Evolution of a Girl

All players' NERvGear helmets will burn the player's brain when the player dies.

Even though it's a game, it's no joke.

Dying in this game... that means real death.

When Kayaba Akihiko announced this fact, the scene suddenly fell into dead silence.

Asuna's eyes widened as well.

She felt that she should be afraid and terrified.

But it didn't.

"Ahhh, that's actually how it is."

With this thought in my mind, I easily accepted this fact.

Perhaps it was because she had seen truly extraordinary scenery, so Asuna found that she could accept everything in front of her very easily.

"is that a lie!"

"Let me out quickly!"

"Mommy mommy!"

"Wow!"

After Kayaba Akihiko finished his explanation and disappeared, the scene suddenly became chaotic.

"Fortunately, the mission has been accomplished!"

Kirito, who was wearing a maid outfit, breathed a sigh of relief.

Being drawn into this world is terrifying, and even more terrifying, the now-released Sword Art Online is vastly different from the closed beta version Kirito first played. In the closed beta, the map wasn't as large as it is now, but in the official version, the town area alone is ten times larger! This change leaves even players like Kirito, who participated in the closed beta, completely bewildered.

But fortunately, Kirito completed a hidden mission at the beginning and worked as a maid waiter in the starting town.

This mission directly sends Kirito to level two, and there will be a follow-up!

After realizing that he couldn't escape from the game world, Kirito immediately thought of a very important point - level and strength will become the basis for his foothold in this world.

……

"The game has begun."

In the dream world, Kayaba Akihiko said these words to Lelouch.

"Have you decided to carry out your plan?" Lelouch looked at Kayaba Akihiko while holding the chess pieces. "We may have to say goodbye forever."

Kayaba Akihiko is ready to scan his entire brain into the world of the Internet.

"Maybe. But if my guess is correct, then we will continue to meet." Kayaba Akihiko lowered his head and spread out his palm, on which there was a cherry blossom petal.

"Then I wish you all the best."

Kayaba Akihiko didn't say anything, but chose to wake up directly from the dream world.

"Sword Art Online... My world... has begun to move..."

Kayaba Akihiko woke up from his dream with a smile on his face.

After seeing the world in his dreams, Kayaba Akihiko knew that his perspective had changed.

From that time on, the goal of Sword Art Online was completely different from before.

"Aincrad, it's operational."

……

The Sword and Fairy tale has started airing, and here comes another chapter, but I fell asleep, so it's a little late... cough cough...

Chapter 515: Two People Met

"Maid Swordsman...what's with that title?"

Kirito looked at the title he had received with some embarrassment.

The title system is also a major feature of this game.

In Sword Art Online, players are not assigned fixed professions by the system; all weapons and skills are matched by the players themselves.

But there is a title system in the game.

This system was also customized by the planner Lelouch.

Lelouch believes that even if a game has a high degree of freedom, it should still have certain goals.

In the real world, people have personal needs such as self-realization.

In the virtual world, the so-called "self-realization" is most easily expressed through the title system.

In these games, the title system also has a series of bonuses.

In addition, the title of the task may also be different depending on the way the task is completed. This system setting is not completed by relying on the performance preset in the machine, but is automatically implemented by the learned AI according to the status.

For example, Kirito.

As soon as he entered the game, he triggered a mission to work as a maid in a tavern.

Then, a series of events happened in this world and all the players were trapped here.

What Kirito did at that time was to quickly complete this series of tasks.

This mission is a chain mission, which seems to involve many places on the first floor. Kirito plans to fight monsters along the way and complete the mission at the same time.

Kirito had given up thinking about the real world.

Because if he thought about the real world, he would go crazy.

——Because, I entered the game wearing women’s clothing!

This dark history has made Kirito concentrate on playing the game instead of thinking about things in the real world.

After Kirito completed all the tasks, he felt very panicked.

"Maid Knight: When wearing a maid outfit, all attribute bonuses provided by equipment are doubled. When performing daily activities while wearing a maid outfit, stamina will no longer be consumed."

This title is simply amazing.

Of course, only maid outfits.

Maid outfits are considered a fashion accessory in the game. Given the same level and rarity, the amount of power they offer is actually quite limited. However, even with their limited stats, doubling their stats is enough to instantly kill a large number of front-line players.

Not to mention the energy recovery skills that come later.

In the game, players can run and charge.

Running doesn't use up a lot of energy, but charging does.

In the game world, players will not encounter any lactic acid problems, but in the settings of the game system, the existence of this energy plans a series of actions of the players.

Charging is faster than running, but it consumes more energy. However, after wearing the maid outfit, Kirito can maintain this state when not in combat mode.

At this moment, Kirito was rushing forward.

He was a little distressed, but in order to run the map quickly, he still chose the maid outfit - he had experience in opening maps.

But the scary thing is that after the public beta, the map of Sword Art Online has suddenly expanded a lot. For example, the original city area of Sword Art Online was the city of London, but now Sword Art Online can expand to the entire island of England.

