.Hack/WORLD

Prologue:

The now widely popular online game 'The World' has become a playground for all sorts of people. Society has become more and more relaxed as the new found hardware has come out allowing people to play games whenever they want. This is not a bad thing however the available access to the internet anywhere that you want is allowing people to come outside more and still play their games. This transformed those speculations of gamers. It seems people are becoming more like Cyborgs with this new era of technology it's almost as if people have computers in their heads. The views on people who play games have changed they are just like average people now.

ALTIMIT was praised for their new technology. People viewed them as genii the low price for their product made it so everyone could have a top of the line computer with them. Everything was going smoothly until children at school started to cheat on tests while they were using the computer. This was an outrage to the schools, they sent in complaints for ALTIMIT to deal with the situation but it was out of their hands and so the schools were left to deal with it.

Problems like this continued until the one of the CC corps workers Leonheart invented a program that could limit the areas that people could enter in the system though. Leonheart left a flaw in the plan so that way he himself could continue accessing during his school hours. The flaw was the game of ALTIMITs own design 'The World' However the flaw never really got out and was merely used by Leonheart himself, he was dedicated to help 'The World' and its popularity spread for some reason.

The CC corp. never spoke of how one of its top executives Mr. Koreman was fired explicitly on the spot as soon as 'The World' was released. Koreman was one of the main designers and leading producers of the game. The game however didn't seem phased at all and finished production and was released.

'The World' was widely loved do to its use of culture. Each and every area had its own separate culture and every player could interact and change the environment around them, so the game was ever evolving and ever changing. The world around the players was totally controlled by them. With no government to guide them players could create their own and they did. Different organizations formed to protect one another the organizations differed from Guards, Knights, to Thieves, and Assassins. This great difference made the game's higher levels very influential. Wars were formed and alliances made, the games wars seemed just jokes to other players but to those involved it was a changing point in the game's world.

However there were those that played the game before it was officially released, they remembered the hidden secrets to the game and used those bits of knowledge to their advantage to turn the tides of war. But whenever they entered a crystal area the older players always seemed to have a twitch for keeping an eye out all around them.

In the major battles there always seemed to be a ghost watching the field from a distance, the players that went off to investigate it had to re-log due to a sudden death. The ghost character seemed to appear on the crystal fields, he wasn't like a floating ghost though he watched holding his twin blades in hand. He just stands and watches…

The Wars continued until they arrived at the final battlefield. The battle was oddly enough between those trying to keep the order. They were warring in the forbidden castle where the dragon of legend is said to come from the well. The castle was said to contain boundless treasure and weapons strong enough to kill a 99 in a single blow.

The battles commenced the soldiers flooded the castle. Soldiers fell by the hundreds and re logged after their re-spawn time was up. But as the battle drained on the soldiers that were the furthest in began to realize that perhaps there was no weapon, but it was too late they had already entered the castles keep so there was no turning back. The floors were drenched in the blood of the fallen along with their corpses. As the soldiers battled and reached the hall of the Kings the warriors saw the Walls lined with pictures of PC's that they've never seen before, all of them wielding a binary weapon.

When the soldiers finally reached the keep they were greeted by a twin blade.

"You who enter this king's entrance shall not be allowed to pass. The weapon that I have claimed will never be held again. Find a stronger weapon elsewhere."

"Ha! Like we're going to turn around to a no name."

"I am no, no name as you so quaintly put it. I am Recompense The one who tried to end 'The World' the hall way you saw before is the weapon of my power. But I'm wasting my breath, now that they're not around I can finish you off without interference."

The battle ended with all of the soldiers suddenly dying. When they tried to go back they found that the trench separating the castle from the rest of the town had be enlarged and all their bridges had collapsed. The soldiers said to their leaders they refused to go back and so that was how the battle ended.