(Steve Waters P.O.V.)
A week ago I was summoned to this world by a group of cultist looking people. They then cast various spells on me and lead me to a chamber with a gorgeous woman waiting there. She was the queen of the Aston kingdom that summoned me.
The spells were apparently to teach me the language and other various things. They also tried to enslave me but it had no effect. This was something I only found out later when I overheard one of the magicians talking to a maid. Various things were explained to me by an old man who was known as the great Sage.
This game has a game like system ruled by the gods but because this is reall life and not a game there is no Hp and Mp bars. Apparently I was summoned because the demon king will rise in the not too distant future.
The kingdom decided that instead of waiting for something bad to happen and then summon a hero they should summon one first and prepare. This actually made some sense and I would have gladly played along if the queen hadn’t tried to enslave me.
Luckily I was granted various “hero buffs” when I was summoned. By the way my status looks like this.
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Status NAMESteve WatersRaceHuman JobHero Stat points:0Exp: 0/10 Level1AttributeHoly Strength30Intelligence15 Endurance30Agility20 skills Holy magiclv.1Use magic to to call upon holy light. Holy Agreementlv.6Coming to an agreement and having the holy light of the world be your witness neither party will be allowed to break their promise. Contract/ agreement negatelv.Maxregardless of what type of contract or agreement one comes to it will not affect you. Even a God would find it difficult to force you. Identifylv.1Identify anything around you.
(does not work on anyone on a higher level than you.)
The job of hero is supposed to be a fairly high level job that can’t be attained and on can only be born with it or be summoned and again it. Because of the high level job I have I gained various buffs and have stats that are beyond my level from what I'm told.
It also seems possible to evolve my job to great hero and then true hero depending on my level and deeds. well I guess I'll try and have fun with this since it seems I'm a bit OP in this world. I should be fine as long as I stick to steadily growing. Then when I have a reasonable amount of strength I should be able to leave the kingdom and create some kind of harem. I wonder if elves and beast people are a thing here.
Though I would like to get my hands on the queen, after all she is just that beautiful and has yet to marry meaning I could have a chance. Thinking about it wouldn’t the best way to build a harem be to be king. But then again I don’t really feel like fighting a demon king or dealing with political problems. Well anyway I should have fun with this while I can and learn all the spells that are possible from the old sage.
Because the holy magic system mainly comprises of buffs and heals with few attack spells I should learn another system like fire magic that has the highest attack power.
And something for close quarter combat, for that I guess I'll make use of my ridicules stats and go with a heavy armored knight with a tower shield and a great sword. After conveying my wishes to the queen she had a knight teach me how to fight with a sword and shield. It's not that difficult to get the basics down.
For the shield all you have to do is block at an angle away from your body to create an opening on the opponent and then either stab or chop. Though I thought I would be learning a cooler style, Knights seem to prioritize practicality and efficiency. For the next month I did nothing but study and work on my shield and sword skills.
I would also be told to wear heavy armor occasionally to get use to it. Sadly no events happened where I accidentally saw the queen naked, truly a pity. Incidentally I asked the sage why the queen hadn’t married and he told me that she was always too focused on politics and keeping corrupt nobles from the throne.
Though I feel she herself isn’t all that good considering she ordered the magicians to try and enslave me. And now that I had a month of practice I was given a good set of equipment and told that I would be going to a nearby forest at the outskirts of the capital to fight goblins and horned rabbits.
These weren’t the only things in that forest but because I was going to stay on the outskirts I was told that it would be the only thing I would see. Going with me were the royal prince (queen’s younger brother) and a troop or royal guards. The queen is actually about twenty and her brother is the same age as be sixteen.
“Subject tell me about your world.” [Prince]
And he is undoubtedly really annoying as he thinks he is above everyone. I'm glad he. Isn’t the king, the kingdom gives the throne to the first born regardless of gender meaning if someone really wanted to take the throne you would need to dispose of the older ones.
“First I'm not your subject. I've said this before but I'm helping due to convenience and because the great sage is a nice person. Also I have no loyalty or reason to stay in this kingdom.” [Steve]
Most of the soldiers look at me with hostility because I give no face to their royalty but I could care less. They can only use the hero summon once every hundred years and I'm what they got. A hero isn’t one hundred percent necessary but it’s said that the true hero title is the only thing with enough stat points to match the demon king. The demon king isn’t really what it sounds like either.
There are definitely demons in this world and they hold hostility towards humans the same way humans hold hostility towards them but the demon king is more like the king of monsters. After all between humans and demons it ends at the level of open hostility there are even multiple cities that welcome both. Problems only start when either a demon or human goes to deep into the other’s territory.
The demon king is said to be a demon with a deep hatred towards humans that can control legions of monsters and demons. It’s said that four hundred years ago a hero was summoned and was able to defeat the demon king after he and his companions fought through the demon king’s army. But I don’t have to worry about that for now as the demon king should not rise for another two years or so.
That gives me plenty of time to gain another title and raise my stats. Ahh actually I wonder how Enrique is doing, he should be playing that new vrmmorpg. Knowing him he got it early and did something dumb to ruin the game like choosing a fish or slime as his first character.
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I'm surprised how well he learned to use a bow before I was summoned. I mean I did some sword training before too but it was fairly low level stuff and a bow is a much harder thing to just pick up and use.
