Let’s go back in time a little bit
Back in the white space there stood a massive capsule with legs and arms, it donned a crown and cape. He held in his hands a massive gold coins nearly as massive of his body as he stood of an equally massive massive crank in front of him. This crank had a single slot that looked like it could perfectly fit the massive coin his cartoon like hands.
This capsule was Gachachacha, the God of Gacha. He has for years, used this Godly Gachapon to summon otherworlders into this world of his, before sending them into a whole new world. And today he had once again used his Gachapon to summon otherworlders to this void of white space.
And amongst the four he summoned, there was a single wolf hidden among the sheep. The Superhuman experimentation subject now known as ,Blade. He had in just a few seconds killed every other otherworlder who came along with him. His expertise in killing, and the hidden weapons he had in his clothes made swift work of everyone else.
But something happened that Blade would never have expected. Laying down on the floor in fron of Gachachacha right now was the sole survivor of Blade’s assault. She was someone who if Gachachacha didn’t know better, would have called the incarnation of Lady Luck herself. For she was the lone survivor.
This nameless girl who Blade had killed by twisting her neck lay there silently. But something odd transpired, her neck began turning back to it’s proper positions, and any and all damage done to her spine and neck were completely repaired.
And slowly, but surely she woke up. She looked around in a daze and asked.
“What happened? Where’s everyone else?” (Nameless Girl)
The girl stood up, and began looking for the three other men who entered this world with her. She had completely lost any memories she had of her death, and due to dying first she possessed no memories of everyone elses.
The girl looked up to Gachachacha, and asked, “What’s going on Mr.Gacha? Where did they go?” (Nameless Girl)
“Well as you can see they left, for the sake of privacy that’s all I can say.” (Gachachacha)
As a neutral party, and as a subordinate god Gachachacha had no right to tell the girl anything, nor would it be fair to the unknowing Blade.
“Is that so? We could have gone together why didn’t they wake me up” (Nameless Girl)
The girl puffed up her cheeks, and remembered the 3 men who were with her previously. But to something felt odd to her, something was amiss. In her head she couldn’t help, but ask the question " but why was I asleep?"
Something was wrong here, but she just couldn't put her finger on it. And in the end there was nothing she could do, so she put it at the back of her head and forgot about it.
The girl pulled out her phone, and entered the Gotta Gacha app intent on getting a few more things before she left the white void like everyone else. But something was wrong here as well, all her Gacha Coins were gone, her coins were reduced to zero.
“What’s going on! Mr. Gacha!” (Nameless Girl)
“An unfortunate event.” (Gachachacha)
“But what am I supposed to do without anymore coins!” (Nameless Girl)
“Well, Child let me help you with that” (???)
A ray of golden light fell from the sky, and a hole opened up on the ceiling. From the hole a single angelic woman with gold flowing hair descended. She was a woman who could only be described in a few words, holy, beautiful, pure.
On her back were a pair of beautiful white wings, and on her head a laurel wreath. Her very presence in the white space gave the nameless girl a feeling of awe and grace.
“I am the one Goddesses of Light, and the Goddess of Heroes Freya. Child, it seems you're in dire straits would you like to form a covenant with me?” (Freya)
The nameless girl watched the goddess wordlessly, and only after some time did she snap out of it and apologize for her rude behavior. She asked the goddess.
