Accel World - Light Novel Discussion

[Awrya]

Originally Posted by kazzuya13

A whole volume update and they skip it to volume 8

It's not like Breakdown16 has been working on a different volume the whole time, then decided to do Volume 8.
He has been working on Vol.8 since before February.

[Tusjecht]

As it is, Xplorer30 has given up on V6, Kai Ding is working slowly on V7, but even that is better that Kaixax555, who had registered V9 and until now has still not updated a single thing...

[belatkuro]

Any date yet for the release of volume 1 of AW from Yen Press? SAO is already set for April next year.

And I'm kind of tempted to skip to volume 8, though I might miss some details if I do.

[Optimura]

Damn. Gotta love how Silver Crow went all Linkin Park AMV at the end of the volume.

[Tusjecht]

I...actually don't know. :/ depends on how enthusiastic YP's translator is on digging into another technical-term-laden series...

As for V8, belat, I advise you hold it off atm. Contains spoiler for end of V7, and start of V9.

(See Kawahara, that's the issue when you have four volumes span an internal timeline of a few days.)

[Birdway]

When is the new volume release?

[tuckersister]

Some time this month to December.

[Tusjecht]

I posted the first half of V11.4 on BT; it was a huge section on explaining skills.

[dmaxzero]

Vol 5 chapter 9 released.

I know is not my place to ask, nor my right. But I really really hope translator san can do chapter 10 quicker than ever... I am just too thrilled.

[Tusjecht]

Two weeks, ED said on Bakaforums. Be patient for two weeks.

[dmaxzero]

Thanks.
and thanks to the translator.

[Flere821]

AW Vol15 Chinese TL has started Heads up, info in spoiler tags below also includes SAO Alicization spoilers. Thanks to RKL for the spoilers, and another forumer who took Fuuko's name as his/her screen name for starting the TLs.

Spoiler for AW15 Spoiler thread info:

Everyone remember the closing lines of WEB Alicization? (link is in my sig in case anyone needs a recap). I'll repost the relevant part here:

All Possibilities,
Right now is only at,
The other side of the Light,
Fluctuating slightly.
Only Fluctuating slightly.”

There's even MORE connections between AW and UW in Vol15, screw Kawahara for saying there's no connections between SAO and AW >.>

-The nightmare BBers have on the night of installing BB was their Fluctlight being copied, creating a partial Fluctlight in their Neuro-Linker (for normal battles) and another partial Fluctlight in the BB main server (for UAF battles). Every time BBers Accelerate they rely on synchronizing their original Fluctlight with another partial Fluctlight, and the memories are uploaded into the necessary parts at the end of the acceleration. Deletion of memories upon losing all your BPs only affects the original and partial Fluctlight in the Neuro Linker, the main server keeps a copy of your Fluctlight.

-To a lesser extent of SAO/AW connection, Black Lotus also has <<The Eclipse>> attack, though her version is 27 attacks in two seconds. WTF.


White Cosmos is currently portrayed as a God Mode Sue, seeing as she has multiple abilities:

1) Compassionate Resurrection, ignores the 1 hour penalty before revival in UAF (shown in Vol7)
2) White Cosmos is also the only healer in AW prior to Lime Bell, as stated by Lotus.
3) H4XX0R Incarnation destructive ability, able to nuke a district by herself to trick Lotus into believing Red Rider had created WMDs. The downside is WC has no physical-type attacks.
4)Supposedly she never had to use 'Judgment Blow' to enforce order in her Legion.
5) More beautiful than KYH.
6) 'Eye of the Mind', the ability to see the 'Heart's Wound' that's the source of a BBer's power.

And if she is also the leader of the Acceleration Research Society, then she also has the following skills:
7) a Hacker without peer, as Red Rider's Fluctlight was hacked from the Main Server and attached onto the ISS kit, which gives it the spawning ability.
7a) The creation of Wolfram Cerberus, using the 'Reincarnation' skill; the Cerberus II and III was other Fluctlights being grafted onto Cerberus I. Noumi's Fluctlight is Cerberus III
8) Beast Tamer, as the ARS has multiple Enemy Mobs patrolling their real headquarters (not the building Metatron was parked on).

