SAO. I'm writing a fanfic for this, because I feel that certain aspects of the series weren't explored deeply enough. And I thought it be cool if there was a fanfic with one chapter for each floor. So these are the Tales from Aincrad.
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"I can't blame anyone that hates the Beta Testers. My story would prove everything they say about them right."
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The moment I was logged on, I saw a massive line. "What's going on?" I was curious. I never saw this many people in one spot in any game I've played. "The tutorial quest. We're waiting for it to cooldown." One of the people om they line answered.
The Quests in SAO have a cooldown. It prevents scenarios where someone can't complete a quest because too many other players are attempting the same quest. The only downside is that a lot of the time, you end up having to wait before you can start your quest for the same reason.
"Screw this! I'm done waiting." One of the players drew his sword. Vulcan. He's going to fight his way to the front of the line. I'd stop him, but there's no risk. We're in the Town of Beginnings. It's protected by the Anti-Criminal Code Effect. He can't kill anyone here. But he might figure out how to use a sword skill.
I shouldn't be wasting time here. I should be taking advantage. I should be leveling up before the swarm of players start hitting the rest of the game.
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I left the starting city to get as far ahead in the game as possible. After Kayaba's announcement, every Beta Tester in the game will be racing to get the best gear on the floor, and level up as quickly as possible.
I'm looking for a secret cave. As far as I know, no one else in the Beta knows about it. Not too many people spent time looking around the first floor in the Beta. The cave has a boss, Razor Tusk. He doesn't drop any useful items, but he does give a lot of EXP, and isn't particularly tough. Every day in the Beta, I would kill him after logging on. No one else would bother looking for him, so he was always there.
Except for this time. I found something else
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It's been about a month since I started the game. "You found the Boss Room?" Diavel asked. "Accidentally. I was looking for the Razor Tusk Boss." I explained my story to him. "You remember where he originally spawned in the Beta?" Diavel doesn't seem to be surprised that I'm a Beta Tester. Most people hate Beta Testers. "I killed him everytime I logged in." I replied.
I never really saw Razor Tusk as important. I was just taking advantage of one of the easy boss that no one cared to kill. His respawn timer wasn't as fast in the Beta as it is in the official release. When others players found him while they were looking for the boss room, they were completely surprised. For the first time, even the Beta Testers didn't know what to do. None of them cared about the weak boss with the sixth lowest EXP reward on floor one.
And yet the only thing I wanted to do right after I found the Boss Room was kill Razor Tusk. Kill him once for each day I stay trapped in this game. The day I found out where he was moved to, I killed him enough times to catch up for every day I missed. And I'm going to kill him once everyday from this day forward.