The clock ticked on, the teacher refusing to end his droning speech on 14th century British Social Laws or Mean Value Theorem or the boiling point of C[sub]3[/sub]Ai[sub]6[/sub]K[sub]2[/sub]NiCu[sub]12[/sub], something like that. Whatever he was speaking about however, Alice had already knew about and was bored about it. Also mocking the rest of her advanced class who were all furiously scribbling notes and smudging their work, Alice leaned back in her chair and was on her laptop doing some searching. You could almost feel the animosity the class had against her if they weren't worried about the molecular composition of secondary proteins.

Instead of spending the most of her time doing homework or copying notes or rubbing her face in a textbook, she had been diving into every little bit of a new came that grasped her interest. For the past few months, she had been scouring the internet for news, updates, leaks and promotional things about Aincrad Remastered Edition or ARE. Meticulously taking detailed notes on developer interviews, hypothesizing about how in-game mechanics would work based on trailers and articles on Shotaku, even going as far as to estimate what the in-game economy would be like after seeing several screenshots of menus and more interviews, the prodigy had everything down to a science and had already created an elaborate plan that would allow her to do everything at a timely efficiently. Hell, she already figured out what her character would be like after seeing a dev walk through of character creation and more promotional material.

It seemed that ARE had a very advanced economical system (not that it surprised her that much) with players able to dry up or saturate items and cause prices to fluctuate. The base of the whole system was the simple supply-and-demand of real life with its own twists so in theory she just had to create something that would always be in demand at any level and could be sold at high prices because of a certain lack of supply for it. Narrowing down the choices to a few ventures, Alice took more detailed looks at anything and everything available to concluded the blacksmithing would be the most profitable. Weapons were always in demand from those who couldn't make high quality blades or loot it from dangerous dungeons they could only dream of completing.

[color=ed1c24]"All according to keikaku."[/color] Alice grinned as the bell rang and the classroom let out a heavy breath of relief. Her classmates tiredly slumped back and shuffled toward the door, the teacher reminding them of their homework and their essay. More pained groans escaped the room as Alice casually leaned back in her chair to gazed into the setting sun. She couldn't be bothered by simple things like homework and school, she had other things to do.

Packing her laptop and books, the Nordeire dashed out of the room and subsequently the school as a butler awaited her arrival. Within minutes the luxury car was rolling down the roads and Alice was once more on her laptop, counting down the time remaining until launch and making final preparations. Everything had to be perfect for a girl such as her, [color=ed1c24]"Sebastian, how much longer?"[/color]
"It should not be too much longer miss, a few minutes at worse." Alice's loyal servant weaved skillfully weaved between several cars with his head turned Alice.
[color=ed1c24]"Is everything ready?"[/color] the girl asked as she checked for any last minute news articles relating to ARE.
"It as all as you requested it to be miss."

As her last thoughts were wrapping up, the diver stopped the car outside of the luxury condo which she had her own personal room in. The glass elevator shooting her up into the sky, Alice walked out on to the 15th floor where Sebastian opened the door. Breezing past the well stocked room of all manner of decorations she had chosen by herself, she went straight to her room as her butler travelled to the well-stocked if not over-stocked kitchen to prepare some food. This was her personal living area, her parent had given it to her when she started school. It wasn't like they would be home if Alice didn't move out, they would always be busy or off in some foreign land doing whatever CEOs and actors do.

Sitting on her bed, she clutched the VR helmet and looked at the digital clock, it was T-minus five minutes. Five minutes until she would enter a realm reborn, the world beyond, the floating castle of Aincrad Remastered Edition. It wouldn't be beyond her to say that she was feeling more than just giddy at the hope of it even if it was concealed well. There was a certain romantic, adventurous spirit inside of her that was just ticking down the seconds until five o' clock.

[color=ed1c24]"Make yourself proud."[/color] Alice whispered to herself as she slipped on the helmet and laid down on her bed. In what seemed like forever, ARE finally started as the girl went through her plans again. The start up sequence finished quickly and Alice was introduced to the character creation menu. [i]Hair like this, don't forget the red streak. Eyes a bit wider and touch up on the nose,[/i] she went through the character creation screen quickly with nothing slowing her down.

With a breath of fresh air, the Town of Beginnings welcomed her into the tutorial which she promptly skipped over, already figuring out how to move and throw rocks at pigs. Whatever reward would come at the end of the tutorial she had already concluded would be useless in the grand scheme of things. Walking out of the general store, her starting two-handed sword on her back, she stretched. It amazed her that humanity managed to recreate the world itself in all of its realistic glory. The town felt alive with NPCs that behaved like humans, the market with vendors trying to outbid each other, the smell flowers of a nearby park drifted into her nose; Alice felt the need to give a letter of approval to the developers for pulling off such a feat.

Dashing over to another store, Alice found the giver of her first quest. It was a simple one, kill a few animals and bring back their hides as proof and she would receive some nice gold and a few simple items for her troubles. Heading out into the wilderness gate, Alice, or now Dead_Ringer, pointed her sword towards the sky and watched the light bounce of like mirror. After this she was going to immediately buy supplies for her blacksmithing venture and climb her way to fortune and fame. Its what her parents did so it was only fair their child followed in their foot steps.