*thud*
I was abruptly woken up by falling right on my back.
"who the fuck is driving this thing fuck?!"
Groggily opening my eyes to look at who woke me up from my sweet shut eye i began to take my surroundings. i flipped my head over to the right and left and noticed i was laying on a gray and white marble floor. I noticed other students around me standing since i was at ankle height i wouldn't properly take in my surroundings.
I lazily stood up about to begin my search for whoever rudely dropped me on the ground instead of just waking me up from my nap.
That was when i noticed we were in a big hall, i mean a very big all. Scratch hall, we're basically in a? what a parthenon? Soild marble floors stretched round us for at least 200 yards, towering columns made of the same material but with golden inlays. The ceiling was about 75 yards tall with murals depicting nations, wars and um are those figures emanating lights around them supposed to be holy figures? .... gods? but which ones are they? i can't tell oh well. But how do all those work as a light source? Taking my attention away from the ceiling i looked at my fellow class mates. I noticed all of them had extremely pale faces and expressions filled with horror & fear.
I looked around to find the teacher Miss Evermore. As soon as i saw her i immediately made my way in her direction. As i approached i noticed she had the same expression on her face as my classmates.
"Miss Evermore what's going on? this doesn't look like the campus i saw online when checking out the photos."
She slowly turned her head to me and asked "L-Lucius wh-at's the last thing you remember b-b-before c-coming here?"
"um i took my headphones out of my backpack to listen to music on our trip here. Because of my excitement for the trip i didn't sleep well last night so i dozed off after 5 mins into the ride why?"
After i said that i noticed how she did her best to keep herself from shivering and slowly said "Lucius the-the bus i-it-"
Right when she was about to answer me suddenly a very calm atmosphere enveloped the area and a calm and loving magnetic voice rang out
"Hello Hero's! Welcome to the planet Jord!"
'okay actually what the fuck is happening, i must still be dreaming. what a weird dream. imma just go back to sleep'
As i was about to lay back down i noticed Miss Evermore staring at the bright pink golden light that just spoke those words. I waved my hand in front of her face to snap her out of it and look around to see all my classmates in the same trance so i pinched her arm to snap her out of it. When she did she looked over to me with a greatful expression then i wispered to her.
"Will you also pinch my arm? this dreams weird and way to real for my liking, id rather just wake up" then i heard that voice again
" Oh hero this isn't a dream, we pull all of the hero's souls here after death in our summoning"
'tf this bitch just say?!? my career, giving back to my family & taking care of their needs, MY MONEY!?!?! GONE!?'
"As i was saying Welcome to Jord hero's! you all have been chosen as hero's to vanquish the demon king who we've been at war with since the beginning of our history! I am the Goddess Anjea and i will be in charge of you 25 and will train you in everything you need to know in order to clear this quest!"
"Will be be able to return back home?" random student f yell out with an aggravated expression
"Once you defeat and kill the demon king all those who survive will be able to go home"
she said with a smile but to me it didn't look like a smile. i've never seen such and ugly and exaggerated smile
"If that's all the questions then now quickly, we mustn't wait for the demon king to knock at our door, every second counts!"
She led us on a walk further into the the parthenon until we arrived at a towering monolith. The monolith was half black and half white vertically with what looked like runes etched into it. The runes shined with a deep golden radiance on the white section and on the black side had dark blue runes with hints of white, green and yellow occasionally showing up in the dark blue runes like stars in the night sky. There's only one walkway up to the monolith then around the monolith was what looked like a moat of mercury.
The Goddess Anjeas voice rang out again when we stopped around 30 ft from the path up to the monolith "Here we will see what inborn talent you have within your soul, your rank, affinity and all that stuff to tell if your going to make it or break it haha!"
'fuck it's really a cliché scenario' i looked over to my right to see Miss Evermore still in a daze. I gently tugged on her pinky finger to snap her out of it 'she's acting weird, no way does she also read webnovels?'
"Miss Evermore what do you think of all this?" i asked softly after all i still have no idea why she was so pale and terrified earlier
'ooooh *smacks fist on palm* we died didn't we? so they all saw their deaths happen right before them? meanwhile i was out cold, i don't know who i need to thank but thanks'
She slowly turned to me and said "i guess we just have to accept it, it's a hard pill to swallow but at least theirs hope for us to return home right?"
'DID SHE NOT SEE THE SAME SMILE I SAW!?!?'
"yeah i guess theirs no point and in getting stressed out about it.. but do you think we can trust the goddess? this whole situation seems weird like in story's it cool but like in real life…"
she took a moment to think about what i said while she was thinking about this the Goddess Anjea started to call people up one by one to put their palm on the monolith by the time the 4th person went up she look at me and said
"i'm not sure but as long as we get strong we can get through these tuff times that will be ahead we can go home. She hasn't earned my trust yet so we'll see. i'll be counting on you to watch my back, i know you have over 2000 hours of reading on webnovel so you probably know more about these situations than i do."
i nodded my head and said " mhm i got your back Alice just leave it to me, but i have to ask have you read any summoned novels?"
A faint red blush on Alice's face, not sure if because i dropped the teacher formalities or because i seemed to get a whiff of a reader.
"Lucius… ah well it's whatever i'm no longer your teacher now and yes all thought i don't have as many hours as you from listening to them while you work but since you started talking about them to me i started to look into them and found a few that caught my interest" she said rather bashfully
'hehe i knew it, i know a novel reader when i see one'
"then this should make things a little easier for the both of us, hopefully our prior knowledge will be helpful. We're almost up so we better keep quiet for now."
"mhm"