New Dawn

Ye Xiu's brain froze, unable to comprehend what he was hearing. The silence stretched on as the priests that were kneeling on the floor felt awkward but didn't dare raise their heads. Ye Xiu seeing this tried to calm down and make sense of what was happening and started to notice a lot of confusing yet shocking details.

When he started developing a conclusion, his mind instantly started to reject it as it was impossible for what he was thinking to be true. But he realized that the only ones who could give him an answer were the strange robe-wearing people kneeling in front of him. He took deep breaths to calm himself down. He then spoke up in an unsteady tone, "Wh-who are you guys, how did I get here and what do you mean I am supposed to save your world?" As Ye Xiu finally broke the silence, he let out a small, relieved sigh glad he could at least get that out.

The priests finally started to act differently as they showed confused expressions looking uncertain at the inquiry, almost as if the current situation wasn't weird and they didn't quite get what the legendary figure in front of them was trying to imply. This led to everyone to become silent as neither of them seemed to be able to understand each other. Ye Xiu seeing their expressions decided to repeat it again, when finally, the leading robed figure spoke up, " Legendary Spear Hero we are holy priests of the 'Church of Three Heroes', and we summoned you oh' great hero to save us from peril again!" When Ye Xiu heard this again he finally started to believe in the crazy notion he thought of early on.

Ye Xiu then started muttering like crazy, 'how is this possible i thought this was just something in those weird web novels that mu-mu likes to read', 'wasn't i supposed to get hit by a truck or something', 'what was it called again transported, iselay, iseki-'. Ye Xiu thought of various scenarios in his mind, unknowingly speaking some of them out loud. The priest that spoke earlier, who now seems to be a notable person as he seemed to have a more colorful robe, said out loud in a soft tone, "Sir Spear Hero would you please be willing to meet the king, I'm sure your questions will be answered, and you shall be treated with the highest respect in our stay." Ye Xiu, interrupted by the priest's suggestion, looked disturbed but then started to take the suggestion seriously. Although he was still uncertain, he decided that he would go along with the current events until he could make a solid decision of his own. Ye Xiu then looked up with a somewhat confident face and then said, "Take me to your so-called king. I need to know more before I agree." The priests all hearing this let out a sigh of relief, the one leading them quickly spoke out loud, "Of course please follow me his majesty and advisors are waiting in the throne room." Ye Xiu nodded in acceptance seeing that the priests got up and parted, except the one that was speaking who took the duty of leading the legendary spear hero to the king.

Ye Xiu started following the priest out of the room into a more lit corridor, on the way they walked past a window. As Ye Xiu looked down he was amazed by the view before him. He could see the rooftops of some of houses that would fit in medieval, and also the bustling streets were various people could be seen moving around and looking from above it was obvious that they would be a lot of chatter but apparently the establishment that he was in was isolated enough that nothing could be heard but the sounds of their footsteps. He turned to the priest and asked, "Hey, where are we now?" The priest replied by saying, "We are in the royal castle where the royal family live and where various activities of importance like your summoning, 'Sir Spear Hero' occur." Ye Xiu, now enlightened, silently nodded and gestured to the priest to continue guiding him to the king.

The priest continued moving. Fortunately, their path going forth was unobstructed. And as there wasn't anything that interested Ye Xiu they quickly arrived in front of a pair of grand doors where they briefly stopped before the priest lightly coughed as he moved forward. Apparently, the priest activated some sort of mechanism to open the doors without touching them. As the doors parted Ye Xiu was greeted with the sight of a grand hall that was filled with quite an impressive aura, as for why, it could be its magnificent archways, the well-dressed people standing on the sides who possessed a noble persona, or maybe the carpeted floor that led straight to the center of the hall where at the end of it lied a set of gorgeous thrones. Ye Xiu walked in staring at the new area he was currently at, until the priest stopped moving and bowed with back facing Ye Xiu, almost making Ye Xiu crash into him.

