This is an Overlord and Arifureta Crossover Fanfiction Only but that there might be some ideas from other animes and there might be some other characters showing up in this story for some cameos from time to time and we might let a character or characters to stay in the story permanently if the readers like them enough
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Well for the next two months, we did nothing that you would expect out of the ordinary, we went to classes that taught us about the world, many monsters, different cultures, they were humans, demons and the beast people, the humans were referred to as the blessed by their God named Ehit, the demons were considered evil incarnate.
If I didn't know any better I call this propaganda more than classes, and the beast people were considered little more than nuisances, glorified pests really, the instructors didn't care one bit if they all die.
The physical training was more akin to what I would expect from Boot Camp, they assigned us a knight with according to his introduction has plenty of experience and been in combat against the enemies of humanity for years. Little more than a drill instructor I was thinking, but in reality, Meld was actually a very kind and supportive person.
He answered questions as long as we did it during the times that he was not teaching us combat or having us work out. All in all, I consider the entire time one thing, boring me to tears, I had to sneak out in the middle of the knight to do exercise to my satisfaction, to hit their library, and to learn more on my own.
Kaori was following me, she was not exactly the best at stealth if I could notice her so easily, the second thing I found is that my stats on the status plate, these sort of tablets that showed our stats when we used them, they were readily available even commoners have them, and each was bonded to a user by dropping a single drop of blood on it.
Well, my stats were average for an ordinary commoner, unlike the others who apparently received some immense increase in their initial stats, and they each had amazing jobs, which if they work at it would gain them amazing abilities, me? I got one that a commoner would get a Synergist, which was pretty much your basic blacksmith.
The one ability I did have is transmutation, meaning I could change things by either combining them or by changing their molecular composition. The one thing the others didn't know however was that in my backpack the day we were transferred was, in fact, my old Amusphere. Most of them had a horrible time trying to become able to read books, but thanks to the Amusphere and me using the Status Plate as a charger, I was able to learn to read, write, and understand languages better than they could.
No I am not kidding, I used the auto-translation function of the Amusphere to manage to learn their written and spoken language, I tried to do that with every language I could find which ended up unlocking a skill for me, language comprehension, seeing that I would get no more benefit from it I merged it with the status plate thinking why not experiment?
The result ended up with a short-range communication function and an automatic map that showed the users current location, I ended up adding to the status plate the functions of a GPS and a walkies talkie, I tried to show this to the others as a means to be sociable. This effort did not have a great deal of success.
The bullies in my class called it bullshit, if a weakling like me could come up with this, they would already have it, and those that at least gave me the benefit of doubt actually did appreciate the map function and the ability to communicate, some even said they feel better now that they would not get lost or could ask for help in case of an emergency.
I am not expecting Daisuke to become a saint by being called one of the heroes summoned by their god to save the human race from the threat of the demons, but no, he remained the same bully as ever, it seems nothing that happens will ever manage to make this person into anyone that saw reason.
Even I know that there is a better chance of us surviving this thing if we work together, strength in numbers should not be such a strange notion for him, but he is an egotistical, sadistic jerk, just like it said in the old play, a jerk will be a jerk by any other name he would still be a jerk.
I got excluded from most combat lessons, thanks to my martial arts training and my late-night training and study sessions I don't think I am as defenseless as they think, the other thing that happened was I unlocked a detection skill which in large part I gained a lot of practice since apparently the most beautiful girl in our high school year is still stalking me for some unknown reason.
I think I got a basic understanding of what is going on, the humans and demons have been at war against each other for countless generations, they probably consider each other the enemy of all life if not creation itself. The animosity that had been caused by generations seeing their loved ones go off to die was nothing to sneeze at.
They each believe that they are fighting for the very survival of their race, everything was going great for the humans till one day the demons found a way to either tame or control monsters, this added ability or abilities caused the humans to begin to feel threatened and that is why my class was summoned I get that summoning heroes from another world is sort of their trump card.
The situation must be pretty bad for them to use their greatest advantage, I told this to other people, only 50% of everyone believes what I am saying.
"Miss, I hate to tell you this but now that the heroes have received some basic skills and physical training, it is time for them to move to explore the dungeons, we have one that is particularly good for people that lack sufficient combat experience. I know that you are against it, and I know you are doing everything you can to help our food shortage."
