《Dead Copy, Isekai ni Shin no Shujinko》 Chapter 0: prelude of summoning Hello guys, I''m new here but have this urge to write after reading Tate no Yuusha, Arifureta and Konjiki no word master. I love that kind of novels where MC summoned into another world along with another group but he detached from them, especially when it is RPG style. So I try to write my own story that similar with those novels above. My grammars is suck because English is not my native even second language so I would be delighted if someone wants to proofread my works :) P.S: anyone know how to make blue panel for stats like many of user here used? Preferred usable with android. _______ Animals scrambled away with panic in the serene looking forest, the reason is because loud footsteps can be heard through their ears. One teenager ran through the forest as one of his hand clutching to his waist that seeped with red, he desperately control his breathing so not passed out from bleeding or exhaustion. The day still bright yet his vision is growing dim, he forced his almost numb legs to move because he sensed they getting closer. When he said ''they'' he means either his soon-to-be killers or would-be-killers. The latter one is more preferable choice if he can choose. Because he ran recklessly he tripped over a thick tree branch and lost his balance which made him almost fell down. But that was a blessing on his part, a small ball of fire passed through his side and would hit him if not for he shifted because of losing balance. The fireball hit the tree instead and burn it instead. That''s right it was magic. Magic that shouldn''t exist in real life but it exist in here. In this world, Phantashia. ¨C¨C¨C¨C¨C Ragami Yuuto, an ordinary high school student laying his face upon his desk even as bell ringing that sign the lunch break already started. In his defense, there''s other like him who asleep during class in session. The difference is they used books or whatever to cover their face while Yuuto just casually cross his arms on the desk then fall asleep behind it. As the bell ringing and teacher leave, they starts to get up and doing their daily routine. Some immediately goes to cafeteria, some just waste time by wandering and some stick their desk to eat lunch with friends. Then the comment filled with envy like ''Lucky Bastard!'' Or ''Damn Riajuu!'' Can be heard even they muttered with hiss. Yuuto who stirred by the unpleasant atmosphere opened one of his eye slightly and saw the usual scene. Among the last category, there special group consist three females and one male. Those three females is considered as the flowers of Nanjuin Highschool for their beauty and popularity. The long black-haired girl with Yamato Nadeshiko style is Hayano Kazuha, the president of Tea Ceremony Club. Kazuha had long silky black hair that almost at waist length and a pair of large eyes that emitting gentleness. She is popular among both male and female student, described as gentle and regal senpai by the first years, alluring yet unapproachable by second years, polite and reliable by third years. Next to her is a transfer student who is half Japanese, half British. Her name is Minamoto Catherine. Her most noticeable trait is her exotic short blond hair and blue eyes that was rare in Japan. She is also the most athletic student in school, maybe it was because she share her British mother''s blood who is a former gymnast national champion. The last female is a third year senpai, Himemori Akari. The erotic-aggressive beauty. It was known through students body that She is a person who not afraid to speak her desire in public, proven when she announced her goal is to give birth of child from certain someone. And at last is the sole male in group who didn''t even realize all those three already fallen for him let alone the many more outside their group, Tohyama Hiroshi. The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement. The males grumbled in defeat as they saw the scene that made their heart bleed everyday, Hiroshi who tried to calm the girls banter about who should feed him. Although they voiced their dissatisfaction they can only accept that Hiroshi is on different level than them. Looks above average, always at top ten in exam, kind toward everyone including male, that''s why they can''t truly hate the ''Protagonist''. As for Yuuto, he honestly don''t care but... ''Can''t they be more quiet?'' Though the Hiroshi''s group banter is noisier but it was the Guy''s grumblings that annoy him the most. First times is tolerable but once it repeated on daily basis it''s downright irritating, even more when Yuuto really sleepy after pulling all-nighter. Yuuto live alone in a small apartments, one year ago his parents died in a car accident and left him with a large debt. Once the person who loaned his parents money know about the accident he offered to Yuuto just forget about the debt. But Yuuto have none of that, "if you have debt you should pay it in full" that was what he said that day, he didn''t know why but he just can''t accept his parents debt get pardoned just like that. Because he still minor and inexperienced no one wants to hire him as part-time worker. It was purely coincidence he land on His current job, a game rare items seller. Just like it''s name suggested, he create accounts of popular game online and raise them into high level then hunting for rare items to be put in auction. You would be surprised just how far otakus or rich game maniacs dare to pay for rare items. Well, the way Yuuto hunting isn''t exactly clean though. He used one certain cheat to make farming rare items easier, hack the itself. Yuuto isn''t stupid, he won''t touch his character stats because that was easily noticeable by server. He choose to hack something that was harder to be noticed, of course a high level caution and tools is required. Rare drops percentage. Most game used percentage meter for Item drops calculator, the rarer the items the lower it''s percentage, even just one percent difference is important. Thus far he often be the first person who gained the rare items that just released after update including the limited items. Again, Yuuto isn''t stupid enough to just create one forum account in the auction sites, he owned twenty different accounts each within five most popular game auction sites. This continue about a year until last night he able to settle his parents debt fully and deleted all his game accounts and forum accounts. If you ask why he deleted all of his accounts, it was because Yuuto decided to wash his hands from slightly dirty business, this is something that he already decided when he started the business one year ago. "Eh?! What''s going on?!" Shouted one of classmates suddenly in panic. Yuuto''s eyes snapped open when he feels something strange with atmosphere. A big silver pentagram appears without notice on the ceiling. "KYAA!! THERE ALSO SOMETHING HERE!!" Now another female student pointed below. Just like what she said, something also written on the floor it was an exact same pentagram on the ceiling. Hiroshi who his arms both currently hugged tightly by very scared Kazuha and Catherine tried to calm his friends. "LET''S CALL SEN...!" Before he can finish, the room fully illuminated by light. Once the light died down, the only things that can prove they was indeed exist is the schoolbags that already lost their owner Chapter 1: Welcome to Phantashia Ragami Yuuto slowly opens his eyes once the blinding light is faded. He blinked then blinked again, even after he wiped his eyes what he saw is definitely not his classroom. He looked around and find himself along with another 16 student in a majestic looking place. Huge white pillars around 10 meters in height, surrounded them as they stood in the center of circular white floor. The place itself is not in closed area instead they can see the sky above and outside of circular floor is a field of green grass that already tinkered like a soccer field. Outside students body he saw