Chapter 1 - The Worst

"I- What?"

When i Opened up my Eyes all i can see is Pitch Black darker than black and Night I can't Even See my hands

...

Am i dead?

Wait is this the place people go when they die?

*Rumbling*

i Suddenly felt a Vibration like the world was Shaking

Then i Feel like Something is sucking me In my Feet

"W-What is this?!"

I can feel it's Like a Liquid Slime Quickly Covering my feet it's already Reaching my Waist

"What the F*ck?!"

i Flail around Even though i know it's Useless

Is this Hell?!

"Goddamn i Just Diee Now i'll Di-*BlughBlrug*"

I-I Can't Breathe!

I guess Even in the Afterlife i'll Suffer...

"F*ck it Hurts!"

The Semi-Liquid Starts Peircing through my skin and I can Feel the Air Bubbles Going Out of my mouth

the moment i Opened imy mouth the Semi Liquid Rushes Inside my Body Choking me in the Process, I can feel Every single Semi-Liquid Peircing through In-and-Out My body over and over again

I squirm in Pain i wanted to shout but i can't My voice won't Even go out,The Semi-Liquid Already Surrounds my entire Body Inside and out

Then suddenly the pain stops.

Vuwooom~

*Plop* *Stum*

"H-Huh?"(Shaky Man's Voice)

What just Happened? Ugh Even though i Haven't Opened up my eyes yet i might go blind if I opened it up, It's So bright even in my Closed eyes it Looked so White

"What's The meaning of this i thought you can only summon One?"(Deep Voiced Man)

I slowly open my eyes and See A deep voiced man with a golden brown Hair and Beard with a Golden Crown on his Head Asking a robed Man holding a Long Staff With a Crystal on it's top He Shivers At the Sudden Question

when i Look around i see the surrounding Structure inside this room, Made out of Semi-Block Brick with Wood rather than Iron, The Place is actually Worse Compared to a Badly Rated Hotel or Shappy House You can see Cracks and Black Spots Resembking Something that Burned that Spot all over the Place

It really is Another world?

"Marvelous! Isn't Two Better than One? Calm yourself Taris, This is A Blessing of the Godesses To Give us 2 Heroes At Once."(Loud Man)

What do You mean Godesses? Heroes What the F*ck is this another world? Isn't it Supposed to be Fiction?

"Y-You!!"(Ryou)

E-Eh?! You're Here Too?

Ryou was about to Choke me with Veins almost Popping out of his Neck Seething in anger

"You know each other? Even Better! Atleast You two won't have a Problem Getting along after the Ritual!"(Loud Man)

"Huh?"(Ryou)

Dumbass You all Know what Happens in an Isekai, Heck even Normies Now Have atleast a Few Basics Down

"As both of you Can see, We have Summoned You to our World"(Deep Voiced Man)

"And we Have to Kill the Demon King?"

Obviously almost All worlds Have this Cliché it's Better to move on quickly and Get out of this Place, I don't Like being Bossed around.

"Don't Speak Unless Given Permission by the King!"(Heavy Armored Knight)

Just Because this is a Medieval World with magic doesn't mean I can't ask -,-

"Silence Rubert, We must give respect to These Heroes, They can Kill us At sight if they so Please, That is why i need their strength to aid us(Deep Voiced King)

Right Even if it's just two 17-year old kids they would still have to stay alert since we are strangers that they don't know what i'm capable of

"But need help to Kill a Dragon, This Demon King You speak of Is Unkown and Unheard of"(Deep Voiced King)

"Do you mean if we kill the dragon, We can return back Home?"(Ryou)

Dumbass You can't Go back if you died in that world, It's Pretty useless for me since That world Is Long Gone and Lifeless for me

Infact I'd actually want to stay Here and Just Live a Life of on my own and obviously do magic, But first I gotta Escape this palace A.S.A.P

"I see you are Smart but What You've Got Wrong is You can't Come back anymore"(Loud man)

"W-what?"(Ryou)

You died On earth So can't come back Unless You were forced here but actually had a life back there or You'd need an OP skill Capable of travelling through worlds

"Our magic is only capable of Cross-World Teleporing people That Died on their worlds Here"(Deep Voiced King)

"No way..."(Ryou)

Confusion and Despair can be seen on Ryou's Face But it quickly changes to anger as Soon as he Glares at me

Right. I Killed Him so it's Obvious he'd Glare like that

"This is All your fault!"(Ryou)

"Gi-!"

