Chapter 3

Max quietly appears, dazed in a brightly lit room with a small flash of white light and with no clothes on. He looks around noticing a few of his classmates in large robes and random people staring at him and someone catches his eye. He waits a bit thinking about what happened and he notices the fact that he is unnaturally calm but slowly walked over to join stopping because he realized he was nude, soon after a small pale lady approached him handing him a blue-beige silver-gray robe and a small covering. He picks it up awkwardly and whispers a small thanks to her.

He puts it on and approaches his friend John who was just talking to some people.

" Hey, dude guess who's back, bac- well you already know it's me anywhom I think I might be hallucinating Where are we …am I ?" Max says quickly correcting himself.

"So how are you," Max said while scratching his head, and looking at John and seeing his expressionless maybe tired face, "anyways I noticed Zen, Twelve, Amary, May, Jack, and, Alex is anybody else here?" Max said awkwardly 'Somehow not Braden's or Brandon's.' John breathes in a way that made Max assume he was okay "Do you realize that we're dead why are you so calm" John replies quickly and calmly with a tad bit of irritation

Max sighs dramatically

" I am slightly panicked but is there anything I should know so I don't have to question or query later… good mate" saying the last part with a fancy accent (old British /London) and lightly smiling at the end. 'Anything at all' Max thought.

John doesn't react at all, wearing a blank expression he says "That's all the people, to be honest, and also we saw you kill Peter."

Max is noticeably surprised by this ."Wait you were alive!" Max mutters as he points at him. John pushes the offensive finger away and mutters "Yeah, just wanted to pretend to be corpses after being shot while listening to music" John sighs. Max squints at John "Are you being sarcastic?" Max mutters as he thinks about the rules of time why was he last and not him and waited a second

"Wait wait so if you died last then how would you be here already unless time-!" John interrupts "I was being sarcastic and there was a weird... god-like creature that showed us what was happening on a flatscreen portal thing while we decided if we wanted to stay on earth or go here" Max is looking both interested at his reply and disappointed at the fact that he wasn't able to detect the sarcasm.

It is quiet for a short few seconds "So do you know what you got?" John questions breaking the silence "Got what?" Max steps one foot slightly back and curiously asks "You know your weapon something you get it. Damn, Didn't you pay attention?" John says "To what was I supposed to place my attention on? Is it in this room?" Max asks and looks around in a circle pivoting on his heel John says "The presentation, the one in the weird place. Did you not see it? I guess you did die later?" Max's eyes show that he is confused. John takes a step back "Are your eyes good? They're red really red." Max looks further confused "Did you not notice I know that I wasn't making extreme eye contact but still what presentation though I don't think I was there what was it about?" Max questions

"To put it simply we got something like in those anime things where there's heroes. What is called? Oh like some of the isekai or something like that, and due to us getting new bodies, they fixed genetic mutations or illness and stuff they somewhat did stuff for mental health but they didn't change us mentally." John quickly answers in a few seconds

After Max learned that he just thought of small things like how it would affect the effects of testosterone and liver damage due to alcohol and other chemicals he also ponders the possibilities that it would affect heart disease or diabetes along with cancers. He then looks at his arms and body to check the fat percentages and for scarring also thinking about if he has a new body would bring over diseases from his former world. He then looks up at John "Cool"

"You okay there well I guess I understand." John says as Max looks at John "Is the roof gold?" John looks up "Yeah it's a gold dome thing maybe it like coated or something The weight of regular gold might be too heavy" John quietly muttered Max responded, "could also be an alloy …might be goldish bronze." Max gasps and points up "Is that gullible in the center?" John scans the roof for two seconds before the light in his eyes slightly dims "You got me. You got me good" John mutters and looks at Max who is inspecting his own forearms thinking 'The burn marks I got are gone' "What are you doing Max?" Max glances up "You said that it fixed all things physical or something I had bruised my arms from some things earlier. Now they're gone. Fascinating ain't it? But I did get you could only Joe fell for those tricks."

John looks confused "Which Joe?" Max sighs "Joe mama. It's a Joe mama joke. I hadn't made this many bad jokes since the convention what was it? Oh! saw Con" John looks confused "Saw Con?" Max's face darkens for a second then lights up " Great sarcasm fantastic." Max says happily John is further confused "What sarcasm?" Max's face shows pure disappointment he once again sighs quieter and slower and mumbles "So this is how my parents felt when I was born" Max clears his throat "The joke is saw con these nuts but we are getting off top-

*Boom*

The boys looked to their left to see two large doors each around 12 feet tall and 4 feet wide swung open and three men each in drastically different wear walking into the area.

'Was that door always there well hmm I don't think I really looked around who are they?" Max thought as he surveyed the area noticing the nice walls and the good buildings thinking of architects and old paintings before analyzing the men who had appeared.

One of the three men looked around glancing around and then took a deep breath

*haatchuu*

"Sorry." Was what he said then

"Bless you." the other two muttered nearly simultaneously

Max studied him he was about 6 foot and one inch tall brown hair blue eyes just above average in looks was wearing a clean white shirt with a blue-purple jacket and had a cape with a furry part on top covering his neck he had white pants and white high socks and dark leather boots he had both a strange and royal air around him. Another man had black hair mixed with a strange streak of gray hair even though they looked like he was in their late twenties maybe early thirties and were dressed and a plain long-sleeved shirt and sweatpants he had more modern-looking shoes The final man was wearing full plate armor and was built like a tank Max couldn't see them properly since his vision was adjusting and he was getting used to the best vision any world has to offer.

