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Chill Out
Michael continued walking through the deserted corridor but his mind was on Yui's warning. She had informed then that the cardinal system running ALfheim Online was able to generate quests as Michael had guessed earlier, but also that the Cardinal System had authority to destroy its maps, since the original's job was to destroy the original Aincrad. She had then told them that the Cardinal System may someday create a mission from the legends of Ragnarok, which involved the world being destroyed.
They stopped outside the door to the boss room for that level of the pyramid. According to Yui, there were three levels, two of which had bosses. Michael pushed the door open and they walked in, finding a pair of minotaurs waiting. One was black and the other gold, both wielding a massive war axe.
"Alright," Michael sighed drawing his sword but leaving his shield away for the moment. "Who wants what?"
As if in answer, the black minotaur sprinted forward, leaping and slashing at Sinon. Michael stepped in front of her, raising his shield and blocking his axe, knearly falling to his knees under the force of the blow. Kirito and Klein sprinted forward, both using an ability and slashing the minotaur up the front, forcing it back and taking a large chunk of its health. Michael sprinted forward, leaping into the air and smashing his glowing shield into the minotaur. The pointnof impact exploded and the minoraur flew backward and crashed into the wall, health already in the yellow. As it stood, a swarm of arrows hit it, dropping its health to red. The minotaur roared, smashing its axe into the ground and sat down, beginning to glow green as the yellow minotaur walked forward.
"He's healing," Michael stated. "So that's how this is going to go huh? Fine, we'll kill this one then finish the other one."
Michael sprinted forward, slashing the minotaur across the stomach and Kirito stepped off his back, slashing it up the front. Leafa slashed it across its side and Klein slashed opposite her. Then, Kiito dropped behind it, slashing it down the back. All four leap away and the minotaur roared, barely a noticeable amount of health taken. Michael glanced at the othwr Minotaur, now in yellow again, and Sinon fired an arrow at it. The yellow minotaur blocked the arrow with its hand and then made a fist, breaking the arrow and roaring. He raised his axe, which glowed with lightning and Yui shouted about a shockwve attack, counting it down until itnwent off. The minotaur slammed his axe down, a shockwave shooting out and blasting everyone except Sinon and Asuna.
Asuna healed them all as the minotaur charged. It slashed at Kirito and he blocked it, uing both of his swords.
"Kirito, at this rate, my MP will be depleted in one hundred fifty seconds," Asuna shouted.
"Kirito, the medallion," Leafa said. "It's already seventy percent black. We won't have time to start kver from the save point."
"Alright," Kirito sighed. "Since it's come to this, there's only one thing we can do. Everyone attack with a magic type sword skill. Hopefully that'll be enough."
Everyone nodded and Kirito instructed Silica to use an ability Michaeldidn't recognize on his command. As the Minotaur pulled his arm back, Kirito gave the order and Silica passed the command to Pina. Pina shrieked then exhaled a stream of bubbles at the minotaur. As they popped around its ead, its eyes drooped and it stopped moving, now in a daze.
"Go!" Kirito shouted.
Everyone readied a skill and charged. Klein jumped and slashed its face with a fire skill, the slash exploding. Next, Leafa jumped and hit its attacking arm with a wind skill, followed by a lightning skill to the right knee from Lisbeth, an ice skill to the back from Silica, and an Ice arrow from Sinon.
Michael stepped forward, slashing the Minotaur across the back and a blast of wind scythes exploded out of its chest. Then, Kirito attacked. His skill was a flury of slashes with a flaming sword, followed by a slash down the front, then Kirito leapt into the air and slash back down, the sword splitting the minotaur down the front. A moment later, the gash exploded and the minotaur staggered backward. Michael grinned, trying to move as the moment when movement was not possible at the end of an ability should have worn off. Unfortunately, he couldn't move a muscle.
"Why can't I move?" Michael asked.
"The temperature here extends the movement penalty," Yui stated. "Sorry, should have mentioned that."
Just as the minotaur began to move, the flames on Kirito's right sword faded and the left began to glow blue. Everyone watched in amazement as he slashed the minotaur, sword stopping halfway before he twisted it so the edge was upward then pushed it deeper. A mass of ice eploded out of the minotaur's back then shattered and Kirito ripped the sword upward out of the minotaur, turning away as he did and causing a second mass of ice to explode out of it's front. Then, Kirito's right sword glowed orang and he spun, slashing the minotaur four times before a box of four slash trails shot out, one orange, one white, one green, and one blue. As Kirito began the ability, movement returned for the others and Michael sprinted forward with the others.
Kirito began to charge another attack as the others sprinted forward, each using the same element ability as before. Michael was the exception, leaping into the air and stabbing the minotaur downward through the head, fire exploding out the bottoms of its feet. Then, Michael flipped to the ground feeling his body go ridgid again. Sinon sprinted forward, flipping and jumping onto the minotaur's back and releasing a point blank ice arrow, a mass of ice exploding out of its chest then shattering. Finally, Kirito sprinted forward, stabbing the minotaur and causing a fireball to explode out of the minotaur's back, igniting the ground around himself and the minotaur. Then, Kirito leapt back, finally growing still. They watched as the minotaur's health fell until there was barely a sliver left. Then, it stopped.
Everyone sucked in breath as the minotaur straughtened, glaring at them. Juat as it drew its arm back, Asuna leapt over Kirito, driving her rapier into its chest rapidly. She landed and spun, driving it into its stomach and a column of light shot up around the minotaur. As the light began to fade, the black minotaur stood. Then, juat as it lifted its axe, the gold minotaur shattered. The black minotaur looked at the others who were able to move again and Klein grinned.
"Alright you chump," Klein grinned. "On your knees, now."
They all charged, slashing it then leaping out of the next person's way. When Michael reached the minotaur, he slashed it on the way up, flipped, the dlashed it back down its back. The minotaur roared then shattered. They all sighed and the word "CONGRATULATIONS" appeared over them.
They all cheared and Michael sorted through his winnings, nothing that interested him, while Klein walked over to Kirito.
"What was that just now?" Klein asked.
"Do I have to say?" Kirito asked.
"Yes!" Klein stated. "I've never seen anything like that before."
"It was an Outside-System skill, Skill Connect," Kirito stated. "You know how sword skills got added to ALfheim Online last update, but unique skills lime dual wielding and Holy Blade didn't get implemented?"
"Yeah but just now you slashed with both hands," Klein stated.
"That wasn't dual wielding," Kirito stated. "I activated my one handed skills ith each hand alternately. Although, I can only keep it going without any lag three or four times if I'm lucky."
"You know, I just had a total deja vu moment," Asuna stated.
"It's just your imagination," Kirito stated. "Come on, let's keep going."
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