Alrain: So I will be changing another thing in my writing style and that is that I will be categorizing the chapters like in a way Arcs end, the title will only change if there is something new going on of an event like that makes it easier. I also had the feeling it was annoying or something about it and that making Titles is another thing I'm not good at, trying to find a good title that is interesting to press at as that makes it hard for me to search for good stories.
PS: For the one who PM'ed me about why I don't like Naruto stories, well, it is just a waste of space, and reading the synopsis and thinking about it there is nothing special about it in the 1st place. They all look the damn same story except there are just some small changes and such and I know they are written differently, but honestly what is to enjoy about it if it is pretty much the same as the previous Naruto stories and yet they expand with no further good idea.
Chapter 1: The Start
Oratorio.
My life hasn't been what you call exactly special in any way as I was just your ordinary Highschool Graduate student that was about to receive his degree...until I died because of faulty equipment and then I when I opened my eyes I thought I survived and was simply brought to the Hospital until a bump awoke me followed by a voice to dismount off the carriage and gave me a sack with stuff in it and a real shortsword as well.
"Wait, what?" the world slowed down all around me and lost all color and no one was moving anymore and that put me at unease before a blue transparent box appeared in front of me with some text.
[Welcome to Orario the most well-known City of Danmachi!]
Danmachi? That's one of my favorite anime! And I have been reincarnated into this world was the most amazing part too!
[Now do not mistake this as the Gamer System as it won't work with the Falna of this world, it might pain a huge target on your back so I gave you some skills based on who you were!]
Wait! But what about my family...they must be devastated about my death...even if being reincarnated in this world was amazing it didn't just mean that I could leave them be there.
[Sorry, but since you've officially died in that world you can no longer return because due to certain circumstances you can't return so do not mistake me for a ROB, please.]
'What do you mean by some circumstances!?' I wanted to know why but whoever was talking to me changed his or her tone and told me that it was better for me not to know and that if I tried to know more about it then it would not be good but it was for the safety of my own being but he did give me the rundown on it that something happened to my soul. That I had to be sent away because something terrible happened with my soul and I asked of what the cause was and they told me that the faulty equipment wasn't really made of ordinary metal. 'Can I at least leave a message for my family...I will live my new life here,'
Well, it could've been worse and why I was so accepting of this was because even if I returned that will probably be destroyed by some Entity of Death or Order, just because my soul was messed up with something they don't like and cause disturbance of the Order.
[These are your changes for now that I made for you with all the modifications to your body as well as appearance!]
I didn't bother to correct that they did it without my consent nor could I find myself complaining about it as another box appeared and showed me what I looked like, I'm taller and a Half-Elf too and I don't have to go to detail that I looked far more handsome but that's because of Elven Genes, and the fact that I'm in an anime world where at least 80% of the world has good looking people even if they are just there with no important role.
This includes flawless skin, a new color for your eyes, better build, and pretty much everything else.
Hair-color turned from brown to a good shade of blond and green eyes to match the color and point ears and I made the ears move and touched them, hey, it has always been something I wanted to do so don't judge whoever is watching me for it!
Wait a minute, there was something else.
[Name: Skylar Flores.]
[Race: Half-Elf/?]
[Familia: None.]
[Skills:]
[Heavenly Saint: Enables one to be the greatest support and protector when fighting parties and for those whom you consider allies, it raises strength, speed, and durability great affinity to Light Magic and your natural Charisma.]
[Danger Perception: Enables you to feel the world around yourself for any dangers intended at you or an ally, this skill is combinable with the [Heavenly Saint] skill.]
[Astral Walk: Allows you to walk into the Astral Plane as the faulty equipment that fell on you wasn't made of ordinary metal, it had portions mixed of a certain Artifact from some mage who wanted to see what the border of life and death looks like and succeeded but never got the chance to view it.]
Wait...that was what made me unable to return home?! And why did this...system not tell me?! Or is it truly something more than that the eye meets?
