7 Chapter 6: Capital of Slaves (part 1)
I looked around to see Zei and Midori going up to me. And before they were able to greet me a message showed up.
[Rewards for completing the 'Tutorial' will be distributed.]
[You have gained 10 levels to all of your stats. You have been granted 3 levels to all skills.]
For me the stats given are minuscule, but I do need all the help I can get, my skills also went up by 3 levels which is really helpful, but as for the rest of the class this'll be doubled.
"Long time no see, Akamine-san."
"It's nice to see you again Midori and to you as well Zei."
While greeting them I looked at Midori's stats, I didn't bother to look at Zei's stats cause it'll just get nullified.
Name: Midori Lionheart
Age: 18
Level: 78
Supporting god(s): Arthur Lionheart 'Heavenly Sword'
Trait: Queen of Blades, Hero
Stats: (Str):157 (Agi):236 (Vit):132 (Int):110 (Magic Power):107
Skill(s): Command (lvl 11) Natural Charisma (lvl 13) Incite (lvl 15) Martial Arts Sword Form (lvl 16) Regeneration (lvl 11)
Trait skill: Heavenly King's Martial Arts (lvl 9) Unwavering Courage (lvl 11) One With The Blade (lvl 9) King's Aura (lvl 10)
[The <god> 'Arthur Lionheart' laughs at you.]
I noticed that the hero's blessing skill is gone, I guess it's like a booster pack for new players. But still WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK!!! even her <supporter> laughed at me, I looked at my stats to compare it to her.
Name: Rai Akamine
Age: 18
Level: 15
Supporting god(s): ??? '- - -'
Trait: Judge of Light and Darkness
Stats: (Str): 92 (Agi): 100 (Vit): 107 (Int): 102 (Magic Power): 110
Skills: Martial arts mastery sword form (lvl 10) calm mind (lvl 13) Regeneration (lvl 10) hyper decision making (lvl 10)
Trait skills: mastery of light and dark magic (lvl 4) mastery of light magic (lvl 7) mastery of dark magic (lvl 5) Foresight (lvl 6) eyes of heaven (lvl 8) Judgment of Light and Darkness (lvl 5) inventory (lvl 4) Universal Translator (lvl 4)
I stayed silent for a while, and Zei patted my back to comfort me, I looked at her and a message appeared.
[Your 'eyes of heaven' level is too low.]
"Well hey, at least most of your stats have entered a triple-digit."
"Hey, better stay sharp!"
Suddenly we felt shaking on the ground and we saw knights wearing full metal plates riding on horses, they surrounded us.
"Who are you? And were you the ones who created huge pillars of light from a little while ago?"
When I was about to speak, Midori stepped up and spoke first with a solemn voice.
"We do not know who created the pillar of light, and as to who we are. We are the 'heroes' who came from a different world."
"Well, you have to come with us first in order to be sure that you aren't lying."
Midori nodded I noticed that the whole class didn't object, I guess this is the cause of her skills.
As we walk towards the entrance of the huge walls. Zei whispered to me.
"Rai as per the request of the guild master, you shouldn't reveal your 'Trait' to the people native to this world."
"I understand."
As I nodded, a message appeared.
[Main <quest>]
Description: do not let the people of this world know your 'Trait'
Difficulty: B~A
Time: 1 month
Reward: 40 lvls to all stats and 2 lvls to all skills.
Failure: - - -
[The 'god' ??? Agrees with the quest.]
Even my supporter agrees, well I can't blame both of them the 'Judge' does have some notorious history in this world.
When we entered, we see a bustling market street and a man shouted.
"Move, give way for the knights!!."
The people then started moving to the sides, leaving a wide gap in the middle while the knights started moving forward. The people are gossiping with each other as they saw us. When I look at it I'm the only one who's wearing a suit and tie while the rest are wearing their normal equipment and it seems like they discarded the uniforms. Now we look like actual adventures, except for me of course, wait am I the only one who received such treatment.
Suddenly Chieko hugged my arm and pulled me close to her. To whisper.
"Rai-kun~ Don't do anything stupid that'll give your 'Trait' away."
And then she went off to Yuki's side who's giving me quite a glance. I looked at Zei and she said.
"You see when I told you that a while ago, a quest showed up to protect you from your 'Trait' being shown, I think why this quest showed up here it's because this country got affected by a 'Judge' chosen to serve evil."
As we've passed the town, we entered the barracks then one of the knights yelled.
"Someone get an appraiser, multiple of them so that we can get this done fast!"
The knight glared at us as he gets off the horse.
"If you aren't heroes, we will execute you for impersonating as one."
This in turn provoked Midori and something happened.
[The skill 'King's Aura' has been activated.]
"And what if, what I said is true?"
The knights faltered and drew their swords, but before things get more out of hand a man with a scarred face showed up and said.
"Stand down, Edwin, what they say is true and even if it is a lie, we're dealing with someone that has a royal 'Trait' do you understand."
"But sir. Roland, they might be a spy from another kingdom for all we know."
"Did you request for us, Sir? Roland?"
Then three people wearing robes interrupted the two of them.
"Hmmm, yes, we need you three to appraise three of these young men and women."
Sir. Roland ignored Edwin and then he asked.
"Are there any volunteers?"
