Chapter 13

When the red sky appeared, a red liquid came out from between the red sky and made a red character with a giant shape.

After the red character appeared, a commotion broke out everywhere. The players feel excited because they think this is the opening event of this game.

"Finally" said Zen.

Zen looked at the red character with a look on his face as if waiting for something. After Zen noticed the character, Zen tried to find some characters that he might know here.

But when he looked around, Zen couldn't recognize anyone, because the players were still using their avatars that they created while playing this game.

But not far from there, Zen saw a similar character when he was undergoing a beta tester. The solo player that the other beta testers are talking about is Kirito.

Kirito himself stood with his gaze focused on the large red character in front of him. Meanwhile a pink-haired character tried to talk to him next to him, namely Klein.

Still busy watching around, finally the red character finally made a sound.

"ALL PLAYERS, WELCOME TO MY WORLD"

Said the red character in a voice that filled the entire place.

"Finally something I've only watched so far, I can experience firsthand" Zen said after hearing the character start to voice.

"INTRODUCING, I AM KAYABA AKIHIKO. CURRENTLY I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN CONTROL THIS WORLD"

After hearing that, most of the players here hadn't thought of anything out of the ordinary. Some players are even very excited because the red character is Kayaba Akihiko the creator of this game, there are even some players expecting a good event after this.

But their hopes were all dashed, after the red character said his next sentence.

"I AM SURE, SOME OF YOU ALREADY REALIZED, THAT THE EXIT BUTTON HAS BEEN LOST FROM THE MAIN MENU"

Said the red character while opening the main menu and indicating that the exit button is not accessible to all players here.

Many players have noticed the loss of this button, but they think that this is a bug in the game system.

"THIS IS NOT A DAMAGE TO THIS GAME. I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DAMAGE TO THIS GAME. THIS IS A FEATURE OF THIS SWORD ART ONLINE GAME"

Hearing this, the hall instantly became silent without a single sound. each player is still trying to digest the meaning of the words of the red character.

However, the red character explained that each player, could not leave this game of his own free will or the person who released their nerve gear in the real world.

Then the red character explained what would happen if it was done, such as accidentally releasing the nerve gear and dying in this game. The character said that the transmitter on the nerve gear would destroy their brains.

Hearing this, some players still thought this was all a joke, even some players still didn't understand the meaning of the red character.

Several players tried to ignore the red character's words, some even tried to rush out of the hall. However, the place was isolated with a transparent barrier to prevent players from leaving the place.

But everything changed after the red character said a total of 213 players had died for ignoring this notification. Not only that, the character brought up various screen windows containing live broadcasts and several news portals about this incident from the outside world.

On the other hand, Zen is currently hearing all the announcements, feeling a little scared, because the atmosphere around Zen is starting to get tense because all the players here have already started to realize what really happened. Even though Zen has seen this scene many times while watching the anime, it is very different when he experiences it firsthand.

All the players in this place started to listen to the character seriously, they didn't want to miss any information, because it involved their lives.

The red character still explains some things, such as there is no way to revive dead players and other information.

Then the character mentions, to get out of this death game, there is only one way, which is to finish all the floors contained in this game.

Hearing this, all the players began to panic and panic, some even started shouting swear words. Some players even try to beg to be removed from this game.

Seeing this, Zen still tried to stay calm and not be provoked. Because according to him, panicked people are the first to die when a disaster occurs.

Zen's main focus is to be strong, and try to protect himself first.

Momentthings started to get messy, the character said something back.

"AND LASTLY, I HAVE ADDED A GIFT TO YOUR EACH SHOP. WELCOME TO SEE IT"

Hearing this all the players started to open their storage menus and took out an item that was said to be a gift from the red character, Zen was no exception. The item is a mirror.

Seeing this all the players were confused by this gift, but suddenly when they saw their reflection in the mirror, their characters started to glow and displayed characters that resembled their appearance in the real world.

Zen himself began to transform into a handsome character with blue eyes and black hair just as he looked, with a calm expression like nothing had happened to him.

Not only Zen, some players even have very significant changes in their character, some have become men when they were previously women, some have turned fat, some have even turned old.

Seeing this all the players were confused as to why they had turned into their true form in the real world, but the red character said his last words, like why did he do this and so on.

"THIS IS THE END OF THE NOTIFICATION OF THE OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF THE ONLINE SWORD ART GAME. GOOD LUCK TO ALL PLAYERS"

The red character's words ended his announcement and slowly started to disappear. The sky that was previously red suddenly brightened as if nothing had happened before.

Zen then looked around, this time he didn't look for some of the players he wanted to know, but noticed whether the transparent barrier that isolated this place had disappeared.

Kirito himself who realized the barrier had disappeared he immediately ran away from this place as fast as possible with a player following him.

Seeing Kirito who had started to move, Zen also started to leave the place by taking a different path that Kirito had taken.

And the real adventure begins.