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Rubbing his chin, Sora stood up and walked up to the second floor of his Dojo.
The second floor was a newly unlocked area of his dojo, a reward for getting 25 disciples. The bottom floor had a ton of rooms, enough for his Disciples to each get a room for themselves. Even the bonus for training at the Dojo changed from a 25% bonus speed to 100%. The bonus outside of the dojo went from 50% to 150%.
"Ha!"
"Ugh!"
"Hyah!"
Up on the second floor, all of Sora's new disciples were madly training their skills on the training dummies. Their weapons hit the dummies hard, but their moves were ugly and very uncoordinated.
'They are all definitely new to this,' thought Sora as he looked at every new disciple of his.
"Everyone, huddle up."
All of the children dropped whatever they were doing and quickly surrounded Sora. Their faces brightened up and their eyes widened in expectation.
"From now on, you will all be learning and training in the basics," said Sora as he put his hands behind his back. He gaze at every new disciple of his with a deep profundity.
"Yes, Master!"
Sora nodded at the appropriate response of his disciples.
"I want you all to remove the skills you have right now. Use a skill slot to get the Parry Skill and the other to the One-Handed Sword Skill," said Sora.
His plan for the children?
'Elite Swordsmen!'
Since there will only be more people appearing in the game who will be powerful and crazy, Sora needed to train his disciples to counter those situations. There might be times when he will send his disciples to act on his behalf, so he can't have them being weak.
Not only that, he will use this chance to have the kids train their skills and have them level up his. Since their skill leveling and player leveling are connected, if they all level up their skills at the same pace, his skill levels will level up faster.
Of course, so won't be abusing this Mentor Skill benefit. He had to let his disciples make their own choices for the other skills.
Once the children changed their skills, Sora nodded and continued, "Before I can teach you a breathing technique, you will all need to learn and train in basic moves. Besides having Sword Skills, you need to have some expertise in the sword to truly bring out the Sword's might.
I'm sure you have all noticed a percentage marker appearing in front of your faces whenever you use a skill. The higher your percentage, the more damage you can inflict on your enemies."
All the kids nodded and revealed looks of surprise. If Sora was telling the truth, then if they work harder and become better with the sword, they will deal more damage!
"Now, all of you, follow my movements," said Sora as he went to grab a wooden sword. "These training dolls and training equipment are
They also won't have any attacking power."
The children nodded and the mischievous ones sighed in disappointment and erased the thought of taking the training equipment with them to hunt.
"Now follow along," said Sora as he placed the sword at his waist.
The children followed and did the same.
Iaido!
The wooden sword moved quickly and cut through the air at amazing speed, slicing at the training doll. The wooden sword only took a mili-second to slice the training doll completely before returning to Sora's waist.
Snikt!
The sound of a strike reached the ears of all the students and they raised their eyes in confusion. They didn't see Sora move at all and were shocked to see a red line on the training doll in front of Sora.
"Wow!"
"I didn't even see him move!"
"So fast…"
Sora turned to his students and said, "If you all train hard, you will be able to do something like what I did."
'If you train for 5 years straight, every day and in just one move that is,' thought Sora with a light chuckle. That sword strike not only held what he had trained in, but what he had honed and understood. Either it be from his clones or personally training in them and meditating to understand the sword (and any other weapon and body).
"Now pay close attention. I will only perform these 8 moves once," said Sora as he got into stance and revealed a serious look on his face. Using the Memorable and Imprint Intent, Sora made sure to imprint the 8 basic sword moves into the minds of his disciples.
Iaido…
Slicing…
Hacking…
Pointing…
…
After Sora finished, he turned to look at his student and looked at their dazed looks. On this day, 23 sword geniuses that will shake the Martial World were born.
Sora left the dazed disciples there before leaving and going down to the first floor. He had to give Silica some Basic Dagger Moves and teach Princess a Ki Circulation Technique.
When Sora walked down, he found Princess and Silica serving a hooded figure a cup of tea in the garden area. Sora walked over to them with a smile.
"Didn't know I had guests," he said as he walked over to the hooded figure.
"Ah!"
The hooded figure stood up in a hurry and looked at Sora with a shy expression. The two girls that were attending the hooded figure moved quickly and appeared in front of Sora.
"Master! This person came here to become your Disciple!" yelled Silica as she revealed a cute smile.
Princess nodded cutely and moved to the side to let Sora pass.
"So you wish to become my disciple?" asked Sora as he looked at the hooded figure with interest.
"Yes!" yelled the figure with resolute words.
Sora subtly nodded before narrowing his eyes, "You must be at level 7 already. Pretty impressive. Alright, I will accept you as a disciple but I have some conditions."
"Y-yes! What are the conditions?" The hooded figure nodded happily, not expecting Sora to accept so easily. They clenched their fists happily and didn't care what kind of requirements Sora had to become his disciple.
After she saw Sora's face, she knew that he was the one who took the group of kids and brought them to his Dojo, Myriad Paths.
"I will accept you as a Disciple if you reach level 10 by the end of this week and you show me a move of your attacking skill," said Sora as he glanced at the rapier at the waist of the hooded figure.
"Re-reach level 10… in one week?" asked quietly the hooded figure.
