I have a brand new chapter to show you which clocks in over 1.4K Words. So thanks to korohoshi for following and CassusFacade for reviewing. I understand Dan's username is a problem, but the new charcter in this chapter should hopefully even things out. So lettuce begin.
"LINK START!" Dan shouted, before a bunch of flashing lights flew towards his eyes. Soon a message came up asking him to do a calibration. He then tried to proceed to pat himself all over his body. Once the calibration complete, the Nerve Gear connected his senses to the system. He eventually arrived at a Character creation screen, there was a perfect copy of him standing there in some black starter gear.
He changed the hair to Spiked, bright green hair, changed his eye color to blue, and picked a long sword for his beginner weapon. He then entered his classic username, Dan, into the name box and pressed the Accept Button. After finishing creating his account, a message appeared in front of him. 'Welcome to Sword Art Online'.
He was blinded by a blue light before seeing a huge city in front of him. "Welcome me world" Dan said to himself as tons of people spawned around him. He moved his arm to his back and felt a sheath there, holding his sword. He looked around and saw a NPC crowded by players. 'Must be the tutorial' he thought as he walked towards the NPC.
Once he arrived at the NPC, the NPC asked "Would you like to try the tutorial?", as a menu opened up in front of Dan. It read as below
Quest Name: Tutorial
Recommended Level: 1
Description: Learn how to play game
Rewards: 50 Col, 25 EXP
Do you Accept?
Dan clicked the accept button and he was once again blinded with a blue light. 'What is with this game and blue?' He thought. He soon arrived in a Dojo like place with some training dummies. "Welcome to the Sword Art Online Tutorial, a computerized female voice said. "To begin, Draw your sword" the voice said. Dan drew his sword and the voice said "To do a basic attack, just swing your sword. Test it on one of the training dummies". Dan walked up to the dummy and began slicing at it. "Good, now try the vertical sword skill by holding your sword to the right". 'Now we get to have some fun' Dan thought. He held the sword to his right, just like the voice said and it began to glow brightly with yellow. He then swung it at the dummy.
Half a hour later, Dan finished the tutorial and proceeded to try and find the entrance to the fields. As he ran through the busy streets, he began to hear some music being played on what seemed like a lute. He stopped and saw where the music was coming from. It was from a male with the same weapon as Dan, except blue starting gear, Brown hair, orange eyes and a head shaped like a ball. 'Must have had some trouble with the Character Customizer' he thought as he walked up to the lute player. "Nice music" Dan said, which made the lute player stop and look at his direction. "Thanks, been practicing ever since i got this 20 minutes ago" the player said. "I'm Dan" Dan said. The Lute Person smiled and said "I'm Jareo".
"Are you raising your music skill?" Dan questioned. "Yeah, i want to be support in battle and I'm trying to figure if music can heal and stuff" Jareo replied. "Dude, you should know the game doesn't have magic. "WHAT!" he yelled, staring blankly at Dan. "You mean to tell me that a Fantasy MMORPG, does not have magic?" The confused player asked. "Yep, Music is probably just a hobby skill" Dan answered. "Damn, i already have a level 4 music stat" said Jareo.
The fields were filled with players grinding boars. Dan and Jareo were some of these players. Jareo swung at a boar with his Axe, before Dan did a vertical sword skill on it, finishing it off.
Col: 23
EXP: 27
Items: 1
Level Up
Level 2
HP: 225 +10 235
Auto Regen: 5 +5 10
Strength: 25 +15 40
Defense: 15 +10
Inventory Space: 25 +3 28
Luck: 10 +7 17
"Dude, congratulations" Jareo said to Dan. "Thanks" said Dan. Then, in the distance, a bell rung. "Uh, what is that" asked Jareo. "Maybe For whom the bell tolls symbolism" said Dan. "Do you actually know what that means?" said Jareo. "Yeah, no idea" replied Dan. They were then force teleported.
They arrived at the spawn of the beginner city. Players were being teleported on around them. "What's going on here!" Dan yelled looking around them. Jareo pointed up in the sky and replied "That". Dan looked where Jareo was pointing and saw a red hexagon that read 'Warning'. The hexagons than began creating more hexagons saying 'Warning' and 'System Announcement.
Once the sky was full, it started leaking some blood like liquid, which grossed some of the other players out. The blood eventually formed into a giant floating figure in a cloak. The face of it was invisible. "Players, welcome to my world" the figure said. 'This must be Akihiko Kayaba' Dan thought. "My name is Akihiko Kayaba. "Right now, i am the only one who can control this world" he said. Some of the players gasped as they continued to stare in anticipation.
"I think most of you have discovered something has disappeared from your menu;'The Log Out Button" he said as he demonstrated. "What, the log out button vanished" Jareo muttered. "This is not a defect, i repeat, this is not a defect". "This was the way Sword Art was designed" the robed Kayaba said as nearly all the players gasped and began to panic.
"Until you get to the top of this castle, you can not log out of your own free will" Akhiko said. "Also, if someone from the outside world attempts to remove or dismantle the Nerve Gear, the signal sensors in the system will emit a strong electromagnetic pulse, destroying your brain, and ending your life". Silence fell over the players as they tried to process what the game master had just said.
"Disconnection for more than two hours will also result in death". "This has been reported to the government and news outlets across the world". "However, some families did not listen and 53 American Players have already left both worlds" the robed figure said. '53 players, that is madness' Dan thought.
"In the two hours provided, your bodies will most likely be moved to hospital, so you can focus on beating the game". "Also, if your HP reaches 0, your character will be deleted, and the Nerve Gear will simultaneously Fry Your Brain, ending your life". Akihiko opened a map of Aincrad, the game's floating castle. "At the moment, you are on floor one of Aincrad". "When you beat the boss on the floor, you will go up to the next". "Reach the 100th floor, and beat the boss, and the game will be cleared, and all alive players will be logged out instantly, you have my word" Akhiko said as the players gasped at the amount of work ahead of them.
"I have left a gift for you in your inventory, please, take a look". Dan opened his menu by swiping down with his right thumb and index finger, clicked the inventory tab, and then the items tab". 'Let's see, Boar Fur, Boar Tusks, Wolf Pelts and a ... Mirror' Dam thought before he tapped the mirror and then the spawn button. The mirror appeared in his hands and he saw his avatar's face in the mirror. He was then blinded by a blue light and when the blue light disappeared, he saw his actual face in the mirror. "Hey, Dan, are you OK?" Asked Jareo. Dan turned to look his way and saw Jareo except with an average shaped head. "What the hell is going on, you look nothing like you did before?" asked Jareo. "This is what i look like on real life" Dan replied. "Did he just change our avatars to look like our real selves?" questioned Jareo. "I don't think he is finished talking" Dan said, pointing at Akihiko Kayaba.
"You're probably wondering why, why would Akihiko Kayaba, Developer of Sword Art Online do this" said Kayaba. "My goal was simple, to see a world under my control". "As you can see, my goal has been achieved". "Now i have finished the official tutorial for Sword Art Online, i wish you players the best of luck" he said as he began to merge back into the sky. Once the figure was gone, the hexagons began to disappear and panic started to arise upon the players. Dan and Jareo ran out of the confusion and towards the exit of the town. This was no longer a game, this was reality. Everything would try to stand in their way. This begins the story of Dan.
There is the first Proper Chapter. Hope you enjoyed it. If you could, please review, it really helps out a lot. So thanks for reading if you did. And i will see you all later.