Let the Time-skips BEGIN! 1 and a half months later. THE HAT?! And Darksouls players are crying.

Within the next month and a half, even the 21. Floor was cleared. This was only possible because the double XP made everyone able to Level Up and get stronger way faster and more easily than previously. However, the true major reason was that a mysterious guild named "Shadow Foxes" appeared and cleared the floors at breakneck speed.

Not much was known about them. The most important things were that they defeated 14 out of the 21 Floor bosses, the others were killed by the founded "Front Lines". The group was composed only of females, but the feature that stood out the most was that they had animal features. They had never worked together with any other guild or associated with other players and fought the bosses only with their own members, thus not much was known about them.

There were a lot of rumors about them, especially since the tails and ears were something very different from any other player and nobody knew how they got such a thing.

One of the rumors was that there was actually a small party with which they worked together. The party was led by a white haired and red eyed boy and besides him only had beautiful women in it.

Yami didn't really care about these rumors. Although he knew that player killing would probably start soon, he didn't plan to do anything about it. And even if the PK guilds were to target the girls, Yami was confident that the girls could make short work of them. The demi-humans fighting ability and speed in learning was frightening. Even if they were still inferior to Yami, he was sure that even the players who fought on the Front Lines couldn't hold a candle to them, with a few exceptions such as Asuna and Kirito.

Asuna participated in assaults on bosses together with Yami and the rest of their party. It hadn't changed from the first fight, except for Kirito. But since he had joined the Front Lines and wanted to help clear the floors they had still fought alongside each other.

There were Yami, Asuna, Alice, Sinon and Leafa. They were now a real party and trusted the ones they fought alongside. But they still often did things on their own. Yami still wanted to train fighting by himself and he also fought together with Esdeath and Mikasa as well.

He had gotten closer to all of them throughout time. He couldn't see their affection in SAO, but Asuna was definitely already at the Yandere point. She had already stalked him several times which made it a bit harder for Yami to go into Paradise or meet up with the other girls/woman. But it was actually also the best training for escaping a pursuer as well. He had gotten along with Sinon very well since after the time they had spent together learning how to use the bow. Since Leafa was present as well to watch them, both of them had spoken a lot as well. And he had spent a lot of time watching Alice eating food… A very long time. But seeing her happy expression and the loyalty she now had towards him made the sacrifice of his money worth it.

From the conversations they had Yami was able to deduce a bit about the circumstances of the girls. Most importantly; Leafa wasn't in love with her brother and thus an easy target. Although he had a yandere near him, Yami had still flirted a bit with the girls to see their reactions. Leafa had blushed but seemed to be happy. She was probably really an easy target. Sinon still had her trauma of being s murderer and Yami first needed to break that layer of defense, after that he should be able to conquer her as well. The girls in SAO weren't loose or anything, but teenagers with a lot of hormones in this part of their life would fall in love easily. Alice was just a loyal and lovable AI that liked Yami and liked talking with him. She hadn't yet learned a lot about relationships between a man and woman and thus saw herself as Yami's knight. And she liked this position a lot, even more so after Yami was able to defeat her in a duel.

At the moment it was the last day of the week and the demi-human girls, Esdeath, Mikasa and Yami would meet up. The Shadow Foxes had spent most of the time in SAO since they could become stronger there and take the books except for the special ones with them as well. It was actually a lot easier for the girls to get into and out of Paradise since they could just send Yami a message from inside Paradise. And thanks to that you can send messages to other players through the system in SAO, if they were your friends, they could ask him to come to them and send them to Paradise as well.

They have improved a lot in this month and a half. In both fighting and knowledge. They could even use basic magic already.