three unfamiliar people. The first that caught his attention their unusual attires, they wore something that usually only came out in Fantasy-themed movies and games or just at specific place like Akihabara. The one who wore a magician robe is a wise-looking old man with long white beard, he also holding a wooden staff. The definition of spellcaster. Another one is a blonde female around his age who is like a princess, she wore a bluish dress and heel-high shoes that made from glass. The last one, the one who stood at their center is another old man, unlike another old man who dressed like a magician he dressed like a king from medieval era. Especially with that golden crown on his head. Yuuto noticed that the king(?) staring at them with calculating eye, before long his gaze stopped at Hiroshi and the three madonnas who currently hugged his arms in search for comfort as they still looking around in confusion. Yuuto narrowed his eye when he saw the king smiling mysteriously before he whisper something to the magician old man nodded while mirroring the smile. The king then fixed his gaze facing the students and spoke with clear tone. "Welcome Heroes from another world. My name is Joseph Romulus Filgaia, the king of this Dytika Country welcome you into our world, Phantashia. He introduced himself with open arms and kind elderly smile plastered on his wrinkled face. ¨C¨C¨C¨C¨C Currently, the confused students moved locations as they guided through fancy cathedral, everything here is something that would make all collectors in earth drooling with greed. Above, hanging a large exotic chandelier that made from see through crystal. On the wall hanging lots of painting at every size with none of them have quality lower than masterpiece. Yuuto then look below and see his reflection from the ceramics. ''Even now I still don''t understand rich people''s taste''. As long as there roof when raining and walls during winter, Yuuto can sleep almost anywhere. His previous home is an old apartment that made from 100% wood, it was often creaking and the ceiling leaking when raining. It was supposed to be taken down in next month in order to build a new one. Though he doesn''t need to worry about that anymore. Despite walking through extravagant hall, almost all students didn''t pay attention to surrounding as their minds still yet to catch up with their current situation. The walks is silent, even when Kazuha, Catherine and Akari sticking up to Hiroshi more than usual no one uttered even a single curse, usually this is where males sent their death glare at Hiroshi but as expected no one bother do that in current predicament. After a short walks which feels longer from the students, they finally arrived at a large room that filled with small round tables, each tables with four chairs. Naturally, Hiroshi sharing seats with the three madonnas. Since each table have four seats, naturally one must sat alone which is Yuuto. After seeing all of students taken seat and being served drinks by the maids (which made all the male hot-blooded student staring in amazement), King Joseph started to talks. "I understand all of you confused for brought here all of sudden, therefore I will explain it all to you". All of summoned students listening intently toward the king as he explained why he summon them. Here''s the summary. This world was called Phantashia. Currently this world plunged within war and chaos. The war is mainly only between Humans and Demons. There were four races in this world. Humans, Demons, Elves and Beastkin. Each race have its own advantage and disadvantage. Humans have numbers and also a race that can learn 70% skills in this world, though they have the lowest base stats compared to any other races. Demons is easily the strongest race in Phantashia, with their high base stats and devastating skills they were the ruler of nights, however during days their abilities cut by half. Elves was the race with the longest lifespan, their normal lifespan is between 10.000 to 20.000 years though there were who lived longer than 20.000. Elves was the race with lowest numbers because the chance of elves woman can get pregnant is lower than 1%. Beastkin was the most agile race and has strong comradeship, it almost impossible to break their bond to disrupt their teamwork. As an exchange for their powerful stats and skills, Beastkin cannot learn any Elemental Skills. Beastkin choose to remain neutral as long as Humans-Demons wars not dragged into their territory, should they do then Beastkin will cut them down without exception. Elves just simply had no interest in wars and secluded their selves from the world, that''s why nowadays it''s rare for an elf to be sighted. The wars between Humans and Demons has been continued for several decades though now they currently in ceasefire agreement. Without reinforcement from other races, Humans started to be pushed into corner and clearly humans would lose the wars, then it happens... The demon race who definitely in advantage suddenly stopped their assault and propose a truce which human race can''t help but to accept lest they prefer extinction. Though the wars stopped and human race avoided their destruction, the doubt about demon race conduct is remains. Over time the doubt turned into unrest then there''s rumour flying around that the demons propose truce just laugh at human race before they decided a grand assault to completely eradicate humans from Phantashia. It is unknown from where the rumour started but the damage already done and cause panic, and thus the archbishop raise an opinion to summon heroes as humanity reinforcement. This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source. "You are the last hope of humanity that our god, Ypsil-sama grant to us as a miracle". King Joseph said with rapt expression. Hearing about how they were chosen heroes, some students especially male become excited, their adolescent heart flutter just by the thought of being a hero. Seeing them, Yuuto can''t help but thought with frown. ''Did they Completely forgot that we basically summoned into unfamiliar place unwillingly then ordered to go into wars where we can dies''. Fortunately there were some that still looks unsure, it seems that they also realize about the risk. All of sudden Hiroshi stand up from his seat and look at the king with determination on his eyes. "I understand, Joshep-sama! If I can be any help to depend humanity then..." Hiroshi then put his fist near his chest like a knight then speak with fire in his eyes. "I WILL RISK MY LIFE FOR IT!!!" After Hiroshi spoke a small wind pressure came from him that made his speech became even more awe-inspiring. Not only students but everyone currently at that place staring at him with amazement, the princess even staring with a blush. Yuuto also amazed but with a completely different reason. While the girls mesmerized and the guys awed by Hiroshi''s chivalry, Yuuto glancing around his classmates. ''This is bad, they starting to get swallowed by the atmosphere''. Because of Hiroshi, some that was looks unsure now gained determination, he didn''t need to explain about the ones that already excited before, right? Unknown to everyone there were another who did not impressed with Hiroshi''s speech. It was a blonde girl with small frame who dressed like a royalty, she share similarity with king and princess features. From the beginning she only focused on her book then after Hiroshi''s ''heroic'' declaration she sighed as she closed her book then walk out from the hall without looking back. "SPLENDID!" King Joseph said as he clapped which followed by everyone. "As expected from brave hero, I know that it was not wrong for humanity to place their faith in you" He continue showered Hiroshi with praise much to his embarrassment which made the him shrink back to his seat. "Ano, can I ask a question?" With that single line, all conversations stopped. They gathered their attention toward the source of voice. It was the class''s loner, Ragami