"How was your date yesterday?" Willis asked the next morning, "You both came in pretty late," he added. "It was nice, me and Silica got to know a bit more about each other," Davis began, "I told her some of my adventures with the digimon among other things," he added. "So how did the meeting go when we left?" Davis asked changing topic, "Daibel approached the topic of the guild and that this may cause some of them to be a bit more stubborn," Willis explained, "Well with us being the only two players with creatures of massive power of course," Davis commented.

"You don't have to worry about us abandoning you," Veemon told his partner, "I know that but you never know," Davis told them receiving nods. "Davis are you awake?" Silica voiced, "Yeah I'm awake," Davis called out letting her enter, and upon entering Pina flew in and landed on Veemon's head, "I was wondering how you liked the date I kinda forced on you?" she asked shyly, "Honestly I liked it and hope we can go on some more," Davis said scratching the back of his head.

"Really! Are you telling the truth?" she asked with hope as Willis and the digimon just watched, "Yeah I'm telling the truth," Davis said before falling to the bed due to Silica hugging him.

"Well now that we established that," Willis voiced, "We need to figure out if we're going to join a guild or not," he said. "Well most people want the both of you," Silica commented, "Yeah well where ever we go you'll go with us," Davis told her.

"Yeah, but what I want to know is that if we're going to the boss fight?" Terriermon asked, "Yes I too wish to join the boss fight," Lopmon followed, "Can we please join you?" Veemon begged. "Well we can't back down now," Davis grinned as the other humans chuckled/giggled at the digimon cheering, "But since the labyrinth hasn't been found yet let's do some grinding," Willis told the group.

"Yeah we still need to find a blacksmith to repair our weapons," Davis commented pulling out his demon blade seeing some chips, "Let's go around town," Willis said as the group of three headed out. However before they could actually leave the building Asuna stopped them, "If you can come with me someone wishes to talk to you three," she told them, "Sure lead the way," Willis told her as they followed her to a restaurant before leading them to a private room.

"Thank you for coming," the male in a red and white armor told them sitting at the table, "Well we were curious about what you wanted," Davis responded, "Even if we have an idea," Willis commented. "Have you eaten yet?" he asked, "If not have a seat and order what you want," he added gesturing them to the seats. "Thank you but you never introduced yourself," Silica commented as the four humans sat down, "Forgive me my name is Heathcliff and I'm the leader of the Knights of the Blood," he introduced himself.

"So like Willis said earlier you ask for us here to ask us to join," Davis said straight to business, "Yes that is why I have called you three," the leader of the KOB bluntly told them. "We, ourselves, thought about that but to be honest we're still on the fence about it," Silica started, "Yeah if you asked before what happened yesterday we would have possibly said yes," Davis said next as Willis finished, "But with the digimon we'll have to hold off with the digimon we're going to get target for them and we don't want the guild we join to get targeted as well."

"Yes that is a good point," Heathcliff commented, "I understand."

"We thank you for the offer," Davis told him, "Even if we refused you can still count on us for the boss fights," Willis informed him receiving a nod. Exiting the restaurant, the group wondered around town, "Hey why not visit Agil," Silica put forth, "Why not we need to sell our drops anyways," Davis responded as the group returned to the first floor.

"Yeah guys," Agil waved upon seeing them, "Here to sell a few things?" he asked. "You should already know that you're the only person we go when it comes to selling items," Silica told him starting off, and when that was over the group was, when combined, at 6580 col. "We still need to find a blacksmith," Willis commented, "If you need a good blacksmith why didn't you come to me," an already familiar voice questioned the group.

"With how busy you are it would be hard to find you," Willis informed her, "Well there is a blacksmith on the 9th floor," the rat told them. "And how much will this cost?" Davis probed, "That will be 50 col," she answered.

Teleporting to the 9th floor they found the store, "Lisbeth's Blasksmith," Lopmon read, "Yeah well let's go inside," his brother commented as the female of the group opened the door. "Welcome to Lisbeth's Blacksmith how can I help you?" a female voiced asked as she entered the back room letting them see the brown hair as she is wearing a dark red top with puffed sleeves and a flared skirt of the same color as well as a pure white apron over that and a red ribbon on her chest, and seeing her for the first time Willis blushed.

"Yeah we need our weapons repaired," Davis answered, "Of course," she said turning to them and gasped, "Is there something wrong?" Willis asked getting rid of his blush. "No I'm just surprised that you came to my shop is all," she waved, "Did you see the fight we have with the monster?" Davis asked receiving a blush, "Well that figures," Terriermon said, "Oh so cute," she said hugging the green rookie.

