Everything was going fine, the assault team just cleared floor 27. The MindSwords chat was amazing, everyone was attached to each other at the hip. I really did care for them. I was doing my routine levelling for the day, now on floor 27, my XP goal was 30'000 a day. Now I'm level 47 and still, I could fight on the front lines.
I was going about my business when I got a notification from the chat. This is weird, usually, no one is on at this point in time and I have my notifications on silent. I kill the last mob in my area and check the message.
Fuji: Help! 6 minutes ago
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My heart dropped, I opened the attachment and saw that her location was in the plains of floor 17. I put in her location in my UI and I used a teleport crystal to travel to floor 17. By the time I arrived at the teleport plaza of floor 17, 4 minutes passed since I read the message. That means that 10 minutes have passed since she called for help, I just hope that someone else gets there before I do.
I take off sprinting toward the marker I set, I startled a lot of other players who were going about their day. I finally get out of the town and head straight to the plains, they were at least 8 minutes away at the pace I was going. As I running I couldn't help but think that if one of us dies nothing will be the same. I remember the time I described Max to them all, they all thought he would have been a great guy. That really made my day.
As I closed in on my target I could hear metal clashing against metal, I must be close. As I reached the peak of a hill, I could see it. 3 people were surrounded but at least 20 other players. I could barely make out but it seemed that only 2 were able to fight, the other was motionless. The 20 players greatly outnumbered the 2. I was about 700m away and as I studied the battle ahead I didn't think I'd have enough time to reach them
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When I reached striking range, I power one of my many skills. My sword moved on its own. First, it sent an air slash toward one player, then when I was within a blade of another PKer, my sword hung low beside me and swiped up. I cut the player's arm clean off. Due to my momentum, I crashed into him and was flung into the middle.
I looked around to see Fuji was the motionless one, she was still alive.
" Thank god, I made it in time," I say huffing and puffing
I look to see who the other two were and find Jam and Harry.
Harry smiled, " O boy, Now you're all screwed, do you know who this is?" He asks the enemy players
They were quite confused and to be honest so was I.
Harry continued "Not only do you have one member from the assault team, but now you two" he yells buffing.
I just look at him with a WTF look
The players started to look uneasy.
" Hey (U/N), if we want to get outta here alive you need to attack them with all you got. You don't need to kill them but just show them they picked a fight with the wrong people. Don't hold back and don't worry about your stamina, we can't take these guys on but they don't know that." Harry says whispering
I just nod.
Harry makes the first move, he roundhouse kicks the closest guy to him sending him to the ground and forcing others to keep their distance. Since Harry expects a show, I'll give a show, a quick one. I activate the skill that was unlocked after Max was killed, I call it Bolt. I get into a jumping position and all the players are confused. Instantly I seemingly teleport to a Pker with my blade to his throat.
"If you know what's good for you I would say you leave," I say in a threatening tone
Every last one of them ran away with no delay.
"Wow, that worked faster than expected," Harry tells me.
" yea" I reply frozen in place
" You good?" Harry asks me laughing a bit
" yea I'm good, just the cooldown," I tell him
When I gain control over my own body again I turn around to see Harry and Jam feeding Fuji a potion.
"What happened," I ask
" Fuji was attacked by PKers, she put up a good fight until she was hit by a paralyzing arrow" Jam answers my question
As my nerves calm down, I noticed the appearance of the 3 people in front of me.
Jam, has strawberry coloured hair and wields a spear. Her clothing is light armour with a hue of red. Harry, however, is much different. He is in a full suit of heavy armour and wields a giant axe. Then the girl on the ground, Fuji, is wearing camouflage colours which blend well with her black hair, I could see the dagger holster on her hip so I'm assuming she uses a dagger.
"Wow, you so look like a knight in shining amour," bursts out Fuji referring to Harry. She covers her mouth instantly and Harry just blushes.
"Cut it out you guys," Jam says not impressed
" Young love, it's so special" I shout out teasingly
" Young love my ass, I'm older then you pipsqueak" Harry announces
"Sure about that," I ask as I stand about a foot taller than him.
He just looks up at me " the fucking nerve gear got my height wrong I swear" Harry says flustered.
"Idk I like guys who are shorter," Fuji says once again on accident. Harry just goes to a nonexistent corner to hide himself
"Look you broke him," I say to Fuji teasing her some more
"(U/N) you're not helping" Jam says laughing
" You certainly don't mind," I say to Jam. " Fuji go over there and pat Harry on the back saying everything will be alright," I ask her trying not to laugh my ass off
"Ok" she agrees with no doubt
She goes over to Harry and proceeds to rub him on his back and telling him that everything will be alright. He just rolls into a tighter ball
" Thanks," Jam says swapping my attention to her.
"Huh," I say confused
" for helping us back there, if you didn't arrive I'm sure that we would have been in a more worse situation then we are right now," she says
"Yea, well if you or Harry didn't show up I'm sure Fuji would be dead right now," I tell her
"You think so?" She asks
" I know so" I answer
I hear some more footsteps and get ready to draw my sword. However there was no need, 4 heads came over the hill running.
" And besides, if I wasn't here, they wouldn't have been far behind," I say
As they got closer I could see their name tags as well with their appearances.
Qweep, well..... He was wearing clown face paint and.....a very colourful suit. Looky had a pair of glasses on and was wearing a green tracksuit. Punisher's appearance is about what you would expect, he looked very similar to Kirito due to his full black appearance. The only difference was he carried a VERY huge Longsword. Then, Liz, she wore white padded amour and had a 1 handed sword holstered on her side.
" Party's here I guess, and who brought the clown" I yelled at them. " I put the clown suit on to scare off the PKers" Qweep yelled back
He wasn't wrong... I saw the worms in the dirt run for their life's.
When they all arrived I ask Jam a question " so you know that rule that we can't meet, well I think we all just broke it"
"No duh Sherlock," Jam says as she punches my arm lightly
"Is Fuji alright?" they all ask
I point toward Fuji who is still rubbing Harry's back. Right now even Harry's brown hair is red.
"They are having a lovers moment" I tease
"Ha your funny" Jam tells me
" If I'm not then who," I ask
"Me of course," Qweep says
"Dweep" I come back at him
He just sticks his tongue out
"Well I'm glad Fuji is ok," says Liz
I couldn't tell from a distance but Liz has a unique hair colour, it was light blue. Where had I seen that colour before? I search my memory to come up with nothing, then it clicked. She had the same hair colour has Diabel. I wonder if they are related after all her whole family was killed. It would make sense since Diabel was killed during the 1st-floor boss battle just like Max.
Jam started speaking which gained my attention
"Well...since we all have met up, I guess there is no other thing to do then make a guild," she says with a huge smile on her face
She opens up her UI and makes a guild
The name of it...
MindSwords
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