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The war intensifies when Vecta finds and abducts Alice, and Miller's allies in the real world convince tens of thousands of American players to log into the Underworld under the pretense of being beta testers for a new game, swelling the Dark Territory's ranks. Just as the Human EMpire army is in danger of being overwhelmed, Sinon joins the battle using a superuser account for the sun goddess Solus. With her superaccount's ability to fly, she gives chase after Vecta whie Leafa also enters the Underworld to help with a superaccount for the earth goddess Terraria, whose special ability allows her to recover quickly from any injuries.\\
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The war intensifies when Vecta finds and abducts Alice, and Miller's allies in the real world convince tens of thousands of American players to log into the Underworld under the pretense of being beta testers for a new game, swelling the Dark Territory's ranks. Just as the Human EMpire Empire army is in danger of being overwhelmed, Sinon joins the battle using a superuser account for the sun goddess Solus. With her superaccount's ability to fly, she gives chase after Vecta whie Leafa also enters the Underworld to help with a superaccount for the earth goddess Terraria, whose special ability allows her to recover quickly from any injuries.\\
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\\The following morning, after an instructor restores Eugeo's eye, both he and Kirito are taken into custody by an Integrity Knight: none other than Alice, herself! Strangely, however, she has no memories of Eugeo and treats him and Kirito harshly as she transports them to a prison beneath the Central Cathedral. The two make their escape and are aided by a mysterious ally named "Cardinal" -- a virtual avatar for the error-checking systems of the Cardinal System that ran the Underworld. Cardinal explains that the source of the Integrity Knights is the self-proclaimed goddess of the Underworld, "Administrator". Once a mortal woman named Quinella, she was raised to a position of power through her training in the sacred arts -- reality-warping commands within the Underworld -- and used forbidden arts to stop her own aging, regain her youth, and take over as pontifax of the Axiom Church, essentially becoming ruler of the Human Empire. To ensure no one could potentially usurp her, she abolished the Human Empire's military, save for the Integrity Knights. Unfortunately, this would leave the Human Empire at a grave disadvantage when the Final Load Test began and the gate seperating the Human Empire from the Dark Territory fell. If the Human Empire fell during the ensuing battle, the people in the real world running the Underworld would reset it. In addition, Administrator tried to take over Cardinal's Fluctlight, but in so doing made her equal in power to herself, and has been trying to destroy her since.\\
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One fateful evening, however, Kirito has a fateful real-world encounter with "Johnny Black", the third and final conspirator behind Death Gun, who ambushes him with a poison-filled syringe. While Kirito is saved from dying, he is left in a comatose state. He is subsequently abducted by Rath -- led by Seijuro Kikuoka, a man whom Kirito had past dealing with, none of them pleasant -- to undergo treatment in the STL in the hopes of restoring him to full consciousness in the real world. Asuna manages to track down Rath's base of operations on a floating fortress in the sea known as the Ocean Turtle, aided by Rinko Kojiro, the lover and assistant of Akihiko Kayaba. There, she learns the true purpose of the STL: to create true artificial intellegence from the bottom up using artificial Fluctlights, with the purpose of creating unmanned military weapons for the Japanese government. As part of their endeavor to facilitate the creation of these advanced [=AIs=], time within the Underworld was accelerated: a day in realtime was equivalent to years in the Underworld.\\
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One fateful evening, however, Kirito has a fateful real-world encounter with "Johnny Black", the third and final conspirator behind Death Gun, who ambushes him with a poison-filled syringe. While Kirito is saved from dying, he is left in a comatose state. He is subsequently abducted by Rath -- led by Seijuro Kikuoka, a man whom Kirito had past dealing with, none of them pleasant -- to undergo treatment in the STL in the hopes of restoring him to full consciousness in the real world. Asuna manages to track down Rath's base of operations on a floating fortress in the sea known as the Ocean Turtle, aided by Rinko Kojiro, the lover and assistant of Akihiko Kayaba. There, she learns the true purpose of the STL: to create true artificial intellegence from the bottom up using artificial Fluctlights, with the purpose of creating unmanned military weapons for the Japanese government. As part of their endeavor to facilitate the creation of these advanced [=AIs=], time within the Underworld was accelerated: a day in realtime was equivalent to years in the Underworld.\\
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Kirito awakens to find himself in the Underworld and is greeted by Eugeo, a young man whos "Calling" -- his divinity-ordained purpose in life -- was to cut down the seemingly insurmountable Gigas Cedar. What neither one realizes at the time is that they knew each other in childhood in the Underworld, but both nonetheless become fast friends. Eugeo explains to Kirito that what he truly wants is to find his childhood friend, Alice, who had been taken away by the Integrity Knights several years ago when she accidentally violated an edict from the Taboo Index. He could not do so without first completing his Calling, however. Kirito manages to learn more about the mechanics of the Underworld and helps Eugeo train in the way of the sword, allowing him to use a sacred weapon from antiquity, the Blue Rose Sword, to finally fell the Gigas Cedar, allowing him to pursue a new Calling. Kirito also uses some wood from the Gigas Cedar to fashion a new sword for himself.\\
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Kirito awakens to find himself in the Underworld and is greeted by Eugeo, a young man whos whose "Calling" -- his divinity-ordained purpose in life -- was to cut down the seemingly insurmountable Gigas Cedar. What neither one realizes at the time is that they knew each other in childhood in the Underworld, but both nonetheless become fast friends. Eugeo explains to Kirito that what he truly wants is to find his childhood friend, Alice, who had been taken away by the Integrity Knights several years ago when she accidentally violated an edict from the Taboo Index. He could not do so without first completing his Calling, however. Kirito manages to learn more about the mechanics of the Underworld and helps Eugeo train in the way of the sword, allowing him to use a sacred weapon from antiquity, the Blue Rose Sword, to finally fell the Gigas Cedar, allowing him to pursue a new Calling. Kirito also uses some wood from the Gigas Cedar to fashion a new sword for himself.\\
