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I'm glad to have helped there.

[cute combat boots are helping.]

[huaaaaagh]

[Hey, they have good stats. Totally helping.]

Maybe someday I'll actually manage to return the favour. It just won't be shoe-related.

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If you can find me a better staff than the one I have, we'll call the favor returned and then some.

[huaaaaagh]

My experience with magic is so lacking, I'm not sure I'd recognize a good staff if I saw one... but if I find any, I'll let you know.

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At this point, I'll take a staff good for hitting people as well. This staff is barely good for smacking someone or magic.

[huaaaaagh]

Hey, if there's one thing I'm good for, it's finding stuff that's good for hitting people with.

[kirito no that is not a quality life skill]

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[... i mean, when you're talking to an RPG, yes it is.

She's pulling her staff out of thin air, as one does, It's... wood, with one and branching out into practically a cloud of little twig-sized... well, branches.]

You seem to be better at it than me. Or at least less desperate.

[huaaaaagh]

[He can't help staring for a moment, though he shakes it off faster than the first time. It's still so cool that she can just. Do that.]

Do you think a metal staff would be too heavy for you to wield properly?

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[She has to consider for a moment.]

As long as it's not lead, I should be able to manage. The problem with that is that, unless you soak it in mana for a long time- like, on the order of years- metal is generally an incredibly poor conductor for magic. There are specific types of metal that that's not true for, but those are too rare and precious to make a staff from anyway.

Except for my grandpa, but I've never been able to figure out the theory behind his spellblade bullshit anyway. A metal sword should not be able to do that.

[huaaaaagh]

Huh... I wonder if that's why Asuna's best wand is a tree branch.

[Mages are such mysterious creatures.

BUT ALSO-]

Spellblade? He can cast magic with his sword?

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Unless it's some sort of amazing, special tree, that's not going to be a great staff, but... Better than metal.

Yeah. He can cast spells through the sword and deal magic and elemental damage with his physical attacks.

[huaaaaagh]

It was made from wood of the World Tree, so... I'd say it was pretty special, yeah.

But that sounds awesome! I wonder how it works.

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"World Tree" sounds special. What was that?

I have no idea. If I ever figured it out, I never remembered it. I never knew if he figured it out before he got that class, or changing classes just gave him that ability, I think... It's annoying, because I'm trying to recreate his ability here, since I was able to do it in someone else's calibration, but I feel like I'm missing something important for it.

[huaaaaagh]

[so cool. so, so cool. he wants one.]

The World Tree is in Alfheim- it's where my fairy form comes from. At the center of the world is an enormous tree, reaching up into the sky- so tall that it takes more than ten minutes just to reach the lowest branches, and that's too high for even the strongest fairy to fly. A lot of legends in that world revolve around the tree.

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[You can just see her eyebrows climb steadily higher, as the more Kirito says, the more interested she is.]

If you were to get a staff made from the wood of a tree like that... That's the kind of weapon that becomes a legend in its own right.

[and i want one so bad]

[huaaaaagh]

Haha, probably. I'm not sure if even Asuna would know about that- her weapon of choice is a rapier, and a wand for casting. I don't think I've ever seen her use a staff, and no one else in my party uses them, either.

[It's basically the worst balanced party ever.]

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So... Some kind of magic knight class? Please tell me she's not your primary caster.

[KIRITO WHY]

[huaaaaagh]

Mm... I guess you could call her that, yeah. When we all entered ALO she decided she wanted to try the healer class, and most of us stuck with DPS or tank. We don't really use much magic.

[S-SORRY]

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... I kind of want to shake you silly on behalf of every adventurer from my entire world.

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Hey.

[He has the decency to sound sheepish, at least.]

I know it's reckless, but the world we'd lived in before had no magic at all. We did nothing but train and fight for years using nothing but weapons and the skills we learned there. Old habits die hard, and- spells just didn't come naturally to us. Nobody wanted to make the switch.

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I guess I get it, but... Hearing about all these people in other worlds going into these dangerous situations without a dedicated healer just makes my skin crawl.

[huaaaaagh]

No, no, don't misunderstand, Asuna is a dedicated healer! She only joins the fight when we're in a pinch and really need her to. We're not that reckless.

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Oh. Then, I guess that's better...

[but i still want to prove a point about how awesome magic is, okay]

[huaaaaagh]

I'm sure a time will come when we'll be kicking ourselves for not having a dedicated magic damage dealer. Then you're free to say "I told you so".

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And I will. Loudly and repeatedly.