Alfenheims Warlords (a SAO fanfic)

Chapter 41

"Alright people! Who wants to learn about the defender units equipment!"

About a few people from various guilds walked up to Argo as she could only smile and think that business was good roughly a mile from the besieged castle of the Prince of Plague. The siege had been going for 3 days in game, one whole day in real life as the players had been pushed back multiple times by the Defenders from the walls and even the two breaches in the outer walls.

But the Alves were whittling down the enemy defenders slowly and while Argo figured someone would eventually breakthrough and begin getting into the actual city just within the walls as well as the keep, she knew that unless herself and other Info brokers did their jobs right they wouldn't get far.

Players paid her various prices for her information and as she was doing her best to bring up and give them the information they desired, she then watched as two more Alf armies came marching up as they went to try and take a portion of the enemy positions. Of course this was suddenly stopped as several spells came slamming into their ranks and the area around the staging grounds, where Argo was at, as she spun and pulled out her two Nekote claws that she wielded and as she managed to block one green skeletons attack as many more cane charging into the staging grounds, she hadn't expected them to be so bold and charge out like this.

The Staging grounds were really this flattened out area of gravel and dirt from around them as a ring of wooden palisades went around its large area. There was a archery ground, a barracks, a headquarters, a cavalry stable, and a few various portals as sentries had been patrolling around the area.

But not most of those that were here along with the many sentries were engaged in brutal combat as the few spare divisions the Prince of Plague himself was leading came charging into the camp as many began to torch and sabotage the buildings of the Staging ground to buy more time for himself and the hopeful reinforcements from Kommando.

He threw himself into a small cluster of Guild players and as he slashed and attacked them with his chain-linked daggers that flipped and twisted around his body, his blades wrapped themselves around the necks of players, sliced their bodies, stab themselves into bodies for Midnight to pull close and use as a shield from missiles, and while Midnight moved like quicksilver amongst them as he decimated them, that's probably when he noticed Argo.

Argo was fighting off three Skeleton swordsmen as though they were some of the newer Recruit-level, the fact 3 of them were on her had her being forced to defend with her claws than be able to attack and as Midnight finishes off the last of the guild members, he paused for a moment to look at Argo as she fought on against the skeletons.

Argo Muttered something before she ducked one of the Skeletons swings and finally her claws slashed out and took out its spine and cleaved it in half and as it fell to the ground in half, the other two tried to keep up their barrage of attacks but she dodged one and tripped it up as her claws took the other ones head off its shoulders before she curb stomped the last one on the ground as she smashed its head. That's probably when she noticed the Prince just standing there calmly as he had his daggers on hand and the chains around his forearms somewhat loose for quick throwing and retrieving of his weapons and as he stood there before her, Argo took a step back as she could tell he was smirking.

"Pretty good Fighter... want to try me?" Asked Midnight to her as he motioned for her to come at him as he couldn't help but think, Man those marks on her face kinda makes her cute...

But Argo took one step back before she ran as fast as she could from the place and Midnight sighed as he nodded to one of his Skeleton commanders and said, "Alright, gather everyone up and have them get back to the castle. Our raid was successful."