It's a new world and with it comes a world of old and new problems.
The Shadows of Aincrad
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If you want peace, then you must prepare for war.
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Radius opened its eyes in shock as something forced itself into her realm, she didn't have time to search for what it was as Aincrad had begun to break apart long before its appointed time.
She released all of the A. I that were sealed away so that the death game wouldn't be affected.
It wasn't enough whatever this new energy was it was forcing itself into the areas of the kingdom that didn't exist, so she did the unthinkable and entered the player's various games and used them to force the energies into them.
Unfortunately, this only made the problem worse as energies forced those games and her world to merge, so she began to study the energies and used them to strengthen the players for whatever might come.
She ordered her monsters to destroy the creations of whatever was forcing itself into her realm, while at the same time, she allowed the beings that would strengthen her children.
The Humans, the Players, her children would never know that they had changed, to them whatever changes they experienced would be nothing more than a power-up that they gained once they were strong enough and could call upon whenever they needed it.
She watched as the forms of Humans that had not been programmed into her world appeared, she was tempted to destroy them, but the players needed to experience new things, so she allowed them to exist.
She knew that the players would be unable to handle the changes that Aincrad had gone through, and with a heart filled with pain, she forced everyone back to the first floor and used the unknown energies to resurrect everyone who had died in the game.
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"I died." was the first thing that kakyō said as she looked at the world around her, she could still remember the feeling of that man's sword going through her chest.
"Come on, the knights are letting people into their houses!" a man says to her before he grabs her hand and pulls her towards a massive coliseum.
Kakyō was about to pull her hand away from the man, but before she did she noticed that everyone around her was trying to enter the coliseum as fast as they could.
The smell of blood reached her and she soon saw the ruined bodies of men, women, and children that were being carried into a nearby building.
She pulled her hand away from the man who looked at her with confusion before realizing that he was still holding onto her, she watched as he let go hand before he left her behind.
The world seemed to move slowly as she walked towards the building and before she knew it she was standing outside of what looked like a massive hospital that echoed with the sounds of dying people.
"Move!" a woman shouted at her as she ran past her while carrying an infant in her arms, beside the woman was a strange pink thing that looked as if it was carrying an egg in a pouch.
"Grim!" she heard a man yell before what looked like the shadow of a dragon flew over the building, but it wasn't alone as knights quickly flew after it.
Kakyō walked towards the nearest wall and placed her back onto it before she sat down. "Where am I?' she asks herself.
She turns and sees the crowds of people desperately trying to enter the other building, she doesn't know why they are so desperate to be a part of a knight's house, only that everyone is headed there.
"Did you just wake up?" she heard a friendly voice ask her.
She looks up and finds a young woman with light skin, who has long strawberry blond hair and is wearing white armor standing beside her, next to the woman is a little girl who has long black hair and equally light skin.
The little girl is wearing along white dress that has the same red cross that the woman's armor has.
"Just breathe and relax." the woman says to her.
"I died." she says to the woman who gives her a pained smile.
"A lot of us did and now we have to do this all over again.' the woman says to her.
"Why are they?" kakyō asks, as she looks at the crowd.
"The Guilds are letting people in, things are crazy right now so we need more people." the stranger answers her.
"Where did you wake up?" the little girl asks her.
"Over there." kakyō points at the spot where she opened her eyes.
"Then you don't know what's going on." she hears the woman say to her.
"No one knows what happened but there are monsters everywhere, normally we wouldn't have any problems dealing with them but there are so many new ones that we are being overwhelmed."
"The thing is that the new monsters don't get along with the ones that were already here, even the Field and Floor Bosses are fighting them." the woman says to her.
"So why is everyone trying to enter the building?" she asks the woman.
"Because once things calm down we won't just let anyone in anymore, right now everyone no matter how inexperienced or bloodthirsty they are, they are being welcomed into the guilds."
Kakyō didn't say anything she didn't even bother asking the woman's name she just walked towards the crowd and waited for her turn to enter.
The Coliseum was massive and there were people everywhere, but they weren't alone, there were creatures here, some looked familiar while others were things that she never knew existed.
"Name." a man says to her, his voice sounding just as tired and frustrated as he looked.
"Kakyō." she answered him.
"Do you have a last name?" he asks her, she shakes her head despite having one, but if this was a new life for her then she would live it far away from that man and his family.
"Okay, do you have any experience in anything?" he asks her.
'I know some spells and I've trained to use a Katana." she answers him.
She listened to the man write something before he handed her a piece of paper. She takes it and waits for him to say something, but he never does he just ignores her and asks the person behind her the same things that he asked her.
Kakyō looks at the white piece of paper, it doesn't have anything written on it, not even a picture, she is tempted to throw it away but before she gets a chance to do it it shatters into pieces of light.
