Chapter 8

Last time

"Hey, Sean. We all work pretty well in a team. Maybe you'd like to start a guild so when people see us they'll remember us by something instead of just 'THOSE COOL GUYS!'" Fiena puts up the idea and I nod.

"Yeah! That's smart. From now on, we'll be known as The Aincrad Saviors!" I chuckle.

This time

It has been three days since the proud creation of our guild, three fun filled days at that. In those couple days we have been doing quests non-stop, and to be honest, it's annoyed quite a few people. SORRY GUYS! IF YOU ARE READING THIS!

Anyways, as for the quests, they have been mainly search and destroy type things where we had to go and clear about a bunch of monsters. I remember a very annoying one very clearly where the stupid monster just wouldn't fucking die; you know what I mean, it's that type of monster that is so weak but it just refuses death. Anyways, where was I going with this? Oh, yeah! *ahem*

On the fourth day of us starting our guild, we finally realized how strong we were. Our levels have surpassed most others quite a bit, actually. Not only that, but there were finally enough people to take on this floor boss, which is why this is quite significant.

We have already been through the whole boring meeting, this time constructed by a group of info-brokers. Unlike the last meeting, which was held by our now dead friend Diavel, this one didn't have very much Information. Which is annoying because the only reason for that was because the info-brokers figured out that they could make a profit off of people wanting this precious, lifesaving knowledge. Apart from that, they gave us a very brief description of the boss. Its name is Guardian of the cave and it has 2 monsters guarding it.

Now, my group and I are walking through a cave with a bunch of other random players. Bored, we kick up a little conversation amongst ourselves, talking mainly about what the loot might be and our battle plan.

"So, since our battle plan has been quite successful so far, how about we stick with it but, be a little more cautious and defensive?" Izalea points out. "We are taking on a floor boss and I have much doubt that it will be like Illfang. Perhaps, it will have higher defensive stats or some secret move that it could pull on us."

"Good idea, Izalea. On a side note, what do you think the boss is going to drop?" I say, putting my hands behind my head.

"Hmmm… maybe a sword!" Erin points out.

"Maybe some armor." Fiena says.

"Maybe it's going to be a stat boost item." Izalea says.

"Those would all be hella amazing. I guess we won't know until we kill it though." I say with a cocky smirk.

"Dude, you are way too overconfident. You could die in there!" some random guy yells at me, clearly annoyed at me.

"Well, it's better to die sarcastic and happy than die a boring downer." I say in return very simply.

It then goes quiet for quite a while.

"Am I the only one bothered by the lack of monsters? This cave seems too empty-"I start to say but am interrupted by the sounds of rocks toppling behind everyone and closing off a way out. Just to make things a little worse, a dozen, creepy, stone golem creatures start coming out of the walls of the cave and rushing towards everyone with their arms flailing behind them.

"NEVERMIND, THEN!" I yell and everyone draws their swords at once and starts rushing at the golems. I dash forward with my group and together we quickly take out a golem, disregarding our battle plan since it was just a simple monster.

"These aren't as difficult as they seem." Fiena says.

"Yeah, that's only speaking for us." I say, referring to a couple guys that just got taken out by the golems. In turn, we rush to help as fast as we can, pushing the people with low health back as we start to slice and dice at the beasts with top speed.

"Erin and Fiena! Do your partner skill!" I yell, referring to a little thing that we figured out together. If you charge up two different skills with a friend, or someone in your party, at the same time, you can release it at the same time to cause double the damage of a normal sword skill.

They nod and hop back, away from everyone, and they start to charge up their partner sword skill slowly, to its max power. While they do that, me and Izalea take consecutive turns to slice and dice through golems. I fight with stupendous skill, moving like air as I use a mixture of combos of swordplay. Izalea moving with swift speeds and having pin point accuracy.

As the crowd gives us a look of awe, Fiena and Erin finally finish charging up their sword skills and yell "NOW!" as everyone automatically moves out of the way and they charge forward with insane speed, leaving behind only a trail of red. Suddenly, a big ring appears, cutting through all of the golems and killing them, in the middle of the ring was Fiena and Erin, back to back and smirking.

I nudge the guy that yelled at me earlier, "What was that about me being overconfident?"

He just stares at me with a face of shock and awe. I chuckle and pull out a health crystal and heal everyone there. I then continue to lead everyone the rest of the way, up to the entrance of the boss room.

