Dreaming Blade

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Prespective: Syandara

VR-1-SAO - Phase 6

7:00 PM February 15th - Front Lines

I'm on break today.

I'm currently standing on the front lines, and I see, uh, a lower level player?

He's begging.

Begging everyone for something.

Then, I see a person dressed in the infamous "Coat of Midnight" walk up to him, talk to him for a bit, and I saw Kirito receive a crystal from him. I decided to follow Kirito tomorrow.

11:00 AM February 23th - Mishe - 35th Floor

I'm wanted.

Based on me continuously pissing of The Army, they put a bounty on whoever could get me into their prison, and holy crap, I'm worth quite a bit, 100,000 Col, which reminds me, I'm worth a S class ingredient.

Everything was going fine, I'm sitting at the inn I'm staying at. My guild are out buying potions for today, then I heard a sharp ring, it was a notification sound. Someone or something messaged me. I opened my inbox, and opened the newest message I've gotten. The sender was someone I didn't know, someone anonymous. What I read astonished me, "Hello, Syandara. I am Heathcliff, the leader of the Knights of the Blood Oath." it started.

It later continued on with, "I have heard of your recent endeavors and I would like to hire your guild to act as a sub-faction of my own. If you require additional information, please meet me at the 39th Floor, at the current headquarters, a countryside village. Of course, we plan to provide you with Col, and protection from the corrupt Army, which has been seeking your head and one more special thing".

The last two things caught my attention, I really, really, don't want to spend Sword Art Online inside of the Black Iron Prison, for however long this drags on to be, this has dragged on for a year, and I wouldn't be surprised if it got dragged on for another.

I messaged my own guild that I would be solving political problems and that I would be away once again for hunting time. Then I proceeded to grab my Katana "Amaterasu", and my cloak "Coat of Snowdrop" and went took out a teleportation crystal and teleported.

12:00 AM February 23th - Unknown - 39th Floor

I'm currently waiting outside of the small house outside of this country side village. This building is relatively small, bigger than my own guild's headquarters, but due to the popularity of the lead guild, I've heard rumors of them changing headquarters. The building I'm standing outside of has a red and white design, similar to the real-life Knight's of Templar, I've heard their symbol is Heathcliff's tower shield, which is reminiscent of a red cross.

Steadying myself, I walked up to the door and knocked on it. Once, twice, three times. Back in the real world, it was normal manners to knock three times, also here, I don't want to be considered a intruder. I was greeted by a man that looked relatively older than me, he had lots of facial hair and of course, was wearing the Knight's of the Bloods signature white and red armor. He greeted me with, "Hello, how may I help you?".

Hm. Seems like Heathcliff hasn't notified his members of his calling of me. I looked at him blankly and swiped my left hand down the air, opening the menu and showing him the message I received.

He looked at me strangely as if to question who I was, which he did by asking, "So your Syandara, huh. The famed leader of the PK hunting guild and you don't have a single guard with you?"

I simply replied with a simple "yes" and nodded my head. As if he was still suspicious, he raised his eyebrows, but let me in anyways. He waved me in the small house that was decorated nicely, and told me to wait outside the main office, presumably where Heathcliff is, while he himself went inside the office.

Moments later, the living legend, the paladin walked out. The sole user of the Holy Sword skill. I obviously had respect for him, but I simply just stood there in silence. Quickly, he waved me into another room, where I was given a seat. This was silent so far. Not much exchange of words. He started the main topic at hand, the discussion of my guild's alliance to his.

"Hello, Syandara, you probably know me, but I'll tell you anyways. My name is Heathcliff."

Wow, simple. I replied obviously.

"Hello, er. Sir? As it seems like you know me already, I'll skip my introductions and go to the topic. Of course I've decided already to accept, but I'm curious of what the "Special thing" you mentioned is".

He smirked and chuckled, "Well, interested aren't we? Well I'll tell and give you after you accept the guild alliance formally", he summoned a small scroll, and slid it towards me. I picked it up and read it. It was a contract. Just like a real life contract it had terms and conditions but I signed it without even looking, as I highly doubt this man would try to dupe me. He starred at me, his face perplexed but laughed anyways. He then opened a trade window.

A second later, a window came up to me asking if I was going to accept his trade request or not, I obviously pressed yes. He smiled at me and put a crystal inside his tab. I looked at the item's description and it said, "Allows the user to use Dreaming Blade".

See now, if I was eating something I would have surely spat it out and probably hurt Heathcliffs pride as a human being, he was lucky I didn't have food.

I stammered in my words, "Uh. wait. er. How?"