Yuuto. Yuuto ignored the grumbling of his classmates who said something about mood killer or something along that line. King Joseph looking at Yuuto who looked ordinary, a pair of brown eyes and messy spiky black hair that downward in all directions. "Of course young hero, ask away" King Joseph replied pleasantly though he actually annoyed, the princess beside him outright clicked her tongue but no one saw that. ''How dare this plain commoner ruined MY knight''s glorious moment''. She thought to herself. "I just want to know if we can go back home, since we summoned here without our consent I assume your majesty know how to send us back, right?". When Yuuto spoke he stared directly at Joseph''s eyes before Joseph broke their eye-contact. From that reaction Yuuto knew that he didn''t have a method send them back to their original world. "What are you saying, Ragami-kun?" Surprisingly, it was Hiroshi who answered. "If there''s no way for us to go back I doubt Your majesty would conduct the summoning, right your majesty?" Hiroshi said as he looked at King Joseph with sincere smile. ''Where the hell did you get that kind of conviction? We just meet him less than a hour''. Yuuto thought while suppressing facepalm. "Heh, I bet he just scared". "How can he be so cold, didn''t he heard what King Joseph said about the demons". "Just leave that coward alone, we didn''t need him anyway because we have Hiroshi". Yuuto still maintain his impassive expression even though he clearly heard what his classmates said. "O, of course. As expected from Hero, you sure have keen insight". His forehead sweated, His voice wavered, His feet slightly backed away, It was a horrible lie. "See?" Hiroshi gestured toward Yuuto with radiant smile. ''NOTICE IT, PROTAGONIST!!'' That was on Yuuto''s mind while outside he barely holding a frustrated groan and replied with "...Okay". After that, like the question never asked all attention shifted to Hiroshi as everyone appointed him as their leader. Then the feast starting with Hiroshi as it''s center of attention, he surrounded nobles and among them was King Joseph daughter, the first princess Magdalena. While watching those scene, Yuuto''s brain working overdrive to find a way so he not apart from their group without raising too much suspicion. After all, there was not a real connection between he and the rest of them except for being classmates. Hiroshi and his group didn''t realize that they just made a fatal mistake in situation of war. Hearing only side of story and believe them at face value despite they knew nothing about the details. Yuuto won''t make that mistake, he feel a doubt the king''s words when he tell his story because he was a king of country ruled by human, his opinion very likely biased. Especially now, he decided that King Joseph cannot be trusted, by extension so are his subordinates. Yuuto looked at Hiroshi who smile embarrassedly because his arm hugged by Magdalena which make the other three girls tried to separate them. Hiroshi didn''t realize that Joseph used his leadership and sense of justice to bring him and his companion under Joseph''s rule. Having sense of justice is good but can be proven fatal if you didn''t have enough brain to support it. People that have blind devotion and people driven by revenge were have one similarity. Both easily manipulated by words alone. ''If they want to self-destruct that much, I won''t stop them but...'' "I refused to be destroyed along with them". Chapter 2: Status Window Even though he asked if there was a way for them to go back, Yuuto was not exactly has big desire to go home. There was nothing left for him to do in Earth, he already pay the debt, his apartment will be closed down in a month and most of all there was nothing left that interest him there. Though, there was just one regret. "Haa...nothing to do, usually this is the time books". Currently, Yuuto lied down on the bed. After the party ended, the students given their own private room to rest. The room itself is not too fancy but definitely better than his old apartment. It was a room with around 4¡Á4 tatami mats wide, consist one bed and one window, they also prepared a simple chair and table, no decoration. Lamplight or to be exact electricity doesn''t exist here so they uses lantern as source of light. Yuuto glanced at the lantern above his table with the corner of Hus eyes. ''Though within this dim room it would be hard to read even if I have them with me.'' It was not just the books, there were also movies and anime. All of their contents were always including planning, cunning protagonist, battle of wits plots, or just straight out wars with intense strategies clash. From when Yuuta was small he already fascinated by intelligent type cultures especially warfare, it doesn''t matter from which source, Anime, Manga, Movies, history books, novels, he read/watched them all. Because of his strange opinion as a child, he was called weirdo by another kids. After all when other children likes heroes and loved to watch them when heroes awaken their hidden power and defeat villain, Yuuto hate that kind of plot twist. The small Yuuto often wondered why heroes always win despite they usually just charge recklessly without a plan, instead the villains who often develop plan after plan always defeated in the end. Of course there were also smart heroes show but they were minority because heroes show usually targeted for children who didn''t understand complicated things like strategy. Ragami Yuuto was dislike foolish heroes, from back then and from now on. ¨C¨C¨C¨C¨C Tohyama Hiroshi liked heroes, from his point of view heroes was someone who will protect innocent people from any evils without care about their wellbeing. And now he got a chance to be such a hero. Hiroshi stood near window and look outside with a frown. He can''t wait to get outside and save those poor innocent people from evil demons. While he stay relaxed like this, there were people suffering in fear out there. He grasped his hands into fists. "Don''t worry everyone, because we definitely save you all from evils clutches." Because justice always prevail, no matter what. Hiroshi blown the fire then goes to sleep, dreaming fighting evils. Hiroshi was still young so he didn''t yet to realize that while his heart in right place but he was far too naive and trusting, and he has no way of knowing that his immaturity will cost him huge in the future. But that story still far away. ¨C¨C¨C¨C¨C Next day, the students was guided into a very wide room, from what Yuuto heard it was a training chamber where its walls, floors and ceiling already enhanced with reinforced magic, above it there was a viewing room where spectators can watch the training, it was protected by very strong tampered glass so anyone who were watching won''t get hurt. Currently, King Joseph along with his daughter Magdalena and other nobles seated there. The nobles murmuring among themselves, the most hot topic is to marrying their sons/daughter with one of hero to gain strong bloodline and reputation. Unknown to what the nobles discussion, the heroes along with Dytika number one Knight currently in training chamber. Now that they decided to help the country, it is the time they learn what they''re capable of. For that reason The Strongest knight Gawayn Lester, instructed to train the heroes. He was a youthful looking handsome blonde man with calm blue eyes like sea, he wore a captain''s knight armor from top to bottom without the helm. Some of female students swooned when they saw him. "My name is Gawayn Lester, it was my pleasure to be instructor of young heroes." He said with a polite bow. "Now before I began, please confirm your own status by mentally order [Status] in you mind" Yuuto can''t help but remembered about those MMORPG he played before when Gawayn instructed. Nevertheless he feels a bit excited and anxious. When Yuuto stated [Status] mentally and a transparent box appears in front of him. ''Uwaa'' He can''t help but mentally groaned.
