Chapter 2 - King

Yes, there's magic in this world. Hiroto's eyes glowed while the four people had a surprised pikachu's expression. Didn't they see how they were transported here, through a magic circle? That's magic, you know, a mysterious force to wield fireballs, to heal other people with a beam of light and waving cool magic swords to defeat foes.

Different from them, Hiroto was so excited about everything he was seeing right now, he even had some saliva dropping on his unkempt face. He calmed himself and put on the disposable facemask on his face while thinking. In his mind, the desire to return to Earth vanished just as quickly as it had appeared.

The Holy City was just one of the many kingdoms in this large continent, as this kingdom was ruled by a King, and to their surprise, they learned that this world was so big that they hadn't explored enough of it. This is all real, what he's seeing is not a dream or an illusion. This was a mysterious magic-world jam-packed with so many adventures and exploration.

Life in the other world was just boring, and this is the world he would like to live in.

There was some reluctance to leave behind the hobbies he had but if he came to a place of imagination and fantasy, he couldn't help but bury his unwillingness to leave everything behind.

As they neared the castle, they properly introduced themselves to one another although during the whole time, Hiroto and Sumi didn't speak much due to their boorish ability to converse.

Hiroto was fine but he didn't want to be friendly to this group. As expected, he was still unable to associate himself with a group of successful people, although he was a self-sustaining person too.

It's just irritating to see younger people with a relationship. There he goes, he shows his colors. (An: o_o)

Sumi didn't care at all about the others but she was listening to Amos the entire time.

The crusaders are at the frontier, fighting the demons back. It was so timely for them to be summoned here because the human and the demon's camps were at a deadlock. The heroes would be the one to spearhead a new crusader team to help out, but it would take some to train them. They were in a perfect time to grow strong.

"Is this Demon-King strong?" Genji Yasumoto asked calmly, his hands on the back of his head, as though completely at ease.

Old priest Amos smiled, "Fear not, we won't ask you to do much if it's out of your ability." Actually they didn't have much information about the demon king's ability much less know its capability since it was only some years before that monstrous guy appeared.

"Hey can we really go back to our world?" Emiko Watanabe asked Amos with a worried expression.

Amos looked at Emiko and said with a smile, "Yes, surely, if you defeated the Demon King!"

'That's easy for you to say.' Everyone thought.

"Then, where are we going now?" Kaito Suzuki asked, then got followed by the cute and bubbly orange-haired girl called Ayumi Nakamura. "To see their king of course?!"

"How do you know?" The others asked.

Ayumi touched her head shyly, "I remembered playing RPG games with the same dialogue pattern.. I think it makes sense like this." Amos was puzzled over what they were talking about.

Hiroto clicked his tongue, 'Hays, there's not just a demon king, there's that stupid question, there should be companions below this demon king too, like generals and commanders, also it seems that there's more evil beings on the loose right now. I wonder how many years it will take for this hero quest to be finished. Ha~ I want to leave..' Hiroto was already talking that he was like a spectator, and actually, that's what's been on his mind all along. He wanted to leave here and start his own adventure.

"There's no need to worry, you'll be able to go back to your world once you defeat the demon king." Amos reassured them with a smile, as if he were a kind old man telling them about God's tale. They didn't get information on how much time would elapse on earth which made them worried. They could only bury the thought in their mind.

Talk about putting all hope to them, as he expected, they will surely be too nervous and pressured.

'And how does he know? Has he gone to earth? Does he have a way by magic or was he just bullshiting? That's why I hate cliches, wait I might be already in a cliche too.' Hiroto really wanted to get out of the conversation, as he was totally out of place here. He was already being ignored by the old-man, as he was in his monologue mode.

After one hour, they got out of the carriage and entered the grandiose looking palace made of smooth marbles with towering stands. It can be seen that there is a gap in hierarchy, divisioning the nobles and normal peoples which were pretty common in this world. The place looks decent though, comparable to those castles of rome.

The people nearby felt curious about this group of people wearing weird looking clothes.

Hiroto followed the group to the red carpet and soon he noticed, he was already in the center of a large open hall with knights on both sides holding their spears heroically, the robust looking king wearing a gold suit was sitting on an elevated golden throne and alongside a beautiful looking princess with golden hair and pretty face.

'This is a bit different though, it's usually a fat king, the princess looks really cute and her boobs are a little lacking though, but I am not a boob man, as expected from another world.' Hiroto whistled in his mind, as he gawked before looking down, feeling the King's mighty presence.

Then, Amos began briefing the king with his loud voice. "We have summoned the heroes, you're majesty!"

The King nodded as he stood up and proudly announced his long name King Arnold the third blah, yada, yada, blah.

King Arnold began talking about the sudden surge of demons and the mysterious demon king as they started being aggressive, wreaking havoc in his minor cities, villages, and other places such as the beast kingdoms and the elves. The other minor human kingdoms weren't unscathed too.

"Can you help us defeat the demons?" King Arnold asked seriously, his hands are pretty much full of hands these days. He was strong that he might be able to defeat the demon king's generals but he couldn't leave his kingdom or else the place would go into chaos.

Arnold was the light of the kingdom. If he suddenly went there in the frontline then all his people would go hysterical.

Even though King Arnold knew that summoning heroes early might warrant him with trouble and probably get on the bad side with other churches, since this was a decision from Amos, one of the high ranking officers in the light church and him, it should be easier to handle. He couldn't help but lament, the other kingdom too should have thought of this too, as such, he's confident that these guys aren't the only heroes that would be in this world.

Sumi for the first time took the initiative and questioned, "How are we capable of doing that?"

King Arnorld signaled the maids on standby as they brought glowing plates of cards to the group. They were given one by one, one late to bring one as they probably didn't expect this many heroes being called here. Kaito held hands with his Ayumi, probably a little worried.

Amos said in script with a serious face, "this is called god plates, it's known to be made out of fragments of one of their divinity. It is carved by the legendary god of forger and miraculously able to give powers to those who were chosen by it. Basically, it gives someone a power to see the state of one's being in written language, it is activated by holding a mana stone."

'A system?' Hiroto's eyes lit up. It seems that this world was more exciting than he could think of.

Amos continued and said piously, "as you are from another world, you will be blessed by the hero system automatically and gain tons of abilities and skills. This is the decree from the Goddess of Light!" the maids and butlers appeared again, bringing the group of transmigrated vibrant blue stones that felt chill to touch, it was the mana stones.

The moment everyone touched the mana stones, the status plate glowed brightly as lines of cyan that flowed through their bodies. Hiroto whispered, 'here goes nothing.'

A light blue cyan panel appeared in their retinas, stunning the group of people as lines and lines of words appeared in their eyes, seemingly processing information as they breath.