⌜Chapter 48⌟

"Now you fuckers know what knowledge is power means!"

"There is no knowledge is smacking someone with a book!"

"You still have something to say, eh? then have some bible verses!"

*Bam! *Bam!

A few moments later, a pillar of lights appeared and the dead bodies of the players turned into a particle of lights disappearing from the game. For now, they won't be able to log into the game for an hour.

Yes, Tanaka issued a punishment to players' deaths. After all, the harsher the punishment, the more the game will thrill and exciting, not only the dead players not be able to log in, they will also lose a level, well, only for the humans side, as for the fairies, they will lose equipment.

Of course, this is only in their respective places, in the Gods continent or Asgard. If players die there, they will lose everything. That's how harsh the game was, also in that sense, the rarer the items the players have, the higher its value. It won't take long before the game affects the economy.

Well, that will be for another time. These guys that he killed didn't really drop anything, as they still have newbie protection. It will disappear after level 20 and since they were the first ones to attack him, he didn't get any red names showing he killed some players.

"Anyway, that was a good way to pass times. I was able to somehow adapt in this new game. Time to continue grinding then"

Tanaka didn't remain in the low level monster fields and immediately went towards the higher level ones. The one reason he stayed here is to kill the boss monster.

"But book as a weapon isn't really a good thing, it feels like I'm mocking the scholars of the world... just how I like it"

Tanaka smiled evilly as he said that.

"Once I unlock the Jobs, I will definitely forge a book of my own"

Tanaka started to imagine himself with a powerful book in his hand that could smack everything.

"..."

While Tanaka is busy grinding, Kirito and Asuna are also doing their best to gain power to go against Tanaka, but unlike at the anime where they have a boost start from SAO, this time they started from the very first.

But not that difficult as they have the help of Kirito's sister who was high rank in the game and which is Sugu or Leafa in game, at first, She was confused as why Kirito didn't think twice to play the game the moment they talked with Tanaka.

Was he really that scary that they needed 3 powerful players just to go against him?

And so out of curiosity, Leafa asked Asuna about Tanaka. Asuna didn't mind and told the achievements of Tanaka to her, it was much more grande than every other novel or anime. After all, it happened in real life.

No one in this world didn't know about the incident of SAO where 10,000 players were trapped inside the game and dying means death in real life, hearing his stories felt like a story of a fantasy king, yes, not a hero but a king.

That is what she thought after the story ended. Heroes and kings are different. They may be the same, but heroes are the ones who save, but Tanaka saved not only but also killed and protected more people. She was even surprised that Kirito, who was deemed one of the heroes, can't even fight Tanaka.

Kirito also confirmed it himself, But Sugu was much more shocked when she heard that there was a much more powerful player that was feared by everyone, but she didn't hear the rest of the story because there was a powerful monster that popped out of nowhere and they fought it.

While they were fighting, Leafa received a message that a lot of new players have started surging inside the game and it was very fast.

Surely, the ALO is becoming bigger and bigger, not only new players started surging in but also companies started to set their sights in the game, after all, after the update of the game, there has a lot of things that have changed.

Reasons for Popularity

Time Dilation

A large part of ALO's new popularity was due to its unique time dilation. Unlike many other VR Games, Tanaka had developed a way for players in the game to experience more in the same amount of time. When one hour passed in the real world two hours could pass in-game, this amount could even be further increased when the Mind Space System was implemented. Many yearned for a way to stretch the time they had left and they could do so in ALO.

But this news wasn't released yet but maybe the other companies pulled some strings to gain this information that even the government also laid their eyes on the game, and touching the company? impossible. RECT is now protected by a powerful organization.

Tanaka also improved something such as the fighting, realism, and some other things. If compared to a novel in his past life, it will be an improved version of God's domain from RSSG.

From the estimation of industry professionals, in about 3 months, it was predicted that the players of ALO will reach 50 million. And may even have to chance to a stunning number of 100 million. Just these estimations were enough to shake the whole VR industry in the entire world, and this may ever rise in the future.

Unlike in Tanaka's past life, where there are 7 billion population, this world has a much bigger population of 15 billion. this was how better this world was compared to his past world. It could be said that once the ALO crashes the market, nobody will be able to tell how much damage and boom it would bring.

Of course, Tanaka didn't know any of this, he is braindead for market, political and some other things, he didn't care, for now, the ones who were following him were doing all of this for him, it's not that Tanaka is a puppet, he was just a king with powerful subjects that wanted to raise him above the entire world and wanted him to overshadow everyone.

It sounds like a chuunibyou thing, but there is nothing you can do when your subjects acts like they worship your every move.

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I have nothing to say.

Quotes:

I said nothing, but she still heard me?