Isekai.
It was the Japanese word for 'Another World.'
And it was the word for the genre that had become very popular over there in the entertainment industry where an ordinary dude got transported to another universe. Typically random fantasy world number 394, and most of the time it was via the infamous Truck-kun. Or another method typically via death or walking through a random portal, or just closing your eyes and opening them if you were misery.
Of course, that only happened in fiction of course not in real life for that would be stupid for it was real life.
Of course, reality had just proven me wrong five seconds ago when my laptop's screen had lit up, becoming utterly white as it then proceeded to suck me through it.
Sadly though this had not landed me in any Digimon Series, be it games or anime.
No judging by the gold-colored sword with a giant blue jewel in its hilt that was now in my hand the three other people besides me. I was now in Rising of the Shield Hero. Which kinda made sense as I had just finished the latest chapter in the manga, and was about to close the window when I got transported.
And it was apparent that I had replaced the local Kirito Expy Ren and had become the Legendary Sword Hero and not the titular character. And I kinda wished that I had, at least I would have an idea of progression and what to do. With the sword nada, I had an idea, but I didn't know if that would work.
I could deal with that problem later, but now the people that had summoned us needed to be talked to.
I had ignored the spiel given to us by the mage about how the Kingdom was under attack by the Waves. Bitch please this entire world was under attack by that bitch of a Goddess trying to increase her own cosmic ranking. I didn't know a lot about the events of the WN and LN, but I did know a few details from binging the Wiki for information.
"Oh, Legendary Heroes I am King Aultcray Melromarc the 32nd the King of this nation currently under threat." The man whose name would be changed to Trash if things went like normal. Aultcray was a man consumed by his hatred for Demi-Humans due to what had happened to his sister, which was understandable. But that did not mean what he did to Naufumi was right as a doll to exercise his hate on due to the connection the Shield Hero had with Demi-Humans. But he was a tragic man and a shadow of his former self. If one knew the full picture regarding him like I did. Honestly, the best description I had seen of him was. "If Lelouch grew up to be his father." Which seemed that rather apt.
"And like you asked Spear and Bow hero, should you be successful in saving this country from the Waves you shall be given riches and glories beyond your dreams. That shall even be of use to you when you return to your own world after you have completed your mission." Wait, wait, wait. I was pretty sure that wasn't part of his original speech in any of the mediums. And I didn't even know if the returning to your world part was true or not, as I couldn't remember if that had been mentioned by the ones more in the know about the Legendary Heroes.
Perhaps I should ask Fitoria about it if I managed to find her at some point. Cause the whole return thing was one of the reasons I wasn't panicking right now. For I hadn't died like Motoyasu and Itsuki, rather I had gotten the suck treatment like Naofumi. For if I had died, I wouldn't be panicking for I had died in my world, and well reversing that wouldn't be possible.
But I had entered this world while alive, so I did want to return to my family, while my life wasn't perfect it wasn't shit either, even if my current mentality was bit depressed after having been diagnosed with Autism. While yeah it was nice to know it also soured one's mood quite a bit. Also, my world had internet, and all the other inventions of the 21st century.
"Now please Legendary Heroes would you kindly introduce yourself?" And honestly, if you didn't know his motivation, one would think he was sincere. Well at least in regards to three of the four of us.
And there was another problem compared to the other three heroes I stuck out like a sore thumb as I wasn't a handsome Japanse boy. But a slightly overweight European that was halfway to twenty-two. And I had lost a few kilos over the last few months, my body had not changed on the way over, and I hadn't been placed in Ren's. And so there was a very high chance that Motoyasu and Itsuki wouldn't take anything I said at all seriously, as I would just be the gaijin in their eye. And I couldn't pull rank in the form of age as Motoyasu was the same age as me. But honestly I didn't care for the two, I knew it was incredibly biased. But in my mind, the two prideful idiots had already dug their own grave too. Yeah, that was incredibly biased of me, but fuck if they couldn't even listen to the fucking Queen and obey her orders what hope did I have? Maybe I was already condemning myself to failure, but at least Naofumi could be hopefully saved. He at least had his head screwed properly on. And the only hero of a similar nature was Ren when he wasn't surrounded by morons. But I had replaced him so what could you do.
