The afternoon sun crawled over Aincrad and lit everything with its pale golden beams. The grasslands outside the Town of Beginnings we swept with a gentle breeze. Here and there groups of players could be found fighting boars and trying desperately to level up in order to survive. Always sitting at the knife edge of death, they took matters seriously and fought with vigor and fear coursing through their veins.   Sitting just inside the safe zone of the Town of Beginnings, the day caugh