The priest then spoke out loud in a respectful tone, "Greetings, your highness and princess, I humbly introduce the legendary spear hero standing in front of you. The summoning was a success!" Following the priest's statement there was a collective gasp from the audience on the sides as they seemed amazed at the figure who looked casual in front of them, gone with their haughty attitude there was now high respect radiating from their eyes while some even contained reverence. Just as they were about to burst out into chatter there was suddenly a release of a strong aura followed by, "QUIET!" immediately following this the hall turned quiet once more. It was then that Ye Xiu noticed that out of the two thrones at the end of the hall one was occupied by a regal man that screamed out royalty either because his crown that was covered with beautiful gems and the attire he wore or even the strong presence that he was radiating, which made it easy for Ye Xiu to identify the owner of the previous voice. But he wasn't the only royalty in the room as evident by the red-haired beauty in a beautiful dress that was standing to his right. As Ye Xiu observed the two figures in front of him, the regal man, who can now be identified as the king, cleared his throat and spoke up by saying, "Legendary spear hero, I am King Aultcray Melromarc XXXII and this is my daughter 'Princess Malty S Melromarc' and we have summoned you here to protect our great nation from destruction and to put an end to the 'Waves of Catastrophe' once and for all!"

It was at this time that Ye Xiu finally started to believe in the crazy idea he had thought of earlier. At first he assumed that everything was just a very realistic dream or maybe he had fallen in a coma but hearing the phrases, 'save our world/nation' or 'legendary spear hero' multiple times and also pinching himself multiple times to be sure, it really was dawning on him that he was magically summoned to the an event of his favorite game, the one where was nicknamed with the title of 'Glory's Textbook'. And just as he was about to start playing the event something weird happened and here, he was in person carrying a spear he had no idea came from in front of a very regal person who was claiming to be a king asking for his help to save his world from damnation. As Ye Xiu started recapping everything that had happened to him, his mind blanked. Unable to think of any response to either the 'king' or for himself. Seeing Ye Xiu just staring at him the king felt uncomfortable and started to think that perhaps Ye Xiu's silence was just unwillingness to help his kingdom and that he had felt offended at how he was being treated. As the king started to recall vague writings left by his ancestors about the legendary heroes, he remembered that they came from another world and initially saw no reason to help theirs if not shown benefits. The king coming to this realization started to cough lightly and once more gestured to Ye Xiu and called out to him, "Sir Spear Hero we apologize for the uncomfortable experience. We would have prepared a much more grandeur welcoming but our situation was turning dire, so we had to act with all haste. But no need to worry as we shall host a grand feast in your honor and we shall cater to your needs but, for now we believe it would be best for introductions so that we can strive for a successful partnership in the future. Do you not agree?"

Ye Xiu whose mind had blanketed started coming back to reality after the king spoke and realizing what he had said, Ye Xiu felt awkward but realized perhaps it was better to start with simple things so that he could ground himself. His famous analytical mind now in work decided to respond to the king by introducing himself, "I am Ye Xiu, and I am 27 years old. I apologize for my earlier behavior. I am just jarred by the experience of being summoned so unexpectedly. As for a grand welcome I don't think that's necessary, I would rather prefer to know more about my current situation and what all of this entails and also if there is a chance I can go back home. "

King Aultcray hearing the response had a surprised look on his face but quickly smiled and thought to himself, 'The stories were right, the heroes even when introduced to a new world are still legendary figures and deserve the utmost respect.' This thought created a fortunate misunderstanding between the two as Ye Xiu didn't really mean to pressure the king but the culture gap between them was quite big, so it wasn't any surprise to create such a mismatch. King Aultcray, quickly pulled out of his thoughts and replied back, "Greetings Sir Ye Xiu it is my honor to be in the presence of the legendary spear hero. As for not hosting the feast, clearly you jest Sir Ye Xiu. It would be dishonor to you if we didn't welcome our savior with a warm welcome. No need to worry, we will quickly make the preparation so as to not inconvenience you anymore. And about your current situation and the perils well it's like this, …." King Aultcray then proceeded to answer all of Ye Xiu's questions regarding how he was summoned, what he was supposed to do and of course his rewards in the case of his success (learning from his previous experience the king made sure to emphasize on the rewards part). When they finished their conversation the hall descended into silence once more, as Ye Xiu processed all the information he just heard he fell into deep thought, now accepting the situation for what it was he started analyzing everything in detail, cross checking the information with the things he read in the forums, which he was extremely glad he did, and the tidbits of things he had heard from different places about situations like this in wuxia novels and web novels trying to get any sort of advantage before going forth onward. One of the mismatches in information he noticed when he was comparing everything was the summoning. Prior to this when he was checking the forums about the event and its own intro, it described the new world as a place where various players would be able to pick a class from the original game and then integrate into the new world and progress into the story along with their character.