This guy looked more like a cardinal than a King, his robes screamed that he was a highly ranked member of the clergy of some sort of religion, more than likely it is the church that worships this god named Ehit.
"I know that you said that you didn't want to risk the lives of these young people, so we have decided that only people that choose to fight will enter the dungeon, we will not force them to go against their will, and in fact, we would never want risk of other people, especially people who are not even from our world, but the war with the demons has pushes us till we had no other choice but to summon heroes from another world."
I do not like this one bit, not because this is unexpected, but because they clearly have planned all our training even before we were ever summoned. This means they knew exactly who is going to appear and what our talents would be.
"Very well, as long as you do not force my students to go into combat I will accept that." I, however, need to do something to keep my classmates alive, Touch Me would do no less to help the innocent, so I can do no less.
I placed my hand on my jacket and pulled out a tablet, I began to cause the video of the tablet to project on a wall, "I know that you and your people need an incentive as too why you should keep these people that do not want to participate in combat safe, on the wall design on five inventions that would immensely improve the standard of living, prevent food decay, and even provide lighting for both home and streets to improve life and security."
"These designs and the information how to implement them is in our native language, and so in order for you to use all of the designs which are over twenty you will need a person able to read and understand this language these are written in, meaning one of my classmates, and those that do not participate should be able to put these designs to good use, but it will take the time to finish implementing all of them."
The man in charge looked at me and smiled, "And so keeping the people from your world that does not wish to fight would ensure that these things we are looking at are indeed built, and our people will benefit, quite the incentive, but I have to ask how long ago did you finish making these designs and instructions?"
I told him since three days ago, one thing that I studied was their current level of technology. If anything I had with me could be useful to keep them alive, you better believe I would. They may hate my guts, they may call me names, but I will never stand to the level of a mere bully.
"Very well since you were willing to work harder than the other heroes, I am willing to make one more concession in thanks to your hard work to make the lives of our people better, I shall promise you that I shall always provide your fellow heroes with the best gear that is available to me."
Well that goes without saying, he summoned us to fight an enemy he needs help with, an enemy he couldn't beat by himself, so that tells me the demons or the demon king is nothing to take in lightly. Being the master blacksmith of Ainz Ooal Gown taught me many things, one key thing is never taking a situation for granted.
I prepared gear for my guildmates for any situation they could possibly come across, some people told me that I was overly cautious, I was never one that would let others suffer due to my failure to at least get them the gear they needed, if I had access to resources and a forge, I could provide gear for them that could put what this king calls his best to shame.
"Tomorrow morning will be your first visit to the dungeon, I expect that you will be able to clear at least five floors tomorrow, this should give you a good chance to get used to using your combat skills, and get used to actual combat." I have to say Meld does make a rather good point going in blind without knowing how to use their abilities is a recipe for disaster.
The others had a light dinner, and I had a small snack and decided to continue training my basic synergist skill, transmutation, I needed to be ready to help my classmates in case they get nervous or flat out freak out when they see their first monster. I focused on one large rock and began to practice changing everything from size to weight, from physical dimensions meaning from big to small.
Once that was done I began to focus on the ground beneath it and focused on moving the ground to do what I wanted, to make a pitfall, to make a mound, to make walls, to even make hard surfaces to let people rest. It seems transmutation is only limited by the imagination of the user.
Thanks to the chemistry and geology books in my tablet, I began to change the rock into different things, from crystals to metals, to plants, to finally back to the original rock. Over and over I tried to make this rock into different things combining and mixing various aspects and going through the four states of matter, solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. I found the gas and plasma to be the most difficult to control unless they were inside a container.
I went to sleep and decided that was more than enough for me to be able to at least to help them, Synergist was never considered a combat-related role, and so since I basically supported I would be the very best support they could have.
As we boarded the carriages to take us to the city that was built around the first dungeon it made me keenly aware that indeed I wish I could improve their means of transport, if only to improve how much they were apparently uncomfortable riding on these carriages, I call them over-glorified wagons, this made me realize that I never appreciated something as basic as an SUV, a bus, a car or motorcycle.
The city was actually very active it was called the city of Velnika, or so the books say, the city at one point was a mining town till thanks to people exploring the Orcus Great Labyrinth that the town actually became a rather thriving city. Why would anyone go willing down where monsters constantly spawn and re-spawn?
