(A/n rewrite as of 7/28/13)
Kirito exited the dudgeon and looked around; breathing in the fresh air of the heavily forested second floor he smirked and then strode off purposefully. He was met with a paltry resistance of various aggressive type monsters known as kobold remnants they were split into several classes like soldiers, rangers, and thieves amongst other things. The monsters were only level 14 and were easily massacred by his demon sword. After 2 hours of lazy walking (and murdering monsters) he saw the gates in the distance, the second floor home city.
He approached the gate and saw that it was under siege by Kobolds. Sensing a quest Kirito charged forward to assist the city guards. He sliced through the weak monsters attacking them with relative ease destroying them all in a matter of minutes. As the last one shattered under his assault he heard a ragged cheer erupt out of the guards. One, who looked like an officer of some type, approached Kirito and began speak "Thank you stranger that was amazing fighting we…" The guard was cut off by a rage filled roar from behind Kirito.
Spinning on his heel and drawing his blade he found himself faced with a force 50 kobolds but that was not what made him nervous. What made him nervous was the one leading them. It was a massive monster almost as tall as the last floors boss and had a lot more guards; its caption read Kalfang the kobold prince.
From a glance Kirito could tell that this was a miniboss and should probably be easier than the first floor's boss, but despite this he didn't know its combat pattern. He had fought the floor one boss armed with his beta knowledge and such this boss was a bit of a wild card. He wasn't too worried though as he had more than high enough stats to defeat it as long as he wasn't reckless.
"Stranger," the guard called from next to him "please help us protect our city from this menace, we will reward you for your help." the man pleaded "got it" Kirito replied accepting the quest with his eyes still on the enemy. Breathing deeply Kirito dashed forward unleashing a sword skill on the kobold forces; he then proceeded to decimate the kobold's front lines using his AOE attack skills. The city guards charged behind him protecting his flanks from the kobold forces. Blocking a kobold's strike with his sword he stabbed its unprotected stomach with a sword skill using his off-hand dagger.
He must have hit a weak point because it shattered instantly in a flash of polygons. He then moved his sword forward in a vertical slash killing the kobold behind the one he had just killed. Dashing forward he slashed horizontally with a powerful swords skill that blasted back the front line of the kobold force and killed a few. The city guards advanced around him protecting him from the kobolds while the sword skill cooled down.
As soon as it finished he returned to the front of the fight, slashing down kobolds left and right. The kobold prince whom had been hovering near the back roared in rage as the last of his kobold guards fell. He then started to move forwards causing most of the guards to take a few steps back. And one called out in a panicky "we can't win! Oh god!" the line of guards looked close to breaking so Kirito called out "leave this to me" before surging forward and preparing a massive sword skill his blade once again glowing in black and red fire "HELLFIRE SURGE" he yelled while jumping into the air. The sword skill collided directly with the miniboss's chest causing it to stumble backwards from the powerful hit its health bar dropping.
The monster only had two health bars and with that hit the first one depleted to around 50%. Jumping backwards Kirito prepared to dodge the boss's counter attack as soon as his cool down time was up. The boss drew a violent looking chain mace and started twirling it ominously. Shit I Can't block that Kirito thought, dodging only I guess.
His cool down ended and he dashed forward attempting to avoid the miniboss's attack by ducking under the giant weapon. He succeeded, but only barely, as he had felt something brush past his head and his HP dropped a few points. As the weapon slammed into the ground behind him, he continued forward, jumping he then kicked off of the monster's leg and flew towards its unprotected face sword skill charging.
An hour and a half earlier outside the first boss room-
"Over here!" Argo called loudly to the approaching group waving her hand
"Argo you said you found a strong player for our guild right? Well once we make it to the 4th floor anyways" one of the people in the approaching party called. The person who had called was an aqua blue haired girl with a repeater crossbow strung across her back she wore a simple set of leather armor and had a magnifying glass of some type hanging from her hip as well as a small short sword for close quarters combat "where is he?" she continued
Argo smiled before replying "we haven't exactly talked to him yet but…"
"Then why did you call us out here? I don't care how good he is why do we have to run through several miles of dudgeon to talk to one person who might join our guild! Why the hell didn't you talk to..." the aqua haired girl exploded
"Follow me and I'll show you why" Argo said confidently whirling around and walking around the corner towards the boss door.
"Where are we going?" one of the other people in the new party asked, she was short in comparison to the others, her hair was done in a twin pony tail with a sword on her back and a small shield strapped to her arm. As soon as she walked around the corner she stopped in shock.
"What's up Silica?" The aqua haired girl walked around the corner "is there something… around the corner!? She said breaking mid-sentence in shock. "That's…"
"That's right Sinon the boss door" Argo said in a superior tone.
"We should go back and gather a bigger party for this" Sinon said still in shock.
"No need" Argo replied walking through the boss room door.
"Argo wait don't you'll trigger the… boss?" Sinon said voice faltering at the end when Argo walked unopposed through the room. "What!? But how?" Sinon cried out in amazement.
"That player who mightjoin our guild," Argo stated in a confident tone and pausing for affect "just soloed the boss an hour ago; if you don't believe me then you can check with Klein or even Asuna, they'll back me up."
The arriving party stared expectantly at the two whom had been standing a bit off to the side for the last few minutes. And then to their amazement the two looked at them before Asuna replied "it's true, it was unlike anything I've ever seen MMO wise (a/n in this story Asuna was a beta tester as well as the other members of Kirito's harem and the other members of his soon to be guild.)his reaction times were off the charts."
The group exploded into chaos "we have to recruit him!" "Shit lets go can't let someone else recruit him!"
