CHAPTER 13.2 - Duel

Morte was about to leave when he suddenly stopped and turned to Kirito "Oh! I forgot I saw your girlfriend earlier watching us, but she already leaves" Morte laugh "Uhm I was thinking what she will be going to do after hearing our conversation HAHA bye Kirito-San!"

Kirito was nervous and quickly back to the camp, he was looking for Asuna when he saw Emilia so they look for her on the entire camp but they didn't see her

***Forest Elf Camp***

When Asuna arrived at the Forest Elf camp she jumps over to the fence surrounding the entire camp of Forest Elves, Asuna saw forest elf soldiers patrolling the camp so she used her hiding skills. She hides in the woods and looks for the commander's tent, she remembered Emilia said that she will recognize the officer's tents by the flag. She blends in the night her hiding skills was 75 percent but she managed to hide without being noticed by the others. She saw the tent with the red flag "This is the commander's tent" She saw someone who was guarding outside so she picked a stone to throw it in another tent because of that the elf who was guarding the commander tent checked the other tent, when the elf was gone, Asuna quickly slipped inside and found the commander sound asleep.

The reason why she was there is that she was planning to do the Infiltration quest, which involves stealing a scroll of orders from the forest elf camp and delivering it to the dark elf commander. After hearing from Kirito that he was planning to do this quest alone she came up that this is her chance to prove that she was not a burden to Kirito.

Asuna was about to steal the scroll, she was hiding behind the table but suddenly the commander shouted "Intruders!" Asuna saw a player quickly run out of the commander's tent carrying the scroll so she quickly followed the player "An enemy attack!" Because of that, the entire forest elf has become alert.

The falconer grabbed the scroll from the player who steals it. The falconer is a forest elf knight who has a big eagle bird pet with him "I cannot allow you to get that thing" Asuna used her martial arts skills and jumps towards the eagle and grabbed the scroll when she got it she hide it inside her cloak. Asuna was about to escape but the falconer forest elf knight blocked her

"Human, where do you think you are going? After stealing something from us?" The falconer smiled at her and quickly dash to attack her but Asuna move fast and avoided it so she make a linear but the falconer blocked it however Asuna used her martial arts skills and hit him with the senda attack and when she has a chance she hit him by her rapier. Asuna backflip away from the falconer after hitting him

"Falconer-Dono, are you alright?" One of the forest elves came and helps the falconer

"Oh, how scary" The falconer looked at Asuna and smiled "Seems to humankind also has a very good sword skills" He pushed the elf away from him "Could suddenly attack me like this, but there will be no second time" Asuna saw the Hp of the falconer; It was three Hp bar and the one bar of him was on its half.

Asuna is surrounded by the four new enemies "What should I do?" Asuna murmured, even though their levels are low but they are still a knight. Asuna came up with tactics. She runs and about to retreat she came into one of the tents and slush the column of it

"She is running away!" The forest elf shouted, "The enemy was running away!" They followed Asuna inside the tent but suddenly the tent collapsed due to the destruction of its foundation so Asuna took advantage of it and quickly attacked them and turned them into fragments.

"I need to defeat the enemies both from the sky and the ground at the same time" The falconer and its eagle dash towards Asuna and are about to attack her so she preferred her reaper to block its attack. Asuna manage to block the attack by the falconer forest elf but its eagle scratch her so her Hp decrease "I can't lose here, I need to think" She heard the other forest elf coming so she grabbed the opportunity and throw her dagger to the eagle and the falconer after doing that she sprints away from them and go to the forest, good thing that she can blend in the dark but still she heard that someone was following her and that was the falconer. When she got away she stopped running

"I know what you're trying to do human," The falconer said, Asuna didn't see its eagle "Let's continue our battle here, no one can interrupt us" He smiled

The falconer sprints toward Asuna and attack her but Asuna manage to block it however the elf was stronger than her she suddenly remembered Kirito words that the falconer of the forest elf was about the level of the 9th-floor monster, the thing that she can do was just to block its attack, it's hard to do the damage thing "Anxiety? You can't defeat me with that mindset, don't you think you should accept and surrender now?"

"Don't despise me" Asuna's face becomes serious, she remembered Morte's word 'Burden' she will prove that without the protection of Kirito she can defeat the enemy "Right now just remember my name, falconer!!" Asuna used seldan and hit him "I'm Asuna the fastest player of the clearing group! Your head.." She makes fighting pose "I will take it"

"Really huh?" Asuna sprints towards the falconer and charge her rapier the swords glow in color blue, Asuna was about to make a linear however the falconer suddenly disappeared in her sight "Where did he go?" Asuna heard a sound coming from above so she look at the sky and saw the falconer used its wings, Asuna forgot that the knight of Forest elf and Dark elf has a pair of wings.

The falconer was using a one-handed sword and attack Asuna coming from the sky and hit her by the horizontal attack but Asuna managed to block it however the speed and the impact of its attack was still affected her, its attack created slightly cracks in the ground and the strong wind blew, Asuna looks at her Hp bar it decreases. Even in blocking his attack it still has an affects on her Hp, her knees started to tremble "I can't lose here" She murmured, "Not on you.." Asuna used all her strength and pushed its swords away from her using her rapier. She charges her rapier and attacks him "AHHHHHH!!!!!" The three-hit combo of linear hit the falconer and before it was landed on the ground, Asuna used her speed and dash towards to falconer and make another linear, its three Hp level become half, he lost one bar and half of his Hp because of the Asuna's attack. The falconer landed on the ground

Asuna's breath was fast; she used her rapier to support her so she can stand up, her Hp was on orange just one hit of the falconer she will surely vanish into this virtual world and in the outside world. The falconer stood up "You are behind of my expectation human" He growled in angry