Hello, the author here. so this fanfic has stuff from light novel specials from Ln 14-16.

I have read all of the light novels currently published and have also read some of the manga.

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If you want an explanation for anything you can find me on the shield hero discord server. Now without any more chit chat allow me to present Exploration hero.

Chapter one summoning of the Exploration hero.

"Our status as the pacifiers doesn't allow us to summon him." Someone yelled.

"Yes, I know that very well". King chuckled, before clearing his throat. "However, under these circumstances, I believe we can break the rules. Even with all of our power, we're unable to push back the monsters of the wave. Away from our towns, the enemies are too strong already, so I believe this is the time we must break the rules." I'm truly saddened by how far we have fallen, but perhaps this will allow us to prosper once more."

The king brought his hands forward, while simultaneously taking an old golden book out of his ropes. "Now then, the summoning shall begin," he said with absolute confidence.

At that moment a pillar of light appeared in the middle of the room. And from the light appeared a blonde-haired teen.

I put my left foot forward, dangling it from the edge of the dam and watching my friend look at me worryingly from below.

"Uh, I'm having second thoughts about this…" Muttered my best friend, Ryan like the worrywart he is. I waggled my eyebrows at him, my expression laced with smugness. His lips twitched, and a wolfish grin spread across my face.

…

..My name is Lucas and I'm a sixteen-year-old high school student. When people ask me what type of things I like to do. I would answer, doing something stupid, suicidal, or something similar. You want the short version? Fine, I'm an adrenaline junky, who loves danger and adventure. On the downside, I get injured quite easily. Still, nothing will ever stop me from doing things that I shouldn't do. After all, what's life without a thrill?

"Man, you sure that you can jump that?". My friend asked, worried. Well, anyone would be, when you are literally dangling from an edge. But he's still way too nervous.

"Absolutely, it's what nine feet? I can jump flat-footed. Where's your confidence in me?" I posed, pointing finger guns at Ryan with my foot still dangling from the edge.

"Sure you can." He quipped to me.

"It's going to be easy, just make sure you get that shot, I'd hate for this to be in naught," I said confidently.

My friends and I were atop a dam trying to make a parkour video. It was part of our high school art class, where we had to film a video that we thought was art. If you ask me, it was a complete waste of time. But I got to do parkour, so who cares? Parkour is love, parkour is life.

"Hurry up man, we don't have all day. My mom is going to kill me if I'm not back at home in two hours." He whined to me. Seriously, he needs to learn to break some rules. Not every rule is meant to be followed, after all.

"Fine, I'll do it, just give me a second." I placed my foot back on the edge, crouched, and using all the strength my quads and calves could give me, jumped. Looking below, I saw the white water raging below pass by in a blur, coming closer. My brain went into the flight-or-flight mode and I grinned, feeling the welcome and exhilarating feeling of adrenaline pass into my system.

"How's this, suckers?!" I yelled amidst the wind flying past me.

"Holy shit." I heard someone yell almost hysterically. I figured it out to be John. Well, he probably was just saying it for the video. After all, what could go wrong?

"...I don't think he's going to make it." Someone's voice echoed, and my brain stopped, a familiar feeling of uncertainty bloomed in my mind, cracking my confidence.

'What? Of course, I'll make it, I've jumped from lots of places-'

I looked at the edge of the river which I was supposed to be near, but to my horror, I found out that I was just short of it, and was seconds from plunging into the river below.

"LUCAS!" I heard Ryan shout, his tone laced with worry and anxiety. I wanted to tell him that I was okay and that it'll be fine, but the only voice that came out of me was a desperate plea for help as I hit the raging waters and then felt something crack.

"HELP ME! I DON'T WANT TO DIE!"

My vision was filled with white, and my lungs with water. They ached, and I coughed, but even more, water entered it andohgodthepain-!

'No! I have to swim up! What'll mom and dad think?! Swim up, damn it!'

I swam up, aided by years of practice, and coughed hard, water and mucus and blood flying out.

"LUCAS! SWIM TO US, DAMN IT!"

"I TOLD YOU THIS WAS A BAD IDEA!"

I barely managed to get hold of something amidst the raging waters, and gripped onto it for dear life.

YesyesyesI'msafe-

However, all semblance of hope was ripped out, the current tearing off the skin from my palms, and I felt even more pain and screamed, my cracky voice echoing in faint wisps of sound.

"AAHITHURTS-!"

I was dragged into the depths and felt the suffocating feeling of water entering my lungs, the force of the current itself crashing into my body and squeezing every bit of oxygen I had left. I reflected on my last moments, of the last words of my father, who always scolded me for being rash,

'Dad was right, huh? I really am an idiot..'

