Chapter 6
I don't know how long we kissed, but when we both opened our eyes, the sun was already set. I looked deep into those beautiful eyes and I tried to think of any moment I was as happy as I am now.
We both got distracted when we heard the bell of time telling to make us realize it was already 8PM. We both looked away with a shocked impression on our face. How long did we kiss? When we were almost finished with the sword and it happened, the sun was shining bright into the window.
I looked shocked at the sword. How could I almost forgot about it! She followed my eyes and was as shocked as I am when she noticed the sword. Did she forget about it to? Then she started to laugh.
"I… completely… forgot… about… that." She said between her laughs.
"Me too to be honest." And I started laughing with her.
The sound of her cheerful laugh made me feel warm inside. I never knew 1 girl could have this big of an effect on me. Her voice stopped the thoughts that ran through my mind.
"Have you tried it yet?"
"No not yet. Something came up I had to do first." I don't know why I said that but her red face after hearing my voice was a good enough reason for me.
I looked over to the table at the sword. It had a handle that almost was exact the same as my Exidator, and the blade of the Dark Repulsor. There were different but not by much. I was surprised for a moment because of that.
The different in the handle was the color to begin with. Instead of black it was a nice deep red. And as the handle from the Exidator was connected to the blade with a spike pointing out, this one was almost as a dragon tooth pointing towards the blade. But the blade was almost exactly the same as the Dark Repulsor. They had the same green like color. The only different there was the decoration at the lower part of the blade were instead of the same color as the Dark Repulsor had, blue with in the middle a thin white line. But both swords had on the point that the handle connected with the blade, the same deep green orb. The size and the color were exactly the same.
Because I still looked at the sword without touching it, Lizbeth was starting to worry I think because her voice woke me up from my thoughts.
"Is something wrong?"
"I just find it a bit weird. If I look at the handle, I see my Exidator but a bit different. If I look at the blade I see the Dark Repulsor, also a bit different. And it has the same green orb as my Exidator. It isn't almost the same, no it's exact. And they are kind of on the same place, where the handle is connected to the blade."
She looked at the sword and compared it to my Exidator that laid on the table in the corner. She didn't need to see the Dark Repulsor to compare it too. She made that sword 2 times now, she knows how that one looks like.
"Yeah you right. I have never seen that. Well I have seen it with player build weapons because as a blacksmith, you can put your signature on it, but never with a player build sword and a monster dropped sword."
"Well, to be honest. It won't change the fact why we build it. If the 3 of them are almost the same, it would mean they should go well together right?"
"I guess so." Her voice sounded doubtful. But I believed in it.
I picked on the sword and the moment my hand touched the handle, a warm feeling moved from my hand, through my arm towards my heart. It was the same feeling I felt when we kissed the second time. I felt her hart, filled with love coming from this sword. She looked at me and knew what I felt just now.
"I didn't put my soul into this sword like I always do. I put my hart and feelings into this one. So every time you draw this sword, you will think of me and that it will support you when you fight and that it will bring you back alive."
"With this sword, filled with your hart I will fight even harder to stay alive and to clear this game. With your hart backing me up, I know I can do that."
I opened the menu and put the sword in my inventory. She handed me my Exidator and I hang it on my back. She knew I wasn't going away but wanted to test it hanging on my back as well as drawing it.
With only one thought, the Sentinel Repulsor appeared in its scabbard hanging on the left side of my back. I moved my hands and grabbed both handles and pulled them out right at the same time. The moment both swords were clear from there scabbards, a window opened in front of me.
It wasn't a message or quest. It was the kind of window that would open if you unlocked something. As I looked at it, I've read the text:
Sacred Swords combo confirmed Exidator and Sentinel Repulsor. New Sword Skill for these weapons unlocked: Dragon' Sentinel 29-Hit combo.
"I UNLOCKED WHAT?!" I put the window in show-mode so Lizbeth could see it too.
Her jaw dropped as hard as mine did. I knew there were higher Dual Blade sword skills with more than the 16-hit combo I knew, Starburst Stream. Because I did Dual Blades thanks to my extra skill Sword Birth I could only use around 70% of all sword skills it had. For me Starburst Stream was the highest one. But Kirito, who has the extra skill, told be about some higher sword skills he hasn't tested out yet. He told about a 19-hit combo and because he had almost mastered it like me, I always had the idea that a 19-hit combo was the maximum.
"I think I have to find Kirito. I think he will know more about this then me, because he has the real skill Dual Blades. Yesterday he nearly had mastered it so he can tell me if there are really hit combos of this many hits."
