"Are they really the heroes?" said a fat and grumpy noble from the back.
"Finally, we will be saved!" said a female noble.
"Now the demon king's rule will finally come to an end!!" said a young noble with grey hair and golden eyes.
The atmosphere inside the hall was of joy and relief. That they will finally be freed from the tyranny of a..... demon king? I grasped this much from the whispers of the nobles. While some nobles were doubting whether we were the real heroes. The whispering sound continued until the king himself raised his voice.
"Oh! Brave heroes from another world. We welcome you all to the world of Noxus. I am the current king of the Great Archaemenian empire, Lucas Augustus Archaemenian." said the king.
'This old medieval period monarchy system is giving me chills' thought I.
"You all have been brought to this world for the sake of humanity. For a decade after the Demon Queen of Apocalypse, Velverosa woke from her slumber, and the world fell from its balance. There was uproar and death all over Noxus. All the races in the world suffered because of demons. Then the Pope suggested the ancient ritual of summoning the heroes to end the tyranny of the Demon Queen." said the King, Lucas.
"You all are humanity's last hope to end the demon queen's torture. We all ask you to help us defeat the demon queen."
All the gazes in the hall fell on us, expecting to get an answer. We were in a tight spot about what should we do until Ms. Frederica broke the silence.
"No, we can't do that, Your Majesty. I cannot let my students face any danger-
"We will help because there's no other way. We cannot go back home.", said Sen.
"Yes, I'm with Sen. If we cannot go home then we should complete the purpose we were bought to this world," said Ichika, one of the girls who got summoned with us.
And slowly the whole class agreed about saving the world.
'Huh... Why the hell are they accepting the deal? Can't they see it's a trap. They are gonna use us as mere pawns to decrease the number of demons.' thought I.
"But I cannot let you guys face danger. You all don't even know about the dangers lying in this world," said Ms. Frederica.
" O lady please do help us. Would you not lend a hand if you know that humanity's existence is on sake?", said the king.
"Wait!"
"You cannot fool us like this. Saying that humanity is on sake won't work. What will we get from saving humanity?" said I.
The king's expression became twisted. Sweat started slithering from his forehead. He might not have anticipated that someone could see through him while everyone was panicking.
"You may ask. I as the king of this place will provide you with anything you want. Be it wealth, power, knowledge, nobility anything you want." said the king.
"I want to go back home. Can you send me?"
" I am sorry but we cannot do that, it's in the goddess' rules," said the king.
*sigh*
"Do whatever you want" said I.
"O heroes! I know that you all might be tired from the summoning but before you all can go and rest in your respective rooms, we have to check you all's strength. Please follow the first princess." said the king.
"Please follow me," said Anastasia.
We all followed her to another room, smaller than the previous one. The room had a stage-like platform in front with stairs going from both sides on it. A table was kept in the middle of the platform with a large translucent ball on it. There were a group of people around it too, who will maybe help us all.
" Please come and put your hands on the crystal ball linewise. IT will determine your strength along with other factors" said the princess.
"First me" said someone.
"Name: Dodo Arata
Race: Transmigrator/Human
Class: Hero
STR: 100
INT: 55
MP:120"
" Oh! Heroes are really miles apart from normal humans." said the princess.
The power checking continued for some time. The people around wrote the specific details on a piece of paper about each hero. Suddenly the princess shouted,
" Strength 500 and 200 Magic power!!"
'Oh! that's Sen. He really rocked it off. A strength of 500. Truly commendable.' thought I.
Then after some time,
" Magic power of 600!" shouted the princess again.
'Oh! this time it's someone else. Umm... I suppose she's Asuka..... Souhei Asuka. I think I should really remember my own classmate's names from now on. Oh next is my turn. Let's how strong I am.' thought I.
" Akihiko Nakamura..... Class- Monster Tamer! Strength 10 and magic power 10?" said the princess in a depressing voice.
"Looks like there's some trash too among the heroes," said a person in the back.
I left the platform not caring about the people's remarks and got near Sen And waited for the checking to end.
"Good for you Sen. You got some incredible strength," said I to Sen.
" Shut up! I don't want to talk to people like you. You are like a normal villager. Truly trash." said Sen.
Looks like people show their true forms in your hard times. Not even best friends stay with you.
Well, the checking came to an end and we were called to have dinner in the ding hall as it was late. The students sat with their friends and talked happily as they ate while I sat in the corner eating alone. Not even Sen. He was busy with people around buttering him, trying to gain his favour as he was the strongest among us.
'Hope so that the king hasn't added poison to it after I argued with him', thought I.
After the dinner, we were guided to our respective rooms.
'At least, I got a personal fluffy bed. Now I can finally sleep soundly."
In the middle of night my eyes opened to find something terrible in my room.
"Huh!"