Preface:

Hello and Welcome to my SAO rewrite, not really an original idea; however, I plan to make mine stand out from the rest! This short preface will explain how I exactly plan to do that, and will also decide whether or not this is the rewrite for you.

This story will start from the first day SAO begins, and will follow the story except with a few changes which are as follows:

SAO as a game will be changed slightly when a player levels they gain three types of points: stat points, skill points, and ability points.

1.1 Stat points are used to increase the player's stats which are as follows:

Strength: increases damage, and weight carrying

Dexterity: increases attack speed, reduces charge time for skills

Defense: Reduces melee damage taken

Endurance: reduces critical strikes on you

Technique: Increases critical strike chance

Speed: Increases movement speed

Will: various effects

Vitality: increases max hp, and regen rate

Focus: increases max stamina, and regen rate

1.2 Skill points are used to raise the skills in the game, such as Longsword skill, Great Sword skill, Rapier, Cooking, etc.

1.3 Ability points: used to learn new attacks, like slant, horizontal arc, avalanche, etc.

2. EX Skills or extra skills act more like classes in most games, which require users to hit certain requirements, they will be introduced as time goes on, but as an example, Diavel will actually be a knight because he hit Broadswords 25, CrestShield 25, and the bonus requirement Block 20 attacks targeted as allies.

2.1 Certain EX skills have been rebalanced, such as Dual Blade in this the requirements to get is are as follows: Beat 100 quests solo, use 1000 one-handed sword skills.

3. Enemy spawns are no longer limited; however, the more times you kill an enemy the less exp it gives, for example, you could keep killing boars all day, the first might give 16, but your 100th only gives about 2, this decreases at a much faster rate for bosses, Level has no change in experience rewarded.

The next topic I'll get into is characters, I'll be including every character from both the Anime and Light Novels even if they don't show up in the Aincrad arc except for a few exceptions

Leafa, I personally dislike her, and she doesn't really have a place in my story unless I change her quite a bit

Characters from the Alicization arc, not everyone has read the light novels, and I don't want to ruin their development for other people

Character's story arcs and placement in the story will be changed around for a few reasons, to not spoil anything I'm only going to list one example: Sachi will be the person Kirito trains on the first day, she was such a throwaway I feel like to make her death impactful she needs to have more importance in his life than just being the girl who died on him. Also even if a character lives past the Aincrad Arc don't expect them all to live, I'm trying to make this more impactful.

Lastly, and I know this will piss some people off… there will be new characters, a few to make the series feel less like a harem, and more like a large cast story where all lives are on the line, because of this I also have a secondary protagonist she's OC of sorts so you can shit on her for that if you hate that as a notion. She will be one of the Devs working on SAO showing an outside perspective on what the death game causes to the world.

That's about it for my warnings on how the story will be changing if you don't like any of these no ones gonna be pissed at you for thinking that so please be respectful on the story… now let's talk about comments for a second.

I appreciate almost all comments, whether it's extremely harsh criticism, passive-aggressive feedback, theory discussion, or just saying hello, I'd love you to post something… that being said please don't post hate speech, as I get it some of it will be "meme-ing" hatefulness but learn that I know I'm not the best writer, you don't need to tell me; although, I'd like some respect for trying to write something.

Thank you, and have a good rest of your day, the first chapter should be up already!

P.S. "Centurion" is a Roman military term used to signify a commander of a century (100 troops)

P.S.S I use Grammarly to edit my work since I'm a little clueless on grammar if it misses something be sure to point it out!