The Labyrinth may be dangerous but it also an easily accessible place where people can obtain various gems and minerals that are extremely useful, it is still a mining city regardless of the monsters, miners have never been a bunch that was not aware of potential danger or the hazard of their profession.
The entrance had a garrison of soldiers stationed there, and an Office of the guild, doctors, and restaurants were not found far from the entrance since it only makes sense that after a long day of fighting off monsters or mining, one could be hungry or end up injured. The food I have to admit it was rather bland, I like my food to be a little bit spicier than this.
As we entered the large gates Meld divided us into our given roles, short-range combatants, middle range and long-range, and of course, I was stuck in the back with all the support members, which were a grand total of three.
Our priestess, Kaori, the guy who always seemed to be able to hide his presence like a ninja Kousuke, and of course myself the synergist of the group, still I am not going to complain, chances are that I will be a lot more help back here with how low my stats are compared to the others.
The first monsters were shall we say unique, not really threatening at all if all the comments from the ladies in my class was anything to go by, the either call them adorable or cute, well I never got a chance to see them alive because Daisuke simply screamed that it was too girly and blasted them with a fireball.
Also since my stats were, in fact, the lowest I got to eat last, good thing I packed plenty of emergency provisions with me, these people can sure tie the old feedbag let me tell you, sure a lot fo the girls are beautiful but boy that is a surprise with how much they eat or were they wasting food and I didn't even notice?
"So Hajime you doing alright? You are not hurt or anything is you?" Why is Kaori always so worried about me and willing to jump at every single chance to help me? I never done anything for her that deserve this much consideration, we went through high school together that is true, but it was not like we were an item back them, we barely talk to each other about homework or a test.
"I am doing just fine, the only thing I could say is how am I going to get any combat experience way back here, I can barely use my transmutation ability to keep the guys fighting safe making those shields or those pitfalls to make it easier to kill monsters."
That is when they both looked at me like I had grown an extra head, "Wait, that was you that did that? I thought that the strikes of their weapons caused that. If we dye your head blonde and put the armor arm and leg on you, why we can call you Edward Elric."
Since he decided to say that, "Except that I am not the shortest one in our class, and I don't have a hulking little brother whose body is a big suit of armor, haha, very funny now come on, you have to concentrate to sense the enemy. Honestly Kaori I am fine, by the way, are you two still hungry?"
She looked at me a bit embarrassed, "Well you know Hajime using abilities like we have tended to take quite a bit of energy from us, so we tend to get hungry quite a bit, thank goodness you packed so much food, but I do worry that the backpack you have on is a bit too heavy for you."
I looked at her and smiled, "Don't worry remember I am a support member of the team, sure Daisuke calling the food I prepared garbage and still eating it was not nice, but then again he was never a nice guy, to begin with. I and Kousuke know this better than anyone." Kousuke was eating something and began to nod his head.
Well we managed to go down ten floors, and I have to admit a lot of the gems were rather nice the glow gems keeps the place nicely lit, and blast gems were easy to spot, the red gems that looked like they were on fire, the glow gems were green, and the metal at this place helped me make barriers and pitfalls that were both sturdy and kept the monsters in place so the others could finish them off.
I would say this was more like a school field trip than anything, but there was something I noticed, the floors each had one major monster as the sort of floor boss, and the monsters seemed to be stronger the deeper we go. The second thing I notice is that the monster population seems to replenish or they regenerate give enough time.
I swear sometimes they make me think we are actually stuck in the game Dark Souls, and the monsters re-spawn like when a player saved their game. When I mentioned to both of them for some odd reason they were shocked to hear that I actually played all three of those games in my Amusphere.
Why were they so shocked? These three games came pre-installed in the Amusphere as a package deal for the system or were it that it was a special deal only in Halloween, cause I got it as a gift.
It is one thing how difficult it is on the old consoles, but having been the first person, where you practically feel like you are living it, is harder, all three of the Dark Souls games could give some people nightmares, then I finished Bloodborne, again why are they so surprised? "Come on, let's follow the others, or we might get left behind."
At the end of the day we all managed to get back to the entrance, Meld seemed very proud of our progress, all the food I made was gone, and Kousuke kept asking me how in the world did I defeat one enemy after another from the game Dark Souls, I guess he is a fan of them.