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Chapter 2 Introduction to Reality and Confusion
"Pardon me for sounding antagonistic but what the fuck is going?"
Sebastian probably shouldn't have said that to the cultist? With the way, they are dressed but he has just appeared out of no way and these people are asking for help. Now the cultist looked hesitate at what to say but are now looking at them with wide eyes in surprise of his appearance.
"Excuse me, but like this guy said what the hell is going?" A voice asked from behind him as Sebastian turns to see the owner. He was only an inch taller than Sebastian was, with blond hair dressed in a red shirt, face scrunched in confusion. In his grasp, was a spear with a jewel on it.
"I would also like to know that as well." Sebastian looked to the side, seeing another person was in the room, around his height, with black hair, around the same size as his own. This one was dressed in a blue sports jacket with brown pants. In his hand lay another weapon, this one was clearly a sword with a very identical jewel in it.
"I also want to see what is the point of all his," Said another person, appearing the shortness of all of us, if not by an inch or two and appearing the youngest. Wearing what appears to be a green suit jacket and grey pants, with another weapon, a bow with a jewel at the centre of it
"Did someone put something in my drink last night? Jesus, I must be dreaming" A voice said on the other side of the green one. He was around the same height as the green one but a bit older with long black hair tied up. Wearing a black top and grey pant and holding a simple dagger with a jewel at the bottom of the hilt. Currently, he is using the hilt to scratch his neck.
"Is this some kind of cult? I mean you got the weird circle thing under us and everyone wearing cloaks so why are we here?" a confused voice said next to the other guy, this one was quite tall. Comparing everyone here he was at least two feet taller than the blonde one and he was bloody jacked in muscle. Not to mention he looked the oldest out of all of us, he was wearing a white short-sleeved top with black pants with a short brown buzz cut, showing everyone his well-developed muscles. He was holding a mace of all things with a jewel at the top of weapon holding the blunt part.
The main guy in the middle was surprised with all this before trying to explain the situation while the other cultist seems more confused than desperate and started whispering.
"This can't be right"
"It was only supposed to summon 4 heroes"
"Seven heroes? What could this mean?"
"The Church said nothing about this"
The main cultist tried to calm things down and centre to the point of these circumstances.
"I know this must all be very confusing, but please heroes, listen to our story."
Now everyone currently in the circle are now focusing on the main cultist, seeing its the best way to get an understanding on what the hell is doing on, even the one guy that was laying on the floor earlier.
"The story is long and complicated, but to put it simply we used an ancient Ritual to summon you, the four Legendary Heroes to this world." The man explained, which cause everyone to look at the group seeing how there are seven people instead of four.
"And yet the Ritual of yours ended up summon seven heroes instead of four," Sebastian said leaning on this cane holding a book before chuckling
"My, you must be desperate if even the summoning says you need more than four," Sebastian said smiling at their looks of confusing turn in to realisation.
"Our world lies on the brink of destruction, it's so bad that we need more heroes to help, please we beg you, help us!" They finished with a bow, seeing that now they are getting seven heroes instead of four. This was odd to Sebastian as the way they say it was like they rehearse it, only the intended audience was for four not seven, and just before he could comment on this.
"Well, I guess we could hear you out, at least." Looking to the side, one of Sebastian's eyebrows raising into his forehead, Sebastian questioning how this one is believing this insanity
"Forget it." Came from the one with the sword, at least this one can see that this had to be nothing but bullshit made up by drug addicts with no sense of originally.
"I also refuse," the bow users agree
"We can go back to our own world, right? Do that then we talk" The blond man continued.
"Wait a minute, are you guys believing this shit? Another world, this whole thing is full of horse shit" the big guy said crossing his arms as he looked around not believing anything their saying
"Well there was the pretty lights and for some reason, I 'm holding a fancy knife so this must be a dream," the last one said looking at his weapon, looking to see if it was real or not
"Don't you guys feel any guilt? Kidnapping us to this place without our consent?" the swordsman said pointing his sword at them. The first three were still going with the same concept. They look like they know what they're doing in this unknown situation.
"Not to mention, if you throw us out as soon as we restore peace we have done all that work for nothing" A bit weird to ask about restoring peace when they don't know what the fuck is doing on.