But Yami wasn't idle either, he was already proficient in both knives and two handed swords. The bow was something he was training in together with Sinon as well, he was already good at it, but Sinon was just an unreasonable talent with it. And currently he was testing out using a katana. Meanwhile he had also mastered using Ice magic to a level where he could at least compete with Esdeath, which was an achievement that came close to scaling the heavens. He had also looked at the books that he purchased and learned a lot. But he didn't get any Magic skill from it. Eve told him that the Magic had to be a lot stronger to be able to be added as a Skill. Each of the kinds of Magic that are displayed beneath the category of Magic were the ones that would fuse together to create Yami's own special magic. It was like streams that created a sea together. The streams needed to be big and powerful enough to fill enough of the sea with its own magic instead of the other kinds of magic. Thus the easiest way would be to just "absorb" the magic of others, either by literally eating them with Rimuru's abilities or "eating" the girls and getting the magic like he had with Esdeath.

Eve had told him that he could just dissolve the rouge devil that he killed in the Main-world and he would be able to gain the basics of DxD magic without putting all the effort into learning the magic. And if he "eat up" Kuroka he would gain a lot more than by just reading the book.

Yami was a lazy person. But not in the regard of not working hard. Just in the regard that he didn't see a point in putting effort in pointless things or going through major hardships if there was a way easier way. Because of that he decided to just focus on perfecting his Ice Magic and his ability to fight with weapons. And hone his battle senses, he was already a hardened combatant with a lot of fighting experience after all and had developed the senses, instincts and reflexes he wanted.

But not only fighting with weapons but hand to hand combat was something he practiced as well. Or rather, he was sparring with Tsunade… Or rather, he was getting beaten up by Tsunade. After "having a good time, having a good time", Yami had received a few benefits. First of all he received the Skill "Superhuman Strength", pretty easy to understand. And his control over chakra and his qualities as a ninja overall had undergone a big improvement. Superhuman Strength was listed in both active and passive skills since his overall strength had improved by a lot and if he activated it, his chakra would strengthen him once more. And he got the Chakra Healing skill as well.

His Kenjutsu was already at 600 Proficiency, showing just how much his swordsmanship had grown over the time he had spent in SAO until now.

"Yami-sama!"

At that moment the door to his room opened and Raphtalia entered, followed by ten more demi-human girls. There were two who were wolves, four were foxes, one was a cat, one was a dog and two others were raccoons. One of the raccoon girls was actually Raphtalia's friend from the anime who had tragically died in the story, but now she was full of happiness. There was also one of the foxes that Yami could swear to have seen in some anime before, but he couldn't remember. Her name was Senko and her name and appearance rang bells in his head but he still couldn't find it out.

There were actually a lot more girls, but because they had the "honor" of being able to hold onto Yami while teleporting, there were only 10 girls and Raphtalia there at the moment. It was already hard enough for 11 people to all hold onto Yami in some way but all of them felt very blessed at the opportunity instead of anything else.

There were always a few girls inside Paradise who studied magic, continued the expansion of the city and looked after Paradise. These girls would always change after a bit of time to let other girls learn magic / farm XP and get fighting experience.

"Yami-sama, I have something to report about the matter you told us to investigate."

This made Yami's attitude turn serious and focused. There was one thing that Yami was not only weary of in this game, but even feared. It wasn't the final boss or Kayaba, not even a living entity, no it was…

"Have you found "that" Hat?"

THE CHARISMA HAT! The sTrOngEsT Item in the game! He was prepared to kill Keita for it. It was an item of great power! One hat to rule them all! And Yami wanted it!

"We have found a guild named Moonlit Black Cats. It is a small guild with only five people, out of which three are NPCs. And the apparent leader named Keita has the item you wanted us to find. What are your next orders, Yami-sama?"

Yami already knew how he would deal with the guild. Like hell he would follow the original story. The NPCs were pretty much unimportant to him. All he wanted was to save Sachi and get that hat!

"You just have to tell me where I can find them. No wait, I have a question, would you kill an innocent person if I ordered you to?"

Yami looked at the 11 demi-humans and all of them answered without any hesitation or flinching in the slightest.

