Heroes and Summoning
Clair POV:
Our sleep did not last long, maybe half an hour.
The door burst open and a woman rushed inside, four guards were behind her.
I quickly hid under the blanket.
"Your Highness, there are intruders inside the castle, our guards were found unconsciousness. We must search for assassins," she said and was already preparing clothes.
"There is no need for a search, the intruder already left, he came and left a message," Yukina said and sat up.
"But your Highness, such a think must be punished. They disabled your guards and left you unprotected," the woman refuted.
"It's okay Nina, there is mff... there is no danger," Yukina said with a muffled laugh in the middle.
"Your Highness is everything alright?" Nina asked worried, not knowing that I'm tickling Yukinas belly under the blanket.
"Mphf, y..yes, now let me sleep. A guest will come tomorrow," Yukina said.
"Yes your Highness," Nina said not convinced and bowed.
She closed the door and I heard that two guards will stay in front of the door.
"Nani koto da ?!" She then asked in a half reproachful, half pouting tone.
Skill:
Language of Japan
Speak the desired language of every European or American anime lover. No longer false subtitles in hentai.
Oh, there's the skill, why didn't I get it before?
"Sorry, what did you say? I don't speak Japanese," I asked after maxing the skill.
"I asked you why you did that, and you clearly spoke it as you woke me," she said.
"Well I just repeated something a friend said to me as I slept by him," I said.
"So you didn't know what you said?" She asked.
"Nope, but now I do," I said.
"How? How did you get the skill so quick? And why did you level it up to LV 10? That's wasting your skill points," she said.
"Wasting? I'm able to have around 1300 skills, all of them on LV 10 one more or less doesn't matter," I said.
"1300? But Your level is only around 1300," she said confused.
"Let's speak about that tomorrow, who's your guest by the way?" I asked.
"You of course," she said, laid back down and was quickly used as a body pillow.
"Morning your Highness," a woman said an pulled the blanket away.
Naturally the next thing she said was, "KYAA, ELF!."
Yukina, on the other hand, jumped up from the scream and got into a fighting position.
"What? What happened?" She asked and looked around.
The woman just pointed at the bed, so Yukina looked down and saw me hugging her leg.
"Morning," I said in a sleepy voice.
"Oh her, that's Clair," Yukina said and relaxed.
"B..but she is an elf. Aren't you afraid?" The woman asked.
"Why would you be afraid of an elf?" I asked while standing up. The woman hurriedly backed away.
"The church spread the belief that elf's are something akin to a monster who will kill without distinction," Yukina said.
"That's different from what they do in the other countries. Wouldn't these announcements be known as false when they see an elf?" I asked.
"Most people don't leave their home city and there are not many elf's that aren't enslaved. They mostly never see an elf in their whole life," Yukina explained.
"Aha, then hi, I'm Clair, an elf and I won't kill you," I said and tried to shake her hand, but she just screamed and ran out of the room.
"You can't break a lifelong indoctrination in mere seconds," Yukina said and walked to her dresser.
"True, hey you're fairly relaxed about this situation," I said and changed into a black dress.
"The influence of [Calm Mind] I had to learn and level it. Otherwise, I would have broken down after the first real fight. A normal Japanese citizen inside a war zone? And on top of that a 14-year-old girl? I still don't know why those old fuckers thought it would be a good idea to send me into a war right after the summoning," She explained and dressed behind blinds.
"Old fuckers?" I asked while waiting.
"I'll explain while we eat. You should hide your ears or the people will get scared," she said and finished dressing. She wears a green dress with many decorations and some jewellery.
"It's funnier this way," I said and followed her to a dining room, food was already on the table but only one set of tableware was on it.
"I'll let someone bring more plates," Yukina said but I stopped her and took my own tableware out of the inventory.
"Could you send someone to wait for my friends?" I asked as I sat down.
"Sure," she said and rung a bell.
"Really?" I asked but only got a shrug as an answer.
Shortly after a maid came inside and bowed.
"Please send someone to the main entrance, three people will either wait there or come this morning. A two woman and a man," Yukina said and began to fill her plate.
"Yes your Highness," the maid said and then looked at me. The moment she saw me she began to tremble and all her blood left her face. She then almost run out.
"Told you it's going to be like this," Yukina said and began to eat.
"I knew, but this is fun," I said.
"Yeah fun..., the people will only get a worse impression of me. It's not like the church isn't already trying to overthrow me," Yukina said with a sigh.
"Yeah, not my problem. You can come to Aeron if they manage," I said.
"I hope they won't, the church would throw the world into war if I don't stop them," Yukina said.
"Well Aeron will be safe, they aren't strong enough to fight my guards and Siria won't act because she is scared of the consequences," I said.
"What do you mean Siria won't act?" Yukina asked.
