The Exploiter (A Sword Art Online Fanfic)

Chapter 5:Akihiko Kayaba

When I came to,I found myself lying down on an expanse of white.

It was like something out of a fever dream,a room with no walls,no ceiling,and no sound to distract me from the massive expanse of unused space.I looked at the floor and saw my face reflected back in it.

"Come on!There was supposed to be a console here!"I yelled into the void.

I started to utter a stream of insults at the top of my voice,before slamming the butt of my spear against the ground,defeated.

Unable to do anything,I waited,and waited and waited.My mind was seized by a sense of despair,and I could feel a panic attack creeping up on me.

I couldn't sit still any longer so I got up and began to walk forward and I threw a few punches in a vain attempt to let out steam.

Martial arts skill leveled up!

I stared at the notification in surprise.This wasn't supposed to happen,right?As far as I knew,skills only levelled up when used against an enemy.

Being bored out of my mind,I kept levelling up my skills.I started out with the spear,then my sword,and then I started to pull out all the random weapons I had gotten from all the enemies I had slain.

After I had finished leveling up all my skills,I sat down on the white floor,exhausted.

A sudden headache brought me to my knees as the paralysed effect popped up on my status window.

"Took you long enough,"I forced the words out of my mouth.

A black door materialized into existence,and a man walked out of it.

He wore a white lab coat on his thin figure,and looked like he hadn't seen the sun in years.Dark circles were clearly visible under his eyes as he looked at me in frustration.

"So you're the one who's been trying to break my game.You look a lot less troublesome up close."He pointed at the ground,and a chair appeared for him to sit on.

"Well,"he continued,leaning back on his chair."You need to stop.This game is supposed to be conquered by hard work and determination,and you're getting in the way by breaking my creation."

"Why,does me pointing out the flaws in your creation get in the way of you pretending to be immortal?"

Kayaba sneered at my words.
"I was going to give you a quick death,but with your attitude,I think that would be too generous of me."

He snapped his fingers,and all around him,dark elf archers and kobolds appeared.

"This used to be a testing ground for weapons while the game was still in development.Be happy that you get to die in such an important place."

Kayaba smiled before exploding into a shower of blue polygons,and as soon as he had left,the kobolds all turned towards me.

I need to take care of the archers first.

I rushed past the melee fighters and jumped into the line of archers behind them.
"Vorpal strike!"I cried out,activating the sword skill.

The archers stumbled backward as their health bars went down by....1%.

"That was my strongest skill,you-you should be dead!"I jumped back out of range from the archers and pulled out a shield from my inventory.

I took deep breath,and looked at the levels of the enemies before me.They were all level 100.I could deal with death,but I wanted to die on my own terms,and not as a plaything of some twisted psychopath with admin privileges.

I charged at the archers again and after that,everything was a blur.

I used every weapon I had against the waves of enemies that followed.Since their level was so high,all the weapons seemed to break as soon as I killed even one of them,but me changing weapons every couple of minutes seemed to confuse them.

In the end,all that remained of the horde was a single kobold.It bared its fangs at me and charged,and I raised my sword to parry.

In a flash of steel,the kobold closed the distance between us and slashed outward with its axe.I tried to back step,but I wasn't fast enough.

My sword arm flew through the air and disintegrated as I fell to the ground,clutching the stump that was once my arm.

The kobold smiled,and raised its axe to deal the death blow.I cried out in desperation and launched a boxing jab at the kobald,which finally killed the damn thing.

I slumped into the ground as pain filled my entire being and looked around in desperation as I tried to find a way out as my health quickly dropped into the red.

My eyes landed on the black door kayaba had come out of.He had forgotten to despawn it.

I crawled to the door while I felt more and more sleepy.I finally reached the threshold of the door as my heath bar almost hit empty.

With my last remaining bit of strength,I pushed the door open and half leaped through it,finally giving up as I felt a sudden weightlessness seize me.