How is this enough to keep me away from returning because I can only enter the Astral Plane and...wait, when I read it again I wished I just kept my mouth shut because now I understood that I could constantly see between the planes of Life and Death without any being to harm me there, I was basically in my Astral Form Death and Alive that is something out of the rules of Order so my Astral Walk is something far more different than the ordinary one.
And my race tag too...what else am I? Am I not supposed to be just a Half-Elf?
Just a simple crossbreed between the union of a Human and Elf?
'This is confusing...but at least I know what happened to me...well, time to search for a Familia,' and when I thought about that I had a few options and there are many powerful Familia's but they aren't appealing no matter how much power or how many benefits they provide you with, when I watched the show and how Bell attempted to join a Familia it seems that everyone here judges your strength by your appearance. Bell did look weak but that was no reason to refuse him at all from joining a Familia as everyone starts weak, I guess it wasn't the same for other Races like with Elves you automatically have Magic, Dwarves with Blacksmithing and Eyes for Quality Weapons and ores, and some other races with beneficial skills.
So which Familia did I want to join in?
I marked out the Familia's that I didn't want to join at all and opted to choose from the more poor Familia's as they tend to have a closer bond with each other, there is a reason why I didn't want to join any of the more known Familia's because they all have a good reason.
The Loki Familia had been the 1st one to come into my thoughts but I didn't want to deal with the curiosity of others, I have seen that my Race is something more than just a Half-Elf that even I couldn't view at all and I have read that Ais Wallenstein is something of a spirit and attracting the attention of other Gods is not something I want either.
The Freya Family is just a no because Freya is a yandere for Bell and I am certainly not special enough to join her Familia, she looks very beautiful as expected of a Goddess of Love but she's also part of War meaning she's very smart and deceitful, I just don't want to cross paths with her or any of her members of her Familia knowing the strongest of Orario is within her Familia.
There is the Ganesha Familia but probably not my taste and I count in the Ishtar, Hephaestus, Soma, Demeter, and various other Familia's and I don't even know most of them because many of the Minor Gods are hardly mentioned. But there is one Familia that I do want to join and that is one of the Minor Familia's and my choice is in choosing the Miach or the Hestia Familia, but there is another factor that I had to look for and that was the timeline I'm in and that is an important factor if canon would start right now or has started.
Better start searching.
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...
I'm not in the Canon right now but way before the Canon would start as I had immediately headed towards the Guild and while I saw Eina there I thought I was, but then not because she was here with long hair and a bit on the shy side meaning that she hasn't been doing this for very long, I do pay attention to other people's behaviors male and female so it isn't just because she's a Half-Elf and very pretty. I made it easy for her by being very patient with her knowing that doing something like being annoyed or something unacceptable, once she got me the list of available Familia's I was surprised that the Hestia Family didn't exist meaning she was still by Hephaestus.
But there are also Familia's that are reported to have disbanded and my eyes caught 2 names and those are the Zeus and Hera Familia's and both of them are disbanded, I could read how long they've been disbanded and it seemed just for 4 years meaning that Bell won't be arriving any time soon that means I have 12 years to prepare. But that made me wonder about myself right now, how old am I?
Am I even still the same age and what age will I die or how long will I live?
The answer is that I have absolutely no idea how old a Half-Elf can be nor do I know that about normal Elves or High Elves as there are classifications, I would guess that an I have twice the amount of lifeforce of humans or even more than that and I don't know about this. And worse is that it will arise suspicion too as a Half-Elf that doesn't know the age limit is pretty much having slept underneath a rock because everyone here would think I had parents or met other Elves at least, so asking about it won't help me any time soon so I better buy a book that has information about it.
Oh, yeah, it was a good thing that I could read their language and that I understood Japanese or whatever language I'm speaking as well baffled me and how smoothly I uttered it out without any break or thought to it, writing as well and once I got the known location of the Miach Familia I headed towards the place and occasionally ask for directions and once I found it I stood in front of a Pharmacy Shop.