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%%Realizing that Kirito is not just any swordsman, but someone who came to the Underworld from the real world, she pulls out all the stops by summoning a Sword Golem, an artificial monster of her own making, which was created through the forced conversion of several innocent people. Cardinal enters the fray, forcing Administrator to cut the cathedral off from the outside world to contain her. Administrator then mortally wounds Cardinal, but with the last of her strength, she uses her power to draw a crystal containing Alice's memories before becoming an Integrity Knight to Eugeo and transforms them into a sentient sword. In this form, Eugeo destroys the Sword Golem and wounds Administrator, but is, himself, mortally wounded.\\
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Meanwhile, in the real world, a team of mercenaries hired by the US government have begun a raid of the Ocean Turtle in order to claim the fluctlight of Alice, the most advanced artificial fluctlight in the Underworld. The mercenaries are led by two VRMMO veterans: Gabriel Miller, a serial murderer who is famed as the winner of the first Bullet of Bullets tournament in ''GGO'' under the name "Subtilizer"; and Vassago Casals, an ''SAO'' survivor and founder of the player-killing guild "Laughing Coffin" under the name "[=PoH=]". With Miller and Casals taking control of the main control room of the Ocean Turtle, Kikuoka, Kojiro, Asuna, and their allies retreat to the sub-control room, racing against time to save Alice from falling into Miller's clutches. With the Final Load Test set to begin shortly, Miller and Casals decide to log into the Underworld using superaccounts of Dark Territory characters: Emperor Vecta for Miller, and a dark knight for Casals. With the armies of the Dark Territory under his command, Vecta orders his soldiers to seek out the "Priestess of Light" and bring her to him alive so that he could claim her soul, and kill everyone else they cross.\\
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The Final Load Test begins, and the gate seperating the Human Empire and Dark Territory falls. The fighting between the two armies is fierce and brutal, with many losing their lives, including many Integrity Knights and members of the Dark Territory's Council of Ten. As Vassago begins a raid on the supply corps where Kirito is being kept, however, an unexpected figure appears: Asuna! Logged in with a superaccount of the creation goddess Stacia, which grants her the ability to manipulate the terrain at will, she kills Vasago's dark knight character and finally reunites with the catatonic Kirito, then vows to lends her aid to the Human Empire.\\
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The war intensifies when Vecta finds and abducts Alice, and Miller's allies in the real world convince tens of thousands of American players to log into the Underworld under the pretense of being beta testers for a new game, swelling the Dark Territory's ranks. Just as the Human EMpire army is in danger of being overwhelmed, Sinon joins the battle using a superuser account for the sun goddess Solus. With her superaccount's ability to fly, she gives chase after Vecta whie Leafa also enters the Underworld to help with a superaccount for the earth goddess Terraria, whose special ability allows her to recover quickly from any injuries.\\
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As Bercouli, the first Integrity Knight and father figure to Alice, fights and kills Vecta at the cost of his own life, Cassals logs back in by converting his "[=PoH=]" account from SAO to rally the invading real-world players, now joined by players from China and South Korea. The Human Empire, however, receives reinforcements from Kirito's friends, as well as several hundred players from ''ALO'' and ''GGO'' that they convinced to help them. At the same time, Miller converts his "Subtilizer" character from ''GGO'' to continue his hunt for Alice, confronting Sinon as she buys Alice time to reach the World's End Altar.\\
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As Kirito's allies in the real world race to restore his fluctlight using his bonds with Asuna, Leafa, and Sinon, [=PoH=] terrorizes the Human Empire army, exerting his murderous will over the invading players and compelling them to continue killing the Human Empire army as well as each other, driven by his single-minded hatred for the Japanese.\\
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At the same time, Kirito, still catatonic, finds himself haunted by memories of those who died since his time trapped in ''SAO'', either by his own hand or indirectly as a result of his actions: the deaths of Sachi and the Moonlit Black Cats, the raid on Laughing Coffin, his killing Kuradeel to protect himself and Asuna, his victories over Heathcliff, Sugou, and Death Gun, and everyone who died since his coming to the Underworld. Wracked with guilt and wishing he had died instead, his memories of Asuna, Suguha, and Shino come to comfort him and assure him of his goodness. A memory fragment of Eugeo, whom Kirito considered his best friend and whose death had sent him to the brink of despair, also encourages him to continue fighting. With the kind words of those closest to his heart giving him strength, Kirito finally regains consciousness!\\
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Kirito begins to fight back against [=PoH=], and after a long and brutal dual, Kirito emerges victorious. [=PoH=] promises to keep coming back until he kills Kirito and Asuna, but he would never get the chance: Kirito uses the power of his Night-Sky Sword to transform [=PoH=]'s body into a Gigas Cedar, trapping his mind inside of the Underworld. With time in the Underworld moving at a faster rate than in the real world, Vassago Casals would be completely cut off from both the virtual and real worlds, driving him insane until his eventual death.\\
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With time running out until the JSDF intervenes, the mercenaries sabotage the fluctlight acceleration process of the Underworld, cranking it past its safety limits: within the next fifteen minutes, time in the Underworld would accelerate so fast that over two hundred would pass in a matter of minutes, far more time than Kirito and Asuna could possibly endure safely! Kikuoka warns Kirito to get himself and Asuna out of the Underworld before then.\\
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As Asuna helps Alice reach the World's End Altar, Kirito confronts Miller. While Miller proves to be his toughest opponent yet, Kirito unlocks the full power of his Night-Sky Blade, fueled by the thoughts and hopes of his friends from all across the Underworld, and strikes Miller down, destroying his avatar and killing him. Alice is logged out of the Underworld and sent to the sub-control room just before time begins to accellerate, but Kirito is unable to escape before then. As he despairs over leaving his friends behind, however, Asuna appears before him, having chosen to stay behind with him.\\
