New World
"Everyone , please take a seat . " [Warmer]
Right now , we are in the big temple like building . The outside was quite humble but the inside is more luxurious than I could have imagined . A red carpet that glows with a calm , soft light , hundreds of candles illuminates the room , beautiful drawings of warriors in the middle of battle fills the walls . Glittering curtains that look like they are made out of pure gold threads are situated at every window . It looks like the glass is not a thing in this world because the windows are made out of some sort of yellow crystal that is quite dense .
In the middle of the room, there is a big round table with a purple diamond-shaped thingy floating in the middle . From the formations that are inscribed on it, I could deduce that it looks like some sort of primitive TV created using magic .
Around the table, there are 16 chairs . From those , two are already occupied by an old looking man with a big beard , a long pompous robe and a crown on his head sitting next to a beautiful young girl . From his attire , he might be the king or the emperor of this country . Interesting . Still , a young girl ? She doesn't look older than 15 . I hope she is not his wife .
Warmer leads us to our seats. After everyone sits down he goes and occupies the right seat near the king .
"Thank you, everyone, for listening to my words . As promised , everything is going to be explained now . Before starting I would like to present to you his majesty , King Abdel and her highness , Queen Ellaine . " [Warmer]
Holly shit , she is his wife ...
"Everyone thank you for your cooperation . As the king of this country I can assure you that you are not going to be forced to do anything against your will , so please listen to my words to the end !" [King Abdel]
Uhhhh ... This is annoying ... I don't want to listen to this guys talking two hours about their worlds and so on . Although I consider this place quite fascinating , I really don't want to get involved too much ...
What I have to do right now is to return to my former world and go for a long fishing trip with a few beautiful girls and my beloved fishing road ! In this conditions , I can't afford to waste god knows how long on this guys ...
It might not be very polite , but let's barge in !
"Yo , King-san , may I ask you something ? " . The king looks at me, but there is no trace of anger on his face . He seems to be ready for this kind of situations . Good !
"Oh ... Yes sure ! Whatever you want to know just ask me and if I don't know there is definitely someone in this country that is informed about that matter ." [King Abdel]
He looks very confident in his knowledge and information gathering abilities . This makes things easier . Initially, I thought that he might try to talk to me about manners like those kings I knew in the past , but he seems to be slightly different ! Maybe everything can be solved before I get entangled in this thingy ...
"Can you send me back to my former world ? [Maou]
It looks like I am not the only one that was thinking this . Looking around I can see others that pay 100% attention to the king now although a few moments ago they were looking around restless . There are few people in this universe that are ready to give up on their worlds , families , friends and lives to help someone else .
Considering that we were summoned with a magical formation , it should be possible to use a reverse spell to send us back . I would do it myself , but formation manipulation is not my forte .
Still , king-san expression is not what I was expecting ...
His face changes in an instant . That smile disappears and , for the first time since I've seen him , seriousness fills his eyes . He opens his mouth a few times before he answers in a low but grave voice .
"The answer to that question is : NO . Unfortunately , once summoned you can't go back to your world . Your soul has been locked in this world's stream so not even a god can allow you to go back to the world you came from . I am sorry . " [King Abdel]
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"Uhhh ???" "What ?" "Noo ..." "Why ???"
I can hear all kind of answers from the twelve youngsters . To be honest , I didn't see that coming either . I thought that it might be difficult , but in the end, I could go back .
Maybe he is lying ... No! He is not ! I can see that in his eyes . Still , he said that not even a God can send me back to my former world ... Then all I need to do is to find someone stronger than a God !
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To summarize what came after that : the country we are in is called Marderitia . Is a medium sized human country at the border of the dimensional plane .
In the recent years , the demon race has conquered over half the territories of the other countries around here and are now slowly approaching king's Abdel country . In a desperate attempt he used a forbidden ancient spell to summon a hero from a mythical planet called Earth .
The ritual went bad and instead of a single hero , 13 have been summoned . To make things worse , those 13 have not been granted any divine blessing and are not true hero candidates . Still, the king looks like is ready to take responsibility for his mistake .
Away from that , there were a few other pieces of information about this world . Because this is a dimensional plane and not a planet , the size is a few million times bigger . King Abdel didn't know exactly how big this plane is , but the known maps show over 20 billion kilometers . Damn !!!! That is huge !!!
As for what races live here ? Pretty much all of my previous world plus another hundred or so . The stronger a country is , the closer it is to the middle of the plane .
Each country has a number that shows it's ranking from 1 to 9 digits long . Here , at the edge , almost every country has a 9 digits rank , including kings Abdel's.
Still , the edge is usually peaceful . Unfortunately, 52 years ago a Demon Lord from a 7 digits country came here , gathered a demonic army and started killing anything and everything in his path .
And here we are ...
For now , considering that I might really be stuck here , let's start with the most important things .
"King – san , may I ask you one more question ?" [Maou]
He looks at me with his usual smile and replied in a light tone . I must say this much at least : I like this king . The demon lord is close to his country , the hero summoning didn't go as planned but there is still a smile on his face . Quite admirable .
"Of course Andel ! I already told you that you can ask me anything anytime !" [King Abdel ]
King – san , I am sure that you have a lot to deal with but this is extremely important for me . Oh , yeah , Andel. That is my name . It's been thousands of years since I haven't been called on my name but I like it .
"Where can I find a big pond around here ? " [Andel]
"Eh ???" [King Abdel]
He looks with a shocked expression at me . Yeah , yeah ... I know . It is quite an unusual question . But this is important !
"Uhh , Andel – san , there is a big pond about three kilometers north from here ... " [Queen Ellaine]
Unexpectedly , the one answering my question was the queen ... Now that I took a better look at her , she is actually quite beautiful . Waist long black hair , with a symmetrical face , big green eyes, and an alluring body . Not bad .
Wait a second ... Her ears are pointy . She looks like she is not a human , but some elven species . I see ... She might look 15 years old , but she might be older than me . In my former world elves could live for thousands of years without aging . When they have less that 100 years to live , they would start to age quickly and then die . At least king-san is not a pedophile !
" Thank you ! " I rise from my seat and start walking in the direction of the pond under the dumbfounded looks of everyone in the room .
After ten breaths worth of time , just before I exit the temple-like building , I can hear King-san calling me from behind .
"Andel , excuse me but can you tell us what you want to do at that pond ? If there is anything ..." [King Abdel]
"Fishing . I am going to fish for a little bit . " I interrupt the king in the middle of the sentence but I don't care about that right now .
""""EHHHHHHHHHH !!! !!! !!!! .... !!!"""" [Everyone]
Everyone is totally dumbfounded by that answer except the king . He looks at me and asks slowly .
"May ... I ask you ... Why ? " [King Abdel]
I turn my head around and with a low voice , barely loud enough so that the king can hear me I answer to his question : "Relaxing . Fishing is relaxing . I need to think about some things right now ... " [Andel]
This is the truth ... Too many have happened that I had no control over today . I need to make a choice : should I stay here or do whatever is in my power to go back to my former world . There are many things to take into account . And fishing is truly relaxing ... You need to chill once in a while .
After a few seconds, I can hear from behind me Kings-san's dispirited voice ...
"I see ... " [King Abdel]
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