"I met her yesterday and showed her the consequences she will feel when she harms my country," I said with a grin.
"But she is a god," Yukina said.
"She may have the title of a god but that's it. In that regard, I'm also a god. She is a strong elemental, no more and no less. I just showed her replacement and she accepted my terms of not messing with Aeron," I said.
"You want to say that that glowing statue was nothing more than an elemental?" Yukina asked baffled.
"Yeah, did you not try to identify it?" I asked back.
"I did but the window only said that it's the statue of the goddess Siria. I never saw her real status. How did you do it?" She asked.
"A friend of mine has a history with her and she tried to smash his skull as we came into her temple," I said.
"Tried? You mean he survived?" Yukina asked.
"Sure, Arch Demons aren't so weak," I said.
"A..Arch Demon? Aren't those the mythical demons? I heard that one would be as strong as several X-Rank adventurers. Are you a friend of one? Aren't they monster?" She asked a little pale.
"You've seen him it's the guy from yesterday. His stats are a little less than 100.000. Come to think of it, I never looked at your status," I said and activated the skill.
Name: Yukina
Profession: Empress of Raska
Age: 84
Class: Ex-Hero
Title: Ex-Hero, Empress of Raska
Level: 230
Health: 700.000 [HP: Regeneration 230/sec]
Mana: 5.000.000 [MP: Regeneration 1000/sec]
Strength: 65.000
Wisdom: 72.000
Race: Human
Agility: 81.000
Intelligence: 74.000
Gender: Female
This woman was summoned into this world by the tender age of 14 years. She was then thrown into a world of war and political conflict, where she managed to survive and even conquer other people. Now she is the Empress of Raska and a potential future hug pillow for the being named Clair.
"Hehe," I snickered.
"What?" Yukina asked.
"Your description changed," I said and showed her status.
"What? Why? That's not fair," She protested with slightly teary eyes and I patted her head as an apology. It's really hard to pat others heads when you're only 1.5m tall. I had to climb on a chair so that I can comfortably pat her.
And in this moment the door opened and the maid from before came back in. She saw us and got pale, she even started to quiver.
"What?" I asked her but the only response I got was a °HIIII° and she ran out. Drull, Ilza and Lilia then came inside and Drull wore an evil grin.
"Morning Master, what did you do to this human girl? She looks like you would eat her. If you do, can I have something too?" Drull said and sat down.
"I told you, you shouldn't bully maids and why is the empress crying?" Lilia said.
"Her status said that she's a potential hug pillow for me," I said and Yukina weakly nodded.
"Not fair, I want to have that place," Ilza protested.
"Did she feel so good?" Drull asked.
"She's soft," I replied.
"It's good to know that these are your antics and that I don't have to worry about you cheating," Lilia said with a wry smile and also sat down.
"Muu I want to be Clair's personal hug pillow," Ilza said with a frown and began to eat.
"I think the empress calmed down," Drull said and pointed at Yukina who wiped her tears away.
"I'm okay now and just to be clear, I won't become your personal hug pillow," She said resolutely.
"Many tried to deny the Hugger but none managed to escape so far," I said in a sinister tone and Yukina got goosebumps.
"Anyway, we were speaking about the goddess, is there anything else you want to ask before it's my turn?" I asked.
"Yes, there are a lot of things I want to ask. First, who are you?" Yukina said.
"I'm someone from earth, I met the true god and got some powers so that I can entertain him and do what I want," I said.
"True god? So your level is one of these powers?" She asked.
"Yes true god, a really powerful being. And the level is because I used one of the powers to kill the dragons in the Dragon Valley, these kills raised my level so high," I said.
"What about your stats? I mean they can't be so high from this level alone can they? And what do the numbers in parentheses mean?" She then asked.
"They are runes applied to my body, most of them are on the ancient elfen language because they are better for enchanting," I said.
"Runes? But aren't the numbers way too high?" She asked.
"That's because I have a lot of them, my body is almost indestructible via runes," I said.
"Okay, then what about you being male and female? And your race?" She asked.
"Powers from god," I said and changed into Dex with dragon scales.
"I'm able to change my gender and turn into a dragon," I then said and changed the scales back.
"Hot," Yukina said as she saw Dex.
"He's mine," Lilia said and glared at Yukina, " You may cuddle with Clair but Dex is mine," she continued.
"Y..yes, anyway, what are your intentions with the kingdom and godhood?" Yukina asked.
"It just happened and now I'm stuck with it. And I thought why not? At least, I can stop the racism in my country," I said with a shrug.
"And your plans in the future?" Yukina asked.
"I want to explore the world and do what I want," I said gleefully.
"Would you help us against the demons? Your powers are enough to destroy them," Yukina asked.
