3 weeks ago-
"Wow, that's quite a huge floor here..." Vlade smirked at the snowy Environment as he entered the 15F floor from the Dungeon, being one of the clearers of the 14F. Things are going smoothly on floor clearing, with his client, The Black Swordsman, having a skilled team. For most part, all he did was to command a few other clearer teams who trusted him, acting tactically to maximize damage while minimizing casualities, after all, what the clearer team has is numbers, and using them well is essential. Although, he would assist in combat if needed.
When night arrives in the snowy 15F, he got a PM from the leader of the Ichani guild, Fate. "Eh? that's rare... o.o" Vlade pondered as he opened the PM, "Huh? A guild gathering at the Western fields?" It was very uncommon for Fate to issue a direct order, let alone rally the full force of his guild. ('It must be some serious shit...') He used a teleport crystal towards the aforementioned location.
The whole Ichani guild was there, including the leader, Fate, numbering to only 8 members. But, each of the members, aka the 8 outcasts, are pretty strong as an individual, being at least of a clearer-level, or even stronger than that. Fate, as per usual, was wearing his mask, well its barely a mask, just a roll of bandage around his face, like some mummy. "You see that bunch over there?" Fate had an exaggerating deep voice, pointing slightly downwards towards a cohort of people. All of them, have dark Orange cursors, with dark hoods, no doubt, they're the Laughing Coffin. "They're rallying troops for an ambush to the slow progress of the city conquest, once we eliminate this cohort, communication will be ceased between the other flanks, and thus, stalling them."
"Wait, wait wait," Vlade hissed, "We're gathering the whole force of our guild, doing such elaborate surprise night attack, just to wipe out a bunch of, no, a small cohort of noob barbarians? You know any of us can just do that by ourselves."
"Someone paid an enormous price for that, and as you know, higher price = higher degree of danger. Also, my instincts tells me to do so, now, no questions asked, we strike now." Fate drew out a straight double edged sword akin to a chinese Jian, descending upon the Laughing Coffin group, then the rest followed up in the raid.
('What the hell? They're stronger than those I used to fight with??') Vlade thought as the guild clears the cohort of Laughing Coffin isolated in the eerie darkness. The laughing coffin troops got shaken by the surprise attack, with most of them being wiped out. "Now, capture them, then retreat before the reinforcements arrive. My hunch's right, they're the headquarters' troops, they're more organized than the ones you see before, don't take them lightly." The guild Ichani then captured a few members, retreating to a safer spot then teleporting away back to his previous base.
Present time-
Vlade
The new Ichani base was a desert hut made of sandstone. The desert resembles Vlade's hometown he was familiar with. It was a perfect area for him, unlike the cold as hell snowy fields. Reaching out his interface, he sent a PM to Kirito: "Hey, we've struck gold this time, captured a few Laughing Coffin soldiers. This time we're able to interrogate them ^_^ , feel free to visit our new base, for that we relocated :) ."