‘’Welcome… sir hero.’’
A bright blue light robbed Luca of his vision, but he could hear someone’s voice. The light slowly dimmed and he could see a few images through it. Images that appear to be some people surrounding him in a circle.
‘Huh? I swear I was on the sidewalk just now, am I hallucinating?’ The first thought anyone would have in a situation like this.
‘’Welcome to Glorus.’’ The voice touched his ears again, it was vibrating and deep, anyone with a good sense of hearing could understand that it belonged to an old man.
The light vanished and Luca could see what was ahead, or where he was. A dark room and people wearing dark robes was the first thing he saw. Their faces were concealed with baggy robes, making it hard to know if those people were all men or women. The pillars supporting the roof made it look more secretive. No door or a window to be seen, there was only a stair leading to something above. In short, a common visual of a dungeon.
‘Seems like I was kidnapped,’ Luca moved his hands, ‘nope, not tied.’
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With a wave of curiosity entering his soul, he moved his eyes around, scouting every single detail humanly possible. He was standing above a circle, colored red, closely resembling a magic circle he had seen in fantasy novels and anime. People surrounding him in a circle added points to what his brain was cooking as a conclusion.
As a teen, in his high school years, Luca was always fond of fantasy novels and shows, isekai was one of the genres he binge-read or watched.
‘Either I’m a sacrifice to Satan or they teleported me here using magic.’ These were the two conclusions he came up with after seeing the robes over those men.
‘Only people in cults or isekai anime wear those robes.’ He was on the mark but his conclusions weren’t set in stone.
-sniff sniff-
With his mind and eyes occupied on the picture ahead, his nose however picked up a new piece of the puzzle. A stench, so dense and disgusting that it made his nostrils burn in pain.
‘’What’s that smell?’’ Luca spoke for the first time, he spoke out loud on impulse, I mean who can blame him.
‘Is this place full of dead rats?’
One of the summoners advanced near him, he placed his hand inside of the robe that startled Luca, ‘he is about to pull out a knife, I’m so dead.’ However, what he pulled out wasn’t a knife or a gun, far from it. It was a small glass bottle full of dark solution.
The man advanced it towards Luca and spoke in a voice that was full of pride, ‘’I’m glad you noticed hero.’’
The man opened the lid, making that space envelope in an even stronger stench, ‘’it’s our new brand of perfume, wanna try?’’
Luca quickly covered his nose with his right hand and yelled, ‘’Fuck no.’’