Kubei was just an ordinary pencil and button pusher working a day job, hating his boss and making horrible speeches when one day he fell asleep after pushing an all-nighter. When he woke up, he was bound to a chair, facing three creepy robed women and in a body way too young and way too weak to be his own. As he slowly came to, he realized that he was no longer in the same universe as he was before. He had teleported to the Kingdom of Helius, where an all-powerful church rules its lands and wages war against the elusive group known only as Mages. Armed with an incredibly cocky neural interface that just won’t shut up and his own sheer wit, our MC will find himself not just fighting to survive, but maybe even something bigger than himself.
Night fall, to the north of the Town of Crewe, behind some rocks in a narrow mountainous pathway.
"Do you really think this will work? What if you miscalculated?" Suddenly, the System voiced out in
Benjamin’s Space of Consciousness.
"I did not miscalculate." Benjamin answered expressionlessly.
He thought that once Augustine bore news to him, Varys would have prepared everything and that
he would be sneaking into a sack full of wheat, transported to the Crusader Gateway, and be
stealing the cross that very night.
He didn’t think that Augustine would inform him of something very different.
He came to Benjamin’s rented room during the afternoon. Benjamin returned to reality from his
meditation and was told about a Mage from the little guild — news on Andrew, the stammerer who
has a talent on magical equipment.
"Andrew? There’s new development?" Upon hearing his name, Benjamin was caught off guard. He