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A/N: Thanks to a fellow slime, I have increased the Thought Acceleration, and I personally increased the Thought Partitions.
Sora's natural Thought Process was accelerated by a total of 1,500,000 times. His Thought Partitions were increased to 1,000.
And Sora's growth won't just stop there…
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Sora was at his Dojo, a rather spacious place that's 40 meters sq. Built out of wood, giving it a very japanese look to it. It had every necessary equipment for training martial arts and skills. Since every object and the building is an
"Now, we will go on with the Ceremony to make you my disciple. Go and brew some tea and present it to me. After you present it, kowtow to me three times," said Sora with a wave of his hands as he went over to the center of his Dojo.
Chikage quietly went off to go get the stuff ready. Since the Dojo is now Sora's place to train his disciples, it also has another option of being his home and renting rooms to his disciples.
Sora sat down and waited for Chikage to come back with his tea.
He pulled up the Mentor Skill and looked at the benefits both the Master and Disciple share. One of them was the increase of skill leveling speed when training in the Dojo and fighting in the wild.
The Master and Disciple will receive a 50% of bonus experience points for fighting in the wild and 25% when training in the Dojo.
After all, one makes the most progress when in real battles.
The disciples gain a 50% increase in Skill effect, allowing them to do more damage or get more from the skill.
"Master," quietly said Chikage as she presented a cup of tea for Sora.
She handed it over to Sora before getting on her knees before him and kowtowing to him.
1...
2…
3…
[Chikage is now your Disciple.]
[Mentor Skill has increased by 5 levels.]
[Disciple has been recognized by the system. 'Unnamed Dojo' has been recognized as a real dojo.]
[You may now name the Dojo.]
Sora smiled and got Chikage to stand up before patting her pretty little head.
"Go ahead and train on the side. I will train you in a bit after I finish some business and the world wide announcement appears," said Sora as he looked at his system.
He went over to his Mentor Skill and removed the player cursor, making him an NPC.
"Yes master," said Chikage. She gave a light boy before quietly going off to the side to do some light training.
'What should I name the Dojo?' thought Sora as he looked at the empty name box.
There were many names that popped into his mind, but they all didn't seem to fit well.
Heaven and Earth…
Golden Spirit…
Eternal Mountain…
Infinite Star…
Possibilities were endless for a possible name for his Dojo.
After thinking about it for a while, Sora decided to name his Dojo [Myriad Paths].
Since he has trained in every single path known to be possible to practice, Sora could easily teach anyone about anything. He could accept anyone and teach them whatever they may want to know!
Besides his sex techniques, those are confidential, even to his own sons.
Shha!
After an hour of Sora and Chikage lightly training, their surroundings changed as they were teleported outside of the Dojo. Everyone who was out hunting was brought back to the inside of the City.
Everyone was confused as to what was happening. Some had already found out why they were brought back to the City as they guessed the problem was related to the Logout function being blacked out and unavailable.
There were many people in the City, all of varying ages and races. The ages of the people ranged from 15 and up, there weren't many players younger than that.
Confusement befell all of the players of Sword Art Online, some began to panic because of the Logout button being blacked out.
All of a sudden, above every single city out in the First Floor, cracks began to appear above every city followed by Warning signs. Blood dripped from those cracks and fell down to an illusory floor where a huge figure emerged from it in a red cloak.
"Attention Players!" began Kayaba as he raised his arms to the side.
Sora looked at Kayaba and was rather glad that he installed a neat little function into the game.
It was an automatic translating function that kept one's voice sounding completely normal. There was also a hidden function in the translating function.
Over time, the players of Sword Art Online will have a complete understanding of a language which they could completely make use of to talk to other players when they get out of Sword Art Online.
The language is called, Violet Moon, it came from an ancient group of powerful humans that had gone extinct because of their own pride.
Kayaba continued talking, explaining how everyone will be stuck in Sword Art Online until they defeat the 100th Floor boss. He mentioned the Logout button being unavailable was on purpose so that they can't log out.
People had already begun dying due to the careless actions of their family and friends removing the NerveGear forcefully. Even after Sora added a safety feature telling people of the dangers, there have already been some deaths.
Kayaba then pulled up a screen and showed everyone the news and the reports of what was going on.
Over 400 people had died because of the actions of their family and friends ignoring the warning and continuing to remove the NerveGear.
Although 400 people wasn't really much compared to the 500 million people playing the game. However, Kayaba didn't show the amounts of death and only showed the news reporting the dying people and the grieving families.
After showing the deaths, Kayaba gave the players a second to breathe before telling them that they can increase their chances of survival by looking for Hidden Masters that can teach them an amazing Breathing Technique that can give them a passive bonus that increases their strength.
After a couple of more words, Kayaba said goodbye and disappeared.
Everyone was quiet, afraid to make a single noise. Fear was settling into their very souls, they all wished to wake up from this thing they wished to call a nightmare.
KSH!
A mirror fell to the ground and broke, waking everyone up.
