1 Memories Of Old

"Welcome young heroes, I'm Emperor Rafilen of the Rafilen Empire.. And you all have been summoned to our world Tealdagon" said Emperor Rafilen to the thirty people that are confused and scared as they are mostly students 

"Um, may I ask why have we been summoned here and will we be able to go home?" asked a student who seemed to be the class president as he was one of the calmest people right now

"We have learned that summoning individuals from another world gave them power strong enough to fight against humanity's worst enemies, the Demons. At first we had the advantage against them until" said Emperor Rafilen to everyone in the throne room

"Until what?" asked another student as she was the vice president of the class

"Until the devils awakened" said the Emperor as he and his people had grim faces 

"So that means you summoned others before and that it was because of the awakening of these devils" said the class president 

"Bullshit… you believe any of this prez.. We were summoned here against our will to fulfill their own liability… We have no obligation to even assist or stay here" said a guy who didn't like any of this he was more of the reasonable but also hot-tempered type of person

"Leon, shut up for now will you" said the guy next time 

"You… tsk whatever" mumbled Leon 

"It's as he said your majesty but all I concerns are if we can go back home or not" said the class president

"I understand what you all are concerned about and yes we did summon you out of our own volition without much regard to you all's thoughts" said the emperor 

"Your majesty you…" said one of his most loyal aides

"It's fine Nolan" interrupted the emperor

"To answer your questions.. Yes we can send you back home but it'll take about a decade to gather enough mana crystals to be able to send you all back… Even though I say ten years it's only ten years in this world only a few minutes will pass by once you go back so no need to worry and you don't have to worry about aging it won't affect any of you since you're not from this world" stated the Emperor

"So this really is a different world" said an excited student who must be an otaku 

"Yes it is" said the Emperor with a smile

"Th-then there magic and can we use it" said another student who was equally as excited as the first guy

"Are they usually like this" asked the Emperor to the prez

"Yes, they are what we call in our world otakus but you don't have to think much of it" said the prez

"I see well to answer their curiosity, yes you're able to use magic as all of you are classified as heroes.. Say status and a screen will be seen to only you unless you let others see it. It will show your current status. In this world we have classes like mage, warrior, healer, summoner, etc." said the Emperor as everyone did as he said as some still were skeptical, clueless, curious, excited and calm about it

They were all shocked and some, especially the otakus, were ecstatic about being able to use real magic. Some started talking amongst themselves about their classes, magic and skills saying how it's just like a game. There were a couple who didn't disclose their status as they believe for now it's best not to or they just didn't care to. 

In the back there were three students who seemed like the loner types but truly only one was and that was the one who seemed to just observe everything while taking into account every little detail of information he could. It seems even though he was a true loner the two close by always try to get him to socialize with them even though they don't care for the rest of their classmates.

As all that was going on the emperor's aide said something to the emperor that made him nod his head. He got up and spoke to the students

"Now that you all have come to terms and checked your statuses I would like to first let you all rest and get adjusted to our world then tomorrow we'll start helping you get familiar with how our world works for the first two weeks. After that we'll start training in close combat which everyone has to do. Then you all will get to train in your specific class areas and the magic type you have, you'll be assigned instructors to guide you. After training for about two months you will head to a F rank dungeon to get used to fighting against monsters and yes you'll have to be able to kill them. Within that next month of going through dungeons you should be able to go into A rank dungeons soon" said the Emperor

"Isn't that two short of a time to be able to go into an A rank dungeon if by my understanding of fantasy ranks is difficult for us by then" said on of the otakus

"It would be longer but you guys are heroes and as heroes you grow faster than us native world inhibitors" replied the aide for the first time 

"Cool, then,then…" started the other guy

"Enough of that I have one last question" said the prez

"Yes ask away" said the Emperor

"Why summon so many heroes wouldn't 1 or 2 be enough or is there more to this then the awakening of some devils" asked the prez

"Haaa… truly a smart one.. Yes you're right… it's because of a variable that we didn't know had happened now" said the Emperor

"What kind of variable" asked the vice prez who was like everyone else intrigued by it to

"Monsters" said the aide

All the students just had weird expressions when they heard that.

"What do you mean monsters the ones that we will be fighting against during training" asked the prez

"Nolan" said the Emperor

"Yes your majesty" said Nolan

He came forward and got everyone's attention.

