You Fucking Call This a Newbie?

"I'm glad to meet you too, little brother Seiya. Looks like our personalities get along surprisingly well.

And you did a really good job customizing that face of yours. Could you send me the data too? I want to tweak my character model later.

I think this character's face is still just a tiny little bit different from how I really look."

The naturally friendly Klein threw an arm around Seiya's shoulders. Seeing several female players nearby repeatedly glance their way, he suddenly felt that the face he had customized still fell just a little short of matching his original charm.

"No, no. I think older brother Klein's face makes me feel like we've known each other forever.

Since this is our first meeting, I don't have much to give you. How about you wait here and don't go anywhere, older brother? I'll go buy a couple of oranges nearby."

Watching Seiya and Klein, who had known each other for less than a few minutes, already slinging arms around each other's shoulders, showering one another with shameless compliments, and calling each other older brother and little brother, Kirito could only feel speechless.

He had played quite a few games over the years, but his poor social skills meant that he had always been a lone wolf wherever he went.

Seiya, who had grown up with him, was the exact opposite. If it came to social skills, this guy could probably apply to any company and effortlessly become a sales genius.

Although the constant influx of players had made the Town of Beginnings increasingly crowded and lively,

with Kirito, a "Beater" player, leading the way, the three of them quickly found a less populated leveling area.

The First Floor of Aincrad mainly contained the Town of Beginnings and the town of Tolbana.

At the northernmost end of this floor stood a sturdy tower three hundred meters in diameter and one hundred meters tall: the labyrinth area.

The areas surrounding the streets were vast grasslands, where level-one fodder monsters such as Raging Boars, Yellow Bees, and Giant Wasps appeared.

Considering that Seiya and Klein were complete newcomers, Kirito decided to use boars as their training targets. Though they were all level-one monsters, the smaller, flying Yellow Bees and Giant Wasps were harder to kill.

The calf-sized Raging Boars had considerably thicker HP Bars and stronger attributes than Yellow Bees and Giant Wasps.

But since wild boars could only charge in straight lines and were large enough targets, Kirito believed they were the most suitable monsters for beginners.

Since this was full-dive, it might have been a game, but the actual experience was not much different from being there in person.

The breeze blowing against their faces, the scent of dirt carried on the wind, and the piercing roars of the Raging Boars were all no different from reality.

And that was precisely the charm of full-dive games!

After demonstrating with a flashy Sword Skill and instantly killing the Raging Boar before him, Kirito looked at the two of them confidently and explained.

After watching Kirito's demonstration, Klein eagerly gripped a katana and prepared to try it himself.

Unfortunately, it looked simple enough, but actually doing it was far more difficult than he had imagined.

When the Raging Boar charged at him, the scene before him was simply too realistic. Fear took hold of Klein, and he failed to react in time, so the boar sent him flying several meters away.

That was only because he had set his pain sensitivity extremely low. Otherwise, that blow the boar had just landed on his balls would definitely have left Klein traumatized.

Seeing Klein get hit in the balls and fly several meters away, Kirito picked up a stone from the ground.

As a flash of light appeared in his hand, he hurled the stone at an astonishing speed, striking the boar squarely on the rump.

"There are no magical elements in Sword Art Online, and Skills have a great deal of flexibility.

As long as you assume the starting stance for a Sword Skill, even a stone like the one I just threw can trigger a Skill.

So aside from the sword techniques in the game, real-world masters of swordsmanship can also perform quite well in this world."

Kirito's final words were basically meant for Seiya.

His hands itching after Kirito's explanation, Seiya finally looked at the Raging Boar nearby and slowly picked up a rusty one-handed sword.

"The starting stance of a sword technique, huh? Then..."

As the Raging Boar charged furiously toward him, Seiya did not panic like Klein had earlier.

He had immersed himself in kendo for over ten years. If he lacked even the mental fortitude to face a wild animal, then he might as well start over from scratch!

When the Raging Boar closed to within ten meters of Seiya, he did not move. Even when it came within five meters, three meters, and then two meters of him,

Klein, seeing Seiya remain motionless, could not help but grow anxious.

Little brother Seiya had a pretty good personality. Having just suffered the agony of getting smashed in the balls himself, Klein understood exactly how painful that was.

Having just taken a stone to the rump from Kirito, the Raging Boar was obviously even angrier than before.

Klein could only hope that little brother Seiya had not set his pain sensitivity too high. Otherwise, with that "fatal dick strike," he worried that Seiya might pass out on the spot.

"Wenren Style Swordsmanship Type 1 - Gale Fang!"

What Klein had imagined did not happen. Seiya was not sent flying several meters backward after suffering the "fatal dick strike."

Because just as the Raging Boar was about to crash into Seiya, the previously motionless Seiya finally made his move!

Seiya slightly turned his body and slipped past the Raging Boar's side like a gust of wind. Then, with a turn of his blade, a faint blue glow appeared along the sword as it slashed directly at the Raging Boar's neck.

A streak of light burst through the air. The Raging Boar, which had still been charging forward, collapsed at once and scattered into fragments that vanished into the sky.

Kirito was surprised by what he saw, but Seiya had given him too many shocks and surprises since childhood, so it was not entirely beyond his ability to accept.

But Klein, a true newbie, stared blankly at the Raging Boar that Seiya had instantly beheaded with a single slash.

If he remembered correctly, Seiya was supposed to be a newbie who had just started playing this game, just like him, not a "Beater" like Kirito, right?

So the question was, why did Klein now feel that Seiya was even stronger than Kirito?!

Even though they had both killed a Raging Boar in one strike, whether it was Seiya's movements or that Sword Skill just now, Seiya's had clearly looked far more astonishing and dazzling!