ALO: The Rangers
I don't understand why you people like my writing, but since you do, I might as well give it to you.
Here is the next chapter of ALO: The Rangers
Also this chapter I am going to experiment with writing in 3rd person again.
I chose to make spells greek because, well because it doesn't look like english.
Chapter 2: Departure
(1st person, Shino, January 21st, 12:03pm)
After we ate we head up stairs to log back into ALO and start heading towards the world tree, Yggdrasil.
I was going to dive from Kazuto's room because that's where my NerveGear already was and I was lazy.
We lay down on bed at opposite sides and put on our NerveGears.
""Link start!"" we both said and the world faded to nothing.
Then an inn materialized around me and Yui flew out of Kirito's pocket and said "Welcome back!" to us.
"We're back." I said.
We walked out of the inn which we rented for a day, which was the minimum time.
Why on earth the minimum time is a day in a game where you're NOT trapped I don't know but whatever.
Leafa appeared out of thin air next to us and said "Let's get on with getting you some gear, even Kirito needs armor and Sinon definitely needs a bow."
"Sure." I said.
(3rd person)
The group walked along and Sinon asked "Where are we going?"
Leafa answered "We're going to a the best Sylph blacksmith I know of to get you a bow. While we walk you two should probably look through the spells you have unlocked and try to memorize the useful ones. The spell language is hard to understand, but it is possible to learn the essential parts of it. Supposedly you can construct your own spells, but no one has figured out how to yet."
Kirito and Sinon opened their menus and went to the 'magic' tab "Why do I have maxed shadow magic?" asked Kirito.
"Umm... dunno, probably your sword though. You're lucky, that would take months to get normally." Leafa answered.
"Well, technically I did work a while for this sword, just in a different game so it's perfectly fair. I also have 100 in illusion magic but that is the probably the Spriggan buff." Kirito answered.
"Well memorize some spells, my wind magic isn't close to maxed and there is plenty of useful stuff." Leafa said.
Kirito nodded and started looking through his spells.
"It doesn't seem Cait Sith get any big bonuses in any spells, just increased senses and beast taming ability." Sinon said.
"Yeah, but increased senses is good for an archer, right?" asked Leafa.
"I'm not complaining. I don't want to memorize long poems in another language." Sinon answered.
"This looks like greek." commented Kirito.
"What does?" asked Leafa.
"The spell language is greek." Kirito explained.
"Really?" asked Leafa, surprised.
"I'm almost certain, which would mean that memorizing it shouldn't be too hard." Kirito said.
"Not for you anyway, when did you even learn greek?" asked Sinon.
"A while back, and I don't know it very well." he answered.
"Right..." Sinon said sarcastically.
They reached the blacksmith shop and entered.
Upon looking around Sinon thought 'Lisbeth is better, but it will have to do if it is the best Sylph blacksmith.'
"Hey Leafa, I see you brought friends?" said the shopkeeper.
"Hey Lurkan, as you can see, I did." Leafa answered.
"What do you need?" Lurkan asked.
"Well, in terms of stuff you have, a bow for the cat." Leafa answered.
'She just called me a cat...' thought Sinon, slightly annoyed and amused.
"What kind of bow?" asked Lurkan.
"Whatever has the longest range." Sinon said.
The blacksmith took the longest bow off the wall behind him, it was had a slightly golden wood with silver bands on it. It had some small emerald-green jewels embedded in the silver in some places and the bow string looked to be made of pure gold. All in all it was a very beautiful bow.
"That would be this one, it's the best bow I have made to-date. It is infused with Sylph wind magic to increase the range, though when active it will drain some of your mana on every shot." said the blacksmith.
The bow made her slightly reassess her instant judgment of the player, though she still believed Lisbeth to be better, this guy might come pretty close when it comes to making bows.
"Can I try it out? Also do you sell arrows?" asked Sinon.
The blacksmith made an expression that said 'Are you kidding me?' and then said "What kind of blacksmith sells bows but not arrows?"
