Chapter 1 Prologue

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Ryou Misaki, the player behind Haseo, the black adept rogue, and the Terror of Death, had just woken up. He was about to log into The World R: 2 to level up. But before he could log on, he received an important email.

(I'd better read my important emails.) Ryou thought. The email was from Yata, the leader of the guild Raven, as well as a secret organization called "Project G.U." The email said: Come to Raven's home. (Yata's calling me; I'll head to the Serpent of Lore.)

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He logged in and arrived in Eternal city Mac Anu. Mac Anu was, according to The World's back story, the oldest city in existence. The sun always stayed in the same position in the sky no matter what time of day it was in the real world, but Haseo never bothered thinking about it. He headed to Raven and, after warping to the mercenary district, he went into Raven's home. He was greeted by his teammates Pi, a female tribal grappler with large pink hair tied into two ponytails. And Yata's assistant, and Kuhn, a blue-haired male steam gunner who dressed in yellow and was quite popular with the ladies.

"Hey, Haseo, what's up?" Greeted Kuhn.

"Yata called me for something." Replied Haseo.

"What was it?" Asked Pi.

"Probably another mission." Replied Haseo.

"What mission was it?"

"Probably AIDA." Pi then heard a short beep; she had gotten a short mail from Yata.

"Master Yata will see you now." She said to Haseo. Haseo went up the stairs and into Yata's admin area The Serpent of Lore.

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He arrived in The Serpent of Lore, which had a terminal with a monitor. With this, Yata and Pi were able to basically spy on other players at all times. It could also be used to analyze data in The World. Haseo walked up and said: "So, what do you want now?" He asked, annoyed by the orders he was given, which were taking away time he could have spent leveling up.

Yata in his knowledgeable persona responded with "You are to investigate a modified area, and obtain a sample of a new level AIDA. I'm sending you because you need more avatar training." Said Yata.

"Modified?" Asked Haseo.

"Yes, Δ Entwined Friend's Exile. This area was modified by another player whom I suppose was looking for thrills, it happened last week in The World."

"Who was this player?"

"It was a player who had a bad reputation in the game for lecturing players about "love and tolerance." We canceled his account with The World for doing this, but unnatural phenomena are still occurring in this area. Now, there have been AIDA signals detected in this area."

"Wow, what kind of player would want to do that in an online game, seriously, it's just a game."

"It is unusual, and even the CC corp. is unable to do anything about the area data, the reason being…"

"AIDA, right?"

"Yes. It is very important that this area is cleared of AIDA, this mission doubles as avatar training."

"Fine, I'll see what I can do."

Haseo exited Raven's home and used a platform to enter the dome, all the while wondering what monsters and AIDA were waiting for him in Δ Entwined Friend's Exile. He went to an NPC shop to buy healing Items. After doing so, he went to the Chaos Gate, a transfer device for players to go to areas to level up and go adventuring. He entered the area words into the warp menu. However something... unexpected happened afterwards, everything turned black and white except Haseo, who still had his color. Blue circles surrounded his black clad PC and he warped out of Mac Anu.

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Back in Ryou's apartment he was still playing the game. His screen went static and he collapsed on the floor still wearing his M2D. Ryou's mind was blank. There were no thoughts, no memories, no nothing.

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Hope you liked the first part of my first story, please review.