Upon arrival to the new world Riki is immediately confronted with a beautiful blonde with luxurious long hair, sparkling blue eyes and an impressively well endowed…. “Character”. The next most eye catching thing about her was the dress she was wearing. It was a white dress decorated with a regal looking gold embroidery and it gives off the feeling that someone of royalty should be wearing it.

Looking around the room Riki could see numerous other people wearing similar looking robes of white and gold in a circle around him.

Furthermore Riki could see numerous full body mirrors hanging on the walls. Inside the mirror Riki could see himself, a 6ft5 sturdy looking man with jet-black hair and forest green eyes giving him a sharp and imposing look.

I’m definitely glad that I kept all of the same features I had before I came here. It wouldn’t have even been funny if I had showed up as a little girl.

Putting 2 and 2 together Riki came to the conclusion that these are the followers the so called god spoke of. 

Hmm this means that they expect me to go and fight their enemy. That is absolutely fine by me so long as they are worth the fight.

“Welcome hero, my name is Princess Lashara Versailles of the holy human empire. Though it may be abrupt but may I ask your name?” she said as she put on a smile that wouldn’t loose out to the sun in its brilliance.

Yet Riki saw something about that smile and internally frowned. 

That is a smile I have seen countless times. That same smile is what people use when they want to use me for my fame and money, in other words this is not a princess in front of me but a snake. Although if it’s just this then I expected as much.

Riki understood from the beginning that the people who summon him may not have his best interests in mind but that’s to be expected. After all they summoned him for the express purpose of killing their enemies. In other words they see him as a tool, expendable.

“My name is Riki your highness.” Said Riki with a small bow.

Lashara was momentarily surprised by the level of humility shown by the rough looking hero but quickly regained her composure.

“Well it appears you are well versed in manners, this is reassuring that the great hero is also a man of character. If you will follow me to the throne room the king will explain your situation to you. After all I’m sure it’s confusing, being summoned all of a sudden.”

“Understood.”

With that the doors to the circle temple looking room opened and the princess gestured for Riki to follow after her.

After walking through a few deserted hallways Riki arrives at a huge door that looks like something you would see before the last boss of a game. It’s made entirely of gold and has depictions of angels adorning it from top to bottom.

Through those doors is a large room with a single chair elevated high on a plateau and sat upon it is a weary, grey haired old man with a face that looks as if the whole world is populated with insects.

On the sides of the room on similar yet smaller plateaus men are sitting with similar looks to the king as they watch Riki walk in beside Lashara

This is the throne room of the Holy Human Empire and that is its king.

Lashara walks up to the middle of the room and gestures subtly for Riki to kneel down next to her.

Once he did the king began to speak in a detached tone 

“Hero, whom has answered our call in this time of need. I thank you on behalf of all of humanity for answering the summons. It is in these dark times where we are beset on all sides by the scourge of the Demon horde, the barbarity of the bestial tribes and the hostility of the Fae folk that we are in need of one such as you.”

Hmm it seems like humanity is in quite the pinch right now, I wonder just how we managed to piss off all of those races.

“As such I, King Braddock Versailles request your aid in fighting these vile enemies of humanity. What is your response?”

“your highness I live to fight, so long as there are enemies all you need do is point me in their direction.”

“That is indeed a favourable response. Therefore as the hero I have no doubt you possess great strength. As such I would have you tested to see your capabilities.”

As that was said one of the robed men from earlier came out holding a piece of paper that looks to be some sort of contract. He then hands the paper to me and backs away while looking at his feet.

“Simply shed some of your blood onto the paper and it will allow you to use the show status skill.”

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With a simple bite on the thumb a small bead of blood formed and when it came into contact with the paper there was a flash of blue light as the paper burned up in an instant. Once that happened the knowledge of how to open the status screen appeared in Riki’s head as if it were always there.

Riki then opened it and what he saw left a deep impression on him. This is very useful was the main thing he thought. Being able to have a person’s physical attributes displayed in numerical value is something incredibly useful, furthermore to even have abilities shown with their descriptions is incredible.

Name: Riki

Race: Human

Stats

Lvl: 1

WIL: 50

STR: 50

VIT: 50

AGI: 45

INT: 40

Abilities[State manipulation]

The ability to alter the state of your own body. After achieving a certain level it can be used to alter the state of other things as well.

[Boxing champion]

Being a champion boxer the user can dominate close quarters combat and deal incredible damage with his fists. Furthermore vitality and willpower are high so the effect of fear and other forms of mental suppression are reduced

[Fighting spirit]

As a veteran of battle the user can exert a mental pressure on anyone around him. To weaker enemies this will cause them to cower in fear but to stronger opponents this will intimidate them largely depending on their own fighting spirit.

[Divine heritage]

Due to being a summoned hero approved by a higher god the user can temporarily enter a state of a demigod. In this state the user can use near endless amounts of mana and has unparalleled physical capabilities. This ability can only be used once every year and lasts for 1 hour.

[Heroic growth]

Due to being a summoned hero the user will experience exponentially larger status increases and the time it takes to learn abilities by a large amount.

I wonder if these results are good. After all I have no way to compare them to the people around me.

Just while thinking as such the same robed person walks up to me and hands me a blue luminescent crystal about the size of a my palm.

“Well then hero if you would please apply some of your mana to the crystal to prove to us the validity of your strength.”

Concentrating on the blue crystal in his hand Reiki tried to get a feel for anything foreign in his body. Due to the fact that he has never had any mana before he found it quite quickly. When he directed his thoughts inwards towards his heart and blood stream he could feel a warm sensation as if hot water was coursing through his veins.

This must be mana I guess.

Willing the newfound mana into his hand he carefully pushed it into the crystal and felt a slight amount of suction. This is the sensation of using mana but unbeknownst to him and those around him no human has ever been able to control their mana so well on their first try. The king and his subordinates simply assumed that the hero must be powerful and therefore capable of using mana so they had no idea this was not the case.

“Those are some very impressive capabilities you show there hero. It is unprecedented for any person to have any stats above 5 at level 1. Not only that but with those abilities I’m sure you will have no issues with fighting even the demon lord once you train for a while.”

So by that measurement it should mean I’m relatively impressive. I wander what the stats of the royal guards here are like, they seem to have been giving me glares for some time now. If they want to pick a fight with me I will gladly comply, I can’t wait to go toe to toe with this world’s inhabitant’s hehehe.

Without realising it Riki was letting out a little bit of his fighting spirit causing the various people around him to stiffen up as if a wild beast had entered the room.