Prologue
Volume One: Departure from kingdom of Athea
Prologue: Reset
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I died.
Out of nowhere while crossing the pedestrian lane, a truck hits me and I instantly lost my consciousness.
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The time went by at unknown speed.
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Suddenly, I regain myself and a pure darkness can be seen, my eyes were closed.
With the feeling of the impact retained on my memories and my mind being swirled in the world of dizziness, I forced my own eyes to open itself.
My vision began to filled with nothing but a pure white light as myself slowly adapting to my current environment.
I finally noticed the presence of people.
'Where am I?'
I weakly said to myself whose feeling at lost.
A lights keep emitting from this seemingly magic circle which lies at the bottom of my foot.
Through that light, I can distinguish that a people around 10, wearing a priests like hood were at the edge of circle.
One of them talk to me.
"Welcome to this world, Hero-sama."
'This world? Hero? What really happened to me?'
Confused as it may seem, I keep listening to him.
"We beg of you. Please save this world from the evil forces. You who chosen by the god-"
The person next to him, whispered something while showing the content of the paper his holding.
'Save from the evil...wait a minute, did I transferred to another world like the story I read and watches?'
Under such thoughts, it seems like they finally decided on something, they abruptly said to me.
"Hero-sama, sorry for the interruption but we decided that you must first meet our king. Could you please come with us?"
He asked.
'This people looks suspicious. and this placed looks gloomy, this is not looks good.'
My uneasiness continued to grow while following them out of the room.
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On the way to the king's throne room, I noticed this system in front of me. It looks like I was equipped with some sort of augmented devices.
An HP and MP at the top-left corner vision while at the opposite corner where A small transparent box with a grids on it
It have a word written like this,
«No Connection»
Another transparent box which slight smaller were placed at the bottom of it.
It stating itself as [Notifications]
A small gear icon caught my vision at the bottom left corner. Through thoughts, I tried to open it to see what are the contents of it.
It open successfully. A small windows with a buttons arranged vertically.
[Menu]
[Inventory]
[Settings]
I first looked at what's on the [Menu]
It contained the following:
[Status]
[Skills]
[Party Members]
[Quests]
[Equipments]
The [Maps], and [Inventory] were what I expected it to be. The [Settings] have:
[Graphics], [Sounds], and [Gameplay].
Then a thoughts came into my mind.
'What if that paper contained my status? What did they saw to changed their attitude?'
I swiftly open the [Status] to see my own information but another windows showed instead with a request of my [In Game Name] written on it.
[Please input your Username: ____]
'Right, an In Game Name. Let see, how about...'
[Name: Zero]
Then after filling up the blank, my full stats finally appeared.
[Name: Zero]
Level: 75
HP: [16500/16500]
MP: [14740/14740]
Job: Hero(Player)
Status: Normal
Race: Human
Sex: Male
Age: 35
Attributes: Light
[Status(Character)][+]
STR: 178 +35.6
INT: 134 +13.4
VIT: 150 +15.0
AGI: 103 +10.3
DEX: 149 +14.9
LUK: 111+11.1
Skills:
[God's Protection(Passive)(MaxLv)]
[Judgement Eye(MaxLv)],
[Eyes of Truth(MaxLv)]
Unique Skill(Hidden Skill):
[Character]
[Respawn]
[Game Area]
Titles: «God's Hero», «Player» ]
'Woah'
I don't know what's the world standard for their stats but I'm surprised to my skills and titles. What piqued my curiosity were the skill [God's Protection(Passive)], my hidden unique skills and the titles like the «Player».
As I was looking for the fault on my status, we suddenly stopped at this huge front door.
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"...Then I'll leave the rest of decision upon you. You may go now."
A guy with armor bowed down then walks away while we entered the room.
The person who looks older wearing a thick cape and a golden crown on his head definitely a king. He was sitting at his throne that rich with ornaments and beautiful designed.
'This place looks like from middle ages'
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As my sight were wandering around, I notice his eyes keep observing us as we enter the room. His eyes which still full of vitality despite with appearance of an old man, keeps staring at our group whose getting closer to his throne.
After we reached a certain distances from the king, this hooded people immediately kneeled down and greeted him in unison.
"""We're back your majesty."""
I, who did not know what to do only bow to the king.
The king nodded and then let them continued.
One of the men wearing robe stood up and presented the paper he hold till now. The man standing at the right side of the king walked closer and reached the paper. He too, looked at the content and one of his eyebrows rose.
He then hastily walked to the side of the king and whispers while showing the content of the paper.
'I got a bad feeling about this.'
The king raised his right hand to stop him and then talked to me.
"You must be the summoned hero right?"
He asked. I nodded and answer respectfully.
"Y-yes, your majesty."
I was going to kneeled down to respect him but he immediately stop me from doing so.
"You don't need to do that. But rather, I want to asked something. Do you have any experience in battles?"
I quickly answered him.
"N-No, I don't have any sort of experience in a fight. The world I came from were peaceful."
"Is that so? That's nice to hear but--"
He cut his own words, sighed and then continue.
"In this world, there's only a few places remains where peace still exist. While a huge portion of land currently under chaos created by the evil forces."
He commented to my answered. He then added.
"That is why we summoned you, a hero. Too bad that you don't have any experience nor a skill for the battlefield."
