Traveler Of The Multiverse

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Lying down on his bed with a n.a.k.e.d Saki on him and a blanket loosely covering them both, Sora was looking at the ceiling with a complicated look on his face.

Sora thought back to what Rinko had said about doing things herself.

Over the four thousand and five hundred years that he has had all his women with him, Sora always kept them with him within his Heavenly Universe. Although they had the freedom, Sora granted there every little wish without needing much in return.

'Should I let them do what they wish to?' Sora asked himself as he sighed and sank back deep into his mind.

…

A week passed by since Sora had brought Izayoi to his house. He taught her how to do some household chores and had Kyouka teach her some other valuable stuff.

Sora had met up with Mihono and was told that the chairman of Kengan Association has granted Mihono the authority to choose the next chairman for the Kengan Association.

After the Ex-chairman had seen Sora in action, he knew that no one in the entire 'Land of Battle' could take down Sora. The destruction of the arena was proof enough, so without going much into detail, the Ex-chairman gave Mihono the authority to choose the next chairman.

However, not knowing who to give it to, she eventually gave Sora the chairman position.

Sora smiled pleasantly as he now had the Kengan Association within his grasps. Although by now, Sora no longer had much use for the association now that the thing was within the -1 level of Saito Hospital.

'It won't be that bad to have right now,' thought Sora as he looked at the massive earnings from the Kengan Association.

'Should I take over the underworld as well?' Sora had received a lot of money that was deposited into his personal bank account from the Kengan Association the minute it was announced that he was the new chairman.

Sora laughed and put the phone back in his pocket.

With nothing much in his plans now, Sora was completely relaxed and even a bit bored.

His strength is already up to 99%, three to four more weeks and he will reach 100%. After he reaches 100%, he can bring back his arm.

Ring~

Beep!

"Kayaba! It's been a while since you've last called," said Sora as he put the phone to his ear.

[I've been busy a lot lately, barely had enough time to call you today. I was calling to let you know that for the next whole week, starting today, the beta testing will be happening. So I need you to come by and help find bugs and fix them up.]

Sora nodded and asked, "Will you let the school know that I will be gone for a week?"

[Sure. It's to be expected, I can't have them expel you. You have yet to thank me for that whole month I had to cover for you!]

"Don't sweat it, you already dealt with it. Instead, I will do one thing you ask of me," said Sora as he changed course. Since Sora no longer had to go to school, Sora waved goodbye to Saki and headed straight home to change.

[Just be here soon.]

"I can be there in just 10 seconds," said Sora jokingly.

[Come here normally,] sighed Kayaba.

"Got it," said Sora as he headed straight to Argus. "How many beta testers are there?"

[There's currently 893, 100 are still coming over to join the test,] said Kayaba after looking at the papers.

"Does anyone seem interesting?"

[Yeah, there's some people who claim to be expert martial artists, and there's even someone from the military here,] said Kayaba with some glee.

To be able to get some promising data from normal people really thrilled Kayaba. After seeing Sora's data, Kayaba knew in an instant that he couldn't use Sora as a basis for every player of Sword Art Online.

Sora's just on a whole 'nother level. If Kayaba was told that Sora was some sort of beast or alien, he wouldn't need much convincing with how strong Sora is.

'I need to play close attention, make sure the game isn't too hard, but also not too easy,' thought Kayaba as he looked over at the many screens before him that showed the P.O.V. of many beta testers.

[Actually Sora… I will need to cash in that favor of yours. I will tell you what I want when you get here,] said Kayaba as he looked at beta testers playing.

Sora smiled knowingly before replying, "Alright I will be there in a couple of minutes."

After hanging up, Sora made another call and smiled brightly when the call connected.

"How about joining me on a job I have to do for a whole week? Sounds fun, doesn't it, Chitoge?"

[Joining you? Sounds like fun!] said Chitoge on the other side of the call.

[Is that Sora? Let me talk with him!]

[It's him? Can I have a go too?]

[A-as a bodyguard, I need to talk with whoever you're talking with, young miss...]

Sora chuckled hearing all the people with Chitoge. He rubbed his chin before grinning.

"Chitoge, put me on speaker."

After Chitoge put Sora on speaker, Sora told the women with Chitoge about how he will be inviting them all to where he works for the next whole week. They will all be able to try out the nervegear and try out the VR game that is beta tested.

Sora even mentioned that after a 'hard' day at work, he will take them all out to eat, to karaoke, and to many other fun places. He said that he can make a quick call to their schools and allow them to come on over to his workplace.

"If you all want, we can even study a bit for upcoming tests during breaks or something," said Sora nonchalantly as he walked into Argus.

[Yes!]

[Sounds like fun!]

[Studying would be nice, missing out on school already makes me feel anxious.]

[We'll be at your workplace in half an hour.]

Beep!

After they all gave their responses, Sora hung up and looked at the rosy secretary.

"Nice to see you again Airi, do you want to have some 'fun' again?" asked Sora with a flirtatious look as he rested his arm on the receiving desk.