Now hopefully, this would happen like the Anime and LN instead of the Manga where a night passed before companions were assigned.
"Anders Anderson, 21 years old, would be university student." I introduced myself, with everything except my first and last name being true, well it used to be that but wasn't any longer. And my first name was the invisible part of my online handle. Anders the Streaming Viking. Well at a lot of streaming wouldn't be happening here.
"Motoyasu, Itsuki, Anders." I heard Aultcray mummer. Well, it wasn't appropriate to call him Trash yet.
"Hey, I haven't introduced myself!" Naofumi shouted.
"Hm, Yes, the Shield Hero." Man, you could see the 'I look down on you' feeling in his eyes.
"My name is Naofumi Iwatani, twenty years old, and I am a University student." He announced himself, but with that expression on his face, I could tell that he was nervous.
"Now the night is soon upon so my Servants will show you to a chamber that you all can rest in for the night and some food. So that tomorrow you can all meet the adventures that have arrived at the capital to fight alongside you Legendary Heroes. So that your power can increase to fight the Waves. That is all."
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"Man, this was not the best," Motoyasu complained as he put his plate down.
"This place looks to be medieval one, so it probably lacks some spices and sugar you're used too have in the food and a lack of certain other things," Naofumi stated showing the expertise he had food in before coming here.
"Or maybe it's because the programmers didn't code it correctly. I mean you have noticed the status menu, right? It has stat attributes and health bars. This is exactly like a video game." Itsuki spoke.
"Yeah, you're right; it's just like Emerald Online," Motoyasu responded.
"Eh, you must mean Dimension Wave the most success full single-player game released?" Itsuki asked.
"Heh, what you talking about such a game doesn't exist at least I haven't heard about it. Everyone plays Emerald Online, and I got a look out the window earlier, this place looks almost exactly like like it." Motoyasu stated.
"And almost is the keyword here. Even if it looks like what you knew doesn't mean it is. This is real life, not a game even if we got a game like a status screen. Also, if we had been transported to a game, I don't think we would have felt a sense of hunger."
"Can't argue with that logic; it seems solid," Naofumi stated.
"This world looks to be the typical Isekai Fantasy world that for some reason, has lose RPG mechanics in it. Though these weapons probably take that universe base code and convert it into something we're familiar with. If we compared our menus, they would be completely different from each other and more similar to games, we know that fit the mold of our weapons." Like I had taken a quick look at my stats, and they were percentile-based instead of pure numbers. Much more Dark Souls, but my screens were more Diablo 3. And that was just my stats I hadn't even gotten a look at my weapon yet, to how it chose its evolutionary path.
Though what came out of Motoyasu's mouth next I hadn't expected. "Isekai Fantasy World?" He asked like he didn't know what I was talking about.
"Yeah, it's the current hot trend over in your entertainment industry. I'm pretty sure you would know that with being from Japan and all?" I asked… or was this one of the differences in our worlds.
"Eh, what you talking about Sci-Fi is what it's all about epic space adventures and robots and technology, not being transported to another world like we were," Motoyasu stated.
"No, it's Dramas and Romance that is the big thing right now," Itsuki added.
"No Anders is correct, Isekai is really big right now." Naofumi butted in.
"I think that besides the fact we got summoned to this world, we are all from different Earths entirely." With me and Naofumi's being mostly similar in the grand scheme of things. "let's test it. President of the USA?"
"Hillary Clinton!"
"Barack Obama!"
"Donald Trump." Both Naofumi and I stated.
"Okay, let's try some more," I said.
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"Man, so me and Itsuki here from different earths, but you Naofumi and Anders looks to be from the same reality."
"Seems that way." The Shielder responded.