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Having failed their mission and lost their leaders, the mercenaries are forced into retreat, but not before rigging the Ocean Turtle's reactor with a plastic explosive. With the reactor room too hot for anyone to enter safely, it seems as if the Ocean Turtle, and everyone still inside, are doomed. However, Akihiko Kayaba's virtual ghost emerges once more, taking control of a prototype robot body and removing the detonator from the bomb, saving everyone on the Ocean Turtle.\\
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Some time after, Dr. Kojiro reveals Alice to the world, her fluctlight placed inside an android body made in her virtual body's likeness. Alice's appearance raises many questions about the nature of artificial intelligence and robotic humanoids, and the possible ramifications of her existence. At the same time, Kirito and Asuna are successfully recovered from the Underworld after having their minds trapped inside for 200 years. Kirito asks that his and Asuna's memories of those 200 years be removed, but one of Kikuoka and Kojiro's colleagues saves a copy of his fluctlight from his two centuries of life within the Underworld. The artificial fluctlight copy of Kirito expresses a desire to protect the Underworld, to which end he would seek out Kayaba's virtual ghost.\\
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Alice meets with Kirito afterwards and expresses her frustration at him having chosen to stay behind in Underworld while she was brought into the real world, unsure of whether she could ever return to her homeworld. Kirito comforts Alice afterwards and, after receiving a strange email, returns to Rath with Alice and Asuna to investigate the Underworld. When they log in, the find themselves in outer space over the planet of Cardina, hundreds of years into the Human Empire's future. In this era, the Human Empire's civilization advanced to the point of space travel, as two soldiers in starfighters square off against a space monster. Kirito and his friends join the battle and destroy the monster, with the Integrity Pilots -- descendants of Kirito and Alice's friends -- beside themselves with joy as they get to see the heroes of their world's legends, the Star King, Star Queen, and Integrity Knight, firsthand.
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One fateful evening, however, Kirito has a fateful real-world encounter with "Johnny Black", the third and final conspirator behind Death Gun, who ambushes him with a poison-filled syringe. While Kirito is saved from dying, he is left in a comatose state. He is subsequently abducted by Rath -- led by Seijuro Kikuoka, a man whom Kirito had past dealing with, none of them pleasant -- to undergo treatment in the STL in the hopes of restoring him to full consciousness in the real world. Asuna manages to track down Rath's base of operations on a floating fortress in the sea known as the Ocean Turtle, aided by Rinko Kojiro, the lover and assistant of Akihiko Kayaba. There, she learns the true purpose of the STL: to create true artificial intellegence from the bottom up using artificial Fluctlights, with the purpose of creating unmanned military weapons for the Japanese government. As part of their endeavor to facilitate the creation of these advanced [=AIs=], time within the Underworld was accelerated: a day in realtime was equivalent to years in the Underworld.\\
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Kirito awakens to find himself in the Underworld and is greeted by Eugeo, a young man whos "Calling" -- his divinity-ordained purpose in life -- was to cut down the seemingly insurmountable Gigas Cedar. What neither one realizes at the time is that they knew each other in childhood in the Underworld, but both nonetheless become fast friends. Eugeo explains to Kirito that what he truly wants is to find his childhood friend, Alice, who had been taken away by the Integrity Knights several years ago when she accidentally violated an edict from the Taboo Index. He could not do so without first completing his Calling, however. Kirito manages to learn more about the mechanics of the Underworld and helps Eugeo train in the way of the sword, allowing him to use a sacred weapon from antiquity, the Blue Rose Sword, to finally fell the Gigas Cedar, allowing him to pursue a new Calling. Kirito also uses some wood from the Gigas Cedar to fashion a new sword for himself.\\
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Together, Kirito and Eugeo enroll at a knights' academy in the capital city of Centoria with the shared goal of becoming Integrity Knights, so that they may find Alice. Their goals are forced to be put aside, however, when two nobles in the academy, hated rivals of Kirito and Eugeo, attempt to rape their pages. The Taboo Index had no rules about the nobles' foul deeds, but to raise a sword against them would be a crime. Eugeo's initial attempts to fight the nobles causes a strange red sigil to fill his right eye as the systems of the Underworld try to force his compliance, but he overcomes them, destroying his right eye as he and Kirito fight off the nobles, killing one of them in the process.\\
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\\The following morning, after an instructor restores Eugeo's eye, both he and Kirito are taken into custody by an Integrity Knight: none other than Alice, herself! Strangely, however, she has no memories of Eugeo and treats him and Kirito harshly as she transports them to a prison beneath the Central Cathedral. The two make their escape and are aided by a mysterious ally named "Cardinal" -- a virtual avatar for the error-checking systems of the Cardinal System that ran the Underworld. Cardinal explains that the source of the Integrity Knights is the self-proclaimed goddess of the Underworld, "Administrator". Once a mortal woman named Quinella, she was raised to a position of power through her training in the sacred arts -- reality-warping commands within the Underworld -- and used forbidden arts to stop her own aging, regain her youth, and take over as pontifax of the Axiom Church, essentially becoming ruler of the Human Empire. To ensure no one could potentially usurp her, she abolished the Human Empire's military, save for the Integrity Knights. Unfortunately, this would leave the Human Empire at a grave disadvantage when the Final Load Test began and the gate seperating the Human Empire from the Dark Territory fell. If the Human Empire fell during the ensuing battle, the people in the real world running the Underworld would reset it. In addition, Administrator tried to take over Cardinal's Fluctlight, but in so doing made her equal in power to herself, and has been trying to destroy her since.\\
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To ensure the Integrity Knights' loyalty, Administrator implanted a "piety module" in their heads which blocked past memories and allowed her to alter their minds. In order to restore their minds, they would have to remove the module: this was the only way to restore Alice's memories. She also enlists Kirito and Eugeo's aid in fighting back against Administrator.\\