"Can you please release me," the digimon yelled, "Sorry about that," she yelped. "No worries," Willis waved. "Is he yours?" she asked, "Yeah Terriermon and Lopmon are mine and Veemon is Davis'," he answered, "Oh sorry I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Lisbeth," she introduce herself.

"No problem I'm Davis that's Veemon, Willis, and his digimon, and Silica and her companion Pina," the Bearer of Courage introduced. "If I can have your gear I'll have those clean as soon as possible," she asked as the three gave her their gear, "How long will it take?' Willis questioned. "Considering that you're the only group here it should be soon," she answered, "Well I'll use this time to take Silica out on a short date," Davis said taking said girls hands, "What are you going to do?" he asked the Bearer of Destiny.

"I'll stay and watch the digimon," he answered, "Thanks and Veemon behave," Davis said as the pair left.

"So where do you want to go first Sil?" Davis asked, "Sil?" Silica questioned looking around the market place. "I thought it would be a good nickname for you," he explained, "If you don't like it I'll stop," he added, "No don't I kinda like it," she waved, "But only if I get to call you Davy," she added.

"That's fine," he answered.

"Hey, you two long time to no see," they heard Klein call out, "Hey man it's been while," Davis responded fist bumping the guy. "Where's that other companion of yours?" Issin asked, "Back at the blacksmith waiting for our weapons to be repaired," Silica answered, "Hey do you know where we can find a place to sell our drops?" Kunimittz asked. "Yeah Agil's place on the first floor," she answered.

Hearing a ring, Davis saw that Willis already messaged him, "Hey Willis messaged me that our gear is fixed so let's head back," he said, "Sure Davy," Silica said taking his hand. "Davy?" Harry one questioned, "Yeah I call her Sil and she calls me Davy," he explained.

"Hey that was quick," Davis commented entering the store, "Well I did say that you are the only ones to enter," Lisbeth informed them. "Well now you have more," Klein said entering the shop, "Really?" she asked.

"Yeah if they trust you then so should we," the leader of the group answered. "Hey, are you going to boss meeting for the 15th floor?" Dynamm asked the group of three, "Yeah and after that, we'll hold back to practice with the Unique skills that Akihiko gave us," Willis told them, "Really the creator of the game gave you both that type of skill," Klein asked surprised.

"Yeah the one Davis got is called Combat Mage and I got Trickster," Willis explained, "So one is all about magic and weapons and the other is swords and healing," Lisbeth pointed out. "Yeah, we'll be doing the same training routine we've been doing," Silica said, "And that is?" Dale asked.

"Night training in the labyrinth," Davis explained, "You are nuts for doing that," Issin told them. "Well when you deal with monsters that can destroy entire buildings with one attack you tend to be a bit unhinged," the Bearer of Courage told them.

"Whatever makes you sleep at night," Dynamm shrugged. "Whens the meeting anyways?" Silica asked, "Not too sure the clearing raid only just beat the field boss," Harry one informed the younger group. "Hey we're going to head out and train," Davis told them leaving the group.

Out on the field, the two members of the group found something on the 11th floor, "Why is most of the mobs here on this floor mostly bug digimon related," Davis commented. "Probably because Akihiko changed the mobs after our fight with that digimon," Willis answered, "Stop talking and more fighting," Silica cried out using her own Unique skill, Kunoichi, when she was almost in the red by a mob.

"Yes my lady," Davis said spamming fireballs to keep the mobs away then switched to sword and jumped in, "Can you use magic for defense?" Veemon asked. "Well I'm a COMBAT Mage," he reminded the rookie digimon, "Yeah you should have figured that," Terriermon told him.

Still grinding until midnight the group returned to their inn as Davis carried Silica to her room.

Over the next few weeks, the Silica was able to get her level nearest to the others as Pina was with the digimon also increasing her level to her mommy. "Hey, you heading to the boss meeting?" Asuna asked when they met her in the marketplace, "Yeah do you know where it is?" Silica asked.

"Yeah it's in the Sunlit Forest Inn," she answered, "and it's in two days," she added. "Yeah we're going then we'll back off for awhile," Davis answered and after a night grinding the group used the last day to stock up on supplies, "Now that you're a healer do you want to be in the back with other healers?" Silica asked the Bearer of Destiny. "There's already enough healers so I'll be on the attack force then switch to healer if we need it," he answered, "If that's your choice," Terriermon.

