(A/N I have many people I want to thank for helping me make this story as good as it's been so far . While I have no beta and check my work myself the support of my reviewers and feedback they have given has been encouraging, but other than that I'd also like to thank the other fanfiction writers. By reading their works I've been exposed to many styles of writing allowing me to incorporate them into my own. While I can't pretend to be a particularly skilled writer I feel that my time on fanfiction has made me better than I would have been. Thanks Everyone!)

The next two weeks went by in a blur in which Kirito spent grinding and familiarizing himself with skills and weakness of his new teammates. In the course of the week they mapped around a fourth of the dudgeon themselves as well as completing several quests. In addition all the members of Kirito's group started to buy all their armor and cloth's in black, when Kirito asked why they all replied "no reason". As it turned out they had achieved a minor celebrity status, Well Agil, Kirito and the girls anyway, but much to their horror though it was generally assumed amongst the population that Klein and his crew were just cannon fodder for the rest of them. And so along with grinding Klein and his crew went out of their way to look impressive when any people passed by in order to boost up their rep. Somehow though the rumor started up that Kirito was a prince from a foreign country that had got caught up in the game. When Kirito asked Argo about this suspiciously she said innocently

"I'm sorry Ki-bou but the rumor is too ingrained in people's minds there is nothing I can do about it now"

To which he replied "… did you do this…" in an annoyed voice.

"I don't know what you're talking about ki-bou I'm completely innocent." She had replied angelically

"If don't stop this I tell all the other information brokers that Argo's famous information network sell's false information" Kirito deadpanned

Argo replied nervously "you wouldn't"

"I would "

"Hmph" Argo said with annoyance "fine I'll look into oppressing it"

"Good" Kirito replied triumphantly

"But don't think you'll get away with this ki-bou" she said evilly as she walked away to which Kirito shivered.

The next morning the group got together splitting into 2 parties of five and one party of 4 then then set off into the dudgeon and continued mapping. After around an hour Kirito's party (the one with only 4 four) discovered a door. It only took Kirito a second to confirm that it was the boss door and he quickly shot off messages to the other party leaders. After around twenty minutes they caught up to Kirito.

"What's up kiri…." Sinon stopped mid-sentence noticing the door behind him "that's!?"

"Yup" Kirito replied "the boss door."

Agil looked at Kirito "are we going to go for it?"

"That why I called you hear I wanted to hear your opinions on the matter." Kirito replied pausing before continuing "on one hand we're over leveled well equipped and all of you have great deal of skill." He said assessing their strength's "but it's still a boss"

"But you soloed the first one!" Klein complained "With all of here it shouldn't be too hard"

"The reason I could solo the first one was that it was a boss type that was aimed to defeat tanks and heavier build swordsman" Kirito explained "therefore it was weak against agility types and with the addition of my high defense and attack It was fairly easy to defeat." Kirito continued "but even then it took out around a third of my health in one hit. The only reason I won was because it didn't have the chance to hit me."

"You forgot to mention your overkill reflexes Kirito" Sinon reminded him smirking slightly

"Well that too" Kirito said laughing slightly before continuing "what I'm saying is that my fight with the boss was a lot closer than it looked"

"What is the boss for this floor anyway" silica asked "I didn't fight this one in the beta."

"It's a giant spider mom called the crawler" Argo replied "if you cut off all of its legs its helpless for around a minute while it regenerates. Its attack are the pinchers on its mouth as well as an acid web like substance that it shoots from its mouth in addition it uses its legs to try and gut you." Argo explained

At this silica looked nervous "s-spider!?"

"Yup it's like 12 feet tall or something and has a bunch smaller spiders as guards" Argo replied flippantly not noticing the borderline terror on the younger girls face until Asuna nudged her and pointed at the now shaking Silica. "Ahh I mean it's not really that bad silica it's just um ... a pest?" she said attempting to correct her mistake, and failing miserably. Instead it was Kirito who salvaged the situation; walking up to silica he put his hand on the top of her head comfortingly

"It's okay silica we don't have to fight it, we could even just skip this boss fight if you want." He said kindly

Silica looked slightly red but put on a determined face "N-no I'm fine it just I'm a bit nervous" it was apparent to the rest of them that she did not want to disappoint Kirito of course this went straight over his head.

Kirito smiled and said "You sure?" when she nodded he continued "you have nothing to worry about everyone is looking out for you including me so if you need help just ask." Kirito looked around at the rest of the group and said smirking "Is everyone ready to go!?" he was met with a cheer from the rest of his group

"What's the plan?" Sinon asked

"Simple" Kirito said "I keep the boss distracted while you guys deal with its guards, once you've finished them off we just simply surround the boss with swordsmen one to each leg." Kirito explained "then we'll quickly bring in the big hitters to deal some heavy damage once it's down. In addition though go for the eyes when it's still standing Sinon" Kirito added looking at the resident markswomen "I'm not sure if it will blind it or anything but it should at least deal some good damage." At this Sinon nodded

"Got it" she agreed

"Asuna when we knock out the legs stab it in the eyes with a sword skill until it regenerates" Kirito continued "I'll attack it from the back with my sword skills. After around 55 seconds retreated and get ready for the legs to regenerate, before repeating the process if anything else comes up let's improvise."