But from what the king told him the truth was actually quite different from what he knew. Recalling the previous conversation, "So, King Aultcray, what do you mean that you can't return me back to my home?" asked Ye Xiu in a confused and slightly upset tone. Seeing this King Aultcray sighed but knew that it was better to explain calmly, "You see Sir Ye Xiu the magic we used to summon you is a very rare and ancient magic passed down to us by our ancestors to help fight the waves. So, we have still not been able to decipher how it works. We only know some of its prerequisites so that we can use it." Hearing this Ye Xiu unknowingly formed a frown as he realized what this meant. But just to be sure he asked, "King Aultcray can you perhaps tell me what those conditions are?" The king said, "Of course Sir Ye Xiu it's the least we can do, although I would like to implore that you not spread it around as it's not common knowledge. Anyways back to the topic, as I have mentioned before it's quite a complex magic but luckily we have learnt from our ancestors so we know that for the summoning to work we have to at least fulfill the following conditions; firstly the world must come under the threat of the waves of catastrophe, and as you can guess the signs are quite obvious but in addition the 'Dragon Hourglass' in each nation glows with a mysterious light and starts the countdown on how long the current wave is and when the next wave is, second there must always be four heroes to defend the world and they must be summoned at roughly the same amount of time and this heroes are as you can guess: the spear hero, the sword hero, the bow hero and finally the shield hero." As Ye Xiu listened to the king explain how the summoning magic worked he became more and more amazed about what he was hearing especially when the king mentioned that there were three other individuals that should be more or less in the exact situation which gave him no small amount of relief but still confused him cause the last time he checked 'GLORY' had more than a million fan bases who played the game with quite vigor but hearing that there were three other figures who were summoned with him made him suspicious if the others were hidden.

But he saved this thought for later and focused more on the known 'heroes' that were summoned like him, as he did that, he noticed that when the king introduced the heroes, he mentioned the shield hero with a bit more restraint than the others, Ye Xiu seeing this decided to get more details about it. "So, King Aultcray where are the rest of the heroes? I noticed im the only one here are perhaps the other heroes somewhere else?" The king, when hearing, showed a surprised look, amazed at how the spear hero was able to come to such an accurate conclusion but he quickly shook off his look and answered him. "It is as you have guessed the rest of the heroes are each summoned to other different nations because, you see the waves of catastrophe isn't a plague that only haunts the Kingdom Melromarc it affects the whole world as such there was an agreement a long time ago that the four nations would each get a hero to protect them. These nations are, Kingdom of Melromarc(the one we are in), Shieldfreeden, Zeltobe and S-Slitvelt. The heroes summoned to these nations are the spear, sword, bow and shield hero respectively." As Ye Xiu listened to the king speak attentively he noted the animosity was not even hidden at this point when he spoke about, 'the kingdom of Slitvelt and the shield hero' as he noted that down he realized that there was a lot of new information that was not available in the forums. Just as Ye Xiu was about to speak up to ask a question the king seemed to already know what he wanted to know and answered in advance. "Yes, you are probably wondering why the things mentioned above prevent you from going back to your home world right?" Ye Xiu nodded, obviously confused about the situation. "Well, it is related to the summoning circle as you can probably guess. Previously I mentioned that there were conditions to activate the magic well it is similar to that except it's more of a side effect and what that means is that unless the waves are defeated and removed or all the heroes die before defeating the waves then it is impossible to summon another hero singularly or even three heroes, as long as here is still a single hero alive then that hero must fight to the very end." When Ye Xiu heard he was quite shocked as this had serious implication for his future and he got lost in his thoughts, King Aultcray noticed this but stayed quiet as there was nothing, he could do about it and thought that it was better to reveal it now rather than later where it could have a more negative result.

Back to the present Ye Xiu, still lost in his thoughts, stopped paying attention to his surroundings. King Aultcray lightly coughed, interrupting the young hero's thoughts. "Perhaps Sir Spear Hero it would be better to take a break and have a good rest before continuing to prepare you for your journey tomorrow morn, but before that come let's go to the banquet hall where the servants have prepared a magnificent feast while we were discussing."

Ye Xiu hearing what the king said quickly shook away the thoughts before replying, "Indeed King Aultcray, I am feeling quite tired, I shall take your advice then." King Aultcray, seeing that Ye Xiu had agreed to him, formed a satisfied look before getting up and said, "Perfect, well then let us head on to the feast. Come, I'm sure you will enjoy our dishes as they are quite a delicacy even in the royal castle and my daughter can keep you company as well."

