Prologue

My vison had gone black due to a status effect called Blind the only thing visible was a small blue line- the HP bar- and it was becoming empty, fast. My breathing was haggard, the body that this world held did not need to breath but my mind had gone into a panic as I took blow after blow. The body on the other side, or rather the body lying down in the real world, would be breathing heavily. My limp hands would be soaked with sweat, and my heartbeat would be off the charts. Even if everything I see right now is nothing more than a rendering of a 3D virtual reality, and the bar being reduced was nothing more than a bunch of numbers that showed my hit points, the fact that I was fighting for my life didn't change. My HP bar reach the yellow zone, which was a warning that I was close to dying. As Blind was wearing off, a Humanoid Enemy called Caligo Tenebrosa was standing there, swinging its mace down, using weapon skill after weapon skill. I punch the Caligo Tenebrosa with my left hand doing almost no damage but knocking it back. The Caligo Tenebrosa had no physical body, It was surrounded by a black mist that came from it's body, or to better say, the body and the mace were the part of the mist. I grab my basterd sword from my back and held it there with my right hand while I activated a range wepon skill called Aer Unda with the other. The AI controlling the Caligo Tenebrosa was slowing to study my attack and how to dodge it but, thanks to my high level, it took almost no time to charge.

"YAAA"

My right hand swung down hitting the ground causing sparks to fly. A green wave went right through the Caligo Tenebrosa as it's HP bar vanished and it disappeared into nothing. But it was hopeless to hope it would stay gone forever because the sytem would restore it right were I found fact that this is a game will never change the fact that when you die you stay dead.

Chapter 1

I put my thumb and point finger together and pulled downward to open my main menu. I seleced the item menu and checked my gear. There was only a simple sword and leather armor, seeing as how I just started up the game, it was normal. The world I was in now was a VRMMO or virtul reality massively multiplayer online called Sanctum Gladium SG for short. It was a the first VRMMO to use the Impelle- a head piece that takes all the electromagnetic pulses from your brain and send them to the charter you are controlling so you're body doesn't move when you enter Full Drive. There were rumers going around the NET saying Sanctum Gladium was based of a story called Sword Art Online[1]. Today was the day the server for SGO came online. It was a huge server and I thought there would be a problem because there was only one for the whole world. But the game was moving perfectly- no lag or any other problem you might face online. There was detail in every aspect of the game, right from the hundred floor tower down to the smallest rock. I closed my main menu and walk off to the fields to train.

I walk over to a tree and sat down. The clock on my HUD said it was 4:30 pm, October 30, 2080. It was almost time for me to go eat dinner, so I decided to swing the sword around a few times to familiarize my self with the postions of the skills I unlocked. I pulled my blade from behind my back and a blue aura formed around it. In the top right an indicater came up saying "Weapon skill Unquam Offendas Percusserit actvated." It was a low level charge skill. My body lung foward as the sword came down at a vertical angle, and then bringing my blade to the left side of my hip allowing me to activate another weapon skill Superiorem Conscidisti, cutting in an upward fashion. Although both of these were low level skills, they felt powerful. I pulled my main menu open and went to the stats menu. The name Mors was at the top and right next to that was my level. I was only level 3 right now and my HP [Health points] was at 40. I closed the stats menu and went to the log out button- but it wasn't there. I closed the menu and opened it again, went back down to the log out button, only to see it still wasn't there. As confused as I was, I decided to walk back to town to find out any information.

I arrived at the towns information center but it was crowded with players complaining about the log out button. "How am I suppose to eat my dinner?" There was a man with blonde hair wearing heavy armor and a bastard sword at his side. "Come on man its 6:02. if I don't get dinner started before my wife gets home, she's gonna have my head!" "We are very sorry for the inconvenience. We will have the problem solved as soon as possible." The man sighed and started to walk away. "Hey, you, the big man in the heavy amor!" The man looked my way and walked over. "The log out button is missing and the GM doesn't now what's going on so I say we're pretty much screwed 'till they find out what's going on. I'm Bellator. What's your name?"

"Mors. Nice to met "

Bellator grabbed my hand and shook it up and down. "Like wise. Now seeing as how there is no logging out, why dont you and me party up and kill us some boars?" Two menus pop up. 1 for a friend request and the other a party invite. "Alright. Let's go. By the way, I'm only a level 3, so not to many weapon skills." Balltor started laughing " Dont worry I'm level 2 so you're a higher level."

"Well, lets go then. I found this great place that has plenty of boars and no pepole"

"I dont think that will matter. The only people out on the fields right now would be people like us."

"You're right. Now lets get going, it's already 6:45."

Bellator's bastard sword glowed a faint blue as he let loose a 2 chain combo weapon skill, cutting up, diagnol, then to the right, from the left, then down verticaly. "You know Mors, can't our famliy just disconnect use from the head piece?" I finished cutting down a boar and turned around to Bellator "Yeah, but I live with a mother who comes home at 11:00 p.m. so I got a long time before I need to get out. What about you?" Bellator got a huge grin, though the game system probably oversized it. "I live with a wonderful wife and daughter. My daughter is only 6 right now so she won't unhook me and my wife's probably getting home right now."

"Really? I gusse I have to say good bye because you might just disappear any moment now haha."

"You're right. Let's get some more levels in before that happens." Bellator held out his right hand so I grabbed it. "Yeah, let's go" [Urgent message from GM's] started to flash red in front of me. "This must be about the log out. Lets check it out." I pressed on the ok butten and a video popped up of a man in a lab coat and bottle glasses.

["You are trapped in this hell."]