The Town of Initiation.

The square of tens of thousands of people became audible, and everyone was trying their best to digest what Kayaba Akihiko said.

Everyone's complexion began to change wildly, even Kirito was no exception.

The only one who can stay calm is probably Makino alone.

Akihiko Kayaba's cold voice came again, "You can't log out on your own initiative, and no one outside can stop or dismiss NERvGear. If attempted, the high-power microwaves emitted by the NERvGear's signaling unit will destroy your brain and stop your life. ”

Destroy the brain, stop life activities, this is ...... Death?

The players were stunned, feeling that Akihiko Kayaba had told a super unfunny joke.

But no matter what, the weight of Akihiko Ikeba's cold joke is too heavy, and it still detonates the entire square.

However, there is still luck in everyone's hearts.

Because reason tells them that a sane game designer would not dare to joke with the lives of tens of thousands of players.

Although Japan has abolished the death penalty, it is necessary to completely sit in prison for such a serious crime.

The square was boiling and everyone was talking.

"What's going on?"

"It's a show to stir up the atmosphere!"

"Let's get it over quickly!"

"Gone!"

A young man in cloth armor pulled a girl in a cute pink dress, and without looking back, he planned to leave directly.

But the two did hit their heads against the invisible wall!

Don't see the Yellow River and don't give up, and everyone still only treats it as a joke about Kayaba Jinghiko's intimidation.

Or rather, everyone wants it to be a joke.

But.

The more afraid you are of having an accident, the more likely you are to have an accident.

At this point, not everyone is still deceiving themselves.

First of all, there is Kirito, who is already starting to believe a little.

As a little fan of Akihiko Kayaba, Kirito knows that Akihiko Kayaba is not a joker.

In addition, from a technical point of view, it is not impossible for Kayaba Jinghiko to say that the method of killing is not impossible.

The microwave of the signal unit is the same as that of the microwave oven, as long as the limiter is removed, it can destroy the human brain.

In addition, NERvGear also has a built-in battery, so even if you unplug the power supply, you can still complete the kill.

Are you kidding?

Because of the revolutionary breakthrough in neural connection technology and the design of SAO, a cross-era game masterpiece, Akihiko Kayaba has already made a name for herself in the real world.

Money, status, and power have long been beyond everyone's imagination.

It's not an exaggeration to use the word world-famous.

Akihiko Aoba is crazy and doing all kinds of things to imprison tens of thousands of players?

But is Akihiko Kayaba someone who can joke?

The more genius you are, the more paranoid you tend to be.

Moment.

With Kirito's psychological quality, he can't help but feel a chill down his spine.

Kirito couldn't help but look in all directions, when he saw that Makino was still calm.

Kirito was surprised by Makino's psychological quality, but he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Makino, who still maintains his calmness, is either really psychologically good beyond imagination, or he has not yet realized the seriousness of the matter.

And at this moment, Akihiko Kayaba's devil-like voice sounded again.

"Unfortunately, there have been many cases where a player's family and friends have ignored warnings and attempted to forcibly dismiss NERvGear."

"As a result, 213 players have retired from the Ayn Grant and the real world forever!"

"As you can see, this situation is being repeatedly reported by various media outlets."

In order to increase the convincing power, Akihiko Aoba even brought up a real-life news report about players trapped in the game and unable to log out, and a large number of players died.

In fact, in Akihiko Kayaba's step-by-step explanation, everyone has begun to believe in the fact that they are trapped in the game world.

But the news report brought up by Akihiko Kayaba broke the last illusion in everyone's hearts.

Because, people in the real world, can't give them any help.

They are truly becoming Akihiko Kayaba...... Prisoner!

Akihiko Kayaba: "Therefore, it can be said that the danger of the NERvGear being forcibly removed has been reduced. I hope you can play the game with peace of mind. ”

Everyone looked up and looked at Akihiko Kayaba, who had no face and the image of a hacker.

The hearts of the people are undoubtedly colder!

They couldn't understand why Akihiko Kayaba could be so calm and say such cruel and cold-blooded words.

What did he take their lives for?

However, their questions are destined to not be answered by Akihiko Kayaba.

Akihiko Kayaba: "However, I would like you to note that all resurrection methods in the game will be ineffective in the future. The moment your HP becomes zero, your characters will disappear forever. Meantime...... Your brains will be destroyed by NERvGear! ”

Instantly.

The whole square fell silent.

If it is said that becoming a prisoner of the SAO only makes them lose their freedom.

Then Akihiko Kayaba's words just now further pushed everyone into a deeper, darker, and more tragic abyss.

