It's been twelve days since the heroes started their training. The results of their training are very satisfying. Even though their levels are very low, but their stats can be compared to every human between level 30 to 50.
The trainings are still the same, but they also started to practice to kill monsters for real only in the ninth day of their training. Because the heroes are from the world where killings almost rare, most of them, mostly girls, were hesitant to kill them, except the gamers like Kaede and Risa.
The reason Meld wanted them to practice killing monsters for real was to throw away their hesitation against them. He even asked the training instructors to teach them how to harvest the monster cores from their corpses, which made the summoned heroes, except the usual duo, reluctantly doing it while they disgusted to do that, mostly the girls.
There's one question regarding the monsters that made everyone in there baffled. The one who asking it was Kaede, and her question was simple. It's about the monsters edible to be eaten or not.
Everyone's in there, even the summoned heroes, turned their head to her in wonder, except Risa, and thought that she might be insane or too hungry for asking that. But the knight captain sternly answered her with definite 'no' and warned all of the summoned heroes to not eat monsters meat because it's very poisonous to the length able to kill a human in an instant.
Hearing that revelation made Kaede widened her eyes in surprise because she's already ate monsters before but she's still fine. Of course she's still didn't tell anyone about it because of C-san's warning. When the knight captain asked her about that question, she only answered him with 'just curious' while stutter a little because she knew she's not a good liar like her best friend.
As for Risa, while she's surprised too, she can be considered safe because she's only bite the monsters as her final attack just to experiment if she's able to get weird skills like her best friend, like what she did in the game when she fought the spider boss monster. But the result was borderline between normal and weird.
After that and no one asked another questions, Meld allowed them to end their training earlier than usual to let them recovered from their aftershock for killing monsters for the first time. He even warned them that there're even stronger monsters than what they fought for the first time.
In tenth to twelfth days of the heroes training, the training returned back to usual, except become more intense than before. The training instructors started to teach them the high level weapons technique and magic to them because they're already capable enough to do that.
As for Kaede and Risa, they became Frederica's assistants to train Hajime, the weakest of the summoned heroes. At first, he didn't know why the blonde haired girl wanted them to become her assistant, until she told him that Risa will be essential for his training while Kaede for Suzu later.
Frederica even explained to Hajime how the Synergists in Tortus have a lot of potential as a fighter, but never polished their potential except as a blacksmith. The reason she wanted to train him because he has a potential to become a Trapper and a degraded version of Geomancer with his Transmute skill and advices him to think out of the box with that skill or use the knowledge of his world.
There's fire in his eyes after knew that he can provide more than just knowledge to his classmates and agreed instantly. His training is simple, just to create walls and traps, like holes and spikes, with his Transmute skill with Risa as his target to evade and predict all of it.
Hajime wanted to laugh in despair for the big hurdle he has. He knew about the ponytailed girl endless spar with almost everyone and never losing even once because of her insane agility, like her game avatar competitive personality, even though he didn't know about her current stats. He also knew about Frederica's unorthodox way of training from the other training instructors, but gave a great result. But Kaede reassure him that even if he's unable to hit Risa, his stats still improved and maybe able to gain new skills too.
After being reassured by her, Hajime and Risa started their training like what Frederica instructed without worry if the former almost burned out his mana because the blonde haired girl has prepared a lot of mana potions for him.
Few hours later, Suzu joined their training after she's done training her barrier magic. When she saw Hajime cast a lot of spikes and holes while Risa evades it, she thought he was trying to bully the ponytailed girl, until Kaede explained everything to the twintailed girl. After heard the reason behind it, she cheered both of them and turned to Frederica with a glint of eager in her eyes.
At first, Frederica didn't know what to do to train her because she has low knowledge about barrier magic. But, after she knew the twintailed girl can use another magic, she decided to train her how to use multiple low or middle tier spell in one single cast with Kaede as her target.
Both Kaede and Suzu glanced at her like she's gone crazy, until she explained to them the reason for that training. While the twintailed girl knew that the reason for that training to increase her capabilities to cast offensive magic, she doesn't want to hurt her new friend just for that. As for the other girl, she knew that she hated being hurt, but she also thought that if she got a resistance in magic, the pain will be lessened to the length until it doesn't hurt at all, and she can become a sturdiest defense specialist ever exist.
Both of them agreed for that, with a slight reluctance for Suzu. But after Kaede obtained magic resistance skill, the training method changed with Frederica taught the black haired girl how to use buff magic while Risa become a moving target for Hajime and Suzu to train their skills while teamed up until they able to hit her at least once, but they still unable to hit her until the end of twelfth day.
