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[Wha?]

Slowly regaining his consciousness, John began to orientate himself to his new surroundings.

[Where am I? Where is this?]

Feeling a strong burning sensation in his chest, he began to wonder what he saw prior to be being brought here but had only a faint recollection to his experience.

John noticed figures besides him appearing to have woken up the same as he did. Feeling a strong sense of fatigue, he began to inspect his surroundings just when...

[I see, so I guess we can call the summoning a great success!]

A new voice came from the doorway to greet the people who were puzzled to their own circumstances.

The room where John was currently present in seem to resemble a large room reserved only for royalty or celebrities, alongside him, there were three other people who were present as well who were slowly regaining their senses in their respective beds.

[I know you heroes have a lot of questions concerning why you were brought here, but please rest considering that merging with such power has taken a toll on your bodies.]

[[[[Heroes?!]]]]

Being caught off guard by what the young man had said, everyone spoke in shock.

[Yes, as the current head representative of The Empire of Farardar, I welcome you heroes to our lands. So please rest up since we will catch you up afterwards when you have fully recovered.]

As the man wearing a majestic robe stated this, he left the room which left the four newly proclaimed heroes alone.

Normally, such an event would leave any person jolted to the point of questioning if they are even alive or merely dreaming at that point. The situation presented forward looked very real to the point where they would have to confront their new surroundings whether they liked it or not.

[Anyone still believing this?!]

The first to break the silence was a young man who looked to carry a very intimating aura.

[I'm not but I guess life proves to be verrryyyyy unexpected sometimes.]

With a tough yet cheerful tone, another man who appeared to look a lot older and very well built responded.

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[Even so this is still too much...]

A solemn voice rung out from a young women who appeared to have her guard up.

[Right? They brought us to this place and suddenly proclaim that we are "Heroes". Who the hell do they think they are?]

[Settle down, I'm sure we'll get answers sooner or later like the man in the robe said. For now I think the best course of action is to rest just as he said.]

[Hah? And who are you?]

[How curt, well you can call me John if you'd like.]

[Oh if we're doing introductions, I guess I'll go ahead and introduce myself as well, you can call me Markus or Mark if you want.]

[Yoana...]

With the final person giving her name, John decided to counter with the same question.

[I see we all introduced ourselves, I suppose we should hear from the person who initiated this question in the first place.]

Everyone turned to face the person responsible for starting this chain of introductions, with a distrustful gaze, he looked ready to reveal his named but looked hesitant.

[Raphael]

With a short powerful response it seemed that he chose to reveal it nonetheless.

[Going back to what John said, I agree with the plan of just waiting for now. I can assume that the same symptoms I am feeling right now are inflicting everyone at the moment, correct?]

[I guess you're right, but aren't ya'll taking this situation too much in stride at the moment?]

[Nothing we can do about it now but see what happens. I'll begin to worry when we're caught up to what is happening by the people who brought up to this place.]

Responding to Raphael's question, John gave his reasoning for staying calm.

[Even so, that doesn't mean that I don't feel somewhat unnerved by what's happened to us...]

But at the same time John had a thought and an instinctual feeling that he should on alert for now.

[Heya, you seem to be really quite, why don't you tell us your opinion?]

[Eek!]

[You might want to change your attitude bro, she seems to be afraid of you.]

Mark stepped up to correct Raphael with a stern look.

[Oh come on I don't look that scary.]

Feeling offended by Yoana's response, Raphael tries to get out of his bed to approach her.

[Ow!]

[Told you we should just wait until we recover, even though you may wish to get up your body will still refuse to move if you push it that hard.]

John smugly responded

[Dammit, I forgot!]

[Pffftttt]

A small chuckle rang out as Raphael was stuck on the floor.

[Did you just laugh girly!?]

[No, no I'm sorry, I just felt a little apprehensive since I'm not that great at communicating with new people I've just met. But if you are wondering about my opinion on how I feel, I don't have one at the moment.]

[Don't have one?]

[Yes, like those other two, I've also decided to wait and see how things pan out before deciding what to do.]

With a meek expression, she laid out her thoughts to the three.

[I can see that most of us have the same idea, so I assume we reached a consensus?]

[Yeah I guess.]

[Well what about me? I'm still stuck on the floor! Help me up!]

[....]

[Does anyone want to help him up, bro looks like he's pain.]

[Nothing we can do since the same will happen to us if we even try to move. Maybe that guy will come back to check on us again.]

[Shit!!!]

As almost all of them came to an agreement, they decided to rest and wait until they recovered to ask anymore questions.

[Empire of Farardar, Power, Hero...]

John embraced himself in thought as he recollected on what the person that greeted them had said, fully realizing that the situation he was put in was no joke.

But what John did not realize yet was that this was the only time for rest that he would be afforded at the moment.