Death!

The game of SAO has changed from a game that imprisons them to a game where they will face death at any time.

Why can't you log out when you're just playing a game, and then it's a death game where you might lose your life?

Games are things that can make people feel relaxed and happy to pass the time, so it can't be something that will cost you your life!

Isn't this like spraying a few words on the Internet, and then someone crawling over the network cable and killing him?

Ridiculous!

Amusing!

But.

At this moment, everyone didn't even have the courage to scold Akihiko Usaba.

If all of this is true, Akihiko Kayaba may have the ability to erase them at any time.

"There is only one condition that you can free from this game———— [reach the 100th floor of Ayn Grant and defeat the final boss there]."

"At that time, you will be able to fully tackle this game of death, and all the players who survive will be able to log out safely."

"These are the rules of this world, and I hope you can remember them."

The emotions of the crowd exploded completely.

Customs clearance?

Defeat the final boss?

Are you kidding?!

How many levels did those players beat during the closed beta?

SAO has just started the service, and as the first batch of players to enter, the vast majority of them are game enthusiasts.

Know how difficult it is to complete a large game and complete it.

You know, in general, games require trial and error.

No intelligence, no powerful items, no security level, what can I use to clear the game?

Not to mention, there are no resurrection items yet, and if you die in the game, you are really dead!

Let them get through the level with one life?

Risking your own life to gather intelligence, trial and error?

Are you kidding?

Everyone felt like they were going crazy!

Kirito couldn't help but think back to his experience during the closed beta period, knowing that he was a genius in computers.

has been a veteran game house since he was a child, but even so, when he was in the closed beta, he even lost his life at the hands of the level 1 [Manic Boar].

Now, Akihiko Kayaba asks him to clear the level and defeat the level 100 boss......

So how long is he going to be trapped in the game?

Does he still have a chance to break through the 100th floor alive?

Kirito couldn't help but clench his fists, and his nails even pierced into the flesh, oozing drops of crimson blood.

Now, here is not a game, but ...... Reality!

He's going to survive no matter what!

Makino looked at the players around him who were almost collapsing, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

It's very different from watching it through a screen.

The essence of playing a game is just to relax and pass the time by the way.

Suddenly it became a fateful affair, and this is not something that can be simply accepted.

It's like on the Internet, every time something happens, everyone cries for war and wants to teach XX a bloody lesson.

But.

If you really need to go to the battlefield yourself, you may not surrender as soon as possible!

It's no wonder that in the first month of the death game, nearly two thousand people died directly without even seeing the boss on the first floor.

Of course.

And that's not the scariest of all, as these players will soon find out - human hearts are sometimes more terrifying than bosses and floor traps!

Makino couldn't help but think of the murder guild "Smile Coffin" and the tragedy of directly killing the "newlywed wife" for a prop.

For Makino, none of this is really much of a threat.

What really made Makino think was that the Sword Art Online World was his regular assessment, how should he complete this assessment.

A lone ranger like Kirito, that's definitely not going to work.

Perhaps saving these rookie players is also part of the strategy.

Seeing the panicked expressions around him, Makino's eyes couldn't help but flicker.

The two thousand people who should have died for the first time may be one of the keys to his score.

And at this moment, Akihiko Kayaba's voice sounded again.

"Finally, in your storage compartment, there is a gift from me, please confirm."

Gift?

Everyone became curious, and they all reached out and swiped down, opening the inventory column.

Then, everyone invariably saw the gift that Akihiko Kayaba said-hand mirror.

Seeing the hand mirror in the inventory, Makino was immediately happy.

This is one of the famous scenes in Sword Art Online, and there are many names for this famous scene:

"Large-scale makeup removal scene", "large-scale running scene", "Demon mirror", "The worst face in history"......

After Makino materialized the prop [Hand Mirror], a small mirror appeared in Makino's hand.

Brush brush ~~~

With the surge of light, soon, all the players in the scene were enveloped in white light.

The sudden white light of the hand mirror caught everyone off guard.

The white light dissipated, and everyone inevitably fell into panic, not knowing what kind of conspiracy Akihiko Kayaba had played.

Patting all parts of his body, Kirito was surprised to find that there seemed to be nothing unusual on his body.

But Akihiko Ashiba will definitely not be untargeted......

Kirito couldn't help but ask, "Are you okay?" Makino! ”

Since Kirito asked, Makino immediately cooperated.

Makino looked surprised, "Are you ...... Kirito? ”

Kirito was slightly puzzled, and instantly understood.

After taking a picture with the hand mirror, I was suddenly surprised.

