(A/n I don't know the environment of most of the floor of Aincraid as such I'm going to make a lot of them up. There is going to be a larger time skip quite soon so don't worry about having to read up all 75 floors lol I'm not that patient. On another note the reason I said Kirito skipped three grades was because if you think about it when Yui was being erased he just walked up the console and freakin hacked the thing creating an entity and copying a complex code in like half a minute. Add to the fact he hasn't seen a compute console in like 2 years meaning he must have known how to hack like a pro at the age of 14 and have been common enough with it to remember it after 2 years. sorry for not updating last weekend i was throwing up my guts for the majority of it hence i didn't have time to write (-~-)

It only took around 2 more weeks for the third floor to be cleared. This time Kibaou and his flunkies had been the ones to find the boss. Unfortunately for them when he and his men attempted to defeat it themselves they suffered horrendous causalities out of his 50 men 22 were killed in the boss fight, so while in the end they had cleared the floor they were not elevated to the same status as Kirito and his group. Kirito and his group were currently traversing the forested and mountainous terrain of the 4th floor.

"It should be around here." Argo said looking at her map intently

I looked at her skeptically and asked "where did you get this information again?"

"Don't look at me like that it's better than just wandering around aimlessly" she said annoyed

"No actually" Kirito explained "if we limit our search to somewhere it is not then in becomes impossible to find as compared to really difficult" he finished, murdering Argo's logic.

"Shut up" she said pouting.

Kirito smirked "I'm only joking it's probably around here somewhere." He opened his mouth to continue when a voice called out

"Kirito! Argo! We found it!" they looked up to see a girl with long flowing chestnut brown hair and hazel eyes running towards them.

"Where is it?" Kirito replied grinning at the approaching Asuna

Asuna hesitated for a moment before blushing and grabbing Kirito's hand and pulling him after her "this way".

Argo meanwhile was left in the dust she then frowned and said in a quiet voice "well played Asuna, well played, but don't think this is the end" Before running after their retreating backs.

"It's this way Kirito" Asuna said pulling him along through the forest suddenly she took a slight detour in a cave that was hidden behind a large boulder.

"What about Argo?" Kirito asked as he was pulled along against his will.

Asuna shrugged indifferently and said "she has her tracking skill, not to mention she has her friend's list locator"

"What if she gets attacked by a pker or something" Kirito continued still worried

"What pker could take out a member of our guild at this point?" Asuna pointed out determined to have some alone time with the dark haired youth.

"true" Kirito conceited, their newly formed guild was known as the a group of the most premier clearers of SAO and was respected by many and feared by anyone who did not fit the former, even though they had not cleared the 3rd floor that had still contributed a great deal of mapping data. In addition to this on the last floor they had lead the capture of a small pk guild known as The Fallen. Although there had only been around 15 members in the guild Kirito had stated that it was best to crush this kind of thing early before it developed too far.

"Um Kirito" Asuna said blushing and looking away "I have a question"

"What's up?" Kirito asked a lopsided smile on his face

"Uhh… well you see … w-will… will you go" Asuna started shakily her face turning red only to be interrupted by an excitable voice

"Ki-bou~" a singsong voice called out as Kirito felt something or rather someone press into his back hugging him from behind.

"Argo" Kirito said simply, over the course of the last 3 weeks Kirito had rapidly grown immune to Argo's method of greeting, to say the least, although it still made the other girls grind their teeth in annoyance. Sinon especially had been tempted to break her normal tough girl personage once and a while but ultimately became too nervous to do so. Kirito of course was blissfully unaware of the war over him going on behind his back.

This was mainly due to the fact that the girls had agreed that it would stay off the battle field. And while Kirito was indeed smart the complex algorithms that makes up the female personality was beyond even the most intelligent of genii. (A/N that's the plural form of genius). This of course frustrated the girls as they were nervous to bring it up fearing they would unbalance Kirito and end up getting him killed due to his emotional unbalance, or so they rationalized to themselves anyway. The few times one of the girls had been able to begin a confession the mood was ruined when another of the girls happened to show up.

This cycle had repeated itself for the last 2 weeks it was quiet amazing and depressing to the other guys in the group. They half marveled and how he had them all wrapped around his finger and didn't even realize it in the slightest. One the other hand they were horrifyingly depressed at how it seemed to be that he was able to pick any girl he wanted as his girlfriend inside and outside the guild if he had been away and interested. All the girls they met were throwing themselves at the charismatic young warrior. Kirito again was clueless of the situation and yet he continued to lure in more and more girls. In the 3 weeks since the clearing of the first floor it was estimated that around 53% of the girls in Aincraid were pursuing him. Although unbeknown to Kirito and his guild a lesser number of these girls numbering approximately 23 had created a guild with the sole purpose of seducing him know as the Cult of Kirito. Another statistic that Kirito would not have been happy to know was that approximately 5% of the male population was after him too. (A/N I've got nothing against gays btw).

Kirito and his guild were currently attempting to locate the mansion he had won in the last of his solo quests. As it turned out it was in a very secluded location in the mountains and despite the difficulty they had so far had in finding it Kirito was secretly grateful for this. As Asuna led him and Argo through the forested area they walked into what appeared to be a dead end. The narrow path was barley visible between to mountains but they found Sinon and the rest of the group waiting for them there.

"Kirito it's this way" Sinon called out gesturing ahead to the gate that was a few feet down the thin path. There was a large stone battlement around 7 feet across blocking the path completely with a reinforced wooden door in the center strips of rusted metal running across the front of the door. The battlement its self-looked rather worn and as Kirito walked up to the battlement he hit it with is sword to his surprise a health bar came up .

Stone battlement Lv1: HP 70,765/200,000

"Well the guard said that it was a bit worn." Kirito said sadly "we're going to need to recruit someone to help fortify the base" Kirito said manipulating his inventory. "Argo, Can you get on that?"

"Got it ki-bou" she replied opening her own menu and beginning to prepare various messages to send once they were back in a 'safe zone'.

Materializing the key to the door Kirito fit it into the lock as he turned the key the door clicked and the key shattered and a popup window appear 'you now own this building'. Smirking Kirito quickly switch the access to guild only and closed his menu. Peeking through the door it revealed that the battlement was little more that guard house. Walking through to the other side Kirito pulled open the door in the back. As the door to the front was closed by Argo the 'safe zone' status popped up on their screen.

Kirito exited the back of the guard house and nearly tripped, in front of him was a massive building. It looked a mix between a European medieval castle and mansion. It was rather large as well with its back to a face of sheer rock it had a front yard of around 6-7 acres the building itself was around 60 feet tall and the front wall looked to be anywhere between 200 and 300 feet across. The first 10 feet up was fortified stone but as it grew taller it became more house like there was an open iron gate acting as the door of the building.

Like the guard house the entire building look rather worn and old. examining the yard carefully Kirito noticed several burned out buildings that look like they had served various purposes in the past. There was what looks like it had been a forge as well as a falling apart mill next to a fenced in field that took up around 2 acres of the yard and was overgrown with weeds. Farming was an uncommon skill in Sao due to the fact that it required large amounts of land and patience as it took around 3-4 days for the plants to grow. There were a few other buildings that Kirito couldn't identify

"Argo," Kirito said breathlessly while looking around "we going to need more than one person."