3 New Reality

The bell chime ring throughout the whole floor indicates something important is on going. In every corner of Aincrad floor 1, there are many pillars of blue light flashing here and there. The light is an effect of teleportation feature that exists in Sword Art Online, but to have many people to be transported like this, could only be the doings of the Admin of the game.

Currently all of the player inside Sword Art Online is been gathered on the Town of Beginning plaza, where the teleportation monument is located.

"What's going on?"

"No clue."

"A forced teleport?"

A lot of question and discussion is going on in the plaza as they were confused, for why were the whole ten thousands player had been gathered in the plaza without prior notice from the game admin.

"Up there!" A player said as one by one, everyone on the plaza saw what could be described as a bad joke if it was a joke, but sadly it is not.

The sky now turned into red color as it was filled with , 'Warning', and, 'System Announcement' alert sign. But it got weirder as from the gap of the sign, blood started flowing like river. The blood coagulate into one as it form a red robe with hood that usually the Game Master wore, but this time the GM had no face nor body, as it float in the air.

"Attention, Players.

Welcome to my world.

My name is Kayaba Akihiko, I am currently the one and only person who can control this world."

The hooded being said as, he introduce himself as Kayaba Akihiko, the genius person who created the world of Sword Art Online. The other player started commenting, and discuss among themselves as they come to conclusion that maybe this whole charade is just continuation of the previous opening ceremony and they watch it in awe, but inside the plaza there exist one player who kept his head down the whole time.

Akira with his black perm hair who stand on the farthest edge of the barrier that surrounding the town of beginning plaza, is already saw this scene like twenty times already in his life, that he know it enough to remember every dialog in the event. As he kept looking down, he continued to muttered in a low voice, Kayaba antagonist dialog until it got interrupted by a loud cracking sound.

"I am-"

Before Kayaba could continued his script, he got interrupted by some unknown intruder that no one could notice, even him the one who created Sword Art Online.

In the red sky, there is a ring shaped portal with 20m diameter in size that came out of nowhere! From there two silhouette could be seen coming out from it which gave Akira goosebumps.

"You know, I started to regret agreeing to your bet, if I know I had to work…"

The girl with long blond hair said with a tone of tiredness. The girl have dark golden eyes, and a beauty out of this world, She wore a purple Chinese-style tabard with various trigram over a pale pink Western-style dress and a pink mob cap with red ribbon on the front side of it.

"Eeee, I wonder if this job is too much for the likes of the legendary 'gap youkai'."

"Ughh!"

"Well, well, putting that aside… I doesn't want to keep our audience wait much longer!"

The little silhouette one said, as he looked to all the players beneath at the plaza.

Than he snap his finger and something unbelievable happened, as Kayaba got forced out of the Game Admin avatar, and back to his original human appearance. Kayaba fall straight toward a group of people where he got catched by two people that Akira remembered from the anime were Kibaou and Diavel.

Then once again, the guy on the sky snap his finger and surprised all the players except for Akira and a couple of people that used their original look to created their avatar, everyone got their appearance removed, and back to their original appearance back in reality.

The commotion of this one is greater than when they got assembled at the plaza, and the disappearance of the logout button.

"Eeeh! You are a guy?!"

"You said you were 17?!"

And many other comment were released among each other. But among them there are two person that Akira took notice immediately as their banter were very interesting.

"Nii… my big boobs is gone."

"Aww, don't be sad little sister, it will grow in no time!"

Akira who saw the exchange of the two were surprised but were very amused as he would not think that these two genius was in here and how they beat the game, Akira were very excited for that, but with the current situations maybe there was no game at all.

"Yosh! Now everyone is complete. I have an announcement, but first let me introduce myself."

"My name is Tet! The god of games.

Maybe all of you would not believe me, but you must.

Because starting now, your life is hanging on a thread."

Tet said as he snap his finger again, but there's nothing big happened like the two event before, and everyone does not felt anything change at all.

"Yukari, please."

"Hmmph!"

Yukari snorted as she created a circle out of thin air, and someone was down to the ground screaming In agony as he kept holding his chest in pain.

Tet and yukari come closer to the ground as Yukari shows the players what she is holding, and when everyone saw that thing, everyone freeze.

"Yes, all of you are alive."

Yukari explains with her cold voice, as she hold the still beating heart.

"Hahaha, now everyone believes me than everyone, great games!"

Tet said as he waves his hand with his bright smile on his face. Then Yukari put the heart back to where it belongs before she do some weird hand gesture and swipe to left and right many times, she counted it until the 99 counts before she stopped and everyone could saw just what she was up to.

And now all of the player could saw the bright blue sky, with cloud drifting afloat and bird flyings freely. Unlike the artificial sky that exist in Sword Art Online, where the sky is just the below surface of the floor above. This sky is very real and we could felt the chill wind blowing.

"Welcome, to the world of paradise 'Xanadu'!"

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