# E16 - The King of the Giants
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GY2P5PW9Y/the-king-of-the-giants)
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**[00:12] K**
Yui, what's wrong?
**[00:15] Y**
Well, this is just a hypothesis...
**[00:20] Y**
But in one respect, ALfheim Online
differs greatly from the other
**[00:26] ---**
The Seed Project VRMMOs.
**[00:29] Y**
The Cardinal System operating the game
is not a stripped-down version.
**[00:35] Y**
It's a copy of the full-spec version
**[00:38] ---**
used in the former Sword Art Online.
**[00:41] K**
Full-spec version?
**[00:43] Y**
The original Cardinal System had an
auto-generation system for quests.
**[00:48] Y**
Via its networks, it gathered traditions
and legends from all over the world,
**[00:53] Y**
and used or rearranged terms
and story patterns from them
**[00:57] ---**
to generate infinite quests.
**[01:01] K**
Then, is this quest an auto-generated
one that Cardinal made?
**[01:05] Y**
From the way that NPC was acting, it's likely.
**[01:10] Y**
Which means that, depending on
how the story plays out,
**[01:13] Y**
it could go all the way to the myth's end.
**[01:17] Y**
According to the data in my archives,
**[01:20] Y**
this quest and ALO itself are
based on Norse mythology,
**[01:25] Y**
which culminates in a so-called "final war."
**[01:29] Y**
Not only will the frost giants invade
from Niflheim or Jötunheimr,
**[01:35] Y**
but flame giants from an even lower
level, Muspelheim, will appear,
**[01:40] Y**
and burn down the entire World Tree...
**[01:46] Su**
Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods.
**[01:50] Su**
No way.
**[01:51] Su**
There's no way a game system
would destroy its entire map.
**[01:58] Y**
An original Cardinal System
**[02:01] ---**
has the access level necessary
to destroy an entire map.
**[02:05] Y**
Because the original Cardinal System's last task
**[02:09] ---**
was to destroy the floating castle, Aincrad.
**[02:14] Su**
No...
**[02:17] L**
My shop...
**[02:21] K**
I haven't met the person I'm fated for yet.
**[02:25] S**
Even if this Ragnarok occurs,
wouldn't it be possible
**[02:28] ---**
to restore the system
to an earlier state via backup?
**[02:33] Y**
If they use the Cardinal System's auto-backups,
**[02:37] Y**
they'll only be able to roll back
player data, not field data.
**[02:44] K**
I know!
**[02:48] K**
No good...
**[02:50] L**
What are you trying to do?
**[02:52] K**
I was going to call a GM, and see
if they knew this was going on.
***SIGN*** It is currently outside support hours. Please send your query during regular support hours.
**[02:58] K**
But it's outside their support hours.
**[03:01] K**
Well, it's a Sunday morning,
and nearly New Year's.
**[03:04] Si**
Brother...
**[03:06] Si**
There isn't much time.
**[03:08] K**
Okay.
**[03:10] K**
Let's just hurry to the last level.
**[03:12] All**
Yeah!
***SIGN*** The King of the Giants
**[05:08] K**
Damn it.
**[05:19] Si**
This is bad, Brother!
**[05:21] Si**
The yellow one's physical resistance is too high!
**[05:24] K**
Yeah.
**[05:24] Kl**
Damn it.
**[05:26] ---**
If only we had a mage in our party
who could use attack spells...
**[05:30] K**
You, of all people, are saying that?
**[05:32] K**
Anyway, that would just mean the black one with
high-magic resistance would go to the front.
**[05:38] K**
This is really tough to deal with.
**[05:42] Y**
Shock-wave attack in two seconds!
**[05:45] Y**
One!
**[05:46] Y**
Zero!
**[06:01] A**
*Su Filah Heiragul Austl Blot Suparl Bani.*
**[06:12] A**
Kirito-kun!
**[06:14] A**
At this pace, I'll run out of MP in 150 seconds.
**[06:17] K**
Right.
**[06:18] Si**
Brother,
**[06:20] ---**
the medallion's over seventy-percent black.
**[06:24] Si**
If we die, we won't have time to come back.
**[06:26] K**
R-Right...
**[06:30] K**
Everyone,
**[06:31] K**
there's only thing we can do now!
**[06:33] K**
You'll be vulnerable to attack,
but if you do a magic-type Sword Skill,
**[06:37] ---**
it might be able to damage the yellow one!
**[06:42] K**
We'll have to take the chance,
**[06:43] ---**
and concentrate all our Sword Skills
on the yellow one, to defeat it.
**[06:47] Kl**
Okay! I've been waiting for you to say that, Kirito.