Status Window
Name:Ragami YuutoAge:16
Level:1/1Gender:Male
Race:HumanEXP/Next:0/-
Title-
HP:100MP:100
STR:10DEF:10
VIT:10INT:10
AGI:10LUK:10
Skills:
Elementals:Non-Elementals
ActivePassiveActivePassive
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Unique Skills:
Dead Copy
''I don''t know how mine compared to others but uwaa...this is definitely the most disastrous stats I have ever seen before, fortunately...''. Yuuto musing interrupted by a loud shout of excitement. "Uwooh!!, what is this?! Stats and skills? Does that mean I can do those awesome things like game characters?!" He said frantically. Yuuto noticed that anyone other than him only have excitement or pride in their eyes. Each of them murmured excitedly as they boast about their high stats or skills. "How much your STR? Mine is 150..." "Same with me, it seems like we all got same starting line" "No, my STR is better than you, 160" "I don''t know what this [Shadow Slash] is but it sound awesome!". "Wait, I don''t have that skill, mine is..." ...and so on. Hearing those conversation Yuuto came to conclusion that his stats is not normal because it was abnormally low. Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings. "Alright alright, I understand your excitement because I was also like that but first calm down so I can explain in more details about them". Gawayn clapped his hand to calm down his students. "First look at "Level", it displayed numbers xx/xx right? The first numbers is your current level and next to it is your level cap. The level cap is the limit of your potential, Human race like us usually stay between 20 to 80. Each person not always have same level cap, some lower some higher, though you won''t find a Human who have 80 level cap easily nowadays." He said with disappointed sigh before it turned into a small smile. "But I''m sure your heroes has high level caps, right? Can you tell me what is your level cap?" Captain Gawayn asked toward Hiroshi who stood at the center like usual, along with his female companions. "Ehm Gawayn-san, you said that human level cap stay between 20-80 right?" Hiroshi asked. "Yes, is there a problem?" Then Hiroshi dropped a bomb. "My level cap is 200". The silence is deafening, the nobles who watching above dropped their jaw. Gaways also shown no small amount of shock, his eyes widened. After a brief moment he finally found his voice that replied intelligent reply. "...What?" Gawayn staring with disbelief at Hiroshi who stand awkwardly. "I said my level cap is 200". Only after the second time he said it the audience especially nobles murmured loudly, no doubt that most if not all of them already plotting how to bring Hiroshi into their family. "...Excuse me for a bit" Gawayn who able to collect himself approach Hiroshi. "[Spy]!"
Status Window
Name:Tohyama HiroshiAge:16
Level:1/200Gender:Male
Race:HumanEXP/Next:0/100
TitleHero
HP:200MP:200
STR:20DEF:20
VIT:20INT:20
AGI:20LUK:20
Skills:
Elementals:Non-Elementals
ActivePassiveActivePassive
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Unique Skills:
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"HOLY POLARIS!, this is far exceeded my expectation!" Gawayn shouted with disbelief and awe. By the way Polaris is this world''s god it seems. "Umm, can somebody tell us what''s going on?" Asked Akari. "Ah yes, please forgive me". Gaways looked apologetic then starts explaining. It was just like what Gaways said that human level limit only stay between 20 to 80, therefore someone with 200 level limit is unheard of. Not even heroes in myth have it. Human race can learns lots of skills but because of their limitation they can''t learn 6th tier or higher skills because you needs at least level 100 to learn 6th tier skill. So with Hiroshi that potentially can grown to level 200, he should be able to learn skills that never appears before. Each Race have skills that can only be learned exclusive by their race, for example is Human most basic yet useful skill, [Spy]. [Spy] allow humans to view others status as long as their [Spy] skill rank is equal or higher than target, no other races possess [Spy] so they equaled with zero rank [Spy] which made even the underleveled humans able to view their information. "Futhermore Hiroshi-kun has [Hero] Title which doubled his base stats and increase his grown rate". "Grown rate mean is how much stats they gain upon level up, they usually fixed but with his [Hero] Title Hiroshi-kun can become stronger faster". Gawayn said unable hide his excitement. It''s not only him, all students and nobles also listening in amazement. Those nobles immediately in uproar as they never seen something like this before. "As expected from Hiroshi-sama!" Magdalena declared proudly. "In all my years, I never seen someone with this much of potential before, what do you think Lily?" Joseph said as he stroke his beard. ... "...Lily?" when he didn''t heard any reply, only now he realized that one of his daughter not present. "Lily already left the hall even before the feast, Geez, that girl is so boring, how could she not interested in these wonderful heroes especially Hiroshi-sama" Magdalena said a ''hmph''. Lily Romulus Filgaia. The youngest daughter of King Joseph and also the second princess. She was 12 years old, had three years difference with Magdalena who currently 15. If you ask anyone about her, they would answer that she like a beauty doll who held no interest in anything except books. She always spent her time with reading either outside, in library or holed in her room. There was that time she didn''t come out from her room for three days straight when she greatly immersed with her reading. Back to the heroes. After that Gawayn asked students to confirm their skill list, sure enough they all have [Spy] skill inside their skills and test it on their teammates. "Gawayn-san, why did the skills information marked as "???"