He smiled gently and looked at me and said, "It's a secret, but it's the same way I got Holy Sword, but I would like to ask you to keep this a secret and use it immediately".

I nodded enthusiastically and accepted the trade and used the crystal as fast as I could. I looked at my skill tab and smirked, I saw the new skill. The description was "A skill that allows the user to chain sword skills, ignore the time lag and create barriers for 10 minutes that are inescapable in non-safe zones."

Underneath it there was three statements.

Attack Speed Bonus: 1.40x
Weapon Defense Bonus: 1.25x
Cooldown Time Bonus: 3.00x

Still laughing at my reaction, Healthcliff said, "We are relocating the guild headquarters to Granzam, on the 55th floor. Also, I have a request for you right now".

I looked at him and asked, "What is it?"

His face changed into a serious tone, and he looked at me and said, "I need you to hunt down the guild Titan's Hand. Don't kill them, bring them to our new headquarters at Grandzam. Their leader is a woman, she wields a spear and has mid-level equipment. Her personality is a sharp tongued, manipulative one. The reason? Well, they have been terrorizing the weaker guilds, and even PKing them."

I nodded and walked out of our headquarters.

11:00 AM February 25th - 47th Floor - Floria

I couldn't find Kirito the last day, so I'll follow him this day. Well, after about ten minutes of follow him, he notices me. I raise my hands up in defeat and I walk up to him. He is accompanied by a small girl that would make most people go crazy over cuteness.

The small girl opens her mouth and hides behind Kirito as if he's her older brother and asked, "Kirito, who is this?". Kirito looked at her hiding behind him and chuckled, "Don't worry, just a friend of mine".

Kirito looked at me as if to ask what I was doing following him, but I asked my questions first, "What are you doing below the front lines?"

He replied with, "I'm helping Silica here revive her pet". That piqued my interest, didn't you need the Pneuma Flower to revive a pet? Also, isn't it really rare? I requested to help them, and Kirito accepted. Though he looked suspicious.

While we were walking to the Hill of Memories, we met many weaker mobs that Kirito would help Silica slay. Silica asked Kirito why he was helping her, his reason was extremely simple. She reminded him of his younger sister. He told Silica a story of his real life younger sister. He expressed his regret over quitting Kendo and forcing his sister to put in twice the amount of effort, he genuinely seemed to regret his poor decision but that was in the past. He can't do any thing if it's in the past. There were some moments of comedic action such as when Silica got caught by a... er... Tentacle monster? She yelled at Kirito to help her, but not look. I don't think that would be possible, but I had a good laugh about it so it really doesn't matter to me.

When we finally got to the Hill of Memories, Silica retrieved the flower and I think I saw tears in her eyes. She muttered some words I couldn't hear, but Kirito told her to revive her pet, Pina, back at Mishe where they had a inn reserved. When we started to walk back, Kirito raised his hand, stopping us.

I let out a deep sign and looked at Kirito, my expression probably said, "Someone's following us?" He nodded.

Kirito let his voice out loudly and stated, "Whoever's hiding there, come on out!". A woman with red hair came out. She had a green cursor, however, she reminded me of someone. Someone I was ordered to hunt down, on Heathcliffs orders. She demanded for Silica to give up the flower, and even told Kirito that she was impressed that he found her, and that he had a relatively high searching skill".

Kirito, however, told this Woman, "No one's handing anything over, Rosalia, not to you, or the orange guild. Or should I say Titan's Hand? Your their leader right?"

Woah, woah, woah. I need to tell Kirito that I'm involved in this too, "Hey Kirito, you said Titan's Hand right?"

He nodded.

"I'm currently under orders from Heathcliff to imprison them. You know my reputation right? Yeah, I got sought out by Heathcliff and I entered an alliance with him". I said.

Silica looked really surprised as she blurted out, "But her cursor is green!", but Kirito retaliated with, "It's an easy trick, the green players find their victims, then they lure them straight to the orange players. That was one of your members watching us last night right?"

"Then the reason you entered a party with me is?!"

"How perceptive, I was observing their strength. Watching them earn all that beautiful money. You were what I was excited about, and I was so sad when you left the party, BUT then you told me you were getting a rare item! Now what I want to know is that if you knew about us, why did you bring her here? Are you stupid? Or does she have you wrapped around her finger?" Rosalia stated.

"Nope, your wrong both times. You see, I've been looking all over for you, Rosalia" Kirito said with a confident smile.

"What are you talking about?" she asked

"Remember ten days ago? You attacked a guild called the Silver Flags, the leader survived. Four didn't".

He then told her of how the low-level player walk back and fourth at the front lines, from the warp gate to the battle, morning to night, begging everyone to avenge them, however, he didn't want them killed. He wanted them to go to prison".