"How will you reward us for our hard work? We can't be working for free here, depending on your answer we might end up as your enemies instead of your allies" something is wrong with these guys
"Do you guys get summon out of nowhere often? Because I'm still making heads or tails in what to do" Sebastian commenting on how these guys are so calm about all this.
"Why are you so smug about this, I just want to go home not deal with this shit," said the giant with the shield guy nodding with the two of their opinions.
"Is magic a thing here, I think we should talk about?" said knife guy said about the mention of magic, which Sebastian agreeing with, seemly staring at the big book in hand. The others just looked at them, confusion apparent on their faces, like they were the crazy ones in this conversation.
Before anyone said anything, the main speaker among the cracked, spoke, his voice has shaky has the smile on his face.
Good sirs, before I say anymore we like for you to have an audience with the king of Melromarc, you can negotiate your rewards with him directly, so please" he all but beg for them to see the head of state.
"Alright, fine"
"I suppose we could consider their offer"
"Sure, doesn't matter who we talk to our demands are the same"
The three so-called heroes left following the guy that summons them leaving the other four behind.
"What the fuck is wrong with them," said the big guy and Sebastian agrees with him on those three's choose on who to follow, shrugging before following behind them, prompting those remaining to follow.
As they follow the other and start walking up some stair, Sebastian checks out a window to see in there in a completely different area.
"My god, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore," Sebastian said quoting a famous line that sums up their situation.
"This really is another world ha," said the bowman as the guy with the shield looks out
"Sure is, even the air feels different" smile the shield hero before he was pushed to the side
"Hey," he said but stops seeing the giant look out the window not in awe but in horror
"NO no no, we can't be in another world, this can't be real, we must be somewhere on earth," he said in shock and fear of not be on earth anymore
"Hey calm down, is his your first time outside of your country before?" Bow guy said looking at the giant who is looking very scared right now
"Judging by the breeze I say" "How are you so calm about this" Sword guy was interrupted by a very anger giant with a mace.
"We are in a completely different area with no information and no way home and here you are talking about the fucking weather!" He is very anger how normal they sound as the others stand back afraid.
"Hey big guy, calm down," said dagger holding his hands in front of the giant to try and calm the beast of a man.
"Listen, my big friend, I can understand what you're going through", Sebastian said walking down to him
"So here's what we're doing to do, you're doing to take a breath and we're doing to the king in order to sort his situation out, Ok?" Sebastian said stare in his enrage eyes, for a while it looked like the giant was going to crush the man standing in front of him, until he took a deep breath in order to calm down, looking at Sebastian and nodded to him which brought a smile on Sebastian's face.
As everyone looked at Sebastian in surprise on how he calms down the big guy, before walking back to the castle.
As they walk the dagger hero looked up and notice a pretty redhead looking down on them, looking at her for a second before following the other to the throne room.
Ten minutes of walking later and the seven heroes found themselves in front of a magnificent door guarded by knights in armour. They uncrossed their spears from the door, and they were allowed to enter.
They approached the supposed king, an elderly looking man wearing fancy, purple and golden garbs and a golden crown with a purple gem embedded in the centre. All around him were quite a few fancifully dressed individuals; their low whispers a constant echo in the throne room. The guarding knights around the place stayed quiet, but their presence was hard to ignore, considering the shine of their polished armour pieces.
"Oh? So these are the heroes of old?" The elderly man wearing a crown said as he looked over the seven of them. His eyes were calculative as he focuses more on the Shielder, Sebastian, the big guy and a shifting dude
"I am the king of this country, Aultcray Melromarc the 32nd. Raise your heads, Heroes." King Aultcray said, seeming to have overlooked the fact that the other had not lowered their heads.
"Now please identify yourselves," He asks
The black-haired teen scoffed and walked two steps forward. "I'm Ren Amaki, age 16. High school student." Short and to the point, Ren stated his piece.
"I'm Motoyasu Kitamura, 21 years old and a university student." Motoyasu, said with pompous manner, a quick movement of his spear displayed some skill with polearms.