" " "Yes." " "

Their devotion and loyalty was aready at a level that they would kill themselves if he ordered them to, what about killing a single person? If it were his orders they would even kill a hundred or thousands.

"Very well, I shall give you your first assassination mission. You have to eliminate Keita from the guild and retrieve the Charisma Hat from him. The NPCs are unimportant, they can die or not, but the girl, Sachi, can't be hurt and mustn't die under any circumstances. It has to be a "accident" and the girl musn't know that you had some involvement in the "accident", I'm planning to take her into Paradise since I pity her. Thus it would be great if you could push a few monsters onto them and kill Keita through them and after that save Sachi from them. If there are complications just abandon your mission and return to me, we have time."

Yami was being heartless and a psychopath? Yes.

You are insane!

You are getting that now?

[The constellation "Moriarty" is smiling at his successor.]

"We hear your words and follow your orders."

Raphtalia sent a message to the other girls to inform them about their new mission.

After that the demi human girls all clung to Yami and they teleported to Paradise. Being covered in fluff from every side was a great sensation!

The girls went to a newly built library-building and only moments later another group of 10 young beautiful animal-woman walked over to Yami. They knelt for a second and then they went back to SAO.

It seemed that while they were in Paradise both Mikasa and Esdeath had arrived in Yami's room.

They had a bit of small talk. There wasn't much to talk about since they often met up to hunt or just spend time together.

"Yami-sama, we wanted to ask whether you wanted to join us on the subjugation of the boss of the 22. Floor."

Mikasa asked. She, Esdeath and the Shadow Foxes had planned to take down the boss today. With the skills of the demi-humans they were able to easily locate the places where the floor bosses were. Because of their strength, fighting abilities and the fast leveling, together they were able to match the boss on a floor far faster than the other players from the Front Lines.

"In the afternoon I will have archery training with Sinon and Leafa and I still need to prepare food for Alice… Sure, knowing your capabilities the Boss shouldn't take all that long."

If any of the players on the Front Lines, or any who had fought a boss before, had heard Yami's casual words, they would have puked blood. The Boss was the strongest monster on a floor and a whole raid of very strong players was needed to defeat one. Many players had died to these overwhelming opponents and there were a 100 of these nightmares that stood between the humans and their freedom of leaving this death game.

They had often battled together. Because of this the SAO girls and the woman from Paradise were already acquainted with another. But they hadn't talked a lot besides communicating in the fight.

"Should we invite the other girls as well, Yami-sama?"

Raphtalia asked with a great amount of respect in her voice. All the girls knew that Yami intended to invite the members in his party into Paradise. And every choice of their god was the right one of course.

"Hmm… I will send everyone a message whether they want to come or not. The more the merrier, right?"

With that said Yami sent Asuna, Alice, Leafa and Sinon a message asking if they wanted to fight the boss on the 22th Floor. And sent the location of Boss with it after confirming it with Raphtalia.

The 22th Floor is filled with forests and lakes and the one where Kirito and Asuna had spent their "honeymoon" and met Yui. Yami, Esdeath, Mikasa, Raphtalia and 20 demi-human girls were currently standing in front of the bossroom.

They were waiting for Alice and Leafa. Asuna was preoccupied with another quest and Sinon didn't want to face a boss. She didn't have the ability to block attacks and the rest of the party would have to protect her. In normal fights that wasn't a big problem since she had learned close quarter combat with Yami, even with a bow. Yami had taught her how to use the bow even if the enemy was near her. She was now able to use the actual bow as a weapon to deflect blades and even attack the enemy with the bow, but except for the knockback and surprise, such an attack wouldn't make any damage. But her draw speed was fast enough to materialize an arrow and shoot someone who was only four steps away from her. Yami tried to teach her the ultimate technique of bow spamming, but it was hard and wouldn't do much damage since you couldn't fully draw back the string but instead tried to fire as fast as possible. Once Yami had enraged Leafa in a mock-battle by constantly running and spamming her. Everyone who has ever played BW in minecraft should know how strong and annoying bow spamming could be.

