Berculi was shocked that Vector sacrificed 50,000 DT troops and 30,000 summoned soldiers just to capture Alice, as he left as soon as Alice was knocked out. Berculi knew Vector was around since he could sense his Incarnation aura from far off and was on guard, but Berculi didn’t realize this was his plan. Berculi was pissed at how little he knew about his opponent, and let out a roar in anger for the 1st time in decades. Vector ignored this and continued to fly south on his dragon. After Synthesis 49 cleared a path through, Berculi chased after Vector on his own dragon, Starbiter. Alice’s and Synthesis 9’s dragons also followed along, trying to help.
The 4,000 Gladiators that crossed the bridge began to fight their way past the summoned players. Asuna was impressed with their skills as she tried to heal herself from her severed hand, using a spell she memorized earlier. Asuna and Ishukaan then received word Vector had captured Alice, and Berculi had flown off in pursuit. Asuna quickly filled Ishukaan in about the current situation, even as she felt this is like one of those cliché RPG plots – bad guy captures the girl, and the world will end because of that. True in this case however, as once Alice is taken out of UW the place will be deleted. Ishukaan then decided to just catch up to Vector and recover Alice, surprising Asuna in how he can disobey orders. He and Synthesis 12, Shuuta, decides to hold off the army here so Asuna can go chase after Vector.
Asuna asked Synthesis 49 whether Berculi can catch up to Vector. Synthesis 49 said it’s possible, as Berculi had three dragons to shift through in flying so they won’t be burdened too much. Though whether Berculi can win when he caught up is a different matter. Synthesis 49 optimistically thought Berculi can win, he’s the strongest Knight the humans have.
The US team readied a 2nd wave of US players, this time 20,000 of them. They’re going to be dropped in between Asuna and Vector.
Vassago, Gabriel’s lieutenant woke up after being killed earlier in UW. He found he was asleep for 8 hours. Gabriel’s hacker filled Vassago in on Gabriel’s plans of recruiting players to fight for them. Vassago has doubts the plan to drop another 20,000 players in will solve things instantly, the Synthesis Knights are brokenly powerful. Then he remembered how he died, killed by ‘Asuna the Flash’. He told the hacker the ‘K organisation’ (what they call Rath and the operation to make AIs, as it’s led by Kikuoka) has already sent in Japanese VRMMO players. Vassago wants to log in again, to fight Asuna one more time and see if Kirito’s in there as well. The hacker told him they’re out of elite Dark Knight accounts, so unless he wants to log in using cannon fodder accounts he got nothing. Vassago smirked and told the hacker to transfer a ‘The Seed’ account into UW, he has a high level one stashed away. The hacker was unnerved by Vassago’s grin, and by the few words he said to him before going back inside the STL. The account number was “SAO12418871”.
Asuna went back to Kirito’s place and found him struggling to get up. She doesn’t know whether this is due to him feeling Alice have been captured or him feeling Asuna has lost a hand. Asuna used Incarnation to fix herself. Asuna hugged Kirito one more time for a few seconds to try and wake him up, then told him she’ll try and rescue Alice.
Synthesis 49 was placed in charge by Asuna of the human forces here, being the only Synthesis Knight left here. They moved out, trying to catch up to Vector. The 20,000 US players then dropped down in front of them, blocking their way through completely. In the human side’s panic and despair Sinon logged in, wearing sky-blue armour and wields a bright white bow, and nuked the 20,000 army with her account’s ‘Unlimited destruction’ ability. Countless laser strikes from above annihilated the players.
Thanks for the summary.
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Asuna felt sharp mental pain when she summoned some mountains to block the dark forces, but Sinon just appears and casually nukes 20k players with no pain?
Since Asuna's account is said to have the ability to create stuff while Sinon has the power of destruction, why did Asuna experience pain in the first place if creation was her character ability and not her incarnate one?