"Right, right, well whatever your best arrows are, we have plenty of money." Sinon said.
"Right..." said the blacksmith.
It was true that judging by the fact that they were wearing starter gear one would assume they were poor, however this couldn't be further from the truth.
The only reason the blacksmith considered that they might be able to afford stuff was because they were with the person who was likely one of the best Sylph warriors.
The blacksmith took out a beautiful quiver full of arrows of the wall and handed it to her.
She looked at the arrows and found that they were fairly well made and heavy.
She nodded and the blacksmith led them to the back, where they were some training dummies and targets.
Sinon drew back the bow and released one test arrow, which landed higher then she intended because she was unaccustomed to the strength of the bow, mass of the arrows, and the magic on the bow.
The second shot on the other hand hit exactly in the middle of the target.
She was about to fire another arrow into the second but Kirito said "Don't destroy the arrows, they are fancy."
"Right." Sinon said and nodded.
The blacksmith was surprised by the fact that this archer in basic gear that he had never heard of had such ridiculous accuracy.
"Can I move the targets a bit further away?" asked Sinon.
'Who is this girl, I haven't seen anyone shoot with such accuracy before, where did she learn to shoot.'
He remembered he had been asked a question and said "Yes, sure."
Sinon walked over to the target and picked it up, moving about 3 times further away. She pulled out the arrows in it and walked back.
She fired another arrow and it slammed into the center of the target, almost exactly where the other one had hit.
'Might not be my old bow, but it will have to do.' she thought.
"I'll buy it." she said aloud.
"That will be 20000 yrd. The quiver with the arrows will be an extra thousand." said the blacksmith.
"Right." said Sinon and opened a trade window transferring the amount, shocking the blacksmith that she even had that much.
To Sinon this was a drop in a bucket because the col to yrd conversion was one to one so she had millions upon millions of yrd, though the conversion rate in terms of value was 10 col to 1 yrd, meaning that her ridiculous in SAO amount of money was ten times as ridiculous in ALO.
The group of 3 walked out of the shop and Leafa said "Alright, now to get you some armor, you're both users of light armor so there is a tailor I know that sells good stuff, I can't afford the best stuff she sells but I'm sure you can with your SAO amount of money."
"Lead the way then." Kirito said.
They walked along several streets taking several turns and passing through an alley we reached a small shop.
The moment Kirito and Sinon followed Leafa in the said at the same time ""Ashley!?""
"Kirito and Sinon? What are you two doing here?" asked the shop-owner and tailor, Ashley.
"Leafa is took us here to get some armor." Kirito answered.
"Uhh... do you know each other?" Leafa asked everyone present.
"Yes we do, in SAO whenever we needed a tailor for anything we came to her." Sinon said.
"Wait you're an SAO survivor?" Leafa asked the tailor.
"Yes. Are you?" asked Ashley.
"Yes, though I didn't look much like I do now then, I was the second or third best katana user then." Leafa said.
"Oh you're that girl. Well I can guess what you two need, and I happened to make it just for fun a little while back. One black leather cloak for the swordsman and a green robe for the archer." Ashley said and went into the back of her shop, bringing out what were basically exact copies of our latest armor in SAO.
"Free of charge because you cleared SAO." Ashley said and gave us the armor.
""See you around."" Kirito and Sinon said as they left the store.
The armor not only looked almost exactly like their SAO armor, but also was amazing armor made from top class material, providing more defense then low and mid and some high tier heavy armor, along with various bonuses.
"Well, now we're are plenty geared so let's start heading to the world tree?" asked Sinon.
"Sure, let's head to the central tower so we can have some more altitude on take off." Leafa said and pulled them along in the direction of the tower.
10 minutes of walking later they arrived and Sinon asked "Couldn't we have gotten here much faster if we flew?"
"Well yes, but we would waste flight time and for whatever reason people don't like it when people fly in cities." Leafa said as they entered the tower.