"Ahem"(Deep Voiced King)

The king Fakes a Cough

"You two shouldn't fight since we still have to Evaluate and know your Status and teach you about the world"(Deep Voiced King)

"What? Status?"

Is this a World with RPG elements? Then this is Simpler than i thought! i won't need to Helpessly ask how to cast or do anything at all!

"Follow me, We will talk about your Roles if we discover what you are capable of"(Deep Voice king)

For Isekai fanatics this would be a dream to live for, They never know that Reality would still hit them right at the Face

I'm certain they summoned us because they needed us to do something impossible for them or just want them to become servants

I'd Rather trust myself than Rely on others

And i prefer myself to be in charge than Submit

*Knock Knock Knock*

"Prusia, It is me we need yo-"

"I'm Coming Father"(Prusia)

An emotionless Voice cuts the King's Words off, We can't even hear footsteps coming towards the door, Instead we hear the door opening

"We need your Oracle and Appraising Skill, It is for these esteemed guests"(Deep voiced king)

"you may Come in, I just recently finished praying for the Goddess"(Prusia)

Squeeeek~

The Door Opens more widely and then i saw her.

She looks A Bit Tall nearly as tall as Ryou's Height but i'm taller than Both of them i just Don't have a Good posture i'm always slumped but not like a Hunchback or a Shrimp i just look smaller and Lazy

She also has A More Intimidating aura than the king, at a glance you can tell she'd be fit to be a strong Ruler in the far future

Also She looks too... Mature

Her Body proportions are Even Better than all of the Female Celebrities on Earth Combined

"Are you not coming in?"(Prusia)

"Ah-"

I was too pre occupied on my thoughts This is Too bad i shouldn't look too much

We head inside The room, instead there are no Beds Just an Altar in the middle with a Stone circle in the middle with a Carved Circle that looks like those spell circles in The Mangas and games back on earth

Odd...

The Mood is too Silent and Calm even the 'Big and Mighty' Ryou is Looking at the Ground, Since when has he been looking like this?

"The first we would be Appraising is what your Element is"(Deep voiced King)

Instead of his daughter explaining the Process She Is Preparing what is Needed such as a Clear Glass Ball and Two Books without any cover Just a Brown leather surrounding it

"Then we will discover Your Status, Don't worry We won't be able to Appraise your whole satus Since That Level of Skill is Only Possible for a Sage, In short alkl we are capable of seeing is Your Main Characteristic Skill"(Deep Voiced King)

Thank God that's something less to be worried atleast They won't be able to Threaten or Know my weakness

"The Preparations are Complete Father"(Prusia)

"Good, Then shall we Proceed?"(Deep voiced king)

"is it Possible to refuse?"

"Ahem, No it is a Must"(Deep voiced king)

Meh It was worth a Try

"Put Your Hand Here And then it will determine Your Element, It is the latest  Model so it is Capable Of Making hints and Images of what your Element could possibly be"

Ryou was in front of me Still looking down and just Stood there for 5 Whole Minutes

Has He Gone deaf? Can't he hear what she just said earlier?

Even The deep voiced king's daughter just stood there staring blankly without any emotion at all

Then the first to break the silence was

"Ahem, We shouldn't qaste any more time"(Deep voiced king)

He Pushed Ryou's Back tro urge him to quickly Do it

"Ah-"(Ryou)

Looks like he finally snapped out of his daydreaming

"w-what'll i be doing?"(Ryou)

"just put your palm on this Orb"(Prusia)

Oooooowm~

The Orb slowly vibrates and a Very Bright Light shines in the middle, Even brighter than all of the Torches that Light up the Place

"What!? A Light Element?!"(Deep Voiced King)

The Deep voiced king Looked genuinely shocked, Light although very common everywhere it is a Very rare Element to obtain, since this would relate to that person's Personality or Characteristics

I guess for ryou This could mean that he wants to basically be a show off, Well he'd obviously do that

"Is it a Rare skill?"(Ryou)

Ryou looks confused, It's Understandable since you literally have No knowledge whatsoever

"By the Gods it isn't rare at all! It is almost a Myth at this point!"(Deep voiced king)

The deep voiced king Smiles like he just found the world's most Valuable Item in the world

Even Ryou who was silent the whole time was now Smiling with a Smug look all over his Face

"next is your turn"(Prusia)

Prusia However was Unfazed and seemed

To not care even when a Mythical Element

Holder Was in front of her and just quickly urged us to finish this faster

"Ok"

i put my palm on the Orb...

