Event 120: Yamamoto and Moonlit Black Cats (1)

[Aincrad- SAO][FLOOR 27]

[A night before the Kendo tournament]

"Yoshh!" Yamamoto descended from a hole with speed until he fell to his knees on the ground "the only good part about SAO is that I don't feel hurt."

"Well, this is hidden side of the 27th floor dungeon if I remember correctly no one entered this side, the guys at the inn talked about a monster in this place and it's possibly guarding the place, according to the code there should be a weapon, a rapier made of crystalline ingot" Yamamoto pulled out his two rapiers as he walked down a desolate hallway

"I will finally get my hands on the mighty crystal ingot rapier, with that my two swordsmanship will advance to another level and I won't lose again to Haruta.... at least not in such a crushing way" Yamamoto said to himself as he remembered the last friendly duel between the two, where Yamamoto couldn't make Haruta's health bar drop beyond 90%.

Several minutes went by inside the dungeon, Yamamoto went through the whole place with speed finished off any enemy in the place, with his skill there was no powerful enemy, he had already reached level 45 when he heard the rumor of the rapier so he went back to the lower floors to find the item.

"Diagonal slash, horizontal slash, head slash, armless monster, stab monster, dive somersault, shoulder stab~~" While finishing off the enemies Yamamoto kept happily naming his skills as if it was a TV show "King Bradley's experience is the best of all, that Haruta doesn't know what he's missing."

The place was full of enemies after all it was the secret area of the dungeon, no player had passed through that place so it could be considered a virgin place with all the treasures intact.

Being a secret zone also had a higher degree of difficulty and that was also the reason why secret zones are avoided by novice players, in this case there were several rooms with chests that held locking traps, sealed their respective rooms and summoned a horde of enemies, to survive it required at least level 35 but that was no problem for Yamamoto.

The minutes passed like hours from Yamamoto's perspective, he had gotten lost more than once in the maze-like dungeon "and it's finished, this is the seventh room with treasures, various protection items, potions and a purple colored outfit.... hehehe, now I have a high grade coat in my hands, feel envious Haruta, my items are better" Yamamoto couldn't help but laugh out loud every time he compared himself with his friend, as they both regularly face each other the spirit of competitiveness was on fire and they always looked for ways to be better than their opposing party being this the current case.

"Help!!"

The high pitched scream entered Yamamoto's sensitive ears, his attention soon focused on the direction the scream was coming from.

After obtaining the system all his stats had reached a high point so his innate abilities were quite high among them the sense of hearing "someone needs help..." muttered Yamamoto and then ran straight to where he had heard the sound.

Yamamoto's steps were fast following the several requests for help that were now no longer from just one person, besides the sound of weapons clashing could already be heard "rookie players, what are you doing in this area!"

While running down the corridor Yamamoto's attention focused on an object in one of the surrounding corridors, his senses screamed to go through that place, not to save those asking for help but to achieve his goal.

Yamamoto's enhanced vision gave him full compression of that passage, at the end was the rapier buried in a wall as if it were a spear, the only problem was the amount of enemies on the way and the dangerous presence he could feel from inside the passage, obviously there was a secret boss in the place one that could easily kill the floor boss thus demonstrating the difficulty of the secret dungeon.

Now Yamamoto's head was a mess, he had to decide between saving the rookies and his new rapier, there really wasn't much to decide but if he saved them he didn't know when he could come back for his rapier and if it would still be there when he came back for it.

"Help....!!!"

The cry became more desperate, Yamamoto could not waver in his ideals as he shook his head in annoyance "¡¡¡¡Ahh, damn it!!!!"

"HARUTA DAMN YOU, I'LL LET YOU STAY IN THE FRONT FOR NOW, THEN I'LL GET AN EVEN MORE DAMN EPIC WEAPON!" after his frustrated shout Yamamoto turned around and kept running in the direction where the voice desperately calling for help was coming from.

Yamamoto reached the place where the call for help had been coming from, just as he had predicted, in the secret room there were five people, one of them a high level person trying his best to protect the rest.

They were all trapped inside, by looking carefully Yamamoto was able to determine that they had reached the treasure room with a trap.

'With their levels they have no chance of survival, if you didn't help them your life ends here' Without a second thought Yamamoto made a cross slash at the door but nothing happened "well it was obvious.... sigh, I'll have to use an item."

with quick movements the inventory was opened where Yamamoto found an object similar to the one used to return home but this one had an orange color and was rarer than the previous one.

[Force entry]

[Consumable, when used you can force your way into a locked area, only to enter the area it is not useful for exiting a restricted area].

Yamamoto was enveloped in a white light and passed the door instantly drawing the attention of the people inside who were barely staying alive.

Seeing Yamamoto their expressions saw what seemed to be a glimmer of hope, after all Yamamoto and Haruta's fame was well known on the lower floors, players comparable to the front line completing secret challenges.

He didn't hesitate for a single second to pull out his two rapiers and reduce the pressure on the rookies by preventing their death, he pulled out a couple of potions and threw them for them to regain vitality.

"You the one in black, you have a high level come and help me, I'll take care of the left side take the right side, if you can't defeat them at least keep them at bay. The rookies should form a protection and attack in bursts but retreat when you notice that your life bar reaches 60%" Without anything else to mention Yamamoto moved out sweeping the enemies with his rapiers.