Because what is reflected in the mirror is his immature and familiar face.

And this is the face of reality.

At this time, Kirito still doesn't understand, what is the effect of the prop [Hand Mirror]?

At the same time, Kirito couldn't help but look at Makino's appearance.

Instantly.

Kirito was surprised!

Because, Makino's face has not changed, it is still the same handsome and handsome, without the slightest flaw, and even handsome to the point of being a little unreal.

Makino is so handsome in reality?

Are you kidding?

Kirito in reality, can definitely be regarded as a handsome pot.

However, compared to Makino, the gap is too far.

Could it be that Makino doesn't pinch his face when he enters the game?

Kirito feels particularly absurd!

After looking at it again and again, Kirito couldn't help but curse a demon.

It's no wonder that people often hear that true beauty is genderless, and beauty to the extreme is to make both men and women fall in love with it.

Before, he was skeptical of such words, but after seeing Makino, he believed it.

Wait a minute!

Kirito suddenly felt an extremely ridiculous feeling, it was obviously a matter of life and death, how could he think about these messy things?

And at this moment, everyone also came back to their senses.

The result of forced makeup removal is a tragic face-based accident.

Looking at the man next to him in a familiar, cute pink dress, a slightly chubby man was overwhelmed with grief.

"You're a man, huh?"

Although the voice was not loud, the kind of miserable howl similar to the number one in Qiao Biluo's live broadcast room instantly lingered in everyone's hearts.

Presumably, this teenager will be unable to help but tremble when he sees a "girl" in a short pink skirt in the future.

And this is like an avalanche.

"It's... What's going on!? ”

"Liarious!?"

"You... Who are you!? ”

"Who are you?"

One by one, the players screamed one after another, and in an instant, the entire square howled.

I saw that the players who looked like the handsome men and women who appeared in the fantasy adventure game not long ago have all disappeared.

Instead, there are extremely ordinary faces, and even the average height has decreased a lot compared to before, and the average body has also dropped all of a sudden.

The appearance level of the whole game fell directly from "king" to "bronze".

Compared with the appearance after the extreme pinching of the face, the real appearance in reality is really "no one can fight".

The atmosphere of the game is gone, leaving only the cold reality.

It is no exaggeration to say that the "gift" of Akihiko Kayaba ruthlessly eliminated the last bit of "game sense" of the game SAO.

Undoubtedly, it gave everyone a cold and piercing knife!

No matter how numb they are, no matter how much they deceive themselves, they know that this is no longer a game, but a battlefield where they may die at any time.

Akihiko Kayaba: "You're wondering why, right? Why would Akihiko Kayaba, the developer of Sword Art Online, do such a thing? ”

"My goal has been achieved, I just created Sword Art Online to create the world and see it."

"And now, it's all done!"

"Now, to end the official operation tutorial of Sword Art Online, good luck to all players."

Is this what people say?

How ruthless and cold-blooded is Akihiko Kayaba to deliberately create the world of Sword Art Online, and also trap tens of thousands of living humans in the game, leaving them struggling on the brink of death?

But.

Kayaba just walked away on his own, as if he had trapped a group of players in the game on his own.

The so-called "tutorial" is just to tell you - from now on, all of you players are "spectators" for me to watch.

I said, just listen, and I didn't mean to ask for the opinion of you "spectators".

But it is this kind of almost emotionless words that completely shatters the last vestiges of illusions in the hearts of players.

From this day forward, they are not only prisoners, but they will also face ...... at any time Death!

After Akihiko Kayaba left, everyone in the entire square fell into a stupor.

"No...... No! ”

When the first person spoke, everyone in the square completely collapsed and began to roar.

"What are you kidding? Let me out! Let me out! ”

"Get me out of here!"

"I'm bothered! There's an appointment next! ”

"Do you want me dead?"

"I don't believe it...... I don't believe there is such a ridiculous thing...! ”

"It's just a game!"

"It's just a game!"

"Let us out!"

"Don't!"

The tsunami-like noise shook the air throughout the square.

At this moment, all players were in a panic like never before, so that the voices of screaming, roaring, screaming, yelling, yelling, screaming, screaming, and crying were mixed together, and silence could never be restored.

Makino and Kirito ran outside the starting town for the first time, and the two ran extremely resolutely.

Kirito who was running was a little hesitant when he saw Makino, but after thinking about it, he sent an invitation to Makino to form a team for the first time.

on this.

Makino, of course, has no reason to refuse!

As soon as he entered the game, he accosted Kirito, and that's not what he did. (Recommended reading: Reading Files 2013)