Before you read anymore the Dark Kingdom is its own thing and the rest of the world is its own thing.

Don't expect the Players and Adventurers to be the heroes because they are both heroes and villains.

I also made a couple of changes that most wouldn't agree with but hey I'm the one writing this thing.

Everyone is on the Dark Dragon or Lannd of Darkness where all of the Grimm are and where Salem is, but neither the players nor the Adventurers know about her yet.

While there are some people from Remnant amongst them, no one had time to ask questions as everyone was just trying to survive and make the place where they are safe.

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The sound of the music filled the mansion as the girls decorated it for the party.

"Willow, do you need some help?" Aqua asks Willow who is standing on the back of a gorilla to hang the decorations from the ceiling.

"No, I'm good." Willow answers her.

Everyone has been busy since yesterday when they told all of the men to leave and go look for work, as none of them wanted to see the guys sneaking away with any food.

It had been a rough couple of years for them but everything had calmed down enough that they could now have a party like this and not worry about something breaking in.

Tomorrow Willow will be helping the blacksmiths and everyone who accepted her job offer to start building Dust Tech, or magic crystal technology as everyone in this part of the world called it.

Granted that the people here didn't need it as no one relied on dust to do anything, but Willow knew just how useful dust was so she decided to take advantage of what she knew.

At first, she had been hesitant to let Whitley become an Adventurer or a Knight but she had no choice everyone had to fight.

Thankfully she didn't have to worry about him dying but she now worries that her son isn't learning from the best people.

Dust, Kirito, and Kazuma had taken her son under their wings, and while Dust wasn't the most trustworthy person he did have his daughter to keep him grounded.

Kirito had Asuna his wife and Yui his oldest daughter to stop him from doing anything crazy.

And that left Kazuma whom Whitley quickly grew to see as an older brother, Unfortunately, Kazumas Harrem was just as crazy as he was and it was those very women who were helping her with the decorations

"Girls if we don't hurry the guys will be back before we're finished." Asuna says to Qua and Meguming who had given up decorating and decided to sit on the sofa in front of the fireplace.

'I brought the cake." Darkness says as she walks in, following Rin Dust's unofficial girlfriend.

"Why are you sitting down?" Rin asks Aqua and Megumin.

"We're tired and we haven't eaten anything all day." Aqua answers her.

"Well I brought lunch and I ran into Kazuma on the way here, he said that they won't be home until tomorrow."

"He said something about Lunna forcing them to mine magic crystals so we have enough time to finish everything." Rin says to everyone before Yui and Faitfore walk in carrying a pair of plastic bags filled with hot food.

As Willow watched the scene before her she couldn't believe just how stress-free her life had become, she hadn't drunk anything, to forget about her life these days.

She still drank when she could but everyone here did the same, as drinking was one of the few things that anyone could enjoy.

"Willow, are you going to eat?" Megumin asks her and Willow orders her summoned beast to lower her before making it vanish.

Everything had changed for her and Whitly since the day that the airship that they were in was forced to enter and crash into the Land of Darkness.

She thought that the two of them along with all of the passengers in the airship would be killed by the Grimm.

She was quickly proven wrong when they found themselves being rescued by two kingdoms that hadn't been contacted by the outside world in who knows how long.

No questions were asked and no one bothered saying anything as everyone was busy fighting the Grimm and the creatures of this land.

Everyone who was on the two airships that crashed that day had to learn the rules of the two kingdoms and the world around them quickly.

The first was that no one asked about each other's past, as the past was the past, and the second was that everyone fought because no one had the luxury of being useless.

She sat down to eat with everyone and listened to the women around her gossip about what they had seen or talk about things that she could understand.

She couldn't help but think that this was how things should have been since the beginning.

She was once again a Huntsman and the women that sat with her were capable of killing entire armies on their own, but each of them had another life one that didn't involve fighting.

Darkness was the daughter of the Lord of the kingdom of Axel, and Megumin was the Archmage responsible for opening new paths through places that should be impossible for anyone to enter.

Aqua was both a performer and a healer.

Rin was Faitfore's adopted mother, and Asuna was the Second in command of the knights of the Blood Oath and Yui's mother.

And finally, there was her willow Whitley's mother and soon-to-be new leader in Dust research in this part of the world.

She would make sure that everything her father taught her wouldn't go to waste and wouldn't be tainted by the need for chaos that the other kingdoms had in them.

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Elsewhere

"Would you look at that." Kazuma says as he looks at the giant dust crystals that they found when the cave collapsed.

At first, things seemed to be out of control but then everyone realized that no one was seriously hurt and while they were trapped inside no one was in any real danger since they could all just teleport out of the cave,

They could either use one of Aincrad's magic crystals or one of the mages could use teleport to help everyone escape.

Still what they just found was the discovery of a lifetime, the crystals could easily be drained by anyone who needed a lot of power or could be used by anyone to cast a simple spell that had the same power as one of Megumin's weakest explosions.

"Let's take them back to Axel and let the adventurers Guild, Darkneses dad, and the council of Aincrad argue about what to do with them." Kirito says to everyone.

Things like these tended to cause unwanted problems, because like it or not each crystal was the size of a house that had two floors and had enough power coming from them that they would catch anyone's attention.

The smart thing to do would be to leave them buried, but both the castle and the town needed all of the help and power that they could get so they chose to teleport the crystals to Axel and let the pieces fall where they had to.