"Yes and no and the reason why is because they're evolved monsters" said Nolan 

"Evolved?" said the prez as not only him but everyone were confused as to how they were different 

"Evolved monsters have the ability to talk and strategize unlike regular monsters that can only talk but more in a broken human language when they try. They are much smarter, stronger, cunning and more dangerous than the demons and devils now because of them evolving" said Nolan

"Does that mean you have three different enemies now and you think that us students can make a difference" said the prez

"Yes it's as his majesty said you all are heroes from another world so your growth and potential is higher" said Nolan

"That means?" asked the prez 

"That means we are able to grow stronger faster and more efficiently. It even means we'll be able to go against those three in no time since we have the empire providing us a way to grow faster than if we do it on our own" said both the otakus as they were in sync

"Creepy" muttered some students

"Yes is as they say so having summoned so much means we need that much help to tip it in our favor" said Nolan

"Okay I think I get the gist for the most part but what if some of us are not up to the fighting and killing" asked the prez

"We could only let them do as they please within this empire and they will get enough money to start. They'll also still have to at least know close combat and how to use magic before leaving after that they can go since we can't accommodate everyone. We have to focus on the ones who are willing to help us so all our time and resources will be towards them. I hope you understand" said Nolan

"I fully understand, nothing's free no matter how little it is" said the prez

"So are you all willing to fight alongside us even though it's an extremely ignorant and selfish request but I promise each and everyone of you we'll make sure you're able to go home no matter what" said the Emperor as he rose up from his throne

"Can we think about it and give you an answer tomorrow if that's acceptable your majesty" said the prez

"Hmm.. that's acceptable then we will continue this tomorrow morning… Tina, Nico, Phelia, Jace, Catilyn" said the Emperor

"Your majesty" said the people the emperor called out to

"Show our heroes to their rooms please then bring each of them something to eat afterwards okay… oh and don't worry about baths each room has its own" said the Emperor

"What isn't this a fantasy world? I assumed they didn't have individual bathrooms.. Come to think of it this throne room and their clothes are slightly different from what I thought we'll no matter as long as I can bathe all other matters can wait" said one of the otakus 

They were divided into six per guide as they left the throne room, within the halls as they looked at all the decorations and stuff, and someone asked one of the aides a question.

"Umm excuse me.. How come we didn't meet the emperor's childrens?"

"Ah that's because they are all away in the academy right now and won't be back until a month later" said Nico

"Academy you mean like a magic academy or something along those lines" asked another student

"Yes something like that but the academy doesn't only focus on magic it has other usage for it's students too" said Nico

"Cool.. do you think we would be able to attend" asked one of the otakus in the group

"You'll have to ask his majesty about that sorry" said Jace

'I hope we can that's one of my dreams' he thought

2 months later_______

"Mom, dad, Ophelia, Jessie, and everyone in the village I'm off to the Academy now, see you again soon. I'll tell Wylie you all said hey and to come back more often" said a young boy who was seen leaving his village to the Academy in Newet City where various races attended.  

The city was a neutral city on the continent of Vorno where different races go to study and become what they want to be. It was in the Central part of Vorno that was maintained by the different races like, humans, elves, daemons, beastians, dragons and phoenixes. People that go there are "equal" and the way to get in is to pass three exams first. 

As the boy walked along the road as he waved bye to everyone he started to show a poker face. It wasn't because he was faking but because it was an innate skill of his that activates when he's out of character you can say.

"I waited 3 years for this moment and now it's finally here" said the boy

'Three years ago my memories of my past life awakened and I discovered my magic and skills including my innate skills like the poker face one that happened just now.. It all happened when I decided to train deeper in the forest by our village… I found this cave that had a funny looking stone by it but the stone looked to be broken. I wanted to explore it as I am used to fighting against monsters at an early age already… But what I thought would be a normal walk inside the cave became a struggle to survive inside an undiscovered labyrinth. The level of that labyrinth was at least level two, close to three but luckily it wasn't or I would have never made it out… What almost took my life was a monster called Valor the Minorc, a minotaur like orc without horns and a mixture of a pig and bull features. It also had a height of about 8ft and wielded a giant battle axe'

'What was even more bizarre was that it could speak human language fluently and was quite smart with sadistic tendencies. When I was on the verge of death I subconsciously awakened my "magic" and used my skill to protect me at the last moment… Which in turn awakened my previous life memories…. After somehow killing the monster called Valor, I also realized that I can summon a transparent screen only I could see with my status on it… I leveled up quite a bit from killing Valor but after almost dying I passed out while somehow waking up not long after without any monsters around still.. I wondered then why but I found out about a year ago it was because of my family necklace but we'll get into that some other time'

'So for the past 3 years since then I have been going to that labyrinth to train and strengthen myself. I've met a few more of that monster on other floors… I heard about the academy and it made me want to go out and explore by becoming an adventurer… During that time I heard about summoned heroes so it looks like it's one of those settings, hopefully it's somewhat different though but I'll find out as I heard they will also attend. That made me more intrigued about if they came from my world and if they did in what year it was before they were summoned..Well I'll find out soon so as of right now I'll train as I go oh by the way my name is Benrey Landrax, just like in my previous life, you can call me Rey. And I just turned 16 that's one of the reasons I'm able to leave now' 

"What a different world Tealdagon is… I can't wait to explore it but first stop, Newet Academy" said Rey

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