ARS have gotten so hax some Chinese forumers have guessed if WC isn't the ARS President then it's Fluctlight!Kayaba from the end of SAO WEB, back to kick serious ass. Follows up from the hypothesis the Fluctuating Light in the Imperial Palace is actually the 200+YearsOld!UW!Kirito.


<<Metatron's Wings>>, the item is a drop from 2nd stage forms of the Bosses in the four Dungeons outside the Imperial Palace. These are equal to if not better than the Seven Treasures (srsly Kawahara, even MORE stuff to write about? >.>) There's four of these 2nd stage drops, apparently.


Scarlet Rain's 'Invincible' armament is made from 5 parts; Main cannon, Missiles Launcher, pilot chamber with machine guns, thrusters, and podium legs. Cerberus stole all of them except the podium. Combined with Fluctlight!Noumi, and the collective negative Incarnation gathered by ISS kits, 'Disaster Mk.II' makes an appearance. WMGs from elsewhere suggests Vol16 will have 'Beast' (MkI Disaster) returning for a epic showdown with MkII.

Spoiler for Vol15 Illustration info:

The girl on the cover is Metatron, 2nd form.

Argon Array fights Blood Leopard.

Lotus, Karen, Raker and Maiden reaches the BB Main Server. sees the true form of ISS core.

There's also a map of the ARS's true base.

EDIT:
Oops, missed a few tidbits:

Spoiler for more Vol15 stuff:

-Aqua Current's IS skill includes <<Phase Trans>>, the ability to shape her avatar (basically Lotus' Overdrive, self-affecting IS). Some of the modes shown are 'Keen', turning to ice blades for CQC; and 'Adamite', Ice barriers for Defence mode. There's three other modes Lotus doesn't know the details of.

-Cerberus levelled up to Level 5, same as Silver Crow. Cerberus I used the II and III forms' abilities to fight Crow in the UAF, but he lost. Argon Array then forcibly activated #III and had Noumi ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL take over Cerberus' avatar after that.

-Noumi took Rain's Armaments via Demonic Commandeer enhanced by IS. He turned into <<Disaster Mk II>> after being cornered by Lotus and co in battle, 'One Winged Angel' style.

-ISS kit's true form is a Duel Avatar. Red Rider's Fluctlight showed up somehow to inform Lotus of some details, like the Avatar had somehow existed in UAF for 50 years consecutively without logging out. According to other Chinese Forumers, 50 years ago in UAF in RL time is back when Crow unleashed Disaster at the Hermes Cord race.

[Tusjecht]

Mother of god.

But dayum, where I run/admin/moderate an AW roleplay forum, this makes a lot more sense. Thanks man.

Edit: this seriously suggests what most of us thought previously:

Spoiler for Destiny and Star Caster:

Haruyuki at some point later would eventually regret throwing aside the two Armaments and come back for them somehow, and maybe with more 'power of friendship' stuff to get back their abilities?

All that said though, I really hope that even with all this sh*t going down (and Noumi coming back up) AW ends within another 2-3 more volumes.

[Awrya]

Thanks for the info.

Spoiler for questions:

To 5), is it mentioned how old she is? I always thought she was a year older, but she could be an older twin?
To 6) is that an IS skill, it sounds too broken for a system skill obtained through level-ups.

When you say Noumi is Cerberus III, is it the skill where he copies his opponent's skill for a brief time?

[Flere821]

Oops, missed a few tidbits:

Spoiler for more Vol15 stuff, will edit into above post later:

-Aqua Current's IS skill includes <<Phase Trans>>, the ability to shape her avatar (basically Lotus' Overdrive, self-affecting IS). Some of the modes shown are 'Keen', turning to ice blades for CQC; and 'Adamite', Ice barriers for Defence mode. There's three other modes Lotus doesn't know the details of.