“A Covenant?” (Nameless Girl)
“Yes, we Gods are forbidden from interfering with you otherworlders for the most part, and we only form covenant with those who actively seek us out or whenever we end up forming a transaction of sorts. But you’re a unique case, a very unique case. We, of the Council of Heaven, and those of the Council of Hell have come to an agreement to send me to assist you.” (Freya)
NotificationYou have received Random Name ticket
NotificationDue to lacking a name, Random Name ticket has been activated
NotificationName has been changed to Mary
“With this the problem with your name has been fixed. Hello Mary.” (Freya)
“Hello…” (Mary)
“We can’t directly give you any Gacha Coins, but as the Goddess of Heroes what I can do is send you in with the current batch of summoned heroes. But in order for this to happen you must form a covenant with me, and become an Apostle under me. Should you refuse you will be sent to any random location.” (Freya)
“And then what?”(Mary)
“Well considering you don’t have any way to defend yourselves, and you lack the equipment and abilities most otherworlders would start out with you’d more than likely die. And since the location is completely random you won’t even hear the name of it, or know if it’s dangerous or not. Who knows it might even send you to a Dragon's Lair. “ (Freya)
“Eep!” (Mary)
“I’d suggest you make a contract with me, I’ll grant you the highest form of blessing I’m capable of giving. It will not only boost your base stats, but the blessing will allow you to work with the Church of Light as well as use the Holy Swords. And best of all you’d have the backing of the kingdom you’re summoned too.” (Freya)
“That sounds great, but Miss. Freya isn’t there a catch?” (Mary)
“Hmm? How’d you know?” (Freya)
“Well, I’ve had a number of contracts in my other world and well there were quite a few shady ones…” (Mary)
“I see, well then I might as well be honest with you. Forming a covenant with such a powerful blessing like mine requires a price to be paid by the recipient. You see the stronger the God, the stronger the blessing, and the greater the price one must pay. And as the Goddess of Hero’s I’m considered one of the strongest of the Light Gods, so the blessing is extraordinarily powerful, but has an extraordinary price.” (Freya)
“And the price is?” (Mary)
“Your life” (Freya)
“That’s…” (Mary)
“Let me be a little more clear. My contract requires you to be a Hero, and as a Hero you must always be just and righteous. The Humans down there believe only Heroes can receive my blessing, but in truth those who receive my blessing have no choice but to be a Hero. Once one violates the contract, and commits an unrighteous act then they will lose their life.” (Freya)
“That’s…” (Mary)
“It’s frightening right? A single wrong move could end your life, but don’t worry if you tell a lie or something you won’t lose your life. As long as you live your life honestly, and good intention, you fight for the weak, the poor, the suffering you will survive. Child I implore you accept the covenant” (Freya)
Freya held her hand out to Mary, and from her hand appeared a single brown parchment. A pop up appeared on Mary’s phone.
Will you form a covenant with the Goddess of Heroes Freya?Yes/No
She stared at it a bit, before pressing, Yes. Suddenly a large amount of notifications appeared on her phone.
NotificationYour Alignment has been changed to Good
NotificationYour Race has been changed to Apostle of Freya(Human)
NotificationYour Base Stats have been increased
NotificationYou have received the Skill: R Gacha- Translate
“Child I wish you luck.” (Freya)
Freya waved her hand and a golden magic circle appeared beneath Mary’s feet.And as the golden circle glowed with majestic brilliance Mary disappeared from the white space.
“You’re seriously not gonna tell her? As an Apostle you could have given her some advice, or a prophecy of sorts?” (Gachachacha)
“Why would I, this makes it all the more fun.” (Freya)
“Honestly I see no difference between you Gods and Light, and those wicked Demon Gods….”(Gachachacha)
“Well I didn’t feel like letting such a good opportunity pass. Those Demon Gods so readily jumped at the opportunity to send that one human brat a package with some ridiculous excuse after all. And besides we never expected that to appear…” (Freya)
“That?” (Gachachacha)
SR The Nine Heavenly PathsOnce the possessor of this mystical abilities dies, their body will be completely restored and they will be resurrected stronger than ever. The amount of time it takes to revive oneself varies as you must walk through one of the Heavenly Paths. Upon doing so you will also receive a permanent buff, and that path will be forever closed. Skill Cannot be Upgraded
Lives Left: 9
“What’s wrong with that?” (Gachachacha)
“It’s understandable that you don’t understand, after all it’s been quite some time since he’s died. But I’m sure you understand how the Hero, or rather the Gacha System operates correct?” (Freya)
“Yes, the Gacha System creates two pseudo souls after scanning one’s psyche. One of them is inserted into Giri the Assistive A.I. The second is into the replica of the Hero System in order to allow the system to fit the user. This way no 2 people will have the same results while using the system. Other than the random abilities, and items every now and again, most of what is distributed is based on the user.” (Gachachacha)
“Correct, this way the wicked become more wicked and the just more just. And should the user change his mentality, the system will change along with them. And you the subsidiary god was created to manage it. But do you know how these abilities are created?” (Freya)
“Where they’re created? No, I’m just in charge of the systems management. Though I know there exists a massive database of items, and abilities. But most of the complicated sorting, ranking, and the like are done by the system itself.”(Gachachacha)
“Well I suppose it’s natural you don’t know then. Most Trash, and Normal Items, and Rare items tend to be replicas of already existing items. Some rare items might just have an odd twist to them that was given by the system, but SR items and abilities tend to be things we Gods have personally created. In our spare time we have contributed a large amount of items, and abilities to that database of yours, and usually the system would just change a few things.” (Freya)
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Suddenly a large machete suddenly appeared in Freya’s hands. It had pieces of flesh attached to it, and there was even a wicked eye attached. The machete constantly exuded a visible dark, and murky aura.