Sora nodded, "Yes. If you can do that, no matter your skill, I will accept you as a disciple."
"O-okay..." meekly nodded the hooded figure.
As soon as the figure nodded to Sora's requirements, they shook in surprise after seeing a Quest screen appear in front of their face. 'A Quest?! And the rewards are amazing too! Glistening Bread? Better than the bread I have!'
"Okay, now show me a move," said Sora as he gestured to the figure with a hand.
Nodding, the hooded figure grasped the hilt of their weapon and drew it from it's scabbard. However, before the rapier can completely come out, it was stopped by a finger.
"That's enough, go ahead and reach level 10 by the end of the week. I expect great things from you," said Sora, revealing a wide smile.
"Okay!"
The hooded figure didn't know what was going on, but they put the rapier back in it's scabbard and ran out to level up.
'They have good skills,' thought Sora, as he looked at the hooded figure leaving. He had seen the figures grasp the rapier with great interest and the instant the figures fingers touched the hilt that they had talent for the rapier. Wanting to confirm it, Sora let the figure draw the rapier from the scabbard only to stop it half-way.
"Master, why did you stop that person from bringing that sword out?" asked Silica with a curious expression.
"You may not have noticed, but that person is talented and suited for that weapon," said Sora with a light smile before turning to Silica and continuing , "And that 'sword' is called a rapier, be sure to remember that. That person will be your junior from now on."
[Learning the Basics!]
[Rewards: +1,500 EXP, 5 Mentor Skill Levels, 5,000 Cor.]
'Looks like a disciple understood the Basic Sword Technique.'
Scratching his cheek, Sora turned to look at Silica and Princess before saying, "Continue training and check up on the newcomers. I will be gone and won't return until tomorrow."
"Yes, Master!"
Sora nodded and left the dojo, leaving Princess and Silica behind.
"Where do you think Master is going?" asked Silica, puzzled by Sora's actions.
"Monsters?"
…
Sora walked out of [Myriad Paths] and headed out of Dragon City. Since he received new skills, he had to level them up and he couldn't do that at the Dojo.
As soon as he stepped outside of the Dojo, Sora activated three skills simultaneously.
Sprint…
Hawk Eye…
Searching...
Running, Sora moved at rapid speeds without the use of any movement techniques. He ran to a high level area where level 14 wolves patrolled the area frequently. When Sora saw them, he smiled and ran at them.
'Time to grind out my Skills!'
Sora ran in and hit some wolves lightly, getting them to start attacking him with furious looks.
As soon as the wolves attacked, Sora had unexpectedly sat down and let the wolves attack him. He sat down on the floor and maintained a passive look on his face as he activated some skills and occasionally moved his hand to parry a wolf's attack.
Sora was making use of his high level and large health bar to grind out his Passive Battle Healing Skill. Whilst this was happening, Sora occasionally used the Parry Skill, and constantly used the Hawk Eye and Searching Skills.
In fact, Sora even used the Acupuncture Skill to make the Dire Wolves stunned for a couple of seconds.
Just like that, Sora made use of most of his new skills efficiently. With the 150% bonus Skill EXP, and the +50% bonus for perfect skill executions, Sora's Skills had risen rapidly in level in just one night.
Whilst he was being attacked by wolves and occasionally parried and used his acupuncture skill, Sora had a contemplative look on his face as he looked at the screen in front of his face.
[Sword Art Online Forum]
[Guild Function to be unlocked in the 2nd Floor?]
[How to quickly level up.]
[Make 1,000 Cor in just one hour!]
Sora pressed on the first thread and looked at the comments.
Many people were talking about the Guild Function being locked and not accessible. After reading a couple of more comments, Sora exited the thread and looked at a couple more threads.
Just as Sora was about to close the Forum, he found a thread which he found rather interesting. He quickly clicked on it and read the contents the poster had typed down.
[Labyrinth to 1st Floor Boss!]
[Posted by: Dying Dragon.]
In the thread, Dying Dragon had asked many questions regarding the Labyrinth and how one should look for the 1st Floor Boss.
Sora smiled and looked at the replies and comments.
Each Aincrad Floor has an 100 meter tall tower known as a labyrinth with many floors within it. The boss room is found at the highest floor of the labyrinth tower.
However, before being able to enter the boss room, the 100,000 field bosses need to be defeated, or else the boss room will remain locked. The labyrinth itself is also rather tricky and riddled with traps, puzzles, anti rooms, many monsters, environmental dangers, and other types of dangers.
In the labyrinth tower, after the boss is defeated, a stairway is revealed within the boss room leading to the next floor. The Teleport Gates spread around cities and all over the Aincrad Floor, are all interconnected, so when the next floor is unlocked, the teleport options are updated.
100,000 might sound difficult to accomplish, but with 50 million players and the field bosses respawning, everything was rather easy. It would only take a week, or two, to quickly eliminate all 100,000 field bosses.
The other problem is also the labyrinth towers since they were complicated and filled with monsters.
"Haha! At this rate it will take the players 3 years to reach the 100th floor. Unless they finally find the Legacies of historical, legends, and mythological figures, find a hidden master, or even just have skilled and hardworking talented players," chuckled Sora.