-Cerberus levelled up to Level 5, same as Silver Crow. Cerberus I used the II and III forms' abilities to fight Crow in the UAF, but he lost. Argon Array then forcibly activated Fluctlight #III within Cerberus and had Noumi ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL take over Cerberus' avatar after that.

-Noumi took Rain's Armaments via Demonic Commandeer enhanced by IS. He turned into <<Disaster Mk II>> after being cornered by Lotus and co in battle, 'One Winged Angel' style.

-ISS kit's true form is a Duel Avatar. Red Rider's Fluctlight showed up somehow to inform Lotus of some details, like the Avatar had somehow existed in UAF for 50 years consecutively without logging out. According to other Chinese Forumers, 50 years ago in UAF in RL time is back when Crow unleashed Disaster at the Hermes Cord race.

[Optimura]

Amazing. This is me right now.

Spoiler for Me:

Yet it somehow makes more sense than part of what I read.

[orpheus2]

Back from work.

*looks at posts...*

Originally Posted by Flere821

AW Vol15 Chinese TL has started Heads up, info in spoiler tags below also includes SAO Alicization spoilers. Thanks to RKL for the spoilers, and another forumer who took Fuuko's name as his/her screen name for starting the TLs.

Spoiler for AW15 Spoiler thread info:

Everyone remember the closing lines of WEB Alicization? (link is in my sig in case anyone needs a recap). I'll repost the relevant part here:

There's even MORE connections between AW and UW in Vol15, screw Kawahara for saying there's no connections between SAO and AW >.>

-The nightmare BBers have on the night of installing BB was their Fluctlight being copied, creating a partial Fluctlight in their Neuro-Linker (for normal battles) and another partial Fluctlight in the BB main server (for UAF battles). Every time BBers Accelerate they rely on synchronizing their original Fluctlight with another partial Fluctlight, and the memories are uploaded into the necessary parts at the end of the acceleration. Deletion of memories upon losing all your BPs only affects the original and partial Fluctlight in the Neuro Linker, the main server keeps a copy of your Fluctlight.

-To a lesser extent of SAO/AW connection, Black Lotus also has <<The Eclipse>> attack, though her version is 27 attacks in two seconds. WTF.


White Cosmos is currently portrayed as a God Mode Sue, seeing as she has multiple abilities:

1) Compassionate Resurrection, ignores the 1 hour penalty before revival in UAF (shown in Vol7)
2) White Cosmos is also the only healer in AW prior to Lime Bell, as stated by Lotus.
3) H4XX0R Incarnation destructive ability, able to nuke a district by herself to trick Lotus into believing Red Rider had created WMDs. The downside is WC has no physical-type attacks.
4)Supposedly she never had to use 'Judgment Blow' to enforce order in her Legion.
5) More beautiful than KYH.
6) 'Eye of the Mind', the ability to see the 'Heart's Wound' that's the source of a BBer's power.

And if she is also the leader of the Acceleration Research Society, then she also has the following skills:
7) a Hacker without peer, as Red Rider's Fluctlight was hacked from the Main Server and attached onto the ISS kit, which gives it the spawning ability.
7a) The creation of Wolfram Cerberus, using the 'Reincarnation' skill; the Cerberus II and III was other Fluctlights being grafted onto Cerberus I. Noumi's Fluctlight is Cerberus III
8) Beast Tamer, as the ARS has multiple Enemy Mobs patrolling their real headquarters (not the building Metatron was parked on).

ARS have gotten so hax some Chinese forumers have guessed if WC isn't the ARS President then it's Fluctlight!Kayaba from the end of SAO WEB, back to kick serious ass. Follows up from the hypothesis the Fluctuating Light in the Imperial Palace is actually the 200+YearsOld!UW!Kirito.


