Chapter 2: Time to get serious
Disclaimer: I do not own Sword Art Online
Author's note: This may not look serious but it is and one of the parts may look like a part in a game so I don't own that part either.
Levels so far:
Koyero: Lvl 73
Silica: Lvl 65
/Koyero's P.O.V\\
I can't believe I forgot what I stated in the message! I can't blame myself, fishing with Kirito was fun and he invited me to his home, how could I refuse? Anyways, I wish I gave a more specific place… she can be anywhere even— Nah… she wouldn't go there. As I continued walking, I finally bumped into her near the fountain of the town. Who knew this town had a fountain? Anyways I went to her and began to speak.
"I'm sorry I'm late, Silica-chan!" I bowed in apology numerous times.
"What are you talking about? You're like 2 hours early, and why do you call me Silica-chan?" Silica revealed to me with embarrassment.
"So I skipped something for nothing?!" I yelled out angrily whilst ignoring her question.
"Skip?" She looked at me with a questioned expression.
"Ahh… Skip? I said nothing!" I attempted to excuse myself.
"What did you skip?" She pointed at me curiously and stared at me, waiting for an answer.
"Nothing! Let's go… train some more!" I dragged her before she reacted.
Floor 64…
"Why train in a higher floor even though we almost died at floor 62?" She whispered to my ear.
"Why are you whispering?!" I responded, quite irritated.
"Why are you mad then?!" She twitched while whispering back at me.
"I have no idea!" I hit my head to get a grip of myself and I ended up chuckling like I was laughing at some kind of joke.
"What are we doing here anyway?" She seemed annoyed but calmed down after exhaling heavily.
"We're for some intense training!" I announced determinedly with my Zweihander raised to the sky.
"Not my fault if our luck runs out in the middle of a battle…" She reminded me of how close we were to being turned into the werewolf's dinner.
"Don't be negative, Silica-chan~" I shouldered her softly.
"Fine… but I hope you got this thing planned out." She finally agreed.
"Great! Now first let's find something to kill." I quickly jumped from where we were towards a different area.
"Don't jump away all of a sudden!" Silica tried to command me but decided it was futile and started following me.
"I know, I know." I repeatedly responded as I disappeared from her sight.
"K-Koyero?" She looked around looking for me. "Don't tell me that you're planning to take advantage of this situation!"
"Boo!" I snuck behind her and tried to scare her, resulting to a slap from her since she got startled.
"That hurt…" I rubbed my cheek in pain.
"It's your fault for startling me like that!" She shouted in relief since she probably thought that I was a monster. "I was just checking your reaction time, hehe…" I chuckled softly.
"Let's just go…" She sighed in embarrassment.
"Hai, Silica-chan!" I obliged to her command as we began walking around the floor cautiously.
We only saw minor monsters like a Drill Leach (I hate those things!), a horde of goblins and some of those lion/human creatures. Anyways, as we were walking, we saw another monster. I was about to charge towards it but Silica pulled my arm which made me stop. Instead, I checked the monster's level. Level 73?! Why are there over-leveled monsters these days? I unsheathed my Zweihander while Silica wielded her dagger. We crept slowly behind it but it seemed to have noticed our presence since he tried to slash us with a broadsword. A monster with a sword? This should be fun.
The monster was 7 feet tall while its sword was 9 feet long; the monster looked like the combination of a grizzly bear, tiger and human (since it has a sword). I'll call the monster… Grizzly! Nah… I'll call it monster. The monster seemed to wait for us to attack it; it was going around us with its sword up high. I took a step forward and did something weird… I don't know why, I just wanted to test it.
"You monster shall face my wrath! I am… Koyero!" I announced as I changed all my armor into white chain mail armor, also my cloak became white and my weapon, my Zweihander became a normal long sword. "I can't think of a good hero name though…" I gave a crooked grin but that still didn't stop making me look at myself in disappointment.
"What the hell are you doing?!" She shuddered as she saw me acting like this that it even prompted Pina to fly back to Silica's arm, creeped out. "Are you even serious at this time?!"
"You shall tremble before my…" I got interrupted by the hard merciless pummel from the punch of the monster.
"Here we go again…" Silica sighed as she once again snuck behind the monster and slashed it with her dagger although it was just very few damage. The monster seemed agitated since I saw smoke coming from its nose
"Silica, run!" I commanded since I knew that the monster was going to attack her while I tried to struggle free out of the ground.
"Rarr!" The monster began attacking Silica with its sword. Good thing that she was fast and agile, if she wasn't… let's just say her life will end in seconds…
After about 24 seconds of struggling I finally went out of the ground and went towards that monster. "Hey!" I got the attention of the monster.
"What are you doing?!" Silica made Pina heal me while she jumped, dodged and ducked from the relentless attacks from Grizzly… I mean monster.
"Oh, can't you catch me?" I taunted the monster with an unnecessary taunting gesture.
"RARR!" The monster fumed as it ran towards and jumped at me with its blade aimed at my skull.
"Try this one for size!" I crouched as it jumped and stabbed the monster on its… let's go with belly. The monster roared in pain and looked at me with the, 'I'm going to kill you' expression. "Ahh… Switch!" I shouted as Silica jumped on my back and did a slash from above. The monster's HP so far was still early yellow so we have lots of damaging to do.
