TEQG: Sword Art Online - Aincrad
Equestria Girls
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The Girls get trapped in the newest video game, Sword Art Online. If you die in the game, you die in real life.
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Aincrad Excerpt - Dungeon Mayhem · 10:05pm Mar 26th, 2020

Excerpt From Episode Episode 35 - Coming Tuesday!

Bladescape walked boldly up to the table. Kirito was there, and so was Lightning Flash Asuna. Asuna was annoyed she was there. She usually was the leader and organizer for the boss raids, and no one approached the table without permission. Bladescape was putting herself forward as one of the leaders. She often did give strategic advice, but this was a stronger assertion of the Wondercolts' status than she'd ever given before.

Commander Heathcliff gave her a wry smile from where he was in the back. He preferred to lead the fights, but rarely planned. He left that to his officers whenever possible. But he loved seeing another guild step up to the table for leadership. The DDA tried, but they had a one-sided rivalry with the KOB. The Wondercolts were not trying to be better, or be the top guild; they were only trying to be a solid guild that could pull their weight and stay in the loop.

“Last guild here,” Asuna quipped. “Perhaps you have an idea of how to beat the boss, Ketzek?”

“There isn’t much we know,” Bladescape admitted. “We had to focus on our equipment upgrades. We know its rock based. Rock and fire like the rest of this volcanic Floor.”

“That’s useful information,” Asuna said sarcastically.

“We have been upgrading our equipment,” Bladescape confidently restated. “So we missed some of the lower labyrinth levels. Am I missing something important?”

Kirito spoke before a fight could break out. “We couldn’t find the boss’ younger brother, Kalzuk.”

“What is so important about Kalzuk?” Bladescape asked, remembering the fight.

“Kalzuk is supposed to have similar attack patterns,” Asuna growled. “But we can’t find him. We hit every major dungeon, at least twice, but we haven't encountered him.”

“Kalzuk was in the dungeon named after him,” Bladescape said.

“No, he wasn’t,” Asuna huffed. “The KOB raided that dungeon back on March 22nd. The boss was named Xelketic. We hit it again two days later, same boss.”

“Ah,” Bladescape said, a smile growing on her lips. “You were a day late. Six of us cleared the dungeon in one go.”

“Six!” Asuna exclaimed. “We had three parties and it took us all day! Both times!”

Bladescape shrugged. “Well, we did it without a problem and crushed Kalzuk. We also couldn’t teleport out; it was an anti-crystal zone. Joltron’s shield there, that was the Last Attack Bonus. The Obsidian Shield. It was repainted from dark red to our blue.”

Kirito laughed, enjoying the idea of six of them taking on a dungeon so easily compared to the KOB, the strongest guild in the game. Asuna was not happy he was laughing and slammed her fist on the table. It did its job to silence him.

“We took him down easily,” Bladescape shrugged. “But he had to be lured onto land. He spit lava and he was reinforced by several types of minions.”

Bladescape pulled up her menu. “We wrote down the attack patterns. I know they won’t be exactly the same. I assume the minions won’t come from the walls, but probably from some lava. I also doubt there will be cover at any point in the boss battle.”

Asuna and Kirito read the sheets of paper that Bladescape gave them.

“This is well written,” Kirito said. It was the first compliment Bladescape had gotten from him.

“Thanks,” Bladescape said. “I didn’t have Knightstar with me, so I had to do it myself. The hardest thing was limited access to the boss. That and the spitting lava. Countering the lava will require extremely good timing with the tanks. We had the pillars and rocks to take cover behind.”

Asuna had a bone to pick about the paper. "The boss chamber wasn't blocked. We had a Knight require an emergency teleport out in the middle of the fight."

"Well, our crystals were blocked," Bladescape shrugged. "We decided to poke our heads in and see if we wanted to try, but the doors closed on us. So we beat him. And we know how to beat his brother."