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Library

As he walked through the library to check on the selection of books that were in the shelves, Naofumi noticed a book whose cover seemed to be a faded brown leather.

"Hmmm, What's this?" Naofumi wondered as he picked up the book and walked towards a table.

And as he sat down Naofumi looked at the cover and the words "the Tales of the Four Heroes".

"Hmm... Let's see what this is all about." Naofumi said as he opened the book and saw Blank pages.

"Is this some sort of joke?" Naofumi wondered as he flipped the pages getting blank pages on the book.

Until some odd bright lights came off of the book blinding Naofumi, and as the light dissipated and Naofumi along with his cane had disappeared and the only thing remaining on the table was the book.

"Ugh." Naofumi grunted as he woke up and found his face meeting the floor, so with a tired body Naofumi got up on his feet with the assistance of his cane and looked around and saw some odd men dressed as if they were monks, who looked at him with surprise shown on their face, and... Fear?

"It's a Demi-Human." One of them said in a hush.

Then Naofumi looked at his left hand and noticed a shield with a gem in the middle of it, which made him raise an eyebrow in curiosity

Then grunting noises were as he saw one of the kids, waking up. He had black hair, normal complexion, and was wearing a black and blue track suit, and had an odd looking sword. then the other to his left, a blond wearing what looked like an university and on his right hand was a bow that doesn't seem like any model he'd seen and seemed a bit archaic compared to the compound bows used by the likes of Platinum. And last but not least another blond who looked older then the kids at the side, he was wearing a short sleeved red shirt with a white T-shirt underneath and next to him was a spear.

Though what caught Naofumi's eyes were the gems, they were the same size, same diameter and placed somewhere at the center of the weapon.

"Now... what could you be? Are you some sort of a power weapons, or something else entirely? So many questions so little time." Naofumi thought to himself wondering what these equipment could be, however it wasn't his style to use shields, that was left to Defender Operatives, at first he was classified as a Guard Operative but after his right leg got crippled during Kazdel's civil war he was reclassified as a Caster, with him having his cane as a conduit and his gloves as back-ones in case he lost his cane.

"Anyways, what in god's grey earth is going on here, and who are you monks?" Naofumi asked the monks in front of him, with a mildly displeased look on his face.

"Where are we?" Asked the blond school boy as he looked around and took in his surroundings.

"Who are you people?" Asked the black haired boy as he aimed his sword at the monks.

And as for the 2nd blond in the group looked somewhat angry and irritated and pointed his spear at the monks.

"Tell me what the heck's going on!" The Blond man demanded.

"Please ignore them and continue, though do make it a quick summary, I do not believe that we have all day, now do we?." Naofumi asked of them.

"Right. Now, how we summoned you is a bit complicated. But we basically performed a ritual where we were to summon four heroes to save our world from the waves of catastrophe, they are dimensional cracks that allow dangerous and vicious monsters to spill onto our world causing havoc and destruction whenever they appear, so please we beg of you save our world brave heroes." The head monk explained to them and then begged them to help to stop the waves of catastrophe he talked about.

"Huh... sounds like one of the summoning Isekai, type instead of the mc getting killed in the most vicious of manners." Naofumi thought to himself

"No way, you should realize demanding someone to help you out after you kidnapped them isn't the best way to do it." The spear wielding blond said in a sarcastic, if somewhat mildly condescending tone

"Hm... Please I do beg you pardon this boy, as I am well aware that you fine gentlemen are simply doing as your ruler probably told you, and I am sure that the king knows much more in such matters, no?" Naofumi interjected hoping to defuse the situation before this place got bloody.

"Indeed, now if you would please follow me." The monk said as he led Naofumi and the other three to meet with the king.

As they walked across the hallway and up some spiraling stairs Noafumi saw the three of the teenagers shooting him curious glances at him and turned their heads as soon as Noafumi looked directly ay them.

"Man... I really hate this sort of stuff." Naofumi thought to himself recalling the times where he had to play delegate and really hating to do these sort of Political stuff especially during the Babel days, but hey... it's not as if he had much of choice on the matter, if he wanted to know where he was he would have to meet up with the man in charge of this place.

And as they passed by a window Naofumi looked to his left and took in the view of the place outside, and man what a view it was, he saw a town near the castle, but what got his attention wasn't the town itself. No, but the fact that it wasn't situated in a Nomadic city, and saw the lush greenery that could be seen for kilometers.

"What view." Naofumi said to himself as he took in the view, and he had to admit it, it sure beat most of the places like Ursus and Kazdel.

And he hoped that things would go to heck like they did on Terra, with Originium and what not. So after what felt like minutes to him he followed suit and walked to meet with the king, who knows he may be much better then the smug nobles of Ursus and Kazdel.

He stands corrected, the king in front of him looks more like grandiose schmuck, then nobles in Ursus or Kazdel he was dressed in a noble purple, with white fur as décor, and was wearing all sorts of jewelry like golden rings adorned with Gems, and a rather grandiose crown adorned with jewels and ornate figures.

"Why do I feel like my gut is telling me to punch this guy for some reason." Naofumi thought to himself as he looked at the "King" in front of him, and not liking him at all, say what you will about the Ursus and Kazdel nobles at least they can compensate with action and strength without flaunting to much money, unless they were throwing a party of course, but this King in front of him it felt, it felt as if he was flaunting his richness simply on clothes, and let's not forget about the nobles that were at the side, they had an even more condescending look than king, and they were looking at him as if he were a vermin just for existing.

At least King had a mildly veiled condescending look to him.

And as he looked to his right Naofumi noticed a redhead with emerald green eyes looking at him with a flirting look to her face.

"Just what's going on?" Naofumi thought to himself his gut telling him to be careful with the redhead.