Elemental Nations Online

Chuunin Exams PT2

"So where's this area?" Argo questioned.

Kirito sighed, and mention her to follow him with hand gestures. Kirito lead Argo behind the Hokage Monument to his usually hunting area. Unlike before when he was last here, there was lots of rabbits, but now there was lots of foxes running around and a pack of wolves which consisted of seven wolves. The wolves will be tougher to beat but Kirito could kill them. With his current level it shouldn't be a problem to take down the pack of wolves individually.

"Ok this is your first time partying i bet," Argo questioned. Argo and Kirito were behind the bush carefully hidden from the surrounding mobs.

Kirito nodded.

"Ok we'll concentrate on the foxes first. The wolves are at a higher level than us so there's the possibilities of us leveling while we take out the foxes to even out the level of us to the wolves. What level are you anyways?"

"Level 5," Kirito muttered.

Argo gasped.

"That's surprising! I thought you'll be level 2 or close to level 3 since this is only the third day of beta testing," Argo whispered.

"This is my hunting area. I'm always here," Kirito replied.

Argo nodded. This was a perfect place to be. This information was valuable, and maybe she could make good money off it for beginners that don't want to do d-ranked mission for four days in-game time.

"Is there always foxes and wolves around here?" Argo questioned.

Kirito shook his head.

"No, there's usually rabbits, and the occasional foxes that wondered about."

"OK back to the task at hand. Do you know what switching is?" Argo questioned once again.

"Switching?" Kirito had never heard of that word before.

"When I attack you attack after when I say switch. So it could deal more consecutive damage to a monster. The more damage one monster takes within a short amount of time deal the most damage. I learned this from a previous d-ranked mission that required our party to kill foxes that managed to get through the village's walls. So i have a general understanding of their attack patterns."

Maybe this won't be so hard after all, Kirito thought. At least Argo had experience in fighting mobs and wouldn't slow Kirito down.

"By the way, I'm selling that information to you for a small fee," Argo interrupted Kirito's trail of thoughts.

Kirito sighed.

"OK I'll lead the attack and you finish it off," Kirito said.

Argo nodded. Kirito could deal the most damage while Argo took out the remaining fox's HP. It was a solid plan.

Kirito jumped out of the bush and slashed the nearest fox, it's HP went down by nearly 75%, and Argo immediately finished the fox off with her knives. The fox disappeared in a poof of smoke. The party immediately gathered the loot and continued the process. It nearly took them an hour just to get all the foxes but when they did Argo leveled to level 4, and Kirito was close to level 6 at level 5, 96%.

"OK we took out all the foxes. Next I'll lure one of the wolves to us and you ambush it," Argo whispered from top of the tree branch. Kirito was hidden behind the rock close to the tree Argo was in.

"Do it," Kirito replied.

Argo leaped off the branch and picked up a pebble. She throw it as hard as she could at the nearest wolf. It only damaged the beast by 1% of its HP. But the wolf came inspecting the source of the throwing. When it was close enough Kirito jumped out of the bush and slashed the beast in half, damaging it only by 40%, and Argo switched in and attacked which only dealt 38% damage with the damage multiplier. Without the multiplier Argo would probably reach only at 20%-25% attack damage.

The wolf immediately countered-attacked and tried biting off Kirito's arm, but when Argo was attacking the wolf Kirito quickly sheath his sword behind his back and flashed through hand signs. He disappeared and was replaced with a log. Kirito leaped into the air and finished the wolf off in one hit with his sword. The wolf disappeared in a poof of smoke.

EXP +40

Received Wolf fur x1

Kirito was happy with the kill. The Exp was better, and there was a tougher opponent to beat. Also his level increased to level 6. Argo smirked.

"Well that's wasn't that tough as i thought it'll be," Argo said.

Kirito nodded in agreement.

"Yeah let's continue," Kirito replied.

Kirito and Argo continued the same process of luring individual wolves to be attacked and killed. During each time however Kirito managed to get hurt along the way when he didn't have enough chakra to use the replacement jutsu. The wolves seem to attack the one which dealt the most damage to them and that was Kirito. So they had to rest every once in awhile to regain Kirito's lost HP and Chakra. But after three hours of luring and attacking they were down to the last one. By now the last wolf noticed the disappearance of its pack and started investigating. It lead them to Kirito and Argo while they were resting for the final battle. The wolf caught Kirito by surprised and dealt massive damage to him when the beast bit into Kirito's neck.

