Sword Art Online: The Requiem

Chapter Five

Chapter Five

November 22, 2050

Tolbana

We slept at the town. We are woken up by the noise of the people outside. A party has recently found the floor one dungeon and we need to join the party. I found Regie distributing his points on Tracking and Searching.

“Should we Join?” I asked.

“Yep.” He answers and gets ready to get out.

We got out of the inn and went to the city plaza. We sat on the bleachers and listened to the man standing at the center of the plaza.

“Good Morning, Everyone! My name’s Daniel. My party has recently found the Floor One Dungeon Room!”

The people around were shocked.

“Yes! You heard it right! Now, we need to clear the first floor in order to proceed. We are all here in the plaza to form the task force on the dungeon! I need you to form a party!”

I looked at Regie and found him smiling. Maybe this was the moment he was waiting for. “That brute always gets himself to trouble.” I remember Sarah say once.

“WAIT!” says a Voice from behind. His leap from behind was so great it already registered to me that he had mastered Acrobatic Skills.

“I am Dancel. We need concrete information about the bosses on the floors.”

“Look at the guide the Game has provided, it was provided by the beta testers so it will help. Illfang's First Floor Boss Room is twenty meters wide by 100 meters deep. He is over two meters tall, muscular, and covered in blue-grey fur. His eyes are golden-red. Illfang uses a bone axe and a leather shield to attack, and has four HP bars. Behind his waist, he carries a meter and half long Talwar weapon. Three Ruin Kobold Sentinels spawns and assist the boss at the start, and with the depletion of each of Illfang's HP bars, an additional three Sentinels are spawned. It will use a weapon called Talwar when its HP reaches 1/3.”

“So that’s it! We’ll head for tomorrow.” Says Dancel.

“Make sure you restock your items very well and practice! There’s a village called Horunka near here where there are monsters that gives a lot more EXP than the Boars.” Says Daniel.

The meeting was adjourned and we all stood up. Regie and I went to the said village where we met a pack of wolves.

“Switch!” I said and Regie ran forward and struck the biggest wolf with an Uppercut sword skill.

“SWITCH!” he said as the eyes of the wolves darted back on him. I ran forward and gave a Vertical Arc on three wolves.

The wolves exploded into a shower of polygonal shards and CONGRATULATIONS! was beaming on my panel.  

“Our temawork’s good.” Says Regie smiling.

“Yep. I guess they’re no match for us.” I said.

We walked further into the village and we discovered that the village is naturally surrounded by habitats of wolves. We trained the whole day to practice our switch techniques. Not long after three packs of wolves exploded into polygon shards, a party came. It was Celine, Maricris, Carla, Lianne and Lovely.

“Hey there.” Greets Celine.

“Hey.” I replied.

“So you’re out to practice?” asked Maricris.

“Yep. So are you?” asked Regie.

“Yeah. We’ve been doing good recently.” Says Lovely.

We talked a little and finally went to find shelter. We set up two camps. Regie and I’s Camp is 50 meters away from the Girls’ camp for “Privacy”. We roasted wolf meat we got earlier.

“Im nervous.” Maricris messaged me.

“Im not. Don’t be nervous.” I replied.

“But How? Maybe I’ll die tomorrow.” She replies.

“Shhhhhh. I don’t like that message.”

“But…”

“No more Buts…. Okay? Im here to guide you.”

“Thanks Gen.”

“No Problem. Here.”

I sent every one of them a Potion with a message “Use only for dangerous situations. Good Luck. ~Gen”.

“Thanks.” Replied Maricris. After I got the message, I turned it off and Slept.