I felt nervous at doing this because this is where it all starts of me joining a Familia and most wouldn't even think so long about this, but when you have shy and slightly unsure people then we tend to think and take a bit longer in our thoughts.
Gently pushing the door open I was greeted with the sight of the God Miach himself who smiled and welcomed me.
"Uhm, are you the God Miach?"
"Yes, I am, is there something you need young adventurer?"
"Yes, there is...c-can I join your Familia?" I am nervous and for a good reason too because this is something haven't done in a while and that is talking to new people, I am always a tad bit too shy despite interacting with a lot of people in the past and helping them out. When I looked up he seemed to be surprised and I could guess why knowing that most people tend to join Famous Familia's but I'm not like that nor could or would I do that, besides I would get to learn how to make potions and such and how to heal wounds.
"And is there a reason why you've chosen my Familia and not any other like the Loki?" asked Miach and I expected this to happen why I wouldn't join a more prestigious Familia, well, this is more akin to a test and to satisfy one's curiosity or they can simple deem me different from boys my age...I really need to know how old I am because I'm not sure if I can be called a young adult due to my new race. Most boys of...I guess I'm around 14-years-old are reckless and tend not to think too much or prepare a lot or do any foreknowledge about something, the thing that they think to be simple and end up finding out that there is more to it is just too common.
Anime and Manga taught me that and various series as well about these types of things and that it is just sometimes to fill content in and explain it to the audience, at the cost of the poor main characters suffering some hate from the audience and giving them the idea they are dumb...well, some of them are very dumb and deserve it.
"I think it is better to know a bit more about healing too instead of only fighting, other skills are important too...and the reason why I don't want to join a famous Familia is..." well, I had to come up front for my reasons and I don't want to start lying towards someone like Miach...and the fact that it is impossible to lie to a God or Goddess because even in their Mortal Form they can sense if you lie to them. "I-I don't want to stand out because I have already some skills that I found out about, I'm not really g-good with getting a lot of attention,"
I haven't exactly used them but right now I did and thought of extending and enhancing my senses and feel the world around me, and it was not warm nor cold but still an odd feeling of everything not making sound and in front of me...wow, I saw Miach but not his appearance but rather his body outline and the energy within him was shining and felt warm. I felt no danger from him at all which gave me a reassuring feeling and also some sense of how my skills work but the Heavenly Saint can't be activated yet because I have no friends or allies, but once I gain them I will use the Skill and help them out if they are in peril.
Miach looked at me with a scrutinizing gaze once I had deactivated my skill and it seemed he believed me and I think he sensed me using my Skill, but soon that gaze dropped and a warm smile appeared on his face and nodded.
"Very well, and may I have your name?"
"Uhm, Skylar Flores," introducing myself with my new name as I no longer went by my old name and I didn't mind that because this name sounds cool to me.
"Well, Skylar-kun, please follow me," said Miach as we entered another room and gave me some orders to sit on an ordinary chair and remove my shirt so he can put his Falna on my back, I saw a light glow in the corners of my eye and illuminate and my back felt warm but not too warm and I felt it entering my whole body that felt stronger once more of the energy entered me. "It's done...2 Skills alone are very rare...have you ever read a Grimoire, Skylar-kun?"
"No, I only read normal books," Grimoires are something that can grant one Skill and Magic and they are very expensive and I don't think about buying one any time soon, the anime has told me the normal price of them and when the word Million had reached my ears it is a definite nope and it will only give me more attention. Thought he part of my Astral Walk not being mentioned is certainly surprising because when he read them out to me Astral Walk isn't mentioned, is it maybe because it has a small backstory about my previous life and such?
"Hm, to have 2 Skills born naturally with someone is very rare and especially with Skills like these," he sounded more worried than satisfied about finding a Gem and I am happy about it as he's a God that cares more about his Familia than just profit.
"So are there any other Familia Members that I have to introduce myself to?"