VuwOooooom~

The vibration was Stronger than Ryou's it felt like it was about to explode any moment, then i saw a rainbow... wait It's Different colored circles Just Compacted together this then Compressed into a Black Circle the size of a dot.

this slowly expanded and swallowed the entire Orb

Crack.

Huh?

Piiiish!

The Orb Broke into Pieces and then black smoke Came into My Hand and Seeped intro my skin, What was weird was it didn't feel weird or hurt me at all

"What does black mean?"

"What do mean black?"(Deep voiced king)

"I saw Nothing as well father"(Prusia)

"Pft"(Ryou)

Huh? they didn't see anything? not even the black smoke?

"So He's Elementless? Huh? You have no affinity for any element at all"(Deep voiced king)

"Is it bad?"

If it's clear can't they atleast think about wind? Space or Something that has a Clear Color?

"We don't know, In Fact This is the first time In all history that an elementless Person ever came"(Deep voiced king)

"You're gonna have a Hard time surviving in this world without any Strong Element that you specialize in, I doubt you can even use a Simple spell without any element since it was clear"(deep voiced king)

What? wait a minute i can't cast spells? how am i gonna live in this world then?!

"Enough sorrowing we should look at your status now"(Deep voiced king)

"All you have to say is Status while holding this Book"(Prusia)

The king's Daughter gave the Leather-Covered Book to me and ryou

"Status"(Ryou)

The Book slowly changed it's cover starting from Ryou's Finger tips

The simple Leather cover Slowly changed It's Texture into A White Book with a Yellow Sun in the Middle Even the dark brown and Yellowish pages Turned into Clear white in color

"Then you Say Status Again In order to show your status, You should also Imagine that we can see the status In order for us To See as well"(Prusia)

ryou Closed his eyes and Waved his Hand forward( Like a Childish Middle Schooler )

"Status"(Ryou)

Ting-

A familiar sound Popped out of nowhere including a Wide white Screen with numbers and Letters

[Character - Status - Filtered]

Level: 1

Name: Ryou Ryutama

Class: None

Title: Light Prince

Race: Human

[Character - Stats]

Strength: 3.2

Agility: 2.7

Intelligence: 1

Perception: 1

Endurance: 2.2

[Attribute - Stats - Filtered]

[Skill - Stats - Filtered]

[Active Skills - Filtered]

[Passive - Filtered]

"By the Gods We are Blessed Indeed!"(Deep Voiced King)

The Deep voiced king Laughs Loudly and Patting Ryous Back Real Hard

"Gkuh!"(Ryou)

ryou slumps and Quickly Moved away from the deep voiced King

"My apologies Light Prince, Since i'm a level 41 with a Strength of 3 Mountain Bears I can Hardly Contain My Happiness! In fact you should Feel proud!"(Deep voiced king)

The Deep voiced king Spread his arms and Locked ryou on jis shoulder And Ushered him with him with a Huge smile

The Deep voiced King and Ryou was about to Go out Because they were Overjoyed by the fact Ryou got a Rare skill in this world

"Ahem, I believe you Haven't forgotten we have Another 'Hero' Here?"(Prusia)

*Gulp*

"Ah i'm sorry i must've been too happy since A Mighty Hero Is here with us"(Deep Voiced king)

He smiles warmly at Ryou and then Looking at Prusia then Sternly Looking at me

Might as Well just Do it then. I don't care if i'm below average If it's a Skill That can make Me atleast Strong enough to Fight and Take care of myself is Enough

"Status"

...

...?

"..."(Everyone)

"Huh?"(Prusia)

"Status?"

...

"Is this a Broken Book Your Highness?"

"!"(Prusia)

"What do you mean, These Books are Finely crafted by Respectable Mages And A Famous Magus Professor Herself!"