"Even so I a really sorry for you man even if this isn't a game. Getting the shield is just bad luck." Motoyasu stated.
"Huh, why?"
"You do know that shield is usel-."
I caught Motoyasu off. "And why would you think that? In any party, a tank and support are needed if we do equate our situation to being like a game. I mean sure in PvP a purely defensive build would not work for most the time. But this is basically PvE with massive raid events if we make the comparison so parties are needed and so healers and tanks are needed that can taunt. And I'm pretty sure since we got the offensive melee weapons, we probably won't get some utterly broken utility skill. Like Naofumi here is bound to get, cause that how it goes." Yeah, the Shield could unlock some broken as support abilities, that I think the other weapons won't access a fraction of even if they were fed the same materials like Naofumi had done with his. "The game you played was probably lucky that it didn't burn and crash when they realized the support class was broken in the wrong way," I told Motoyasu.
"… Well, when you put it like that." Motoyasu sounded like a deflated balloon.
"Yeah, we should probably curb our expectations of this world, just because it looks like the game we are familiar with doesn't it is. But Naofumi, Anders you didn't mention the game you played that was similar to this world?"
"Well, I didn't play a game that was like you guys, I just found a book in the library that was about the four heroes and devious Princess. Actually, it was when I was about to read about the Shield I got seemingly sucked into it and was before the king along with you guys." Naofumi explained.
"Similar story here, mine was just a manga that was the adaptation of a Light Novel, but when I finished the latest chapter I got sucked through my computer screen, and now here I am." I finished.
"So you two didn't die before you got here?" Motoyasu asked… Oh yeah, the two of them actually died before coming here. I almost forgot about that, I did explain some of their behavior in the OTL. They had already died once, so why should they be concerned again. They just go to another world if they did like they had before.
"Eh, no I didn't. Did you two?" Naofumi asked with apprehension.
"Well, I think we should all go to bed now, right? Up and ready for the start of our big adventure, hopefully, our companions will be beautiful women." Motoyasu stated as he left the common room and into one of the four adjacent bedrooms. Itsuki left a few seconds later, leaving only me and Naofumi in the room.
"Well, Naofumi we should probably hit the hay."
"Yeah, that is probably a good idea and thank you for sticking up for me regarding the shield, I was about to think that I would be useless when he started talking. Didn't even think of support stuff." He thanked me.
"Hey, no problem. While we can't work together permanently, we're still in this mess together. But one word of advice Naofumi while the manga wasn't a perfect representation of this world, the meeting with the king was eerily similar." I half-truthed it. "So, I will warn you to look out for a woman using the name Myne, cause she apparently the avatar of the main bad guy," I told him, which caused Naofumi too look at me with a questioning look. "Yeah, I know that it might not be true, but I am just concerned for that woman had something out for that Shield Hero I read about. Just be careful. You look like a good kid, and I don't want to see that optimism ruined." I said as I entered my one-night bedroom.
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The legendary sword was on the night table that was inside the bedroom that I had moved so that it was in front of the bed I was sitting on.
I was about to see if this actually would work, for it did it would increase my power tremendously it didn't matter if didn't get access to the swords right now. I just wanted to see if I could make the Legendary Sword become one, even if it was locked off to me at higher levels. If not well, I didn't know how else to get strong enough weapons that would allow me to fight on par with someone like Glass.
The panel of her mosessing the sea was still seared into my mind.
I had to factoids that formed the basis of the experiment I was about to do.
The first was the fact that the Legendary Weapon had access to my memories how else did know to change its interface to something that I was familiar with.
The second was that the weapons had the ability to copy other weapons and their abilities.
And so I thought if I thought hard enough, believed hard enough. It could copy all the swords of various fictional characters I had in my memories. That was I thought was needed to make this work.
Belief.
These weapons could do anything so long as you believed it was possible within their restrictions. Sure they didn't start off max power, you still had to work your way towards that goal.