"Not really, you're my 1st Familia Member," revealed Miach and that just showed me that his strongest member Naaza hasn't joined yet or has yet to be born, I don't know how long Half-Elves live but I do have a general idea that they live a bit longer than humans. I do know the Elves are exceptionally good at magic and archery so maybe I can invest in that by testing that out and I am supposed to have Light Magic thanks to my Skill [Heavenly Saint] but I have yet to see my Status. "But quite a troublesome one by being yourself...Skylar-kun, do not mention that you have naturally those Skills or mention them at all unless they are people who you can really trust,"
"Is there a reason for that, Miach-sama?"
"Please, just call me by my name without any suffix, and the reason why is that there will be people of the wrong side getting interested in you, and some of them will be Gods but not the ones you would want to look after you...a lot of my fellow Gods are quite shameless when someone interesting passes them by," explained Miach and while I knew this all I had to pretend this all that I need to be wary of and that Miach is good at explaining these things, I am his 1st Familia Member and he needs experience with this when dealing with new members that want to join his Familia.
He's more confident than I am because I am again too shy and the only reason why I didn't act shy towards Eina because she's a fellow shy person, we understand each other and don't make a long conversation and can just settle with each other's presence and short talks, I then was given my Status on paper and indeed I didn't see the Astral Walk Skill on it.
[Name: Skylar Flores Level 1.]
[Strength: 0]
[Endurance: 0]
[Dexteriety: 0]
[Agility: 0]
[Hunter: I]
[Abnormal Resistance: G]
[Magical Resistance: F]
Skills:
[Heavenly Saint: Enables one to be the greatest support and protector when fighting parties and for those whom you consider allies, it raises strength, speed, and durability and grants a great affinity to Light Magic and your natural Charisma.]
[Danger Perception: Enables you to feel the world around yourself for any dangers intended at you or an ally, this skill is combinable with the [Heavenly Saint] skill.]
"I see, I will keep that in mind and what should I do now?"
"Nothing really, Skylar-kun, get yourself first familiar and settled around, I can teach you about making Potions when you want to unless you just want to stick with adventuring,"
"Nono! I want to learn to make them!" while he accepted my reasons for joining it didn't mean he accepted me because I wanted to learn.
"Well, shall I give you a tour around the house?" Miach's Pharmacy doesn't have a lot of customers meaning that Miach has a lot of time and his pharmacy wasn't that big either, just 2 stories tall and a few rooms and some storage areas for herbs but not a lot of it despite being so big meaning that Miach seemed to have a lot of trouble with getting resources.
I was shown my room and I settled down and Miach has given me a book about ingredients that are used in potions, it had begun to become Dark already so I just settled down for reading the ingredients and where they can be found and all of that. I have some later plans for tomorrow and that is first checking out some armor as I do have some money with me which is around 30.000 Valis and that is usually a lot for a Level 1 Adventurer, I need some armor to protect me and going to the Dungeon won't be easy. The 1st thing I need to do is know how to use Magic, get a feel of what it is like to be in a Dungeon, and feel how it is to fight with a weapon and kill a living being.
I read as much as I could and the book made it all too easy for me as I went for the most common herbs that can be found on some of the floors that I will be entering, I will make sure to be useful to Miach and make sure that we will live a good life.
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It was morning and breakfast was normal from the ordinary bread and eggs and some fried potatoes but let's just say the bread is too hard for me to get used to, I would soon plan to bake bread that is softer and luckily I have done a lot of cooking in my previous life that I pretty much took over mom's kitchen.
The 1st thing I did wasn't actually going to the weapon shops but rather first get my lessons with Miach as he instructed me how to make potions, it does look a bit dull as you would expect more from those games but I was being patient and carefully watched and it wasn't any different from chemistry. Certain ingredients needed to be dried and others must be preserved in certain liquids or their fresh forms and which ones should be combined, I want certain potions like the ones that recover stamina and such that will allow me to be longer on the floors.