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Upon returning to the Cathedral, Kirito and Eugeo fight their way past the Integrity Knights, now armed with knowledge on how to unlock the full power of their weapons. They eventually find Alice, and Kirito squares off with her, only for the two to end up blown outside the tower and forced to climb back up from the outer walls. During the climb, Kirito and Alice set aside their differences when they find Dark Territory monsters perched on the Cathedral's outer walls, leading to Alice questioning Administrator. When Kirito explains to her everything that has happened to him in the Underworld up to this point, Alice finds truth in his words and vows to rebel against Administrator, in so doing activating her Seal of the Right Eye, but through force of will, she overcomes the seal, losing her eye in the process.\\
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Kirito and Alice continue to fight their way to the top of the Cathedral, only to encounter Eugeo, whom Administrator brainwashed into becoming an new Integrity Knight. Eugeo is forced to fight Kirito, but with the process by which he was brainwashed being rushed and incomplete, he manages to retain enough control to merely hinder Kirito and Alice temporarily. When he returns to Administrator and has his Piety Module removed to restart the brainwashing process, he rebels against her as Kirito and Alice join him. Administator then sics her prime minister, Chudlekin, upon the three, only for him to be easily defeated.\\
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With the last of his strength, Eugeo uses his blood to reforge his shattered sword for Kirito to use. With two swords in his hands, Kirito is able to overwhelm Administrator, driving her to attempt retreat to the real world, only to be killed by Chudlekin when he latches onto her and incinerates them both. With Administrator defeated at last, Kirito uses a console in the room to make contact with the outside world, only to discover that the Ocean Turtle is under attack by mercenaries. Kikuoka instructs Kitiro to take Alice to World's End Alter in the Dark Territory, but before he is able to act, the mercenaries cut the main power in the Ocean Turtle, causing a power surge that strikes Kirito's fluctlight...
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%% A little over half of a year since closing the book on the "Death Gun" murder cases in ''Gun Gale Online'', Kazuto Kirigaya, also known as Kirito, has undertaken a strange new endeavor: working with a mysterious company known as Rath, he has embarked on a new frontier in virtual reality. At the heart of this endeavor is an experimental new fulldive machine called the "Soul Translator", or "STL" for short, which could provide an unparalleled level of realism that current VR tech could not match by sending information directly into the user's "Fluctlights" -- in essence, their very soul. Kirito is under a confidentiality agreement and cannot reveal much to his friends about the full scope of his work, especially since his memories of his time in the STL are erased. All he can share is the name of the VR program the STL uses: ''The Underworld''.\\
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%%Kirito awakens to find himself in the Underworld and is greeted by Eugeo, a young man whos "Calling" -- his divinity-ordained purpose in life -- was to cut down the seemingly insurmountable Gigas Cypress. What neither one realizes at the time is that they knew each other in childhood in the Underworld, but both nonetheless become fast friends. Eugeo explains to Kirito that what he truly wants is to find his childhood friend, Alice, who had been taken away by the Integrity Knights several years ago when she accidentally violated an edict from the Taboo Index. He could not do so without first completing his Calling, however. Kirito manages to learn more about the mechanics of the Underworld and helps Eugeo train in the way of the sword, allowing him to use a sacred weapon from antiquity, the Blue Rose Sword, to finally fell the Gigas Cypress, allowing him to pursue a new Calling.\\
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%%Together, Kirito and Eugeo enroll at a knights' academy in the capital city of Centoria with the shared goal of becoming Integrity Knights, so that they may find Alice. Their goals are forced to be put aside, however, when two nobles in the academy, hated rivals of Kirito and Eugeo, attempt to rape their pages. The Taboo Index had no rules about the nobles' foul deeds, but to raise a sword against them would be a crime. Eugeo's initial attempts to fight the nobles causes a strange red sigil to fill his right eye as the systems of the Underworld try to force his compliance, but he overcomes them, destroying his right eye as he and Kirito fight off the nobles, killing one of them in the process.\\
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%%Kirito awakens to find himself in the Underworld and is greeted by Eugeo, a young man whos "Calling" -- his divinity-ordained purpose in life -- was to cut down the seemingly insurmountable Gigas Cypress. What neither one realizes at the time is that they knew each other in childhood in the Underworld, but both nonetheless become fast friends. Eugeo explains to Kirito that what he truly wants is to find his childhood friend, Alice, who had been taken away by the Integrity Knights several years ago when she accidentally violated an edict from the Taboo Index. He could not do so without first completing his Calling, however. Kirito manages to learn more about the mechanics of the Underworld and helps Eugeo train in the way of the sword, allowing him to use a sacred weapon from antiquity, the Blue Rose Sword, to finally fell the Gigas Cypress, allowing him to pursue a new Calling.\\
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%%Together, Kirito and Eugeo enroll at a knights' academy in the capital city of Centoria with the shared goal of becoming Integrity Knights, so that they may find Alice. Their goals are forced to be put aside, however, when two nobles in the academy, hated rivals of Kirito and Eugeo, attempt to rape their pages. The Taboo Index had no rules about the nobles' foul deeds, but to raise a sword against them would be a crime. Eugeo's initial attempts to fight the nobles causes a strange red sigil to fill his right eye as the systems of the Underworld try to force his compliance, but he overcomes them, destroying his right eye as he and Kirito fight off the nobles, killing one of them in the process.\\
