"WELCOME, DEAR HERO, TO THE KINGDOM OF THE GODDESS OF LIGHT, SILVABELL....!"
Those were the words that graced his ears as soon as he regained some sense of self.
Upon finally opening his eyes, he was met with a massive cathedral like throne room.
And sitting upon said throne, was a man that look d like he was in his late 40s.
You could tell just by looking at his scar covered face, that he was once a great warrior.
His head rested on his fist, his eerie yellow eyes leveling an uninterested look down at Puck's form.
He wore ornamental black and gold armor with clawed gauntlets.
A white furred cape was loosely draped over his shoulders and a golden crown sat lazily on his long greying black hair.
He looked old and long past the age to pick up a sword, but the aura that he was admitting....
It didn't befit a king.
No.
It was like Puck was looking at a old wolf who had yet to lose its fangs.
Puck was soon dragged from his thoughts by a young blonde haired girl in her early to mid teens.
She wore a outfit fit for a high priestess.
He never thought that he'd see someone pull off an all white dress, but Puck had to admit that there shouldn't be anyone related to the church wearing such revealing clothing.
"Greetings great warrior! I know you must be incredibly confused at the moment, but could you please do us the favor of saying the word 'status'." She says in rather silky and motherly voice.
This completely caught Puck off guard.
"Huh, so they know what a status is here....makes sense I guess." He thought to himself before he let out a small sigh as he stood to his feet.
"Of course. Status." Puck said politely, it was probably a good idea not to provoke the old wolf sitting on the throne by being impolite.
At least until he knew what his status looked like that is.
Puck eyed up the knights cladded in white plate armor standing against each wall as his new status appeared before his eyes.
~Status~
Name: Ray Wolfblade
Age: 18
Lvl: 10
Race: Human (?)
Job: ????? Hero (Rank: Legendary)
Status: Prematurely Awakened
Class Type: Warrior
Rank: SSS
Str: 250
Int: 250
Dex: 250
HP: 1000/1000
Mana: 1000/1000
Exp: 0/10,000
Current Titles: Hero of Legends, Otherworlder, Blessed by the God of #$&!?, Hero or Villain
Sills: Berserker's Rage, Nie Immortal, Regeneration, Monstrous Trance, Sanity's End, Black Energy, One Man Army, Wrath of a Titan, Whale stomach, Meat Head, Insanity's Blessing, Inspection, Hero's Heavenly Body
🔒 All skills will be locked until either lvl 25 or the status of "Fully Awakened" is achieved. 🔒
(If you want to know what each skill does, then head back up to Part 20: Questionable Skills and Ideas, they will all be explained there.)
~Status~
Puck stumbled backwards at the amount of skills he had at level 10.
Plus the fact that he already somehow went through a class change?
He honestly couldn't tell if this kid he was possessing was a hero or some sort of demon at this point!
"The hell's wrong with this kid?! Most of his skills has something to do with insanity! The fuck do you even need to do in order to become this fucked up in the head?! Wait a sec....they can't see this, can they?" Puck gulped slightly, taking a chance to glance up to see the priestess's reaction to his status.
But, much to Puck's surprise, the woman had a satisfied, and what could only be described as a pleased, look on her face.
She turned to the king on the throne while gesturing to Puck's body.
"Your majesty, I present you our hero! Ray Wolfblade! The summoning was a complete success!" She exclaims, causing a round of cheers to erupt from the gathered knights around the room.
While everyone else around the throne room was celebrating the summoning of a new hero, Puck couldn't help but catch the king's gaze.
Which was a huge mistake on his part.
The King's cold gaze quite literally pierced through his soul.
It was the gaze of someone logical and calculating.
Someone who was deep in thought and making a judgement that could make or break a kingdom.
Puck couldn't blame him though, it was his job after all.
And seeing half of Puck's skills would be enough to accuse him of being in league with, or being the Demon King himself!
Despite all this, Puck couldn't help but gulp.
Not only was he trapped in a new world with a impossible mission ahead of him, but it seems like even his skills were against him!
Hopefully the King doesn't kill him before the Demon King has the chance to....
Puck watched as time seemed to freeze.
The priestess had fallen to her knees and was crying tears of joy while praying.
The knights all seemed to be giving the mages that did the summoning ritual pats on their backs.
And the King was still frozen giving Puck a spine chilling glare.
It sent shivers up his spine despite the fact that he couldn't move.
~System~
The Tutorial will now begin....
~System~
Before Puck could question what the meaning of this system notification was, he was suddenly bombarded with flashing images and world seeming to speed up around him.
It was a montage of what happened after he was summoned, and his brain was forced to absorb all the information at once!
It was like trying to watch a movie at x10 speed while your brain was forced to absorb every little thing at the same speed!
