Sword Art Online's
Chapter 25's
Ronye lay back down and covered his body up to his head and closed his eyes firmly. Ronye who finally fell asleep due to the fatigue of a long journey, forgot to turn off the seed lantern, woke up because he heard the sound of crying.
Outside the window it was still dark, probably still around 2-3 a.m. He heard the voice while lying down, then closed his eyelids again. It might just be a dream. But suddenly he was surprised by the sound that came from behind the door, the sound of noisy footsteps.
Still wearing her nightgown, she got up and tried to hear it without opening the door. It seemed that the footsteps were the sound of the guards coming down the stairs, Ronye opened the door slowly, he saw Kirito's face in the next room.
He looked half-sleepy, Kirito walked up to him with small steps.
“Senpai, what happened?”
“Entah..but it seems the guards all went towards the bottom floor.”.
Kirito finally woke up completely after blinking a few times, saying so while putting the suit he was wearing on Ronye's shoulder.
“Come go.”
“Eh…? Is it okay?”
“Maybe we can do something.”
Kirito patted Ronye on the shoulder, and he just nodded.
“But if keep standing at the exit, I'll be back!”
Ronye hurriedly followed Kirito who began to run fast.They ran towards the stairs until the 48th floor, at the same time heard a very clear exclamation…
“Bottom here!”
what was clearly the sound of Issukan, the two of them nodded at each other and ran into the wide corridor.
On the right side of the end of the corridor, they saw 2 large doors in front of him. The doors of the Obsidia castle were silver, wide open and an important area, the voices of the guards with fear and hatred were heard inside.
Kirito and Ronye passed through the corridor that was about 20 meters in size and jumped into it.
Suddenly the amount of light from there dazzled their eyes. The light of the seed lanterns, the guards numbered about 10 people, and in front of them was a large room containing a great many weapons and armor, and jewels. This must be the armor storage in Obsidia castle.
“That's minions!”
From the other side of the guard, Issukan's voice rang out again, Kirito stopped his steps, jumped up and disappeared behind him. Ronye checked the suit that covered his pajamas, ran small and stepped on the floor.
The Aincrad Sword Style that Kirito and Asuna possessed emphasized the importance of running and jumping based on the characteristics of the swords skill, and Ronye trained it every day. He was relieved that he had managed to jump from those guard troops and could hear the screams from behind him without being caught.
Some mel in front of him there Issukan and Scheta who are still wearing sleeping clothes, and far from him, there are 2 black objects.It is called minions. The shape is similar to that of a human and a half-human, the neck and arms are very long, and on the head there is a circular hook-like shape with a fanged mouth. His eyes numbered 4 in the shape of his head, and wings flapping on his back with a long tail from his hips.
“What is...minions!?”
As Kirito shouted, Scheta and Issukan turned their heads.
“Eh, are you awake? Anyhow we can't involve guests in something like this, I'll destroy such Minions with one punch!”
A flame of light emerged from Issukan's fist, but Scheta who was standing in front of her prevented her husband.
“Their blood is poison, empty-handed fighters cannot fight it.”
“But I..”.
As Issukan groaned, the two minions who seemed to understand their conversation, exclaimed in a voice of ‘fhaa fhaa’
This was the first time for Ronye to see with his own eyes, he knew a little about the minions. They are artificial creations created by Dark Art Master with a large number when fighting in ‘Gate of Timur’ in the Foreign World War, they were defeated by ‘Time Piercing Sword’ owned by Bercoulli. So that the human army was not hit by his attack, only seeing a huge bat-like minions, but this time it was much more terrifying than that.
His body length reached 2 mel, and the black fangs in his hands were longer and sharper like knives.
It required a powerful sacred art or weapon to fight and wound him, and it seemed the most effective way was to slash him with a sword, but Scheta already had none. While Ronye and Kirito regretted that they left their swords in the room, so they did not carry weapons.
“Mr commander, leave this to us!”
One of the guards exclaimed from behind, but Issukan insisted on banning him. They only received orders not to attack. On the other side of the minions, some shelves collapsed, jewelry and other tools fell, but they did not try to steal them.