Rosalia retaliated with stating that she doesn't believe killing someone here, would kill someone IRL, and that only fools would believe that. What a idiot. This is a death game, there is no saying what would happen OTHER than death.

That, insulted me. The first day of this deathgame, someone died in front of my eyes.

Rosalia then snapped her finger. Seven men emerged from the trees, each holding their own weapons.

For some reason, Silica was worried, I knew well enough, that Kirito and I were both high enough level to solo them on. She probably doesn't know Kirito's true level. She told Kirito to run, but with words of bravery, Kirito told her to keep calm and keep a crystal handy to teleport out, she reluctantly pulled out a crystal while Kirito walked forward, his blade in hand. Nonetheless, she still yelled Kirito's name.

That took the members of the Titan's Hand to surprise, I mean Kirito is quite famous. One of them stammered, "Kirito? Dressed in black, one handed, no shield holy crap! R-R-Rosalia.. That's the black swordsman! He's the beater who plays solo on the front lines! He's with the assault team!"

"Why would someone from the assault team be down here! Go on! Take him out, and take everything he owns"

"Woah, woah Kirito, you have a tittle? My, I'm jealous". I told him as I started casually walking with him, Kirito looked at me strangely. "Well, don't you have one too?", he was completely disregarding that they could possibly have a rare weapon. How brave.

"Hm, never thought I did, what is it?"

Kirito scratched his cheek and said, "I think, it's The White Nightmare?"

Face palming, I told him, "Well, it could be worse I guess, wait how did I get it?"

Before Kirito could open his mouth, one of the other players said, "The White Nightmare? Rosalia, he's famous for hunting down PKers! We should get out of here!"

I pulled out my Katana and laughed, "Well I guess it's a bad day for you!".

"There's no need to get scared! They're probably just phonies! Why would two players from the assault team be down here! Go on! Take him out, and take everything they own!".

Yelling various battle cries, they all activated their sword skills at once and charged towards us, well, mostly Kirito, slicing his body, but his health didn't go down, as he has the battle healing skill. They then switched their target to me. I had a nearly max level Parry skill, and it seemed like they didn't maintain their weapons very well, as they mostly shattered on impact. If you didn't know, if your weapons durability is lower than your opponents Parry skill, it would shatter on impact.

After a while, they surrounded us, however, they had very obvious looks of anguish and fatigue. Rosalia looked at her goons and screamed with rage, "What the hell are you guys doing! Hurry up and kill him already!"

Kirito smirked and casually said, "About 400 damage every 10 seconds".

All of the PKers look at him in confusion.

He continued with, "That's the total amount of damage you can do to me, with your weapons, and it seems like they don't even exist anymore". He said as he turned towards me.

"Thats the total, combined damage you seven can do to me." he expanded.

I added on to his speech, "I'm level 75, and Kirito probably is even higher, I myself, have 13,750 HP. Kirito's HP is probably higher and his battle healing skill regenerates 600 health every 10 seconds".

Kirito finally ended our speech with, "We could sit here all day and you wouldn't be able to defeat us".

One of the taller ones of Rosalia's guild shouted, "That's not possible!", if you asked me, that line would be a reference to the famous Dragon Ball Z "It's not possible! His power level is over 9000!".

"My client spent his entire fortune on this teleportion crystal, and he'll get his moneys worth!" Kirito stated.

"Well I'm green and if you hurt me you'll go oran-" Rosalia stammered before getting cut off by Kirito's immense speed

"Just so we're clear, I'm a solo player. I wouldn't effect me to play orange for a couple of days." He said with a glare.

Rosalia dropped her weapon, thankfully. She seemed to has surrendered. Everyone stayed silent for a bit until I intervened with, "Hey Kirito. Let me teleport them somewhere else other than the jail. Someone I know put me up to this. I'm sure you know him". I mean, I had my own debts to pay, Heathcliff needed me to do this for him."

"My client wants them in the Army's Prison though".

"My client is Heathcliff, he wants them in the Knight's of the Blood Oath detainment center".

He looked at me in suspicion, but still nodded regardless, and passed me the teleportation crystal. I looked at the Orange players and smirked and yelled, "Teleport! Grandzam!".

A blue portal opened in front of me.

3:00 PM February 23th - Unknown - 39th Floor

Ugh, it sure took a hell of a long time to move those guys in there. Kirito and his friend Silica left already. I'm currently walking back to the local portal to the other floors, but wait. What is that? Pink hair. Hm.

Only one person has pink hair that I know. Inori.

That couldn't be her can't it?