Nidhogg Can't Keep Up

Chapter 40: 'SAO' clearance

(The number of words in this chapter is really small, I will try to make up for it with double updates)

The figures behind them turned into light and disappeared into the hall, one after another, their faces were full of joy.

"Mr. Nidhogg, see you by fate." Jian Xin said goodbye with a smile, and disappeared.

"Vice Captain, thank you for taking care of me." After Yixiu finished speaking, he also disappeared.

"Captain, please contact me later." Lolita's words made Ned Hogg feel that there might be trouble in the future...

"Believe me, you can become light too!" Xiao Chenxing said with a serious face.

"..." Nid Hogg kicked this guy with a smile, watching him disappear, "Get lost."

In a blink of an eye, only Nid Hogg's ruin-like main hall of Ruby Palace looked extremely empty and lonely.

The next moment, he was already standing on top of the dense sea of ​​clouds.

Because he was deeply impressed by the ending of the original book, Ned Hogg was not surprised, and quietly watched the huge floating city of steel in the sky in the distance, which was slowly collapsing.

"Aincrad, it's over..." Ned Hogg felt a little melancholy watching the floating city that had been active for two and a half years fall apart.

Two and a half years, I traveled here for less than half a month and spent two and a half years here.

But this is still not his stage... To be precise, he is an old antique from the old world in another world, a remnant, with no worries or fetters. Where is his stage, he is looking for it.

"How is it? Your Excellency Nidhogg, how is the scenery here?"

Nid Hogg turned around and looked at the tall and thin man behind him, wearing glasses and a researcher's white coat.

Heathcliff, or rather, Akihiko Kayaba.

"Very well, but the destruction of beautiful things is always sad."

"Is it a beautiful thing?"

Putting his hands in his pockets, Kayaba Akihiko's eyes behind the lenses were full of emotion.

"Your Excellency Nid Hogg, do you know? I have had a dream since a long time ago."

"Dream of such a world, a perfect world."

"When I learned about the development of the full-dive environment system—no, it should be said that it started earlier, I lived to create that city, a world that surpassed the framework and regulations of the real world. Then in this world, in the official operation In the end, I was lucky enough to see something that surpassed the laws of the world I created..."

"We have always had many dreams since we were young, right? I also forgot how old I was when I was obsessed with the fantasy of this floating castle in the air..."

"Listen to me, Your Excellency Nidhogg. I still believe—in a certain world, that castle really exists..."

Listening quietly to Akihiko Kayaba's narration, Nidhogg's expression remained calm.

Even as a human being, when he watched "Sword Art Online", he didn't have any ill feeling towards Akihiko Kayaba. Even though he sacrificed thousands of people, Li Junxuan, as a mentally and physically abnormal nerd, has no ill will towards people he doesn't know. Caring, like how many people died in an earthquake, everyone just "oh", who cares about people they don't know.On the contrary, Akihiko Kayaba's behavior of pursuing his dream resonated with him very much.

Creating Gensokyo is one of his dreams. He is on the way to realize this dream. Even if he is not active, it is not without intention.

Kayaba Akihiko naturally didn't understand Nidhogg's thoughts, but he was surprised by Nidhogg's reaction.

"Your Excellency Nidhogg... Aren't you angry at my actions?"

"There's nothing to be angry about." Ned Hogg looked at the 'Aincrad' that had collapsed and said calmly, "This game is very good, this world is very real, and I'm still happy, isn't this Is that enough?"

Kayaba Akihiko was stunned, and then smiled softly.

"Happy, that's good, that's good."

Walking to Nid Hogg's side, Kayaba Akihiko spread out his right hand.

With the palm facing up, there is a golden ball of light floating.

"This is the seed of the world (The.Seed), Your Excellency Ned Hogg, I entrust it to you, sooner or later, I believe we will see each other again."

After saying this, Kayaba Akihiko's body turned into fragments and disappeared before Nidhogg's eyes...

"That might not be the case."

With a mysterious smile on the corner of Nid Hogg's mouth, he looked at the ball of light in his hand and clenched it tightly.

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Gently open your eyes.

"What about the strange ceiling... the board! Which grandson turned off the light!"

It was pitch black before Nid Hogg just looked up...

Bang!

"Wipe, my head."

Nid Hogg only reacted when his head hit the wooden partition.

It seems that he logged into the game in a coffin.

Hold the coffin board with both hands and push it violently!

"Ahem, cough, motherfucker, there's a lot of dust."

Coughing and waving his hand, the dust was blown away from the hole by the wind, and he bent his fingers and clawed to grab the void above the soil layer.