Ruler Vol 1 Chapter 2
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Author: Anit666
【Sam’s POV】
“””Huh?”””” (all three)
We exclaimed.
“What? What did you just say? Heroes? Demon King? Phiria? What are you talking about old man?” (Jack)
Jack, with a deep frown on his face, started his rapid-fire questions, and in all honesty, they are justified. Just a while ago we were in our classroom explaining Chloe about concepts like poverty, and now we are suddenly in an unknown place surrounded by unknown people who are speaking nonsense. The luscious beauty standing beside that priest, spoke.
“Yes, you’ve heard it correct. I know this is confusing but please listen to us. We will explain the current situation. You three are from Earth, correct?”
We nodded. But wait, what does she mean by we are from Earth? As someone who is practically an otaku, I’m getting some very bad vibes from this situation.
“And you are?” (Jack)
“Ah! Where are my manners? I’m Alicia Von Vetto, the second princess of The Holy Kingdom. Now, as I was saying, you three are from a world called Earth. But right now, you’re in a world called Phiria. And this room is actually a secret room that houses the magic formation for the summoning ritual which is used to summon Heroes in the palace of the capital city Gundia of the biggest empire of this world, The Holy Kingdom . And right now, those heroes are you three. Once every 1000 years, an entity called the Demon King is born into this world. The sole objective of that Demon King is to destroy the world we live in. To achieve that goal he created a demon army. And as much as we would like to kill him, we lack the power to do that. Sure we can somehow handle his demon army, but the Demon King is so powerful that it isn’t even funny. And so, to defeat him, we require Heroes, beings that are granted power by our goddess Phiria to defeat and kill that Demon King. But that power is so great that the citizens of this world cannot handle it. And hence the Goddess also gave us a magic formation that allows us to summon humans from other world whenever a demon King is born. And those humans are you. That’s why, I beg of you, please save our world!” (Alicia)
She finally pleaded to us.
But wait, did she just say Phiria? So she was the one who summoned us, huh. Just what is that damned Goddes of Life Phiria planning this time?
Anyway, basically, my life has been turned into an isekai anime. But I sure do hope that this anime is not Re:Z*ro. After listening to her, Jack spoke, albeit in a sterner tone.
“So you mean to say that we are now heroes that have special powers that can defeat The Demon King and so you want us to defeat him, right?” (Jacob)
“Precisely.” (Alicia)
“Assuming that we do accept your request, we will also have to put our lives on the line, right? (Alicia)
“Yes” (Alicia)
Listening to her answer, Jack nodded, as if he’d understood something important, and spoke in a cold tone.
“And you still want us to do it? Look at this situation from our side. We were peacefully spending our everyday lives, but you suddenly summon and beg us to put our lives on the line to defeat the Demon King so that we can protect people who are totally unrelated to us. Tell me, why should we accept your request?” (Jack)
Good going there Jack! Show them who’s the boss! That girl, what was her name again? Yeah, Alicia! She looked speechless. She was making the same face that I had when Chloe caught me watching hentai!
However, the man who was silent during the whole conversation, finally spoke up.
“Of course, we do not expect you to do it for free. First of all, all of you will retain all of your powers even after going back to your world. We will also reward you with whatever you wish for, and our Goddess would also reward you. But the biggest reason for you to help us out is that you cannot go back to your world without killing the Demon King.” (Azell)
And a sudden uppercut from our baldy! Now what will Jack do?
“What?!” (Jack)
He shouted in shock.
Yeah he’s totally useless.
“Yes. The summoning ritual is set up in such a way that you cannot go back to your world unless you defeat the Demon King.” (Azell)
Jack, who till now thought that he was at an advantage, was shocked. The same went for Chloe. Yeah, so, my life really has been turned into an isekai anime. What now, am I supposed to defeat the demon king with the help of my friends and their power, or would my comrades betray me and I will set out to take revenge on them while ending up in a harem in both the cases? Find out in the next episode of Dra**n B*ll Z!
If there is an author of my life then I want to meet him right fucking now. Like, what the actual fuck author-san?
Jack came closer to me and whispered in a nonchalant tone.
“What do you say, Sam? What should we do?” (Jack)
What’s with that nonchalant tone? What happened to your vigour from before? And why are you asking me? Weren’t you the one in charge?
This guy………. As always, he’s trying to dump all responsibility on me. Damn it!
Alicia, who probably overheard us, once again pleaded to us to help out her world. Jack and Chloe gave up the right to make the final decision to me. Although they see me as someone who is very lazy and has no motivation to work, they still push on the hardest choices to me. Anyway, I have to make a decision.
Now then, what should I do? The most logical action would be to help them in killing the Demon King as we cannot return without doing that. However, what if this bunch is just lying to us? What if they’re just trying to use us pawns to defeat this Demon King, and plan to get rid of us the moment we’ve fulfilled our purpose?