However, even amidst the torrent of emotions, I recognized a faint one, different from the rest. The will to live. I didn't want to die. I wanted to feel the thrills in live again, the sun washing over me, the soft sands kissing my toes, and the smiling faces of my friends. I wanted to survive. I wanted to Live.

I DON'T WANT TO DIE!

And then there was darkness followed by the brightest light.

"God, what have we done"

"Everyone, please calm down." An authoritative booming voice echoed around the room, silencing everybody.

"Allow me to introduce myself, I'm King Louie Dragnor, the fifth king of Ante'vas. We have summoned you here to defeat a threat that we can't win against."

I Want to liiivee

"Your majesty are you sure he is a hero, one of the ministers asked with clear worry in her voice"

I was snapped from my shock long enough"Huh, where am I? who the fuck are you guys? where are my friends?

"sir hero, I can explain everything, can you please calm down before my man do it with force."

I blink in surprise and then in fear. Ok, this might be a bad thing. What the hell is going on? I thought before having a thought of realization I had been isekad.

It wasn't hard to realize that I had been isekaid to a different world. Honestly with the number of isekais shows coming out. Anyone who watches anime would immediately realize that they were isekad to a different world.

Still, the more pessimistic part of my brain was telling me that this is dangerous, but when did I fear death?

Besides, wasn't that something that any good isekai hero says when summoned to save the world?

"Now hero, can you tell us your status"? King asked me kindly.

"What is that?" I asked absolutely clueless while contemplating how absurd that sounded.

"Hero, doesn't your world have status magic?"

I shook my head sheepishly. "No, we don't have status magic, let alone any other types of magic." why the hell does this sound like a video game?

"You should have a small icon in your right side of vision." I nodded and started to look for it, but I couldn't find anything... 'how do I access it?' I thought only for a game like screen to open immediately.

'Ok. So, what do I have to work with?' I thought. At that moment a game-like screen opened before my eyes. Is this a joke? It looked like a bad RPG with over-developed graphics and no substance.

Exploration Hero

Name: Lucas Ashford

Class: Exploration Hero LV 1

Equipment: Simple Walking Stick (Legendary Weapon)

Other-World Clothes

Skills: None

Magic: None

Simple Walking Stick

abilities locked equip bonus: +3 agility

Pov-king

Definitely a unique one, he thought to himself. While looking at the hero they had summoned. The Blonde hair, blue-eyed teen with too much energy. Hell, he was practically wiperating from excitement. Hopefully, he will become a good hero for the world. Smiling, he turned towards the hero, only to realize he never asked his name.

"Hero, what is your name?" Slowly the hero turned to look toward me and started to smile. "My name is Lucas Ashford, your majesty."

I nodded.

"I recommend you stay here until tomorrow morning," I said. hoping for some sort of reaction.

"That would be nice," he mumbled under his breath. After that, there was an awkward silence for a moment before I brought up a question.

"I'm interested. What type of information does your weapon give you?" He looked even happier for a moment before starting to speak.

"It informed me that there are some sort of calamities happening. Do you know what these calamities are?"

"They are the threat. I was talking about earlier."

"Where do they happen? And how do I defeat them?" He asked worriedly.

"Waves are a monthly issue that we must face with all we got. Currently, we know of two waves. One happened in our neighboring country. The second one happened only a day ago here at Ante'vas. After the report on the casualties, we decided to summon you.

"How many deaths were there?" he asked worriedly.

"At least one thousand." Suddenly the hero's eyes sharpened, and he finally stopped looking excited.

"I promise that there will not be nearly as many casualties when the next wave comes. I will make sure of that."

After that, he promptly left the room. Followed by almost everyone else.

After that, I was soon left alone to contemplate everything that had happened, before and after the first catastrophe... Great, he wasn't going to get any sleep now. If only my wife would still be here with me. At that moment a single tear fell.

At least Winter and Albert are safe. I thought, before taking out my Grimoire. "I really need to get ready for the backslash," I mumbled before getting to work.

Pov Lucas.

So much information. I thought while reading through the help menu. It had probably been an hour since I decided to leave the summoning room.

Soon after that two guards found me and without asking escorted me to a room where I was about to resign for the night.

I was in a small European-style room, where the only light sources were an old chandelier and my help menu.

This seems interesting, I thought, while reading through one particularly interesting part.

honestly, is this a game from the future? because this was getting ridiculous. Holy exploration weapon power-up method.

Exploration hero power-up method number 1. Exploration power. Hero is given a map function. More you explore the world, the more bonuses for stats and other bonuses. Note the power-up method has milestones that give extra bonuses.

This sounds interesting, it gives a good reason to travel. I would have still traveled a lot, but this just gave me a better reason to travel.

Exploration hero power-up method number 2.

Trust. Trusting and being trusted leads to increased abilities.

