Art could not see, feel, smell, or hear anything, it felt like he was in a void.
Art tried moving around but his body did not seem to respond, he tried talking and opening his mouth, but the body did not move as Art wanted.
"Wake up young man!"
A man slapped Art until he could wake up, soon after enough slaps Art was forced to wake up.
A big man wearing a large iron armor and wearing a broken helmet, the man was covered in blood and his face was stained by blood and dirt.
"Oh good you're alive, we still have a chance to win!"
"To win?"
Art hurriedly looks around him, he was in the middle of a battlefield with thousands of soldiers, and the ground was full of corpses of the blood of the foes and allies.
The man leaped in Infront of Art and picked up a shield on the ground and covered himself and art.
"Magic Projectile incoming! Try to protect yourself now!"
"..Magic?"
Art just woke up and was confused about what was happening, 2 magic homing missiles which struck the man's shield. The man groaned in pain as the shield shattered into pieces, his armor was also damaged by the recoil of the impact.
"Are you okay!?" Art checked the man's condition, it was terrible.
"It's fine!" The man said to Art as he was hiding his pain, a large wound on his chest appeared which were sword marks.
"You're a mage, are you? Please neutralize the enemies before I fully lose my strength.."
"Mage?"
"These savages are invading our Kingdom, we need to neutralize them in order to protect the people!"
Art played along with the man since he has no idea what to do. He looks at the enemy which outnumbered them, their allies were mostly dead and only a few remain while the enemy only lost a small number of soldiers.
"It's hopeless, we have to retreat or call reinforcements."
"No! We can't do that! Our enemies are already here, if we run away they will go directly to the kingdom!"
The man coughed blood as he struggles to hold his sword. Art notices a book on the ground where he originally had woken up, art rushed towards the book and realizes it's the gift Ramiel gave to him.
He held the book and a transparent blue panel appeared.
[Ramiel's Gift (-)]
[A book made by Ramiel, her efforts and wish for you were formed to make this book, the history of the entire universe lies in the book. Due to the contents of the book being an impossible thing to exist, the item cannot be destroyed, modify, or damaged]
"Young man, watch up for that fireball!"
"Where!?"
"Above you!"
Art quickly looks above him, a chair-sized fireball was heading towards him at an extremely fast pace. He covers his head with the book, the fireball exploded and caused a small fire on his hand and the book.
"H-Hot!?"
Art quickly grabbed the soil from the ground and covered his hand from the fire, it was put out immediately, his head remain intact and the book was not damaged.
"Young man are you fine?!"
Art looks at his palms which were burnt from the explosion of the fireball.
"Yeah, I'm fine. But where do we head now?"
"I don't know, we are probably being surrounded already by the enemies and will be captured as Prisoners of War.."
"Okay, before we continue what date is today, and what kingdom are we serving again?"
The man was dumbfounded at Art's question.
"Today is Year 472, Kingdom of Eclipse."
Art opened the book and tried searching for the year and kingdom, Art realizes the first page of the book is the contents of the book being ordered in years.
Art frantically searches for the events that happened in Year 472.
"Found it."
[Year 427, Kingdom of Eclipse: Invasion of the Order of Truth]
[Brief Summary: The invasion of the Order of Truth against the Kingdom of Eclipse was to uncover a secret laboratory under the royal castle.]
[Seeing the future leads to many unfortunate accidents, Ramiel's Gift (-) access has been restricted to open in 30 days.]
"Hey, knight!" Art turns at the injured knight on the rocks as hordes of people were approaching them.
"What?"
"We need to leave now, it's useless we will just die."
"No! We are the first line of defense against those barbarians!" The man tries standing up but fails and lies on the ground again.
"You dumbass! We are one of the only people remaining here, it's a miracle that we are even alive right now!"
"But the Kingdom-"
"We are just the first line of defense, there are 4 more so why are you sacrificing yourself to a battle that has already been decided?"
"You do have a point.."
Art goes to the knight and offers his hand to him.
"Come with me, we will survive this."
The man reached out for his hand and Art grabbed him up, the man could somewhat move.
"Okay, where are we heading?"
Art points at a distance, which is a small cave.
"We are going to that cave, however. We need to be extremely quick with this to avoid being seen by the enemy."
"How so?"
Art grabs the armor and helmet of the corpses of the soldiers from the Order of Truth.
