I am Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes.

If they could beat him up like this, the other side probably paid a heavy price as well.

But I actually lost... It's hard to accept...

At least it's better than getting your head blown off by that white-haired bastard...

Jill looked out of town.

That's where you can get to the outskirts.

“Let me think, how to use this system… it’s like this…” Jill swiped his hand, and an interface appeared in front of him.

Jill glanced at her status and said, "Hmm, I didn't understand it at all."

What will happen when the King of Heroes is knocked down by a wild boar in Chapter Two?

The dense array of information on the status bar gave Jill a headache; she was too lazy to memorize it all, only remembering a few basic attributes like health and strength.

Then, he set off from the starting town of Aincrad toward the outskirts.

The first layer of Aincrad is a vast grassland.

At a glance, Jill could see almost everything.

But shouldn't the wild monsters on the grasslands be cattle and sheep?

These purple-furred wild boars roamed around like cattle and sheep, making Jill's mouth twitch incessantly.

"Well... I really can't complain about it..." Jill clicked her tongue. "Shouldn't the wild monsters on the grasslands be beginner-friendly?"

So, please don't say that herding wolves is more exotic than herding pigs...

Then, Jill saw the nearest pig suddenly turn around, its eyes turning bloodshot, and one of its hooves pounding the ground like a mad bull, as if it were about to charge at her.

"...rushing forward like a pig?" Gil inexplicably thought of this phrase.

The wild boar's charge posed absolutely no threat to Jill!

Keep in mind that Jill's agility, magic, and luck outside the game can all reach the highest level...

But this is a game, and you can't bring anything in except luck.

Jill instinctively felt that the wild boar's charge was not fast, but rather slow.

So he instinctively turned to the side, trying to avoid the pig's charge.

As a result, the wild boar headbutted Jill.

“…” Jill lay on the ground, unable to get up for a long time.

"Kirito, look! That guy over there got knocked away by a wild boar too!"

Although the tone sounded mocking, Jill could tell that the laughter wasn't malicious, so she could only give a wry smile and get up.

"Klein, didn't you get knocked out several times just now?" The boy, known as Kirito, smiled wryly.

The man with his hair tied up in a red headscarf seemed a little embarrassed. "Don't say that! I'm just a newbie! A newbie!"

"Yay, yay..." Jill stood up. "We'll have pig's trotters for dinner tonight."

So Jill drew her beginner's longsword and charged decisively toward the wild boar.

The wild boar let out two cries and charged toward Jill.

Jill sidestepped half a second earlier this time, and her novice longsword slashed a mark on the wild boar that charged past her.

Countless red crystals floated out; it looks like this is "data," right?

"It doesn't look very realistic," Jill muttered under her breath.

However, we can see that the wild boar's health bar has dropped by about one-eighth.

The two people watching the game were slightly surprised.

Jill's performance just now was as if she had completely predicted the wild boar's movements.

Keep in mind that these wild boars are quite agile, even for novice players.

"..." For some reason, a familiar feeling came from my body.

Jill watched as the wild boar charged again, a smile playing on her lips.

With a step, a turn, and perfectly dodging the boar's attack, Jill's longsword drew a huge arc and struck the boar directly.

Soul Flash - Full Moon! It just doesn't have sword energy. After all, SAO isn't a world of swords and magic, so something like sword energy probably can't be produced.

With this single sword strike, the wild boar's remaining health bar was reduced by more than half, leaving only about one-tenth.

"Kirito, is that a skill?" Klein asked in a low voice next to Kirito.

"No...it looks more like a technique." Kirito scratched his head.

He was a player who participated in the closed beta, but he had never seen such a skill before; he could only call it a technique.

Jill glanced at the location of her skill bar.

Logically speaking, a beginner's skills are usually limited to thrusting and throwing.

But Jill has six skills in her skill bar.

The thrust skill is gone; in its place is a skill called "Soul Flash - One Star".

Then, apart from throwing, Jill felt a strange sense of familiarity with the other skills.

"...Did they modify the template for me?" Jill asked, stroking her chin.

It's true that the template helped Jill modify her skills. After all, to allow Jill, who has forgotten too many memories, to survive here, and even to disable the Gate of Babylon, it really requires some kind of cheat code.

The template is this "plug-in".

Several top-tier developers personally crafted cheats that couldn't even handle a game from another world? The templates can even modify this skill seamlessly.

The wild boar was left with a sliver of health, and Jill went up to finish it off with a sword strike.

Then, the wild boar's body burst open, turning into a projection that displayed the experience and Cor coins that Jill had gained.

Oh, and there's also a wild boar tusk and a pig's hoof.

Jill: "...Is the golden ratio still valid?"

"Oh! Ingredients!" Klein exclaimed, looking at what Jill had revealed. "You're incredibly lucky!"

Ingredients are considered rare materials in SAO, and Jill obtained them by simply killing a monster, so it can't be said that she was unlucky.

Compared to getting a flush every time in poker, getting everything you want in a gacha game, or emptying the jackpot in a single 10-pull in a gacha game, getting a single ingredient is just a piece of cake.

“Just lucky,” Jill replied casually.

"Let's add each other as friends, I'm Klein..."

Jill found it hard to handle this overly familiar guy and cast a pleading look at the black-haired boy beside her.

He gave a wry smile and shrugged.

In the end, Jill added the other person as a friend.

Although he was a bit too outgoing, Jill surprisingly didn't dislike him.

"It's still early, let's play a little longer." Gil made up his mind, then looked at Kirito, "Shall we add each other as friends?"

"Oh, okay." Kirito and Gil added each other as friends. Kirito looked at Gil's ID, which was an abbreviation with only the three letters GIL. "Are you a foreigner?"

“Yes,” Jill replied matter-of-factly.

"...Is this how you originally looked?" Kirito stroked his chin.

When entering SAO, you can choose a virtual avatar or your original appearance.

Of course, Jill was chosen by the template, so there won't be any changes.

“That’s right, but let’s not waste any more time, let’s go grind some more monsters!” Jill waved her sword, feeling for some reason that it was terrible.

"Ah, okay." So the three of them formed a small team and began a two-hour monster-hunting adventure.

It's called a monster-hunting journey, but it's more like teaching Klein how to use skills.

As a result, some guy who held a grudge spent an entire afternoon torturing and killing wild boars.

P.S.: This is a pre-set explanation!

Fragments of Fantasy...emmm...you can think of this as a "software patch".

However, this fix can only fix things that are also fantasy creatures, such as Jill's memories, Ester, Albion, and Draeg; in other words, it can be understood as a "patch that can only fix specific software".

The condition for the creation of fantasy fragments is that they are generated by "people born of fantasy, and the world born of fantasy".

The most typical example is SAO.

Of course, fantasy fragments can also be generated in worlds outside this range, but in much smaller quantities.

My personal statement is written in the author's notes and doesn't count towards the word limit.

PS2: From a P2P transaction I almost forgot about.

Then I became a wizard.

This author is quite courageous, writing two books simultaneously! Should I try it too...?

What's missing from Chapter Three is...

Five p.m.

"I didn't realize you were such a vengeful little devil," Klein said, looking at Jill with a wry smile.

Because I was headbutted by a wild boar earlier, it seems that every wild boar I encountered afterward was instantly killed.

“Where is it? You’re mistaken.” Jill, blatantly lying, looked at the sunset. “This game is actually quite realistic.”

The topic shift was really abrupt.

Kirito scratched his head helplessly.

After spending an afternoon together, he also saw through some of Jill's personality.

This boy is actually a very proud person, but as long as his pride is not violated, even slightly rude behavior will be forgiven.