Sword Art Online Progressive 1 (Dengeki Bunko) [Light Novel]

[Machine Translation] ( This game is impossible to clear. No matter where or how you die, the only difference is whether you die early...or late...) It has been a month since the Death Game by Akihiko Kayaba began. The number of players sacrificed within this ultra-difficult VRMMO has reached two thousand. "The day of the first floor boss strategy meeting. Kirito, who had decided to only strengthen himself and fight as a "solo" player, met a female player on his way to the meeting place, which was rare in the frontline. Fighting against powerful monsters with a single rapier, she looks like a shooting star slicing through the night sky. The episode "Aria of a Starless Night," in which Kirito is called the "Black Swordsman," and "Rondo of the Fleeting Sword," which describes the sorrow of a young blacksmith during the battle to defeat the "second level floor boss," are also included in this volume.

「このゲームはクリア不可能なのよ。どこでどんなふうに死のうと、早いか…遅いかだけの、違い…」茅場晶彦によるデスゲームが開始されて一ヶ月。この超難度のVRMMO内で犠牲になったプレイヤーは二千人にも及んだ。"第一層フロアボス攻略会議"当日。自身の強化のみを行うと決め"ソロ"として戦うキリトは、会議場に向かう中途で、最前線では珍しい女性プレイヤーと出会う。強力なモンスター相手にレイピア一本で戦い続ける彼女は、あたかも夜空を切り裂く"流星"のようで――。キリトが"黒の剣士"と呼ばれる契機となったエピソード『星なき夜のアリア』、さらに"第二層フロアボス"攻略戦にまつわる、とある少年鍛冶職人の悲哀を描く『儚き剣のロンド』他全三編を収録。