Maybe he has a talent for those kinds of things. While thinking about those things I had ignored the prince who was ranting about how I owed the kingdom something for summoning me. Because I don’t agree with him and frankly don’t care I won’t listen. It took an hour but we reached the outskirts of the forest.
“Well then I'm off I’ll see you guys in a while.” [Steve]
Like that I left and began hunting while wearing my equipment. If you really think about it this is practically playing on easy mode because neither horned rabbits or goblins can pierce my armor or have enough strength to resist even a shield bash from my tower shield.
It took no time to find a group of goblins holding various weapons. Wait is this really okay? I mean we’re like an hour’s walk from the capital and I can find monsters so easily. Well let’s not dwell on things unrelated to me.
“Haha you goblins stink. Have at thee!” [Steve]
While I'm at this I might as well have some fun. Because of their superior numbers the goblins felt confident and ran at me. There were seven of them, the first one to reach me was holding a rusted axe. He swung down with some force but my thirty strength and endurance isn’t just for show, I stopped the axe with my tower shield, forgetting to parry, and stabbed the monster in the chest with my sword. With that it was one down.
Next I tried the shield art shield bash. Arts work similar to spells and can be activated in two ways. The first is my moving mana into whatever action you with to do and pro forming the art. And the second is by using what is known as fighting spirit, this consumes your stamina but is slightly stronger than using an art with mana.
I use the art with fighting spirit because my endurance stat is much higher than my mana and I would like to save that in case I need to use a buff or healing spell. In an easy manner I continued to fight the goblins one by one.
When there were only three left the ran away and I didn’t give chase because I somehow became mentally exhausted. This was my first time killing anything but it’s not so bad when you think about the fact that it’s a goblin know for capturing and defining women until their mind and souls are broken.
Actually when I think about it like that I feel rather sad that I let thee ge away. After wandering around for an hour I had killed more than fourteen goblins and they ran away from me as soon as I was within sight.
It’s most likely because of the blood that's covering most of my equipment. I mean I would feel like running too if I saw someone drenched in the blood of my people. This is also the reason that horned rabbits run before I can get a good look at them, once I saw one sniffing the air then it took off as fast as it could. Incidentally I don’t think I'm capable of killing one as they look like adorable little creatures about a 2 feet in length with unicorn horns.
Having nothing else to do because the goblins run away I returned to the small campsite that the top had set up. Once I conveyed my story to the troop they looked agitated and sent a scout to confirm that I had indeed killed fourteen goblins and even allowed some to run away. Because of this I was set back to the castle and told to report what happened to the queen.
After the report was finished, with me standing tall instead of kneeling, the queen had a dark expression on her face. Apparently the last demon king was a goblin and the increase in goblins could mean something is coming. From what she told me, I should have only run into a few horned rabbits and maybe a wolf if I was lucky but goblins were just on the list of things because every three months or so one would wander too close to the capital.
Instead I found more than fourteen. Ahh seeing her distressed face is nice. I wonder if I'm that sadistic or if it’s just because I sort of dislike her for trying to enslave me. The next day I finally got the even I had been waiting for. Because a maid instructed me to meet the queen before breakfast I left to see her. Because it was an emergency meeting I hurried, and with my agility stat I can run fairly fast.
The queen before breakfast would take a bath, this is something I had known also the reason why I hurried. It was presumed that it would take me at least ten minutes to walk to the queen’s chambers giving her more than enough time to get dressed if it was only a robe.
But because I ran at full speed I was there in less than a minute. The guards were also to slow to stop me from entering. And then there it was the fully exposed body of the queen. Now normally this would mean I would be killed for disrespecting the monarch. But we had a little talk.
“So this was totally on purpose and I have no regrets but… Light or healing bless those with your light and may they sleep and recover. Healing sleep.” [Steve]
With a light spell and two unprepared guards I was able to get some alone time with the queen.
“Now don’t be worried I won’t do anything. I'm just here to propose a little deal while getting to see something nice. So here’s my deal. I forget that you tried to enslave me and stick around in your kingdom. And you make me your consort Prince, I don’t want to deal with anything political but I also don’t want to have no standing.” [Steve]
While I was talking the queen covered up and glared at me. She should in theory be able to overpower me as she reached level ten but my stats are a bit op so even as a level two which I gained from killing goblins I am still by far stronger.
“Just think about it, you keep your power and I’m free from people attempting to make me into a political pawn. And think when or if the demon king raises your kingdom will be at the top of the world's political power as long as I'm around. So let’s say. Leave and offer the same deal to a small kingdom and they agree then become the new Aston. I mean your kingdom is only so big because you had the previous hero… Right?” [Steve]
Well I never said I was a good guy and she started this by trying to enslave me, I'm not such a softhearted person that I would allow further attempts.
“So you knew about the slave magic? Sigh… Well your deal isn’t bad and your threat is dead on. Fine, you can have your deal as long as I keep control of my kingdom.” [Queen Alissa]
“Okay then. I learned a good trick to make sure both of us are assured of the other’s sincerity, it's a nifty skill called holy agreement. If either one of us breakers the agreement without voiding it will turn into a slave contract. It’s also something even I can’t avoid. Your library sure has some nice things.” [Steve]
With that the queen and I made several adjustments to the contract in order to avoid loopholes and having one cheat the other. And I became king of a kingdom while not having any political power. Well or so the queen thinks. Having cheats gives you a wonderful feeling.