27 Travica Part II

Throughout the Floor, players began to forge ways of establishing a community. A newspaper was published and spread for free at all item stores by a group of anonymous info brokers, who began keeping up with each day's occurrences among the other players. Jae took a great interest in this, but was frustrated to learn that the newspaper hadn't yet made much circulation. In response to the Massacre of Floor 1, a guide book was also published by a team of beta testers, putting a halt to the slaughter before it could get any worse. The guide book was mostly a detailed tutorial on how to fight in SAO, what areas were relatively safe, and the attack patterns of the mobs throughout the floor. Though neither of them needed it, both Toyo and Jae kept one in their inventories just in case any new information came to light.

Winding their way along the small cobbled streets and wooden houses, they passed their room at Forgo's Inn. Toyo was tempted to simply walk inside and rest, but they both had full inventories. The blacksmith was located a little farther in, near the center of the village,

Turning the last street corner to the blacksmith's shop, the two brothers braced themselves for another over the top welcome. Before they had even come within twenty feet of the exceptionally large bearded man sweating like a pig at his bellows, he saw them.

"Greetings, friends!" Shouted the NPC, the glee in his voice practically bubbling over as he spoke. "I was worried so!" Tears began trickling down into his singed mustache. All but dropping the sword he had been working on, he made to leap over his counter. Holding out his hand palm outward, Toyo raised his eyebrow and fixed the AI in a serious expression. The burly man wrung out his hands apologetically.

"Sorry," he offered, "You've warned me before not to get so worked up. But I'm just so glad you're both alright!"

"Yeah yeah, Norran," Toyo replied as he and Jae began accessing their inventories.

"It was just another grind run, Norran," Jae muttered. Scrolling through his items, he added, "We've picked up a few dozen weapons and shields. Care to help us out?"

Norran's smile returned, but the joy was especially evident in his beady brown eyes. "Of course boys, of course! You know I'm always more than happy to do business with you!" He began running his sausage like fingers through his beard in anticipation as Toyo and Jae made one last check over their spoils before selling them in bulk.

"How about this shield, man?" Jae asked.

Toyo looked over at Jae's screen, squinting a he surveyed the shield before shaking his head stoically. "Nah. Thanks though."

Jae opened his mouth to argue, but decided against it and sighed instead. It had been nearly a month since SAO began. In that time, Toyo hadn't tried out any different weapons, or even a shield, to replace or accompany his one handed sword, respectively.

"What's the sigh for?"

Turning his head, Jae saw Toyo now staring questioningly at him.

"Nothing man, it's just that I think a shield might help you out. Nothing wrong with a little extra defense, right?"

Toyo smiled. "Is that all? Don't worry about me, Jae. Having a shield just isn't my style. I'm fine. Hell, my HP is higher than yours, remember?"

Jae crossed his arms defensively. "Yeah, by like two fucking points."

Toyo chuckled quietly before shaking his head. "I'm just dicking around with you, bro. I knew that would get to you."

Rolling his eyes, Jae refocused on his item screen, pressing the Bulk Sell button. Immediately after, it was replaced by a small screen showing 1,200 Col. Not as much as I would've expected, he thought, but still decent.

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Turning to Toyo, he asked, "How much did you get?"

"Just over a thousand," Toyo replied. Looking over deliberately at Norran, he muttered, "I had hoped for more."

Scratching the back of his bald head as he furiously began to study his boots, Norran looked more like a child being scolded than a bear of a man working as a blacksmith. Kayaba definitely put some thought into this guy, Toyo thought.

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