"I-I have a ton of work to do today..." stuttered the beautiful black haired secretary.

"So after you're out. Got it," said Sora as he smiled at Airi.

"I'll see you after my shift then," muttered Airi with an embarrassed look on her face.

Sora smiled and put his hand on Airi's hand, "Some group of girls will be coming over, guide them to where Kayaba and I will be. They will be joining the beta testers to experience how the NerveGear works."

"Alright, I will get it done," said Aira with a serious attitude as she got back to working.

"Good, I'll make sure to properly reward you," said Sora with a smile as he lightly rubbed over a certain area on Airi's wrist, quickly making her body heat up.

"Y-yes!"

Sora smiled and walked over to where Kayaba is waiting for him.

"You took a long time getting here," said Kayaba as he sat down on a chair within an empty room. There wasn't anything within the room besides the chair Kayaba was sitting on.

Sora closed the door and leaned back with his hand in his pocket.

"So what's the favor?"

"I know that you're aware of the bug I planted within Sword Art Online," said Kayaba with a serious look on his face. His eyes were squinted as he looked at Sora with his fists clenched tightly.

Sora just smiled at Kayaba's words, remaining quiet.

"I want you to keep quiet about it," said Kayaba with a sigh as he lowered his head.

"Okay, but on one condition," said Sora, raising a finger in the air.

"Say it."

"I will decide how the players die."

"Deal."

Sora smiled once Kayaba agreed with what he had set as a condition.

Without saying anything more, Sora grabbed the laptop he asked a nearby worker to bring. He entered into the Sword Art Online program before going over to what's supposed to happen to players when they die.

Instead of a player dying in an instant, they will be sent to a different place where they have to successfully complete one out of five challenges.

This will be a stand for players called 'Second Chance'.

If they complete one of the challenges, the player can escape the clutches of death and return to the game as a level 1 and no skills. If they complete three challenges, they will return with 50% of their levels and all their skills.

Completing all five challenges will grant the dead player to come back with all their skills, levels, and better equipment. There will also be a bonus 10 level for the player that died.

Of course, this second chance will only appear once for every player. If they die after their Second Chance, they will no longer respawn and die in real life.

The time before a player will die will take a whole day, giving the player's friends/teammates to look for life saving items.

Since Sora had a hand in helping create the game, Sora placed life-saving items and Resurrection items in Sword Art Online.

The items will be hard to find, only being possible in the labyrinth that leads to a boss room and as rare drops from boss-class monsters.

'In the end, this is as much as I can do for all those people that will die,' said Sora as he looked at the lines code he just typed. He pressed enter and let the code run.

In the real word, all those people would be dead no matter what anyone did. They won't have any life-saving items or even resurrection items, it will all just depend on their will to live and their skills.

There was also that feeling when he tried divining the future because of his curiosity from Taejin's words and the world changing.

Whenever he was diving the future of the world, the divination would be cut off or break sometimes. The only reason why something like that would happen is because either some strong force is stopping him, the world will be destroyed, or the divination wasn't carried out correctly.

There are other possibilite, but those three are usually main problems.

Though in Sora's case, only two possibilities exist.

A strong force or the world's destruction.

'I need to make sure there will be people skilled enough to deal with the future problem,' thought Sora as he set the computer to the side and looked through a one-way mirror.

Across the one-way mirror, there were hundreds of people using NerveGear.

Even if there's a person not talented for martial arts, there are still other professions which they can make use of.

Blacksmith… Tailor… Beast Tamer… Cook… Physician… Medic… Pharmacist…

There were many things everyone in Sword Art Online can excel in. If they don't have talent in one area, there will be more chances to try out their area of potential.

Sora had personally programmed every profession, each NPC containing less than 0.1% of Sora's knowledge in every field. This was already a lot Sora had given everyone, all his knowledge on every profession comes from many worlds in existence and many universes.

"They shall go ahead and have some fun for now. Soon, all these beta testers will have to prepare everyone for their impending doom in Sword Art Online," sighed Sora as he looked at every beta tester.

"Kayaba, let them record some stuff and post it online. This will give Sword Art Online more publicity and allow more to join Sword Art Online," said Sora as he pulled up the data and saw that no one was recording or anything.

"Alright," nodded Kayaba with a bit of fear to Sora.

Even after Sora knew already of the impending death of every person that plays Sword Art Online, he still wants to get MORE people to play? What a mad man!

If Kayaba knew that Sora was only trying to get people psyched and even get them ready to train and choose martial arts to train in.

"We need to put an Advertis.e.m.e.nt up too, I will do it," said Sora as his eyes lit up. He opened up the laptop and began typing away. "I will get some people to ship overseas and to other countries. We need more people playing."

Kayaba looked at Sora with a shock look before standing up and quickly slapping the table, "Aincrad isn't big enough to handle so many players! The game comes out in a month, we can't make so many changes in just a month!"

"Don't worry about that, I will handle it," Sora said quietly as he turned his back to Kayaba and gave a wide smirk.