"It doesn't seem to work on My Status-"

Vuuuuuurm~ crrrrk!

Instead of A Soft Vibration Like Ryou's the Book Vibrates Intensely and Some Cracks Appear starting from my fingers Across the Book

Black Smoke Spread Around me But I don't seem to be affected by it Instead it Feels Oddly... Comfortable

The Book Then had it's Dark Grey color turn into a Pitch black Book and Then the pages Also turned Pitch black After the cover

Then Lastly Nobody would've Noticed it since Both of my hands Were still Holding The book But i Can See an Etched Symbol in the Middle, the Symbol slowly spread throughout the Whole cover and Made a Pure White metallic Shiny Borders on it's Cover.

Now That it finished it's Transformation I can see the Symbol More clearly than Before since it was Pitch black, It looked like a Hole, An Endless hole At that

But when i Run my fingers through that Spot My Finger won't go Through, Heck I can fit my Whole Hand if i wanted to, but i won't do that Here Obviously

...

Why are they Silent?

"Are You really summoned With The Hero?"(Prusia)

The Deep voiced King's Daughter asked me With a Face of Disbelief

Wait Don't tell me You didn't see it as well?!?

"I'm sure of it"

"Tch"(Ryou)

Hu, I Don't care If You're angry at me, Hell you deserved to die anyways

"Status"

-Ping-

A Very Dark Black But Slightly See-Through screen suddenly appeared In front of Me

Huh?

"Enough, This is already Wasting Time as it Is If you can't Be A Hero You'll Only be Dead weight Without Any specialty. Anything can easily kill you if you don't even have a single Element"(Deep Voiced king)

-Zoop-

The Screen Disappeared into Nothingness

Then i saw The Deep voiced King Looking at me with an Annoyed face

"But i would lose Reputation if I threw you out as a Hero, Think of this as My Mercy."(Deep Voiced king)

"Huh?"

Wait... I F*cking Knew it They'll Jist throw you away if You're Useless...

It'll always be That way...

The Deep voiced King and Ryou left the room With Smiling Faces

"I'm sorry But  You'll also Have To Leave this room I have to Inform My Goddess about This Event"(Prusia)

You're Politely Rude, Especially Since Hearing Your Own Father Morally Kicking a Hero Out Just Because They Can't see what i can see...

When i Went Out The room a Maid Guided Me Outside To an Inn

While i Was walking with her i can See Ryou Smiling Widely And Throwing a Big F Finger At me

"This is The Place Sir, Your Equipments Are Already at Your Room"(Castle Maid)

She Gave Me The Key Just Before She Left with a Sad Face

Maybe She Heard something in The room? Either way They're None of my business Now, And I'll Just Mind Myself How to Survive and Relax in this World

i Hope That Heroic Ryou Dies A Second Time in a F*cking Carriage instead of a Truck

I went Inside And Saw An Old Man Wiping a Bottle of... Wine?

"Ah Welcome sir, You must Be the Esteemed Guest of the King, His Maid Informed me of Your Arrival"(Tavern Owner)

"A-ah Yes, About that Can i ask something Mr..."

It's Better to Know than Learn it The Hard way(Specifically Learning about it On your own rather than knowing what it is)

"Ah Just Call me Brom I own this Tavern and Had a Few spare rooms so this doubles as An Inn"(Brom)

"I've been Keeping this Place up Ever since My Father made it Here"(Brom)

"Ah About that Can you tell Me about what this place is Mr.Brom?"

"Hmm... You aren't from here Sir?"(Brom)

He Looked Shocked

"Ah Yes I come from A Very Far Land"

"I was only Assuming you were Since you have Unusually Pitch Black Hair Sir"(Brom)

"Hm? What's wrong with my hair?"

Come to think of it I just Noticed That Nobody Here has pitch black Hair as Mine... Only Grey, a Lot of Brown and a Few Reddish Brown Haired people

"It's Not that it's Wrong sir, Instead Black Hairs are Usually Demonic Races and As well As Pure White Hairs Are Also Demonic Races that are Far Superior Than The Black Haired Ones"(Brom)

"But Yours are Way Darker than Anything Sir, It Shines But in a Dark Way..."(Brom)

"Oh Don't worry if You are Indeed a Demon sir I won't rat you Out I'm Quite Trustable"(Brom)

He Pumps His Chest With Pride

"Ah You don't Have to worry i'm certain that I'm not a Demon"

"Ah i forgot To Warn you, Particularly People around here Hates demons, to the Point they Include The Demi-Race"(Brom)

"Is this place Full of Discrimination Towards Non-Humans?"