So to me, it didn't matter if I had to level to eighty to get access or get a lower power version and then enhance it too make it fully powered.
Either of those would work.
I grabbed the sword hilt and closed my eyes. "Please work." I thought of something simple something with no extraordinary abilities on its own but had an extraordinary wielder. A blade tougher than normal, but still in the realm of humans.
I opened my eyes, and I saw it.
Monohozhi Zao Lv.1
Sword Technique: Locked: Req. Lv.100
Sword Style: Infinite Form Lv.1
I laughed.
I laughed a silent laugh as I saw the box of words floating above the much smaller gemstone in the blades.
My status appeared, and I saw another bubble grow from the Basic Sword that represented my newly unlocked blade. No, it came from the bubble that had appeared like a branch growing from a tree.
This was a part of a series, Monohozhi Zao had become a part of a series, and its name was.
[Swords of Fantasy]
Made sense this wasn't the actual Monohozhi Zao wielded by Sasaki Kojiro from Fate, but one recreated from my memories of it.
My fantasy.
This would be my primary development path.
Though the words under the name and the level number beside it gave some insight into it.
The level next to the name meant that I could enhance it, so that blade itself dealt more damage on its own. I checked, and the Basic Sword had the same. Probably by utilizing the Motoyasu method of feeding it different metals, aka the Dark Souls method.
Urgh Titanite farming.
And then there was the Sword Technique which was probably Tsubame Gaeshi. And the requirement locked seemed to refer to the Sword Style rather than the level of the sword itself. As that made the most sense but how the hell?
Another window popped up.
Hidden Skill Unlocked.
Self-Taught: Can learn the style of any sword held.
And that appeared to be my cheat skill which fixed my issue that I had never actually never learned or held an actual sword in my life. And that also meant that I didn't need to try and find somebody to help me swing my blade.
Another thing was that I seemingly didn't get any stat boost from the sword itself, or maybe this was more Dark Souls than I realized, and I needed to spend gathered EXP to increase my stats, with certain ones increasing my swords damage via percentile scaling. Which could make me extremely powerful. Though I still needed to work for that.
That was thoughts for later when I leveled up tomorrow.
Yeah, tomorrow.
And then there was the problem of my potential teammates, cause I needed someone that would be able to read for me. For I had zero development potential in learning to read another language, I had spent all my points into English for a secondary language.
There was also the fact that one of them could be a potential spy for the king. Or did I go the OG Naofumi route and get a Demi-Slave and beast companion and hopefully get a slave and beastmaster sword.
But there was also the fact that Motoyasu and Itsuki had not brought up the fact that I was not Japanese or talked about my nationality. So maybe I was just fucking paranoid, and I should just take the fucking advantage of the King and the Church as they did, in fact, praise my name.
Yeah, just take whatever companions got assigned to me tomorrow and hope they were not all dicks, go to the Slave Trader, by an animal companion. Have it grow and proceed to ride it into battle.
"Though let's see if this works," I said to myself as I took my wallet and phone out of my sports jacket. I had been about to do my bi-daily bike when I read the chapter, so I had them on me at the moment. I had seen this being done in another fic, so hopefully, this would work for me.
I took out my card and placed the empty wallet and phone onto the sword, and I saw them get absorbed.
Other World Items absorbed.
Unlocked: Dimensional Inventory
Unlocked: Messaging Function
Unlocked: Calling Function
Unlocked: Playlist Function
Well, it seems it just integrated it into the system instead of becoming like a sound sword.
But this was worth it, now I constant access to my music without fear of my phone running out of power, as my sword had basically become a phone.
Hopefully the other had their phones on them so they could do the same and be in constant communication with each other.
Again that would be for tomorrow.
Did that call and message function also extend to party members? I thought to myself as I fell asleep on the surprisingly comfortable bed.
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A/N: Got three chapters so I be posting them over the weekend. If you like this or any other of my stories you can donate to my P A Treon. com (Slash) StreamingViking and read commissioned stories
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