18 Months passed, and the survivors of the game were currently on the 70th floor of SMO, and over this time, Soren and his family ran one of the top ranking guilds, comprising only 7 people. Soren and his family had ran the fields of all the Mini Bosses, and hidden quests that not even the beta testers knew about because Soren had inside information, but Soren wasn't the only person with this knowledge, as Kayaba who was acting as the Guild leader for the KOB, knew even more than Soren did, as he created the game, while Soren only supervised, and watched as the stages were created. Over the course of 18 months, Soren had ranked as one of the top 10 players, and when he met with Kayaba who disguised himself as a the Guild leader of the KOB, Soren took notice that his Class was indeed the Magic Swordsman Class, so Soren knew that Kayaba most likely had an extremely high MP capacity.