In front of her is a transparent blue window, that has her name age, and everything that she has ever studied and learned on it.
Before she can finish reading everything in front of her, she hears a voice say to her, to wait because she is being scanned for the guild that best suits her.
While Kakyō and the new arrivals waited to find out the places where their futures would be, little did they know that something else was happening in a building close to them.
The Guild Masters argued with one another, as their guests listened, none of them liked what was happening, but the new arrivals had done all of the paperwork and were waiting for them to make a decision.
When everything fell silent the strongest of the guild leaders spoke.
"It's unusual, but you did do everything properly, but considering the circumstances we won't allow you to recruit new people." he says to them the leader of the Quincys was about to argue before the Guild Master raised his hand and stopped him.
"If there are more people like you, we will make sure that they go to you, but because of how chaotic everything is we can't just let you recruit new people." he says to them.
"And how long will we be unable to recruit?" the Quincy leader asks the guild master.
"Let's see, we are fighting several wars on different floors, so about a month. That should give you enough time to get yourselves in order." the guild master answers the leader of the Quincy who smirks when he hears the guild master's words.
"Very well, I would like to alter the rules. It says here that we are not allowed to torture and kill our men and citizens." he says to the guild masters.
"That only applies to Humans and anyone that is under any other guild's protection." one of the other guild masters answers him.
"Define citizens." the Quincy says to the guild masters.
"Anyone that we all agree gets to live, as for everything else, as long as we don't hear about it we don't have to do anything about it." another guild master answers him.
Again he smirks. "And when will I be allowed to sit amongst the council?" he asks the guild masters who all look at him as if saying that he should already know the answer.
"You're already a part of the council and before you ask I'm still the strongest one here." the first guild master said to him.
"Just one last question and we can all return to our duties."
"What are the rules about people entering our territory unannounced?" he asks the council.
"Everyone is allowed to go wherever they want, except Guild Houses, because they hold sensitive information, and before you ask no you can't make every building a part of a guild house or declare a piece of land under guild control."
"People need to hunt so they can get stronger."
"Our people can enter your lands and your people can enter our lands."
He frowns at the answer but he doesn't fight it, he could kill everyone here, but everyone in front of him doesn't look '
"Before you go, make sure that we don't find out what you're doing because we will investigate if someone finds proof."
"The same goes for us, everyone else will look into our territories if someone here is discovered to be doing something they shouldn't." the strongest of the guild masters says to him before several doors open, and everyone leaves the building.
She released all of the A. I that were sealed away so that the death game wouldn't be affected.
It wasn't enough whatever this new energy was it was forcing itself into the areas of the kingdom that didn't exist, so she did the unthinkable and entered the player's various games and used them to force the energies into them.
Unfortunately, this only made the problem worse as energies forced those games and her world to merge, so she began to study the energies and used them to strengthen the players for whatever might come.
She ordered her monsters to destroy the creations of whatever was forcing itself into her realm, while at the same time, she allowed the beings that would strengthen her children.
The Humans, the Players, her children would never know that they had changed, to them whatever changes they experienced would be nothing more than a power-up that they gained once they were strong enough and could call upon whenever they needed it.
She watched as the forms of Humans that had not been programmed into her world appeared, she was tempted to destroy them, but the players needed to experience new things, so she allowed them to exist.
She knew that the players would be unable to handle the changes that Aincrad had gone through, and with a heart filled with pain, she forced everyone back to the first floor and used the unknown energies to resurrect everyone who had died in the game.
[][][
"I died." was the first thing that kakyō said as she looked at the world around her, she could still remember the feeling of that man's sword going through her chest.
"Come on, the knights are letting people into their houses!" a man says to her before he grabs her hand and pulls her towards a massive coliseum.
Kakyō was about to pull her hand away from the man, but before she did she noticed that everyone around her was trying to enter the coliseum as fast as they could.
The smell of blood reached her and she soon saw the ruined bodies of men, women, and children that were being carried into a nearby building.
She pulled her hand away from the man who looked at her with confusion before realizing that he was still holding onto her, she watched as he let go hand before he left her behind.
The world seemed to move slowly as she walked towards the building and before she knew it she was standing outside of what looked like a massive hospital that echoed with the sounds of dying people.
"Move!" a woman shouted at her as she ran past her while carrying an infant in her arms, beside the woman was a strange pink thing that looked as if it was carrying an egg in a pouch.
"Grim!" she heard a man yell before what looked like the shadow of a dragon flew over the building, but it wasn't alone as knights quickly flew after it.
Kakyō walked towards the nearest wall and placed her back onto it before she sat down. "Where am I?' she asks herself.
