Sword Art Online Unital Ring

Orchestrated by genius scientist Akihiko Kayaba, the SAO Incident trapped players in a game they had to beat in order to escape—one where death in the virtual world meant dying in real life…As a survivor of the Incident, Kirito now spends his time playing the new VRMMORPG ALfheim Online with his old friends, Asuna and Alice. But their fun is short-lived, as Kirito soon finds himself thrust into a mysterious new game called Unital Ring. Even worse, all their stats have been reset. In such a brutal environment, will they manage to survive?!

Kirito, Asuna, and their friends have been forcefully transported into a bizarre survival RPG—Unital Ring. And as their in-game grace period comes to an end, they find themselves stripped of all the gear they brought over from ALO, leaving them practically unarmed. Forced to use their wits to stay alive, they keep gathering materials to rebuild their cabin before it’s too late. But when they run into another group of players, they learn a shocking fact about Unital Ring…

After a long-awaited reunion with Argo the Rat in the real world, Kirito can’t help but wonder about the curious timing of her transfer to his school. Could her sudden appearance have anything to do with the Unital Ring incident? Later, when Kirito logs back into the game, he’s relieved to find the restored cabin just as he left it—but above all, he’s happy to see Yui. While her combat training has paid off, Kirito still has much to teach her. But Alice has some bad news for him, and upon a closer inspection of his skills, he finds something’s not quite right…