After that the nobles who were on the sides also started to head towards the banquet hall. As Ye Xiu was being guided to the feast by the king, the princess who had up until now had not spoken a single word came up to him to personally introduce herself. And the rest of the evening continued as such. Ye Xiu enjoyed the food quite more than he thought but the king wasn't lying when he said they were a delicacy. He spent the rest of his time conversing with the princess who was a pleasant company to have. But after everything Ye Xiu was feeling tired, so he excused himself and got a guide to show him to his resting room. He entered the bedroom, closing it behind him, letting out a sigh. When he finally looked around, he noticed that the room was actually very nice with quite a spacious place to walk around in, a king-sized bedroom and even a small balcony which gave him the beauty of the city view, which looked amazing in the night life.

As Ye Xiu left the balcony and laid on the bed he let out a satisfied sigh as he felt it's comforting embrace. As Ye Xiu looked up to the roof he thought about all the things that had happened in the past few hours. He thought about how his friends would react or even his family would feel about his sudden disappearance again and felt bad for them as they had been getting close for the past 3 years. Or maybe how the 'GLORY' community would feel if their 'Battle God' disappeared again. As he thought about all of the series of events that could happen as a consequence of what was happening, he notices a small icon flashing at the bottom right corner of his vision. Ye Xiu seeing this focuses of the icon, which then expands to the rest of his vision.

{Notice}{Main Menu}

Ye Xiu, Level 1

Legendary Spear Hero

HP: 100

MP: 100

SP: 100

{Status} {Item} {Magic} {Skill} {Recipe} {Party}

{Contract} {Help}

As Ye Xiu looked at the screen in front of him he could only sigh in amazement, thinking that this new world was getting more and more mystical. He had actually noticed the icon earlier when he was talking with the king earlier and had asked the king about it. King Aultcray had not actually been surprised by it and told him that it was a special type of magic called, 'Status Magic' and it was something that the heroes possessed. The king had explained that it was with this advantage that the past heroes had been able to defeat the waves. Of course, that was up until recently, now it was time for a new generation of heroes to be the once great saviors of this magical world.

Unknown to Ye Xiu there were three other individuals that had come to the same unconscious resolve. Of course, they had different opinions on how to go about it. To the east of Melromarc in the lands of Zeltobe, we can see a sixteen-year-old teenager fighting furiously with a sword slaying monsters left and right with a slight smile on his face. After a while it seems that the fight has come to an end, the young swordsman was collecting materials and thinking that he had got a good haul, as he was thinking a small chuckle left his mouse which slowly turned into a full-blown laughter and looked around in glee. "Oh' yes, I'm definitely going to take advantage of this opportunity, while the other heroes struggle with getting stronger I will surpass them and be the strongest hero player!" The swordsman then quieted down after finishing his monologue but still couldn't remove the smirk on his face.

While the swordsman seemed to be praising his fortune, in another land further from Zeltobe another youngster was also thinking about his fortune but, there did seem to be a difference between the two of them, one being that while the previous youngster was praising his luck this one instead seemed to be cursing it with a frown on his face. Another reason was this youngster was carrying a bow. Yet as a frown covered his face the young bow wielder quickly shook it off as he walked past a random alley, a look of resolve then developed on his face as he thought of the injustice of being summoned to a nation that was biased towards another hero and although he wasn't being treated unfairly the look of hidden disappointment when the people who summoned him noticed it was quite bothersome. As he kept on walking, he appeared in an unknown clearing where it seemed unpopulated except for a few beasts. He then looked up to the sky while clenching his fists and then shouted out loud as if wanting the whole world to listen, "Watch out world, cause a hero of justice has arrived and while it may seem I am hampered for now it is only a matter of time before I exceed the rest of heroes with my advantage, I may have been a nobody in my previous world but now that I have been summoned to this world i will be more famous and powerful than even the strongest esper! Hahahaha-"