But Sinon didn't want to drag them down in something as big and important as a boss fight and thus chose not to take part. But she convinced Leafa to still go, even if she herself wouldn't come.

"Yami-kun!"

He turned to his left and saw Leafa running over to him with her sword in hand. Behind her was Alice, they seemed to already have met up with each other.

(Somehow I'm really confused with the kun, san, sama and so on. Sometimes they just say Yami and sometimes Yami-kun… Whatever.)

Yami waved at them and they quickly made their way over to them. Alice still had her golden sword and armor and Leafa somehow got the green dress from ALO as well. She looked really good in it, outlined her perfect body very well and Yami got a few good glances while fighting, so he wouldn't complain about it. She had a random sword that she got from a quest that she, Yami and Sinon did together.

Alice and Leafa looked over to the other women. They had already met a few times but they hadn't spoken a lot with another. Yami had told them that he knew them from before the game started, but didn't go into further detail. But as fellow women the two could see the unconcealed affection and reverence most of the girls had. And especially the loving look in the eyes of three of them was clear to them. First was the one in while uniform that seemed to be the commander of them all, she was a tall, beautiful, and slender woman with long light blue hair, blue eyes and big breasts. Both of them felt inferior to her. Leafa felt inferior as a woman who fell in love with Esdeath, she knew that this was a rival that she probably couldn't beat but she still hadn't given out. Alice felt inferior as Yami's knight. Esdeath was the commander with great fighting skills, even better than her own and she knew that the loyalty Esdeath had towards Yami was way greater than her own. But one of the few times that they had spoken a word to another Esdeath said this to her; "I'm looking forward to the time that you are not only Yami's knight but also one of my sisters."

As a AI that was still learning about humans, Alice didn't understand the true meaning behind these words and thought that Esdeath meant "sister" as a sister who fought alongside each other. But she had already sworn to be Yami's knight and after all this time together she had developed a strange feeling in her heart that she couldn't understand. She wanted to ask Yui or Strea about this feeling she had, but because she was only an AI with the purpose of advancing in the floors, she didn't have any authority to interact with the Cardinal System. She was just like a player, but special.

She resolved herself to talk with Esdeath later since she seemed to be very experienced and Alice respected her since she was Yami's general and a strong fighter.

The other two girls mentioned were of course Mikasa and Raphtalia.

"Very good. Now then, should we enter or do you still need some time for preparations, if that is the case please raise your hand?"

All the girls were already ready and nobody raised their hand.

After that all the 21 demihumans respectfully fell in line after Yami, signalling that he was their leader. Even though Alice and Leafa had already seen something like that happen several times, they still didn't understand what Yami did for all of these beautiful women to earn their respect and affection.

Yami was the first one to enter, after him came his three Waifus, Mikasa, Esdeath and Raphtaila. Then came the already battle ready group of demi-human girls while Leafa and Alice made up the rear guard.

In front of them stood a gigantic stone golem with six red eyes who didn't have a weapon, or rather, the strong stone arms were its weapons.

They had already fought enough bosses and they could already be called battle veterans. The demi-humans spread out around it since it looked slow but probably did a lot of damage and had a lot of HP.

The girls with shields went near it while the others prepared to attack it all at once. If all of them did damage simultaneously, the KI of the boss would be a bit overwhelmed, giving them a even greater advantage.

Alice, Esdeath, Leafa and Mikasa all went to its backside since there was a big blue crystal sticking out from it, which was obviously its weak point.

Yami and Raphatalia stayed in the front, behind the tanks, in case something happened.

The boss didn't have a mouth to make a war cry, but it still raised its head as if to howl before suddenly dashing towards the tankers who had activated taunt skills to draw its aggro.

Contrary to its appearance, the monster was very fast. As it ran it drew its right arm back and horizontally swung it at the shields of the tankers.

