SAO

After the beef had thawed, he added a spoonful of oil. As the oil began to smoke, he tossed in the ginger slices and chili peppers, immediately releasing a pungent aroma. 🐼♡ ❻９şĤǗＸ.ⓒόⓂ 🍮♪

The young man then added the beef, turning the heat down to a simmer. Soon, the rich aroma of the meat filled the air.

He then added oyster sauce, a little soy sauce, and finally, a handful of celery.

The meat gradually tenderized. Kazuto Kirigaya, watching from the side, was practically drooling.

Sugong Zhiye struggled a bit to plug in the rice cooker.

Kazuto Kirigaya glanced at the idle Kazuto Kirigaya beside him and said, "Aren't you going to help your sister?"

Kazuto Kirigaya chuckled, "She snatched it from me, saying I should be considerate of my big brother." Before he could finish, Sugong Zhiye walked up to Kazuto Kirigaya with a blank expression and viciously kicked his foot.

Kazuto Kirigaya immediately clutched his foot and cried out in pain.

Kazuto Kirigaya finally understood. So that's what happened. No wonder Zhiye was acting so strangely today.

After finishing the meal, everyone lay back on their chairs, looking completely satisfied.

"It's so good to have big brother around."

"It's so good to have big brother around."

The same sentence came from two mouths. Kazuto Kirigaya and Sugong Zhiye exchanged a glance. Kazuto Kirigaya chuckled and feigned shyness, "Oh, you guys are too kind."

Kazuto Kirigaya suddenly sat up from his chair, exchanged a look with his big brother, and said seriously, "So, shall we start?"

"Let's start!" Kazuto Kirigaya replied with an equally serious expression.

The two opened their computers in perfect sync, leaving Sugong Zhiye watching wistfully.

"Zhiye, it's not that second brother isn't taking you, it's just that you're too noob," Kazuto Kirigaya said cheerfully, seeing the girl's longing gaze.

His words only made things worse, instantly maxing out Sugong Zhiye's anger meter. She snorted and turned away.

"Fine, if you don't want to play, I don't care. Who needs it anyway."

A voice drifted back from afar.

Kazuto Kirigaya and Kazuto Kirigaya exchanged a look and smiled at each other.

Kazuto Kirigaya teased, "You really need to change your habit of teasing your sister. Otherwise, one day I'll suspect she'll storm into your room with a knife."

"It won't be that bad, it won't be that bad," Kazuto Kirigaya waved his hand.

Then came an afternoon of intense gaming.

Time flies like water, and days and months pass like a shuttle. The days without showing off quickly went by.

The blond boy had grown from a little blond boy into a big blond boy.

As Kazuto Kirigaya grew older, he became even more handsome. His facial features were distinct, his nose bridge was high, and his golden eyes shone brighter. With such looks, he could easily attract a crowd of girls just by standing on the street. Due to his long-term training and a year of swordsmanship practice, his muscles were well-proportioned, and his figure was slender, the kind that looks thin in clothes but muscular when undressed.

Today, he was 15 years old, and today was also the day the closed beta server for Sword Art Online was released.

Both of them managed to snag a closed beta spot. The difference was that Kazuto Kirigaya got his purely through luck, while he had quietly hacked into the official website and modified data to obtain a spot.

Honestly, he admired Kazuto Kirigaya's luck. Considering that only a thousand spots were released in all of Japan, and given the immense popularity of Sword Art Online, it was a severe shortage. The probability was likely less than 0.01%, yet Kazuto Kirigaya had managed to break through.

This couldn't be described as just being lucky.

Today was the first day of the "Sword Art Online" closed beta qualification experience release.

In 2022, humanity's technological prowess finally allowed for the actual creation of a fully virtual online space.

The major electronics manufacturer "ARGUS" developed the new generation civilian terminal called "NERvGear," enabling full dive virtual reality to be utilized in ordinary online games. And SAO—Sword Art Online—was the first large-scale VRMMO to utilize this advanced technology.

Unlike older game consoles that required a flat-screen display and handheld controllers as human-computer interfaces, the NERvGear had only one interface: a streamlined helmet that completely covered the head and face.

Countless signal components were embedded inside. The helmet, through the multiple electric fields generated by these components, directly connected with the user's brain. Users didn't need to use their actual eyes and ears; the machine directly fed information to the visual and auditory cortexes, giving users the sensation of seeing and hearing. In fact, besides hearing and vision, touch, taste, and smell—the so-called five senses—could all be read by the NERvGear.

Full dive gaming, a revolutionary technological invention, created by Akihiko Kayaba, a genius of his era.

Even Kazuto Kirigaya had to admit his intelligence. The game had surprisingly few loopholes, making it almost impossible to insert bugs.

Rather than saying this world was just lines of code, its simulation fidelity was comparable to another world.

Anyway, after entering the game, he successfully hacked a set of data.

He infiltrated the code for his HP through dense lines of data.

His settings weren't that outrageous, not like one-hit kills or flying around.

He just set up an invincibility script, locking his HP at the very last drop.

As a Fool, it's not too much to be immortal, right?

As a Fool, it's not too much to increase attack speed a bit, right?

As a Fool, it's not too much to add a little attack power, right?

As a Fool, it's not too much to know Star Explosion Air Slash, right?

Ahem, just kidding.

If he really dared to do that, his main body would kill him.

So, he only enabled invincibility.

If he really died, his main body would kill him too.

So he only enabled invincibility, and if he messed with too many abnormal codes himself, the GM would notice and start purging abnormal accounts.

Using cheats is fine as long as it's not too obvious.

Did he use cheats?

Yes.

He entered the character creation screen. After thinking, he didn't have much to change, so he decided to keep his original appearance. After all, what face was cooler than his own?

Not to brag, Kazuto Kirigaya truly hadn't seen any young men as handsome as him in the real world.

Blonde hair, golden eyes, a natural protagonist's face.

After entering the interface, he typed in his account and password as usual. After thinking, he slowly typed four words for his nickname: "Roa," and began the mental link.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw a different scene.

He was in a vast plaza. In front of Kazuto Kirigaya was a potted plant with an unidentifiable plant growing in it.

He tried to open the main menu and glanced at his character's stats.

[Characters: Roa]
[Strength: 10(10)]
[Agility: 10(10)]
[Stamina: 10(10)]
[Luck: 5(10)]

Kazuto Kirigaya was a little surprised. He looked around and grabbed a guy named Kirito.

"Hey, hey, Kirito, why did you make yourself look like that?" Kazuto Kirigaya said with a playful expression.