The ponytailed girl knew that she's been overworked by Frederica because she's always defeat her in less than 30 seconds, but she didn't mind with this because she likes challenge a lot, as long as it improved her skills.
The result of their training with Frederica was very satisfying. While Kaede and Risa unable to level up or increase their stats, the former able to learn all magic resistance, support magic, and lesser mana consumption while the latter able to learn prediction while her quick movement become top acceleration.
As for Hajime and Suzu, while both of them learned lesser mana consumption, the latter able to use two to three low to middle tier spell in one cast while the former got some skills related to his Transmute skill. Not only that, he also leveled up to level five with his stats is average 22, except his magic which reached 30.
Even though he was happy with his improvement, deep town he still considered himself weaker than the rest of the class. To cheer him up, the blonde haired girl gave him a task to create two tessen for Suzu while she already prepared the materials for it, which he agreed with it and got cheered by the twintailed girl who can't wait for her new weapons.
In those three days of training, there's a new rumor regarding Hajime from his classmates. It said that Hajime started to create a harem with Kaede, Risa, Suzu, and Frederica as part of his harem. The girls, except Frederica who already leave them, cleared the misunderstanding and told them that they're just friend who wanted to help him while he only sighed because he knew it'll happen when he only associated himself with the girls, especially Kaede and Risa, but they got reprimanded by Kouki for pampered him a lot, which angered Risa a lot because he's still unable to see Hajime's situations.
When everyone left to their room which only three girls and Hajime left, Suzu apologized to them for what Kouki said. After Hajime reassure her and leave to his room, they saw Kaori approached them, especially the twintailed girl, and shook her shoulder roughly while asking for explanation with her usual smile. She told her that her relationship with Hajime only as a friend, which made the class beauty glad.
But Kaori's relief only for a short while because Suzu teased her by saying that her love to her is endless in perverted old man tone while groping her breast, which made Risa creep out for watching it because she didn't know that side of the twintailed girl while Kaede only laughed a little because she already knew it since they've been transported to another world.
After that, they left to their respective room. But Kaede stopped Risa and wanted her to come to her room for experiment, which the ponytailed girl agreed with it and thought what kind of bizarre experiment she wanted to do.
The night has come, and it's the time for everyone in the palace, especially the summoned heroes, to sleep for tomorrow, except the guards who got night shifts. But somehow, the number of the guards in the palace seems doubled than usual.
Inside Kaede's room, she and her best friend doing a bizarre experiment. The experiment is about them doing a spar against each other, but not actually them.
"Syrup, tackle!"
"Oboro, dodge and tail attack!"
The one who're doing a spar were Syrup the turtle and Oboro the white fox. In their spar, they're banned to use magic because Oboro's tamer thought that their magic is quite destructive and cause a commotion to everyone in the palace, which Syrup's tamer reluctantly agreed with the term while grumbled a little because she can't see the turtle's power for real.
The result of their spar were draw, with Syrup unable to hit Oboro while the fox unable to damage the turtle. After their spar, Kaede and Risa sit on the floor and petted their respective pet monsters affectionately while fed them with leftover foods they got from one of the palace maid.
Because of them always asking for leftover foods, there's a rumor about them being a big eater. But they didn't know that those foods were for their pet monsters, and they didn't mind about it.
Risa decided to ask her regarding the experiment.
"Say, Kaede. Why're you wanted Syrup and Oboro to have a spar?"
"That because I wanted to know if they able to evolve or not." Kaede replied while smiled happily.
"E…Evolve?"
The answer she got from her best friend made her puzzled. She never thought about the possibility about their pet monsters able to evolve. Even though it's a possibility, there's also a chance that their pet monsters able to do that.
"But…I think they only able to evolve when reached a certain level and in a certain area." Kaede said wistfully.
"When you said that, I think it's the most possible way." Risa replied while agreeing with what she said.
Then both of them sighed because their experiment is failed, but their pet monsters comforted them which cheered them up and giggled for that. Then, they heard someone knocked the door.
"This is bad. Kaede, let's return them back to our ring! And don't forget to wear your gloves!"
"R-right!"
While panicked, they able to 'hibernate' their pet monsters inside their ring and wore their gloves to conceal their ring on time. Then Kaede opened the door and found out that it wasn't the maid or the guard, but Frederica.