“That cursed machete of his is a modified replica of this Demonic Weapon. It was originally an item that was blessed by a Demon god, and after a large killing spree it grew sentience and began devouring its owner. Afterwards the church of light sealed it. Things like these are given to our Otherworlders. And sometimes they’re changed to fit the user.” (Freya)
Freya threw the large machete towards the God of Gacha who promptly caught it. It suddenly grew frantic, and purple pieces of flesh began to spew out of it covering Gachachacha’s arm. But what could a cursed item do to a God.
Gachachacha simply smashed the machete against the white void’s floor, and it smashed into thousands of pieces.
“Ah my bad.” (Gachachacha)
“It’s fine that’s also a replica, the original remains in the a vault in the Mortals world. I just pulled a copy out of the database. Anyway the thing with The Nine Heavenly Paths is that it simply doesn’t belong to anyone.” (Freya)
“What!?” (Gachachacha)
“There is no God that governs such power, not even the God of Life or the God of Death. They possess the power to bring back the dead as undead, or create an entirely new life. But neither of the possess the power to bring back someone who’s already dead back to life. That’s a power that disappeared a long time ago. In other words this is the power of a lost gods.” (Freya)
“A Lost God?” (Gachachacha)
“We don’t know how this ended up in the database, or why it was in there in the first place. But when we searched the database we couldn’t even find a trace of this ability. It’s quite mysterious.” (Freya)
“Indeed.” (Gachachacha)
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Mary’s P.O.V
“Child I wish you luck.” (Freya)
Thanks, I’m going to need it…
To think that I’d end up losing all my Gacha Coins. What sort of luck is this…
The golden circle underneath me glows brilliantly and I’m sent to an entirely black space. What’s going on?
“You’re currently waiting for the summoning process to finish.” (Giri)
The A.I on my phone began speaking.
“Oh, hey Giri.” (Mary)
“I would suggest activating Status Screen mode.” (Giri)
“Oh, right.” (Mary)
I quickly change the settings to status screen mode. Suddenly the phone disappears from my hand and a number of icons start popping up. It’s like a game!
I can see my health and my mana. I can open all the other apps from here as well. This is so convenient. I can see why it was suggested.
Oh, I can open up my Status Menu here as well. Let’s see.
STATISTICS APPName:MaryRace:Apostle of Freya(Human)Level:1Alignment:GoodSTR:20AGI:15INT:20END:15WIS:15LIB:5Status Points10
Oh, I have 10 Status points. Let’s up WIS and AGI then so we can have the first 4 at 20.
STATISTICS APPName:MaryRace:Apostle of Freya(Human)Level:1Alignment:GoodSTR:20AGI:20INT:20END:15WIS:20LIB:5Status Points0
There we go, now let’s see how many skill points to I have. Eh! 0! I hope that’s normal as well, otherwise I’m really out of luck. To have 0 Gacha Coins and Skill Points left…
Hmm, wait there’s a skill?
SR The Nine Heavenly PathsOnce the possessor of this mystical abilities dies, their body will be completely restored and they will be resurrected stronger than ever. The amount of time it takes to revive oneself varies as you must walk through one of the Heavenly Paths. Upon doing so you will also receive a permanent buff, and that path will be forever closed. Skill Cannot be Upgraded
Lives Left: 9
This is a cheat! No doubt about it, it’s a cheat! You know what who cares about Gacha Coins, when I’ve got something like this! I probably have the rarest ability ever!
“Not exactly, your ability is only SR not SR+ or EX. There are probably more powerful abilities out there.” (Giri)
Eh, Giri are you able to read my mind?