They were about to reach the elevator when someone called out "Leafa!"
''Who is it this time?'' thought Sinon and Kirito at the same time as they stopped and turned around in sync with each other and Leafa.
What they saw was a Sylph wearing a green cloak/cape, with silver armor under it, he had green hear and a golden head band with a small red gem inset in it.
"Oh, er... hello Sigurd." Leafa said awkwardly.
"What's this I hear about you leaving the party? Is it true?" asked Sigurd.
"Well, yeah it is." Leafa said.
"Do you know how much it will upset the other members?" asked Sigurd.
"I said I would only join on the condition that I would only play when I had time and I could leave at any time, you agreed to this." Leafa said.
"I know what I said but you've been with us for a while now, if you leave now it will damage the reputation of our party! You're leaving our party just to go with a Spriggan and a Cait Sith?" Sigurd said angrily.
"Well maybe if you weren't the kind of trash that went back on his word she wouldn't be leaving." Kirito said just loud enough for Sigurd to hear but not loud enough for the crowd that was starting to gather to hear.
"What did you say you son-of-a? I bet that big mouth of yours got you thrown out of your territory!" Sigurd said.
"Well then pay up because I never got thrown out of my territory." Kirito said.
'Watching Kirito verbally beat people to a pulp is always fun.' thought Sinon, standing back and listening to the verbal fight.
Sigurd drew his sword and said "You got some nerve saying stuff like that in another races territory!"
His teammates whispered for him to stop and that it wouldn't look good if he attack a defenseless player but he ignored them.
Finally one of them said "At least duel him so you it is fair."
"Fine." answered Sigurd angrily and sent Kirito a full death duel request.
''That is probably the biggest mistake he has made to-date'' thought Sinon and Leafa.
Kirito said "I guess I don't feel bad about sending you back to your very near respawn point." once more just loud enough for Sigurd to hear.
With that Kirito accepted to the duel request and a timer started counting down, at this point all the people in the area, plus some people called by their friends were gathered around.
People were saying things like "Sigurd is dueling some Spriggan!"
Sigurd got ready and Kirito, like in his last duel defending someone stood perfectly calmly without drawing his sword.
"Draw your sword." said Sigurd, his voice searing with rage.
"Maybe once you hit me." Kirito said teasingly.
"Don't get cocky you filth!" Sigurd nearly yelled as the timer reached zero and charged forward.
Kirito stepped to the side, allowing the blade to pass right next to him and slam into the ground.
Then Kirito's elbow slammed into the Sylphs back sending him sprawling and taking away about a fifth of his HP, shocking everyone.
Sigurd flew up with his wings and charged forward at Kirito, who disappeared and appeared behind Sigurd and punching him in the back of the neck with minimal movement.
The hit perfectly in the right spot dealt another fifth of the Sylphs HP and Kirito said "Booooriiing."
Once Sigurd recovered but before he could charge Kirito chanted a spell, saying "οι σκιές γίνονται τέσσερα πτερύγια"
The moment he finished 4 spinning pitch black blades appeared behind Kirito and his mana dropped by about a quarter, though that was only visible to party members.
Kirito then pointed at Sigurd with his whole hand and said "απεργία μπροστά σκιές"
The four blades shot forward and slashed at Sigurd, who to his credit, managed to block one with his sword and one with each hand.
The last one though, struck him straight at hip level and slightly to right, chopping through half of him and sending his HP to zero, he burst into flames and turned into a green ball of fire.
Kirito lowered his hand and walked over to the flame, then raised his hands to either side of it and said "επιστρέψτε το παρόν ψυχή από τον άλλο κόσμο και να δώσει την ουσία και του δώσει μορφή"
The green ball of fire formed into the shape of Sigurd and then solidified into a very angry Sylph.
Kirito lowered his hands and walked back over to Leafa and Sinon.
"What was that spell?" asked Leafa.
