SAO Story: Encountering Puzzling Players

Chapter 4: Dvia's Curse not to Belong

Kito felt anxious, he had to do something. Both Mazuurek and Zeru had got some infection from a monster they recently battled, Dvia.

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"Apparantly people who get out of this dungeon never come back to it. And barely anyone comes here." Mazuurek added.

"Then that leaves us for the taking." Kito answered plainly.

"Yes, but-"

"We should see what's inside."

"I know but-"

"I bet there's a lot of good items..."Murmured Kito.

"Can I just-"

"No explaining necessary!"

"Kito!" Zeru boomed. Her voice didn't fit that kind of shouting, but nevertheless it was scary.

"Sorry."

Mazuurek cleared his throat, "Basically, there's a boss in there that has a special effect."

Zeru nodded, and Kito found this time wasting.

"When it sprays this weird perfume or something from it's nostrils, it gives the player a symptom. It depends on the player what that is. It could even be suicide. But we'll survive."

"Oh God." Kito whispered.

Mazuurek's smile was sincere, and he wasn't joking about it. He actually thought they would.

"Thanks for the heads up Mazuurek, now we can go in."

Kito dashed inside, without any caution and almost slipped from the weird atmosphere. Zeru and Mazuurek followed, realizing the same thing. It was like a non-gravitational maze. An illusion.

"Does that mean?" Kito started.

"No. This is not the illusional monster. It only appears as a boss monster." Zeru finished.

He sighed, but still felt dizzy. The path that they were on would soon turn upside down and that didn't feel pleasant. They made they're way up and around many turning and twisting paths. By the time they actually found a monster Kito was too dizzy to focus. In the end he made a few slashes around the floating stone with a huge eye on a jewel.

The three continued the long endless illusional road and Mazuurek found it amusing how it was so anti-gravitational. After a while, Kito got used to it and things slowly turned boring. Somehow Mazuurek was able to keep up a conversation going on for the past few minutes of their boredom time.

"We finally made it!" Breathed Kito, tired of boredom.