They all looked at him strangely and Argo asked questioningly "Are you sure you're anti-social? Cause it seems like you've done this before, like a lot" to this Kirito looked slightly embarrassed of course the reason behind this was for a while he'd been obsessed with strategy games and playing only 2 or 3 hours a day gotten into the top ten in 3 different real –time strategy games not that he'd ever admit it he could be a perfect nerd if he tried, not of course mentioning the fact that he'd already skipped 3 grades in school.

"Ahh beginners luck?" He replied half-heartedly of course everyone just kept looking at him with neutral faces.

"Right" Sinon said breaking the silence "anyways let's go"

Kirito glad they had moved on from the awkward subject lead the group forward and into the boss room. "Let's do this!" he shouted generically dashing forward at the boss as it spawned while the rest of his group attack the spider mobs filling the room. The spider stabbed out one of its leg's at Kirito dodging swiftly he jump on the leg running quickly up it while dragging his sword behind him making a giant gash in the monster's leg. He then jumps onto its main body slashing and using weak zero cool-down sword skills and regular unguided slashes. With the high dmg rate of his blade (now level 11) and his extremely agile character (level 26) he quickly cut through part of the boss's first health bar dealing about 30% damage to it by the time his teammates had dealt with half the weak spider mobs. At this point the spider began shaking itself try to rid itself of the nuisance on its back as the last of the spider mobs was destroyed it managed to knock the swordsman off of course it only had 50% left of it first health bar meaning around 1/8 of its total health was gone while Kirito's group barely had any damage on them at all their hp bars all around 95% with plenty of healing items in reserve

"Second phase go!" Kirito shouted as he rolled onto the ground after being thrown off. The members of the party Fuurinkazan charged forward each taking on the spider's legs while Sinon began firing arrow after arrow and the boss's many eyes, as the first barrage connected the monster let out a cry of anguish as a respectable slice of hp was cast into oblivion. The attack to the legs were considerable less effected damage wise but after a couple minutes of dodging a slashing they were rewarded well as the boss came crashing down. With this the heavy hitter's consisting of Asuna, Kirito, Agil and Yukki Dashed forward. Agil swinging down his heavy war hammer on the monsters side Yukki slicing open the opposite side with her quick and deadly attacks Asuna stabbing repeatedly in the monsters face and Kirito mauling the monster with his demonic sword skills. The monster health dropped rapidly and by the time they retreated as it regrew its legs it was on its last health bar it was then that things started to get a bit hairy as the spider let out a blood curdling screech and more of the smaller spiders began crawling from the ceiling towards Kirito's group.

"Let's finish this quick" Kirito yelled urgently charging forwards towards the boss sword beginning to burn in dark flames. "Hellfire surge!" Kirito cried jumping towards the boss's face the sword skilled collided violent with the boss before Kirito jumped back and froze from the cool down. "Finish it off quickly" Kirito cried as it only had a sliver of health left in its final health bar. The army of spiders began to surround them and more were coming. His cry was answered by Sinon who charging a skill with her crossbow.

"Eat this you bastard" she shouted firing a glowing blue bolt directly at the monster's eye's it collided with a bright light and the monster shattered with a final death screech. As soon as the boss was destroy the other spiders all cried out in pain a shattered into polygons. Kirito's entire group froze for a second before breaking out it cheer!

"We did it!" Asuna cried excitedly

"Let's see them call us cannon fodder now" Fuurinkazan cried out as one

"Take that you damn spiders!" Silica cried causing everyone to pause and look at the normally quiet 12 year old who blushed heavily.

For a second there was silence before everyone burst out laughing and agreeing with Silica. During this time only Sinon had been quiet looking at a screen on her menu. Kirito walked up behind her and put a hand on her shoulder causing her to jump "Waa!" she said surprised

At this Kirito just smiled and asked "what did you get as the last drop?!"

The rest of the group looked at her expectantly

"A blackwood crossbow" she replied happily

"Nice!" Kirito responded "go on equip it!"

Sinon complied looking through her inventory her old crossbow vanished replaced with a new one the wood was very smooth and a dark black color, the string looked pale white and smooth, Kirito realized it had the same texture as spider silk there also appeared to be a small scope on the weapon as well as what looked like 2 bayonets sticking out of the front one on each side of the place where the arrow was placed

Smirking Kirito said "two down 98 to go, let's go activate the next city portal maybe I'll get to verbally beat the crap out of kiboau or however the hell you pronounce his name.

Argo looked at Kirito "you seriously forgot how to pronounce his name?"

To this Kirito smiles and says cheerfully "I got better things to waste my brain cells on than him." Argo snorted shaking her head while the rest of the group burst out laughing.

(A/N: it's not that Kirito actually forgot it's that I forgot lol and I'm too lazy to look it up lol anyway hope you enjoyed the chapter.)