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%% One fateful evening, however, Kirito has a fateful real-world encounter with "Johnny Black", the third and final conspirator behind Death Gun, who ambushes him with a poison-filled syringe. While Kirito is saved from dying, he is left in a comatose state. He is subsequently abducted by Rath -- led by Seijuro Kikuoka, a man whom Kirito had past dealing with, none of them pleasant -- to undergo treatment in the STL in the hopes of restoring him to full consciousness in the real world. Asuna manages to track down Rath's base of operations on a floating fortress in the sea known as the Ocean Turtle, aided by Rinko Kojiro, the lover and assistant of Akihiko Kayaba. There, she learns the true purpose of the STL: to create true artificial intellegence from the bottom up using artificial Fluctlights, with the purpose of creating unmanned military weapons for the Japanese government. As part of their endeavor to facilitate the creation of these advanced [=AIs=], time within the Underworld was accelerated: a day in realtime was equivalent to years in the Underworld.\\
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%%Together, Kirito and Eugeo enroll at a knights' academy in the capital city of Centoria with the shared goal of becoming Integrity Knights, so that they may find Alice. Their goals are forced to be put aside, however, when two nobles in the academy, hated rivals of Kirito and Eugeo, attempt to rape their pages. The Taboo Index had no rules about the nobles' foul deeds, but to raise a sword against them would be a crime. Eugeo's initial attempts to fight the nobles causes a strange red sigil to fill his right eye as the systems of the Underworld try to force his compliance, but he overcomes them, destroying his right eye as he and Kirito fight off the nobles, killing one of them in the process.\\
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%% One fateful evening, however, Kirito has a fateful real-world encounter with "Johnny Black", the third and final conspirator behind Death Gun, who ambushes him with a poison-filled syringe. While Kirito is saved from dying, he is left in a comatose state. He is subsequently abducted by Rath -- led by Seijuro Kikuoka, a man whom Kirito had past dealing with, none of them pleasant -- to undergo treatment in the STL in the hopes of restoring him to full consciousness in the real world. Asuna manages to track down Rath's base of operations on a floating fortress in the sea known as the Ocean Turtle, aided by Rinko Kojiro, the lover and assistant of Akihiko Kayaba. There, she learns the true purpose of the STL: to create true artificial intellegence from the bottom up using artificial Fluctlights, with the purpose of creating unmanned military weapons for the Japanese government. As part of their endeavor to facilitate the creation of these advanced [=AIs=], time within the Underworld was accelerated: a day in realtime was equivalent to years in the Underworld.\\
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%%Kirito awakens to find himself in the Underworld and is greeted by Eugeo, a young man whos "Calling" -- his divinity-ordained purpose in life -- was to cut down the seemingly insurmountable Gigas Cypress. What neither one realizes at the time is that they knew each other in childhood in the Underworld, but both nonetheless become fast friends. Eugeo explains to Kirito that what he truly wants is to find his childhood friend, Alice, who had been taken away by the Integrity Knights several years ago when she accidentally violated an edict from the Taboo Index. He could not do so without first completing his Calling, however. Kirito manages to learn more about the mechanics of the Underworld and helps Eugeo train in the way of the sword, allowing him to use a sacred weapon from antiquity, the Blue Rose Sword, to finally fell the Gigas Cypress, allowing him to pursue a new Calling.\\
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%%Together, Kirito and Eugeo enroll at a knights' academy in the capital city of Centoria with the shared goal of becoming Integrity Knights, so that they may find Alice. Their goals are forced to be put aside, however, when two nobles in the academy, hated rivals of Kirito and Eugeo, attempt to rape their pages. The Taboo Index had no rules about the nobles' foul deeds, but to raise a sword against them would be a crime. Eugeo's initial attempts to fight the nobles causes a strange red sigil to fill his right eye as the systems of the Underworld try to force his compliance, but he overcomes them, destroying his right eye as he and Kirito fight off the nobles, killing one of them in the process.\\
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A little over half of a year since closing the book on the "Death Gun" murder cases in ''Gun Gale Online'', Kazuto Kirigaya, also known as Kirito, has undertaken a strange new endeavor: working with a mysterious company known as Rath, he has embarked on a new frontier in virtual reality. At the heart of this endeavor is an experimental new fulldive machine called the "Soul Translator", or "STL" for short, which could provide an unparalleled level of realism that current VR tech could not match by sending information directly into the user's "Fluctlights" -- in essence, their very soul. Kirito is under a confidentiality agreement and cannot reveal much to his friends about the full scope of his work, especially since his memories of his time in the STL are erased. All he can share is the name of the VR program the STL uses: ''The Underworld''.\\
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%%Kirito awakens to find himself in the Underworld and is greeted by Eugeo, a young man whos "Calling" -- his divinity-ordained purpose in life -- was to cut down the seemingly insurmountable Gigas Cypress. What neither one realizes at the time is that they knew each other in childhood in the Underworld, but both nonetheless become fast friends. Eugeo explains to Kirito that what he truly wants is to find his childhood friend, Alice, who had been taken away by the Integrity Knights several years ago when she accidentally violated an edict from the Taboo Index. He could not do so without first completing his Calling, however. Kirito manages to learn more about the mechanics of the Underworld and helps Eugeo train in the way of the sword, allowing him to use a sacred weapon from antiquity, the Blue Rose Sword, to finally fell the Gigas Cypress, allowing him to pursue a new Calling.\\
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%%Together, Kirito and Eugeo enroll at a knights' academy in the capital city of Centoria with the shared goal of becoming Integrity Knights, so that they may find Alice. Their goals are forced to be put aside, however, when two nobles in the academy, hated rivals of Kirito and Eugeo, attempt to rape their pages. The Taboo Index had no rules about the nobles' foul deeds, but to raise a sword against them would be a crime. Eugeo's initial attempts to fight the nobles causes a strange red sigil to fill his right eye as the systems of the Underworld try to force his compliance, but he overcomes them, destroying his right eye as he and Kirito fight off the nobles, killing one of them in the process.\\
