The game and the players always had a very close connection. Be it the source of their strength or the key for the multiverse to them.
The game changed the world for the player many times, with the knowledge they got from it they turned their world into a totally different era, and with the strength it gave them they defended their homes and regain their territories from the mutated monsters.
For all of these achievements, the players took the game always as their top priority and some dedicate their lives to understanding its secrets.
First, they started to understand how the game work from skill to talent and items. How it classified mission rewards or why the reason it put those missions in the first place.
After understanding those things, the players moved their attention to the information about the game worlds. When a lot of players had a mission in the same world, the players started to get the pattern of the game mission which made them change the information word to the destiny word.
The same event kept repeating in the same world and the game usually always put mission related to those events which made the players start a full exploration of this mysterious destiny.
Using their spare time in the mission or some items after the mission finish, players started to get a hang of this destiny and the relation with the rewards. Like any big change can bring a lot of benefits for players or become their demise if they did something radiculose like trying to kill a protagonist with different forms and hidden powers.
From all these worlds that the player explored, the newbie's worlds were always the most detailed because of how much of new players there are there. Taking an example Sword Art Online.
SAO was always a famous world with newbies and new players because of the unique theme of the online game and the long mission.
The players were teleported inside SAO directly with their bodies changed by the game, which made a lot of skills and talents useless inside.
The existence of the online game made this mission favored for some players while some hated it from their hearts. Any player that favored straight forwards abilities that cause damage was almost completely helpless inside of SAO while the player that focused on their skills was feeling this is their stage.
Because of how long the mission even if the game made time-altering of 1 month equal 1 year inside, the players still tried to finish their missions quickly and leave the game. The reason is even swordsmen didn't like SAO as a training ground.
SAO is mainly based on its system and sword skills that need system assistance which makes it more like... You leave the job for the system rather than yourself.
Because of that, players only explored a few floors and secrets before finishing their mission until the day that was named... The first great SAO accident.
It happened when the two guilds started war inside the game. Two thousand players in each guild started a war for a rare item which isn't available in the shop and chose a mission world to do the war, and the game chosen SAO as a stage for them.
Everything was normal. Players had their war until someone with a special ability caught in a desperate situation that leads him to use desperate measures.
The player had a very special spiritual talent that only affects electronics, but because of his stats and conditions; he wasn't able to use it in SAO until the condition was available and he was forced beyond his limit.
The player had something in his space called... Skynet program, but without the artificial intelligence which made it only a powerful hacking program.
The moment the player talent exploded, he did something he never did before. Uploading data by his mind only, but he died afterward.
Skynet that entered SAO stood without a goal after the player dies, making it absorb any data inside the game until it met an artificial intelligence and absorbed it.
This Skynet that was supposed to be a safe version turned back to its old form and killed every player inside the game making them all lost the war and fail their mission before it turned its attention to the outside world.
The players that were revived inside the game space received a long sarcastic note from the game on the subject of it can't understand if that world is SAO or the Terminator now.
And this was the end of the first accident.
After this accident, the player started to log inside the game by Nerve gear and wasn't allowed to hack or do anything to the SAO system anymore, which made more skills useless inside SAO.
Players started to play this mission seriously and began to explore this world carefully. And they did more than necessary.
The player after years understood every task or hidden mission inside the SAO system and even wrote a book about how to pass that world easily, which made them put SAO as a vacation world.
They even found the true protagonist after it was been Heathcliff for years. Because they saw Kirito in his hax mod slashing an admin equivalent to a god in the 75 floor.
But something happens again, made them realize that the game isn't just a simple program.
The next time the players that were counting on their information had to face the cruel reality of most of the things in SAO changed.
Missions, tasks, how to get items or rare skills changed completely which made the second SAO accident happen with the death of most of the players inside SAO because they weren't able to finish their missions.
The player understood after another sarcastic note from the game that it used another parallel world which Kayaba changed some game settings to surprise the players.
From that time, SAO was taken seriously with every time the game change SAO missions and tasks except some destiny related one.
"..." Akashi was sitting in his desk while reading a small notebook about the SAO accident.
Akashi got this book for free after he brought 10 energy potions for 1000 coins from a stall owner. Apparently, the accident wasn't that of a secret.
"...*Sigh*... It seems I need to gather my information again" Akashi sigh while remembering he didn't see anything about this accident in the central world.
Akashi heard from the stall owner that the accident involving two big guilds from the game, so the players took the action of what happened in the game space, stay in the game space. But Akashi started to think about the information about the other worlds.
"The information that I got in the central world isn't wrong for the normal players, but that doesn't count the organizations and the families" Akashi started to think he needs to gather some information after the mission is over.
"This's getting more complicated..." Akashi fixed his hat while feeling a headache from these conspiracies going around this game.
"It seems that my strongest weapons this time is only my eyes and zone... This brings back memories" Akashi said while looking at the clock that shows the mission time.
[0:23].
Akashi checked his space and looked at a flash disk that carries a strong computer virus he brought for 500 coins. But this virus isn't for SAO.
"Do you think something like SAO can stop me? " Akashi smiled while looking at the ceiling.
"Even if it SAO and Kayaba... I have more than 10 guaranteed plans to destroy it completely" Akashi said while the countdown reached zero.
[Time for preparation is over... Starting to send the player].
[The mission world is Sword Art Online... Good luck player No.4567893].
"So... Bring it on" Akashi said before a white light flashed and he disappeared from his room.
So... Because of SAO I started to look at the anime again and realized two things.
1. I still hate that anime.
2. That anime doesn't give enough information about the game or the floors that the players are supposed to F****g beat.
And the manga told me even less.
So I did something I never thought I'll do... I started to read the light novel... Which explained more about the game but fewer events than the anime. (I'm in 96 pages).
... This going to be hard...