A group of people found themselves in a completely alien world, yet simultaneously so familiar to them.
"KYAAAA!" a woman couldn't contain her scream as she saw many corpses dressed strangely and in gruesome conditions scattered nearby.
The situation became more tense for the twelve casually dressed individuals consisting of five women and seven men. They seemed to be in a scene where a main character from an anime or game had just awakened in another world.
DRAP DRAP DRAP. The ground seemed to shake as their eyes were forced to witness a horde of titans running towards them.
"Don't they look like the titan warrior designs from the game Viatrix Upheaval?" a middle-aged man asked.
A teenage boy beside him immediately responded, "Haha, what are you talking about? That's impossible, right?"
CRAAASSHHH!!! Just as the teenage boy closed his mouth, an axe the size of his whole body flew through the air and seized his neck. CROOOOTTT!!! His blood splattered in all directions like a firework.
"KYAAAAAAAAAA!!!"
"NO, NO, NO!!!"
"PLEASE, HELP ME!!!"
Everyone screamed. Unconsciously running in all directions until one by one they were caught by the titans and brutally mutilated. The path to safety was nowhere in sight. Moreover, this was the first time they had all met. There was no coordination from the stronger and more trustworthy parties, so the remaining six individuals seemed to be running towards their own deaths sooner or later.
DDDUUUAAARRR!!! Suddenly something like a meteor fell among them and caused the bodies of three men and three women to fall due to exhaustion. Everything was truly too horrifying to be real.
As the dissipating smoke became visible, they could see someone dressed in medieval warrior armor swinging a long sword to fight against the titan forces trying to encircle them.
CTASSH CTASSH CTASSH!!!
A young man attempted to get a closer look at the battle unfolding before his eyes. "He moves so agilely in armor that seems so heavy. Is he on our side?" he, a young man from India named Raaj, asked.
"I don't care! I don't want to be in the game I played today!" shouted a Dutch girl named Helenina. She immediately stood up and wanted to run away from the place.
A skinny young man from England named Charles also stood up wanting to run. "If you're leaving, you can't leave me, Miss!"
JLEB JLEB JLEB BRUUK BRUUK!!! Not long after the two of them left, the remaining four were forced to witness how their bodies were showered with arrows from the cavalry troops seen on the other side.
"What is actually happening? I might go insane if this continues," asked a beautiful high school girl from Korea named Han Sae.
"If we move, we'll be targeted by arrows!" informed a teenage boy from Thailand, Anurak, urging everyone left to stay low.
"I remember hearing screams and explosions. Maybe even lightning? I just felt terrified and traumatically hopeless before arriving here," said a mature woman from Denmark, Lieselotte.
"ALL OF YOU OVER THERE!" shouted someone in iron armor still fighting the titans with a sword and strange flashes of light that looked like magic. "ACTIVATE!" she shouted, surprisingly a woman's voice.
"Activate what?" Han Sae asked with a puzzled expression.
"In Viatrix Upheaval, don't we have to be baptized as knights defending one of the kingdoms before entering the battlefield?" Anurak asked.
"RISE MY POWER!!!" shouted Raaj, although not entirely sure of what he was doing.
KRAASH DRAAASH KRAASH DRAASH!!! A light appeared in front of the man's face, making him feel as if he were being surged by a strange energy that made his blood boil. In his palm, a curved sword named Assyrian Sapara suddenly appeared.
"Wow, this is amazing," said Raaj, amazed at the weapon in his hand.
Unbeknownst to him, Lieselotte, Han Sae, and Anurak had also activated their powers and joined the woman in armor to resist attacks from both the titans and other kingdoms on horseback.
"We must escape from here immediately!" the woman in armor exclaimed. Now the five of them stood back to back to strengthen their defense and coordination.
"Shouldn't we have been summoned here to join the battle?" Han Sae asked, confused.
"The problem is that the ones currently fighting here are not the kingdoms who summoned us," the woman in armor informed them.
"That's true. We're lucky to have awakened here simultaneously. I remember starting the game as a knight summoned by the titan kingdom several times, but instead, the starting point was in the magus kingdom's territory. Truly unexpected, but that's what makes it interesting," Anurak said.
"We're surrounded!" Han Sae exclaimed.
"Miss?" called Anurak, who was right behind the woman in armor. However, she remained silent. They could faintly hear incantations they had never heard before. Was it the type of mantra that could only be used by top-level magus kingdom knights?
"Hey," Lieselotte nudged Raaj's shoulder with hers, "could it be that she's one of the top seven global knights summoned by the magus kingdom?" she guessed.
The girl in the heavy-looking armor then lifted her face and attacked the titans and the scholars' kingdom warriors using her sword, which now seemed enveloped in a blue aura. Her body moved lightly like cotton as she leaped onto the titans' bodies to cut their throats. CTANG CTANG CTANG. At the same time, she deflected the arrows of other warriors.
As she was busy diverting attention on the battlefield, Raaj and three others succeeded in their mission to escape, realizing their abilities were nowhere near equal to the girl's.
Assyrian Sapara in Raaj's hand suddenly disappeared. "Damn. Seems like my body wasn't strong enough to sustain its presence." At that moment, they were all hiding behind rocks atop the hill.
"What kind of place is this? It can't be that we're actually sent to the world inside the game, can it?" Han Sae asked, curling up and hugging her trembling body. She could feel that it was all too real.
The woman in the armor resumed chanting her mantra, "My name is Avianna Kenes Kemala Sartini. I have been summoned by the kingdom of Mac An Gaothaire to be a knight defending their land. Oh, gods of magic, grant me strength!"
However, would her prayer truly be answered? Was she offering the correct prayer?