"I am Itsuki Kawasumi, 17 years-old. Still in high school." Itsuki's introduction was quite polite and posh; his every move seemed to be calculated to please the eyes.
"Good afternoon, your grace, I am Alastor, 22 years old and a great entertainer to all," Sebastian said with a wide grin bowing only giving out his last name to protect himself
"You an entertainer, right anyway so I'm Edward Miles, I'm 24 and I work as an accountant," Edward said holding his Dagger on his chest
"Alexander Armstrong, but call me Alex, I'm 30 and I am a Constructor," Alex said holding the Mace on his shoulder,
"Guess I'm next I'm"
"Motoyasu, Ren, Itsuki, Alastor, Edward and Alex correct?" Aultocray cut Shielder, eyes solely focused on the six in front of him.
"Yo king aren't you forgetting someone," he said pointing at himself
"ooo yes forgive me" he didn't even apologies
"Hey you can't just say "Yo King" you have to be respectful," Itsuki said to the still-unnamed shielder
"So what his majesty than?" He asks confused
"It might be too formal" adding Motoyasu
"Shouldn't it be your grace" question Edward
"Mmmmm King is fine," Aultcray said ending the debate
"Right, I'm Naofumi Iwatani, 20-years-old, I'm also a university student." It seemed that only Naofumi found this situation awkward
"Now, I shall explain the current situation. This country… nay, the very world is on the path to ruin. You see great heroes…" than he starts to explain what doing on ignoring Naofumi.
Basely these wave of calamity that has been happening for a while causing destruction with monsters in large numbers, and gets harder with each wave and if it continues it could lead to the end of the world. So they summon the four cardinal heroes with holy weapons to stops them before they destroy the world, apparently, they even have a timer that tells when the waves hit called Hourglass of the Dragon's Era.
Now the problem with that story is that he said they were supposed to summon four heroes, not seven so that might be a problem for Alastor, Edward and Alex.
At the end on the story Alex started to walk forward causing everyone to look at the giant of a man, Alex stands before the king who narrows his eyes at him before widening see the giant dropped to one knee.
"Your Grace. I understand that your world and its people must be desperate for help, however, I need to ask that you return me to my world." Alex said before anyone could stop him. "Your Grace, you see I married to my beautiful wife who is 8 months pregnant with my child" he paused holding his ring and glance up at the king. The man's jaw had dropped slightly, and his eyes were not so distant as before. He stared at Alex as if seeing him for the first time.
"Please your Grace I beg you to send me back, just to be there for my wife when she gives birth, let me at least hold my baby one time and if you need me to come back after that, then fine, I would gladly fight and die for your people, but give me at most one month. Please your Grace."
"…I'm so sorry to hear such. If it was within my power to grant you your request, I would do so gladly. However, only means for which you all can be returned to your own world requires the calamity that threatens this world to be brought to an end… and I am afraid that will take months, if not years." The king said solemnly.
Alex's heart sank. Months or maybe years, he had disappeared without a word, before this child's birth. He wouldn't be there for either of them.
What would his wife think? Would she believe that he had abandoned her? Ran away from his vows and his duty to his child, missing the birth is one thing but missing the first months if not years of the child's life. Leaving his wife all along to raise the baby by herself now that he himself will have disappeared into thin air and there was nothing he could do to reach her. How dare these people take him away from his wife and unborn child, just to solve their problem for them, he grips his weapon not noticing a very faint glow.
Everyone just stared as Alex who remained kneeling on the ground in front of the king.
"Just tell me what you need me to do," Alex said, unable to keep the bitterness out of his voice. "The sooner I save this world, the sooner I can get back to my wife and child"
"…Very well then." Aultcray said
Ren puts his sword drop making a loud noise, gaining everyone attention
"Ok, I think we get the summary here, anyway I sure you didn't bring us here thinking we save you for free" Ren wanting something in return from people who are desperate who some help.
"That's right! You can't expect us to work for free, right? Say, if we were to fight in these waves you speak off, what guarantee do we have that you won't simply send us off with our hands empty after we beat it?" Motoyasu spun his spear and clanged the butt end on the ground. Itsuki didn't anything else, but his hand pulling the bowstring was enough.