Ronye realized that in the first place they had entered the storage without the guards noticing that there were giant wings on their backs so that they did not climb the stairs. They flew in the night sky through the window. Looking closer, the window was destroyed by minions and only the frame remained.
I-it means.it means…
At the thought of that, something sharp headed towards Ronye's head.
“You two! Dodging!”
At the same time as Kirito shouted, his right hand was pierced. Then he flashed a glittering light in his palm, creating 30 times the cryogenic element in one go.
Scheta and Issukan who saw him jump immediately. Suddenly Kirito released the cryogenic element and blasted it towards the minions. Normally cryogenic elements could only be spread over a wide distance, but after he had a higher controlling ability, the cold air managed to freeze the minions.
"Gshaaaaa!!"
“Two of you, now!”
"Yahoo!!"
Issukan yelled and kicked at the door, Scheta ran after him.
"Ura-ra-ra-a-a!"
Issukan's fist fed with iincarnation punched the minions' bodies right and Scheta slashed the ones on the left.
Minions on the right were crushed into pieces, and the left was split into 2.The two minions froze, so as not to bleed when they were destroyed.The guards exclaimed behind him, and the surprised Issukan turned in amazement at Kirito.
“You are indeed amazing as Kirito rumored, I have said even a high-level priest can only make 5 elements with one hand, per one finger—”
“Later the story Issukan!”
Shouted Kirito, who looked more accustomed to giving instructions to the two of them to attack.
“Minions it might take some treasure here, but it doesn't try to attack us. The intent of the Dark Art Master releasing them is definitely to distract us!”
Upon hearing this, Ronye felt a sense of fear, and at the same time Scheta muttered softly.
“Oh no..”
He suddenly ran fast, like the wind, past the guards towards the storage room.
“We are too!”
Kirito shouted pulling Issukan's clothes with the Eastern Imperial Style of the Human World and ran over.
“A-what happened...?”
Kirito's face flushed red and shouted at the confused empty-handed fighter while treading the floor barefoot.
“Maybe the intent of those Dark Art Masters is even more important than treasures.”.
“More important—”
Before continuing, Issukan opened his eyes wide, Ronye felt a voice heard from the golden red-haired man beside his right.
"Lisettaa"
After muttering the name of his beloved daughter in a low voice, both of his legs were shrouded in red light.
Gaan! The floor of the Obsidia he had climbed cracked like a spider's web, stepping 4x faster to the top of the stairs than Scheta. Kirito moves in the style of ashihakobi.
Trying to resist her trembling, Ronye ran after her, she climbed the stairs and jumped into the corridor of the 49th floor, but the three of them were not there, only the sound of footsteps could be heard.
Following the direction the sound came from, Ronye ran faster and entered the child's room, then the room that might belong to Issukan and Scheta.When he hurriedly opened the door, a strange foul smell pierced his nose.
There was only the light from one small seed lantern that illuminated the large room, but he could clearly see the large window that was split into 2, which was a big window, a pool of pitch-black blood and 2 guards were lying on the floor.
Looks like they touched the minions' rotten blood. Both of them were still breathing but they were also injured.Only Issukan was there.
“Guido, Gaiol, what happened!?”
The guard held his hand to hold Issukan close.
“Commander..don't touch it..”.
The face of regret was seen from the other guard rather than withstanding his pain.
“As we left, there was the sound of windows breaking and black minions behind it.we fought but suddenly Dark Art Master appeared, he used Dark Art to make me and Guido limp.
With a hunting breath, one other guard continued his story.
“We were exposed to the minions' venom and couldn't move. The Dark Art master kidnapped Lisetta by riding minions out the window.I saw her with my own eyes.”.
“.....so yes...”.
Issukan nodded and clenched his teeth.On his right, there was one bed for 2 people and and one baby bed. Just this morning Lisetta spent her days in her room and slept with her parents.
The 3-month-old baby has been kidnapped. Not knowing what to say in such a situation, Ronye stood up as Scheta and Kirito emerged from behind the broken window.
“...I can't find it”
Scheta said it out loud, and Kirito shook his head slowly.
“I don't feel their presence..”.