"That will be it for today, Skylar-kun, before you head to the Dungeon I would like 1st that you will ask for advice on how the rules work, don't want to break a rule unintentionally," advice Miach me and I was certainly going to do that.
Leaving for the Tower of Babel I avoided looking up knowing that the Freya Familia resides up there and I don't want to catch the attention of Freya, all I need was to first find out if I have an affinity for bows or any other weapon although the sword I carried did tell me a lot.
The Tower of Babel truly amazed me with its sheer size and height as it reached almost past the clouds and let's just say the excitement made me run, once I arrived I looked at what floor the equipment for beginners is and I headed for the bow and armor section and taking a bow in my hands it felt...right. But right now I don't need it as I just need speed and flexibility so I choose some leather armor that proved some form of protection and not limiting my speed, once I bought it for 4000 Valis.
But I wanted a bit more and I sought out some more equipment that I could buy and the 1st thing that caught my attention are knives, I needed a secondary weapon in case my weapon gets stuck or taken away from me so I bought a combat knife and throwing knives.
Now I just need to be aware of the rules.
Later on, I arrived and waited for my turn and caught the sight of Eina and called out to her.
"Eina! How're you doing?"
"A-Ah! U-Uhm?"
"Oh, sorry, I never introduced myself back then did I?"
"U-Uhm, yes," replied Eina nodding thankfully to me for taking the bullet for avoiding her looking bad to anyone around her.
"Well, this time I am registering myself as an Adventurer, my name is Skylar Flores," introducing myself to her giving my name to call by.
"So you've joined a Familia?"
"Yes, the Miach Familia, I'm the 1st member of his Familia,"
"That's nice, Miach is a good God but I do have to ask why you didn't try to join any of the Famous Familia's?" asked Eina in innocent curiosity which made me smile at how cute she looks.
"Personal reasons~!" I teased and that got me a pout of annoyance that it was a secret and that she would have to try and figure out why I haven't done that by herself, teasing her and seeing that expression is totally worth it by seeing it up close is far different from seeing it on a screen. Once she calmed down she handed me a sheet of paper which is my registration paper and gave me a quick rundown on what I shouldn't do, not taking crystals outside of the Dungeon and must be sold to the Guild, you can form a part with other adventurers, don't stray further than the 4th floor, and all of that and I expected a lot more but apparently, I appeared as a smarter person by my behavior alone.
I could see that by the other registering Adventurers that they haven't really done their research and probably search to join a Familia, or taken to other rooms for lecture and explaining the rules more strictly than received.
"Please, follow these rules, you don't want to become a burden or trouble to your God do you?"
"I will," I don't blame Eina for being strict with me because I know she cares for my safety and that recklessness will get someone killed, but she also made me aware of my position as Miach's first Familia Member and I didn't intend to be his 1st Familia Member but I don't have a choice. I have now that position and that means I need to set a good example for others to join the Miach Familia, a rather big task but in the end not that difficult as I just need to stay out of trouble and go no further than the 4th Floor.
And now I went off and entered the Dungeon and I was excited that I walked a bit faster but with my sword sheathed out.
Dungeon.
I slashed down another few Goblins and turned them back into dust as their essence returns to the Dungeon and the only reason why I haven't been ambushed was because of [Danger Perception] and allowed me to be always ahead of them, but it didn't start that way because I had to modify how I perceived my [Danger Perception] of exactly knowing where danger is.
I didn't feel anything when I killed the Goblins and whether that was because of Goblin Slayer or that it is another modification in my mind this time, killing was something I expected to be unable to do or freeze up at the moment when I would even bring my sword down. I even had it weak for animals but now that it wasn't so anymore I couldn't even feel guilty about it, but that is also quite dumb of me that I will feel guilty about killing those who wanted to kill with me no remorse.
I had already gotten a good pouch from Eina as that is standard to have for collecting magic stones and I won't be having a Supporter any time soon, but what I do need is to become part of a party so that my skills may work and that I will earn extra money for my Familia.