"A slightly modified shadow magic spell, the original had ten blades and not four, but that would be wasteful." he answered.
"How did you modify the spell?" she asked.
"I told you, it's greek. Anyway, let's get going." he answered.
Leafa nodded and they walked to the elevators, ignoring all the stares they, or specifically Kirito, were getting.
They reached the top and were about to take off when Recon ran up and said "I heard you're leaving the party?"
"Yes I am, these two need to go to Yggdrasil and I'm taking them to Arun." Leafa said.
"I want to come with you, but there is something I need to check out first, I'll message you if I figure it out." Recon said.
"Okay...? Well see you later then." Leafa said.
"Bye!" Recon said and went back down the elevator.
"I know him in real life... kinda... I run into him every now and then, he goes to the school who's kendo club I go to." Leafa said.
"Okay, well let's get going." Sinon said.
"Right we're heading towards that big mountain there." Leafa said.
With that they took off and started flying in the direction of the mountain.
"I want to make it too the lake there before we have to rest our wings so let's fly fast!" Leafa said.
""Right."" Kirito and Sinon said and sped up considerably.
"Should we go faster?" yelled Sinon over the wind once Leafa caught up.
"No this is fine!" Leafa yelled back, not wanting to admit she couldn't really go faster.
(1st person, Sinon)
"See how you're wings are almost not glowing anymore? That means you've almost run out of flight time. Good thing we have nearly reached the lake I wanted to reach, because we're about to fall out of the sky." Leafa said.
Reassuring, very.
Kirito and I reached the far shore of the lake and Leafa had almost reached it when our wings gave out and... we all fell.
Me and Kirito landed on solid ground and the slightly behind Leafa, luckier or less lucky, depending on how you look at it, landed in the water.
Both mine and Kirito's HP dropped considerably and Kirito raised his hands in my direction and chanted "κάνει την ψυχή μέσα στο σώμα"
I glowed green and my HP went back up, raising nearly to the point of being full.
Then Kirito raised his hands up and chanted the same thing, his mana dropping to near-nothing and his HP near filling.
Shortly after Leafa swam out and chanted "ξηρός"
Her body was briefly surrounded by a red glow and when it disappeared she was dry.
"Okay, let's take a break here and wait for our wings to recharge. We can rotate out and get something to drink and stuff real quick." Leafa said.
"Rotate out?" I asked, not understanding what she meant.
"Our bodies don't disappear for half an hour outside of neutral or our races cities, so when we log out our bodies are defenseless, so we take turns logging out while the others watch the empty body." she explained.
"Ohh..." I said, understanding what she meant.
"You log out first." Kirito said to Leafa.
"Okay." she said and opened her menu, navigating to log out and pressing it.
"Hey Kirito, you wanna put her in a tree?" I asked, feeling mischievous.
"I won't stop you but I won't help you either." Kirito answered, oh well, I'll do it anyway.
I picked up Leafa's limp body and put her into a tree in such a way that if she moved even slightly she would fall.
Then I carefully climbed down and sat down next to Kirito on the grass, looking at the lake.
"Reminds me of our cabin on floor 22." Kirito said.
"Yeah, me too." I said.
"And me three!" Yui said happily.
Both of us laughed and Yui first pouted a moment then laughed with us.
We were interrupted by a loud crash from the direction of the tree Leafa was in.
Chapter two is complete! Yay!
Spell guide:
Revival: return this soul from the other world and give it substance and shape
Pronounced: epistrépste to parón psychí apó ton állo kósmo kai na dósei tin ousía kai to schíma
Create shadow blades: shadows become four blades
Pronounced: oi skiés gínontai téssera pterýgia
Discharge shadow blades: strike forward shadows
Pronounced: apergía brostá skiés
Minor heal: make soul into body
Pronounced: kánei tin psychí mésa sto sóma
Drying: dry
Pronounced: xirós
That's all the spells that were used in the chapter.
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