Chapter 1 – That is not creepy at all

'I think that most of you have discovered the fact that the log out button has disappeared from the main menu. This is not a bug; it is all part of «Sword Art Online»'s system.'

Okaaaay-that's creepy, a twenty meter tall man with a hooded robe draped around him with no face, who was also Kayaba Akihiko-according to Murphy's Law this is going to be bad…

"Part of...the system?"

I overheard a guy who looked like a final fantasy character talk to another guy next to him, so I took turns to overheard that conversation and the announce of Akihiko. (AKA: Creepy guy)

'Until you get to the top of this castle, you cannot log out of your own free will.'

'...also, the discontinuation or dismantling of the Nerve Gear from the outside is strictly forbidden. If these things are attempted...'

'The signal sensors in your Nerve Gear will emit a strong electromagnetic pulse, destroying your brain and stopping all of your basic functions.'

AH! I knew it, Murphy is never wrong-now let's think about it, that is impossible…isn't it?

"Haha...what's he saying? That man, has he gone nuts? He's not making any sense. The Nerve Gear... It's just a game. Destroy our brain... How is he going to do that? Right?"

Yeah! You teach him fantasy character

"...theoretically it's possible, but...he must be bluffing. Because if we pull the plug on the Nerve Gear, there's no way it can emit that sort of a strong pulse. Unless there's some form of battery with a huge storage capability...inside..."

AWWW! Come on! Just because you don't look like a fantasy character, doesn't mean that you have to be the guy who says that everything bad is possible!

"There...is one; thirty percent of the gear's weight is in the battery. But...that's totally crazy! What if there was a sudden power outage or something!"

YEAH! Fantasy character 1-common looking guy near him 0 - creepy robbed guy 0

'To be a little more specific, dislocation from an outside source of electricity for ten minutes, being cut off from the system for more than two hours, or any attempt to unlock, dismantle, or destroy the Nerve Gear. If any of these conditions are met, the brain destruction sequence will start. These conditions have been made known to the government and the public through mass-media in the outside world. On that note, there have been several cases where the relatives or friends have ignored the warnings and tried to forcefully get rid of the Nerve Gear. The result—'

'—regretfully 213 players have already exited this game and the real world forever.'

Okay…..this isn't funny anymore if by any little minuscule chance he is telling the true…. I need to find someone who played this game before, a beta tester, and get all the help possible from him. What I already know of this game, will help me only in the beginning.

I started to make a mental list of everything important right there, if I am going to die… IN A GAME, at the very least I'm going to get to the last boss, so I need to:

Reach floor 100

Get a beta tester to help me if possible

Freak out

While I made my list, the people near me started to change and became different, some who used a female character became a male character, others just changed in appearance and they all (included me) got the item #hand mirror #

If you really need to know I was on the former part, my female character became me…..if you want to know why did I use a female character, that is because that way is easier to get free items from other players…..sad people….sad, sad people.

Thanks god though, I used a neutral name so I didn't have to worry about that; I just panicked a little when I saw myself with the mirror.
Slightly long brown hair and eyes of different colors, a green one and a blue one.

To keep myself of further panic I keep hearing the conversation of the fantas-HOLY SHIT, now he is a bandit, no doubts about that-and his friend who now looked like a girl.

From what I heard, the young one knew a bit about the game. Maybe he had some friends who were beta testers, or he was a beta tester himself. It didn't matter; they wouldn't help a complete stranger. And more important I had to start moving if what Akihiko said was true.

SHIT! My friends are probably playing too…..well, they aren't that bad as gamers so they probably will be ok, no need to worry about them. Even more, how would I be able to help if I didn't know that much about the game?
Sure, I know a bit but that wasn't going to help me that much. I know how to have an easy start but I didn't know how to keep people alive, if I were a healer I might be able to help them but in SAO magic didn't exist.

Anyway, right now I have to run and go to the next village. If I'm lucky (which I doubt) I will be the first one to get there and I will be able to complete the quest for the #Anneal Sword# today.

I started to run to the northwest gate of the Starting City, in my way I heard a guy shout something about not believing Akihiko, then he jumped over the fence, into the endless void below Aincrad.

I waited with an uncountable number of players, he never came back. Then a guy shouted that a huge stone wall appeared somewhere (he never said where) and that many names were written there. It wasn't difficult to imagine what the stone wall was for: A tribute to the victims of this game.

Seeing that I had wasted too much time I started to run again, I knew the general direction of the village. I had to go past the large plains and then enter into a forest, there I had to keep going until I founded the village called Horunka.

While I keep running in direction to the forest, I found myself thinking about the recent events.

Akihiko has over 9000 people trapped in a game, how does he expect to get away? I mean if he was in the game, he wouldn't be able to keep track of the people that will try to save us from the game by hacking into the system itself. But at the same time if he was outside the game, he wouldn't be able to buy food, after all he probably is a wanted criminal now. Also, what does he gets with all this? Maybe a ransom, yes, a ransom would make sense but he told us to clear the game. Why? He was the creator of this game, so maybe he got crazy with the idea of making his game the most famous game in the world or something like that, after all it is said that to be a genius you have to be crazy.

Ah… Well, at the very least this isn't going to be boring, in fact this has been one of the best starts for a game… Real people dying, going to a village that I only know is somewhere in a forest, and I repeat, somewhere in a forest. Who I am kidding, if it wasn't for the fact that dying doesn't sound good, game or life, I would have already tried to get out of this game by suicide.