And at yet another nation there also seemed to be another youngster but he seemed to be a tad bit more different than the two as for one, he seemed to be older in his twenties or so and another distinction was the armament attached to his arm as unlike the two youngsters who carried magnificent weapons of which had clear offensive nature this one seemed to be different as it was actually a shield that was emitting a faint a green light and while it was also a magnificent work of craftsmanship its basic function didn't seem to be different from any other shield but this was a problem that the shield hero needed to figure out. But the main disparity between the three heroes was that while the two heroes: the sword hero and bow who appeared to be in their lonesome, the shield hero instead to have quite a bit of company instead and while that shouldn't be of a surprise as they are legendary heroes, this particular company would probably send most otakus into a fit of rage towards the center of attention who was living their lives. And it seemed that the shield hero was being taken care of quite attentively by a group which consisted entirely of beast girls of which there was a girl who had wolf like ears and tails and seem to have a fierce attitude, in contrast to this there was a girl who had a turtle like shell attached to her back and even seem to have a short tail beneath the shell but unlike the wolf girl the turtle girl seemed to be a bit more shy and almost seemed to have a scholar vibe and another person of this group was a dragon beast girl who had a stoic expression and seemed to be standing a distance away from the rest. And as for the shield hero who was the center of attention he seemed to be in an unfortunate situation, or perhaps a fortunate one, because of the beast girl's close attention his body seemed to be heating to unnatural level when the girls notice this, they come even closer worried that their hero was ill this made the situation even worse.

After a while the shield hero was able to escape the previous group by making some random excuse about getting fresh air. As he thought about the series of crazy events starting from being some into a magical world while reading a novel, to being told he was some legendary hero that was supposed to save their world from but that wasn't even as crazy as being told that his predecessor was actually who had created this very nation, Slitvelt and that he was basically royalty here and actually to most a deity as the main religion being the 'Shield Faith'. While was lost in his thoughts he bumped into someone, he turned around to apologize but was unable as the person in front him was quite a beauty causing the words to be stuck in his throat. The person however apologized in a soft voice, hearing that the shield hero got rid of his daze and quickly apologized for not looking where he was going. Now that he got rid of his daze, he noticed the beauty in front of him had long purple hair that was quite vibrant and was wearing an elegant set of clothes. While he was observing her unknowingly, she was doing the same. Seemingly satisfied she made a small bow before turning around and said, "Good day Sir Shield Hero I have somewhere to go but I hope we can meet in the future." The shield hero then replied with an awkward tone, "Yah, to you as well, uhm I mean to say have a good day." As she vanished from his sight, he let out a groan thinking that he really needed to get better at this. But just as he decided to go back to his room, he realized a weird detail and turned around to say, "Hey, how did you kn-" but then remembered she left a while back putting the thought in the back of his mind and decided to deal with everything tomorrow and just wanted to sleep for now.

While in another room the previous lady could be seen sitting beside the windowsill. "So, that was the shield hero huh he seems to be an interesting young man but the feeling i got from him didn't seem to be all that bad. But I guess it won't be like that for long as they will surely brainwash him into taking their side." and while it seemed that the queen was talking to herself there was actually a faint silhouette outside the window. This faint shadow replied to the rhetorical question, "My Queen?" "It's nothing, make sure you have prepared everything, we will leave tomorrow morning and tell Melty to prepare as well. While I trust my husband to be wise enough not to make any disturbances, Malty not so much." The shadow didn't speak and just nodded before its presence vanished. "Seems like it's going to be an interesting series of events from now on.'' The so-called queen remarked while staring out the window, not knowing that her words matched with the official beginning of the heroes' journey, but more specifically a particular spear hero thousands of miles away seemed to be radiating an aura of confidence that resembled a bit of the former 'Battle God'!

Author's note

Hello guys this is my first AN and I guess I am a bit excited to see if you will like the first chapter. I am honestly surprised that people read the story, but I am glad as I want to continue this story and see how far I can go. Anyways like I mentioned in my reviews I am new at this, and English is not my first language but, I did try my best in fixing the paragraphs tell me if it needs additional adjusting.

Now that is over with the main reason, I wrote the author's note is because I just want to mention that there will be a few changes in in how I write, and I will mention any changes in the beginning of the next chapter in an AN. As you have noticed I have started my story a bit differently, for one my main character is a SI in the place of Motsoyatsu and also another big change is that the heroes are actually summoned to the different nations like they were supposed to. And I have a reason for this, the main one being that the canon story had a big plot hole regarding the strength of the three heroes and I have no intention of doing that.

Because if we are being honest while, RSH is an underdog story the MC grew way too quickly, and everyone started fading to the background unless it was for some plot progression. So while my MC is definitely Ye Xiu we will see snippets of the other heroes at certain points in time and also see flashes of their progress each with their own strength. That is all for now I hope you have enjoyed the story so far and sorry for this long ass AN hopefully it will get better until then, Sayonara~