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%% One fateful evening, however, Kirito has a fateful real-world encounter with "Johnny Black", the third and final conspirator behind Death Gun, who ambushes him with a poison-filled syringe. While Kirito is saved from dying, he is left in a comatose state. He is subsequently abducted by Rath -- led by Seijuro Kikuoka, a man whom Kirito had past dealing with, none of them pleasant -- to undergo treatment in the STL in the hopes of restoring him to full consciousness in the real world. Asuna manages to track down Rath's base of operations on a floating fortress in the sea known as the Ocean Turtle, aided by Rinko Kojiro, the lover and assistant of Akihiko Kayaba. There, she learns the true purpose of the STL: to create true artificial intellegence from the bottom up using artificial Fluctlights, with the purpose of creating unmanned military weapons for the Japanese government. As part of their endeavor to facilitate the creation of these advanced [=AIs=], time within the Underworld was accelerated: a day in realtime was equivalent to years in the Underworld.\\
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%%Kirito awakens to find himself in the Underworld and is greeted by Eugeo, a young man whos "Calling" -- his divinity-ordained purpose in life -- was to cut down the seemingly insurmountable Gigas Cypress. What neither one realizes at the time is that they knew each other in childhood in the Underworld, but both nonetheless become fast friends. Eugeo explains to Kirito that what he truly wants is to find his childhood friend, Alice, who had been taken away by the Integrity Knights several years ago when she accidentally violated an edict from the Taboo Index. He could not do so without first completing his Calling, however. Kirito manages to learn more about the mechanics of the Underworld and helps Eugeo train in the way of the sword, allowing him to use a sacred weapon from antiquity, the Blue Rose Sword, to finally fell the Gigas Cypress, allowing him to pursue a new Calling.\\
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%%Together, Kirito and Eugeo enroll at a knights' academy in the capital city of Centoria with the shared goal of becoming Integrity Knights, so that they may find Alice. Their goals are forced to be put aside, however, when two nobles in the academy, hated rivals of Kirito and Eugeo, attempt to rape their pages. The Taboo Index had no rules about the nobles' foul deeds, but to raise a sword against them would be a crime. Eugeo's initial attempts to fight the nobles causes a strange red sigil to fill his right eye as the systems of the Underworld try to force his compliance, but he overcomes them, destroying his right eye as he and Kirito fight off the nobles, killing one of them in the process.\\
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* AdaptationDistillation: In the anime, Vassago's threat to Kirito about killing him and Asuna in real-life and his subsequent FateWorseThanDeath moment of being turned into a tree take place during their final battle, as opposed to after it.
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* ApocalypseHow: Vassago threatens a variant of Class 4 to Asuna, threatening to kill her and everyone else in the Underworld, human and monster alike, to get Kirito to awaken from his coma.
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* AdaptationDistillation: Vassago's threat to Kirito about killing him and Asuna in real-life and his subsequent FateWorseThanDeath moment of being turned into a tree take place during their final battle, as opposed to after it.
* ApocalypseHow: Vassago threatens a variant of Class 4 to Asuna, threatening to kill her and everyone else in the Underworld,human human, demon and monster alike, including his own forces, [[ForTheEvulz to get Kirito to awaken from his coma.coma]].
* ApocalypseHow: Vassago threatens a variant of Class 4 to Asuna, threatening to kill her and everyone else in the Underworld,
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* ArtShift: The animation style featured is the same one used in ''Ordinal Scale'' which is a great deal more detailed than the traditional animation used in previous seasons. The composite team, now that of Kentaro Waki and Creator/AsahiProduction (who also did ''Ordinal Scale'') is also different, encorporating a lot more FalseCameraEffects and lighting into the series. This carries over to the following arc.
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* ArtShift: The animation style featured is the same one used in ''Ordinal Scale'' which is a great deal more detailed than the traditional animation used in previous seasons. The composite team, now that of Kentaro Waki and Creator/AsahiProduction (who (both also did returning from ''Ordinal Scale'') is also different, encorporating incorporating a lot more FalseCameraEffects and lighting into the series. This carries over to the following arc.
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* BigBad: Gabriel and Vassago form a BigBadDuumvirate, with Gabriel as the overall BigBad and Vassago as TheDragon.
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* BigBad: Gabriel and Vassago form a BigBadDuumvirate, with Gabriel as the overall BigBad and Vassago as TheDragon.TheDragon bordering on TheStarscream near the end.
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* KillEmAll: The anime has Vassago's JustBetweenYouAndMe threat to Kirito about killing both him and Asuna real-life during their final battle taking place in front of their allies. With the [[{{Implied}} Implication]] implication]] that he'll target them at some point as well. His plan to get Kirito to waken from his coma also involved [[OmnicidalManiac killing Asuna, their allies and every other player and Underworld native, human human, demon and creature alike.]]
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* Bloodier and Gorier: And how! Despite the previous arcs feeling relatively bloodless, Alicization has levels of violence that wouldn't seem out of place in a seinen manga. Limbs are hacked off with blood spewing, attempted rape is shown at a level never before seen in SAO, characters endure painful torture, and to top it all off, one character gets a spear impaled through her eye with graphic results. This is all worse considering the characters all feel these effects in the real world.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: Vassago's final fate is, [[spoiler:being turned into a tree by Kirito.]]
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** [[spoiler:Eugeo appears in Kirito's mind to give him the final push to bring him out of his coma.]]
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** [[spoiler:Eugeo appears in Kirito's mind to give him the final push to bring him out of his coma.coma, before his spirit also helps him fight against [=PoH=].]]
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** With the help of Lisbeth and the rest of the SAO gang, many ALO players are convinced to convert their accounts to assist, including General Eugene, Sakuya, Alicia Rue, the Sleeping Knights, and even Eiji and Yuna. Later on, it's revealed GGO players like Dyne and Yamikaze have been called in too, wielding crossbows in the Underworld. [[spoiler:Yuuki's spirit also [[NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay appears to give Asuna the strength to stand up against [=PoH=].]]