The Floors aren't that impressive for anyone except for me as I had never been in a cave before and the atmosphere told me to be serious about this.
"About 27 of these magic stones, well, better continue-gah!" I felt a blow hit my side and almost got knocked off balance but managed to stabilize myself and see that it was a Goblin that sneaked up on me, that really hurt but not much as I expected as I just felt it a bit burning to allow me to still move and throw a knife at it. It didn't die immediately as it didn't hit a vital spot so rushing in I chopped the Goblin in half ending its life. "And continue being aware of my surroundings..."
Okay, my skill wasn't exactly perfect as it wants me only of danger if I can't handle it or require to pay attention to it to win and beat the danger, just something I need to pay attention to and it only warned me of the groups of Goblins but not a single one as the skill deemed me strong enough not to warn me about it. That is incredibly dangerous to know that my skill isn't really attached to my mind as a good hit can kill me, I was breathing heavily but not too exaggerated like my mind had been prepared to learn about Death which is ironic as Death Gods do reside in Orario.
'This is actually good for me, I might have grown to completely rely on my Skill and forgo training for senses,' the Skill [Danger Perception] isn't perfect as not warning me about a single target that can strike a lucky hit means my death, I can only afford to do that if I'm at a high level or strong stats to ignore such things and be able to take them. Overreliance on something is a big handicap and it would be your death if one day the thing you rely on every day is not available to you anymore, that something is interfering with it that denies you from using its effect and that the way to use it again is to destroy the source, and there is nothing more dangerous then being overly reliant on a skill that is related to senses as not knowing where it is will be your death.
'I may know a lot but I have still a lot to learn!' knowledge is nice but is useless when not put in use if you only have read about it but not used it or practice it, I may know a lot of the series but that is the Main Series as there are various other stories that are going on, perhaps I will play a part in it or prevent something bad...or make things worse then they are.
I have to be careful to cause any trouble but with my personality and previous nickname that has followed me through a skill I'm sure I will get in trouble, or involved with something very complex but at least I didn't cause trouble by being here as I did nothing that changed something very significant! I have seen various other leather armor for purchase and the one I bought wasn't the last, and there are more throwing knives and plenty of them and I took what I could afford and how many I wanted.
Surely I have thought things out and not caused trouble, right...I just had to jinx myself there...damn it.
Miach Pharmacy.
'I hope Skylar-kun doesn't stay too long in the Dungeon,' though Miach highly doubted that Skylar would go too far as he lacked that look in his eyes, perhaps that was because of his Elf Heritage as they have a strict childhood and being a Half-Elf it will be a bit stricter, he hasn't forgotten the old times of the world itself but he just didn't want to remember it ever again as those had been dark times.
He was exceptionally worried about his 1st Familia Member and hoped he would do good to attract more people interested in joining his Familia, and he didn't expect someone to join as there are other Familia's that grant a lot of benefits. Perhaps it is selfish of him but he did want a Familia but he had to first set up some things ahead and he didn't really plan on having one, but jealousy and envy came over him as he watches the years go by and sadness and loneliness filled him in until he could take it no longer and decided to submit even if there was a small chance.
With so many Familia's especially the top 2 of Orario and their reputation that is well known outside of Orario which gave a smaller chance of someone joining their Familia, and at the same time as not anyone can just join the Loki or Freya Familia because the Former there is more of a rule about having experience and that they aren't searching for new members, and the latter...is where the Goddess of the Familia decides if she wants to have you in her Familia and that is an unpleasant thought.
'Skylar-Kun's Soul is rather beautiful to look at...' it was beautiful to see but it had more meaning to THAT Goddess and he prayed that she would let him last long enough, so he can at least feel what it truly is like to worry and care for a Familia.
Alrain: I wanted to write this and I hope it is better than my MHA SI because when I look at it I kind of feel a bit embarrassed about it, but that is my 1st time writing a SI fic and the fact that I suck at writing beginnings.