Thanks to their high level, good equipment and skills, the girls were able to resist its attack, even if they had suffered some damage.

"Now!"

Esdeath gave the command and all of the girls instantly moved towards the towering golem. It stood too tall to easily attack the blue crystal on its back, but the girls didn't even need any instructions to know what to do.

Several of the tankers and damage dealers with two handed swords or axes smashed their Sword Skills into the rather frail looking legs of the boss. There were six with two handed swords and two with axes. Because of the force behind eight strong strikes hitting its legs at the same time, the golem's legs quickly gave in and it fell to its knees. This was the time for the already ready others to unleash their charged Sword Skills on the boss. Esdeath, Mikasa, Leafa and Alice attacked the crystal together.

The monster looked like a Iwarok from Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild, but it was leaner and more human shaped.

Yami watched the fight together with his attendant, Raphtaila. He didn't need to step in and would rather watch the battle and let the others get valuable experience. The demi-humans grew stronger if they leveled up, while Yami's levels would just vanish after getting back to the Main world. Although he was a bit annoyed that all the leveling would be for naught, he knew that level's wasn't what he would get from this world, it was fighting experience and mastery of different kinds of weapons.

After ten seconds the legs of the boss seemed to have already regenerated and it charged up a kill and slammed his right arm onto the previously attacking demi-humans who quickly and easily dodged while he literally threw his right arm, which was a boulder, towards the front. However, the tanks with two handed weapons who had again taken formation all swung the flying boulder at the same time, making it shatter. This move shouldn't actually be possible, if not for the perfect coordination and superhuman strength of the demi-humans. Their leveling seemed to make them a lot stronger in comparison to players. This was also because they could easily fight a boss while players at the same level would have a way way harder time.

The attackpatter and way to defeat the boss is quite simple. Its weakness, the crystal, was situated on its back and one needed to first get the boss to drop down, then climb onto its now horizontal back and then attack the crystal. After 10 seconds it would recover and stand up again, throwing the attackers on its back down again. Damage could also be done by attacking any other part of the body, but attacking reduced the HP of the monster several times faster than attacking it at the legs or body. It was a pretty normal boss, like in other games.

However, the Shadow Foxes weren't just normal players who would take a lot of time and have a hard time with the boss. Before the boss could even do its next attack Esdeath was already giving commands again.

"Change of plans! All of you focus on the legs constantly while I, Mikasa, Raphtalia, Alice and Leafa stay on top and attack the crystal! We destroy it before it can even regenerate! Yami-sama has other things to do today and we don't want to keep him waiting, right? He is watching us, we should show him the best we got!"

Every player would find this idea and strategy to be ridiculous, but the girls didn't hesitate at all and just did as their commander told them to. She was the wife of their god after all and their respected leader. All of them were fired up even more as they heard that their master had to wait for them to kill it.

"If you will excuse me for a moment."

Raphtalia bowed to Yami and immediately jumped towards the boss with sword now in hand.

The boss was about to raise its two arms, which it regenerated, and smash them down, but suddenly twenty blades all left their marks on its rather frail legs. It was immediately brought back to its knees and couldn't move. Alice and Esdeath were the first to stand on top of its back and attack the crystal, with the others quickly following.

Just as the 10 seconds were up, the boss wanted to rise once again, but it once again fell onto it's knees before it could shake down the five women that injured its weak spot as if they didn't have swords and rapiers, but full automatic rifles.

As Yami saw this scene he could only think of one way to describe this "battle".

(The girls are bullying the boss…)

It was normal for a boss to have some weakness and some way to stun it to get to that weakness. But right now the monster couldn't even do anything because it received blows that fast that it was just constantly in its stunned state… This was just bullying!

As Yami saw the HP bar just drop faster than his balance once Alice started eating, he even felt some sympathy for the monster. It was a boss, the strongest being on a floor and the greatest enemy of the players, but now? It was just a giant punching bag made of rocks.