"I'd ask if everyone was ready but, there would be no fun in that. All I'm gonna say is fight well and don't die." I say, looking up at the door and smirking. I push open the door with my free hand and the whole room inside already appears to be lit up with pots of fire all along the walls. At the very end of the room was three statues, two looked to be huge men carrying halberds and wearing very pointy armor. And the last one was what appeared to be a king, the same height as the guard statues, and wearing a little less armor and sheathing a huge sword on its waist.

The two guard statues come to life first, making a gross crunching sound as their joints slowly began functioning. Once they were completely animated to life, they give out a loud yell and hop off of their raised pedestals and land right in front of us all, causing the whole cave to shake.

"Well, then… Perhaps that defensive battle plan you were talking about, Izalea, will come in handy." I say to my group and everyone else there immediately raises up their weapons once the statues land.

Me and my group get into our defensive battle stance as the giant statues start rushing forward at us, moving not as fast I thought they would. "Guys, they're slow! We don't need to be defensive, we just have to make sure we dodge the attacks!" I yell out and we start doing dodge that.

My group goes to the one on the left ourselves and we start attacking its legs with immense strength speed, using our offensive battle plan like we usually do where we take consecutive turns attacking the monster. All the other 34 people that also came start rushing the one at the right, bringing its health down with a steady pace.

It seems these things are mainly health and attack because surprisingly its defense isn't very good and they both get taken down fairly quickly, triggering the boss the real boss to engage, of course after going through its creepy stage of becoming real and its name appearing above four health bars.

"This should be interesting." I think out loud as it unsheathes its huge sword and rushes at us, slamming it's blade into ground quickly and crushing a couple people, killing them. As for everyone else, they got out of the way just in time. It also manages to get its sword stuck in the ground somehow, which gives everyone the perfect chance to hurry up and attack it with everything they've got.

"EVERYONE ATTACK IT WHIE IT'S DOWN!" I yell and everyone does exactly that. Me and my team, however, take a much more different approach. We start sprinting up the boss's blade, going right for its head. On the way up, we charge up our group sword skill, which is basically the partner sword skill except for the whole party. Once we get close enough, we all jump at its head at the same time, slashing all at once and making dozens of huge gashes through it suddenly as burst of red, white, and black light shows up from where we were. We somehow successfully took off a huge chunk of its health, managing to bring down its health to its second health bar.

We land directly behind it and it finally manages to pull its sword out of the ground and it starts swinging around its body. Right before the blade even gets close to the people, a tall, very attractive guy with red hair and wearing light, red knight armor, steps in with his kite shield raised, protecting everyone from the blow and even managing to parry the boss. "I CAN TAKE THE HITS! YOU ALL HIT IT WITH EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT!" he yells at everyone.

The people then charge forward and start attacking the boss's legs again, with us helping and using very quick and acrobatic movement. Meanwhile, the guy with the shield takes every blow the boss gives, somehow that shield is protecting him. We then finally manage to bring the boss's health down to its last bar and it yells angrily and starts attacking randomly, practically flailing its arms around as it hits in every direction, sadly taking out a bunch of the people.

The guy grits his teeth after realizing his shield is practically useless now, and he lifts up his axe and starts attacking the boss as hard as he can, fighting right alongside my group. After a few minutes of us uselessly attacking its legs, the boss accidentally gets its sword stuck in the wall and tries its best to get it unstuck.

"COME ON! WE WON'T GET ANOTHER CHANCE!" I yell as me and my party charge up our sword skills, along with the red head, and dash at the boss one last time, using our battle plan. The red head gets a couple hits in first and then Fiena goes, then Izalea, then Erin, and then finally me. Each attack brings the boss's health down quite a bit but, I get the killing blow. A congratulations box appears and everyone there cheers.

My bonus item was strangely a mask of some sort, which greatly increased the party's defense stat by 40. I hold off until we get to next floor to equip it though. Right before we leave though, the red haired guy comes up to us, smiling.

"Excuse me! My name is Zankani. I saw how you all fought and I am very impressed. I was wondering if you would allow me to join your guild. I would be very honored to fight alongside such great warriors." He says with a bow.

Me and my group mentally agree and I give the man an answer. "Yes. We could use a shield bearer. Plus, you're pretty skilled yourself."

He gives me a big smile, "Really!? Thank you!" he laughs and we all chuckle at his enthusiasm.

A/N: A new member to The Aincrad Saviours, a cool new mask for Sean, and a butt ton of action. I wonder what will happen next? :D

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