<<Metatron's Wings>>, the item is a drop from 2nd stage forms of the Bosses in the four Dungeons outside the Imperial Palace. These are equal to if not better than the Seven Treasures (srsly Kawahara, even MORE stuff to write about? >.>) There's four of these 2nd stage drops, apparently.


Scarlet Rain's 'Invincible' armament is made from 5 parts; Main cannon, Missiles Launcher, pilot chamber with machine guns, thrusters, and podium legs. Cerberus stole all of them except the podium. Combined with Fluctlight!Noumi, and the collective negative Incarnation gathered by ISS kits, 'Disaster Mk.II' makes an appearance. WMGs from elsewhere suggests Vol16 will have 'Beast' (MkI Disaster) returning for a epic showdown with MkII.

Spoiler for Vol15 Illustration info:

The girl on the cover is Metatron, 2nd form.

Argon Array fights Blood Leopard.

Lotus, Karen, Raker and Maiden reaches the BB Main Server.

There's also a map of the ARS's true base.

EDIT:
Oops, missed a few tidbits:

Spoiler for more Vol15 stuff:

-Aqua Current's IS skill includes <<Phase Trans>>, the ability to shape her avatar (basically Lotus' Overdrive, self-affecting IS). Some of the modes shown are 'Keen', turning to ice blades for CQC; and 'Adamite', Ice barriers for Defence mode. There's three other modes Lotus doesn't know the details of.

-Cerberus levelled up to Level 5, same as Silver Crow. Cerberus I used the II and III forms' abilities to fight Crow in the UAF, but he lost. Argon Array then forcibly activated #III and had Noumi ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL take over Cerberus' avatar after that.

-Noumi took Rain's Armaments via Demonic Commandeer enhanced by IS. He turned into <<Disaster Mk II>> after being cornered by Lotus and co in battle, 'One Winged Angel' style.

-ISS kit's true form is a Duel Avatar. Red Rider's Fluctlight showed up somehow to inform Lotus of some details, like the Avatar had somehow existed in UAF for 50 years consecutively without logging out. According to other Chinese Forumers, 50 years ago in UAF in RL time is back when Crow unleashed Disaster at the Hermes Cord race.

Spoiler for ...:

Wow. I had assume Noumi will be back but I did not expect to be Cerberus III.

No connections to SAO huh, Kawahara-sensei. I can't wait to see the SAO fans' reaction.

[Miraluka]

Shit just got real!


Oh, I don't want this series to end like that, it still needs up more details on characters.

[Flere821]

I've started reading the Chinese TL now:

Spoiler for Vol15 Ch1 comments, not a full summary for any of the chapters below:

'Metatron Wings' is part of Metatron herself, and its special attack <<Ektenia>> is as strong as Metatron's physical attack (nowhere near the level of Metatron's <<Trisagion>> beam-of-death however). Crow managed to destroy another Crown that enslaved a Enemy with one strike using Ektenia, when fighting Metatron it took him dozens of strikes with Crow's own strength. After getting into ARS base Metatron took back her wings, saying Crow haven't met the requirements of keeping and wielding her wings completely - he needs to defeat her in both 1st and 2nd form. Of the <<Four Saints>> (the other 4 dungeons' respective bosses, equivalent to Imperial Palace's <<Four Gods>>), Metatron at least hasn't been defeated in both forms yet.

Despite losing the upgraded wings, Metatron is sticking around as a pixie guide of sorts (like the kind in Alfheim Online in SAO) to continuing to help. She dislikes the 'Mobs' being called as 'Enemy' by the BBers, and demands Crow and the other BLers to call them 'Beings'. Metatron can also communicate with Beings, and ordered a mid-tier Enemy to leave Crow alone after Crow broke the shackles on it. Though if those are still controlled by ARS not even Metatron can order them around.

Metatron is helping Crow, but is uninterested in fights between 'small warriors'. Metatron will offer her knowledge, but not her strength for the coming battles.

