-PU HA HA HA HA HA!!! HE DOESN´T EVEN HAVE THE TITLE OF HEROE!! GE HA HA HA HA.
The prince burst into a laugh while pointing me whit his hand.
-H-How could this be? Said Samanta.
-Hey, does this ever happened before? Asked a wizard to another.
-He doesn´t have the title of hero, Did the summoning failed at some point?
-Why is his card black?
-What will the king do?
The entire room was filled whit confusion from what they heard, I didn´t have the title of "Hero" that the others wielded, and no one heard of the class "Essence Recolector" before.
The king seemed submerged in a sea of thoughts, his gaze became fatal as he looked at me.
As all of that was happening, I noticed that below de general info, there was a section called: "Skills" "Passive Skills" and "Blessings".
Just the sections of passive skills and blessings had something written.
Passive Skills:
[Recolect essence] [Essence asimilation]
Blessings:
[Shadow of the dead king]
I decided not to say a thing about the weirdly disturbing blessing, without a doubt, something bad was going to happen.
Just, perfect...
I wanted to tear my hair apart for the horrible situation I found myself in, but showing weakness to armed strangers was too stupid, so, biting my lip until it bleeds, I kept my composure, and whit all the will I had left, showed a firm and serious expression.
If I can´t impress them whit the card, I´ll have to do it whit something else.
-I´m so sorry for not being what you hoped your majesty, I´m sure that the surprise brought out the best of all, although, if your highness allows it, I would like to make a question.
-...
Everyone in the room was stunned, undoubtedly, they never expected a person from another world to talk in a medieval manner.
I have played a lot of videogames and read lots of stories referent to these times, I believe I can dissimulate well enough to gain their liking.
-Gon on, mister Roberto.
Great! He acknowledged me! No la cagues (don't fuck it up), me!
-Why you invoked us, majesty?
- You were invoked to defeat the demon lord and save this world. If you wish it, you can make this world your new home; Or once you have defeated the demon lord, the kingdom will grant you the necessary help to gather the summoning items and return you to your homeworld.
You will stay at the castle for now, and tomorrow morning all of you will give me your answer, it is hard to admit, but we brought you all here to war we cannot win alone, and I am truly sorry for that, but desperate times demands desperate measures and the threat becomes bigger for the people of the kingdom, I just did what it needed to be done as the king.
Did what you needed? I don´t give a crap, you kidnapped me fucker! Summoning items?! Are those the mounds of ash from the surroundings?
I also wanted to ask if other kingdoms cooperated to slay the demon lord, but I wasn't sure that now it was the best time to make those questions; So I just kept the actual conversation.
-If it´s not a bother, your highness, Could you tell me which are the summoning items?
-I will leave that task to my daughter, Samanta.
By hearing her name, the lady of amethyst hair took a step forward.
-I´ll explain it to you, Sir Roberto.
To the north, in the frosted kingdom of "Raphil", the lord of the dead awaits on his castle of ice, his eye is one of the summoning items, but to reach it, you must defeat his army of frozen undead and weaken the lord just enough to pull off his eye, just those with an unbreakable mind shall deliver the item back to the kingdom without being corrupted by the cursed eye. Then, in the "Sacred forest" of the high elves, the sap of the sacred tree is precise, the pride of the elves is the highest among the races, and they are very protective whit their tree since it´s the one who guarantees them eternal youth. To the south, in "Aquaris", the sea kingdom of the serpent man, you must get the fang of the elder dragon, but in this case, you can either fight the dragon or negotiate whit the king of the sea. To the west, the animal mountains of "Shkhara", home of the beast-man, in the greatest volcano "Posets", the heart of the guardian golem must be extirped from his metallic chest. And finally, a summoner from the Mosaic family.
Holly shit that was long.
-Why does the summoner has to be from your family, princess? I asked.
-That is because our family has the characteristic of dimensional invocations, unlike other summoners, all thanks to our lineage of heroes. Answered Ana, interrupting her big sister.
-You seem to be blessed by the heavens princesses, it sounds incredible.
-Hmph, you can bet about it.
She replied to me while her modest chest inflated whit a confident smirk.
Great, then, I need to recollect 4 items incredibly rare, in extremely dangerous places, against absurd creatures like dragons and golems, just fucking fantastic.
Also, a lineage of heroes? That means there were others before us, and they decided to live here instead of returning to their world... I kinda get it. A world with real magic and swords seems more interesting than the normal world, I guess any nerd would love to be in my place right now, and I would be more than pleased to make that exchange.
I prepared myself for a headache.