By the time everything returned to normal, Puck had already fallen to his knees and was emptying the contents of his stomach onto the ground.
After throwing up his guts onto the ground and cursing the system under his breath, Puck finally noticed the fact that the marbled floor of the throne room had changed.
"Damn, is this really all you can do? I didn't expect our new hero to be so fucking weak! Maybe I should be the one to enter the battlefield after all?"
A deep and unbelievably gruff voice suddenly met Puck's ears, causing his head to snap up, only for Puck to come face to face with the King himself.
He was shirtless, revealing a body littered with scared and well trained muscles.
The lower walk of his body were covered by a pair of worn and ripped pants.
He was also barefoot.
Puck finally noticed the wooden training sword clutched in his grip and the destroyed training dummies littering the ground around them.
Then it finally all hit him at once.
He winced as the memories of the last few weeks all came crashing into his brain like a deer stepping in front of a bullet train!
This bastard in front of him wasn't the king, but his twin brother, Edgar, and he had been training with him for the past few days after it was found out that Puck was only lvl 10.
Upon checking his status, Puck thought he was going to throw up again.
~Status~
Name: Ray Wolfblade
Age: 18
Lvl: 35
Race: Human (?)
Job: ????? Hero (Rank: Legendary)
Status: Prematurely Awakened
Class Type: Warrior
Rank: SSS
Str: 8750
Int: 8750
Dex: 8750
HP: 35000/35000
Mana: 35000/35000
Exp: 10,370,025/30,000,000
Current Titles: Hero of Legends, Otherworlder, Blessed by the God of #$&!?, Hero or Villain
Sills: Berserker's Rage, Immortal (Hidden), Super Regeneration (Hidden), Monstrous Trance, Sanity's End, Black Energy, One Man Army, Wrath of a Titan, Whale stomach, Meat Head, Insanity's Blessing, Inspection, Hero's Heavenly Body, Conviction, Ungodly Adaptation, Martial Prowess, Martial Prowess: Adaptive Martial Arts, Hide Status
~Status~
"What the....?"
~System~
The tutorial is now over.
~System~
"Yeah no shit!"
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"As expected of someone as broken as a hero.... Fucking main protagonist plot armor." Puck thought to himself as he sat in the room that was prepared for him in advance.
The room itself wasn't anything special....
If you were used to extravagant shit that is!
This one room alone was bigger than his entire apartment!
And the shit that littered the room was fit for royalty! And it even had running water!
Which wasn't anything special to him, but to the people of this world that was like owning your own private jet!
But that was still besides the point.
Puck finally took the time to read through his status and it was, to say the least....
Absolutely.
Unbelievably.
Completely.
Undeniably....
Fucking broken!
Like, he knew his status was bad because he was a Gacha class, but c'mon!
This just wasn't fair!
The fact that he only learned a few new skills despite the fact that he leveled up 25 times was enough to give him some peace of mind.
Though the skills that evolved were still a bit....
"But those skills are still fucking broken! This stupid shitty broken system! If you wanted to make a broken protagonist, at least make it balanced! I don't think I could die, even if I wanted to!" Puck exclaimed, almost pulling out his hair as he thought back to the time he inspected the old monster they call a king's status.
He was level 99 and all his stats were ungodly high, each easily exceeding 900k+.
Not to mention his skills....
Yeah, he's glad that he's trapped here in this dungeon world of his.
And the fact that there are multiple people in this world with statuses like that....
Made Puck rethink everything that he thought he knew about the world of awakeners until now!
Sure, with the way he's leveling up and the current situation with his stats, he'll eventually beat that old monster and his lvl 95 twin brother.
But that's not the problem!
The problem was the fact that, even with their absolutely insane stats, they still weren't enough to fight the Demon King's army!
The highest knight in this kingdom's lvl is around 60 and the lowest level in the Demon King's army is around 80....
That's a huge power difference, but it made sense.
Why else would they need to summon a hero from another world?
But something just didn't feel right....
If this kingdom was able to summon a hero from another world....
Wouldn't the Demon King be able to do the same thing?
The thought of having to fight someone like himself made a shiver run up his spine, but the head priestess, which he had learned was actually the saintess, had reassured him that the Demon King was too proud to do something like that.
But why?
Why would the Demon King sit back and let them raise a hero that more than likely grow to defeat him?
"Unless....?" Puck took up a thoughtful stance, closing his eyes for a moment before he finally let out a sigh of defeat, flopping back onto his bed. "Eh, fuck it! This paranoia is killing me.... Is this the effect of the 'Sanity's End' skill?"
He couldn't help but ponder this as he quickly drifted off to sleep.
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End Chapter 20~