? asked Hiroshi. "Ah yes, skills is little special. For some reason you cannot view other skills, therefore if you want to gain advantage it''s necessary for you to remember all available skills manually". As Gawayn explaining, one of his subordinate approach them while carrying tray with books above it. It was all same book with size like that of small memo pad (40cmx80cm). "This books contains all of those currently discovered skills, including another races and monsters". The subordinate then give the books to students one by one. Yuuto took a small peek inside until he heard Gawayn coughed. "Now, is there any question before we continue?" No matter how much Yuuto searched he only possess one skill with disastrous stats to boot. However for someone with those flaws he didn''t show any dissatisfaction, his expression only show thoughtful as he formulated a plan. Before long after he understand his objective and points he needs to notice Yuuto nodded at himself then raise a hand. "Sorry but I won''t fight with you" Chapter 3: The weakest leave Silence. After Yuuto declaration the formerly lively atmosphere turned into sudden silence, if a pin drop it would be heard through entire room. Even when stared at Yuuto''s expression is as calm as ever. "...would you kindly tell us the reason?" Gawayn asked dumbfounded. "Use [Spy] on me and you will understand" Yuuto shrugged nonchalantly. Once they do, another uproar that no less noise than previous one happened. This time in a bad way. After they calmed down considerably, Yuuto said "now you understand, right?" Their expression toward Yuuto is that of pity, indifferent, sneer and disdain. "After seen my stats, you won''t send me to fight, right? Let alone not to get in your heroic ways, I just be a burden". Yuuto said that as he look at the King Joseph from afar with small smirk which goes unnoticed. "What''s with this guy? Is he that much coward?" The first princess sneered. Because previously Yuuto asked the way to return so she thought he happy that he didn''t need to fight. "Don''t blame him, daughter. He is right after all, we can''t send someone who is unwilling to battlefield, it just doesn''t right" Joseph said as he lightly tapped his daughter''s shoulder. The mocking tone in his words is as clear as day. "Damn, he is a shame on us. What would we do if people think we the same as him". "Why does he is summoned with us? Isn''t there a better candidate? Like Hazawa-kun or..." And so the not so secret whispers continue, they purposely mutter loud enough for Yuuto to hears. People, they tend to look down on someone beneath them to make their own self is special. When their exam score is 20 they search for someone with score 19 or lower. When they lose against someone on their caliber they challenge someone who clearly weaker than you so you feel better. To put it simply, as long as they not at the bottom line it''s fine. Especially when the target of bullying is someone that unrelated or hated by them. Currently the students and nobles divided into two, either they mock Yuuto or stay silent. Even Hiroshi who supposed to be everyone heroes is just stay silent, in addition so with three madonnas. Yuuto knew why Hiroshi doesn''t stand up for him, so this is already within his calculation. "Since there''s no way back so I can''t return, since I can''t fight so I have no right to stay in castle. So I implore your majesty to grant me freedom to do as I wish outside". "If that was your wish, I grant it. As an addition for dragged you here I''ll give you some money and things as a compensation, just ask receptionist before you leave". From outside it was an act of generous king but if you think about it is there a generous king who readily accept when a person that doesn''t know left and right wander around city alone unprotected? He just want to quickly get rid of rotten fruit so it not infect the whole tree, money and some useless things is a cheap price to pay. After Yuuto nodded he turn back walks toward exit, without looking back and with galore of insult as farewell party he left the hall. ---- After Yuuto left the hall, he walks slowly in corridor while muling over his plan. This is a fresh start, currently he has neither allies nor enemies. For now he choose to stay low profile as he search for information. While he already heard what the king said but Yuuto can''t really trust everything that the king said. Therefore his best choice is the library, there should be history books about this Dytika kingdom and Phantashia, about it''s creditability he judge after he read. Also if he is lucky there might be something useful there, you never knew what you might find from small piece of paper might save you someday. Also he needs to find a job. Fortunately this world including adventure guild system where anyone above 10 years can be adventure and get a job. It''s really similar to MMORPG he often played so he already understand about it. "For now I just go to library first". When he about to leave the castle Yuuto stop at receptionist to take the compensation and in addition asked her the location of library. What he got from the king is 100 golds, white storage ring, 10 small healing potion and 10 small magic potion. The currency in this world is goes like 1 gold = 100 silvers = 10.000 choppers. This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it. Storage ring is used like those magic bags from RPG game to store items and weapons. They divided into 5 grades. White storage ring contains 30 free empty space, with small preservation effect. Black storage ring contains 50 free empty space, with medium preservation effect. Blue storage ring contains 100 free empty space, with high preservation effect. And lastly the most expensive red storage ring with 200 empty space, with very high preservation effect. Yuuto hate to be in debt, the reason he accept this gift is because just like Joseph said it was a compensation. Suddenly he summoned to this world without his consent without method to go back while leaving his everything behind, of course a compensation is necessary. If not for that, he won''t accept it even if he have to works his bones to dust. Before long Yuuto arrived at library, it was circular three story building with size around half soccer field. Yuuto can only stared in amazement with how big the library is, it''s easily the biggest library he ever seen. You don''t need to pay as long as you read the books inside, if you want to borrow it you needs to create membership card by paying 1 gold as ware. Yuuto took the books he deem necessary and then he sat at one of chair to read them. Without he realized three hours passed after he finish read all of them, the interesting he found is... Firstly, history books here is cannot be trusted. Every single of them made from this kingdom, in addition the obvious biased opinion makes him