I, Kurogane Kyouya the one who got bored and go to another world, now appear modern city. Though it's weird noone notice me appear of nowhere without me activating my concealment skill. The world i visited is at year 2022, the trending of this world seem new released game Sword Art Online (SAO) which is Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG) which using Nervegear, a helmet that stimulates the user's five senses via their brain, players can experience and control their in-game characters with their minds. Both the game and the NerveGear were created by Akihiko Kayaba.

Apparently it'll be deathgame, so I guess I'll join for some fun since it's won't affect me at all for some game. Since it's already sold out I just created my own personal custom made nervegear which have some GM authority for the game I play. After that i create some villa at some unnamed island after all my nervegear that created by me doesn't need connection at all, though i can just login without anything... just for appreciation of other people work.

"Ok, let's just start this game, LINK START !"(Kyouya)

Personal and character appearance pannel appear, I guess I'll just use Kyouya since.... I haven't make new ID yet, Random Appearance since in the end it will change to my real appearance.

Now I appear in crowded city so called Town of the beginning, New game sure crowded huh. Let's just start farming! I run to outside the town and start killing some Boars in open plains area that filled with green grass.

The massacre of boar give some drop like Copper Sword, Spear, Dagger, Rod, and suprisingly some Guitar maybe for some entertainment ? I change my beginner sword with Copper Spear and go futher outside of town for another farming, well this sure easy with my Eternal Arm Mastery [EX].

While farming I found another player at this location. I see female avatar with long white hair, with braid at the side. She had red eyes and wearing light blue beginner outfit.

"Hello! it's seems you have some problem need some help ?"(Kyouya)

"Well... Actually I was walking out of town and got chased by some scary looking boar, i manage to outrun it but ...it's seems I got lost *Tehee "(Uta-chan)

"How about we party up for now and go farm some monster. Afterall, there nothing bad woth having higher level in game. Though level is just mere number in front of true skillest person like me Bwahahaha! Oh, my nick is Kyouya, nice to meet cha !" (Kyouya)

"Ppft, you're quite funny, Oh,My nick is Uta-chan and I accepted your party invitation. Let's get along Kyouya-kun"(Uta-chan)

"Let's register each other as friend!, here since your nick is Uta i guess you quite like song right ? here i managed to get this guitar from some monster drop" (Kyouya)

"Ok let's register each other, also thanks for guitar I also like music, I Learn Guitar and Piano from my mom~."(Uta-chan)

"Let's go for another farming !!!" (Kyouya)

I teach Uta-chan some combat form and tecnique for some self protection, we leveled up quite lot since he leveling at high level area at early game and i barely see other player lingering around. Well it's already sunset I and Uta-chan suddenly got Teleported to town of beginning which filler with many people that make it very noisy with some complain.

The bell in the tower in the center of the plaza stopped ringing. The sky went dark as red hexagons spread out, popping into existence one after another across the air above the central plaza of the Starting City. A hush fell over the crowd at the theatrical effect; even if the people gathered here were generally annoyed by the bug, the grandeur of the effect mostly replaced the annoyance with a pleased sense of awe.

Blood poured from the gaps of the hexagons. No, it wasn't blood, not really. The virtual fluid, with the same red color as blood, the same viscosity as blood, the same texture as blood, poured out from between the hexagons, it gushed downward and gathered unnaturally. The clot grew as the virtual blood smoothly poured into it from the sky effect. The clot grew, and pulsed, and throbbed as lighting effects arched across it, and twisted around once.

The twist completed, the virtual blood clot solidified, morphed, changed into a giant figure completely obscured by a thick red robe.

The Game Master avatar hung in space, suspended in the air above the gate to the huge castle at the north of the plaza. After a dramatic pause, it began to speak. The voice was not especially loud, but it resonated widely so that every player present could certainly hear it.

"Attention Players."

"Welcome to my world."

"My name is Kayaba Akihito."

"As of this moment, I am the supreme entity in control of this world."

"I'm sure you have already noticed that the [Logout] button is missing from the main menu."