I have too little information to decide. Then I should probably go with the most logical action.
“Very well, we shall help you out. We can’t return to our world without doing that after all. And I assume that your Holy Kingdom, or whatever, will fully support us in this, right?” (Sam)
The hardest choices require the strongest wills after all. What else am I supposed to do anyway.
“Of course. You will have our full support. So now that you have agreed to help us, we would need to explain you various things about this world. But before that, we need to check your Status so that we can direct your growth in the most optimum way.” (Azell)
Good. Let’s find a way to go back while taking advantage of their support.
The baldy, who seemed satisfied by my answer, signalled the knight standing by his side who in turn passed him some rectangular metallic plates.
“These are called status plates. They will show you your status, data that shows your basic information like name, race etc. Only you and those you allow will be able to see your status. The status showed on the status plate can never be faked. Just hold them with both your hands and try to concentrate on them.” (Azell)
Oh, so we have game mechanics here. Would this plate show my level, HP and all that?
We did as we were told, and then words started appearing on those plates. My status was as follows.
NAME: Samuel Hayden
RACE: Human
CLASS: Fallen, Overlord, Ruler of Death, Ruler of Hell, Hero
TITLE: Hellwalker, Slayer
There was no numerical data, only words that described my identity. That’s a let-down. But I’ll have to admit that the one who made these plates is a genius. Such accuracy. And Overlord is also a class huh….
I took a peek at the status plates of Jack and Chloe, which were as follows.
NAME: Chloe Evans
RACE: Human
CLASS: Hero
TITLE: –
NAME: Jack Hargreave
RACE: ???
CLASS: Hero, ???
TITLE: Commander of Hell, ???
Well, looks like these plates aren’t that accurate.
Chloe was focusing on her plate as if she were entranced with it, so, fortunately she didn’t see mine and Jack’s status plate. But damn, me and Jack will be fucked if these statuses were to become public knowledge. Better change it up to match Chloe’s.
Both of us waved our hands over our plates as if we were wiping them, and then our statuses changed to match Chloe’s. Since this has been taken care of, I shook Chloe violently to break her out of her trance.
“Now that you’ve checked your status, please allow me to view it as well.” (Azell)
It’s good that we could change our statuses. We three complied and showed our status plates to Azell. He smiled after looking at them.
Maybe he just wanted to confirm that we are actually Heroes? Never would he have thought that the newly summoned heroes that are from another world would be able to overturn their common sense. Well, heroes should be infamous for being able to overturn common sense, right?
“Good. Now you three should rest. You have an audience with the king after an hour. Alicia, please guide them to their rooms.” (Azell)
“Okayy. Lord…. uh..” (Alicia)
Alicia stuttered and made a confused looking expression. Oh yeah, we haven’t introduced ourselves yet, have we?
“I don’t believe we’ve been properly introduced. Samuel Hayden, at your service. Call me Sam. These two are Jack Hargreave and the idiot- er, I mean Chloe Evans.” (Sam)
“Hey just what were you saying just now?! Huh?!” (Chloe)
Chloe roared in anger.
“As you can see, this girl is quite violent. Please beware.” (Jack)
“Hey!” (Chloe)
Alicia chuckled after listening to our usual bickering.
“Fufu. Now then, Lord Sam, Lord Jacob and Lady Chloe, let’s go.” (Allicia)
Lord? It has been some time since I’ve been called like that. But I don’t like it. I hope that she can be casual with me.
“Please don’t call me Lord. Just Sam is enough.” (Sam)
“No no, how could I possibly do that?! Calling someone as noble as you heroes by mere names is something I cannot do!” (Alicia)
She answered in a flustered tone.
“But I don’t like being called that way. Would you still do it?” (Sam)
“Th-that’s………………….. O-Ok. I will call you Sam.” (Alicia)
“Please do that with us too.” (Chloe and Jack)
“O-Okay.” (Alicia)
And then we three followed after her.
Let’s see what being a hero has in store for me. This just might be the breakthrough I’d been looking for.
【3rd POV】
Elsewhere, in the throne room of the Demon King’s palace, a demon was giving it’s report to the Demon King.
“Yes sir, it’s been confirmed that the Holy Kingdom has successfully performed the ritual to summon the hero. ” (Subordinate)
Listening to his subordinate, the Demon King sitting on the throne grumbled.
“So he is finally here huh.” (Demon King)
And then fell silent. The Demon King had only one objective. And the Hero was the only one who could probably stop him. Hence, he would have to kill him before they pose any threats to him. Though he didn’t know that this time three heroes had been summoned instead of one.
The curtain on the war between the Demons and the Mankind had finally been raised.
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