Yes, it was a new world. One that you would see in a fantasy game, but obviously, it probably can't be a fantasy game. To be honest, I'm really questioning a lot of this, but it's better to walk into a situation with a calm demeanor than to be scared out of my mind and acting like it's okay. Even though it's really not. I looked around, I was in the middle of a huge plaza-like place, almost like a village or a town. When you look up into the sky you see a woman staring down at you, or does that happen to everyone?
"Hellooo?" I look up at the woman and then look around, it seems there was nobody else speaking to me. At the same time every person or should I say being was standing in place like a statue. I look back up and see the woman who looked more grumpy than happy to see that I didn't believe she was real. "I am a real goddess, and I'm here to guide you through this world!" I question her "Why would I need your help? This is like a game in the human world correct? It's your typical beginner town." The goddess laughs at my sudden comment.
I suppose she was bewildered by my thinking of this town, maybe I was wrong. "Yes, it may be your typical beginner town but there are deep secrets that lie in the ground you so eagerly are ready to step on." I raise an eyebrow at the lady's words "Oh? What can those same secrets be? Like a chest or something?" The goddess shakes her head and grabs onto my arm from her high position. She teleports both of us in front of a locked room but in the room were noises of sexual intercourse, something I never had or wanted to experience. The sounds of women crying and the squelches and moans fill my ears.
I wanted to go deaf right at the moment, I cover my ears and kneel down into a curling position. The goddess notices my curling position and teleports us back to where he had first started, in the middle of the town. "Look I'm sorry if that struck a nerve but you must find out what the people behind those doors are and you need to kill them off, quickly, that is your first mission into this world and saving it from its demise." I sigh and shake the nerves and fear off my body and my mind. "Okay, I get the big deal, I just have to save the world like your regular isekai protag." The woman smiles and claps her hands, just like that I had a different set of clothing on me.
It was a light flowing dress and brown thigh-high boots. The dress was complemented with a black corset and black gloves. It was a style, I'll give her that much for the design. The goddess huffs at me and punches my arm. I got a closeup on her face, unlike the white goddess whose name I forgot she had blonde hair, tanned skin, and blue eyes. She could've passed as an American who was simply very pretty. Her bust size was average and she wore a nice dress with a slit that came down the sides from the hip to the floor. This made the dress less constricting on her.
"Wouldn't there be something like a system menu or anything?" I asked the goddess who was staring at god knows what. "Hmm, I guess you can call it a system, you have the ability to change your stats and which skills you need and don't need. You also have the ability to store whatever you want and also have the ability to look at other people's own stats and skills." I shrug, it's pretty typical of a game to have these basics but they're less undermining to its own value when you think about it.
The goddess explains everything to me, how the town works, the bosses, and the guilds. Everything to the king himself she has taught me in such a short amount of time. "Ugh my time is up, I'll be going now. Let me know if anything bad happens and I'll be right there to help." I nod my head to her statement and just like that the people started to move as if nothing happened to them or time itself just stopped.
I walk around the town and see all types of souvenirs, they all looked pretty good and I'm sure my brother would love to hear about this. The people or should I say the beings were all very weird-looking. Some taller than others, some with big noses, some with three boobs. Honestly, it was a cluster of different species just co-existing with one another. The thought of it isn't bad but if I had to kill two random people, how bad really is this town.
As I was walking around looking at different stores I bump into a small girl, who had a ripped cape over her head a pair of shackles on her ankles. I see why the goddess told me I had to kill those guys. The town had supported slavery over their own race and others. She looks up at me in shock from her positions and fastly gets up before getting on her knees and apologizing "I'm so so so SO sorry, I didn't mean to do anything I'm just really clumsy." I laugh at her being scared of me and told her "It's fine! I wouldn't have gotten hurt anyways but showing kindness is enough."
The girl had brown hair that was cut short and had fair skin with green eyes. At first glance you could mistake her for an NPC, it seems whoever created this world had been really in touch with an MMORPG that I wrote, some of these little interactions to start a side quest that'll help in the long run is pretty useful. I ask the girl "What's your name?" She smiled and blushed "It's Cassandra but you can call me Cassie!" "That's an adorable name for a girl like you, my name is Ishtar," I told her my real name, although it isn't a smart thing to do, it's best to gain the townspeople's trust than to choose not to.
The girl looked at me in awe. "You have the name of a goddess! The goddess we in this continent worship is the goddess Lenia, the people over in the next continent worship Ishtar and over in the last continent they worship the white lady." It seems as though each place represents the difficulty of the plain, it seems beginner town is definitely the easiest town considering it's one of the goddesses that I didn't know, but the white lady must be the one that found me attractive. I nod my head and she walks me all over the town getting me to buy her a few snacks. As we were sitting in a diner I asked her about the room the guide had shown me from before. "Oh, that place…" She looked scared, fear plagued her face and she started to shiver.
I reassure her "Don't worry I won't tell a single soul what's happening to you." She nods her head and gulps before the waiter had set the food onto the table and she takes a big gulp of water. "As you can see the town supports slavery, but it has to be fair, you have to sign up for it," I nod my head and she continues "I signed up for it because my family was in huge debt to the town's mayor, but it all went down the drain when he started to…" The poor girl looks around and whispers into my ears "He had started to breed me with other animals, not species, animals, he wanted to create a new mix of a species." I was in shock, if this continues what other species would he breed with her. I asked the girl her age before anything "What's your age? And don't lie to me about this please, for your sake."
