128 chapter 29

A few hours before Kirito contacted Leonard and requesting for help in desperation.

On the third floor, the situation was quite hectic for all the players and the group of Dark Elves that they supported for the campaign quest there.

After they accept the party quest that sided them with the Dark Elves tribe, they were sent off to the front line helping the struggling dark elves fighting off the forest tribe and established a small outpost within the conquered territory, after which they were also informed by a messenger to find and destroy a large spider den that infested the area.

The players actually did not have much of a choice in this quest since they were informed that the forest elves tribe actually blocked off the entrance the to the higher up floors, they had to get passed the forest elves tribe one way or another.

There is no negotiation that the tribe itself since they already sided with the dark elves, but then it top up all the shitty things that they had to do in order to advance, they were told to head off and kill a giant spider field boss, as one cannot advance further if the field boss was not killed.

Within the new outpost that was created with the effort of the players and the dark elves, the mood was tense and quite soured.

"How's the situation, did you find it?" Diavel asked as a bulky player rushed inside of the tent while having an arrow lodged on his shoulder- but funny enough the man was unfazed by it.

"Yeah, we found the nest alright, but we also ran into the group of forest elves as well, they manage to get a few crack shot at us." the man reported as he grabs onto the arrow that was sticking out of his shoulder and viciously pulled it out, which took a small chunk of his health off.

"Let get going then, the sooner we kill off that thing, the sooner we can advance further up." Kibaou jumped into the conversation while knocking his fist against one another.

"Where is the nest located?" Kirito who stood on the side with Asuna, watching silently all these time, decided to spoke up and asked.

"I'm glad you asked, the thing is right here." the bulky man then pulled up a copy of his map and showed all of them.

"The big one located dead center of this cave here." he then pointed out.

"Me and my boys went inside to have a little scouting, and man oh man, the thing is horrible! Its legs and eyes...literally anyone worst nightmare that came into light." he shivered as he described his encounter with the giant spider.

"Alright, anything noteworthy that we should know?" Kirito asked.

"Yeah, indeed- it name is Nephila Regina, the spider queen, it has two health bar, look quite strong and annoying to fight as well- as her little minions were everywhere." the player reported.

"Alright good, let's head out now," Diavel suggested.

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When the party of players arrived at the entrance of the large cave- where Nephila Regina was located, they were greeted by countless spiderling that made their nest in the area, a single spider was not that much of a problem for the player to dispose off of, but when there's at least ten or twenty of them crawling around? They had to rethink their invasion plan, especially when these little critters also carries poison in their attack.

"So...did anyone thought that bringing status cure potion was a good idea? Because I'm starting to really think that it was a dumb idea to spend all of that money on buying gears and health potion!" Kirito spoke out in annoyance as he then jabs the spiderling the size of a puppy through the abdomen.

"Oh shut it Kirito! GAHHH!!!" Asuna yelled at him before a spiderling manages to jump on her head which caused her to yelped out loudly as she struggled to get it off of her hair.

*thud "DIE!!!" Asuna then repeatedly stab the poor spiderling over and over again for roughly fifteen times at least before she let it go to the underworld.

"Talking about Status cure potion, didn't you mentioned the last time to me that Leonard would likely be carried over a hundred of these bottle on his person?!" Asuna asked him.

"Erm...yeah, he gets sick everytime we teleported somewhere- so he always carried some with him," Kirito told her in a meek tone of voice.

"Call for him! Tell him to bring over some people from the lower floor who had reached a high enough level as well! We could always use some extra hand!" Diavel added in after he kicked away a spiderling.

"Alright! I'm on it!" Kirito quickly pulled up his friend list to try and contact Leonard, who was currently on the lower floor.

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"Leonard! We need your help on the third floor as soon as possible! also please bring along with you a group of high-level players and some status curing potion! or I swear Asuna will kill meeee!!!!!" Kirito dragged out the last part after he saw Asuna going berserk and was throwing and kicking the spiderling everywhere, one almost landed and hit him on the face as well.

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A few hours later, back to the present.

On the third floor, where Kirito requesting aid.

Leonard, along with his guild members- the Moonlit Black Cats, also tagging along was Klein guild Fuurinkazan, they were currently headed to the location where Kirito and the other is located, which was dead in the middle of the entire floor itself.

"Ummm Leonard...do you know what we're going to be up against? I having a bad feeling about this, especially when you told us to bring along extra status curing potion." Klein asked him in a nervous tone of voice.

"I honestly don't know, but judging from Kirito reactions and the great background "music" that the other players are creating, I'm going to bet that it's something really nasty," Leonard replied back to the former scrub.

Klein gulped down a mouthful of saliva as he thought about what could be so bad that made the Kirito send over an emergency request for backup- while mixing within the message included some great "background music" created by the players that were fighting on the front line.

He couldn't help but shiver.

"Aren't you guys afraid of this?" Klein then turned his attention at the Moonlit Black Cats.

"...no...I don't think we're going to be surprised by anything now." Keita replied back to Klein while having a dead and expressionless face on him, it felt like he was dead inside.

"Uh...what's wrong with him?" Klein noticing Keita along with the weirdness of the other male players within their group and couldn't help but ask.

"It's nothing...just some intense training," he replied.

"Oh look! We're here!" Leonard added as they came to a clearing where there was a lot of commotion going on.