Alfenheims Warlords (a SAO fanfic)

Chapter 47

Klein walked along the sidewalks of the main road as he couldn't help but feel absolutely depressed and even feeling a bit angry at himself as he walked through the city. Although he couldn't have known Shisho had potentially a boyfriend but he would've thought she would've at least had told him she had one. Was she some sort of player, having multiples boys at her fingertips to use?

He didn't like thinking this way. It made him feel like he was paranoid and not thinking about a bigger picture but what else could be going on here? Why else would a random guy in a nice car come up to Shisho and swipe her from him and then drive off without giving him an explanation.

He was walking down the street as he managed to glance left and as he saw the library Shisho was at, he could only feel despair and sadness wash over him like a tide and he was about to leave when he caught a glimpse of someone in the window and he looked over to see, to his surprise and sorrow, Shisho as she looked up to try and wave at him but he simply turned away and sped along the sidewalk faster.

Besides, he had work today and he didn't want to be late. But the sorrow hung heavy on his heart, like a cloak made of lead.

The battle for Mantis Sphinx last fort was what one could say was quite a spectacle. It last 2 full real life days of straight skirmishing and battling as the Alves armies tried to fight their way through the forts defenses as its defenders and various string of reinforcements tried to hold them back but it had eventually left the Princess of Pleasure rather low on funds and an army when it finally fell and what units came back were more or less in utter shambles.

And thus the siege of Mantis Sphinxes castle was quite the spectacle as the forces of the Alves came hammering against its gates and walls in a tide and riot of colors. But Kirito was not worried much about the fighting but rather the numbers of those with him as with Klein and Shisho currently unavailable for one reason or another and with Sinon and Lisbeth still in the hands of the Princess, only himself, Agil, Leafa, Asuna, and Argo at the battle as they had decided to let their units back in Alfenheim to train and gear up under Yui and her surprisingly good stewardship of the castle.

Kirito watched as the walls were as bloody as the battle against the Prince of Plague but unlike that smaller and more simpler of castles, this castle had multiple walls and plenty of arrows to hold the Alves up and slowly destroy them. But the reason it took so long was because the Alves were fearing of a surprise attack from the rear by the prince of Blood and Darkness and thus a whole half of their forces were facing away from the castle as they prepared for an attack behind them. That still meant there were hundreds of players and thousands of AI units charging into the city gates that had been exploded open or climbing up on the walls to try and keep the defenders on the walls from redeploying down to the ground level to halt the enemy army trying to bust through their defenses.

But for Kirito and his group as they approached the gate carefully, they were hoping to simply get int relatively easily without a problem and help finish this battle and perhaps get this event moving on with more steam. But even he could see the dozens of slain Alves laying scattered around the walls and gate as they were also being tossed off the walls by the defenders even as he walked towards the castle.

"Whats the plan? We don't have the numbers to do an assault?" asked Agil.

"We can try and sneak in." said Argo as she let herself glance over her claws. "No point in trying to force our way through..."

Just then, they saw a group of shady looking players as Kirito then watched them start going towards the wall as he noticed two had an unusual green glow coming from them but he figured they might know something and so he said to his group, "Lets go and follow them. See what they do."