still depressed, while the three girls still seething in ager. Kirito decide to warn the party about the boss and told them the plan of action.
"When fighting the boss don't hold heck anything. Hit him with everything you got. When his HP bat changed colour be careful cause his attacks pattern will change as well"
"This is the last battle, before we face Naruto. Let's do our best" said Kirito. Everybody cheered loudly, though at the mention of Naruto's name three girls grin widely and a terrifyingly.
Thrym's room
Naruto arrived in the room with Freyja behind him. Naruto heard the footsteps and looked behind to see the party also arrived. Asuna began to chant a recovery spell to everyone. Freyja also decided to chant a spell and their HP had increased drastically.
"So that's one of the powerful spells that players couldn't achieve" muttered Naruto looking at Freyja. The party and Naruto's party went further to the room and noticed the steam is everywhere. When they arrived to the place where there wasn't steam, they looked around and saw many treasures lying on both sides. Liz approached one side looked at the treasures and wondered.
"How many Yuld do you think these all worth?"
Klein began to dance and approached the other side and looked particular at one golden statue. Suddenly, there is a voice was through the room.
"A fly is buzzing about..."
Naruto narrowed is eyes and looked ahead at the dark part of the room. The party heard the voice also turned their attention to that direction.
"I can hear it's irritating buzzing. Let me see..." said the voice then the sound of steps was heard that ebb shaking the ground with each step was made.
"I will crush it, before it causes any trouble..."Just that a huge frost giant stepped out from the dark side of the room and stood before them. Kirito just looked up at him with wide eyes and slowly looked up at him with a sweat. Naruto's eyes though widen with a bloodthirsty grin on his face, his body is trembling with excitement.
"Ho? I see Urd has sent little flies from Alfheim, in hoping to defeat me. How foolish... And you must the one the prophecy said that will end my rulings, eh? Mister Dark Hero" said Thrym looking at them like they were ants.
"I don't know why Freyja and you called me by that title. But I was asked to end you, so that I will do. All your offers that you wanted to offer nothing will interested me" said Naruto and look at the giant with a wide grin.
"That's a shame. I'd like to offer you guys all the treasures here in exchange for the location of Urd, but it seems you guys chose the alternate path..." said Thrym and looked down at them smirking.
"Like we actually need anything from someone like you! Someone that invade the other realm and tried to destroy the World Tree, I won't ever negotiate with someone like you!" shouted Klein and pointed his finger at Thrym.
With that the party took out their weapons and prepared for battle. Thrym just smirked arrogantly, than he noticed someone that shouldn't be here.
"Oh, Freyja-dono. If you left your cage, does that means that you agreed to be my wife?" asked Thrym looking at Freyja.
"Wife?" asked Klein in surprise and looked back at Freyja, who is trying to hide behind Naruto's back. "That's right. She came here to marry me. But the night before the feast, she was spot sneaking around my treasure vaults. To punish her, I locked her in an ice cage" said Thrym and laughed loudly.
Freyja was about to retort, but Naruto's hand on her shoulder stopped her from doing that. She looked at Naruto and saw he was smirking.
"It's obviously she came to this place to retrieve her families treasure, that you stolen. There is no way Freyja, the goddes of love and beauty, will marry some old geezer like you" said Naruto with a smirk. He unsheathed his Kusanagi and releases dark smoke from his body and said smirking.
"The prophecy already said this right? You will fall by my hands here, Thrym, King of frost giants!"
"Hahahaha! Such cocky words from such a fly like you. Whether you are the Dark Hero even Odin himself, I will still crush you. And then nothing will stopped to reach the top of Yggdrasil" shouted Thrym. And just that the arrow on his head changed to red colour and 5 bars of HP appeared. Kirito looked at the giant as he prepared to attack them.
"Everybody, listen to Yui. We need to dodge first at the beginning of the battle" said Kirito.
Though Thrym seems to turn all his attention to Naruto first. With that Thrym threw his gigantic fist towards Naruto with shocking speed. Though Naruto just stands there. The fist makes contact with Naruto. The girls seeing that shouted out in horror.
"Naruto/Naruto-kun/Naruto-san!"