Sora stayed quiet and just put Chikage on his shoulders to keep her from getting lost in between the many people in the city. He headed back home as many people felt lost and scared, the city was currently not that safe as some people trampled over other people.
Even if the players won't die within the city, the pain from being trampled is still there.
As Sora was walking back to his Dojo, he caught a glimpse of a black haired boy running past him. Anger and sadness filled the black haired boy, his face was grim, yet his eyes burnt with the passion to survive.
Whilst everyone was still in a state of chaos, out of everyone within the city, that boy was the only one with the balls to run out and fight right away despite knowing a death in-game will kill him in real life.
"That's one ballsy kid," sighed Sora as he arrived at his Dojo.
'It wouldn't be half-bad to take that kid and personally teach him how to fight. If he works hard enough, in 30 or 40 years, he will reach the same level of power as Goku had before fighting a God of Destruction,' thought Sora as he looked at the black haired boy disappear into the hunting plains.
To reach Goku's level of power before he fought Beerus is pretty amazing since he doesn't have Zenkai to accompany him. But it says a lot about his will power nonetheless.
Entering his Dojo, Sora closed the doors to keep people from entering and making a mess of things.
"Okay my young disciple," said Sora as he picked up Chikage from his shoulders and placed her down on the floor. "Now, I will be teaching you the basics."
"Basics?"
"Yes," nodded Sora as he walked over to an area that had some pillows on the floor.
Sora looked at Chikage and was slightly disappointed deep within his heart. Chikage had a very natural talent and was considered a genius, however, instead of learning the basic stances and basic attacks, she was instantly taught some unorthodox techniques and martial arts.
The only thing Sora could possibly do right now is to help Chikage get rid of the flaws in her moves and her stances.
"I will be teaching you the basics. How to breathe, how to make your blood flow in accordance to your breathing, and some more basics," said Sora as he sat down on a pillow. "Come and join me, I'm this will be worthwhile for you."
Chikage nodded and walked over to a pillow before sitting down and listening to Sora attentively.
"When you breathe in, you have to make sure you fill up your lungs entirely. This will..." Sora was about to continue talking until he heard a knock on the door. "Hm? Looks like someone recovered earlier than most."
Sora walked over to the door and opened the door, revealing who was behind the door knocking.
Looking at the young little girl, Sora was rather surprised she had slightly composed herself. Her hands were trembling and her face was still a little pale. She was wearing the basic equipment that is given to every player.
A red shirt that exposed her shoulder and a leather sleeveless armor. Two red ring baubles separated her hair into two tails, giving her a very childish look.
"Hello, are you looking to join [Myriad Paths]?" asked Sora. Although the girl didn't have the best potential for fighting, she had a very strong mentality that recovered from such a difficult situation.
Two streaks of dry tears were still evident on her cheeks. Seeing this, Sora was rather proud of himself as to what he had accomplished to the graphics and the program. Everything was so much alike to real life that it wasn't really that different. The only thing that made Sword Art Online lose that realism was the health bar on the top left that one can see by just glancing at it with the eyes.
The health bar can just be removed easily however with an option in the interface settings.
"Huh?" the girl stopped shivering a little before looking up on top of Sora's head. 'Oh… he's just an NPC...'
"Come on walk in kid, you look terrible. I know of a perfect remedy to make you happy," said Sora as he dragged the girl in and closed the door.
The girl was kind of shocked before remembering what one of the ads said about NPCs in Sword Art Online.
[All the beings within Sword Art Online are alive! Including the monsters!]
The girl looked at Sora differently after remembering that they are living beings like humans. Although she still felt a little awkward since she wasn't used to feeling like such.
"Go ahead and sit down with my disciple, I will go and prepare some snacks," said Sora as he walked over to the kitchen.
Every dojo has a natural supply of ingredients that come from the Aincradians (Aincrad Citizens). They personally deliver fruits, vegetables, flour, and some other ingredients that they all personally produce.
However, since the Dojo was just opened and built today for Sora, the system had personally given Sora fruits, vegetables, and ingredients. It also gave bread that is of better quality than what current players could get.
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The girl walked over nervously to where Chikage was and was rather surprised to see another player here besides her.
She raised her eyebrows in surprise seeing how the girl looked more young than her. Sitting down by Chikage, the girl looked at Chikage and asked, "Are you okay? Did you come to this game without your mom or dad?"
"..."
The girl revealed a sad expression seeing how Chikage hadn't responded.
'She must be really sad,' thought the girl as she looked at Chikage with pity.
The girl felt a wave of sadness wash over her. She lowered her head and began crying as she regretted coming into the game. She was missing her mom and dad, a feeling of helplessness sprouted within her heart.
The girl didn't know when she would possibly leave this world and return back to real life with her parents.
Pat pat.
Feeling a warm tiny hand on her back, the girl felt surprised before turning to look at Chikage who was patting her back with an emotionless face.
The girl hugged Chikage and cried with Chikage in her embrace, thinking that Chikage was looking to cry to.
"Hic… sniff… my… my name's Ayano Keiko… but please call me Silica," sniffled Silica as she hugged Chikage.
"Kushinada Chikage, Princess."