"This."
A few minutes later, Art and the man fully wore the armor of the enemy, they were disguised and it was difficult to guess who is who since the armor covers most of the
body.
Both of them arrive at the cave without being noticed by the enemy, Art hastily grabbed the rocks above the cave and threw them in Infront of the entrance to block the entrance for as long as they can.
"By the way knight, what's your name?"
"Ah, my name is Arch nice to meet you."
"My name is Art Thisera, glad to meet you."
Arch and Art shake their hands and greeted each other.
"By the way Art, that's a unique way of wearing mage clothing. It's my first time seeing a mage dress like you on a battlefield, what is it called?"
"..Unique?"
Art inspects himself and he was still wearing the white tuxedo he always wore in his work.
"It's called a White Tuxedo, not really great for combat you know."
"Still, it looks cool!" Arch happily told Art.
"Is your mana empty right now?"
"Mana?"
"Mana is the thing you need to use skills and other things no?"
"Ah, yes it is.." Art awkwardly answers Arch.
"Did you perhaps forget, I mean you were sleeping on the battlefield. You must have gotten amnesia or something similar maybe?"
"Yes..?"
"Okay.. first you need to shout 'Status' to check your mana."
Art's eyes widen at the word Status, it's a term only used in the game.
'Am I in the game I created? No, that can't be.'
"Status."
A panel screen appeared in front of Art.
[Art Thisera: Level 1]
[Title: -]
[Status Points: 0]
[STR:7 DEX:9 DEF: 5 MAG:27 MANA:32]
[Passives: Ramiel's Gift (-)]
[Actives: R.E.Q.U.I.E.M (EX)]
"Requiem..."
"What's Rek-iei-um?" Arch stares at Art in confusion.
"It's Requiem, it means to rest."
"Sounds like a bizarre skill name, is it unique?"
"In a way, it is technically unique."
Arch went from confused to excited after hearing what Art said.
"Is it powerful?"
"Not really." Art sighs as he reads the skill description, it was the same as before.
While they were talking, some soldiers of the Order of Truth found the cave they were in a bit too suspicious, they decides to destroy it with magic.
"Well, the enemy is here." Arch worriedly says as he grabs his sword at them.
"Kill those bastards!" The soldiers charged at them as the mages behind them were firing magic projectiles at Arch and Art.
"We can't fight them, enter the cave immediately Arch!"
Arch holds off the 4 soldiers trying to kill them.
"But you won't have any shields!"
"Just go! I will use my ability, you will be dead weight if you stay here!"
Arch pushes the soldiers by grabbing a soldier and throwing them at the enemy.
"Okay! Don't die!"
Arch runs towards the cave as Art is left alone with 14 soldiers about to kill him.
"I surrender." Art drops his weapon and raised his hands.
The soldiers surrounds him and points their weapons at him, along with mages with their staves pointed as fireballs were formed and in standby.
"There are no benefits of letting you live." A soldier with bigger and brighter armor goes in front of the other soldiers.
"Are you the leader of this squad?"
"Yes, I am the leader." The leader unsheathes his sword and points it at Art's neck.
"What value do you have to make you live longer?" The leader shows murderous intent, which makes Art shiver in a cold sweat.
"I have the info you guys need."
The leader laughs at him and cuts the side of his neck, giving him a small wound on his neck.
"Cut the bullshit, you know nothing don't you?"
"You're looking for the underground lab under the castle, you guys need what is inside right?" Art smirks and walks around the leader, not caring about the sword that was pointed at him.
"It seems you have the information we need, tell us now or you will not see the day of light again."
"Alright, I'll tell you."
Art got closer to the leader and turns to face the inside of the cave.
"They were doing this project using magic.."
The soldier became more cautious and pointed their weapons higher.
"They called this project..."
Art raises his hands upwards and pointed at the roof of the cave.
"Requiem."
Art snaps his fingers, the soldiers instantly becoming dizzy and started to lose balance.
"You.. bastard!"
The soldiers charged at Art, the mages tried shooting the fireballs but it exploded and shot their own allies due to them becoming dizzy and sleepy.
[Requiem (EX) has been used.]
The leader shouts "Capture that bastard!" before all of them collapsed on the floor.
'They are all asleep right now, I need to find Arch within 100 seconds or things might turn bad.'