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"The field bosses countdown is already in the ones," said Sora as he looked at the amount of required field bosses.
Since there were a lot of field bosses and they respawn, in order to keep track of it, a system was put up for when they killed 100 field bosses. From 99,900, the countdown of the amount of field bosses needed to open the boss room began.
'Only 4 field bosses left,' thought Sora. 'Maybe I should help out, there's a field boss near me right now.'
Sora lifted his head and looked off into the distance where a huge Dire Wolf was leisurely strutting around with it's head held high. The Dire Wolf was as big as an elephant, and it's speed would obviously surpass it.
Standing up, Sora waved his hand as a purple energy left his hand and killed all the wolves around him in an instant.
His skills had all gone up considerable from just level 1.
Battle Healing- 1 > 59
Parry- 1 > 49
Acupuncture- 1 > 48
Sprint- 1 > 5
Searching- 1 > 55
Hawk Eye- 1 > 60
The only skills that remained lower than level 10 was just the Blade Throwing Skill and the Sprint Skill.
Thinking about something for a split-second, Sora revealed a light smirk before activating Searching, Hawk Eye, and Sprint. Continuing his skill grinding, Sora flashed from his current spot and appeared next to the Dire Wolf.
Pu!
Out of Sora's hand, a pebble shot out and hit the Dire Wolf in the leg, dealing 1 damage to it's 1,500,000 HP.
With another flash of his hand, many more pebbles shot out from Sora's hands as if they were bullets.
Pu!
Pu!
Pu!
Every pebble that hit would end up doing one damage, and just like that, Sora grinded his Blade Throwing skill whilst grinding other skills at the same time. He dodged and parried the Dire Wolf many time, provoking it to keep attacking him.
Occasionally, Sora would let the Dire Wolf boss to land a hit on him so that he can level Battle Healing as well. The only skills not being used right now were One-Handed Sword Skill and the Mentor skill.
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[Congratulations!]
Receiving his reward from killing the FIeld boss Dire Wolf, Sora looked at the bonus he got for defeating the Dire Wolf solo.
[Dire Wolf Cape]
[Increased defense, +10% Health, +50% Speed + Agility, Attacks cause a Bleeding Effect.
Bonus Effect: Aincradians and Players will feel charmed by your presence. +50% Damage to Dire Wolves.]
"This is pretty good," thought Sora as he equipped the blood red cape. 'Could use a color change...'
After defeating the Dire Wolf boss, Sora checked the system and found that only one field boss is left to be defeated.
Tic.
The 99,999 field boss death toll changed to 100,000 before glowing gold and fading off the screen.
Do~ng!
Do~ng!
The ringing of a bell could be heard all over the first floor of Aincrad. The beasts whimpered and acted cowardly for a couple of seconds, the Aincradians had stepped out of their homes before celebrating in happiness, and players raised their head to the sky in confusion.
'Looks like the boss room is now open,' thought Sora as he sent the boss Dire Wolf into his Inventory and ran back to [Myriad Paths].
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[Ding!]
[Ding!]
[Ding!]
Whilst on Sora's way back home, many notifications kept appearing on his screen. 44 notifications to be exact.
Each and every notification was related to his newly 'adopted' disciples finally memorising completely the Basic Sword Technique. His Mentor Skill quickly rose by 110 levels, bringing the Mentor Skill from level 210 to level 330. With two extra skill slots, Sora quickly used one for Armor Pierce, a good skill that helps in defeating armored and shelled foes.
Since it was now night, all the disciples that finally understood the basic sword technique had gone to sleep the moment they realized the time. Silica and Princess had both followed along the last disciple off to bed before they went to sleep themselves.
So when Sora arrived, everyone had already gone to sleep, or so he wished to believe if it wasn't for Princess and Silica appearing before him in their nightwear.
"Why are you both still up?" asked Sora as he looked at both girls curiously.
"We were worried about you..." yawned Silica as she rubbed her eyes tiredly.
Princess followed Silica in yawning before nodding to Sora cutely in the rabbit onesie he had made for her, Silica wore a bear one.
"Haha, you both should know that there's nothing that could hurt me in the first four floors of Aincrad," said Sora with a light chuckle as he rubbed the girls' heads. He grabbed some cookies from his inventory which he made earlier in the week and grabbed some milk before handing them over to both Princess and Silica.
Once both girls saw the cookies and milk, all their drowsiness instantly washed away as their eyes widened and took the cookies and milk.
"You both act as if I don't feed you at all," chuckled Sora as he sat down at the table with both Silica and Princess.
It's at times like these where Sora can rest lightly when eating some sugary snacks with both Silica and Princess. Both girls become more childish right before his eyes, casting away their 'mature' looks aside for some sweet snacks.
Sora sighed and stood up.
Before ending his day, he will have to check the stuff he unlocked at level 300 of his Mentor Skill.
Heading down below the house to the basement that was just added, Sora found the basement being rather large in size. Enough to fit in a smithy that's decked out, a place to make medicine and poison (Alchemy place), a tailoring area not far from the forge, and some sewing tools not far from the tailoring area.
With a light whistle, Sora was rather shocked by the new additions.
"Looks like I can now teach more stuff besides combat," said Sor with a smile as he walked near the forge and lightly ran his hand along the surface of the newly added anvil.