“Yes.” (Giri)
Is that so…
Suddenly a bright light opened up in the black space. Is that, where I need to go?
“Yes” (Giri)
Ah okay. I slowly walk over to that blinding light, and it turns out it was quite far. I can’t really tell how long I’ve been walking, but I can tell I’m not too close. Though I eventually did make.
And as I touched the source of that incredibly bright light, I suddenly found myself sitting atop a stone floor. Underneath me was a rather large circle filled with all sorts of odd colors, and in front of me is a large wooden door.
I look around and there’s a bunch of suits of armors, holding weapons and a open ceiling that allows the light to fall down. I stand up and walk to a window, and from there I could see a massive town.
This really is a fantasy world! As I peered through the window I could see all sorts of medieval houses, and there seemed to be vendors in the streets. I could see guards walking around in iron armor, and people holding wands making fire appear. There were all sorts of weirdly dressed people in leather armor, or armor made out of bones.
It looked like something straight out of an RPG, and some people looked like they were out of a certain game where you hunt Monsters.
Suddenly, behind me I hear the door open and an old man with a broom walks in. He starts grumbling about something and walks over to the magic circle and starts sweeping it.
“Um, Hello?” (Mary)
I greet him, and he slowly turns his head. He looks at me confused, and then suddenly he starts yelling
“$*&@#%!” (Janitor)
What?
“You should probably turn on Gacha Translate” (Giri)
Ah right, I activate Gacha Translate
“INTRUDER! INTRUDER!” (Janitor)
“No, wait-” (Mary)
He holds out his wooden broom towards me as if it were a spear, and he slowly gets closer
“Don’t you underestimate me, I may be a jan-” (Janitor)
All of a sudden he starts having a coughing fit, I walk up to him worried and pat his back.
“Thank you dear.” (Janitor)
Then he pushes my hand away, and backs up once again brandishing his broom at me
“I may be a Janitor, but I was once a mighty knight!” (Janitor)
What’s wrong with this old man? He suddenly charges at me, but in only a few steps he suddenly trips.
“I-I can’t believe it. You’re a monster to twart me the mighty Janitor! I- I mean the m-mighty knight!” (Janitor)
I walk up to him, and ask “Are you okay?” (Mary)
“D-Don’t you pity me, Demon. I am a proud knight of this kingdom!” (Janitor)
I hear loud clanging footsteps and see a young knight walk through the door
“No you senile old gramps, you’re just a janitor. And you..” (Young Knight)
He walks up to me, and unsheathes his sword.
“Are under arrest” (Young Knight)
He places his sword right next to my neck, slightly above my arm.
“But wait, I didn’t do anything!” (Mary)
“You didn’t do anything? You're doing something right now.” (Young Knight)
“What!?” (Mary)
“You’re standing in the palace” (Young Knight)
“Eh?” (Mary)
“Entering the King’s Palace without permission is punishable by death. I could kill you right now, and no one would say a thing.” (Young Knight)
“Wait! I’m a Hero, a summoned Hero!” (Mary)
“A Hero? Lies, the Heroes have already gone with the King. We only summoned 4 of the and there are 4 already. And beside you aren’t wearing a translation ring.” (Young Knight)
“But I-” (Mary)
Suddenly, I lost control of my body and could no longer speak.
“[Astral Binding], anyways I don’t know how you know about the summoning or how you even got in here, but you’re under arrest. You’re probably a spy, so we won’t kill you immediately but don’t worry if you sell out your country you might survive. We can’t interrupt the ceremonies so, I’ll put you in the dungeon for now.” (Young Knight)
But, I’m the Hero!
The Young Knight picks me up, and carries me all the way down to a cold and dark dungeon. As soon he throws me into a jail cell I become able to use my body.
I quickly get up, and grab the bars of the cell.
“Wait I’m innocent!” (Mary)
“That’s what they all say, that’s what they all say.” (Young Knight)
The knight quickly leaves the dungeon and closes the door behind him. I guess I have no choice but to wait….
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Authors Notes
Welcome to the first chapter with Mary's P.O.V I'm going to alternate every now and again. There's gonna be a time skip in Blade's P.O.V so I decided now was a good time to add this in.