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It had only been 5 hours since Magic Art Online had 

been released. You play the game by putting on 

neuro helmets that use your brains signals to control 

yourself in the game as your body in real life is in a 

slumber like stature.. The game already had 9 million 

players in it playing for the love of the game. The 

game was about magic skills that you learn from 

defeating creatures and honing them to your liking 

developing each type to your hearts content. 

Everything was fine until about an hour ago when an 

earthquake happened shaking the first floor of the 

high dungeon that the game took place in, Trimon.

 A figure appeared in the sky cloaked in black with a 

booming voice said, ”Players of Magic Art Online, If you look 

in your menu you will see that the logout button has been 

removed. This is intentional of course, in my dying breaths I 

shall see a nice show go on as you try to complete the 100 

floors of Trimon. The reason to the logout button being 

removed is to the fact that you cannot leave until the game 

is completed. The world has been notified of this and if they 

try to remove your helmets you will die as thousands of 

volts of electricity are sent through your brain. All of your 

bodies will be moved to hospitals for care to make sure you 

survive to play and maybe come back. I forgot to mention 

one thing, there is only one life per person if you die in this 

game to some of the many monsters or bosses you will die 

in real life as well.”

Most of us beta testers or beaters had never 

even met with the owner in the game, no one 

really knew his name. That incident happened 

2 years ago and the remaining players was 

reduced by 8.7 million people.The remaining 

of us made towns or villages in some of the 

more peaceful floors, Some became 

merchants, Some settled down in a house, 

Others including me fought for our way out of 

the game. 

I was on floor 37 of the tower in fort drake collecting my 

items and money for my trip to the stairs to floor 73 to 

meet my friend Asuna. I locked the door and used a warp 

crystal to floor 72. We are going to defeat the floor 73 

boss and achieve one gradual step closer to our freedom. 

In the guide book distributed to all the players about 

rumors of bosses or helpful tips for completed floors was 

the rumor for floor 73 that the dungeon was filled with 

kobolds and the boss is the kobold warchief using 2 

weapons, a sword and shield at first, then a giant’s sword 

when his health reaches 25%, but alas those were always 

just rumors. I arrived at the stairs where Asuna was 

waiting.

Asuna said, “ Come on Kirito we’ve been waiting.”

I replied with, “ We’ve?”

Just then the 9th branch of the armor guild appeared from the 

nearby woods, I could only tell because of their insignia and 

number on their chest plates. They were by far the largest guild 

of Trimon, but they were definitely not the strongest. Asuna was 

the co leader of the Dragons tail guild that was the strongest guild 

even though my sword skill is much more powerful than hers. We 

all exchanged greetings and headed up the stairs. Almost 

instantly we were attacked by a royal kobold guard and a few 

kobold squires. Asuna and I took care of them in mere seconds 

with Asuna’s royal fireskill that is extremely powerful with intense 

damage and attacking speed. Apart from the others that were 

level 20-30 I am level 48, While Asuna is level 40. I use some of 

the most powerful magic that only two people including me know, 

the all powerful fjord magic. The other person with this magic is 

the leader of the Dragons tail. I keep this a secret because I fear 

taking the burden of others. The boss chamber was just ahead of 

us, so we checked our backpacks for healing crystals and 

teleportation crystals just in case things got a bit close.

We all went into the room thinking of what the boss may look 

like or the more important thing of where is he in the chamber. 

We all entered the room in a clump with Asuna and I at the 

front. We were not paying attention to the roof of the large room 

as the Kobold Warchief dropped from the ceiling in a swirling 

blaze of swords and magic. All of us acted instinctively except for 

one unlucky soul that didn’t notice him. There was a scream then 

he dispersed into glassy shards. His friends quickly rushed to his 

side in sobs. My will to defeat this boss quickly rose with anger 

and ferocity. I lashed at him with hundreds of bolts of lightning 

only managing to take his health down 20%, but I was out of 

energy and too tired to send another volley. The rest of the 

players here fired all their magic destroying his health in a flurry 

of elements spanning from fire to water. His health dropped to 

35% as he gained his ground taking his chance to strike, in one 

sweep he dispersed at least a third of the armor guild as a flurry 

of crystals flew up and disappeared. 

The kobold readied another swing, as I looked 

closer I saw Asuna was in its sweeping and shield 

bash range. I snapped on the inside, my only 

friend being sent to oblivion never to be seen 

again. I activated my fjord magic restoring all my 

energy and firing a massive blast of ice, wind, 

earth, and water at the Kobolds gnarled face. He 

noticed the magic too late as he was knocked 

back sword and shield banished out of his hands 

and his health dropping to 10% while a cleaver 

and hook formed in his hand.

This Isn’t right, he’s supposed to have a giant’s sword. The hook 

then launched forward straight at me, the one who nearly 

destroyed him. I quickly jumped using wind magic, Asuna did 

the same thing but thrusted herself upwards with fire magic. The 

hook swung around so fast that it passed through all of the 

armor guild players. Asuna, the Kobold, and I were the only 

ones left, 29 players had just died for one fight. The kobold used 

its cleaver and chopped at Asuna who quickly flew around the 

room with her magic. I regained my wits from the terror of 

death. I charged another bolt of magic, firing the same type as 

last time the kobold flew into the wall and dispersed into 

crystals. My rewards appeared in front of me; a Midnight Cape, 

800 experience, and the bonus for the type of magic it was 

defeated with, the Fjord hand stone used for making magic do 

more damage.

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