In SAO, incarnate just turns out to be some omnipotent ability, capable of nuking enemies and healing? Glad that in AW Incarnation didn't turn out like that.
I just had to laugh at how Liz tried to convince the Salamander players to transfer their seed accounts with the risk of permanent loss, while Sinon just used a pre-existing super account.
So PoH finally makes an appearance and is Vassago his real name? Certainly doesn't sound American, what kind of parent would name their child after a demon as described in the Lesser Key of Solomon?
Asuna felt sharp mental pain when she summoned some mountains to block the dark forces, but Sinon just appears and casually nukes 20k players with no pain?
Since Asuna's account is said to have the ability to create stuff while Sinon has the power of destruction, why did Asuna experience pain in the first place if creation was her character ability and not her incarnate one?
In SAO, incarnate just turns out to be some omnipotent ability, capable of nuking enemies and healing? Glad that in AW Incarnation didn't turn out like that.
I just had to laugh at how Liz tried to convince the Salamander players to transfer their seed accounts with the risk of permanent loss, while Sinon just used a pre-existing super account.
So PoH finally makes an appearance and is Vassago his real name? Certainly doesn't sound American, what kind of parent would name their child after a demon as described in the Lesser Key of Solomon?
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Mechanics will be posted next section, but Sinon's destruction ability is due to her bow, not her mind. The strain is covered by her weapon, and it can't be used consecutively (so it isn't 'unlimited' like the name implies )
Mechanics will be posted next section, but Sinon's destruction ability is due to her bow, not her mind. The strain is covered by her weapon, and it can't be used consecutively (so it isn't 'unlimited' like the name implies )
Vassago's a alias or online name.
So, that attack was her bow's memory recollection? Is that the name of the weapons's special skill activation?
Sinon remembers Higa’s explanation that the Goddess accounts aren’t GM accounts, just very powerful Player Character ones so not to break UW people’s SoD. (Flere821 note: WTH? This goes against earlier worldbuilding info (like how Asuna’s GM gear didn’t get diced by Alice’s sword)… and after reading the next few parts, this change is purely to set up for some unpleasant scenes later >.>) Her nuking ability runs on the area’s energy, and have a cooldown period of 10 minutes. Sinon comments she likes the manual kind more than the automatic kind anyway. Her attack only wiped out 10,000 players or so, but with how shaken the players are the human side can probably break through. Sinon’s account also has the unlimited flight ability, and she used it to fly down to where Asuna was. Asuna gave a flying tackle hug to Sinon when she saw her. Sinon told Asuna their group should retreat into the ruins she saw earlier when she was flying. Sinon then asked to see Kirito, and Asuna brought her over to Kirito’s wagon.
Teiza and Ronie both mistook Sinon as a goddess, which the RW girls explained she’s not. After being told Sinon’s also a friend of Kirito’s, Teiza sighed and Ronie muttered “they all seem to be girls”. Sinon snarked privately herself the girls dived into UW isn’t even all of them. Sinon saw Kirito herself after being told his condition by Higa, and went to embrace him. Sinon thought if he has lost his self, then forget what Higa had said about it being not repairable, she and others’ love can be gathered and used to fill his heart (Flere821 note: Sinon+Kirito shippers rejoice, for the passage here are concrete proof Sinon loves Kirito, instead of just camaraderie as suggested by some).
Sinon then kissed Kirito on the cheek. Due to no knowledge about Fluctlights and Incarnation, Sinon has no clue her idea of giving love to Kirito is not that far off from the only method to cure Kirito. She also didn’t feel Kirito respond slightly to her kiss.
Sinon tried to comfort the other girls present that when they need him the most Kirito will wake up (TN note: Which has been said quite a few times now by different people. Yet after thousands of deaths Kirito is still like this…). Sinon said she’ll fly to the ruins at the south to scout out the place, but was stopped by Asuna desperately. Asuna convinced Sinon to instead fly after Vector who had captured Alice. Sinon did so, while wondering where did Leafa went, she was supposed to have been logged in at the same time.
