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.
This kind of situation had left Benjamin feeling unusually confused. Hence, after deliberating about it for a while, he entered the inn alone and approached the mages that were disguised as commoners.
"… The two from yesterday decided not to come anymore?"
"Yeah, they said that there’s no hope in staying here. They'd rather have a change of scenery and find a way out."
Benjamin indistinctly heard their conversation. If anyone didn’t know better, they probably would think nothing of it. However, Benjamin immediately realized that these mages were also vexed over passing through the gates.
Just as the mages he has met earlier, these people seemed to have formed some secret meeting, meeting every day to discuss the methods of passing through the gates.
The question was whether or not this meeting was a trap set up by the Church…