sick. Thus Yuuto put the matter about history for later until he is not within Dytika territory. The second thing is about stats and skills, the stats is already obvious so just took a glance and it just like classic RPG system. However the skill system is pretty unique. The skills is divided into two categories, Elemental and non-elemental. Both skill also has two different types, active and passive. Elemental skill is a skill with attribute(s), there was seven attributes in Phantashia, they are Fire, water, wind, lightning, earth, light and darkness. Any skills without those above attribute is non-elemental. To discern how strong a skill is they using rank and tier system. Each times you kill enemies with a skill, that skill gain skill exp, if it filled to 100% that skill will rank up, skill rank divided from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest). The higher the skill rank is the stronger it get. Tier also divided into 10, from 1st tier to 10th tier. The higher your level is the higher tier you can use, the higher the tier is the rarer/powerful that skill. Though currently the highest tier skill ever seen is only 7th tier, if you even has one 5th tier skill you get treated like royalty anywhere. Tier 8 considered as legend and myth because it was never seen ever since thousand years ago. 9 and 10 only appears in myth so nobody know about it''s validity. After Yuuto left the library, the day already dark. After he read necessary books, Yuuto found some books about warfare or something similar. Yuuto being Yuuto of course can''t ignore them and thus spent almost all day reading them. "Let''s find an inn first". After asking a passerby Yuuto found out that the cheapest inn cost 1 silver per night, there were even an inn with 1 gold per night, only rich people stay there. Yuuto obviously choose the cheapest because he basically can sleep anywhere as long as there roof. Currently, Yuuto lay his back on the bed. He thought back about his current situation. He has nobody to relied on but that was fine since that was how he always live, by relying on himself. First thing first tomorrow he gonna register as an adventurer to gain membership card. Adventure guild using rank system to distinguish how strong the adventure are. They were divided by class F, E, D, C, B, A, S, SS, SSS. The higher you rank is the more advantage you get. For example there were restaurant or inn that give you discount depend on how high your rank is, some even let you eat/stay for free. Of course that was only one of many advantage as high-ranked adventurer. Tomorrow Yuuto also needs to test his unique skill on some monsters. Yuuto opens the skill book he got from Gawayn and starts memorizing it, compared to those syntax and anagrams numbers and words he needs to memorize for hacking, this is easier. Chapter 4: Dead Copy The first thing in morning, Yuuto trekked toward adventure guild in order to register as an adventurer. When he arrived, it was buzzed by many strong-looking people. They only glanced at Yuuto for an instant before returned to their business. It was because currently Yuuto dressed in common adventure clothes. School uniform would attract unnecessary attention. Ignoring them, Yuuto walks toward the receptionist. "Can I help you?" Asked female receptionist politely. "I want to register as an adventurer" Yuuto replied as he put 1 gold on the table. "Certainly, please fill this registration forms". The lady handed the sheet that filled with basic identity questions. After he done, he given a membership card by lady receptionist. After he got his membership, Yuuto walks over quest board. Because he is a new member he is rank F by default. Obviously he can only accept F rank quest for now. For adventurer to gain rank up they must clear certain number of quests or contribute in some events.
Herbs Gathering!
FBring 10 Green Herbs to guild.
Reward50 Choppers
Needs help at barn!
FPlease take care of my cows and sheeps for the whole day.
Reward1 Silver
Needs 5 [Boar Tusk]!
FBring me 5 [Boar Tusk]! (You can find them at Dytika Forest)
Reward1 Silver
Yuuto took Herbs gathering and Monsters subjugation, Work at barn would took all day so he didn''t take it. Yuuto arrived at certain luscious forest where his quest objects located, the forest filled with animals and weak monsters, therefore it''s popular among beginner adventurer. On the way Yuuto buy a privacy ring, a battle knife, some potions and traps. Potions and traps had decent price between 10 choppers to 10 silvers, battle knife cost 1 silver, privacy ring cost 10 golds which is pretty expensive for the current Yuuto but worth it.
Battle Knife
Type:WeaponDurability:50 / 50
Quality:Common
A simple knife for combat.
Privacy Ring
Type:AccessoryDurability:100 / 100
Quality:Rare
Prevent the wearer from level 5 or lower [Spy] skill''s effect.
Information is vital after all. Incidently, items''s quailty divided into Common, Rare, Super Rare, Unique and Legend. It doesn''t took a lot time for Yuuto to gather 10 green herbs because he can find them very easily as he walks. "That''s for herbs gathering, now..." After he put the tenth herbs, Yuuto re-tracked his way and he found his prey. Currently a [Boar] can''t move because it''s leg trapped with bear cage that Yuuto set up while he gathered herbs. It tried to break out but its futile, that bear trap is originally for level 10 monster while [Boar] is only level 1-3 monsters. Yuuto approach the [Boar] as he take out his battle knife, with swift movement Yuuto slit it''s throat. The monster that already weakened by bear trap instantly died with one strike. Different from usual RPG style, it''s corpse was not disappears but keep remain. So no automatic loot or drop items, Yuuto needs to collect the loot manually by skin it. The merit is you can gain lots of loot as long as the body not destroyed. "Now, time to test this skill first hand" Yuuto''s palm glowing with dark purple color, with that palm he touched the dead monster. Upon contact, Yuuto can feels something entered his soul.
New Skill Learned!
Reckless Charge
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Skill Name:Skill Type/ Tier:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Reckless ChargeActive/ 1st tier1/100%
Charge full speed ahead to inflict damage. (Cannot change direction while this skill active) Mp cost: 10
New Skill Learned!
