When we entered the dungeon we immediately got a quest called "The Speaker" "The Speaker huh? Odd quest name. Wonder what it mea-" Hakari got cut off by a large orc like monster walking towards us swinging it's large great sword at her head. Just before it reached her I blocked the greatsword and slashed the orc across the chest, killing it in one swipe. "T-thanks K." "You're very welcome, Hakari." We made our way down the hall we were in before we reached a fork in the road. We were trying to decide which way to go when suddenly Hakari just stopped talking and started walking down the left corridor.
"Hakari? Where are you going?" I tried to stop her but nothing worked. It's as. If she was in a trance or something. I followed her down the left corridor, the hall ended and we reached another fork where Hakari went right, then left, then right again. At the end of the last right turn was a person hunched over hugging their legs tight, as if they were afraid of something. I walked up to the person "Are you okay? What happened?" The person stayed silent and just pointed to the left of me. I looked over and saw a bright yellow light. I went up to the light and was suddenly teleported.
When I came to, I wasn't in the dungeon anymore. I looked to my right and saw Hakari was teleported as well, but the frightened young boy wasn't with us. I lightly shook Hakari awake. "Hey, wake up." I whispered into her ear, she just groaned a few times before processing the voice and she shot straight up when she remembered where she was "What happened?! Where are we?!" "You just started walking. Until eventually we reached a room with a bright yellow light and the light teleported us to this place. Whatever this place is."
I began walking around, looking for anything that might tell me where we are. I looked around for about 30 minutes but only saw the same stone walls at every turn. Suddenly after we took another right turn we were hit by a large gust of cold, frost-like wind. Hakari shivered when the wind hit her. I quickly spawned in a fur coat I had gotten off of a target's body and put it over her. "Thank you." She said with a smile, her cheeks red 'she must be cold' I thought not really knowing why else her cheeks would be red
'We must be on a mountain. That's the only reason the wind would be that cold.' I thought while we were walking towards where the wind was coming from, expecting it to be an exit. After walking and seeing more of the same we reached the source of the wind. It was a large room, and when we approached it I saw something sitting in the middle of the room. A large Dog, well more like a wolf. It was sleeping, and when it snored the frost-like wind came again.
"A dog?" Hakari asked confusedly, "Yeah, a wolf of some sort, I've never seen this type of mob in this game before..." "Well this game was relaunched by a different company right? There are bound to be changes." "Yeah I guess." I walked closer to the dog and Hakari reached out to stop me. "It's okay. Just trust me." I said and she let go of my arm as I continued walking towards the large dog.
I got closer and closer to the large dog, now standing directly in front of its snout. "See, I'm fine." I reassured Hakari as she let out a breath she had been holding. I reached out slowly to see if I could get a description of the dog, but when I accidentally grazed its nose the snoring stopped. I didn't notice since I was reading a small description I got from touching it. I read the description aloud "Garm...a wolf trapped in hell by Odin. But this is a cave, not hell." I said as the dog awoke and stared at me.
I turned to Hakari. "Is it me or did it get quieter in here?" I asked and Hakari pointed behind me at the dog. I looked back and my eyes met its large dilated pupils. 'Fuck' I thought as Garm snarled at me, "Heyy...Don't attack. We're friendly." Hakari said, causing Garm to look at her. Garm moved away from me and got into a pouncing position. He kept at Hakari as I quickly unsheathed my sword ready to fight, Hakari had fear in her eyes as Garm landed on her.
But to both of our surprise he didn't attack her, he started...licking her? Like he was a dog who had just seen his owner for the first time. I sheath my sword and let out a sigh of relief, 'Thank god. I don't think I could've beaten it If it attacked.' I thought as I walked up to them. But when I approached Garm went on guard again until Hakari spoke to him "It's okay, he's very friendly despite his appearance." Garm calmed down and allowed me to reach out and pet him.
While petting Garm I looked around the room, I noticed something on the back wall and decided to investigate it. I walked up and found a console, Garm noticed me go over and walked up behind me. Garm touched the console with his nose and a weapon appeared. A small dagger, it was white with a black handle and the sharp part of the blade had a tint of red on it. It was called "Fang of Fenrir "Hakari, I found something for you." She walked over and saw the dagger.
She squealed and went to grab it. Once it was in her hand she appraised it, seeing it had an attack power of 2100 a major upgrade from her current dagger that only had an AP of 1600. However when the Dagger was removed a few more things fell out. A set of white Armor, a few dark magic spell scrolls, and finally out of the console came a Long crystal like Longsword, pure white and almost exactly the same in design as my Hope's End from SAO.
"Holy shit..." I said, gaining the attention of Hakari as she stopped staring at her new weapon and armor. "What is it?" She said just before looking at the sword "Woah that's a cool looking longsword K!" "Yeah..." I said as I just looked at it with both excitement and shock. Hakari noticed after a few minutes "What's wrong?" She asked as I grabbed the longsword and swung it once, twice, three times. "It's the same." I said confusing Hakari even more
"What do you mean?" "This sword. I've used it before." "Really?! Where?! How?!" She asked and I decided to answer "Yeah, in SAO. I got it from a dungeon on floor 74..." "Oh...how did it get here then? If it was in SAO?" "I'm not sure...I mean ALO does run on the same Cardinal system as SAO, so I guess it's not totally weird." "Yeah, I guess." Hakari said as she walked over to Garm, still looking at me, worried. 'I hope it's okay that he saw that.' She thought.
I put Hope's End in my inventory and turned to Garm "Hey boy. How do we get out of here?" I asked as Garm looked at me then past the console where I saw a door appear. "Thank you, Garm." I walked towards the door "Let's go Hakari. We got what we came for." She tried to follow me but was held back by Garm. He didn't want us to leave.
"It's okay boy. We'll come back to see you!" Hakari said happily petting the pouting dog. He barked at her happily after she said that and licked her face before allowing us to move on. When we walked through the door I heard a nice, soothing, seducing voice as I moved towards it. "K? Where are you going?" Hakari asked but I ignored her as I kept moving towards the voice. I was in a trance-like state until I reached another room.
When I entered the room I saw a large floating creature in the middle. Seemingly asleep I moved towards it, unsheathing my sword just in case it attacks. When I approached I tried to inspect it but upon doing so the door slammed shut locking Me in and Hakari out. The creature woke up and snarled at me in anger. 'What the fuck is this thing?!' I thought, dodging the creature's attacks.
The creature attacked me with its large 3 clawed hand. I went to block it but got knocked into the wall as the breath was completely knocked out of me. I used a dark magic spell called [Hypnosis] an Illusion spell used to control a single Npc. I used the hypnosis spell to make the creature stab itself through the abdomen causing a large chunk of its health to be depleted. I used the stagger caused by its attack to get my own attack ready as I picked u my sword and charged a sword skill I hadn't used since SAO
[Crimson Burst] I used the sword skill and slashed the creature across the face, ending its life. When the creature died the door opened and Hakari came barreling in, jumping on me. "Thank god you're okay!" She screamed with relief that I didn't die. "Yeah. I'm glad." "Let's get out of here, K." "Yeah, let's go Hakari."
