
The second part of the anime takes place in ALfheim Online (ALO), a spiritual successor to SAO developed by the company who took over the maintenance of SAO during the crisis, where it is discovered that Asuna is being held captive in the new virtual world, still unable to logout and hospitalized in the real world, and follows Kirito fighting alongside new allies in ALO to rescue her. As the players try to face their new deadly predicament, two skilled swordsmen, Kirito and Asuna, are determined to win and be free. The creator of the game, Akihiko Kayaba, makes an appearance shortly after and issues them an ultimatum: if they die in the game so would their bodies in the real world, and if they wish to be freed from the game, they must reach the 100th floor of the game's world and defeat the final boss. However, on its first day out of the beta testing period, the players soon discover that they cannot log out. In the game, players control their avatars just as they would with their real bodies using the Nerve Gear, a VR Helmet that stimulates the user's five senses via their brain. If this information is not provided, the newsletters will not be made available.Set initially in the year 2022, a Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (VRMMORPG) called Sword Art Online (SAO) has just been released. Required information is indicated by an asterisk. In the event of a dispute, you can refer the matter to the French National Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés). You may exercise these rights at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the newsletters or by e-mail. You have the right to request, access, rectify, delete, oppose for legitimate reasons, and transfer all of your data, as well as the right to formulate specific and general instructions concerning the storage, deletion and communication of all post-mortem data.

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