So as Mint decided he would rest and focus on not causing carnage in Sao, he sent a message to Argo to gather the clearers for a meeting after a week in Rovia, no one dared to treat the meeting lightly as the leader of "The Fiends" is calling them, the one that scared everyone each time he appeared to fight.
After the week passed there are a lot of people waiting in Rovia as the leader of the fiends has ordered a meeting with rankers, there are plenty of other people anticipating to see the ones that will rescue them from this death game, 30 minutes before the designated time for the meeting most rankers have arrived, and a minute before the meeting Mint arrived with the demon summoners, the other summoner types still won't reveal themselves on the orders of Mint.
[Let's try a bit of first-person with Mint for the first time]
As I was getting bored from this useless hunting of bosses I have made a plan beforehand to get me away from this baggage that are these useless players, plus it would be troublesome if they rely upon me for everything, extremely so...
Oh, it seems we arrived at our destination, it is quite crowded but at least they know their place and give us a path. They seem quite interested in my new fiend, as expected. {Mint has wanted to test an ability called "Fiendish ritual" that requires the player to first kill 3 bosses by himself or be the one to seriously injure the bosses. that was the excuse of why he has that ability, the ability let him summon a fiend a CR higher than his maximum and has him use 3 slots of fiend summoning so only the Fiend God can use this ability. Oh, and the fiend he summoned was a Draegloth {CR of 7} [draegloths were 7.5–8.0 feet (2.28–2.44 meters) tall. They had four arms: large claws on the upper arms and humanoid hands on the lower arms. Their faces were stretched so that they resembled those of dogs. Their skin was black and covered in a fine coat of white fur. They had a yellow-whitish mane of hair on their heads.] and those are pretty damn intimidating}...
So as I was getting closer I noticed Kirito and waved at him with a slight smile, I got the act perfectly by now, I noticed Asuna is not with him and remembered her humiliation with the Demon Emperor so I silently chuckled, I see all of the clearers have arrived and I started talking, "Hello clearers, I'm guessing you already know but my name is Mint and I am the master of "The Fiends of Games" guild that slaughtered the first bosses and provided information about the floors, I have received a major forced quest in the floor Zero that is a special area where these fiends spawn from set on a timer that if I don't complete it I might die. So, in short, I won't be able to help you for some time but I shall still send you information about the next floors." as he finished talking everything gets chaotic but right after it gets chaotic the Draegloth slams it's hands together and it gets quiet immediately, Kirito raised his hand and I said "And no, you can't come to help me because only people that are connected to fiends can come to floor zero" Kirito seems disappointed but accepted it. "I shall come back around June so be prepared at that time". After he told that to Kirito he said "I'm guessing you don't have any questions left, then I shall start the quest now..." as he finished talking he took out a pendant with a glowing dark red crystal and says "Teleport
As he teleported into the layer he was above a throne inside a giant castle, he sighed as this is quite troublesome to deal with the rankers as he doesn't [the author too] know much about them...
With his power, he disconnected from the NerveGear and replaced himself with a clone and checked his surroundings, he's in a luxurious room that only the richest could acquire and in the middle of it is a large advanced capsule with a screen on it that shows stats on it, he sighs and says to himself "I better make something better because in the future games I might go into one of my friend's houses to play..." and as he says this he puts a strange futuristic helmet that shows what he is talking about with a hologram, At first glance, it shows a strange medieval demonic armor but with a closer look you can see the complexity of the technology it's made of, Mint taps the hologram and he inserts it into a computer that captures it, Mint types the specifics of the armor to the system and the ultimate artificial intelligence that gained sentience called allife filled in the rest of the technology and after that puts the design inside a file called arsenal, he checked the allife he put in Sao [that looks awfully like Shiro from No Game No Life] to see her status, the status is good and is prepared to 'bug out' at the moment Yui does, as he goes to exit the Sao status board he remmembers about a skill and looks at it again, it's called 'Asura' and it gives you 4 more arms and as Mint looks at it he nods as the skills is pretty godly, he will start using this around the time Kirito reveals his duel wielding...
Now let us look at the situation of the poor twins Konno Aiko and Konno Yuuki [As the author forgot completely about them], Around 2020 some students started rumors about them after they learned they had AIDS but the Mint copy defended them valiantly but in reality, everyone would be too scared to bully them when Mint is around so they can only gossip, sure it still hurts hearing gossip about yourself but it's better than bullying so all good but after a month Mint suggested transferring schools as this one is mean to them, they felt grateful that he cared about them and agreed. Unfortunately, their immune system started collapsing, Mint did a promise to help them and a week before he started working in Sao he told them about it and that it could help them. Between work, he visited them but he mostly was working, they saw how sincere he is for them and made him promise to rest, in the end, he secretly continued working, they noticed that there wasn't much difference so they made him rest around them to ensure he will rest this time, he complied and they spent a lot of time together. A week before the NerveGear launched he told them he will try it first to ensure there are no problems with it and that it is safe, and to customize a version for people that are terminally ill... But as we all know it turned in the end into a death game but they believed he could survive in it, the copy with the NerveGear got transferred to their hospital and they visited it with their remaining strength as he is very precious to them very much by now, after 2 months that he got stuck the twins got a timed message by him, it told them about the basics technology of the NerveGear and that this message was timed in case it was dangerous but he wanted the twins to be able to play too in such a game world, so those basics helped the creation of the Medicuboid... Right now the twins are using Medicuboids to adjust to it and enjoy the FullDive Serene Garden that was made for terminally ill patients.
Right now Mint is checking some news and finally, RECT took over Sao management. Though Mint already controls RECT with amazing profitable trade and lots of blackmail he increases his support for it and supports its creation of the AmuSphere. Mint made a little deal that when Sao ends a gigantic event will start in Alfheim where a giant portal will open between the Sylph territory and the Salamander territory, Mint has chosen that area because in the map it looks like it's missing something between those territories plus those are pretty major races to the story.
Oh and while Mint waited it turned to the year 2023, the limit of clones in a FullDive is around 130