"Yeah that's true, but if there isn't, do you really want to let him know that you have one? And maybe you should put the sword away before anyone sees it." She sounded nervous.
Maybe she was right. But if I really have 2 sacred swords as the messages said, maybe it's even better if I use the Dark Repulsor as my primary then. I was really thinking about switching them when the Exidator in my hand disappeared and weight was added on my right shoulder, the place it is usually in its scabbard before I feel this weight.
"How did you do that? And you haven't told me you could even return a sword to its scabbard that way."
Now I realized what had happened. Because I thought about it, Sword Birth had returned the sword to its scabbard. That's why the weight increased. I grabbed the handle pulled out the sword.
That moment a new message popped up:
Sacred Swords combo confirmed Dark Repulsor and Sentinel Repulsor. New Sword Skill for these weapons unlocked: Dragon Repulsor 25-hit combo.
"Another one?!" I couldn't believe it. I have 2 new high hit combo sword skills thanks to a sword I haven't used. I haven't even swing it left and right or how it handled with lower, easy 1-hit sword skills.
I looked at Lizbeth. She couldn't believe it either. We both stared at each other trying to come up with a logic reason this happened. After 20 minutes, we still had zero.
"This won't help anything. Let's eat first and think about it later." I asked to her.
"It's already close to 9PM so that's a good idea. Do you have an idea where to go?"
"Kirito told me about a nice quite Inn on floor 39. Would you like to try it out?"
"Sure. Let me get ready then." She walked out quickly and I watched again at the new sword.
It didn't took her long to get ready and we enjoyed ourselves at the Inn. We had taken a private table in the corner and talked about a lot of things. And when time past, slowly it turned into a really nice romantic dinner. I look on her face showed that she was truly happy. Mine should show the same because even I felt that way.
It was already past midnight when we went back to her house. Because I thought it would be rude and totally destroy the mood, I waited until right before she went inside to tell her I was planning to visit a dungeon now to try the sword and the skills out. She wasn't happy about it, but understood why I wanted to do it. Only after I promised her to tell her all about it the next day, she kissed me good night and luck and went inside.
While I was walking back to town, I opened the menu and went to the friends list. You could always track befriended players and I pressed on Kirito's name to show his location. He entered a dungeon. It took me 1 hour to reach the dungeon he was in. I decided that it was a good chance to try out the swords, since he should be pretty far in the dungeon by now.
First I tried the Dark Repulsor. It didn't matter what sword skill I activated, they all felt really smooth and sturdy. The sword was perfectly balanced and cut through the monsters as if they were made from paper.
Then I switched to the Sentinel Repulsor. That sword was really something else. Everything I tried to do with it, worked perfectly. It felt really simple and took no problem at all. The sword felt like a part of my body and moved as one. I decided to give it a little harder test next.
A big disadvantage of sword skills is that after a sword skill is completed a short pause is active before you can move again. That means that for a short period you are defenseless. Me and Kirito had talked about it before and both were trying to find the best way to do it: Chaining Sword Skills.
It's just as the name says it is, chaining different sword skills into 1 higher hit combo. The idea behind it is that the ending movement of a sword skill, is the starting point of the next you activate. For example: if you use the sword skill Rush, you start with your sword above your head and strikes downwards. Its end position is the sword pointing straight forward, wits is also the starting point of the sword skill Uppercut.
So just after you hit downwards because of Rush, just before the pause will kick in, you activate Uppercut and hit up wards again, chaining 2 single 1-hit sword skills into a 2-hit combo. Together Kirito and I had made up our own chain made from a couple 2-hit combo and a 3-hit combo what created an 11-hit combo. It wasn't a strong combination, but it was a good practice combo for training outside of battles. Mostly because you had to activate the next skill at exactly the right moment or it would fail.
I decided to try it out with this sword and took the stand for the first skill. One after another skill was activated at a speed, neither of us had ever done it. Was it because of my training or of this sword? I walked quickly deeper into the dungeon.
After some minutes of walking I saw something in the distance. It looks like a fight, but so many monsters in one spot? I started to sprint to close the distance.
What appeared before my eyes wasn't a mob spanner or a trap. It was a PK guild, a guild that murder other players to get the items it was holding. They stood in a circle around there target. They didn't saw me coming so I took a jump and aimed for the inner circle.
"Good evening boys and girls, mind if I join the party?" I tried to sound cocky and get the focus on me instead of the young boy that was there target. As I drew my sword, from the circle a player stepped forward.
"You have one change, drop your items and cash or we will kill you."
"You want my items? Why don't you try and take them from me."