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** With the help of Lisbeth and the rest of the SAO gang, many ALO players are convinced to convert their accounts to assist, including General Eugene, Sakuya, Alicia Rue, the Sleeping Knights, and even Eiji and Yuna. Later on, it's revealed GGO players like Dyne and Yamikaze have been called in too, wielding crossbows in the Underworld. [[spoiler:Yuuki's spirit also [[NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay appears to give Asuna the strength to stand up against [=PoH=].[=PoH=] and giving her a power-up to overpower his Mate-Chopper.]]
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** With the help of Lisbeth and the rest of the SAO gang, many ALO players are convinced to convert their accounts to assist, including General Eugene, Sakuya, Alicia Rue, the Sleeping Knights, and even Eiji and Yuna. Later on, it’s revealed GGO players like Dyne and Yamikaze have been called in too, wielding crossbows in the Underworld.
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** With the help of Lisbeth and the rest of the SAO gang, many ALO players are convinced to convert their accounts to assist, including General Eugene, Sakuya, Alicia Rue, the Sleeping Knights, and even Eiji and Yuna. Later on, it’s it's revealed GGO players like Dyne and Yamikaze have been called in too, wielding crossbows in the Underworld.Underworld. [[spoiler:Yuuki's spirit also [[NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay appears to give Asuna the strength to stand up against [=PoH=].]]
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** Vassago loves spouting odd English phrases midspeech, especially “Bro”."Bro".
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** Much like ''Ordinal Scale'' [[spoiler:Yuuki's spirit appears to give courage and strength to Asuna to fight against [=PoH=].]]
** [[spoiler:Eugeo appears in Kirito's mind to give him the final push to bring him out of his coma.]]
** Much like ''Ordinal Scale'' [[spoiler:Yuuki's spirit appears to give courage and strength to Asuna to fight against [=PoH=].]]
** [[spoiler:Eugeo appears in Kirito's mind to give him the final push to bring him out of his coma.]]
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* KillEmAll: The anime has Vassago's JustBetweenYouAndMe threat to Kirito about killing both him and Asuna real-life during their final battle taking place in front of their allies. [[{{Implied}} Implying]] that he'll target them at some point as well.
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* KillEmAll: The anime has Vassago's JustBetweenYouAndMe threat to Kirito about killing both him and Asuna real-life during their final battle taking place in front of their allies. With the [[{{Implied}} Implying]] Implication]] that he'll target them at some point as well.well. His plan to get Kirito to waken from his coma also involved [[OmnicidalManiac killing Asuna, their allies and every other player and Underworld native, human and creature alike.]]
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* ArtShift: The animation style featured is the same one used in ''Ordinal Scale'' which is a great deal more detailed than the traditional animation used in previous seasons.
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* KarmaHoudini: Johnny Black is notably the only villain in either part of the arc to get away with his actions outright, disappearing altogether after he poisons Kirito.
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* ApocalypseHow: Vassago threatens a variant of Class 4 to Asuna, threatening to kill her and everyone else in the Underworld, human and monster alike, to get Kirito to awaken from his coma.
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* ContinuityCavalcade: Much like Ordinal Scale, the war features a culmination of all previous virtual worlds. ALO players are called in as TheCavalry to assist in fighting the Human Empire against the Foreign Players. Vassago uses his [=PoH=] account from SAO to reenter the Underworld. GGO players are called in to help too, with Gabriel using his Subtilizer account after his Vecta account gets destroyed. Sinon and Gabriel both Incarnate in their GGO weapons to have a SniperDuel. Finally Kirito [[HesBack makes his big return]] with his SAO avatar.
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* TheGlassesComeOff: Alice does this with her EyepatchOfPower in Episode 2, ripping it off when she goes to take on the Goblins attacking Rulid village.
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* TheGlassesComeOff: Alice does this with her EyepatchOfPower in Episode 2, ripping it off when just as she goes Incarnates her eye back, then proceeds to take on the Goblins attacking Rulid village.
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* GondorCallsForAid: Kirito's friends manage to convince all of the ALO players to convert over the Underworld and they arrive to take on the Foreign Players and assist the Human Empire.
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** Kirito's friends manage to convince all of the ALO players to convert over the Underworld and they arrive to take on the Foreign Players and assist the HumanEmpire.Empire. Among their ranks include Sakuya, Alicia Rue, General Eugene, the Sleeping Knights, and even Eiji.
** Much like ''Ordinal Scale'', GGO players like Dyne and Yamikaze have also been called in as reinforcements, now wielding crossbows in the Underworld.
** Kirito's friends manage to convince all of the ALO players to convert over the Underworld and they arrive to take on the Foreign Players and assist the Human
** Much like ''Ordinal Scale'', GGO players like Dyne and Yamikaze have also been called in as reinforcements, now wielding crossbows in the Underworld.
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* BigBad: Gabriel and Vassago form a BigBadDuumvirate, with Gabriel as the overall BigBad and Vassago as TheDragon.
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** The foreign players speak entirely in English, but are all voiced by Japanese voice actors so come across speaking very broken {{engrish}} woth very obvious accents.
** Vassago loves spouting odd English phrases midspeech, especially “Bro”.
** The foreign players speak entirely in English, but are all voiced by Japanese voice actors so come across speaking very broken {{engrish}} woth very obvious accents.
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* "The Night-Sky Blade"
* "Beyond Time"
* "Alice"
* "New World"
* "End to Eternity"
* "Instigation"
* "Code 871"
* "Prince of Hell"
* "Memories"
* "Awakening"
* "The Night-Sky Blade"
* "Beyond Time"
* "Alice"
* "New World"
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* BondVillainStupidity:
** Quinella went to a lot of trouble in her self-preservation, creating BrainwashedAndCrazy Integrity Knights who are completely loyal to her, having [[LaserGuidedAmnesia erased the memories]] of their past lives. However, her one fatal mistake was to let the Integrity Knights keep the names from their previous lives, which allowed someone who knew their past to be able to remind them and trigger memories. This is what happened with Eldrie, as Eugeo was able to stimulate his memories.
