We all hid silently in the shadows of the rocky valley walls, all of us had our weapons drawn and ready. I crouched next to Sky along with a number of other solo fighters, the Fuurinkazan guild and Kirito, on the opposite side of the valley was the Holy Dragon Alliance, the Knights of the Blood Oath and the Golden Oak Rangers. In the centre of the narrow valley was a huge chunk out red meat, a rare A-rank piece of meat kindly donated by Klein. We intended to lure the Geocrawler, a field boss which had halted the advance of the front line by a week nearly, towards the piece of food, allowing us to ambush it from its weak and unguarded sides, a plan thought up by Klein and Kirito. We tensely waited silently and motionless for our field boss to arrive, the wind had started to pick up a bit and small dust clouds were starting to kick up.

It didn't take to long before we felt a slight rumble of the ground below us which quickly started to shake the stones that littered the dried brown earth. Suddenly a huge shape ruptured through the ground sending rocks flying wildly in every direction and eclipsing the sun behind it. The Geocrawler charged down at the chunk of meat with no hesitation, swinging its metallic scale plated tale without regard smashing apart the valley walls, making large boulders fly down past us narrowly missing. The Geocrawler was a huge and tremendously long worm which was covered in thick dark brown skin on its underbelly and sturdy golden coloured scales running along the upper body and enclosing its head. It had two huge claws which were similarly covered in the thick and heavy metal plating, it had a huge eye which was covered by a glowing green visor, it had two huge bone horns protruding from its head. However none of this compared to its seemingly endless amount of enormous yellowy teeth which quickly dripped with blood as it swiftly ripped through the massive chunk of meat with ease.

As it went for its second bite of the meat Kirito slashed down on a rope which was next to him with his Elucidator, this released a cascade of sharp boulders down upon the boss from the top of the valley cliff. However these rocks simply crashed down into the beast's metal scales and bounced of to the ground without dealing any sort of damage. The beast feeling the rocks hit its impenetrable scales grabbed hold of the meat, launched it high in the air and swallowed it whole, it then let out a tremendous guttural clicking sound which echoed around for a couple of seconds. Knowing that we could no longer wait any longer Kirito raised his sword high in the air so that all the players could see it clearly shining in the sunlight and ran down the valley's side straight at the Geocrawler. Hearing Kirito's heavy footsteps the Geocrawler turned its head and started to charge across the valley floor to meet him.

A moment after Kirito had started running all of the players assembled on both sides of the valley came out of hiding and charged down at the huge worm all with weapons ready and skills beginning to charge up in a mass glow of varied colours. I held my sword tightly to my side slightly raised and charging a armour piercing skill which made my dark blade glow bright green, while Sky held her white blade which was glowing a deep red above her head going in for a powerful smashing strike. The two waves of players clashed with the beast at the same time dealing many swift, powerful and precision strikes against the weaker sides of the beast or in an attempt to smash through its thick plated armour covering its face. I thrust my blade against a section of plating along its left claw and a moment later after I quickly jumped back Sky plummeted her sword down at the exact same spot to deal extra damage against the hopefully weakened armour.

However the armour wasn't even scratched in the slightest and the beast seemed not to even realise we had just attacked its claw, instead it rose its claws and began to stab down at players in front of it, kicking up clouds of dust, planting a crater into the ground and forcing any nearby players to jump away to avoid getting caught in the attack. At the rear the main guilds, seemingly failing to deal any visible damage whatsoever to the huge monster, were having similar problems as the spiked and heavily plated tail was flailing around madly sending any player unfortunate to be in its path flying into the rocky valley walls or sending them plummeting into the hard earth. The few hits we were able to land onto the Boss' fleshy underbelly dealt extremely small amounts of damage but quickly enraging the boss. At this rate this battle would last for hours and a massive amount of the players here would either be dead or close to it, this was any boss we had come across.

"EVERYONE GO FOR ITS EYE!" I just heard Klein shout above the chaos of the battle in the hope to find its weak spot before this battle turned into a pointless slaughter. At this command about half of the players, mainly the light weapon and armour users, began to find ways to climb up onto its back, head and tail in an attempt to smash through the green visor which protected its eye. However the few players who were able to climb up were quickly shaken from the Geocrawler as it began to thrash about as it began to adapt to or changing tactics. I was now sweeping its sharp claws widely stopping most frontal attacks and its tail was less frantic and had more power put into each strike.

Suddenly after I jumped out of the way of yet another claw swipe I saw Kirito jump on top of one of the other claw and take a running jump off of the claw. He held his sword high in the air with the blade facing downwards and charging a dark purple skill which smoked from the metal. The Geocrawler snapped its head upwards to see the oncoming attack but could do little to stop it. Kirito's blade smashed down against the visor with a crash and explosion of releasing power, however his blade simply glanced off the visor leaving not a crack or scratch. In surprise Kirito fell to the ground with a thud, the Geocrawler then went to bite down at Kirito forcing him to move from the ground and out of its range in a few quick movements.

"Kirito, Klein, nothing is going to work and we are just loosing people we need to get out of here!" Asuna shouted over at the two as she jumped around the worms flying tail. She then called out the order to fall back to the Blood Knights and began a full retreat down through the valley. Kirito looked at Klein, who nodded and shouted out for everyone to fall back to the town. However as we began to regroup and run back to the town the boss went on the attack murderously swiping its claws and biting down at any player who fell to far behind. We were now in a full retreat with our enemy hot on our heels, not exactly the expected outcome of this ambush.

The town gate, a huge reinforced thick wooden gate was opened slightly allowing a small amount of players through at a time, this left a small number of players guarding the door as players got through. The Geocrawler had us trapped in this small dead end of the valley but before it could reach the gates we were all inside and the gate was locked shut. As we began to move through the town in relief we all could here the constant crashing sounds of the boss trying to smah its way through the gates without any success.