"Thank you for coming," Daibel announced, "The Boss on this floor is like the mobs here in which it will be a bug. The bosses name is called Scythe Insect that can fly so we'll need all the spell users to shoot it down for the rest of us to attack it," he said while pulling out the handbook. "What's the HP and is there any guards?" a player asked, "The normal 5 bars and the guards are ladybugs that can shock you," the knight answered.

"Ladybug that can shock you," Davis repeated, "You have a guess about it?" Asuna asked from behind them as there were still players there. "The ladybug, considering that most of this floor is digimon related, could be Tentomon an insect Rookie digimon. As for the Scythe Insect, I have no clue," the Bearer of Friendship said.

"There's one digimon that comes to mind is Snimon that's a Champion level dgimon," Veemon said, "Yeah Matt-sempai told us about that when I asked him about his experience about his adventures," Davis said remembering about it.

"Do you know the attack patterns or attacks?" Kibaou asked. "Attack patterns I don't know but attacks are mostly based off the scythe it uses," Terriermon explained receiving nods of thanks from other players. Leaving the meeting room they spent the day resting before the big fight.

"You ready for tomorrow?" Lopmon asked as the group ate their dinner, "As ready as we'll ever be," Silica answered. "At least Davis will be getting most of the action with Veemon being able to fly in his champion form," Willis commented, "Don't blame me," Veemon said with his hands in the air, "Blame evolution," he added grinning when he got some chuckles/giggles. Before heading to bed Davis took Silica to her room, "See you tomorrow," Davis told her, "Good night Davy," she said kissing him on the cheek before rushing into the room.

Next morning, the group woke up and had a quick breakfast before heading to the meeting place for the boss. "You ready for this one?" Klein asked as he and his group walked up to them, "Yeah Terriermon and Lopmon will help with the guards as Veemon will Digivolve to keep the boss from flying," Davis explained, "Sound idea Davis," Daibel said hearing the plan.

"Well I'm just happy that we have air support," Kibaou commented.

"Alright people let's do this," Daibel yelled out as people cheered and opening the doors they stormed in to see the forest and bursting out of it was the boss as the guards flew out in swarms. "Get ready Veemon," Davis called out as the digivice glowed blue, "Veemon digivolve to ExVeemon," the champion level digimon roared, and took off when Davis jumped on.

Charging energy into its scythes the boss launched its attack, "Dodge it," Davis cried out. Flying under the attack the champion fired back, "Vee-Laser." As the attack hit and the smoke formed the champion stormed in, "Critical Punch," he followed up, "Blizzard," Davis yelled freezing the wings sending the boss to the ground so that the rest of the group can attack it.

"These things are getting annoying," Silica said slashing another monster, "Can you please get rid of them," she told Willis. "If that's what you want," the Bearer of Destiny said, "Terriermon it's time to clean the house," he called out. "Finally, Terriermon digivolve to Gargomon," the bunny yelled out morphing into its champion form. "Time for some extermination, Gargo Pellets," he yelled firing at all the bugs as the rest of the group got out of the way.

Back in the air the boss and the champion were having an air battle, "Wind Blade," Davis cried out slashing his blade releasing an air slash. "Vee-Laser," the digimon followed up, "We need to ground this bug," Davis yelled over the noise. "And how do we do that?" ExVeemon probed, "Depending on where it land players will be crushed," he added.

Thinking Davis thought it over as he looked at the HP bar, "It's almost finished as it only has one bar left let's hope it doesn't try anything," he commented but as he said that the boss rammed them into the ground causing Davis to roll away. However before the boss could attack Gargomon bashed it away, "Thanks for the save," the blue dragon champion told the bunny with guns for hands, "No problem," said bunny waved. "You on Davis?" Willis asked running up to the leader of the group and healed him, "I'm fine and thanks," Davis answered.

"One last hit and its done for," Silica commented, "Yeah but with it thrashing all over we'll never get a good hit," Asuna said running up to the group followed by Kirito.

"Gargomon finish this," Willis instructed, "Gladly," the digimon smirked finishing the boss fight. "And with that, the fight is over and we can proceed," Daibel announced opening the gate.

Tai and the others

"Good thing Veemon and the others are there to help," Jun said in relief. "Yeah things should be much easier with them there," Willis' mother said.

Finished with the chapter and the next one will be a few floors skipped, see you later