Argo slashed the wolf off of Kirito before Kirito's HP reached the yellow zone.

"Thanks Argo, damn I should have paid more attention," Kirito stood up. The wolf growled at them. Kirito took out his sword and took a sword stance. He charged and brought down his sword on the wolf but the wolf jumped out of the way and tried taking a bite at Kirito's leg. Argo managed to save Kirito's HP from further going down by slashing at it's body dealing only minimum damaged. Immediately Kirito continued the assault and dealt massive damage to it's head landing a critical hit. By now the wolf only had a fourth of it's HP and was in the red zone. The wolf howled loudly, and suddenly three more wolves came to aid it's comrade.

"What the hell! Where did they came from?" Argo yelled.

"It must have used a special ability to call forth more wolves. Damn this will be even harder now," Kirito replied.

The wolves circled the two. Kirito and Argo stood back to back.

"Any ideas how to get out this situation?"

"No idea," Kirito replied. "But first we'll take out the wolf with the lowest HP." Kirito attacked first and killed the wolf in a single hit. One down, three more to go. The wolves leaped forward but Argo used the clone jutsu to make two copy of herself, and Kirito used the replacement jutsu. In the confusion Argo slipped out while the wolves aimed at the clones.

"Argo we attack one. Switch behind me," Kirito charged and attacked the nearest wolf with Argo behind him. The wolf's HP dropped down to the red zone, and two other wolves bit Kirito's arms and legs. His HP dropped to the red zone. Argo slashed both with her two knives to get the wolves off of Kirito but got attacked by the red zoned wolf herself. Kirito finished the wolf off of her, a poof of smoke reached his ears but he didn't bother collecting the loot. There was more pressing matters to attend to.

"Damn one more attack like that and I'm finished," Kirito muttered.

"This time I'll lead and you switch behind me," Argo said.

"No it's no good. They'll still attack me. We need a plan. Maybe we'll take one wolf each. At least that way I won't be attacked when I attack one."

Argo nodded. "I'll lead and you attack the other one."

Argo lead the charge and slashed at one wolf, while it's comrade was about to bite her, Kirito slashed at it. Kirito immediately leap back and got laid some distance between him and his target.

Argo continued slashing at the wolf multiple times to bring its health down but each attack only did about 5% damage because she wasn't using charging to increase her attack. It bit her arm and she stab it in the head with her free hand landing a critical hit.

Kirito dodged the charging wolf and slashed vertically at the body, the wolf growled and tried to take a bite out of him but Kirito used the replacement jutsu. He counter-attacked by slashing the body once again. And then another time before the wolf could counter-attacked. Kirito's wolf disappeared in a poof of smoke. Immediately Kirito looked towards at Argo and saw her HP nearing the red zone, and the wolf biting on her arm. The wolf's HP was also in the red zone. Kirito charged and slashed the last wolf in half. It disappeared in a poof of smoke.

Level up!

Kirito received a level up bringing his level to 7, and Argo's also leveled up to 5.

"We did it!" Argo yelled. She sat down with a plop in exhaustion. Kirito grinned and threw a thumbs up at her.

"Let's go collect our money and exp," Kirito said.

Naruto grinned in excitement.

"I'm nominating you three to participate in the upcoming chuunin-exams," Kakashi smiled at his genins. "It's your choice weather you want to participate or not. Be at the academy at room 303 tomorrow afternoon."

"I'm gunna be there!" Naruto grinned.

"Hn-" Sasuke nodded.

Sakura wasn't sure herself what she wanted to do as she was scared, but she'll go anyways.

Naruto for his part was excited. His level was 15, and he had finally allocated his stats all in Chakra and STR. He had immediately noticed the boost in strength and even Kakashi commented on that during team training. It wasn't all that terrible being stuck in a video-game as there was some perks. Like the levels up he received meant that his skill was paying off. The higher level he was the stronger he was going to be. He had wondered what level the Hokage was but the old man immediately shot his idea down when the Hokage didn't even know what levels meant.

"Go home and rest. You need it for tomorrow," Kakashi continued.

A/N: Another chapter. Heh. Well review! and for those of you that wants a pairing I'm not sure what I'm going to do with that. Maybe I'll pair Kirito with somebody or maybe even the canon pairing in the future, and also I won't pair Naruto with anybody. On another note I'm planning to go past the BETA and into the official release of ENO. I'm not giving out spoilers but the BETA is just the beginning. Keep reading and leave a nice long review :D Anyways for now I'm out.