Kayaba Akihiko, the designer of the original system and some key hardware of the SAO game, used the administrator account "Heathcliff" to pretend to be the character that players use to log into the game.
He personally had already fled the island country before the game started. After all, if he casually "kidnapped" a large number of people from various countries, he could probably guess the consequences.
However, there is "no way". The game was originally scheduled to be released only in China, and at most it would only be considered a domestic incident. But after all, he is not a department executive responsible for decision-making and marketing. Business competition also affects the technical field. He
But it couldn't be done. In the end, it was messed up by an external corporate rival. In order to complete the game, it had to be exchanged for technology sharing and cooperation among various countries, and the result became what it is now.
He is already prepared to be treated equally with other players once he dies in the game, so he no longer cares about the bad current situation of the island country in reality.
Although he has the freedom to log out normally, he regards SAO as his own world - creating a fantasy world has always been his dream.
Since the dream is to create a different world, not to make a game, then of course the players who enter SAO must become as real as reality - the same appearance as reality, and the same life as reality, only once.
It is of course a realistic truth that people will die if they are killed.
He is just pursuing a child-like dream, no matter how much trouble this dream will cause others.
But he discovered that there was something foreign that he couldn't control.
Magical skills that do not match the name of the game SAO have appeared, and there are also highly intelligent AI NPCs that cannot be supported by the current game memory in large quantities. This should have caused the system to be overloaded, but there is no sign of overload in the current system operation.
But when Kayaba Akihiko wanted to activate administrator rights to operate these NPCs and skills that were inconsistent with the game settings, he found that he could not modify them directly. If he had to do it, he could only strip off all the software and hardware and replace them. Here are some ways to do this
You have to stop the game first.
Now once the game is stopped, the outside world will definitely not give it a chance to restart.
He thought consolingly, "Forget it, this will be closer to the real world where things are unpredictable, and it may be more interesting." At the same time, he simply formed a team and tried to find places with too many unexpected elements to integrate into the local area as normally as possible.
observe.
The most suitable place for him to observe at present is the place where he is eating as Heathcliff——
The setting is an inn opened by a noble and secretive owner, and players who can use magic stay there.
Speaking of which, that NPC was also played by an actress named Flanda in the cm released before the game was released. If the system had not determined that the unit was definitely not connected to Nervgear or similar devices in reality, neither would Flanda in reality.
After buying and using the equipment and carrying it to the hospital, Kayaba Akihiko suspected that the owner of the shop was Flanda.
However, the shopkeeper’s AI may have taken reference from Flanda’s behavior data for her performance.
In the end, he had no choice but to intensify his observation. It happened that this place was used as a stronghold for a team to operate near the central tower of Aincrad. Compared with the transit town in front of the maze area, except for the transfer
It's also 20 minutes away from the door, so overall it's pretty good; and the living experience here isn't bad either.
However, I didn't expect that the shop owner actually started to issue tasks to summon players.
Because in the system designed by Kayaba Akihiko, the tasks are automatically generated in line with the players' activities in different places without any sense of contradiction and integrated into the virtual life. The logic is rigorous. For example, a lord issued an escort task, and the player was not expected to receive the escort task.
After they complete the mission, other players intercept and kill the lord. The result of killing the lord is not only that the escorting player's mission will fail. Later, the lord's family and heirs will be looking for the murderer of the lord. Once they enter the city, they will be attacked by the guards, and some may also be killed.
The level of the lord's family members increased significantly in a short period of time, they acted for revenge, and the players were given tasks to assist in revenge or arrest the enemy.
It is not uncommon for players to stumble or even die in the early days because they failed to keep up with the routines of this virtual reality.
So, the purpose of the shop owner's mission is to recruit combat forces to regain his status. He specifically emphasizes his love for the world and his enterprising spirit. This is really decent.
But it is basically impossible to use players as the standard. After all, most hard-working players want to escape from this world. It is possible that players who like this world will stay in the city after training in the production profession. If the level is safe enough in the surrounding wilds,
However, there are still more than one-fifth of the players who have never left their starting towns.
It just so happened that he had originally planned to form a larger strategy guild at the appropriate time. Perhaps the system and maps had changed a lot compared to the closed beta period, and players' strategies and integration into SAO life were much slower than he thought. Then
Give it a push.
Although it is difficult to find, it is not difficult for him who can call up and search all the player's data and records at any time. You just have to think about how to look more natural.
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After Crounpis issued the mission, he observed the tenants for more than half a month. In addition to sometimes gathering at breakfast and dinner according to the eating rules and doing some communication, a girl with a middle name sneaked out in the middle of the night.
It was a bit noisy when I went out to practice fencing and whipping, but there was no other reaction.
However, not long after the news that the first floor was successfully conquered spread, and a few days later, the second floor was also conquered. That evening, an hour after dinner time, Argo brought three people he planned to introduce.
New guests.
"..." Crounpis was embarrassed for two seconds when he opened the door to welcome the guests.
Although she didn't go out of her way to touch the big cake that Otohime had enclosed in Academy City, and she didn't bother to go to the server hundreds of thousands of miles away, but there really weren't many people who were considered reliable by the intelligence dealers, right?
The people Argo sent were a boy with black hair and a fair face in black clothes, a girl with black hair and a girl with a girl's head, and a girl with long chestnut hair who had a pair of small braids tied into a butterfly shape on the back of her head.
"Ah la la," she immediately put on a professional smile and said, "Mr. Kirito, Miss Leafa, Miss Asuna... Although I really want to welcome you, there is only one double room left."
"Eh? You... the shop owner, do you know us?" Leafa asked a little surprised.
Of course, the appearance of Kirito's sister was also beyond Crounpis's expectations after understanding the plot information.
Even though the sales volume has increased, Kirito's sister in the original time and space did not originally like VR games. The reason why she played VR games was because Sao almost took away her secretly loved brother, which also made her headlong into her brother's avoidance of her.