"Frederica-san…"
"Yo, Maple-chan. May I come in? There's something I wanted to discuss with you." Frederica said in playful tone.
While Kaede still unsure what to say and why she wanted to meet her, she let her in. When the blonde haired girl entered the room, she saw Risa also in there, which made the ponytailed girl sighed after knew who it was.
"I thought it was the palace servant, but it's actually you, Frederica." Risa said in tired tone.
After gotten along very well with the blonde haired girl, she decided to call her without formality since she's been overworked by her.
"Why are you saying that, Sally-chan?" She didn't know why Risa saying that, until she remembered when she asked the ponytailed girl to become a moving target. "If you're mad because I asked you to become a moving target, then I'm sorry for that." She said apologetically.
Risa raised her eyebrow because of that, and then sighed because she has to clear the misunderstanding.
"I'm not angry about that because I really enjoyed the challenge. I'm saying that because I thought our pet monsters will be exposed by someone." She explained it to her, which the blonde haired girl nodded in understanding while thinking about Risa being a masochist. "Also, I'm not a masochist."
Frederica jolted in surprise because she thought her thought has been exposed by the ponytailed girl. She didn't know why Risa talked about pet monsters, until Kaede explained it to her.
"We wanted to try if Syrup and Oboro able to evolve by doing a spar, but I guess it failed." Kaede sighed after she said that.
"Evolve? I really never thought about that." She said in honest tone.
Then an idea popped on the black haired girl head.
"How about you let Knots have a spar with either Syrup or Oboro? I want to know how strong she is." Kaede said in excited tone, while Risa who heard that only nodded.
"Sorry to disappoint you, but Knots will be defeated easily by either Syrup or Oboro because she's a buffer type." The blonde haired girl said while laughed nervously, who made both of them sighed in disappointment.
After that small talk, Frederica decided to tell them the reason she come to the black haired girl's room with serious expression, which is unusual for them since they knew she's always being playful to everyone. She's also planned to visit the ponytailed girl in her room too, but since she's in her best friend room now, the blonde haired girl doesn't need to do that.
"C-san already told you about I'm the first player who got transported to Tortus from game, right?" Both girls nodded, with Risa added something.
"There're a lot of players in this world, right?"
"Yeah…And from those players, there's one player I wanted to warn you." She said in serious tone which made Kaede gulped and Risa seriously listened to what she said next. "I don't know her real name or her in-game name, but everyone in this world, including the players, known her as the Genocider."
"The Genocider…?" Both of them muttered the name in unison while Frederica nodded grimly.
"She slaughtered a lot of people in her way, no matter what their race is. And she also committed a lot of atrocity to the length she's become the most wanted criminal in Tortus and the enemy of all kind. Nobody knew the reason behind her action, but they knew one thing. She has no remorse, pity, or joy for whatever atrocity she made."
After they heard about the Genocider's actions, Kaede put her hands to her mouth with horrified expression on her face while Risa only clenched her fists while tried to calm her fear.
"B-But why did she doing that? Killing people are very wrong!" Kaede said tearfully.
"Like I said before, nobody knew the reason behind it. And sorry for saying this, Maple-chan, but sometimes, we have to kill people just to survive. The people I mean are like bandits or slave traders. We can't apply the law from our world to this world." The blonde haired girl said in matter-of-fact tone. Before she left the room, she said another thing about the Genocider to them. "I almost forgot. Somehow, the Genocider always spared the players, like how she spared my life. As for her job, it's Assassin. And please don't tell anyone about it."
After Frederica left the room, Kaede and Risa thought deeply about what the blonde haired girl said. The former didn't want to kill a person, no matter what their crime is. She felt uneasy just to think about that, so she decided to ask her best friend.
"Risa, do we have to kill someone just to survive?" Kaede said in dejected tone.
"I don't know, Kaede. But maybe…what Frederica said has some sense." Risa said unsurely.
"But-"
"Let me finish what I said first, Kaede." She interrupted the black haired girl and continued. "We don't know what kind of life Frederica did in this world, since she's already in this world for more than two months. But we know that she has to adapting in this world life just to survive. So that's why I thought that what she said has some sense." Risa explained it to her, which she only nodded weakly at that.
After that, Kaede reminded her best friend for not think about it before she left the room. When Kaede alone in her room, she changed her clothes with the nightgown and rest to the bed while thought about something.
I need to get strong, so that I can stop the Genocider before she hurt my friends. Kaede thought in determination. Then she continued. And when she stopped, I can try to befriend with her. She giggled at her thought and finally sleeps soundly.