Chapter ends with Lime Bell and Cyan Pile showing up out of literally nowhere.

Most notable quote of the chapter - Black Vise: "The 2nd Generation Red King is scheduled to retire from Accel World on this day."

Spoiler for Vol15 Ch2:

I'm not too interested in the scenes here, so for stuff like AA vs Pard's fight I won't summarize it for now.

ARS is really flipping hax however - they turned their base walls and ceilings into <<Immortal Objects>>, and they hacked a Exit Portal in UAF to turn it into the ISS kit main body. WTF, are these guys GMs? >.>

Chapter ends with Lotus and co trying to destroy ISS kit's man body, but then Red Rider showed up from its shadows.

Spoiler for Vol15 Ch3:

Bell and Pile landed into ARS's base when Vice went to retrieve Array from being slaughtered by Pard. Pard tried to keep the gate open, and she succeeded. though in the way there Pard and Argo was separated with Bell and Pile within the darkness.

Metatron's words can only be heard by Crow, and its attitude as before is like a strict ojou-sama. There's some mild shipping scenes between the two as Crow grabbed Metatron and tried to hide its glow when they all tried to sneak past Guards, and Metatron is going 100% tsun saying if she wasn't minimized like she was then she'd burn Crow into ash right there
Oh, and in Crow's panic to hide he inadvertently agreed to 1,000 years of servitude as a servant to Metatron when they all get out of this O_o The TLers are snarking to hell and back about tsunderes, S&M plays, 1st times and whatnot between the two

We finally found out how ARS made a entire school into Immortal Object territory - they bought the place as their base similar to that of a <<Player Owned House>>, though the scale was much larger than anyone else's. The only way to break through according to Metatron is with IS, and after seeing Rain being placed on a sacrificial marble altar from a window Crow + 2 tried to break through. On the verge of Bad End, Bell got a Deus ex Machina and unlocked IS of her own via "Power of Friendship (TM)" and they got through >.>

At that point Vise had crucified Rain, similar to what happened with Blossom when Falcon first went berserk and created Disaster. Crow was pissed, but this time instead of charging right ahead like he was 'CD 6th Gen' he stood his ground and declared he'll be taking Rain back. Array ambushed him from the roof, and Crow deflected the lasers. Pard was still hounding Array in a fight at that point, with Array complaining is Pard actually a cat or a dog. Array also told Vise she better be paid double, no triple for work that he said was only 'give covering fire and then run like hell' that turned out to be this clusterfrak.

Metatron gave her wings to Crow once again, with Crow taking combat aid instead of info aid now - as while in wings form Metatron can't communicate with Crow. More flags between the two with Crow thanking Metatron for her help and Metatron replying (tsun-fully - yes, that's not a word, but I've got nothing better ) he should save that until after everyone is saved.

Before the chapter ends, another Avatar drops out of the sky to fight for ARS; Wolfram Cerberus, having replicated Crow's flying ability.

Roll: ARS Side
Black Vise (Lv8?)
Argon Array (Lv8?)
Wolfram Cerberus (Lv5, according to spoilers)

Red & Black alliance
Blood Leopard (Lv8)
Silver Crow (Lv5, + Metatron Wings)
Cyan Pile (Lv5)
Lime Bell (Lv5, half conscious after over-using IS)
Plot Armor (Lv: EX)

Place your bets people, this is going to be a tough battle

Spoiler for Ch4, not yet TLed, but according to spoilers:

Black Lotus VS Red Rider; let's get reaaaady to ruuuumble

[Tusjecht]

Oh boy, whenever Yanii-sama posts nowadays I'm in for a good ride

A fair fight this time round? My bet's on Red Rider!

Spoiler for Lotus is overhyped:

I mean, as Sunder had snarked in the past, Death by Embracing takes a full gauge, point-blank distance, and still cannot behead RR by itself?