We really have landed in the home of zealots. I need to get out of here, after hearing that first hand I don't want to be here. I will learn what I can and find a way to escape. I just hope that Akira and the others will join me.
Kayaba spoke up,
"The demons are different from you, sooooo you took their land? Did they attack you before or did you decide to just move in?"
The marshal started to yell before catching himself and speaking calmly.,
"The demons are evil.... That is all you need to know for now. Boy"
Kayaba, getting even more agitated, stood up and started bickering back and forth with the marshal. Finally Akira stood up separating the two
"We get it, we are here to fight the demons. We already agreed to do this. Kayaba, relax."
Kayaba walked out of the room,
"I'm tired anyways, fill me in whenever."
The marshal collected himself and continued,
"Apologies about my prior outburst, now we need to discuss the next steps. Tomorrow we will have you all come to the tower of the grand magus. There we will start testing your abilities, until then please return to your rooms for the evening."
After a large feast there were dancers that came out in multicolored dresses and played stringed instruments for us. Their performance was elegant, and the music was uplifting. After the show the King was the first to leave the Hall, then followed by the high ranking officials. After those in control left, we all returned to our rooms exhausted by the journey.
We decided to discuss all the events all the morning. I laid down in a bed made for giants, red sheets that were softer than anything I have ever felt. It's pure bliss, nothing is better than laying down in fresh sheets after a long day..
*thud*
I was hit with a book,
"What the hell Akira!"
Akira started laughing,
"Sorry, sorry. I wanted to talk to you."
He walked over pulling out a chair and sat down next to me.
"I thought we could talk a bit about this world. Have you been able to pull up your UI yet?
I shook my head and sat up.
"No I haven't, I did notice that when I look at some people for long enough I can see a bar above their head with their name. It's a lot of information so I don't really know what I'm looking at yet."
Akira got excited,
"tell me what you see when doing that to me. Try to analyze me,"
"How?"
I asked. He responded,
"You need to figure it out, think of keywords for what action you want to do. Manifest what you want to do in your mind and your body will do the rest."
I started to stare at Akira, not really knowing what I needed to do. Trying all manner of key words.
Info, stats, character sheet, ahh this isn't working.
Finally I tried the word, analyze. My eyes widened and jaw dropped as all of the sudden a box above his head appeared, showing all his stats. Excitedly, I said,
"Akira I got it! Looks like you're level one, (Ultra-Rare-Unique- Class) Hero. Subclass of Paladin with 200 health points and 100 mana. That's crazy, I didn't have these options when creating my character"
Akira started getting excited,
"You got it! I took the analyze rank A skill when creating my character, but I can't see anything about you. All it shows is your panel with the info redacted. That means you took the concealment rank S ability right?"
Should I tell him, I know I can trust Akira but…oh well. I will just tell him everything but me being a demon.
I started explaining my classes,
"I'm level one, a Beastmaster, which if I remember correctly from games means I can tame animals or something. I also have the class of dark elemental magus, I don't know the extent of it but both are rare classes. I didn't have the same options as you for classes it seems. I also have 125 health points and 1000 mana…. Holy… I didn't realize I had so much. I wonder what some of the others got that we didn't have the option to get. I wonder if you can even change your class while you're here or born with it and stuck with it."
Akira cut me off,
"Only 125 hp! Hahaha! At least you have an insane amount of mana! You must have some crazy rank A mana skill as well. I think I saw that one on mine but I did the veteran blademaster instead. Dark Paladin is interesting. I wonder what the difference in abilities will be."
I looked at the ceiling, staring off into the abyss.
"Hmmm"
Akira continued,
"More importantly! Did you see the rack on that goddess, oh my I thought I died and went to heaven."
I was quickly brought back to reality and started to laugh as Akira said,
"The Summoner class sounds sweet, I didn't see that option myself. I guess the hero was unique to me. I don't mind, I always wanted to be a hero growing up."
I asked,
"Is that why after graduation you were going to join the Public Security Intelligence Agency?"
Akira nodded,
"I just wanted to help people. Oh well, we're here now and I'm going to hit the ground running. We both should, for Mina's sake at least."
He held up his fist.
*bump*
I replied,
"You're right, we both need to dive in head first to this new world. For Mina's sake and our own. First we need to sleep though. Goodnight"
We both returned to our beds and went to sleep. I opened my eyes, it was a dark throne room lit by purple flame. Sitting one knee over the other was the demon I was contracted to, Akuma. Her skin was dark in complexion. A slim, tall, girl who appeared about my age. Blood red hair with the most beautiful purple eyes. She stood and walked toward me as a chain between us appeared, the place where my hand was now tattooed was now wrapped with the loose end of a chain and the other end was wrapped around her neck. She walked toward me with the chain disappearing as she was getting closer. In the blink of an eye she was right next to me. Face to face she leaned closer practically breathing into my ear, no farther than inches she began to whisper as my face flushed.
"Awaken master."
I woke up to Akira shoving me around to wake me up.
"Yuki! Wake up, it's time to meet at the magus tower for our assessment."
He yanked me out of bed and I got ready for the day. I was to tired to even say anything, still buttoning my shirt as I was walking out of the room we made our way to the magus tower.
I caught up to Akira and the others, I asked,
"What are we doing today again?"
Dante explained
"They want to know what classes we are, what abilities we have, they said they would get us equipment and weapons made for our abilities. Pretty sweet setup to be honest, free gear is a huge step forward."
Hinabi responded,
"Yeah at the small cost of us winning their war. What if the enemy is really strong….. I've never swung a sword in my life. The last group of summoned heroes all died. I'm sure they had abilities like us."
Hino with a very stressed look on her face said,
"I'm not a fighter. I've never hit someone in my life, I hate this…"
Emelia walked up putting her arm around Hino, she spoke in a Scandinavian accent,
"Oh Hino don't worry I will protect you, my brother and I are descended from warriors, it's in our blood. You just support us with your holy magic and we will handle the up close and personal." She said as she punched one of her arms forward.
Emelia and Dante both seemed really excited for this world. Glad to know I'm not the only one.
We arrived at the steps to this massive red tower. The high tower of Ruben, we were met by many of the robed clergymen that met us upon our arrival. The high magus walked forward,
"Hello students I'm Archanon, one of the high magus's here at the tower. I will be showing you to our training facilities to assess your individual abilities."
We followed them all to a large room that resembled the inside of a colosseum. Seats surrounding the outside of the arena with a lowered floor of dirt.
Archanon explained,
"This is where we train our abilities, we do this to hone our individual talents as well as spar with one another. Today you will each be assigned a mentor based on your individual class and abilities. Please line up in a horizontal line in front of us and we will go one by one with this book. When you place your hand on the book it will list your class, and all rank B skills or higher. "
All classes.. does this mean..
We lined up, and started one by one showing our classes to them. Sora was first in line,
He walked forward to the book,
"Well I guess it's time to show you all what I got."
He placed his hand on the book when letters started appearing on the pages. The clergyman removed his hand and backed away to read. Class: Magical Gunner, Rank A Skill - Water Affinity, Rank A Skill - Eagle Eye. Rank B Skill, Headshot."
Second was Hino, Archanon walked towards her and she placed her hand on the book.
"Class: Holy Priest, Rank S skill Revive, Rank A Skill Greater Healing, Rank A Skill Greater Holy Affinity. This is amazing, your skills truly are once in a generation."
He moved some of his clergymen over to Hino, taking her away. Akira walked forward,
"where are you taking her?!"
Archanon sneered at him before collecting himself and explaining,
"No need to worry young hero, she is only going to meet the king. She truly has one of a kind abilities."
Akira nodded,
"Ok…."