Sword Art Online: Integral Factor

Escape

A/N Hello everyone and welcome back to another chapter of Sword Art Online: Integral Factor! I hope you all have enjoyed this story all the way to this point. This is the final chapter for the SAO portion of the over-arcing story that I have created, and I can't tell you all how much I love you all for giving this story all the attention that it has gotten. Ever since starting this story I had been thinking that it wouldn't garner all the attention that it did indeed get. You all are the Heroes of these stories I make.

A couple of days had passed since Izuku's talk with Melissa. He had gotten better than he was previously when he went to the creek in order to clear his mind of everything. But now that he was back, Kirito and the other's had noticed an uptick in his skills enough that they weren't as worried about him joining Koharu in the afterlife. They actually smiled when he joined them for a small raid on a dungeon and he was actually having fun with them all.

But now though, everyone was moving through the dungeon that led to the 75th Floor Boss of Aincrad as a whole. And everyone was getting antsy about what was going to happen on this raid as nobody knew what kind of monster this was going to be. For all they knew, it could've been similar to Gleam eyes the Floor Boss of the previous Floor that they'd just defeated. 

But now that the one that everyone dubbed the lone wolf of the Raid Party's was back, they were more pumped as well as determined to beat this boss and move on. After a few hours of searching around the dungeon for the Boss Room, they finally found it as they all entered it. Entering combat stances, everyone got into their strategic placements for the Boss Fights as they heard the sounds of something crawling around. 

Izuku was the first to take notice of something when he heard some rocks fall down from above himself and a few others. Chancing a glance upwards, he found a giant skeletal behemoth who was massive in terms of height, length, as well as width. 

"It's above us!" Izuku called out, using his Heavenly Chains to pull everyone away from the spot the Boss just dropped from.

Pulling everyone out of the way, they watched as the Boss Monster grew in height as it glared down at them all. 10 whole health bars appeared on the side of its head as everyone watched on in horror as each one filled up. Izuku glared at the health bar of the monster as the number went from zero all the way to 2,569,251.

Swinging his chains around he pulled multiple others who were in the way of the rest of the boss's body falling down towards them. And as they prepared to mentally and physically fight such a monstrous being, Heathcliff, the leader of the Knights of the Blood Oath Guild, had stepped up and gave a speech.

"Men, we've come all this way in order to complete this game! We cannot back down now! We have people in our homes back in the real world, we cannot give up here! Show them the real strength of those who protect the weak!" Heathcliff called out. 

Hearing those words, Izuku didn't pay them much mind before he paused in his movements, they were hitting really close to home ironically. Looking over at the man, he noticed Heathcliff's health bar hadn't gone down yet from the boss monster hitting the ground. Looking at the man's overall health, he did note that his health was far above that of anyone he'd ever seen before. Even more than the blue haired player killer back on floor 61. Shaking his head, he thought that it'd be impossible that Heathcliff was not who they thought he was.

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The simple fact that everyone thought that this boss fight would be like many other boss fights that they'd gone through the entire game. Was an overstatement. The fact that this boss was still alive even after they'd brought its health down to zero within the first 2.5 hours of the fight was ridiculous. But here they all were fighting against a boss that could bring itself back from the dead, quite literally.