So I need to get people to trust me. It shouldn't be too hard. I just had to be a hero to the people of this world. Hopefully, there are some other easier ways to power up. Still, it just means that when I people and gain their trust I will get stronger.

Exploration hero power-up method number 3 The power-up method for the holy exploration hero is Skill and Magic Mastery. The more a skill or a magic spell is used, the stronger it gets.

Easy one for sure but quite time-consuming. Not really surprising that this world has more than just status magic. Maybe those books had something to do with magic. Everyone I had seen so far had a book that they kept on them all the time.

Now, do I have any more of these power-up methods? I wonder for a moment before scrolling further.

Exploration hero power-up method number 4. finding bonus when finding any sort of item. It gives a bonus based on how rare the found item is, also older items give higher bonuses.

So if I find some lost equipment it will be better than normal. Maybe I can find some legendary heroes' old equipment and use that as my own. Still, I need to get some sort of currency to buy items.

I yawned loudly. Tomorrow I will start my adventure. Hopefully, I can get strong enough to beat all of the obstacles that come my way. Besides, I had made promises and I would keep my promise no matter what.

Ohmygodwateravrywarhhher help

"Lucas"

"I got you."

Soon after that, I drift to an uneasy sleep. After all, how hard can it be to sleep with a walking stick stuck in your back? And with the worst nightmare you can face after your death. Fuck I don't want to dieeee.

"Thank you for coming at this early hour." Sun had just climbed over the horizon when I had been awoken by someone banging on the door. Honestly, I felt like, I was going to fall asleep at any moment.

"So then what is the problem?" I asked. it couldn't be anything bad, could it? I thought sarcastically. After all, I had been "awakened" at an extremely early hour.

"Someone has informed the public about your summoning."

"How is it a bad thing? I asked. After all, I want to be a hero for the people of this world.

"To explain that I need to inform you about several things." King cleared his throat." Our country is located inside of an Island and is surrounded by steep mountains. This doesn't make trading easy meaning we should have an extremely weak economy, but instead we florist. Do you have any Idea why?"

I shook my head. " I don't have any ideas."

"We have an ancient duty to hold. It is the role of being a pacifier."

"What does that mean? The pacifier thing." I asked. Honestly, this could be bad. I hadn't even heard what pacifiers do but I already had a bad feeling.

"Whenever a hero goes down the wrong path we are supposed to stop them."

"So I have no reason to worry as long as I don't go down the wrong path right," I asked, still worried.

"Yes, as long as you do your duty we don't do anything to you."

"You remember when I spoke about trade." I nodded in confirmation.

"Now then allow me to tell you about the past most countries faced yearly. These pests are also known as Hobbits. When they come to the surface they always have a leader who wields a powerful weapon. That weapon being, the vassal halberd."

"Why is it bad that they come up to the surface?" I asked. I was genuinely curious about why they were considered pests.

"They try to kill everything that moves when they come up. Only one of them doesn't try to kill everything, and even still he doesn't try to stop the others. The only way to get them to stop is by killing their leader."

"So you are the only ones who can stop them?" I asked.

King nodded his head before starting to speak. "We are always hired to stop the threat when it surfaces. We have only one problem. When the last time they surfaced we lost our main pacifier. That being my beloved wife."

I didn't know what to say. The king had lost his wife and was willing to tell me about it. What was I supposed to do in this type of situation?

"I'm sorry for your loss."

King nodded slightly before starting to talk once more. " If I were you I would inform anyone about your status as a holy hero. Furthermore, I have catered some funds for you. Please be careful what you spend, we can't give you further funds so easily."

At that moment the king took a book from his robes and started to chant."Oh stories of old, let me assist the hero to overcome the trials of old ones once more, king's treasury."

At that moment a bag appeared out of nowhere. "This should have enough money to get you started" I nodded and took the bag. Only to see unfamiliar coins. " What are these worth?" I asked while looking at coins.

"Oh, those coins were made by the first hero. The green one is dollars, the Blue euro, and the white ones are pounds."

How creative. I thought while looking at the bag. "How much are each worth?" I asked.

"One hundred dollars is worth one pound. One hundred pounds is worth one Euro, It's that simple."

I nodded, before asking excitedly. "How do I use magic? Do I need a book like your's or is it just a catalyst?"

"Yes, You need one to use magic. You can get a Grimoire from one of the four towers. When you leave, look for a tower that pierces the heavens."

"Thank you for everything, I will make sure to come back when I have defeated all waves." After that, I closed the door only to hear the king start to cry. It was probably too much for him when he had to talk about his dead wife. I'm truly an asshole.

End of chapter 1.

Thank you Robotech275, Javetts, Alemo, and special HybridTux123 for proofreading this chapter.

This is the first fanfic that I have made so please inform me if you find mistakes/things I can improve on.

okay now some information this fic is part of the (many words project ) so yeah lots will happen.

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