'I see, so that was why they acted liked that earlier, it seems like my premonition were on point that something's not going the way they expecting. I wanted to escape.'
As he saw the changes on my facial expression, the king tried to comfort me.
"You don't need to worry our hero, as I will not going to do anything bad nor abandoned you just because you didn't reached our expectation."
'How can I trust your words when your the one who ordered this people to forcibly resurrected and summoned me?'
I only said that in my mind since they might kill me for lese majeste.
But his next words got me curious.
"You know, I have some other planned for you. I know someone whose now retired and avoiding the war. However, you can also say she had a lot of achievement of fighting and winning a battles under her belt. She will be the one whose going to teach you how to fight."
'She?'
A word caught my mind.
'A woman will be my combat instructor?'
That's quite surprising. I didn't think they also have experience combat woman here. The king's words halted my train of thoughts. He called someone to lead me at her place.
"You, you're previously student of her right? Please lead the hero immediately."
As the king commanded, the one chosen panicking stood up and saluted.
"Y-Yes, your majesty!"
After that, I left the room with that person.
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That person lead me to a huge library where tons of books line up in multiple tall bookshelves.
'I thought that person is a combat expert, so why are we here?'
I thought so.
he probably guess my thought as he answered.
"You thought why I lead you here right? Well, that is because she choose to become a librarian despite being a combat expert."
He added.
"We don't know why she chose this line of work but we know no one can't stop her from doing so. Anyway, shes fighting with magic as her main weapon, which her field of expertise."
"Is that so?"
I commented to him.
'A librarian with combat expertise?'
Thinking for her motives to be in here, I keep nodding at him until we found her whose seating at the side of a bookshelf as she was covered by a stacked of books while reading intensely.
This young woman who have a short silver hair with an appearance around 18-19 years old, didn't pay any attention to us.
'She looks younger than me'
I'm in dazed after seeing her appearance.
This guy whose with me start the introductions.
"Master, this guy-"
She interjected.
"I know."
He shut himself for a second then in exchange, he introduced her to me.
"W-Well then hero-sama. This is my master, Lady Livia"
"Hello"
I'm trying to caught her attention as I said that to her.
She finally shift her eyes but it ended at me.
'Hm?'
After being analyzed by her, she first ordered the guy gone out of the room.
"Leave."
He then quickly ran to the door and left us alone here. As I found her action strange, my wariness increased.
Livia closed his book and set it aside, then says with a smile.
"So, you're the summoned hero. May I know your In Game Name?"
The last words makes my eyes wide opened.
'In Game Name? S-she knows that words, How?'
As I was surprised to her question, she stood up and walked closer.
I was then taken aback because I don't know what to do.
'Right, she got that information to the previous summoned hero. That much plausible explanation.'
My back unknowingly hit the shelved which then Livia stopped at a very few steps away from me. As if she already know what I'm currently thinking, Livia added.
"You thought I got that word from the previous summoned hero, am I right?"
Her eyes kept focus on mine. My reflection can be seen at her ruby's eyes.
"You are wrong."
She said bluntly. Livia tilted her heads while saying the truth.
"I didn't pick it from anyone neither ever been taught such unusual words as I do not remember myself interacting nor simply meeting any of the heroes at all."
Clearing herself from the misunderstanding, she fix her stare at my eyes.
"B-But then how?"
I involuntary said to her while feeling confused. She finally say how she got ahold suchs unique words.
"I can see what you can see,
Like that HP and MP at the top-right while a map on the opposite side."
She only stares while feeling dominant. I went thought something for a second but it was immediately overthrown.
"I am not a hero."
At that moment, my mind went stop thinking.
I resigned with being dumbfounded from listening to her.
Suddenly, an unusual noises of bell resound to my ears.
*Tang Tang Tang*
The bell chimed continuously.
I asked her.
"Did you hear that?"
She nodded and listened to it.
Livia also looks confused, she then tried to find the source of the noises. I followed her thus ended us at the balcony. This castle looks like a desolated area with no traces of life left behind upon seeing the world outside. Much gloomier than the previous area.
I looked elsewhere.
Thick dark clouds looming above the sky while the wind remain standing still. After the bell's rang stopped, a rays of light pierced through the clouds one by one.
A burst of lights flashed through all directions causing myself to reflexively blocked it while tightly shut off my eyelids.
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A few second past, I slowly open my eyes.
I found myself in front of Livia's working desk and she too standing here confused.
"What happened? Aren't we on the balcony just a second ago?"
She asked while in deep thoughts.
I noticed the changes in atmosphere.
First is how the library were brighten by a lights coming from outside in which unlike before, the room were lit only by a magic crystals. The second is the air contain much freshness compared a while ago.
She then walk to the balcony. I followed her again.
The crowd's noises can be slowly heard from afar as we approach the balcony.
When we were outside, the blue sky was so clear that you can see the birds soared above. The green grass from the yards was swaying from the cool breezes.
It is as if we were awaken from a nightmare.
I saw my notifications have new messages. I looked at it and see three type of unusual content, One where a letter, the second one is a warning and the third is a notification.
I first open the notices and the warning
[Warning: The «Player» has been placed on a different time zone. A «Time Paradox» has occurred]
[Notice: Time Paradox has been fixed]
[Notice: «Player» status and level has been reset]1
[Notice: World's Timeline has been reset]
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-End of Prologue