The beginning.
Sword art online. The biggest game in history, its creator a genius one of the biggest leaps in technology ever the Nervegear rig able to take all the signals from the brain and enable you to feel, taste, smell, see, and hear everything in a virtual environment, with a virtual character. Making yourself a completely new body in essence. Making a completely new life in fact. With the nerve gear anything and everything could happen. And everything bad happened, in an instant. The game that had been the talk of the world just became ten thousand people, their families and friends worst nightmare. In the game you had one simple choice. You could either be good. Or you could choose to be evil. Either path you choose, one you start down it you can never stop.
Daniel was kicking back in his chair reading the latest news about the release of the most talked about VR MMORPG on the planet Sword art online.
Even though he knew almost everything there was to know, he still enjoyed reading about it, excitedly waiting to play his favorite topic of thought, discussion, dreams and game ever... Again.
He was part of the beta test some months ago. And was proud to be one of the only American born people able to play the game especially in its beta form.
2 years ago he moved to Japan from the USA and wanting to learn more about the culture and history and people, And stayed for these 2 long amazing years he has become very fluent in Japanese and was already fluent in English so it made it very easy for them to choose him for the beta.
Since the beta he was dying to get back to his other life.
"Hehe" he chuckled. "My other life"
His life in the real world was not at all a bad one. But since he was a kid he had been wanting to explore a virual world, one not governed by our laws and physics even.
In the United States he was a police officer for a few years. He loved his work as an officer but he loved to study other cultures as well. So much so he went to Japan to learn there lauguage, culture, and history. Just before he was getting ready to leave japan for his next endeavor. The announcement for SAO was released and he was able to join the beta test. It didn't take much effort though they wanted Americans to test the game cause you know we are gamers at heart the lot of us. Haha.
He looked at the clock, five minutes till show time he thought to himself. He looked around at his house and the beautiful scenery, having an aching, uneasy feeling that it will be a long time before he will see it all again.
Shaking his head, dismissing the notion and laying down in the bed he put the nerve gear on his head and relaxed. Waiting till the clock struck 13:00 then said the two words that took him for the world he had been waiting to get back to for months.
"Link Start"