When Naofumi, Raphtalia, Filo, and Ichigo got off the ship, L'arc asked if the four of them wanted to level up together.
Naofumi wanted to know why and L'arc said "It would be fun to level up in a big group every now and then."
Naofumi agreed and L'arc and Naofumi promised to group up when they got familiar with the island.
When L'arc and Therese left Raphtalia and Filo were smiling at Naofumi who was wondering why they were so happy. Ichigo could only guess it had to do with L'arc and Therese believing Naofumi to be a good person despite the rumors surrounding him. Ichigo didn't know what happened to Naofumi but could tell firsthand that Naofumi was a good guy just a realist and blunt, like a bat to the face.
After waiting a bit, a man came up and said, "Welcome! My name is Habenburg. I'm responsible for the care of the Cal Mira Archipelago." After a brief pause, he continued "Ahem... may I assume these are the holy heroes and their parties?"
Looking at the other heroes and their parties they looked like they all got seasick. Ichigo's only thought was, "Pathetic."
Naofumi did confirm that the people before them are in fact the other heroes and their parties. When Motoyasu saw that Naofumi wasn't sick he got mad. This had Ichigo have the same thought he had before, "Pathetic."
Do too the sick heroes and their parties the group had to walk to their Inn instead of taking a carriage. Though to Ichigo's surprise Filo was pushing around a carriage by herself like it was nothing, he decided to ask latter.
The walk-through town was pleasant for Ichigo as Habenburg explained the culture of the Cal Mira Archipelago to the group though Ichigo was the only one paying the most attention. Naofumi was paying attention, but he was upset about having to tour the island. As for the other heroes they were still feeling sick.
Naofumi about had his limit until everyone came to a stop at a totem pole. Habenburg explained that the creatures represented on the totem pole was the islands original inhabitants and they were monsters named by the previous holy heroes.
Habenburg then brought up an inscription left by the previous heroes that was said to guide future heroes.
When Naofumi looked at it, Itsuki and Motoyasu did as well with Motoyasu saying, "Hey! This thing is fake!" only for Itsuki to agree saying, "Yes it would seem so."
Ren asked how they knew, and they replied, "If it was meant for us then shouldn't we be able to read it?"
This made Naofumi ask, "Can you guys not use magic?"
This caught Ichigo's attention, he knew magic existed in this world but didn't know how to use it, so he paid attention.
After Motoyasu said that they could Naofumi said, "I'm sure you just rely on items and never actually read a magical tome. These are this world's magical letters. The letters are meant for this world. But the magic within them needs to match your own aptitudes to read them. That would be healing and support magic for me, or light and shadow for Raphtalia. We both studied the same magical tome but ended up learned different spells."
Motoyasu asked Naofumi if he could read it which he said, "I think so..."
Naofumi started to read the spell, "As the source of your power, the shield hero commands you! Let the legends be revealed once more!" Naofumi pointed his open palm at Filo and shouted, "Zweite Aura!"
This made Filo glow a bit, she then jumped in the air shouting "Whee! I feel so full of energy!"
This of course got the spear, bow, and sword heroes got excited and they rushed to the tablet only to realize they still couldn't read it.
This got the three of them to start to complain at Naofumi about him having a shield that could decipher the magical language. When Naofumi mentioned that that he learned to read it by himself he also brought up how that the other heroes might not learn the same spell he did.
This of course made the bow, sword, and spear heroes shout at the same time, "We might learn even better spells!"
This of course got them asking their parties if they could read the inscription but what caught Ichigo off guard was Motoyasu calling a redhead "Whore." This was a subject Ichigo wasn't going to touch with a ten-foot pole.
When the group finally made it to the in the Inn, they were briefed on the rules of the Cal Mera event then headed to their rooms which luckily for Ichigo he was staying with Naofumi, Raphtalia, and Filo.
"Hey, Naofumi, can I ask you a question?" Ichigo asked Naofumi as Filo went to explore.
Naofumi sighed and asked "What?"
"He obviously had a headache" Ichigo thought before asking, "Do you think you can help me learn to read magical script?"
This got Naofumi's attention, and he asked, "You do know why we came here right?"
"Yes, but I was thinking after the event or in your spare time." Ichigo said nodding his head at his first word.
"I could but it won't be free." Naofumi said with narrowed eyes.
Ichigo narrowed his eyes then smirked and said, "Name your price."
This made Naofumi smirk and say, "I want the materials from the monster's you kill."
Ichigo gave him a confused look and asked, "What materials and why would you want them?"