"Of course, once to repel all the waves we will reward handsomely," said the minster looking guy next to the king
"We then I guess will take your word for it," Motoyasu said with a smile
"Ok but don't think you can tame us," Ren said challenging the king
"We won't put up with you looking down on us" Itsuki added
"You guys have beer, right? Cause I could use a drink right about now" Edward said looking around not taking any of this seriously
Naofumi just looks annoyed at the four heroes with Alex looking pissed at them, Alastor only smiles at everyone.
"Oh heroes, if you could please confirm your status so we can properly proceed." Said Aultcray
The heroes looked confused
"What the fucks a status," Edward said not caring if he been respectful or not
"You guys haven't figured this one out yet? The little box at the bottom right of the screen or whatever." Ren said, rather annoyed at something.
"OHH! You right! Let's see, it says here that I'm the Spear Hero." Motoyasu exclaimed as the spear hero looked rather excited; Ren shook his head sideways and Itsuki maintained a rather polite smile.
Alastor looks at the box before focusing on thing cause a wired state screen to appear in his vision
-[Sebastian Alastor Hero of the Grimoire Lv.1]-
-[Equipment: Magic Grimoire(Legendary equipment), Otherworldly clothes, Threaded Cane(Modified)]
"Mmmm Hero of the Grimoire level 1" Alastor ponders looking at his states before looking at his cane
"What the fucks is this shit, Hero of the Mace, states, what is this some kind of game," Alex said looking at this states
"I can ensure you, Hero of the Mace, that this is no game," Aultcray said
"Holy shit this is taking iPhone to the next level, can I download any apps for his thing? Wow," Edward said looking around as he sees his vision as a status.
"Being such a low level is making me uneasy," Itsuki said, biting one of his fingers as he stared his own Status Menu.
"What is this" Naofumi questions about the status menu
"Its call status magic, only available to the heroes," said the minster guy
"So what do we do for here," Alex said angrily that their wasting time
"Now you would go on a journey to polish your skills and strengthen your legendary weapons." The king explained to them.
"You mean we can't use them properly, mines, not even a weapon" Naofumi complains the fact that he got a shield
"At least you have something to defend yourself with," Alastor said opening his book only to see is was blank
"Can't we just use other weapons?" Motoyasu playing around with his spear
"Speak for yourself, I could shank a bitch with his knife" Edward stabbing in front of him pretending to kill someone.
"I see that we have to learn as we go," Ren said holding his sword
"And level up fast" Itsuki added
"Hey how about all of us form a party" Naofumi holding out this shield
"Wait just a moment, Heroes." The minister who had been standing next to the king stopped them as they were talking about the possibility of teaming up. "But each of you has to form your own parties and set off on your own separate journeys"
"Oh? And why is that?" Itsuki asked.
"It's quite simple. According to legend, the weapons you carry naturally repel each other. Should you operate together as a group, you will do nothing but impede each other's growth." The minister clarified for them.
[Caution!]
[Working together with your fellow legendary weapon holders will be detrimental to your progress. Please try to operate separately as much as possible.]
"Just when he explains it, we get a warning about it, what kind of systems expects you to know all the rules already before playing the system the first time," Edward asked looking at the Caution coming up when someone explains it
Alastor sees it as well and finds it odd, does that mean unless they know more about these weapons none of them can use their own weapon to its full potential. Not to mention that this said we shouldn't be together at all so why did they summon them all together in the first place.
"The day grows late. For now, rest yourselves and gather your strength. We will gather companions for you. Have no worries, they will be the best of the best. Your journey begins tomorrow." The King said politely as a maid in a dress comes to them
"Please Sirs; follow me we have quarters prepared for you." She motioned for them to follow, which they promptly did.
The heroes seemed to think that it was wonderful that they wouldn't have to go through the trouble of finding allies before starting their journeys. However, Alastor doesn't see it that way.
Letting himself be followed around everywhere he went by a group of soldiers handpicked by the government or church to keep an eye on him and probably execute him in his sleep if they thought he was a liability over an asset.
No, instead Alastor should choose his own party and find out what's really going on. There is always something more to the story then simply monsters came, call the heroes, save the world and repeat. So Alastor is going to find out what's really going on.