In a place right off the city of greshia A boy was there going towards the city on horseback. He had black hair and black eyes this was the world hopper and he was currently living as a wondering swordsman at the age of 13. This was kento yamoto now known as chrome. ' I was your average enjoyer of all things video games and there was this specific game about a hero who goes to an academy and encouters all sorts of challenges it was an incredibly fun game but now I'm in It and as a character I've never seen. '
' Based on the games events I know that soon the mercenary queen will lose her family who are a bunch of orphans to a group of bandits so my plan is to go save them and eventually gain her trust' Chrome then goes to the city and shoes them the relevant paperwork that proves who he is and enters it. He walks around and goes to the outskirts of the city were the orphans and criminals reside.
He walks around a bit remembering details from the game and spots the house of the future mercenary queen. ' currently she's out on adventures as in the game it is stated that she comes back to her house right after the bandits left and finds all the kids dead. So the children should be alive now and the mercenaries should come soon.'
Chrome stands guard outside the house waiting for the bandits to come but even after an hour no one comes. He then notices that the sun is about to set which means the future mercenary queen alia should be on her way back. ' Let me just look inside to make sure the children are fine. He walks in and sees the sister of alia dead on the floor with a stab wound through her chest. ' it's not fresh that means it must've been at least a day since she died'. He looks around the cottage to make sure the rest of the children aren't dead but sees nothing.
He then opens a drawer and finds an artifact the very same one that brought the bandits to alia's house. ' This was something her parents gave her before they died so she didn't sell it but the bandits heard about it which led them to the cottage where they beheaded all the kids and stole the artifact. After that Alia tracks them down and kills them all in the most brutal ways.'
' This is weird though firstly the kids were killed early and the aritifact wasn't stolen but the rest of the kids are missing nowhere to be found'. Chrome then looks at the ground and notices a coups black silhouettes that resemble children etched onto the floor. He then retches but before he vomits he swallows it all. ' What the hell happened here. This couldn't have been bandits the plot has changed something else did this.' For the plot to change someone who didn't exist in the original game exists here but chrome hadn't done anything major to affect the plot.
' it seems like there is an irregular who didn't exist in the original game and whether he is from the same world as me or not is a mystery. One thing is certain though whoever did this has to pay.' Right as he was thinking that he heard the sound of a woman, it was alia. She entered the cottage looked at her dead sister and immediately lunged at chrome.
" HOW COULD YOU KILL HER, SHE'S JUST AN INNOCENT CHILD" she slashed at him with full force but chrome managed to block it in time releasing a large shock wave throughout the house. Chrome was about to speak but the woman lunged at him once more. This time a red aura was being released as the mercenary queen had awakened her aura. This was a power similar to magic that only individuals of a specific bloodline possessed.
The bloodline was meant to have gone extinct but Alia was the last survivor and thus the last user of aura. Right as she was about to cut her head of chrome shouted" Look at the body" Alia looks at the body and notices that she wasn't freshly killed. " I was in the area when I saw the door open so I went to check in as it's weird for an area like this to have an open door". " I then walked in and saw the corpse and those marks over there that resemble bodies. Alia then pauses for a moment as she looks back at him seemingly believing his story.
She then ducks down and touches the ground. This was her other ability that allowed her to relive events that happened in the last 48 hours. She stays crouched for a couple minutes before tears begin to roll down her face. " so what happened here" " a lot " " what do you mean a lot" " the children were killed by something that uses shadows but during the day the saint had come here."
" wait what".' Something that uses shadows, that couldn't have been the cult of the demon king as they use blood to attack people and it couldn't have been the demonlings or even the antagonist as he uses dark magic which is different to shadows. He's able to summon a black aura but you can still see his face and he can't manipulate shadows. The saint was also here which while weird wouldn't be something that the game would need to mention.'
" Do you know why the saint was here"" they stole his money but it seems like he was going to give them some food but he saw their mark and left" " wait don't tell me you think the saint killed them"." No theres no way you should know the saint cannot use anything other than light magic and he can't even use artifacts with other magics. Not just that users of light and dark magic can sense each other and wouldn't work together so there's no way it's the saint".' I will figure this out but for now I will forget the saint was here unless there is evidence to prove he killed them.
While this was going on the culprit behind this incident was sitting in the pope's cathedral enjoying himself but still affected by what he had done.
3 years had passed since this event and tensions in the light empire were high as it seems like war was eminent. The dark queen medusa had brought her brother in and he has been acting as the right hand man to the sick emperor. Meanwhile the pope had died 3 years ago which left loyd to be pope and he would work directly under Noah. So far it seemed like there were two rulers being the church and the royals with each of them giving different orders to different nobles and ruling the empire in their own right.
' War will happen soon I can sense it that emperor is going to die and when he does this entire empire will be riddled with war. These people will get what they deserve. Stop the war. Nope this is what I must do'. Noah had called upon his people to discuss what would happen if the war were to happen and how they would deal with the royalist faction.
" My saint if war was to happen you will be evacuated and enter the sky academy the top academy in all the continents." " no I will stay here and help the people recover from the war." " no your going there you would be safe and get stronger if you die there is no telling what would happen but with you safe the soldiers would be able to rest knowing that even if they die you would still be alive"
' hmm so my theory was right it seems like I will be going to an academy where I will meet all the wonderful mystics'
In the royal palace the sickly emperor had called over his aide and given him a set of indtructions" war is immenent that bastard daughter in law of mine shall bring war so take the kid and enroll him in sky academy. The saint will be there too so maybe there they can become friends which can bring the coming war to an end" with one final breath the emperor had died and the flags of war were read on the light empire.