Aincrad, a world that floats above the void, made up of one hundred floors, each different then the last. Once, these lands knew peace, but then came the Demon King.
The Demon King stormed the Ruby Palace on the 100th floor and wiped out the old Aincrad Royal Family and took there throne. From there, he commands his armies. He pushed the rest of the humans of Aincrad to the 1st floor and prepared to wipe them out. But he did not think they would band together to fight back.
Dubbed guilds, they were fighters who worked together in groups, at the risked of the own death, to stop the Demon King.
The three most powerful of the guilds were the Aincrad Liberation Army, the Holy Dragon Alliance, and the Knights of the Blood Oath.
The Aincrad Liberation Army was the largest, with over several hundred members divided into squads and battions. The Holy Dragon Alliance was not as big, with only two or so hundred, but they were all powerful enough to take on three demons and once. But the most powerful of the guilds were the Knights of the Blood Oath. Though very small, not even a hundred, all the members were able to take on five or six demons at once. Together, they drove back the tide.
However, the guilds did not raise alone. Along side them were the Solo Knights. They were powerful fighters who, most of the time, worked alone. While this seemed suicidal, they could single handedly take on entire units of demon and come out victorious. At times, when they have to team up with other, they could destroy whole squadrons of demons. When it came time to fight Tower Guardians, demons that protected the top of the Towers, they teamed up with the guilds to fight them.
Today, five hundred years after the war began, the humans have pushed the demons to the 80th floor. Heathcliff now commands the Knights of the Blood Oath along side his daughter and vice commander Asuna.
Everything is moving along just fine but the apperance powerful new Solo Knight brings change. Kirito first appeared at the 75th Floor Tower Guardian meeting. No one paid any attention to the plain looking swordsman, until the battle.
His speed was the first thing that grabbed the attention of everyone, able to dodge most incoming attacks before the Guardian even began to swing. Even when hit, which happened rarely, he was some how able to shug it off and continue fighting, hits that would put a tank out of a fight. And when the fight was over, he was no where to be seen.
When asked about, people would talk about a swordsman clad in black with the ability to take on several squadrons of demons and come our with no wounds. Everyone agreed that he was the uncontested strongest Solo Knight, and maybe the most powerful knight period.
He even seemed to know the movements of the demons because, on several occasions, he had a town evacuated, just to have a demon army appear a couple hours later.
This caught Heathcliff's attention the most. How did he know the demon's attack plans? How was he able to move and react so fast? How was he able to take a hit that would kill someone not wearing tank armor? Heathcliff could not think of any answers.
Who was this Kirito? Who was this Swordsman in Black?
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The Swordsman in Black
AdventureAincrad is at war with the Demon King, who is commanding his armies from the 100th floor. Kirito is known as the Black Swordsman, one of the most powerful Solo Knights on the front lines, people who works alone. He has a tough time working with othe...
