One year and eight months after SAO's launch, the front line has made it to the sixty-third floor. In search of a weapon more powerful than his Elucidator, Kirito enters a smithy run by a girl named Lisbeth--but when she hands over her finest work, his idea of a test run breaks her masterpiece in two! Luckily, there's a dragon on the fifty-fifth floor whose scales would make a perfect sword. Unluckily for Kirito, he and Lisbeth will need to slay it themselves!