Holding the machine he received in his hands, the remaining memory of Yuuki came up with the sentence that impressed everyone the most. He was also the designer and developer of "Sord Art Online", Kayaba Akihiko told everyone in the first place.
"fact".
Shortly after seeing the text message on the phone, the operating company and developer quickly sent the test equipment to the address marked by Yuki.
"NERvGear", this is the name of this machine that can achieve "complete stealth".
Slightly clenching the things in her hands, Yuuki's body trembled a little.
As for whether it is fear of the unknown or excitement due to other reasons, I think there is no doubt that it must be the latter.
After getting everything ready, the girl lying on the bed put this gray streamlined helmet on her head.
(Then let me take a look first, this adventure world before it became the "Game of Death"!)
When the pointer pointed to the set end point, which was also the officially announced test start time, Yuuki gave the command to log in.
The stage of Aincrad is a hundred-story floating castle made of rock and steel floating in the air.
It completely abandons "magic", a necessary element of adventure games, and can only fight through "sword skills".
It is this bold setting that attracts countless enthusiastic gamers.
…
——On the first floor of Aincrad, in the square of "Starting Town".
White lights kept flashing, and boys and girls wearing simple standard equipment appeared from them.
Enter your account, set your character, your vision passes through the streamlined electronic light beam, and the last thing your consciousness reaches is the scene the players are seeing now.
Breaking away from the GM guidance of traditional games, everything requires players' own exploration and experience. It is like a real fantasy world, which is also one of the charms of this game.
However, before going on the adventure, many people have not recovered from this novel experience and are still looking at themselves and the players around them excitedly.
Because the number of people testing was limited to only one thousand people, the whole square was actually not that crowded, giving them enough space to release their excitement.
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"Is this 'Aincrad'... Kayaba Akihiko's 'world'..."
In the crowd, unlike other players who couldn't wait to talk to each other, a young man standing by the pool looked at his current body through the clear water, showing a nostalgic look.
Compared with the characters around him who were designed as 'handsome guys' and 'beauties', this ordinary-looking young man actually looked a little special.
Raising his head, the young man looked at his hands and feet with a complicated expression.
It's obviously just an imaginary space, but it's really no different from a normal person, even his own heartbeat is reflected perfectly.
The only difference is the green health bar next to the field of vision and the interface with your character's name.
(I really didn’t expect... After more than ten years, I can still see this face. I had almost forgotten about it...)
(Although it will only be a few short months, let me experience my time as a man again.)
Because it is a virtual world, there is no need to worry about some incongruous things that may occur when male and female bodies transform.
With this emotion, the boy named "Yu" started running in the new world.
On the plain road outside "Starting Town", a black-haired boy was confronting a monster with a long sword he bought from a cheap weapons store with initial funds.
While most people were still running around the city, the black-haired boy, Yuuki, whose pseudonym was "Yu", had already left there and started the first battle in the virtual world.
After living an ordinary life for so long, she had almost forgotten the feeling of fighting.
And unlike [Elf]'s open-and-close fighting style, every step here must be carefully calculated, and Yuuki is not used to the feeling of being constrained.
When holding the weapon, she always felt that she could completely wipe out the monsters in the area with one sword.
And the reason is that she was probably influenced by the consciousness of a certain elf.
(...Fortunately, I became a closed beta player and came in early to experience the fighting style of this world, otherwise it would be really embarrassing.)
Beware of the wild boar monster in front of him, the "Manic Boar" marked as Level 1, the boy kept moving his body.
The reason why she is cautious about fighting monsters of the "Slime" level now is because it is a preview of the "Game of Death" that will follow.
However, in the eyes of others who don't know why, Yuuki who fights slimes so seriously is somewhat funny.
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(call……)
Watching the monster in front of her turn into pieces and disappear on the ground again, Yuuki wiped her forehead that was not sweating with satisfaction.
She can no longer remember how many blue boars she has killed. From the beginning, her body was a little uncoordinated, but now she can solve it by just turning slightly sideways. This number must be 'considerable', right?
Anyway, the number of players wandering around this area has changed one after another.
And she seems to be regarded by some people as a strange person who likes to kill wild boars...
Of course, there are also many players who understand her forgetfulness very well.
This feeling of adventure with a sword is really great! Everything is so real that it is easy to get addicted to it...
Of course Yuuki doesn't have any special grudge against wild boars, but she is constantly adjusting her consciousness.
Her purpose in entering this floating city was not simply to play games.
Collect all the information that can be collected to prepare for the clearance of this castle. Without knowing anything, even a wild boar monster can bring a lot of information, right?
For example, the proportion of experience points gained, the dropped ingredients and Cole, and the title of the "Manic Boar Crusader" that just appeared...
For some reason, she wanted to witness with her own eyes everything about the "world" created by Kayaba Akihiko.
(Isn’t there only one form of life?)
(This "proposition" is really difficult...)
Yuuki twitched the corners of her mouth, remembering a certain [hint], and looked at the scenery in the distance.
The hillside surrounded by green trees is right in front of you, there are floating blocks in the sky connected to the lake, and there are "human beings" who are constantly cheering to defeat the monsters.
It seems all to prove a point.
——This is a real world.
…
(So, you have almost explored the "Basic Combat", and there is still a lot of time left before the scheduled logout time. Next, it is okay to be a little bolder and expand the "Map", right?)
(While this world doesn’t know how to ‘eat’ people yet…)
Looking at the area shrouded in gray fog on the map, the 'young man' took steps. (To be continued)