Aincrad shook as the Fanus attack grew stronger and yet the meeting room couldn't have been any more silent.
'I see ." Heathcliff said as he read the report, this world was real which meant that their bodies were real.
Again the attacks stopped as the monsters inside the flying castle flew out to defend it, but the silence wasn't welcomed by anyone, as the guild leaders had to make a choice.
The faunus or the animal Humans of this world had attacked them, not only that they had tried to take Aincrad from the Players, and when they failed to do so, they tried to take several of the towns and even a floor for themselves.
Granted it was the player's fault for allowing them to enter, but they had no way of knowing that the Faunus hated humans so much.
Needless to say, the monsters didn't like the new arrivals, and the Faunus weren't expecting so much resistance, so the monsters were able to push them out.
So that just left the players to make the choice.
Would they punish the entire race of animal people for the crimes of the ones that they made contact with or would they try to make contact with another group and start over?
"I," one by one the guild leaders said as they all agreed that no faunus would be allowed to enter Aincrad unless they were someone's plaything or property.
"Now all that we have to worry about is what are we going to do when we meet other Humans or Faunus?" Klein the leader of Fuurinkazan asks everyone.
"The outside world has its rules and we have ours."
"So we don't get to decide how they do things, just as they don't get to decide how we do things." Poh, the leader of Laughing Coffin answers Klein.
The mood in the room seemed to lighten as the roars of animals began t echo around them, but this time they weren't alone, the sounds of explosions and players calling out whatever special skills they had could be heard inside the room.
The Guild leaders silently decide that it was better that they didn't hesitate any longer and made their decision now.
From the information that they managed to gain after Aincrad gained access to this world's internet, they discovered that this world relied on something called Dust to power everything.
And that wasn't a joke, everything from the buildings around them to the machines that helped people process food was powered by dust.
If that wasn't hard to believe weapons such as swords and some sort of magical clothes had dust put into them, so Dust is incredibly valuable to the people of this world.
All of this was important because Aincrad had landed on top of an area that could supply the kingdoms of this world for the next ten years before it was gone.
"I say that we should take it all and sell it to whoever wants it." Heathcliff says to everyone in the room, he doesn't bother to say what he's talking about as everyone in the room is aware of it.
"That's not the problem here, going out there and mining the gems that Dust is made of is the easy part, hell we have more than enough room to store it."
"But the problem is that as time passes our economy will become a part of this world and we will be affected by what happens on the outside." Klein says to Heathcliff.
"Not only that but people will want to come in here, and things like imagination will become an issue." Thinker the Leader of the Army adds.
"No, it won't." Poh says to everyone and everyone turns to look at him.
"We know from our world that immigration is going t happen regardless of what a government wants and as things stand we are the government."
"So I say that we should make two types of citizens, Workers, and fighters."
"We Players are both."
"So anyone that was a simple worker, it doesn't matter if it was a farmer, a store clerk, doctor or whatever, decides to join the army can become a part of us and be allowed to live in one of the towns or cities inside Aincrad." Poh says to everyone and grins when he sees them all frown.
"You want to create a cast system." Heathcliff says to Poh with a furious tone but he never rose his voice.
"No, I want to create a system that makes sure that Aincrad has nothing but people loyal to it, not us, it, living in it."
"What I just said goes for anyone that use to fight but decides to be a worker, these people have the skills of fighters and the usefulness of workers and best of all they won't want to leave or see their homes burned to the grown.
For a long moment, there was silence as no one could find a reason to argue with the Murder Guilds Leader.
"I'll only agree to it if the families of those men and women can move into Aincrad even if they don't haven't done any of that." Asuna the second in command of the Knights of the Blood Oath says.
She looks around the room and sees everyone nodding in agreement, she takes a deep breath and decides to push a little harder to hopefully make a path for those that attacked to redeem themselves.
"I suggest that the same opportunity to live in Aincrad and be given the title of Players to the Faunus, if they prove themselves to be loyal." she adds and the room becomes silent before everyone begins to yell at her.
"I agree." Poh says before he starts to talk again.
"We are going to need monsters to fight monsters, and Faunus to fight Faunus."
"So every faunus that is allowed to live in Aincrad, has to see themselves as a separate group that has no ties to the ones living outside of Aincrad."
"This goes for their families as well, so that we don't have to worry about them staving us in the back." Poh explains to everyone why he agrees to Asuna's suggestion.
"Before we vote on this, we decided that the Faunus should be treated as useful monsters."
"What makes you so sure that the ones that we let in won't betray us if they are discriminated by us or see their people being mistreated by us?" Kirito asks Poh.
"Human nature, to everyone on the outside Aincrad will be seen as a place where the Elite live."
"A safe place where they can live, a place of abundance. No one wants to risk losing that, especially if they worked to reach it."
"History has shown us that when a small group of people that belong to the lower classes reaches the top, they're the ones that treat their people worse than those that once ruled over them." Poh answers Kirito.
"I," Heathcliff says as he starts to vote in favor of allowing people to enter Aincrad.
"I" Kirito votes in favor of using this method to keep Aincrad safe.
"I' one by one the guild leaders agree.
"Now let's go help everyone out there." Heathcliff says to the guild leaders before he leads them outside to help the players and monsters fight the creatures of this world.
Five years later.