Power up
Skill Name:Skill Type/Tier:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Power upPassive/ 1st tier1/100%
Increase your base STR by 2%
Yuuto then smiled in satisfaction before he confirm his status window, then his smile turned into full-grown grin.
Status Window
Name:Ragami YuutoAge:16
Level:1/1Gender:Male
Race:HumanEXP/Next:0/-
Title-
HP:150MP:50
STR:27DEF:20
VIT:13INT:5
AGI:15LUK:5
Skills:
Elementals:Non-Elementals
ActivePassiveActivePassive
Reckless ChargePower up
Unique Skills:
Dead Copy
Yuuto can''t help but to get excited by his unique skill, it contains lots of possibilities.
Skill Name:Skill Type/Tier:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Dead CopyActive/ ???1/100%
User able to gain the dead''s level, stats and skills by touching them. Mp cost: (none)
"Well then, time for loot". Yuuto brandish his knife, then without hesitation he cut open his prey. Before Yuuto jump into Game Characters business he work for his neighbor, a meat clerk for a while. Though it''s the first time he skinned an animal but Yuuto already got used seeing animals fresh blood and organs. ¡ª¡ª With his new stats Yuuto able to hunt several [Boar] without resorting by bear trap. It turns out that he not gain skill exp by using them over and over instead he gain skill exp through [Dead Copy] effect. If he using [Dead Copy] on dead monster that have same skill as him, he would gain skill exp for that skill. That was convenient because he can easily level up skills be it active or passive, passive skill level was harder to raise because it would only level up after certain amount time passed, there were even some of them that took decades to level up. Therefore Yuuto took his time to hunt several extra [Boar] and some low-leveled monsters to raise his skills level. Before he know it he spent a whole day in the forest, other adventurers who saw him can only find Yuuto''s behaviours strange. why did that guy waste time hunting monsters that give very small exp? Nobody knew except Yuuto himself. Chapter 5: Seed of Darkness It''s been a week ever since Yuuto and his classmates summoned into Phantashia. During these past week Yuuto already familiar with his new environment. He went to visit several useful places or doing quests while training secretly. He always careful not to being seen by someone when using [Dead Copy], especially by his classmates or someone from castle. [Dead Copy] is very versatile skill that even able to modify level, Yuuto never heard about that type of skill in all MMORPG he played before. The skill that absorbed by [Dead Copy] would stay permanent, if he already got same skill, it''s Exp would increase. Now the question is how to increase [Dead Copy] skill level? Even after he used it for over hundred times it''s Exp still stay at 0%. ''Do I needs to use [Dead Copy] against someone who also possess [Dead Copy]? That would be extreme hard and borderline of impossible.'' Unique skill called unique skill because of it''s rareness, only 1 of 10.000 can have it. Even more Unique skill was one-of-kind type, two people never possess same Unique skill before. with exception of species skills which categorized as Unique skill. [Spy] for Humans, [Take-over] for Beastkin, [Plant Language] for Elves and [Dark Gain] for Demons. That mean every single person from those four races at least possess an Unique skill for their respective race. The 1 of 10.OOO was the people who possess two Unique Skills, there was a legend said that a person with three Unique Skills. At least that was written in the book he read. As for level and stats, they were different. The last creature'' level and stats Yuuto used [Dead Copy] on would become Yuuto'' stats and level. So Yuuto can go to whatever level he can, from level 1 to 30 or vice versa. Extremely useful to makes enemy lower their guard, who would have thought that a level 1 had tier 3 skills? One more thing...
Skill Name:Skill Type/Tier:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Scratch!Active/ 1st tier387,50%
A basic claws attack by using sharp nails to inflict damage.
or
Skill Name:Skill Type/Tier:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Bite!Active/ 1st tier387,50%
Bit target with sharp teeth and strong jaws.
According to what written on books those skills could NOT learned by human, yet Yuuto learned it anyway. That mean by using [Dead Copy] he able to learns skills that not mean for human. Though he still not sure about unique skill whether they learnable or not, if can then Yuuto would be able to learn every skills in this world. That thought made him giddy.
Yuuto went deeper into forest in order to hunt certain monster, [Goblin]. It was not because of quest from guild nor someone asked him to, it was for personal reason. It was to resolve his heart when the time comes for him to kill another human being. Yuuto not positive enough to throw out the possibility he might be made enemies of another human, bandit was the prime example. That was the reason he searching for [Goblin] which was a monster that walks with two legs. Until now Yuuto only hunt monsters that similar to animals. [Boar], it looks like ordinary boar from Earth, only twice at size and two huge tusks. Level around 1-3. [Dogma], A vicious mad dog, with sharp fangs and claws that can rip steel, it also got pretty fast legs. It has body like a wolf, a bloodshot eyes and endless dripping saliva that can inflict poison to victim if bitten. Level around 5-10. [Wobra], A literal combination between worm and cobra, this snake-like creature can burrow and move fast underground, often launch sneak attack to unaware target. It''s body colored purple from top to bottom and very slithery. Victim that got bitten would 100% poisoned if they don''t have poison resistance. Level around 6-8. Those three was Yuuto''s hunt objects for this past week, by using [Dead Copy] he also obtain their skills. Yuuto curent skills is: From [Boar]:
Skill Name:Skill Type/ Tier:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Reckless ChargeActive/ 1st tier1/100%
Charge full speed ahead to inflict damage. (Cannot change direction while this skill active) Mp cost: 10
Skill Name:Skill Type/Tier:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Power upPassive/ 1st tier1/100%
Increase your base STR by 2%
From [Dogma]:
Skill Name:Skill Type/Tier:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Scratch!Active/ 1st tier387,50%
A basic claws attack by using sharp nails to inflict damage. MP Cost: 10
Skill Name:Skill Type/Tier:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Bite!Active/ 1st tier387,50%
Bit target with sharp teeth and strong jaws. MP Cost: 10
Skill Name:Skill Type/Tier:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Throat Rip!Active/ 2nd tier213,47%
A more advanced version of claws based attack, automatically attack target''s throat with swift nail slash. (Must be very close to target, may attack two targets simultaneously if they were close to each others). MP Cost: 45
Skill Name:Skill Type/Tier:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Sharp InstinctPassive/ 1st tier360,10%
Able to predict danger to certain degree.
