A huge castle made of stone and steel floating in an endless sky.
That was all this world was. It took a vagarious group of craftsmen one month to survey the place. The diameter of the base floor was about 100 kilometers, large enough to fit the entirety of Tokyo within.
Above, there were 100 floors stacking straight upwards; its sheer size was unbelievable. It was impossible to even guess how much data it consisted of. Inside, there were a couple of large cities along with countless small scale towns and villages, forests and plains, and even lakes.
Only one stairway linked each floor to another, and the stairways existed in dungeons where large numbers of monsters roamed; so discovering and getting through was no easy matter.
However, once someone made a breakthrough and arrived at a city of the upper floor, the Teleport Gates there and of every cities in the lower floors would be connected making it possible for anyone to move freely through these levels. With these conditions, the huge castle had been steadily conquered for two years. The current front line is the 74th floor.
The name of the castle was «Aincrad», a world of battles with swords that continued floating and had engulfed approximately six thousand people. Otherwise known as...
Sword Art Online
This is the kind of world that I got trapped in. With fears covering my mind, I kneel on the ground.
I was hopeless.
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A few hours ago, I'm just thinking on how great this game was. But now, it was inverted. A fun game that I used to play has become my worst nightmare.