The right hand of that floating giant rose with ponderous slowness, and then tapped the air in front of it, calling the menu exactly as if it, the GM, had been a normal player. The menu was scaled proportionate to the GM, and set to global visibility, so even if it was backwards, everyone there could see as the GM navigated to where the [Logout] command should have been.

"But this is not a defect in the game."

"I repeat, this is not a defect in the game."

"It is a feature of Sword Art Online."

"You cannot log out of SAO yourselves."

"And no one on the outside can shut down or remove the NerveGear."

"Should this be attempted, the transmitter inside the NerveGear will emit a powerful microwave pulse, destroying your brain and ending your life."

The GM allowed another dramatic pause. Kyouya took the chance to quickly glance around him; the expressions on the faces around him were like beaches with waves of horror crashing onto them. No, they were like the faces of people standing on the shore, watching the ocean withdrawing and building into a tsunami, knowing that there was absolutely nothing they could do to prevent the incoming disaster. Voices were filled with that horror. Several tense conversations whispered around him verified that the NerveGear was technically capable of what the GM was describing.

"Unfortunately several players' friends and family have ignored this warning, and attempted to remove the NerveGear."

"As a result, 213 players are gone forever, both from Aincrad and the real world."

Again the GM navigated his menu, although it had automatically reset to private visibility, so that his motions remained inscrutable until various browser holographs became visible, the floating rectangles displaying various news threads, television news programs, and live videos of involved people.

"As you can see, news organizations across the world are reporting this, including the deaths."

"Thus, you can assume the danger of a NerveGear being removed is now minimal."

"I hope you will relax and focus on clearing the game."

"I hope you remember this clearly. All methods to revive someone within the game have been removed."

"If your HP is reduced to zero, your avatar will be lost."

"And simultaneously, the NerveGear will destroy your brain."

"There is only one means of escape."

The menu was manipulated. A vast cylindrical hologram sprung up, stacked plates. The virtual world of Aincrad.

"To complete the game."

"You are presently on the lowest floor of Aincrad, floor one."

"If you make your way through the dungeon and defeat the floor boss, you may advance to the next floor."

"Defeat the final boss on floor 100, and you will clear the game."

"Finally, I've added a present from me to your item storage."

"Please see for yourselves."

Well I'm to lazy to open my inventory but, his menu opened automatically, and navigated through to his item inventory. It scrolled down past the "boar meat" and other bits and pieces that had acc.u.mulated over his afternoon. At the very bottom, a new item had been incremented into his inventory. It was a single non-stacking consumable item. It was automatically activated.

The item was called [Magical Mirror] and it materialized as a circle of glass before shattering into pixels. I changed into my real appearance along with all other player.

"Right now, you're probably wondering why."

"Why would Kayaba Akihito, the developer of the NerveGear and SAO, do all of this?"

"If you wish to uncover my motive, struggle to clear the game."

"In the meantime, please consider this mystery as the central plot of the game SAO, and endeavor to solve it."

There was a pause as the GM avatar finished delivering the speech. The emotions that had excited the voice as Kayaba described his logic while still leaving his reasons opaque were completed with that paragraph. The following words were delivered as a necessary formality, a ritual that required calm delivery on his part without particular excitement.

"This ends the tutorial for the official SAO launch."

"Good luck."

The avatar slumped midair. Strange vapors escaped from the hood and sleeves as it deflated and began to fall. Before it could fall even ten meters, though, it dissolved into nothingness. It did not shatter into the blue-green triangles and dissolve; it simply faded transparent until it was invisible and presumably gone. It was definitely an unnatural way for the GM avatar to go.

It was quiet.

The air was thick with tension. It was pressure. It was pushing everyone down. The tension was squeezing everyone like the air was winding into straps around them. No one dared to move. It was like everyone stopped breathing and didn't start up again because it was unnecessary for these virtual bodies.

And then someone screamed.

It was the starting gun at a track meet. People instantly began running, pushing around, wearing among each other and knocking over and about other people without any consideration.

I take Uta-chan hand who is scared at bring her outside a plaza and go to city to find Inn first for resting and collect the mind before most in full booked which will bring some people sleeping outdoor unprotected especially girls.

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