Walking towards the orb Gary felt uncertain and doubtful
'Is the 26th really possible' thought Gary
With a little cut and his hand on the orb
"Status" saying this what came up next was more or less expected by his classmates, some laughed at him, sone just shook their head, while Gary himself felt dejected.
"I guess the murial really did mean 25" said tista while looking at the blank blood screen
>status<
ERROR!!!
"Dear heroes we welcome you once again to Arcadia, we will go and pay our respects to the king, let's go" said tista all the while looking straight at Owen.
Some felt relived, but one felt not getting the attention he deserves but still walked along with a slight frown on his face.
Walking to the audience chamber of the king, opening the huge castle door to the chamber were two knights in jet black armor and their face cover with same just black helmet, one by one the students were led in Owen walking at the front just behind magus tista, about walking into the chamber was Gary who was stopped by tista
"Heroes and their companions only" she said with a smile on her face
Standing there the door was closed shut before him, he felt angry, then relief and finally sadness cause even here in a new world he's still a loser.
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•3 weeks later
After 3 weeks of training in other to mater their powers and increase their strength the heroes where no ready for their first veil raid.
The veil as as described to the heroes by their trainer is a crack the appears in the world of luminaria from from within swans of monsters appear to destroy and terrorize the world, where ever the crack appears the place is overrun by bloodshed before the wave of monsters from the crack could be put under control.
Before the appearance of the veil in luminaria humans and the demons were at a standstill at their battles and because of the gradual increase in the frequency of the appearance of the veil and strength of the monster wave they were forced to call a truce and face the monsters of the veil as a common enemy.
In other to seek for a solution to the veil the humans carried out the ritual in respect to the prophecy of the murial as it was said that only those who were summoned can go into the veil in other to end it. The murial revealed the heroes as 25 savior of the human race with great powers that are destained to put an end to the veil and bring peace to Arcadia.
"Only 3 squad will be sent to the 3 different veil location in Arcadia, the remaining 2 squad will be left to defend Arcadia incase of any more crack occurs in your absence" said tista with her characteristic smile
"Owen and his squad, Sophia and her squad, Elijah and his squad, these are the heroes squad that will be deployed for this mission may the goodness nyx guide you" said tista
In the past 3 weeks Owen has continuously been growing as the strongest hero so he got the privilege to assemble his squad first, and he was the most favored hero out of them all which cause a little bit of displeasure for Elijah, everyone else didn't really complain about his treatment from the kingdom as far as he treated them to with respect but that wasn't the same for Elijah, he felt it should have been him and it was why he trained harder to catch up to Owen but never did. The current rank of the heroes goes from; owen(A+) >> Elijah (A-) >> Sophia (A-) >>> Dave (B+) >> Aria(B+)
With each squad member between the c- and B rank standing .
Meanwhile Gary felt nervous being summoned to the kings chamber, for the past 3 weeks he had been left to himself by the kingdom, and that is putting it in a polite way, putting it bluntly he had been abandoned, no one cared about his well being, during training he was used as test dummies most of the time by his classmates and all the time by Elijah and his lackeys even the "Golden hero" owen couldn't resist the empowering feeling of looking down on him cause of his status, so being summon to the king out of the blue was nerve wracking.
"Welcome Gary"
"Thank you your highness, may I ask why I've been summoned this morning"
"Yes, as you know for now we're in a truce with the with the demon race, so we have decided to send you over there as a representative of the human's goodwill towards them in this turbulent time, they to face this veil as much as we do so it is our best intention of sending one of the heroes over"
"How could you, you all know that I have no power or ability as my fellow companions so why sending me over"
"I have no reason to explain myself to you just know my decision is final, you'll be escorted to the boundary set before the demon territory where you will be received at least it seems you will be worth something to them and that's all you may leave"
Gritting his teeth with frustration about his current predicament Gary could do nothing but endure all this, cause every here he was being looked down on
'Even the ones who summoned me have forsaken me' he thought with anger in his heart....