The Dark Knight of Aincrad

Chapter 10: The Legend Starts Here

Just shortly after being saved by Sue and her riders. All of them heads back to the camp hidden in the hills. There, they saw several players around one-hundred and fifty of them along with another two-hundred fifty from NPC mercenaries.
The people around the camp were busy with their own businesses. Some players went to the blacksmith to smith, the others -mostly the NPC mercenaries- were being trained by player instructors.

Then a soldier approached them. "Welcome back, Lady Sue." He saluted.

Sure bowed her head. "Can you please tell the Lord? I have brought guests." 

"Of course." 

Inside one of the tents were the high ranking members of the Lycian League were there planning up on a strategy. Roy can be seen there as he draws up some plans on how to  trap Narcian and his Wyvern army. As he does that, the Soldier entered the tent.

"Sir. Lady Sue is back and it would seem that she has brought guests." The Soldier said.

"Sorry, just let her do what she wants with them... Dammit, I need Diluc's help for this." Roy sighed in frustration as he kept on drawing the plans on the map. 

The soldier was about to leave until Diluc entered the tent and whistled as he was impressed. "I can't believe you've been stressing your ass with this." Diluc said.

"Hey! Watch your tone! You're speaking to Lord Roy!" An Old man yelled at Diluc.

Roy perked up as he heard Diluc's voice. He stopped writing and looked back to see him. "Diluc!" He exclaimed. "Be at ease, Marcus. This is the one who I was talking about." 

"Oh, then forgive me for my rashness." The Old man now named Marcus said as he bowed down.

"There's no need to worry about that, Marcus. This is just how I greet him." Diluc said.

"If I may be so bold to suggest that you two know each other in the real world."

"Yes. We're cousins in the real world." Both Roy and Diluc said in unison. 

"I see. Lord Roy, I will be leaving you with Master Diluc then." Marcus said as he ordered the solider to leave them alone as well.

Both Diluc and Roy sat down. "He seems nice."

"Yeah, don't mind him. He means well." Roy commented. "Anyway, what are you doing here in Lycia?" He asked.

"I got myself roped into this weird little war of yours. And also you have a guest or two." As Diluc said that, both Guinivere and Elen entered.

"Hello there, Blazing Lion." Guinivere said as she bowed down elegantly along with Elen.

Diluc looks at Roy with a deadpan look on his face. "Really? Blazing Lion?"

Roy blushes as he tries to explain to his cousin about it. "W-well! I didn't come up with that name!" He exclaimed. "People just started calling me that because of how much I resemble as a lion or something, I don't know." Roy said.

"Wow... They're really are cousins." Elen commented.

"Yes, it's actually quite unbelievable but the truth is that we're looking at it right now." Guinivere responded. "Excuse me, Lord Roy. I'd like to explain everything that has happened to you." 

Both Roy and Diluc but mostly Roy straightened up as he offers them to sit down which they did. "Please, can you explain to me as to why you came here and why you dragged my cousin in this? Princess Guinivere?"  

"Ah, so you know her already." Diluc commented.

"Yeah, she's practically famous in Bern. She's the peace-making Princess of Bern." Roy said.