The SAO Incident
The two years in which 10,000 players were trapped inside Sword Art Online.
The SAO incident is the name given to the trapping of 10,000 players inside the VRMMORPG Sword Art Online from 6 November 2022, when its creator Akihiko Kayaba locked the log-out function and made in-game death fatal.
Lore & Background
Players had to clear all 100 floors of Aincrad to be freed; around two years later Kirito defeated Kayaba and the game ended. Even then 300 players, including Asuna, did not wake up, which led Kazuto to ALfheim Online, where he found that Nobuyuki Sugou was holding them for his own experiments. Government official Seijirō Kikuoka interviewed Kazuto about the incident afterwards.
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