**[06:57] K**
Silica, time your bubbles to the countdown.
**[06:59] ---**
Okay!
**[07:01] K**
Two... One... Now!
**[07:04] Sil**
Pina, Bubble Breath!
**[07:14] K**
Go!
**[07:59] Kl**
Kirito!
**[08:02] Kl**
I'm frozen.
**[08:07] K**
Here.
**[09:57] Kl**
What's wrong?
**[10:00] Kl**
Get ready for your beat down.
**[10:15] All**
We did it!
**[10:18] Kl**
Anyway, what was that?
**[10:21] K**
Do I have to say?
**[10:22] Kl**
Of course!
**[10:24] Kl**
I've never seen that before.
**[10:26] K**
It's a non-system skill, a Skill Connect.
**[10:30] Kl**
Skill Connect?
**[10:32] K**
You remember how the last update
brought Sword Skills into ALO?
**[10:37] K**
But that didn't include unique skills,
such as dual-wielding or Holy Sword.
**[10:43] Kl**
But you just used both hands.
**[10:46] K**
That wasn't dual-wielding.
**[10:50] K**
I used one-handed Sword Skills,
in succession, with each hand.
**[10:54] K**
You can only do them without delay three
or four times, if you're lucky, though.
**[11:02] A**
Now I have an incredible sense of déjà vu.
**[11:06] Kl**
Anyway, what was that?
**[11:10] K**
Do I have to say?
**[11:13] Kl**
Of course!
**[11:14] Kl**
I've never seen that before.
**[11:18] K**
An extra skill.
**[11:20] K**
Dual-wielding.
**[11:24] K**
You're imagining it.
**[11:26] K**
Anyway, we don't have time to waste.
**[11:29] K**
Leafa, how much time do we have left?
**[11:33] L**
At the rate it's going, about an hour.
**[11:37] K**
I see.
**[11:39] K**
Yui, this dungeon has a total of four floors, right?
**[11:43] Y**
Yes.
**[11:44] Y**
The third floor is only seventy
percent the size of the second.
**[11:47] Y**
The fourth is basically just a boss room.
**[11:50] K**
Assuming it takes thirty minutes
to beat the last boss,
**[11:54] K**
we need to reach the boss room in thirty minutes.
**[11:57] L**
I guess...
**[11:59] L**
Or our only choice is to find
the King of the Giants, and kick his butt!
**[12:09] K**
Okay, once everyone's HP and MP are back to full,
**[12:13] K**
we'll clean out the third floor!
**[12:15] ---**
Yeah!
**[13:02] K**
Right, all that's left is the last boss!
**[13:28] P**
Please... Let me out.
**[13:36] K**
It's a trap.
**[13:37] L**
That's a trap.
**[13:38] Si**
Definitely a trap.
**[13:40] Kl**
Y-Yeah, it's a trap, isn't it?
**[13:43] Kl**
Maybe...
**[13:45] K**
Well, Yui?
**[13:47] Y**
It's an NPC.
**[13:48] Y**
It's connected to the language-engine
module, just like Urd.
**[13:53] Y**
But there's one difference.
**[13:56] ---**
She has an HP gauge.
**[13:59] K**
If she has HP, that means
we might have to fight her.
**[14:04] A**
It's a trap.
**[14:05] Sil**
It's a trap, right?
**[14:06] Si**
I think it's a trap.
**[14:08] K**
Of course, it might not be,
**[14:10] K**
but we don't have time to waste.
**[14:13] K**
We need to get to Thrym as soon as possible.
**[14:17] Kl**
Y-Yeah...
**[14:19] Kl**
You're right, yeah.
**[14:23] Gi**
Please... Someone...
**[14:26] ---**
Please!
**[14:33] Kl**
It's a trap, yeah.
**[14:35] Kl**
I know.
**[14:37] Kl**
But even if it's a trap...
**[14:40] Kl**
Even if I know it's a trap...
**[14:43] Kl**
Even if it's a trap, I can't leave her here!
**[14:48] Kl**
Even... Even if the quest fails because of that,
**[14:51] Kl**
and Arun is destroyed,
**[14:53] Kl**
saving her here is something I have to do!
**[14:57] Kl**
It's my bushido!
**[15:01] Kl**
I'm coming for you!
**[15:11] Gi**
Thank you, fairy swordsman.
**[15:16] Kl**
Can you stand?
**[15:18] Kl**
Are you hurt?
**[15:23] Gi**
Yes, I'm fine.
**[15:29] Kl**
It's a bit of a ways to the exit.
**[15:32] Kl**
Can you get there yourself?
**[15:36] Gi**
I cannot simply flee the castle.
