Chapter 13

January 4th 2023, floor 8, outside Snowfall Village 4:28 pm

"Master Mizore, can we get something to eat?" Death asks.

"Is food all you think about Death?" I ask back.

"No that's not all I think about! She caws. "But I'm still hungry?"

"Okay Death fine, I'll get you something to eat."

I start walking to the town, when I get attacked by a monster. I Turn to come face to face with a yeti . It swipes its' claws at me. I block it with my scythe. As his claws hit my scythe I hear a sound, a cracking noise. It was my scythe's handle that was cracking. I all can think is "damn it my Reaper's scythe." I quickly shift my weight and the blade stabs the yeti paralyzing it. My scythe still and some of my paralysis poison on it. My scythe blade snaps off as I pull it out. It shatters into a million pieces. I guess I will have to get a new scythe. The only problem with that is that scythes are hard to come by in SAO. I will need to find blacksmith to make one. I run away before the paralysis on the yeti wears off.

"I can give 5,000 col for all this stuff Mizore."

"Okay thanks Agil, oh by the way Agil. Do u know of any good blacksmiths? Cause I kinda broke my my scythe."

Agil just laughs. "You know I know just the place to go. I hear there is a new Blacksmith in SAO. She is a player not an NPC. Word is all the weapons she makes are extremely high quality. From what I heard is she has pink hair. She was working from a small stall somewhere in the town."

"Wow Agil thanks for the info. I will look into it, thanks again."

"My pleasure Mizore, and do come again." Agil replies.

I start looking around when a box pops up. It reads "You have a message." I click to open the message and read it . The message reads "Mizore the Reaper, meet me outside the town. I will on the north side at 3 am, Come alone." The message was from a player named Johnny black. I figure That I would see what this guy wanted. I close the message box and keep looking for the blacksmith girl. I eventually found a her at a small stall on the West side of the market.

"Exsuse me, but are you a blacksmith girl I heard so much about? " I ask.

She turns to me and smiles. "Yes I'am, hello my name is Lisbeth. Thanks for choosing my blacksmith stall. How may I assist today?"

"Yes I need a special weapon request. Do you make special request weapons?" I reply.

"Yes of course, I do. What would you like me to make for u miss?"

"I need you to make me a scythe please."

She looks at me with a puzzled look. "A scythe, why would you wa- oh my god you're Mizore the reaper. I would be happy to make a scythe for you."

"Just make it out of the strongest metal you have, okay Lisbeth." I reply.

Lisbeth gives me a thumbs up and pulls out metal ignot. The igont is a as black as night. "This is a rare metal I got a hold of, it's called black iron. It's as strong a steele, it the strongest known metal in SAO. I think u will throw in a little silver just to make it look cooler." She takes the black iron and some silver and starts beating them with a hammer. After a moment the metals starts glowing and reforming into a scythe. It stops glowing and lisbeth picks it up. She hands it to me " this is your new scythe. I hope it servers you well, Mizore. If you or your guild ever needs a blacksmith consider useing my shop."

"Thank you very much Lisbeth, You have helped me out greatly. I will definitely consider you in the future. How much do I owe You?"

I walk off and look over my new scythe, it looked awesome. It was mostly all black with some silver in it. It even had a name "Shinigami's Darkfrury." It looks really cool. After a moment or two of admiring Lisbeth's work. I figured I would get some sleep before meeting this Johnny Black guy.

Outside the town, north side 2:59 am

I was now outside waiting for this Johnny Black guy. I brought Saya and Akito with me because I didn't trust this guy. Suddenly I here a strange voice " I said come alone."

"I take your Johnny black then, show your self." I reply

He just laughs in very menacing tone " Yea that's me. You didn't come alone like I said, but oh well. Your gonna duel me, and they are not to interfere. Got it?"

"Okay fine, I accept your duel." I reply as I pull my scythe off my back.

A figure dressed in black wearing black appears from with in the trees. He was wearing an all black cloak and had a black mask. He pulls out a dagger, you can clearly see poison dripping from it. He charges at me, while laughing hysterically. I dodge but he quickly turns and stabs me in the side. Above my health bar appear the little buff shaped like a purple drop, indicating that im poisoned. I swing my scythe around at his side, but he ducks and I miss him. I turn the blade and swing downward and it hits him in the side . He jumps back and laughs, as starts charging at me again. The poison was taking its toll, my health was at 70% now. He activates a sword skill and tries to swing at me. I dodge it and slice him in the back as I activate my critical damage skill. I couldn't see his health so I couldn't tell if I was winning. He swings around and stabs at my face. I try to dodge it but he grazes my cheak. I look at my health it was now at about 45% because of the poison.

He stops and laughs " Look kid ur good, and as much as I would like to kill you, I can't. I'm under orders to not to kill you, my master wants that honor." He throw me a bottle of some kind of liquid. " That's the antidote, to the poison that is slowly killing you. Be a good girl now, Mizore the Reaper. This won't be last you will see of us." He turns and starts running away.

"What was his deal, I wonder?" Saya asks. "Oh my lady, can u really trust that bottle is not more poison?"

I look at here. "Honestly no, but what choice do i have? Either way I would die. So I'm willing to take that chance." I open the bottle an drink it. I look at my health bar and see that the poison is gone. "Guys it worked, the poison is gone. Looks like I'm not dieing today."

"Oh thank kami, glad you're gonna be ok, Mistress Mizore. " Akito says.

"Don't worry Akito, I'm not gonna die that easily. But I do wonder who that guys master is? Why does he want dead, I wonder?"

"Good my lady I'm glad you're okay. Oh by the way where did you get that cool new scythe? It looks something a boss might drop. " Saya asks.

"From a new blacksmith that Agil told me about. She is player, not an npc. Agil said she was the player with the highest blacksmith skill in the game so far. I'll take you to her if you would like. I'm sure she could make you a really cool looking katana."

"Thanks my lady, I'll look forward to that."

"Think she could make a cool looking dagger mistress Mizore?" Akito asks.

"I'm sure she could akito, she is a good blacksmith. I'll take you over to her in the morning. She has a stall set up in town." I pull my menu up and, look at my clock. "Guys I think we should go and get some sleep. It's almost 4 o'clock."