"Nope, I don't care about them, as long as they stay away from me. And I also want to see their country," I said.
"But they try to kill all of humanity," Yukina said.
"Kill all of humanity? That's funny. You do know that humans once tried to enslave all of the sentient beings in the world?" Drull said with a laugh.
"They tried what?" I asked.
"Well I wasn't born at that time but history books told be that humans once tried to enslave the high elfs, demons, beastkin and dwarfs. The high elfs and demons made an alliance and drove the humans back. They then enslaved the humans and used them as cattle and forced labourers.
Then came the whole thing with Piloro and the high elfs lost their powers. The enslaved humans made a revolt and the demons tried to push them back," Drull explained.
"But they are invading us," Yukina tried to argue.
"They do, but only because humans would attack if they wouldn't. Look at the elfs in Schwarzwald, I heard that human raiding parties are often out to catch slaves. Sure demons still may hold some humans as slaves but humans do the same with some beastkin slaves," Drull said and Yukina sunk down into a chair.
"I didn't know," She muttered and I patted her head again.
"It is as it is, do you have something else?" I said.
"No," she said tiredly.
Must be hard to learn that everything you fought for 70 years is only because you were wrong.
Well, not my problem.
"So my questions, first, how does the hero system work?" I asked.
"Come I show you the summoning circle and explain there," Yukina said in a sad tone and stood up.
We followed her out of the dining room, through the corridors into a large room with a circle in the middle.
"I've never seen such runes," I said and inspected the runes closer. They are in a strange language and in tried to decipher them.
Skill:
Decipher
The skill for deciphering any code or language. Intercept decoded love letters and read them out loud in front of the whole class, so that you can embarrass those who wrote it. LV: 0
Oh cool, maxed.
Skill:
Runes of Summoning
These runes are a language in itself. Their only purpose of summoning someone or something. Higher Skill level gives you the possibility to summon yourself to somewhere else. LV: 0
"We never managed to read them and nobody really knows what they tell. We only know how to use them and they always summon a teenager from earth," Yukina said a little less down.
"I can read them," I said.
"What? How?" Yukina asked shocked.
"The skill [Decipher] on LV 10 makes it able to red them, that and a skill named [Runes of Summoning] makes it possible to understand them. I think you have to have [Enchanting], [Decipher] and [Runes of Summoning] at a pretty high level if you want to learn it without a teacher," I said.
"But how did you get the skill so fast?" She asked.
"What do you mean so fast?" I asked back.
"Normally you have to do something for week if you want to get the skill," She said.
"Oh that, no I only have to hear, do or see something once and I'll get the skill. From then on I only have to put skill points in it and I understand the skill instantly," I said.
"And I thought we heroes are cheater," Yukina said.
""I know how you feel,"" Drull and Lilia said simultaneously.
"Anyway, the circle is something like a program that searches for a teenage human on a different planet. The planet must be found once but from then on it's looked on the planet. It also describes all the perks the human will get, like some of the mana used for the summoning or the ability to get skill points. It's possible to change the runes but it would change the required mana for the summoning," I said.
"Is it also written why it only summons Japanese?" Yukina asked.
"Not why Japanese but apparently it searches in a specific area for some time and then summons the first matching candidate. The summoning fails if there is no candidate. I think the specific area is Japan or somewhere in Japan," I said.
"Thanks, this explains a lot, are you also able to send us back?" Yukina asked hopefully.
"Do you really want back?" I asked.
"Yes, why not?" She asked back, not understanding what I mean.
"You left earth 70 years ago, it might be possible to send you back in time, as time is only relative but you got old. Do you really want to get back in a world where your mental age is above that of your grandparents? You also look like a woman in her twenties and I don't know if you would age in a world without mana. I mean you are 84," I explained my thoughts.
"I...I don't know. Would you send me back?" She asked.
"I could but think about it for a day or more, it could kill you if you age when you get back," I said.
"Thank you, I'll think about it. Are there any more questions?" She asked.
"Hmm, one last question, why are you planning a war against the other countries?" I asked.
"The church forced me, they think a united humanity will be able to beat the demons. I'm not as powerful as the church and this country is ruled by a council, consisting of the church, nobles and me. I'm more like a figurehead," she explained with a sad look.
"Okay, here is a magic device that lets you communicate with me. Call me when you want to go to Aeron or decided to get back to earth," I said and gave her one of the devices.
"Thank you, what are you planning now?" She asked.
"We want to explore the Hell Dungeon, I read that no one managed to get past the thirtieth floor," I said.
"Have fun, the dungeon is nasty and monster get really strong from the twentieth floor on," Yukina said and led us out of the palace.
We left the town shortly after and are now going to the Hell Dungeon that lies at the eastern border of Raska. And the monthly visit of Lily is in a few days.