From [Wobra]:
Skill Name:Skill Type/Tier:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Poison FangActive/ 1st tier325,20%
Bite attack with low chance to inflict poison. This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work. MP Cost: 20
Skill Name:Skill Type/Tier:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Poison ResistPassive/ 1st tier315,70%
Increase poison resistance by 21%.
Skill Name:Skill Type/Tier:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
BurrowPassive/ 1st tier278,11%
Able to create pitfall bare-handed.
Incidently, sometimes there were an irregular monster among monster mob. They were the mutated version among the pack, they were usually similar to their pack except with some slight different trait. For example Yuuto meets [Mutated Boar], it was like just regular [Boar] but its color was purple instead of reddish-brown. Mutated monster have same level with their pack but with higher stats, in addition you can loot precious [Monster Core] from their heart if you able to kill it. [Monster Core] has many useful traits, its can be used to enhance equipments, material for alchemy and many more, they also can be sell for high price. The higher level the monster the better quality of its [Monster Core]. Back to topic, Yuuto avoid to hunt [Goblin] was because they were resemble human. Therefore Yuuto needs to resolve himself before doing the deed, he make sure he at least not disturbed by killing another monsters type first. After a week Yuuto already adept for hunting four-legged or snake-like monsters without remorse, now he took another step to get used on hunt by kill [Goblin]. It was not took too long for Yuuto to find his target, Yuuto quickly hide inside a bush when he spotted two [Goblin]s walking leisurely. [Goblin] has green body from top to bottom, they have big menacing front teeth, [Goblin] divided into many type, there were [Goblin Warrior] who usually armed with sword, spear or knife. [Goblin Archer] with bow or crossbow, other than that there were also [Goblin mage], [Goblin Shaman], etc etc. The highest position was definitely the [Goblin King]. There were no [Goblin King] within this Dytika Kingdom''s walls of course. Two [Goblin] Yuuto spotted equipped with Sword and Dagger so they were categorized as [Goblin Warrior]. ''Time to move''. As the two [Goblin] walks in straight line formation, they were startled when suddenly the bush in front of them moving with ''Krasak'' sound. They immediately prepared their weapons as they warily walks to the bush. Currently they were stood shoulder to shoulder, then one of them reached their hand slowly to tried search the bush until... "Kwiii!!!" Suddenly a white small creature jumped from the bush and passed through from the opened gap between two [Goblins] which created because they were surprised. The rabbit immediately ran straight without looking back as if frightened by the [Goblins] gaze. Seeing that, both [Goblins] released simultaneous sigh as if relieved that it was only a rabbit. They didn''t know that it was their last moments as they didn''t even notice that behind them, from the same bush where the rabbit came out another figure emerged slowly then with swift movement slit their throat from behind bare-handed. Like marionettes with its string cut, they fell to the ground soaked in their own pool of blood. Yuuto watched the [Goblins] corpse with solemn expression, he completed his objective flawlessly. At that time when the [Goblins] approach his position, Yuuto purposely made a sound to attract them into his range, once they were near enough he released a rabbit that he already prepared beforehand, just like what he was expected the [Goblins] turn their back from bush to watch the rabbit run then once they sighed, Yuuto sprung his claws. When anyone relieved, they usually sighed in relief. When they sighed in relief it was when they greatly let their guard down, even the strongest man when relieved they were really vulnerable against surprise attack, the best chance to launch sneak attack. Incidently, while there was HP system it is still possible to instant killed when their heart or brain crushed or their throat slitted like what Yuuto do to those [Goblins]. As he watching the dead bodies of [Goblins], Yuuto resolve himself all over again. ''Fantasy-themed world...'' Castle, king, princess, civilization... ''...Mission to save the world as heroes...'' The king asked the heroes to help them to face the demons that terrorized humanity. ''...Game-like powers'' Status window, stats, level, skills... ''It was really similar like RPG story, it almost like you become an RPG protagonist''. Yuuto remember the expressions of joy of his classmates when they heard the king said they were the heroes. ''They not realize or pretend not to realize that there was one important fact''. Yuuto once again gazing at his lifeless prey. ''Death was real, once you die it won''t be just a simple game over''
In the castle, the heroes being trained by young knight Gawayn to be stronger, they were test their skills against practice dummy, sparred against each other with their super-human abilities. Sometimes nobles also watching their practice. "The future of our kingdom is bright with these talented heroes". "Now, we can show this demons what we''re capable of". They commented as if they already won the wars. To gain favor from heroes they also often bring expensive gift and invited them to their house while introduce their sons/daughters with obvious meaning. The heroes was those who were just an ordinary students recently but now they were treated like royalty which they never even dream of. They easily charmed by the nobles honey words either by their immeasurable wealth or handsome sons and beautiful daughters. "I can''t wait to go out there and show those demons just who they were messing with" "Yeah, they would be regretting their action but it would be too late". Arrogance started spread out inside their adolescent mind like a plague. They even secretly think they were better than their peers, even the their leader Hiroshi was beneath them. They admired Handsome Hiroshi because he was always surrounded by school madonnas who out of their reach, but now those madonnas not so special anymore because there were many nobles beautiful daughters that on same level as them even above them. During this past week Hiroshi''s leadership fallen down as from each days even less people took his words seriously. It was not surprising that happened, during these past week Hiroshi solely focused himself in training in order to save the weak, ironically he forgot to see his classmates who always near him further apart with exceptions the three girls who always stood by him. The heroes might be become stronger but their unity was the sacrifice for their powers. It was just a matter of time before they will falling apart. By that time Yuuto should already gone from Dytika Kingdom.