** Quinella presumes that Eugeo has become completely loyal to her even before Synthesis, so she removes his memory module to redo it. Unaware that Eugeo was ready to break free the second she gave him the chance.
** Quinella went to a lot of trouble in her self-preservation, creating BrainwashedAndCrazy Integrity Knights who are completely loyal to her, having [[LaserGuidedAmnesia erased the memories]] of their past lives. However, her one fatal mistake was to let the Integrity Knights keep the names from their previous lives, which allowed someone who knew their past to be able to remind them and trigger memories. This is what happened with Eldrie, as Eugeo was able to stimulate his memories.
** Quinella presumes that Eugeo has become completely loyal to her even before Synthesis, so she removes his memory module to redo it. Unaware that Eugeo was ready to break free the second she gave him the chance.
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* IdiotBall:
** Quinella went to a lot of trouble in her self-preservation, creating BrainwashedAndCrazy Integrity Knights who are completely loyal to her, having [[LaserGuidedAmnesia erased the memories]] of their past lives. However, her one fatal mistake was to let the Integrity Knights keep the names from their previous lives, which allowed someone who knew their past to be able to remind them and trigger memories. This is what happened with Eldrie, as Eugeo was able to stimulate his memories.
** Quinella presumes that Eugeo has become completely loyal to her even before Synthesis, so she removes his memory module to redo it. Unaware that Eugeo was ready to break free the second she gave him the chance.
** Quinella went to a lot of trouble in her self-preservation, creating BrainwashedAndCrazy Integrity Knights who are completely loyal to her, having [[LaserGuidedAmnesia erased the memories]] of their past lives. However, her one fatal mistake was to let the Integrity Knights keep the names from their previous lives, which allowed someone who knew their past to be able to remind them and trigger memories. This is what happened with Eldrie, as Eugeo was able to stimulate his memories.
** Quinella presumes that Eugeo has become completely loyal to her even before Synthesis, so she removes his memory module to redo it. Unaware that Eugeo was ready to break free the second she gave him the chance.
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* TheCavalry:
** To start off with Asuna logs into the Underworld as Goddess of Creation Stacia and provides huge assistance to the Human Realm by putting up a chasm.
** After American foreign players enter into the Underworld, Sinon and Leafa are called to another Rath branch and login as Sun Goddess Solus and Earth Goddess Terraria.
** With the help of Lisbeth and the rest of the SAO gang, many ALO players are convinced to convert their accounts to assist, including General Eugene, Sakura, Alicia Rue, the Sleeping Knights, and even Eiji and Yuna.
** To start off with Asuna logs into the Underworld as Goddess of Creation Stacia and provides huge assistance to the Human Realm by putting up a chasm.
** After American foreign players enter into the Underworld, Sinon and Leafa are called to another Rath branch and login as Sun Goddess Solus and Earth Goddess Terraria.
** With the help of Lisbeth and the rest of the SAO gang, many ALO players are convinced to convert their accounts to assist, including General Eugene, Sakura, Alicia Rue, the Sleeping Knights, and even Eiji and Yuna.
* EnemyMine: Once the American foreign players arrive in the Underworld and start slaughtering both Human Realm and a Dark Territory alike, the two former factions team up to face this new common threat.
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* OneWomanArmy: In Episode 2, Alice single-handedly holds off all of the Goblin Army herself.
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* OneWomanArmy: OneWomanArmy:
** In Episode 2, Alice single-handedly holds off all of the Goblin Armyherself.herself.
** All three of the goddesses prove to this. Asuna as Stacia reforms the land and sends enemies falling into chasms, Solus bombards from the skies with her [[BottomlessMagazines infinite arrows]], while Terraria’s HealingFactor allows her to endlessly cut through opponents.
** Then there’s Gabriel as Dark God Vecta of course, who puts a CurbStompBattle against anyone he faces.
** In Episode 2, Alice single-handedly holds off all of the Goblin Army
** All three of the goddesses prove to this. Asuna as Stacia reforms the land and sends enemies falling into chasms, Solus bombards from the skies with her [[BottomlessMagazines infinite arrows]], while Terraria’s HealingFactor allows her to endlessly cut through opponents.
** Then there’s Gabriel as Dark God Vecta of course, who puts a CurbStompBattle against anyone he faces.
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* "Battle of the Knights"
* "Stigma of the Disqualified"
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* "Sword and Fist"
* "Stacia, Goddess of Creation"
* "Heartless Choice"
* "Ray of Light"
* "The Great Underworld War"
* "Stigma of the Disqualified"
* "Blood and Life"
* "Sword and Fist"
* "Stacia, Goddess of Creation"
* "Heartless Choice"
* "Ray of Light"
* "The Great Underworld War"
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: In a rare instance where not avoiding the plot was actually ''less'' favorable. Kirito and Eugeo discuss that if they had graduated the Swordcraft Academy and become Integrity Knights the proper way, then they may have ended up having their memories wiped just like Alice. By entering the Central Cathedral as criminals actually allowed their personalities to remain intact ''and'' allowed them to meet Cardinal who armed them with additional knowledge.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: In a rare instance where not avoiding the plot was actually ''less'' favorable. Kirito and Eugeo discuss that if they had graduated the Swordcraft Academy and become Integrity Knights the proper way, then they may have ended up having their memories wiped just like Alice. By entering the Central Cathedral as criminals actually allowed their personalities to remain intact ''and'' allowed them to meet Cardinal who armed them with additional knowledge.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Much more so when compared to the previous installments.