"Hello, people… great travelers uh so to put it simply you have been" he reached into a pocket and pulled out a small yellow paper "Isekaied easy ked? Eh, whatever." He cleared his throat "Welcome to the kingdom of Acertan" he said with a deep booming voice (pronounced ass er tain)

The man took a deep breath "I am the second prince of this great kingdom and I am going to leave the rest to them. Yeah." slightly pointing at them. He scratched his somewhat long hair and walked partially behind the plated man

The armored man stepped forward "I am Korvonski the chief of the armies of the great Acertan, Pleasure to see you. You have been brought here for a purpose. To help this world you will have vast resources provided by many countries for you have great power and knowledge. Please follow us for testing." He turns around and does a mix of marching and walking away

"We're supposed to follow him, right?" John asks

"I believe so. I believe so, Indeed." Max whispers the last part and the other two people walk through the door Max tries not to be too observant and tries not to look around but he can't help but notice the architecture and how the servants move, the humility of clothes, and the different density of air, but he breaks out of it when he hears "Come on!" as Korvonski's voice echos and the rest of the students speed walk to catch up to them including John but Max walks at a moderate pace but in a manner that makes him look slow. He refocuses and glances at the others and looking around once he goes through the large doors, he notices that there is also a large hallway made elegantly with varied materials from gold to marble to wood to glass even strange rocks. It had a beautiful royal design. even fools would recognize it was great.

The three men guided the people to a room a few doors down the hallway where the Prince departed from the group to follow a strange man who looked like a pope and a few of the women following him. Max took a small mental note and continued following the three men as they asked. The room The trio guides went to was smaller than the last room but still large and it had a whiteboard on the wheel in the corner and 3 rows of seats with desks 'fuck a lemon , but is this a classroom. Why are there so many seats, I guess there are around 24 seats.' Max thinks and his mind slightly clears thinking about his past life when the gray-haired man announces loudly " I need you guys to take a seat, please" and everyone takes a seat in the front rows but due to having a flash of his former life he returns to an old habit of being anti social and takes a seat in the second row tempted to take the last, and is a bit distanced from his classmates.

The gray-haired man is at the front of the classroom standing and Max missed him pivoting on his heel and lightly fixing his hair he then opens his mouth once again

"You may be wondering why you are here or your purpose. The answer is I'm not sure." The man pauses and looks at the students "But I kind of know your purpose you are the seven heroes of this land-"

He then looks once again at the people and starts pointing at them and mumbling "1,2,3,4,5,6,7, and… e.." his voice changing on the last word "Excuse me but isn't there supposed to be seven people?" the unarmored man asks. Max chuckled nervously at the man and one of the women who didn't go with the others whispered to the strange man "The man over there came around 5 minutes later" and she pointed at Max. Max thought and listened 'Fascinating it seems they use our time measurement system Do they use the metric system or the imperial system too bad I couldn't hear them properly although it seems my hearing is better' The armored man heard what she said to the man so he looked at Max and the made brief eye contact and he tensed up and reached to his left side where he had his sword.

The unarmored one looked at him for a second and then made eye contact as well. Max froze up for a second. He noticed that one of the man's eyes where an orangish red and the other was a gray-silver color and the man exhaled and muttered. "Red eyes… hope it's not another one." He inhaled "So who are you all, I'm… well call me Nick." He shouted and spoke for the whole class to hear then he pointed to Max "How about you bud?" He asked in a voice filled with forced enthusiasm

"I'm Max" Korvonski and Nick had a barely noticeable note flash of fear across their faces "I'm John by the way" muttered John awkwardly "I am Twelve said a person with intense blue eyes on the left part of the front rows and the rest also announced themselves while Nick placed his hand on the knight's shoulder and whispered in the knight's ears "Max is a normal name where I'm from no need to worry." Nick looks at the teens and says "Okay you all will need some tests the first it is with me. I can check things like skills traits, and abilities using magic" he said with his voice lightly strained because he was a bit scared for how they would react

" I will also show you some items later there will be physical tests the physical tests will be from Korvonski and me and the magic test will be… by the country … kingdom?" He said a bit awkwardly " but the priest might be attending." He looks around and some of the people nod toward him "Okay let's start the tests then " he says somewhat happy "But first little lesson" he says walking behind a desk in the front and sitting in a chair "I know you all curious on why your here what's going on where you are so" he stands straight behind his desk and starts

"As you know you are in a new world as some of you probably thought you are supposed to be like heroes in a way you all are stronger Than the average person here and you have more abilities

though you may be used for Diplomatic means in this world. There are gods and whatnot that actually exist you will be given weapons well you already have that so armor there are 'monsters'" he slows at that word and uses it weakly "which are kind of just creatures" Monsters are commonly beasts or pests with magic or physical power "In this world though they also have an array of abilities. You will be tasked with defeating them and training your abilities to the fullest. There is nothing much and you will have to help. The abilities you will have and will obtain are much like in some novels and shows you may have watched I too saw some when I was a kid.heh.

But remember the people here are very different some living for many many years they may also have abilities like magic the magic that is most known are basic elements like fire wind water and sol- earth but they go to the form of matter mostly at least ." He takes in a deep breath. "there are also colors to correspond and auras what not but you will get more info on that later. any questions?" he says quickly before anyone can react he says

"Please step in front of me I'm going to read your aura and inspect you. Please go ahead." he waits a second after saying that and waits, standing in front of the room for people to go up

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Fun fact: Max is largely unaware of how deep his voice is and how intimidating he may be