As the light faded, I felt two people holding onto me. Opening my eyes, all I see is an unfamiliar room, yet the symbols are familiar. Hearing soft groans, ones much much close as two pairs of hands were gripping onto me.
"Everyone alright?" I merely asked, surprisingly getting grunts with 'I wanna throw up'.
I sat Scarlett and Artem down so their stomachs can settle down. I gave a bow to the person in front of us, before checking on everyone.
What seemed forever, everyone was feeling better and finally noticed we weren't at school anymore. "Alex… What the hell is going on??" a voice questioned making me look over to a muscular dude.
"Elijah, Do you expect me to know? I'm just making sure you're all alright to move about and around." I responded with sarcasm.
"Well you did bow to that person…" he mumbled.
"It's quite obvious that person is some sort of royalty because of the crown." I sighed before standing up, confirming everyone's well-being.
"Are you all done getting settled?" The said person in question asked with a deep calm voice, making myself turn around.
A male in his 30's with golden blonde hair cut to most likely fit the current style, the clearest blue eyes that makes you wanna fly, a tanned skin indicating he's been outside longer, with most likely a muscular build underneath the clothes. An oriental crown sat on his head.
"Yes, our apologies for this type of action." I responded with a bow once more. "We would be more than respectful."
"That is fine, you had just went through an unfamiliar circle, causing you to gain motion sickness." He replied with ease.
"Um, where exactly are we?" Our teacher asked, I glanced over to see him standing, also bowing.
"You are in the Viterra Empire, in a world called Valor. I am the emperor, Malachi K. Alistair Viterra, We have summoned you here to explore and rid of a current predicament." The Emperor announced.
"Huh?" Mr. Harris was dumbfounded.
"Are we to defeat a demon lord?!" An excited voice asked, I immediately knew who it was.
"No, the demon lord had already been vanquished by the first summoned hero almost 4 centuries ago. We refer to him as the Legendary Hero of Viterra Kingdom, when Viterra was once a kingdom until 2 centuries ago." His majesty explained before continuing. "We have summoned you to deal with the sixth realm that had recently awakened 100 years ago, we had sent our own best soldiers, they have yet to return."
"There are 5 realms; Radiant Sanctum for heavenly beings, Abyss Sanctum for the demonic beings, Verdant Veil Sanctum for the forest folks, Arcane Expanse Sanctum for the Beast and oceanic beings." The woman beside the man explained, I looked over to see she was wearing the empress's crown.
"We have named this 6th realm, Twilight Dominion. One of our people took a peak and everything was that of the setting sun with shades of the darkness." His majesty gripped his hands. "They have mentioned otherworldly beings taking residence in it, ones we are unfamiliar with."
"Otherworldly?" Mr. Harris asked.
"It was described as cosmic, we may have now explored more to this world, however the concepts of certain things are still freshly new to us. The demon folk and Angel folk that had been visiting the town of Nightshade, did give some insight. They seem to be not from here." A young man explained, he stood beside the emperor wearing the prince's version of the crown.
"I have heard of games that have similar descriptions…" A classmate of mine mumbled.
'Please tell me it's not what I think it is.' I thought to myself, even if the descriptions are slightly poor in some aspects. 'Wait… what?! The town of Nightshade??!!'
"Do think this through as it may even cost your life," His majesty nodded as a servant came up, "A few can go, a few can stay back. It's up to the choice you make."
The servant held a large crystal in a cloth, yet it omitted the familiar sense.
"This crystal will show you your System Synthesis. I believe the hero mentioned it as magic..? In any case, once you are given a system synthesis, the system will begin to guide you. People from other worlds would have higher chances at breaking through the human limitations. Though you may gain the same system as well." His majesty explained.
Everyone began to walk up and touch the crystal after Mr. Harris tried it first. Mr. Harris and Leo Mitchell have Aegis Sentinel. Emily Davis and Lucas Turner have Lunar Phantasm. Grace Bennett and Gabriel Parker have Chrono Nexus. Sophia Thompson, Lily Mitchell, and Artem have Ethereal Harmonics. Anthony Brooks and Scarlett have Psionic Synchronicity. Ava Wilson and Olivia Harris have Spectral Revenant. Elijah Martinez, Oliver Robinson and Isabella Turner have Crimson Arcanum. Mia Jenkins, Chloe Martin, and Henry Foster have Celestial Resonance. Sebastian Reed and Julian Murphy have Inferno Forge.
I gained Chaos Synthesis, I was expecting my last system. It seemed mildly useless as most abilities don't make sense.
The crown prince guided them outside the room they were in. "The legendary hero gained a system synthesis called Aegis Synthesis, it was defensive and supportive but he changed that. By practising, he made it an offensive capability for himself to attack with additional defence and support." He explained as we were brought to a statue of a man in a blue gold texture.
"This is Alexander S. Nightshade, the town of Nightshade is his home of stay. Well, when it was still a budding village. However the people changed locations 140 years ago due to a sudden intake of beasts." He explained more.
["Shit, I thought I was looking at your father!"] Scarlett sounded shocked, I understood what she meant. Even I questioned why my own father was here.
["That was definitely the most saddest thing, I wanted to look like my mother."] I sighed, I don't have much of a close relationship with my father more than my mother. She had taken care of me until she hired a nanny when I was 5, I obviously knew she wanted to go out and party with her friends. Unlike father, whenever home he just flops on the couch or locks himself in his office.
Mother had been exhausted and wanted him to take over, yet he always said "That's for women, not men" as he walked away. Once I gained an understanding, I wasn't too difficult for her. I began to help out rather than play about. She'd always comment how I should've been born a female yet still dressed me up in male clothing. Every once and awhile, I allowed her to dress me up as a daughter.
["Hmmm…"] I thought before I felt something different.
["The fuck?! Your face just glitched out!"] Scarlett whispered yelled, the crown prince was telling the story more in depth, yet neither of us were paying attention.
["You look more feminine than masculine now."] Artem chimed in, I looked up at him.
["Nice!"] I proudly say.
"And that was how the legendary hero Alexander defeated the king." The crown prince smiled as he finished.
I tuned back in, although I did focus both ways. Experiencing it and hearing it are two different things, they are overly exaggerated the entire story.
["To be honest, Your fault for not having a second person with you."] Artem bluntly stated, I looked at him in shock. ["After all, unlike the story they base what happened, yours is actually better detailed."]
I was just stunned at his response, Scarlett giggled obviously amused.