The girl had fear in her eyes before saying "I'm 14 years old…" I felt like storming to that room and cutting off that man's penis so I can stuff it up his ass. How disgusting for him to even try and breed a new species using a minority. I felt like crying for the poor girl that I did start crying. "I feel so sorry sweetie, is there anything I can do to help?" She smiled weakly, "No not really, I signed up for this to help my family, I don't want him coming after my own family." She starts to eat her food. I sigh heavily and lay my head on the table before saying "I'm going to kill him." She coughed up the food she was eating and looked at me in disbelief "You can't! Who else will help pay me, all my efforts of trying to cope with it would be down the drain! You simply cannot, I don't need your help anyway!" I laugh "You don't need my help but you can't even pay for the damn kid's meal? It costs 2 bronze, even I have that much money from simply taking up coins from off the street."
She blushes and looks down before she starts weeping and crying. Oh shit, I didn't mean to make her cry. "Sorry, I didn't mean to make you cry I was probably really rude saying that to you." She nods her head before wiping her tears. "It's okay, it's just, you made me realize that my situation is pretty helpless. I'll just have to accept your help." I smile and shake her hand and then all of a sudden time stops. It seems the goddess has come back. "You finally activated the side quest! Eugh I was getting bored up there." I sigh and fold my arms. "I need money, weapons, armor, magic skills, guild points and I also need to build my LVL." She smiles before teleporting me to a different room. It was a room full of blackness and then 4 boxes appear in front of me, all labeled different weapons. "Well first you have to start with what weapon class you want to use, there's sword, lance, axe, and then magic." It's pretty short of a list. She sighs, "There are also supplementary classes like archer and healer, but also a pretty rare one is being a fighter." I smile, that seems a bit bigger. "How many can I choose?" The goddess replies "You can use two main classes and one supplementary class."
It's a pretty good weapon system, it gives the player some room for flexibility with what they want. "Does this extend to other people as well, like characters and such??? Wait, is this even an actual game or did you legitimately teleport me to another world and then integrated a system to guide me so I don't get off track or confused." The goddess smiles keenly before putting her head on my shoulder. "You're pretty smart, and yeah you're correct," she walks around and sits on a chair that magically appeared "This is not a game, you were teleported to a real world with beings that aren't programmed to do your bidding." As you can see, I only put in the system so that you can believe its game, but real things are happening to these real beings." I had to think about this now before I pick anything else, I was now even more remorseful because this isn't just some wicked storytelling. This is an actual, real person, telling me this. This truly happened to them. Poor Cassandra. "Now enough talking and choose what you want." I sigh and choose both the sword class and the magic class. It seems both the sword class and the magic classes have a skill chooser. The magic class has Grimoire magic, "The use of magic using a book increases offense but lowers defense", our innate magic "The use of magic using your own body, increases offense but has a set requirement of SP." It seems as though grimoire magic is better than innate magic by default for me. I chose grimoire magic and it granted me a case of 5 books, I had to choose 3 out of these 5 to use. The books were labeled Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, and light. I chose Light, Fire, and water. These can probably be mixed into holy fire and holy water.
"Hmm, good choice." With the wave of her hand, the rest of the books had disappeared and now it was only the sword skills now. There were three choices, short sword "A short sword will help you on your way as an assassin, great for offense terrible for defense.", A medium sword "A medium sword is for people that want to have both defense and offense, though it's a bit pricey.", A long sword "Great for defense but a bit lackluster in the offense. Can pair greatly with grimoire magic." I thought about this as the lady looks keenly at me, I never got her name as well. Why do people even find me pretty??? Like women, in general, find me attractive or adoring in their eyes. To me, I'm just a regular person.
I pick the long sword class, I chose the long sword because it would pair greatly with grimoire magic, which would increase both my offense and my defense, making me have an equilibrium. "Oh, not bad, not bad at all. In the human world, did you know how to use a sword?" I replied to her "Yeah, my brother does however, he taught me how to be flexible with my body even though I was paralyzed when I turned 19." Over the years my sickness had started to take a toll on my body, and as a got older it got worse and worse. Over time I felt like I couldn't move a muscle from my waist down.
The goddess nods her head and shows me another set of options. "Would you prefer a thick long sword or a thin long sword?" I suppose a thick would make me a tank, but a thin would make me more on the offensive. "I pick the thin long sword obviously." The goddess hums and then she shows me the supplementary classes. "Which one do you want?" I want the fighters class obviously, it's the best one yet. I pick the fighters class and already I had completed choosing my weapon choices. The goddess then teleports me back to where I was before. "At a later date, we will extend on ways to get you some money, housing, armor, and especially get you some LVL, in the meanwhile do some of the smaller quests for a bit of pocket change." Before she could continue time I ask her a final question. "Well, what happened to my weapons?" She smiles and says "Look at your waist." I see they are already on a belt making them easy to carry and the belt fits. Before I can ask her a name and say thanks she had already disappeared. The time started to move again