Unbeknownst to her, Risa didn't get any sleep and stay alarmed in her own room while equipping her daggers and a scarf whose colors as blue as an ocean, the brighter one in her left hand known as Seabed Dagger and the darker one in her right hand known as Deep Sea Dagger while her scarf known as Surface Scarf, in case the Genocider entered her room.
Skills Descriptions
- All Magic Resistance
Grants resistance to any kind of magic attack.
- Lesser Mana Cost
The cost to use skills using mana are reduced.
- Prediction
Able to predict the possible attack of your enemies.
- Top Acceleration
Increase Agility by 33% in 5 minutes.
A/N
IT'S ALIVE! Short and not the best quality, but I hope you like it.
I wanted to say thanks to lewa282 for helping me fixed both Kaede and Risa stats because I thought they're far too op if they reached maximum level. You can see their fixed current stats after this note and sorry if it's become far weaker than before.
If you wondering about the Genocider in my story, I took it from different WN because she seems interesting to be the enemies of all kind in Tortus.
And if you don't know what tessen is, it's a japanese war fan. The reason I wanted to give Suzu two war fans because after I read Arifureta LN then thought 'what if she have weapons before entering Great Orcus Labyrinth?', and I'll try for that, I mean, she's always barehanded until Hajime creating the overpowered war fans for her when almost reached the end, right? I'll be very grateful if you help me for its design and what magic affinity imbued on it.
Don't forget to vote for my new story. If you have any questions, input, or suggestions, just write it in review or PM me. Also no flames and spam please.
Thank you.
Fixed current statistics (with all of the passive skills activated)
Honjou Kaede Age: 17 Level: 20
Job: Shieldbearer
STR : (39+1)
MAG : 39
VIT : ((809+121+202)x3)
AGI : 39
DEX : (39+1)
Active Skills:
- Shield Attack
- Shield Bash
- Cover
- Cover Move
- Poison Magic V [Venom Cutter] [Poison Darts] [Venom Capsule] [Acid Rain] [Venom Bullet]
- Frozen Earth
- Provoke
- Meditation
- Sheep Eater [Wooly]
- Crystal Wall
- Hydra Eater [Hydra] [Deadly Breath] [Paralyzing Shout]
- Unbreakable Shield
- Body Strengthening [low]
- Support Magic
Passive Skills:
- Language Comprehension
- Absolute Defense
- Fortress
- Venom Incantation
- No Chant
- Pain Resistance [medium]
- Physical Resistance [medium]
- All Magic Resistance [low]
- Poison Immunity
- Corrosion Resistance [medium]
- Explosion Resistance [low]
- Paralyze Immunity
- Petrification Resistance [low]
- Shield Proficiency V
- Sword Proficiency I
- Throwing Proficiency I
- Defensive Stance
- Deflect
- Inhumane
- Counter
- Iron Stomach
- Bizarre Eater
- Lesser Mana Cost
Shiramine Risa Age: 17 Level: 22
Job: Swashbuckler
STR : (125+125+50+1-25)
MAG : (125+20)
VIT : (42+1)
AGI : (498+249+70)
DEX : (249+40)
Active Skills:
- Triple Slash
- Power Attack
- Shockwave Punch
- Water Blade
- Poison Blade
- Wind Blade
- Top Acceleration
- Mirage
- Water Magic V [Water Ball] [Water Wall] [Water Cutter] [Water Torrent] [Iron Water Cannon]
- Wind Magic III [Wind Cutter] [Wind Wall] [Wind Slicer]
- Fire Magic II [Fire Ball] [Fire Wall]
- Sand Magic I [Sand Cutter]
- Light Magic I [Heal]
- Shadow Magic I [Shadow Ball]
- Ice Magic II [Freeze] [Icicle]
- Spiders Web V
- Phantom World
- Presence Concealment
- Ancient Sea
- Body Shtrengthening [low]
Passive Skills:
- Language Comprehension
- Dual Wielding
- No Chant
- Jack of All Trades
- Sword Dance
- Feather Legs
- Water Manipulation
- Thread Manipulation
- A Step Towards the Underworld
- Dweller of the Water World
- Poison Resistance [low]
- Swimming X
- Consecutive Attack IV
- Status Abnormal Attack II
- Dagger Proficiency IV
- Magic Proficiency III
- Bare-fist Proficiency I
- Throwing Proficiency I
- Presence Detection
- Stealth Movement
- Empty Shell
- Prediction