Naofumi sighed remembering Ichigo was new to this world then said, "Just bring me their corpses."
"O-kay." Ichigo said a little disturbed and decided to go to bed.
The Next Day
Ichigo left the Inn before Naofumi and his party, he decided that leveling up as fast as possible would be a great way to see what this world he was in all about.
Ichigo used Shunpo and found some slimes that looked purple that was when a green bar and words appeared above the slimes saying, "Violet Blobs."
Ichigo was a little confused at first but remembered this was a game world. After a second, he slashed a blob, and the green bar went down changing colors from green to yellow then to red till no color was seen at all.
This of course killed the blob and gave Ichigo no exp. Ichigo wondered why and checked his status and tapped on exp hoping it would give him an explanation of how to gain exp.
Luckily an explanation came up and said that the only way to gain exp. was through battle.
Ichigo thought "Isn't that what I just did." Ichigo then thinks on the words and realized something.
"That wasn't a battle just now it was a slaughter, if I'm going to gain exp I'm going to need a challenge." Ichigo thought.
Ichigo decided to spread his spiritual energy as far as he can to sense out stronger monsters.
Ichigo sensed a lot of monsters and people and noticed that the monsters have a negative energy signature to them like hollows.
Ichigo then used Shunpo and headed towards the strongest negative energy signature he could find.
When he arrived at his destination, he was on a small mountain that was surrounded by water at all sides it was also on the border of the activation zone if Ichigo was sensing things correctly.
"There is no way for a person to get up without being able to fly or just unlucky." Ichigo thought as he expected the sides of the mountain/island noticing the waves crashing in on all sides with no path leading up.
Ichigo focused his senses on the flow of negative energy on the island and looked in the direction it was coming from.
Thats when he saw a black orb in the air. He walked closer to it to check it out only for black energy to shoot out of it then monsters came out.
Reading the names of the monsters Ichigo was surprised, because there in front of him where seven white flying monsters named "Holy wyverns."
Ichigo grinned and grabbed Zangetsu and placed him on his shoulder.
Ichigo used Shunpo to appear by the wyverns, but he was surprised to see them fly away from him. This made Ichigo relies just how much weaker he has become.
One of the wyverns charged forward as to try and bite him he dodged and cut the wyvern in half.
Then another wyvern tried to use its tail that had a stinger on it and Ichigo caught it then with a mighty pull the wyvern headed towards Ichigo which cut from crotch to head.
Ichigo then swung the half of the wyvern in his hand at another wyvern that had charged at Ichigo smacking it in the face before implanting the tip of Zangetsu in its brain.
Ichigo than thought, "Three down four to g-" Only to notice that there was now ten Holy Wyverns.
This caused Ichigo to sigh realizing just how hard this was going to be.
After killing 14 more Holy Wyverns Ichigo was sweating buckets and decided to kill the remaining 8 with a "Getsuga Tenchou."
During his fight with the Holy Wyverns Ichigo noticed that using Shunpo was draining his SP but not by much probably 0.35% of his Max SP was used each time he used it, so it took a little while for Ichigo to notice, but his Getsuga Tenshou took about 30% of his SP with which left Ichigo with around 55% of his Max SP on the bright side he leveled up by 7 levels making him LV 49.
This was when the black orb made one more giant monster a Holy Dragon King.
Ichigo took a deep breath, getting his second wind he held Zangetsu up defensively and shouted at the dragon, "Bring it on you overgrown lizard!" This mad the dragon roar in anger and flapped its wings causing Ichigo to block his eyes from the dust that was being uplifted by the gale winds the dragon was making, only to be hit by the dragon's tail breaking a couple of his ribs in the process.
Ichigo was tossed across the ground still holding on to Zangetsu only to start falling off of the mountain top.
Ichigo stabbed Zangetsu into the side of the mountain to keep himself from falling, with his sword in the mountain he was able to stop halfway down the mountain leaving a huge gash on the mountain side.
Ichigo then used Shunpo to appear on top of the mountain only to stab Zangetsu into the ground and fall to his knees only to cough up some blood.
His ribs were in pain, using Shunpo probably pushed the broken bones that was already in his lungs, but this was nothing to him he endured worst he looked up and his eyes went wide.
The dragon was gathering what looked like light in its open mouth Ichigo stood up picking up Zangetsu with both hands and used another "Getsuga Tenshou." As soon as the light-based beam shot forth.
As the attacks collided there was an explosion leaving a big dust cloud. During this time Ichigo could sense that the dragon was still as strong as ever so he went with one of his last resorts "Ban-kai!"