Chieko, Yuki, and the teacher stepped forward... wait I haven't told you the name of the teacher yet, his name is Toshio Bokun he was an ex-military drill sergeant if I remember correctly he has been discharged for the accusation of rape, only I and Zei knew, because of the intensive research I made on him per request of Zei, he has been teaching for at least 4 years.
The three of them stepped forward and got their stats appraised, the faces of the three appraisers were pale as they saw their stats, of course, I see it to no surprise why they acted like that.
Name: Yuki Arakan
Age: 17
Level: 82
Supporting god(s): Archangel Michael 'General of Heaven'
Trait: Holy Knight, Hero
Stats: (Str):177 (Agi):164 (Vit):183 (Int): 100 (Magic Power): 123
Skills: Martial arts mastery sword form (lvl 14) Natural Charisma (lvl 11) Lie Detector (lvl 12) Unnatural Talent (lvl 5, max)
Trait skills: Light Magic Mastery (lvl 7)
Divine Smite (lvl 15) Arms of Heaven (lvl 7)NEW Divine Strength (lvl 1) NEW Indomitable Will (lvl 1)
One of the appraisers bowed towards Yuki. Now for Chieko's turn.
Name:Chieko Arakan
Age: 17
Level: 81
Supporting god(s): goddess Artemis 'goddess of the hunt and moon' god Apollo 'god of the sun, medicine, and Archery'
Traits: NEW Huntress of Day and Night, Hero, Divine doctor
Stats: (Str):95 (Agi):298 (Vit):98 (Int): 190
(Magic Power): 200
Skills: Archery (lvl 20 max) Sharp Eyesight (lvl 15) Intuition (lvl 13) Animal Handling (lvl 10) Unnatural Talent (lvl 5 max)
Trait skills: Divine Archery (lvl 10) Healing Touch (lvl 10) Monster Taming (lvl 7)Eagle Eyes (lvl 10) Medicine Creation (lvl 9) NEW Fire Mastery (lvl 1) NEW Dark Mastery (lvl 1)
They also bowed towards her, and the appraisers stopped with just the two of them and said.
"Sir. Roland and Sir. Edwin, I have confirmed that they have both hero classes, and I can confirm that the rest of them are."
Edwin was flustered to hear that and prostrated himself.
"Oh heroes, please forgive my foolishness."
Midori replied with a voice so charismatic.
"Raise your head, Sir. Edwin for you are forgiven, if I were in your position, I would've also suspected strangers that are a threat to my kingdom."
"Thank you, Ms.."
"My name is Midori Lionheart, you can call me Midori."
"Thank you, Ms. Midori."
Edwin then looked at Roland and then he introduced himself.
"Sorry for the late introduction, my name is Edwin Von Lehmann my position is a captain."
"And I'm Roland Roth my position is a lieutenant of the Royal Guards."
"Hello, Sir. Roland and Sir. Edwin, and if I may ask is there any place for me and my party to stay at."
"Oh yes, if I may, I'll lead the way."
Edwin then leads the way to a part of a kingdom, where I might say pretty prestigious I could see a lot of people wearing jewelry, and some of them even have butlers following them.
When we've arrived at a place that looks abandoned but can be managed if we were to clean it.
"Sorry for the state of this place, this where the heroes before you have lived in we haven't taken care of it after they've disappeared."
Disappeared? Well, it looks like heroes can choose to go back to their original worlds or not to.
Then I looked at it for a while, it's a mansion that has at least 4 floors. Wait are we all going to live under one roof, I looked at Zei who was looking at me. Suddenly a student spoke.
"Umm, excuse me, Sir. Edwin but do all of us have to live here?"
"In my knowledge no, you can either live in an inn if you want, also if you ask the temple you can also live there for a short while of course."
I looked at Midori who was accompanied by a lot of my classmates entering the mansion, they opened the door and a lot of the furniture there was dusty and covered with cobwebs, Chieko then said.
"Well this'll be a long day, but we better start cleaning now, so we can finish by noon."
The whole party agreed and started helping one another, still can't believe that Midori's skill will be this effective in situations like a while ago, I shrugged it off and I started helping them.
It was now noon, Sir. Edwin left us already and we decided to head to a restaurant to eat. I keep having this feeling that I'm being watched must be because of the quest that everyone is keeping a close eye on me, not only that the nobility that was buying some jewelry and chatting away with each other started leering, but I paid it no mind.
When we entered a fancy restaurant a waiter guided us to our seat, I then grabbed the menu and saw the ridiculous prices of each item, on average of 250 gold pieces per item. I looked at Chieko who was seating right next to me her face showed no sign of concern. Then Chieko signaled the waiter in who went here.
"What's your order, Ma'am?"
"Our orders will be 3 of this and this."
I looked at her with a confused face and the waiter wrote it down and said.
"Anything else?"
"No that's it, thank you very much."
The waiter then went off and I asked Chieko.
"Wait can you read?"
"Of course I can Rai-kun, oh are you worried about the payment, don't worry the reward money we got was also doubled."
I sighed in relief, no wait the money they got as a reward was also doubled?!
After eating, we went outside to see that its already dark out and to make it worst its raining. We started running back to the mansion while running I saw a person slumped against the wall and was wearing a cloak.
"Hey, Are you okay?"
The person looked up to me and revealed a bashed-up face. she was crying. She then hugged my leg and said.
"Please...help...m-"
She collapsed onto the cold floor.