Scene change, to the plains near the Eastern Gate. The Orc (previously translated as ‘beastmen’ tribe using Chinese version, but after seeing the Jap raw being ‘O-ku’ (オーク) in katakana I’ll go with ‘Orc’) leader named Riruperin was scavenging the battlefield for what’s left of his people after being sacrificed by the dark mages. He found the fang earrings of the princess of his tribe. The living sacrifices of 5,000 of his people were ultimately in vain, having only killed just one Synthesis Knight and the Dark Mages were wiped out in return by Alice. Vector had left, and without cancelling his order of staying to fight the humans his people are forced into a meatgrinder.
Then, he found Leafa dropping down almost right next to him from above. After some talk Riruperin was acknowledged as a human by Leafa, something he has a complex about and this was a recognition he had never received in his life. This was covered in previous sections as well (Flere821 note: though I kinda skipped this as I thought it was unimportant at the time). The ‘cannibals’, after checking Jap version, I’ll now be calling them ‘Ogres’(オーガ). Leafa asks where she landed into. There’s some BS never mentioned before in the series about her bad luck with new equipment, every time she uses new hardware it was buggy. Hence, her appearance here rather than where Asuna is. Leafa also decided to not kill anyone unless she really has to when she’s in UW, the Fluctlights are just like humans. She’s in this to fight other players that are logged in. Riruperin says he’ll take Leafa prisoner and bring her to Vector. After thinking about it Leafa agreed to go along with him peacefully, as she thinks this is the best way to get to Vector. And with her infinite healing skill she’d still be in top shape after getting there.
Then, D, the leader of dark mages, who survived the earlier attack by Alice shot out of the ground and used this chance to launch a sneak attack on Leafa.
Scene change, Berculi is trying to catch up to Vector. Berculi might have 3 dragons to cycle through, but Vector is still ahead somehow like his dragon doesn’t get tired. Berculi decided to use his secret technique, Uragiri, to stop Vector. With this technique despite how Vector’s a few dozen KMs ahead the left wing of his dragon are blasted off.
Ok, yeah, Ogre sounds more accurate... I was confused about the "Cannibals" naming XD
And lol... It kinda makes sense that Leafa wouldn't be too aware of equipment maintnance.. but... I figured Higa would have directly dropped her off where she needed to be.. ._.
Pfft the closest I can get from that Leafa problem...
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Was that whole IP Address problem Kirito had at the beginning of ALO. But yeah I just hope they sort all these Deux Ex and ass pulls later on the LN releases
Sinon remembers Higa’s explanation that the Goddess accounts aren’t GM accounts, just very powerful Player Character ones so not to break UW people’s SoD. (Flere821 note: WTH? This goes against earlier worldbuilding info (like how Asuna’s GM gear didn’t get diced by Alice’s sword)… and after reading the next few parts, this change is purely to set up for some unpleasant scenes later >.>) Her nuking ability runs on the area’s energy, and have a cooldown period of 10 minutes. Sinon comments she likes the manual kind more than the automatic kind anyway. Her attack only wiped out 10,000 players or so, but with how shaken the players are the human side can probably break through. Sinon’s account also has the unlimited flight ability, and she used it to fly down to where Asuna was. Asuna gave a flying tackle hug to Sinon when she saw her. Sinon told Asuna their group should retreat into the ruins she saw earlier when she was flying. Sinon then asked to see Kirito, and Asuna brought her over to Kirito’s wagon.
Teiza and Ronie both mistook Sinon as a goddess, which the RW girls explained she’s not. After being told Sinon’s also a friend of Kirito’s, Teiza sighed and Ronie muttered “they all seem to be girls”. Sinon snarked privately herself the girls dived into UW isn’t even all of them. Sinon saw Kirito herself after being told his condition by Higa, and went to embrace him. Sinon thought if he has lost his self, then forget what Higa had said about it being not repairable, she and others’ love can be gathered and used to fill his heart (Flere821 note: Sinon+Kirito shippers rejoice, for the passage here are concrete proof Sinon loves Kirito, instead of just camaraderie as suggested by some).