"My back hurts!" I complained.
"It was your idea." She countered with a somewhat fact.
"Did you really have to jump hard on my back?" I protested.
"For a higher jump, yes. I had to do it so that I could deal extra damage." She directed her attention to the monster after the argument and so did I.
"You still treated me like a trampoline…" I pointed it out, quite pissed as I stared at the monster.
"I wonder, what is her cup size?" I mumbled to myself.
"What are you thinking of?! Focus!" Silica called me out then I snapped out of it.
"Gomenosai!" I apologized as I came back to my senses.
"Switch!" Silica said as she swiftly appeared behind me and pushed me giving me a boost start.
Judging by my studies when I was still in the real world, momentum will increase if an opposing force will push you to the same direction and so I knew what was going to be my next attack and it wasn't going to end well for the monster at all…
"Phantom Charge!" I yelled as I successfully hit the monster with my move.
"Grr…" The monster bellowed with about 5 HP left.
"I'll let you finish this, Silica-chan! Switch!" I threw her at the monster as she stabbed it with all her might. The monster was now dead and disappeared into digital particles. In my observation, Silica-chan seemed to acquire a new item. It seems she got a bracelet of some sort.
After a few hours of training…
I got 2 levels up while Silica got 3 levels up. I'm getting closer and closer to my goal… but for now I think I have to finish what I started with Kirito, what I mean is, training. I said this like a million times already: "I want to be in the frontlines." since I wanted to not make the deaths of my comrades be in vain. Anyway I had to tell Silica before I left so I went to her.
The reason for my numerous level ups is that I kept going for the higher leveled monsters and defeat them… In some cases, I even attempt to defeat higher level ones that are stronger than me. My continuous training with Silica-chan proved great for my level. I went up two levels since my first level up bar was already about to level up.
"Silica-chan! I have to go somewhere!" I yelled out cheerfully.
"To where?" She gazed at me, confused.
"To Kirito's place!" I answered while saluting like some kind of military officer.
"Ok then… I'll just go to the inn. Meet me there when you're done." Silica nodded then started walking away.
"Bye!" I waved as she was walking away. I'm getting quite close to Silica-chan even if we had a bad start but now I'm thankful for that start and the second chance that she gave me. She was the Beast Taming Idol in here but I see her just like everybody else… I'm not planning to be popular but all I want are new allies… or friends if you put it that way…
I went to the closest teleportation area which was just north from here through the trees so I charged my way through numerous perennial trees and shrubs and traversed through the game's forest with no scratch on me... except from that thorn bush I went through. I used the teleportation area and teleported to Floor 22.
At floor 22…
I was walking towards the house of Kirito and Asuna, it's a beautiful wooden house and you could just see that vast lake easily. Ahh… how romantic can they get? Anyway I went to their door and knocked, no one answered. I knocked again and again but still no answer. I was about to kick the door until I finally heard a voice (I would have regretted kicking the door later anyway with an angry Asuna lecturing me like she always did whenever I commit mischief).
"I'm busy… come back later…" I heard a faint voice from Kirito. Is he doing what I think he's doing?!
"When will I come back?" I knocked.
"Come back in 1 hour. I'm busy preparing for the expedition for Floor 76." Kirito responded and stopped speaking.
"O-kay?" I muttered as I walked away from their house.
What should I do now? … Maybe I should train… unsupervised… That's a great idea! I ran towards a teleportation area and teleported to… floor 76. No one went here yet so I think I shall take the first look. It seemed calming and friendly after I left the Safety area. The trees looked old but sturdy while the sky was healthy blue with no sign of pollution… what a heartwarming floor this is…
After 5 minutes of walking I saw something. I hid behind a tree and took a peek. It was a Skeletal Dragon?! Level 85?!
I would be at a major disadvantage if I engaged battle with it… but if I do engage…. I might get some levels… I know! I'll just use the Teleport crystal when I'm doomed. That's decided… Time to RUN! Wait… I mean fight… I jumped away from the tree and engaged in battle while it wasn't looking.
"Taste this!" I shouted as I slashed at it but it didn't give any good results since it only chipped away such a small portion of HP.
"…" The dragon was silent, it seemed that it didn't mind that low damage slash I gave… It seemed uninterested and just continued with its business. I refused to let it be, which is probably the worst decision I have ever made. The dragon then decided to attack me after I taunted it. It flew high in the sky to attempt to hit me from above. I barely dodged its hit and tried to use my skill.
"Phantom Charge!" I charged at the dragon but it just parried by swiping me with its rough tail, knocking me back across some trees. I managed to stand but my HP was now in mid-yellow. That was fast!
After a few minutes of dodging and clashing, I just gave it 500 damage. I guess it was a wrong decision to fight… I was going to use the crystal but it swatted it out of my hand and it disappeared. Shit… this is getting worse every minute… I tried running but it just flew in front of me. Is this how it all ends? Nah… too short… I used Phantom Charge to go through it and continued running.
It was useless; it just kept doing the same thing. I tried hitting it but it just keeps flying. What should I do? I think I'll try this thing I did when I played a different game. I knelt down and groveled for mercy, it seemed to work so I decided to start running but as I took 1 step, I felt something sharp… I saw digital blood flowing all over me. W-What just happened?
End of chapter 2
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Next Chapter: Some Training and the mysterious floor 76