"i believe that is so"(Brom)

He Looks Down and He Also Put down the wine He was wiping

"Anyways Sir, what Brings You Here?"(Brom)

"Ah Nevermind I believe i'm Prying too much!"(Brom)

He Nervously Tries to Take Back what he Said

"It's Ok, In fact I'm Not actually an esteemed Guest, Instead I'm Just a Worker That was Kicked Out of the

Castle"

"Ah So You are One of Those Butlers That was Kicked Sir? Do you minde telling me why you were kicked out?"(Brom)

"I Mistakenly Misplaced The tea and it Fell On the King's Lap it was still very Warm since it was Fresh"

"Ah That's a New one, usually they hire Very Careful and experienced Butlers"(Brom)

"Mr.Brom Can You tell Me about What the Place Around and Outside this Kingdom is?"(Brom)

"..."(Brom)

Huh? is it Bad to ask about Simple directions?

"Uh Hello?"

"Ah sorry Sir, I must've Dosed off i Have A Weird Habit of Sleeping with an Open Eye, Sorry What was it Again?"(Brom)

Uh What?

Anyways

"I was tryung to ask About Outside and around this kingdom, I plan to Venture instead Of Staying For long"

"Hmm, Then I'll Tell you everything i Know Starting at the basic Knowledge Outside"(Brom)

"then I'll Listen very Carefully"

"The Basic Knowledge Is That Aquom Kingdom has 4 Lands The Main Are which is This Kingdom's Land and the Rest which is The Duke's the Count's and then The Baron's Land"(Brom)

"I guess I Don't need to tell You Everything About Them and the Kingdom's History Or We'll Talk it Until Tomorrow night"

"Sounds Good I Think i still Have a Few days to stay Anyway Might as Well Learn and Know everything i Can"

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The Tavern Owner Told Me Everything to Know about The Kingdom and The Outside

Sadly He can't tell me much about the Outside since He always stayed here and Only went Outside When He Needed Materials and Ingredients, To Save up money instead of Buying them Twice Than Their Original Worth

All He knows is that Avoid the Wolves, Only lvl 15 above Can Fight them but I can Atleast Kill Slimes to Level Up and Get stronger They're Near Puddles Or lakes or Any source of water And they Always Travel in Groups

Lastly He told Me That Never go Deep Into The Woods, Nobody Ever Walked back out Alive, I Might Not Be Able To do That since My curiousity Always Peaks Out

But i Can Feel it if it's Bad or Good Since my Intuition is Strong So i'll Only Know when i'm Near there

Now All I have are Just 2 days And Then My Suffering In Another World Will Start...

Huu, All i wanted was To Atleast Be Relaxing While Not Worrying about anything, But this is Oddly Exciting Than On Earth

I'll die from Boredom On there Anyways

Atleast I'm Aware To Control my self from Having fun too much then Die mindlessly from Fighting too Much

** * ** * **

I just Remembered That I have These stuff Lying Around the room, If 2 days went by Maybe I Could've Left these stuff Behind

I Got atleast 2 Bags Full Of Random Equipment I' Open and Check it Later on...

A Pouch of Coins that Counts Up to 100 Small Bronze coins then I put Back all of the Coins on the Pouch and Threw it At the Small round table Near the Bed

*Bok*

Huh?

"Wait This Was my status book"

It still Looks the Same Pitch black but Now it's Literally Invisible Except the Metallic park is the only Visible Thing at this darkness

I put the Book near the Candle Stick and Even with the Candle's Light the Book is Still Pitch Black and Dark As ever, Only the Metallic borders  Shine

"Come to Think of It Only I can see This, even The Book and also that Orb"

I haven't even got to see my status since I got Interrupted by that Impatient King

So let's Give it a try again...

"Status"

-Ping-

[Character - Status - Hidden]

-End of Chapter-