**[15:41] Gi**
Not until I retrieve my family's treasure,
**[15:43] ---**
which Thrym, the King of the Giants, stole.
**[15:46] Gi**
Please take me to Thrym's room.
**[15:54] A**
This is kind of suspicious, isn't it?
**[15:57] K**
Yeah.
**[15:57] Kl**
Hey, Kirito...
**[16:02] K**
Jeez... Fine, fine.
**[16:06] K**
We just have to follow this route to the end.
**[16:09] K**
And we don't know with one-hundred-percent
certainty that it's a trap.
**[16:16] Kl**
Okay!
**[16:17] Kl**
We'll do it!
**[16:18] Kl**
Fate brought us together,
so we're in this together.
**[16:21] Kl**
Let's go beat up that jerk Thrym!
**[16:24] Gi**
Thank you, swordsman!
**[16:31] K**
Don't give Yui any weird ideas.
***SIGN*** An NPC wishes to join your party.
Will you accept?
**[16:38] Kl**
My name is Klein.
**[16:38] K**
Freyja...
**[16:39] Gi**
A wonderful name.
**[16:41] K**
Her MP is really high.
**[16:43] K**
A mage type?
**[16:49] K**
From the way the dungeon is laid out,
**[16:52] ---**
once we go down those stairs,
we'll be at the last boss's room.
**[16:55] K**
He'll probably be tougher than the other bosses,
**[16:58] K**
but we'll just have to skip the fancy stuff,
and hit him as hard as we can.
**[17:02] K**
For the first part, I want to defend
until we know his attack pattern.
**[17:06] K**
I'll tell you when to counterattack.
**[17:09] K**
When the boss's HP bar turns yellow,
and when it turns red,
**[17:12] ---**
the attack patterns will change, so be careful.
**[17:15] K**
This is the last battle. Let's give it all we've got!
**[17:19] All**
Yeah!
**[17:44] All**
*Sea Phila Skina Hagl. Hoggu Margel Ilt!*
**[17:52] All**
*Ord Naza Fyol Legin Tinaga Vilindol Yottsun.*
**[18:02] Si**
I've never seen a spell that increases your max HP!
**[18:27] L**
How many Yuld do you think this is worth?
**[18:35] Z**
A fly is buzzing about.
**[18:41] Z**
I can hear its irritating buzzing.
**[18:47] Z**
Let me see.
**[18:52] Z**
I'll crush it
**[18:55] Z**
before it causes any trouble.
**[19:27] Z**
So Urd has sent the little flies of
ALfheim all the way down here?
**[19:34] Z**
I'll make you an offer, tiny ones.
**[19:37] Z**
Tell me where she is,
**[19:40] Z**
and you can have as much gold from
this room as you can take.
**[19:46] Kl**
A samurai doesn't eat. He just laughs!
**[19:48] Kl**
I won't take up you up on a cheap offer like that.
**[20:01] T**
Oh, if it isn't Freyja-dono?
**[20:06] T**
If you've left your cage,
**[20:08] ---**
does that mean you've decided
to become my wife?
**[20:13] Kl**
Wife?!
**[20:15] T**
That's correct.
**[20:17] T**
She came here to marry me.
**[20:21] T**
But the night before the feast, she was
sneaking around my treasure vaults.
**[20:28] T**
To punish her, I locked her in a cage of ice.
**[20:34] Si**
Hey, Brother...
**[20:36] Si**
I think I read about this in a book.
**[20:38] Si**
Thrym and Freyja,
**[20:40] Si**
a stolen treasure...
**[20:42] Si**
It was, um... I think...
**[20:45] Gi**
I refuse to become your wife!
**[20:47] Gi**
These swordsmen and I shall defeat you,
**[20:51] Gi**
and take back what was stolen!
**[20:54] T**
Such brave words.
**[20:56] T**
One can see why the legends
of Freyja-dono's beauty
**[20:59] ---**
and bravery are known to the ends of the world.
**[21:02] T**
But the more noble the flower,
**[21:04] T**
the more fun it is to pluck.
**[21:08] T**
After I've crushed these flies,
**[21:11] T**
I'll give you lots of attention.
**[21:22] Kl**
You bastard!
**[21:23] Kl**
I won't let you!
**[21:25] Kl**
I won't let you lay a finger on Freyja-san!
**[21:31] T**
I hear the sound of buzzing wings.
**[21:34] T**
To celebrate all of Jötunheimr becoming mine,
**[21:40] T**
I will start by crushing you.
**[21:50] K**
He's coming!
**[21:51] K**
Listen carefully to what Yui says,
**[21:53] K**
and begin the fight by dodging!
***SIGN*** Next Time Excaliber