Four years later
The main doors of the meeting room let out a loud slam as Heathcliff violently entered the room, and while the rest of the guild leaders could have easily drawn their weapons none of them did.
Heathcliff walked up to Thinker the leader of the Army Guild and threw a large stack of papers onto the desk in front of him.
Thinker didn't say anything he just looked at Heathcliff and waited for the man to say something.
"Get that dog of yours under control, because we are about to have a civil war on our hands." Heathcliff says to Thinker who doesn't say anything and begins to read what Heathcliff brought him.
After a loud moment, Thinker couldn't help but rub his forehead.
It was just as bad as he imagined, he knew about the actions of certain members of his guild, but he had assumed that they would have had enough brains to keep those actions inside his guild's territory, but now he sees that he was wrong.
"How bad?" Thinker asks Heathcliff.
"Look around everyone here isn't looking at me, they're looking at you.' Heathcliff answers him and as Thinker looks around the room he notices that the rest of the guild masters are watching him.
"Can you at least tell me what's the worst of it?" Thinker asks Heathcliff who turns and walks towards the doors before closing them.
Heathcliff ignores the guards who all have their weapons drawn but none of them except for the guards who belong to the Army keep their weapons raised when he begins to close the doors.
"That dog of yours has been taking and from the Americans and both the Scout and Guard groups, he has given that land to those loyal to him." Heathcliff pauses for a brief moment to let him digest his words.
"As you know the Americans are the smallest group of people in Aincrad but they aren't pushovers and they are done taking the abuse. What I mean is that Rafael asked me to be present when he and the Poh the leader of Laughing Coffin agreed to help each other."
"The terms were simple, when not if the war does happen between your guild and the Americans, and if Laughing Coffin helps the Americans, then the next time that Laughing Coffin needs help they will have the full support of the Western players."
"It doesn't matter who starts the war, or what atrocities Laughing Coffin makes, the Americans will help them." Heathcliff says to him, but before he can say anything else a messenger forces the doors to the room open.
Heathcliff looks at the man as he gasps for air and he can't help but close his eyes with regret, he silently prays that he isn't too late and that the first fight that would start the civil war hasn't happened.
After taking his breath the man tells Thinker of what a member of the Knights of the Blood Oath did.
The man tells Thinker that according to several witnesses, the Player had overheard several men say that they couldn't believe that Yui the daughter of Asuna had dirty blood.
And that Asuna, the Second in command of the Knights of the Blood Oath Guild must like rolling around in the shit with the rest of the pigs because her husband was the leader of the scouts and guards.
The Player then grabbed one of the men by the head and squeezed it until he crushed the man's head, but he didn't stop there, he immediately cut the heads of the other men who were seated at the table.
Unfortunately, the bad news did not end there, because when the guards tried to arrest the player they found themselves surrounded by players that belonged to other guilds who all had their weapons drawn and so the guards had no choice but to let the man go.
All of this happened inside the army's territory.
Thinker turns to look at Heathcliff but before he can say anything else Heathcliff begins to speak.
'This is your last warning, If you don't stop that dog of yours, we will." Heathcliff says to him before he walks out of the room.
Thinker can only watch as the rest of the Guild Masters follow Heathcliff before he leaves the room.
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Change
Rafael watched as the people both inside and outside of Aincrad lived their lives, The mountain had been cut in half, one side belonged to the Eastern Players the other half to the players from the West.
He turned his head when he heard the kids laughing behind him.
Unfortunately, most of the Players from America were children and as a result, the Western players are a minority here because of their lack of capable fighters.
The mountain has changed a lot these last couple of years with new towns being created by the people both inside and outside of Aincrad but unfortunately, whenever something good happens it's followed by idiots who want to exploit it.
The Army had pushed deeper and deeper into their territory and taken lands that didn't belong to his side of the mountain.
He and the other guild masters had allowed the abuse to continue because they didn't want to put the kids in danger, but all of that changed when the ones responsible for taking their territory told several of the kids that they would kidnap them and turn them into slaves.
The guild leaders and masters had to stop him before he could kill those responsible, as doing so would start a war, so they had no choice but to buy their time and gain allies.
It turned out that the rest of the guilds in Aincrad had been paying attention to the actions of the Army and they had all come to the same conclusion.
What was stopping the Army from looking at them when they were done with his people and so Heathcliff was now telling Thinker to pull his dog's chains before the war began.