Moreover, it is still unknown how big the map beyond Aincrad will be.

This results in a significant increase in the time players spend on the road when they are in a hurry.

For subsequent players, this is actually nothing, because there are many teleportation locations in the game, and players can teleport themselves completely forward. They just need to have been there once before. At worst, they can ask others to buy maps and information.

But for the players in the front row, this little bit of time is actually very fatal.

Although Kirito is not in a team and is a lone wolf player, he is now considered to be in the front row.

It is common to open up a path ahead.

Sword Art Online has been in testing for more than three months, a hundred days, but players haven't even seen the shadow of the BOSS. One of the main reasons for this is that the front-line guilds are still exploring the map - the map of this game is too big and the world is too vast.

Of course, what we are talking about here is the time within the game. More than a hundred days in the game is only more than twenty days in the real world.

"Could it be that because of this terrifying time system, they deliberately made the map so large..."

——Kirito didn't know yet, but the map that Kayaba Akihiko originally wanted to design was actually more than ten times larger than it is now, but it was reduced for various reasons.

Kirito has already entered a forest at this moment.

The maid outfit is not suitable for trekking, so Kirito is now exploring here with a sword in one hand and holding up the skirt with the other.

This maid outfit was obtained by Kirito in the previous town.

He completed his mission all the way to the tavern, delivered the freight from the starting city, and was rewarded and given a title.

But there is a sequel to this mission.

After working as a maid in the town for a while, the boss began to lament that the rope clothes were getting worse recently because there were more and more goblins.

So at this time, Kirito received the task to solve this matter.

"If I report this mission to the City of Origin, it should be resolved. Clearing out the target's lair myself is also an option. This should be related to the follow-up to the title."

Kirito believes that the reason why his title is "Maid Knight" is because when Kirito completes the mission, he also takes on a lot of missions to level up and accumulate experience.

"Because I completed a lot of tasks during the mission, I was judged to have chivalry. And since I was dressed as a maid during the mission, I received this title. If I go back now, any new titles and rewards will probably be related to strategy or support. But if I come to eliminate the goblins myself, it will most likely be related to the battle itself..."

This kind of complex network narrative is not possible in ordinary online games.

But Kirito believes that the game Sword Art Online can do this.

Kirito had participated in various tests before, and as far as he knew, the quest system in the game Sword Art Online was not entirely written by programmers, but was mostly completed automatically by AI.

Therefore, this type of task with multiple choices is basically automatically generated by the system.

As a veteran gamer, Kirito has analyzed some of the strengths of this system in just a few months.

Even though she always wears a maid outfit, Kirito actually doesn't mind it.

Rather... after obtaining the title, Kirito discovered that the maid outfit was actually quite comfortable to wear.

"call……"

After traveling for more than an hour, Kirito splashed water on his face. The cool feeling made him feel comfortable.

The rivers in Aincrad are all crystal clear, so you'll definitely not get sick from eating there. If there's a river that's muddy, it's probably because of a quest or event.

Kirito looked down at his reflection in the river.

In the reflection of the water, there was a girl with long black hair, big eyes and a delicate figure. The girl was wearing a slim-fitting, waist-cinching maid dress, making her look like a quiet and elegant maid.

On the outside of this maid outfit, there are shoulder armor and gauntlets as protective gear and decoration, and she also holds a one-handed sword with a gauntlet in her hand. All of these add a bit of heroic spirit to the maid.

Kirito lifted the skirt with one hand, revealing the black stockings under the skirt, which added a bit of charm to the maid.

"It's really beautiful..."

Although this title is a bit subtle.

But...it's not unacceptable.

"It's not that I want to wear a maid outfit, but I get the most benefit from wearing it. I can save a lot of money to upgrade my equipment and get better attribute bonuses..."

While admiring the lovely maid on the water, Kirito tried to convince himself with subtle words.

However, at this moment, he heard a rustling sound.

"Who?!"

Kirito's search skill was very high, but at this moment, he couldn't lock onto the source of the sound, and he immediately became alert.

Searching for enemies, surviving, and setting traps—for many combat players, these abilities might not be necessary. However, for beta players who hold this mindset, the losses in the early stages of the game can be said to be considerable.

After the game area expanded a lot, such skills became very important in the game, because this game changed the main purpose of combat from fighting to adventure.

In the adventure, combat is only part of it; the horrible environment itself is a very formidable enemy. And this is even though the wild environment in Sword Art Online has been greatly optimized - in the primeval forests of the real world, survivors may die of malaria, dehydration, starvation, etc. before they even see the enemy.

Kirito was luckier. He left the city at first to follow a mission and worked as a maid in a tavern, following a caravan to purchase goods.

It took Kirito a whole day to walk along the way, and the forests and rivers along the way were quite terrifying. The caravan had encountered two attacks from goblins.

So since then, Kirito realized that there are many skills that need to be learned in this game.

"Are you the one who worked at the tavern before...?"