Okay, whatever, it´s time to act.
I bowed in one leg and put down my head.
-Wise king of Lafonía, if it´s not too much daring, I´d like to make a petition.
I caught the full attention of the room with my impression of a medieval knight.
-...Please, stand up hero, you don´t need to bow to me, speak your wish.
Perfect, I´ve got his sympathy, that was easy.
I raised my body but my head was still looking down.
-Thank you, your highness, as you can see, I don´t deserve being called a hero like the people at my sides, that's why I won't be capable of being part of the defensive forces of humanity, which is why, if your heart allows it, I´d like to stay in the castle and work as another servant, at least until the demon lord is defeated and the possibility of recollecting the items is possible.
All the members of the royal family had their eyes wide open, above them all the king, it looked like never, even in their wildest dreams, would have imagined a being from another world work as another servant of the castle.
-....
A large and heavy silence came, the bet was done, and I couldn´t waste more time.
If I get the job, at least I´ll have shelter and pay, it was better to take the risk of requesting something from the king after getting his sympathy than after getting his confidence on the first day.
-Sir Roberto, you and the heroes can stay at the castle as long as you need it, there is no need for you to work because of our selfishness. Replied the king with a painful expression.
Just accept old man! Shit! I need to make another push!
Once again I bowed before the king, making my knee hit the ground with force to remark my fake strong will.
AAAAHHHH! That hurt! You will pay for my injuries old man!
I bit my lip with force to endure the pain of my knee, but the truth was that my action was even more stupid, now my lip was bleeding with a burning feeling.
Trying to ignore my bad actions, I breathe in deep and dramatic, and with a serious voice I said:
-Your highness! I feel deeply touched by your kindness, but I cannot simply receive your hospitality just like that, the mores of my country would not allow such thing, for that I ask you, No! I beg you! Let me work as one of your servants and earn the bread as the god's command.
OOOHHH!!* Clap* Clap* Clap*
People started to clap and shout in my favor, some of them said "What a great will" or "That must be a marvelous country", now that I had the support of the masses, the probability of being rejected was minimum.
I made an effort to emphasize my country and force him to accept, if not, then that would be like throwing dirt on the false mores of my country, and I doubt that the king would like to do that, especially when he doesn´t know if the country of the other heroes is the same as mine or not.
I lied and exaggerated a lot, but now I had the winning hand, I couldn´t stop a small grin on my face after knowing that.
Nice, just give the job and let´s finish this, my leg is starting to tire.
The king stood up from his throne and looked at me.
-I have felt your strong conviction, sir Roberto, from now on you will work under the capacitation of the head maid, you can call this castle your home as long as you want, and your salary will be the same as the royal servants!
FUCK YHEAAA!
I raised from the ground and face the king with my right hand over my chest and my left arm behind my hip with my back straight.
-I will do everything I can to not disappoint your kindness, majesty!
-I know you won´t sir, head maid, take sir Roberto and the heroes to their rooms. Tomorrow morning their training will start, I count on the assistance of the "Golden tree" to make everything goes as planned.
General Fardan and a maid took a step forward and bowed before the king at the same time.
-Yes! Said both.
And with that, the royal family started to leave the throne room, I exchanged gazes with Samanta for some seconds, she gave me a warm smile and wave her hand in farewell, I raised mine and returned the gesture.
Hm, that was a little weird, but I don't complain, being an acquaintance of a princess can be very useful.
I didn´t notice before, but there was a weak light leaking above my head; When I looked at the ceiling, a glass dome showed a full moon and a starry sky.
Must be late eh.
Returning my attention to the head maid, who turned to be the cat maid of before, her stabby eyes were almost killing me. That pissed me off a little, so I returned the menacing gaze with the coldest of my expressions.
That startled her for a second, but she regained herself immediately, we kept that deadly competition of threatening gazes for some time.
-Uhm... excuse me.
Before the sudden voice, we both turned to find the origin with our deadly gazes.
-IIIHII*
A weird noise came out of the mouth of Akram at the same time his body started trembling with waterworks.
-S-s-s-shouldn´t t-t-t-take u-us to-tot-to our r-r-r-r-rooms?
With all his will force, Akram managed to let out some words from the nod of his throat and more or less make a sentence, this puts both the maid and me back to the real world.
-Cogom* Sorry, heroes, please, follow me over here.
The cat maid cleaned returned to her serene and noble expression in a blink of an eye.
Oh c´mon, you're just as fake as me.
I also returned to a blank face, now that the theater was over there was no further necessity to keep pretending.
We all nodded and followed the maid.