Although the HP of a boss was a lot and it had four full bars of HP, attacking the weak spot did a lot of damage. Normally it would be very hard to attack the crystal and the damage to the rest of the body was minimal, because of that, attacking the crystal did a lot of damage to balance things. This was the mechanic of the boss. Neither Kayaba, nor the system would have expected that someone could make sweet love to the boss's crystal with the business end of a broadsword as fast as Yami made sweet love to Esdeath with the business end of his giant sword.

As Esdeath stabbed it with her rapier, Leafa, Alice, Mikasa and Raphtalia slashed the crystal into pieces. They were using Sword Skills to make even more devastating attacks. The HP bar just went lower and lower. Until it hit the red zone.

(Now that's a lot of damage.)

Whether the game had had mercy upon the boss, or the girls just didn't have any mercy at all, the monster was finally able to stand up after being pummeled for five minutes, but only to release its last, not hearable, cry. After that it dissipated into small flying blue sparks. Although it didn't have a mouth and thus couldn't make a sound, Yami understood the miserable wail of the bullied boss totally. During the whole fight, it could only attack twice and after that it just kneeled on the floor while five girls rode on its back while attacking its weak spot. A big F for enduring that long.

(F)

{F}

[The constellation "Respect" is typing F.]

Still, Yami could see the sparkling eyes of the demi-human girls. He would need to take his time to praise and reward them later. Well being covered in fluff and getting to stroke beautiful and cute animal girls was of course a reward for him as well.

"Well done everyone. We will advance to the 23. Floor and then return to our base on the 20. Floor."

Esdeath gave commands again while giving a short glance to Yami obviously wanting to be pampered or punished by him as well.

After they rushed to the next little city with a teleportation gate on the 23. Floor,, the girls and Yami went to the 20. Floor and teleported to Paradise after being out of everyone's sight.

Since they were already addicted to his mofu mofu sessions and his Wholesome God-Hands were enough to make them wet and unconscious at the same time because of how good it felt, Yami spent one hour taking care of all of them. That included Mikasa, Esdeath and surprisingly Tsunade as well. But after being touched by his OVERPOWERED Hands, Tsunade got hot because of the last time he used them to give her pleasure and Yami needed another half and hour to "take care" of her. In the middle of it, Esdeath joined in as well while all the other girls were praying to their god, Yami, that he would take them as well.

One of the books that Eve chose for them was about sexual education and now the pure demi-human girls weren't so pure anymore.

Funny enough, after both Tsunade and Esdeath spent another three hour of recovering they were even closer now. Meanwhile Yami was still full of energy as he trained with Sinon and chatted with Leafa. He would occasionally see a light blush on both of their faces, but didn't know whether the game even had such a thing.

After that he used the cooking skill he got to prepare a small feast for Alice to thank her for her help. Her eyes transformed into shining stars as she looked at the most delicious food there was while a bit of drool came out of her mouth.

The currently not so knightly looking knight once again reaffirmed her decision to pledge her loyalty to Yami. She had tasted all kinds of food from every kind of stall and inn there was, but nothing could even come close to what Yami could cook.

But Alice had accidentally mentioned the feast that they were going to have while raving about it and thus Asuna, Sinon and Leafa came over as well. Asuna had a look as if she wanted to use her rapier to pierce someone through, but the moment Yami stuffed some food into her mouth she was immediately appeased and focused on the food.

"This is nice…"

Yami thought as he relaxed. Even though his time was full of fighting, he was very pleased because it was still exciting. Although leveling was a bit boring thanks to the double XP, he could advance in floors more and see more interesting things. And the affection of the SAO girls was pretty easy to get thanks to the boost that God gave him. But he also wanted to get back to the Main world and do much more interesting stuff over there and get the Waifus that had practically been dangled in front of him like a carrot on a stick.

…

On the other hand, Kayaba was not relaxed at all.