What if the creator of Sword Arts Online had controlled Kirito and his friends, turning them into evil, and brought the game into the real world, turning it into a giant game world? Well, this is the situation where our ordinary protagonist Roxas Nietes, or Spark78Reformed, as his player username, had found himself.
  Being a foreign high school student living in Japan with his friends in a shared house owned by his school would make his life there difficult, but his intelligence on basically anything instead made him prepared and an actionist. He was an ambivert who loved music, art, writing, picture taking, philosophizing, and best of all, making scenarios of all kinds in his mind.
  So, the day before SAO was brought into the real world, Roxas had unknowingly received a mysterious-looking email from a player named Anko Tachibana, who was a deceased player. That email is a request for help because he, who knew Kirito and his friends before, wants someone to help them, who are now known as the Elite Players, snap from their state of being brainwashed by the game. Roxas accepted it after some thinking, but there’s one condition: he will be Anko’s vessel because Anko is now a spirit after his death in the game. To be free from Anko’s ghostly possession, he needed to complete the task in any way he could.
  Now that he was Anko’s vessel, what would Roxas do to do this big and seemingly impossible mission? Well, he will use his intelligence, ambivert personality, and scenario-making mindset to do it, plus action. That combination sounds ridiculous and unorthodox, but for him, it will be a good one.
  So, join him, Anko, and their friends in a now-altered reality fighting monsters and bosses across Aincrad-ridded Japan and getting into the Tower while trying to get Kirito and his friends out of their brainwashed state. 
  But the dark side of Sword Art Online was slowly revealed as Roxas and his friends went deeper and deeper for their mission through their spirit guardians. One of them was the origins of Eugeo and Alice (This was what if Eugeo and Alice were once humans who were killed and were forced to be bots in the games?)
Warning: This story is dark, and the cover photos for this are NOT mine! Credits go to the original owner!

 Back in the fight in SM Bacoor, Roxas and his group fought the monsters together. Those who had spirit guardians within them fought them with all their strength and might, especially with Minato, Koyuki, and Roxas. Venancio and Darna, as well as Ayala and a few others, were stunned at their power and strength. 


 "What am I even seeing?" Darna commented.


 "Lakas ni Kuya Roxas…" Venancio added.


Akihiko's admin was struggling to keep up with controlling the monsters' attacks on them; he was struggling as if it were out of control.


 And all of them eventually managed to defeat the monsters in the area, and most of them levelled up as a result. Roxas, Shuto, Minato, and Ayala, as well as Cristina and a few others, were happy to see that. Akihiko's admin ranted out in a fit of feeling like a failure to Akihiko, but Akihiko comforted him, saying that it was fine and normal.


 Back at SM Bacoor, many of the NPC-by-programmed-behaviour bystanders celebrated their victory over the monsters. However, since their arrival was merely a call for help, the groups of Roxas and Ayala eventually returned to their original location, thus ending the call. Despite that, Roxas, Ayala, and the rest were happy that they managed to save the mall and everyone in it.


 And then, the next day after that, all of them, including the Nietes family on Ricardo's side, went to Tagaytay City, a city with a view of the Taal island, which is also a volcanic island. Even Kaota and Anko were stunned to see that it was a volcano on an island, on a lake, on an island.


Chapter 98 - Chapter 97 - South to Tagaytay City