Sinon then kissed Kirito on the cheek. Due to no knowledge about Fluctlights and Incarnation, Sinon has no clue her idea of giving love to Kirito is not that far off from the only method to cure Kirito. She also didn’t feel Kirito respond slightly to her kiss.
Sinon tried to comfort the other girls present that when they need him the most Kirito will wake up (TN note: Which has been said quite a few times now by different people. Yet after thousands of deaths Kirito is still like this…). Sinon said she’ll fly to the ruins at the south to scout out the place, but was stopped by Asuna desperately. Asuna convinced Sinon to instead fly after Vector who had captured Alice. Sinon did so, while wondering where did Leafa went, she was supposed to have been logged in at the same time.
Scene change, to the plains near the Eastern Gate. The Orc (previously translated as ‘beastmen’ tribe using Chinese version, but after seeing the Jap raw being ‘O-ku’ (オーク) in katakana I’ll go with ‘Orc’) leader named Riruperin was scavenging the battlefield for what’s left of his people after being sacrificed by the dark mages. He found the fang earrings of the princess of his tribe. The living sacrifices of 5,000 of his people were ultimately in vain, having only killed just one Synthesis Knight and the Dark Mages were wiped out in return by Alice. Vector had left, and without cancelling his order of staying to fight the humans his people are forced into a meatgrinder.
Then, he found Leafa dropping down almost right next to him from above. After some talk Riruperin was acknowledged as a human by Leafa, something he has a complex about and this was a recognition he had never received in his life. This was covered in previous sections as well (Flere821 note: though I kinda skipped this as I thought it was unimportant at the time). The ‘cannibals’, after checking Jap version, I’ll now be calling them ‘Ogres’(オーガ). Leafa asks where she landed into. There’s some BS never mentioned before in the series about her bad luck with new equipment, every time she uses new hardware it was buggy. Hence, her appearance here rather than where Asuna is. Leafa also decided to not kill anyone unless she really has to when she’s in UW, the Fluctlights are just like humans. She’s in this to fight other players that are logged in. Riruperin says he’ll take Leafa prisoner and bring her to Vector. After thinking about it Leafa agreed to go along with him peacefully, as she thinks this is the best way to get to Vector. And with her infinite healing skill she’d still be in top shape after getting there.
Then, D, the leader of dark mages, who survived the earlier attack by Alice shot out of the ground and used this chance to launch a sneak attack on Leafa.
Scene change, Berculi is trying to catch up to Vector. Berculi might have 3 dragons to cycle through, but Vector is still ahead somehow like his dragon doesn’t get tired. Berculi decided to use his secret technique, Uragiri, to stop Vector. With this technique despite how Vector’s a few dozen KMs ahead the left wing of his dragon are blasted off.
Thanks for the summaries, @Flere821.
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So it's official, Sinon does love Kirito!
And no reaction from Asuna when Sino kisses Kirito on the cheek ?
I wonder what Teiza and Ronie reactions will be once they meet all of the girls from Kirito's harem.XD
Can i ask one thing for people on this forum to bear in mind, i know it probably did not come from this forum inparticular. But on the SAO wikipedia page i discovered spoiler sentences referring to the other players logging into UW. Obviously this is not yet released in the LN's.
I'm sure everyone can sympathise with not wanting to spoil the plot on a public page like wikipedia.
I'm sure everyone can sympathise with not wanting to spoil the plot on a public page like wikipedia.
Actually wikipedia guidelines allow for spoilers just fine.
That said, a valid reason to not post that material in a wikipedia article is the fact that it's Web Novel material and we don't know if the Light Novel will include that content.