Nodding, Sora just left the room and returned upstairs to sleep.
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"Good, you're all learning quickly!"
Sora looked at all his disciples' training throughout the past four days with satisfaction in his eyes. Despite the stern look on his face, Sora was glad that all his disciples were quickly making some progress with the Basic Sword Technique.
Thanks to the Basic Sword Technique being seared into their minds, even if they lost their memory, the Basic Sword Techniques would remain within their empty heads, heart, and soul.
All they could do now was train, understand the sword, and temper their heart, mind, and soul.
Once they do that, they will naturally become geniuses of the sword.
Of course, Silica also went through the same progress as the future sword elites. The only difference was that she trained in the basic dagger technique.
Silica had a very high affinity for the dagger, her rate of progress was amazing in just17 days. Having everyone repeat their attack moves allowed them to become faster and more precise.
If it wasn't because of the game, every player would have blisters in their palms and aching arms. So this was more of a safe haven for many martial artists.
The only drawback would be that for those without a breathing technique, their outside body won't be getting nourished and strong enough to withstand the skill and expertise they might try to demonstrate when they exit the game.
So, to make sure that doesn't happen, Sora had the future sword elites take 2 hours of studying the breathing technique he had gifted them. This imparting had brought his Level 330 Mentor Skill up to 675, instantly giving him 7 new skill slots.
After the level up of the Mentor skill, the dojo grew an extra floor with more elaborate and expert level training equipment. The first floor also became magical, expanding in size by almost 5 times despite no change on the outside.
And with the 5 levels per disciple taught a breathing technique, Sora went up 115 levels in an instant.
Level 150.
Sora felt surprised, in just three weeks, he had already reached level 150, enough to reach floor 10 by himself.
"This mentor skill is too powerful… I should have lowered everything," sighed Sora with a wry smile.
Looking forward to having some fun with the monsters, doing some quests, and leveling up normally was going to be part of his fun whilst in this game. He wanted to see what was so fun about the games his children and grandchildren played in his past life. Sora missed his family, and he felt like he could feel closer to them if he did something like this.
'Will I have to speedrun the next 10 floors?' thought Sora with a sigh.
Sora shook his head and decided to max out his Mentor skill instead. Once the skill is maxed out, teaching and taking any more disciples won't increase his player level. Instead it will increase his other skills in level, grant him more Cor, and grant him weapons and materials to make them and other items.
[Smithing Skill equipped.]
[Tailoring Skill equipped.]
[Mixing Skill equipped.]
[Alchemy skill equipped.]
[Physician Skill equipped.]
[Nimble Hands Skill equipped.]
[Swimming Skill equipped.]
After using up the newly acquired skill slots and leaving one out, Sora sighed. He will just wait for the players to reach a level where he can finally join in and have some fun. In the meantime, he will be grinding out the broad skills.
Since the skills Sora had equipped, like smithing and tailoring, are Skill made up of other hundreds of skills, their leveling speed is 100 times slower. The effects of the skill are stronger and better, but no one would waste their time training these skills.
The only one who can properly and quickly level up these skills to top mastery is Sora. He's pretty sure that he can level up all of his current skills to level 1,000 when everyone reaches Floor 20.
Taking into account his current level and the grade his weapons will be in the future, Sora knew that he will have to join the fight when everyone reaches Floor 20.
There are also still 8 skills he still wants to get and grind out as well, but as it is, he will only be able to get 3 new skills in the next 7 floors.
Wire Skill.
Martial Arts Skill.
Meditation Skill.
He was looking forward to getting these skills.
In the meantime, he had to wait for the players to unlock the next few floors.
...
"Looks like you made it back before the deadline tomorrow," chuckled Sora seeing the hooded figure appear. His eyes lit up seeing that she returned 4 levels higher than he wanted her to get to.
The hooded figure lowered their head and said, "Master!"
"Good, but you need to know that advancing too quickly in strength is bad for you. Unless your mind can adapt to the explosive strength, then you will always be wasting that strength of yours," sternly said Sora as he took a stick out of nowhere and slapped the back of the hooded figure with it.
"But you did good, so… Princess! Take this junior of yours to her headquarters. Give her the food we had a couple of minutes ago," said Sora as he patted the head of the hooded figure with a smile.
[Asuna has become your disciple.]
Sora nodded in appreciation before watching Asuna follow behind Princess whilst rubbing her back a bit in pain.
Once Asuna's back disappeared, Sora focused onto the door and narrowed his eyes.
"Come out if you know what's good for you kid."
Sora took out his stick and tapped it on the ground with a light frown. He looked at the door for a couple of seconds, watching as it slowly opened revealing a figure behind the door.
"Why did you follow my disciple throughout her time outside growing stronger," said Sora as he slowly walked forwards to the figure.
"I-!"
"Quiet. Enter quietly and sit down," Sora said with a frown.
"..."
The figure remained quiet, following Sora's order of remaining quiet and entering the Dojo. The figure sat down and looked nervous whilst receiving a glare from Sora, wishing to jump into a corner and die.
"You have some guts to follow the young girl, swordsman," quietly said Sora in a relaxed tone as he sat down in front of a black haired young man and placed the stick on his laps.