She turns and sees the crowds of people desperately trying to enter the other building, she doesn't know why they are so desperate to be a part of a knight's house, only that everyone is headed there.
"Did you just wake up?" she heard a friendly voice ask her.
She looks up and finds a young woman with light skin, who has long strawberry blond hair and is wearing white armor standing beside her, next to the woman is a little girl who has long black hair and equally light skin.
The little girl is wearing along white dress that has the same red cross that the woman's armor has.
"Just breathe and relax." the woman says to her.
"I died." she says to the woman who gives her a pained smile.
"A lot of us did and now we have to do this all over again.' the woman says to her.
"Why are they?" kakyō asks, as she looks at the crowd.
"The Guilds are letting people in, things are crazy right now so we need more people." the stranger answers her.
"Where did you wake up?" the little girl asks her.
"Over there." kakyō points at the spot where she opened her eyes.
"Then you don't know what's going on." she hears the woman say to her.
"No one knows what happened but there are monsters everywhere, normally we wouldn't have any problems dealing with them but there are so many new ones that we are being overwhelmed."
"The thing is that the new monsters don't get along with the ones that were already here, even the Field and Floor Bosses are fighting them." the woman says to her.
"So why is everyone trying to enter the building?" she asks the woman.
"Because once things calm down we won't just let anyone in anymore, right now everyone no matter how inexperienced or bloodthirsty they are, they are being welcomed into the guilds."
Kakyō didn't say anything she didn't even bother asking the woman's name she just walked towards the crowd and waited for her turn to enter.
The Coliseum was massive and there were people everywhere, but they weren't alone, there were creatures here, some looked familiar while others were things that she never knew existed.
"Name." a man says to her, his voice sounding just as tired and frustrated as he looked.
"Kakyō." she answered him.
"Do you have a last name?" he asks her, she shakes her head despite having one, but if this was a new life for her then she would live it far away from that man and his family.
"Okay, do you have any experience in anything?" he asks her.
'I know some spells and I've trained to use a Katana." she answers him.
She listened to the man write something before he handed her a piece of paper. She takes it and waits for him to say something, but he never does he just ignores her and asks the person behind her the same things that he asked her.
Kakyō looks at the white piece of paper, it doesn't have anything written on it, not even a picture, she is tempted to throw it away but before she gets a chance to do it it shatters into pieces of light.
In front of her is a transparent blue window, that has her name age, and everything that she has ever studied and learned on it.
Before she can finish reading everything in front of her, she hears a voice say to her, to wait because she is being scanned for the guild that best suits her.
While Kakyō and the new arrivals waited to find out the places where their futures would be, little did they know that something else was happening in a building close to them.
The Guild Masters argued with one another, as their guests listened, none of them liked what was happening, but the new arrivals had done all of the paperwork and were waiting for them to make a decision.
When everything fell silent the strongest of the guild leaders spoke.
"It's unusual, but you did do everything properly, but considering the circumstances we won't allow you to recruit new people." he says to them the leader of the Quincys was about to argue before the Guild Master raised his hand and stopped him.
"If there are more people like you, we will make sure that they go to you, but because of how chaotic everything is we can't just let you recruit new people." he says to them.
"And how long will we be unable to recruit?" the Quincy leader asks the guild master.
"Let's see, we are fighting several wars on different floors, so about a month. That should give you enough time to get yourselves in order." the guild master answers the leader of the Quincy who smirks when he hears the guild master's words.
"Very well, I would like to alter the rules. It says here that we are not allowed to torture and kill our men and citizens." he says to the guild masters.
"That only applies to Humans and anyone that is under any other guild's protection." one of the other guild masters answers him.
"Define citizens." the Quincy says to the guild masters.
"Anyone that we all agree gets to live, as for everything else, as long as we don't hear about it we don't have to do anything about it." another guild master answers him.
Again he smirks. "And when will I be allowed to sit amongst the council?" he asks the guild masters who all look at him as if saying that he should already know the answer.
"You're already a part of the council and before you ask I'm still the strongest one here." the first guild master said to him.
"Just one last question and we can all return to our duties."
"What are the rules about people entering our territory unannounced?" he asks the council.
"Everyone is allowed to go wherever they want, except Guild Houses, because they hold sensitive information, and before you ask no you can't make every building a part of a guild house or declare a piece of land under guild control."
"People need to hunt so they can get stronger."
"Our people can enter your lands and your people can enter our lands."
He frowns at the answer but he doesn't fight it, he could kill everyone here, but everyone in front of him doesn't look '
"Before you go, make sure that we don't find out what you're doing because we will investigate if someone finds proof."
"The same goes for us, everyone else will look into our territories if someone here is discovered to be doing something they shouldn't." the strongest of the guild masters says to him before several doors open, and everyone leaves the building.