"He soloed a boss!?" these and other various comments shot out rapidly from the new group.
"QUIET!" a deep loud voice called out over the shouts which quickly ceased "Argo how long ago did he leave"
"He left around 5 minutes before I messaged you Agil." Argo replied
"Then let's go" the large man known as Agil shouted receiving a general consensus from the 12 other players in the group including Argo, Asuna, and Klein
The group set off through into the caves behind the boss room.
-Present-
The sword skill hit the boss's face directly demolishing the rest of the hit points in its first bar of health and leaving the second at 95%. As soon as he landed he was frozen and was forced to watch as the monster prepared to maul him at the last second Kirito regained control dashing forward he blocked the horizontal swing of the chain mace by sticking his sword up in the middle of the chain.
The mace swung around and the unruly weapon turned on its owner slamming into the monster's face at the end of its deadly arc. The monster's health was further reduced to around 75%. Kirito couldn't resisted as he charge forward he taunted "Why are you hitting yourself?" before landing a few more sword skills on the unbalanced boss causing it to topple over the mace flying through the air and landing on its stomach. With only 20% of health left in the monster health bar Kirito decided to go for a theatrical execution.
Running up a nearby tree Kirito let go off his blade causing the unbalanced weapon to fall blade down. As he reach a thick branch he quickly reversed his body jumping downwards towards the ground with all his might, adjusting himself in midair to be facing feet down he timed himself correctly as he kicked out and his foot hit the blade a second before it landed in the monster's face. The blade pierced through the monsters head easily with Kirito's added weight and momentum forcing it down to the hilt.
The damage a regular hit dealt was directly related to the amount of force behind the blade which caused a multiplier effect with the sword's regular damage. With the force of him dropping more than twenty feet with added velocity added from him kicking off added to the fact it was a headshot, the strike dealt massive damage.
The monster shattered and Kirito jumped down picking up his blade. That was kick ass Kirito thought too bad no one saw that, well actually that would be bad with all the shouts of "Beater! Beater! XP eater!" He still didn't know how that retarded chant had started up but it was a constant annoyance.
"Holy shit!" a voice called out from behind him follow by several others' that appeared to be in agreement. Kirito internally sighed, speak of the devil and he shall come running.
-10 Minutes earlier-
"The footprints lead in this direction." Argo said using her tracking skill to follow the faded footprints
"So Argo you said you know this person?" Sinon asked the excitable girl
"If he's who I think he is, and I'm pretty sure, then yes he was one of 2 friend friends on my friends list in the beta." The girl replied excitedly.
"Friend friends on your friends list?" Klein said confused.
"Yeah like people who aren't just contacts or people trying to get free information." She replied "the other being Asuna here but that was only in the last week and she never met kii-bou" Argo finished
"Is that his real name" Sinon asked skeptically
"No his full name is Kirito but kii-bou is much more fitting" Argo replied sagely
"Why?" Sinon asked
Well…"Argo started "it just is okay" she said haughtily.
"….." the rest of the group remained silent.
Argo was about to defend herself when the group heard combat in the distance. Running off the path and up a hill Argo and co (A/N hey it rhymes =)) arrived just in time to see a black clad swordsman charge into a group of kobolds attacking some guards at a giant gate. He slashed through the ranks of the kobolds like they weren't even there leaving the rest of Argo's group to watch in awe. The player appeared to be talking to the guard captain when something caught Argo's eye a giant figure that looked like a miniboss and a huge number of kobolds. The rest group barring Argo Asuna and Klein tensed to run in to help.
"Wait" Argo called out "just watch" and true to her words the black clad player dashed forward slaughtering most of the kobold's front line with a devastating sword skill. He then, while being supported slightly by the city guards, tore through the unorganized kobolds. Someone in Argo's group got up and started walking towards the battle "hey what are you doing?" Argo called out
"Getting a better seat" the awed player responded and continued walking, the rest of the group, including Argo followed suit.
Once they stopped moving they saw the black swordsman dash forward sword burning black and red fire. In a powerful voice he yelled "HELLFIRE SURGE" while jumping at the boss. To the amazement of his observers the sword skill dealt amazing damage to the boss shaving of more than a forth of his total health. The swordsman then adopted a ready stance preparing to counter attack swiftly avoiding the boss's attack then using its own knee as a kick stand to deal devastating damage to the boss. Before jumping back and freezing with due to cool down time.
The players in Argo's gasped as the monsters weapon (a brutal chain mace) swung horizontally towards the player. And to the amazement of the group the player dashed forward redirecting the giant ball of iron by blocking the chains movement and causing the ball of Death (A/N YAY!) to come hurdling back at the miniboss damaging its health, but the black clad swordsman wasn't done yet with a shout of "why are you hitting yourself?", to the amusement of the spectators. He then struck the boss causing it to fall over in a daze. Then to the confusion of the players he started to run up a tree
Argo whisper in a singsong voice "Theatrical execution hmm nice touch" the rest of the group shot her confused looked before returning their attention to the battle. They watched in awe as the player dropped his sword and then jumped towards the ground landing on the pommel of his blade forcing it through the skull of the boss as he landed the swordsman's coat and hair billowed epically in the wind. He then jump off and grabbed the blade swiftly.
"Holy shit" Sinon said airily and was soon follow by several other comments relating to the ridiculously overkill skillzz (with a zz) of the black swordsman. Said player then tensed at the sound of the voices behind him.
Argo thought she might have just barely heard the word "shit" muttered by the player under his breath. She then got a good look at his face and then took a slight risk shouting out in a singsong voice at the top of her lungs. "Kiii-bbooouuu!"