Virtual Sword God!

Virtual Sword God! is a story about the growth of a swordman in the VR game Virtual Sword Warrior during the Magicless Era of Earth. The Dragon Knight Arthur Pendragon came to be nicknamed the Virtual Sword God due to his plays on the Pendragon account.

# Plot

Novis Talen was tasked by his grandfather to clean up his dojo when he found a sword with a mysterious Dragon mark that only he could see. It contained the spirit of Arthur Pendragon, a knight serving the King of Avrion that was traitorously poisoned before he could complete his own unique sword style. Novis Talen decided to help him by letting him possess his body while he was playing the VR game Virtual Sword Warrior.

As the story progresses, other ghosts of the past are revealed to use hosts to play the game as well, like the Chinese spearman Xin Mao, the Dragon Knight George and the female scythe-user Mortem from the Magical Era.

# Canonicity Problems

This story conflicts in many ways with the canon of My Dragon System and My Vampire System.

* There is a character called Arthur Pendragon, but he cannot be the same person as the Vampire that was once the King of Logres. He does not have the same appearance : while the King had black hair, this one had as a ghost shiny blonde hair and wore a knightly silver armor. This Arthur had his soul trapped in a sword with an engraving of a dragon that could only be seen by those that could hear his voice. He claimed to have been a knight for the King of Avrion (the King of the Redwings Kingdom?) and his duty was to be the King's champion. He would battle the knights of other kingdoms almost every day. One day, he was tasked to duel a knight from another kingdom and felt ill during the fight. He was poisoned and betrayed by someone of his kingdom. He was unable to rest in peace, so his soul became bound to the sword. The sword eventually came in possession of a young boy that could hear his voice that became his pupil, but he died at 25 years old of a sickness. Eons later, Novis Talen was the second that could hear his voice. The soul of Arthur got transfered to Novis' body. This Arthur had yet to complete his dream of creating an unbeatable sword style. Novis' grandfather thought the sword hosted the spirit of a Dragon that protected the Talen family for generations. This story's Paul Snellart told Novis Arthur Pendragon created legends and that many forgot his name, to the point few people alive knew about it. This Arthur was forced to fight to put food on the table from a young age. Eventually, a knight saw him, said he had potential and recruited him into his army. That knight became his teacher, and his beautiful style got him mesmerized. He had the dream of creating an unbeatable sword style, and Arthur carried on this dream. Originally, it was just to complete his savior’s wish but it became his own. This Arthur was the leader of the Dragon knights of Avrion.

* The city of Avrion was never its own Kingdom before Ray Talen founded the Redwings Kingdom. It belonged previously to the Kingdom of Avrion, and before that was in the territory of the Wyvern Glac. The Redwings Kingdom was also not limited to Avrion alone. One must therefore assume the Redwings Kingdom was also known as the Avrion Kingdom later.

* There is a character called Paul Snellart. He's a middle-aged man and a professional Virtual Sword Warrior player that teaches the basic of the game to elders. If he was the same character as the head general in My Vampire System, it would mean this story is set years before the First Dalki War, maybe during the youth of Quinn Talen's father and uncle.

* A Japanese bamboo sword had the red dragon emblem and the spirit of George, a sub-leader of the Dragon Knights of Avrion.

* This story claims the Dragon Knights were sent on tasks to exterminate creatures like goblins, demons and Dragons, and not Shadow Beasts.

* The story introduces the concept of sword energy, that is in many respects similar to Qi. They differ on a crucial point however : Qi had 5 stages (and only the three first were known since the Magical Era), while sword energy had 9 levels. The first level could coat a blade in energy and stop bullets, while this would require the 2nd and perhaps even 3rd stages of Qi to do the same. While Qi sometimes could appear as a green blow to the naked eye, sword energy appeared as a white outline. Red and purple sword energies were also seen.

* Dragon Knights were stated to have hunted Dragons, however the Dragons needed to be extinct for the Dragon Knights to absorb Sen's power, without which they were just ordinary knights.

* The five Dragon Knights are said to come from a different world from the one of Novis Talen, and other spirits may come from two other worlds.

# References

1. ↑ Virtual Sword God!, ch. 69
2. ↑ Virtual Sword God!, ch. 1
3. ↑ Virtual Sword God!, ch. 2
4. ↑ Virtual Sword God!, ch. 1
5. ↑ Virtual Sword God!, ch. 8
6. ↑ Virtual Sword God!, ch. 20
7. ↑ Virtual Sword God!, ch. 56
8. ↑ Virtual Sword God!, ch. 5
9. ↑ Virtual Sword God!, ch. 56
10. ↑ Virtual Sword God!, ch. 57
11. ↑ Virtual Sword God!, ch. 128
12. ↑ Virtual Sword God!, ch. 132
13. ↑ Virtual Sword God!, ch. 148
14. ↑ Virtual Sword God!, ch. 130
15. ↑ Virtual Sword God!, ch. 145