"N-No way..."
"Pfft!"
Liana stifled a laugh at Orion's panicked figure. Truthfully, she hadn't laughed that much since long ago.
"Lord hero, there is a change of clothes here so please change yourself."
Looking at the drenched uniform of Orion, Liana pointed at a shelf in the room.
"Y-Yes thank you very much."
Liana smiled at him and left the bathroom.
"She was really beautiful..." Orion muttered, but quickly shook his head.
Then he removed his clothes and gasped.
"This is really another world !"
He uttered seeing his body perfectly healed.
He was shot by a true gun several times after all, but now there was not even a single scratch.
Suddenly he remembered what had happened.
"I can't believe what is happening..."
Just the fact that he was taken as hostage and shot by a gun was really movie-like, but now he was literally in another world.
Thinking about that, he took the neatly folded clothes from the shelf.
'Black pants, white shirt, blazer and tie. Is it a formal outfit also in this world ?'
The black suit was the kind of suit you would wear on important ceremonies and Orion didn't have doubts that it was extremely expensive.
Putting on the black suit, he left the room.
"Oh my! It's really looking good on you Lord hero." Liana said upon looking at Orion's figure.
"R-Really ?" Orion was embarrassed to be praised by a beautiful princess.
Moreover, he knew that compared to people like Andrew, Austin or the Hawkins brothers, he was really nothing in looks.
"Yes, of course!" Liana replied with a smile.
For a moment, Orion thought she was just saying that to form a good relationship with him, but threw aside this thought upon seeing her expression.
She was truly honest when she praised him. He could tell by looking at her face, so he was happy.
"T-Thank you..." Orion lowered his head bashfully.
"I was just saying the truth, Lord hero. Now please follow me. They are all waiting for you." She smiled and nudged Orion to follow her.
"Y-Yes!"
***
"Why do we have to wear these clothes?"
Anna complained.
After they followed the Emperor, the latter ordered the maids to take the 'heroes' to a room.
Those who had friends decided to stay together in a room, like Anna and her friend Isabel.
The maids blushed bright red upon seeing the handsome men, especially Andrew, Austin, the brothers and Ryan.
As for the guards of the palace, they were stunned by the four beauties. Even if they thought that their princess was more beautiful, the four girls were not that far behind.
After entering their room, they were helped by maids to change into new clothes as their former were stained in blood.
They were embarrassed at first being dressed by a maid but they quickly got used to it. Especially the boys...
The boys were dressed in a formal suit of different color according to their preferences. For the girls it was the same, but it was a ball dress.
"Don't complain again Anna, it's not that new for you to wear a dress, right ?"
Isabel replied to Anna.
Anna was the only daughter of the state secretary of her country, which was the second most powerful post.
So, obviously, she took part at several parties or birthdays of other famous people. In fact, she had already met a few times: Austin, Andrew, the Hawkins brothers, Ryan, Aura, Elena and Sienna.
Moreover, their parents were surprisingly friends. It played a big part in their choice of letting their children study abroad as they knew their friends also put their children in the same school.
"I know, but still it's another world !"
"Yeah, yeah.. Orion is sure taking his time with the princess, huh..."
Isabel said with a playful smile.
They were all now in a larger hall than before where gold was the prominent color. In front of them were the Imperial couple and other people with priest-like clothes. Behind them was a huge white stele on which golden runes were engraved on it.
"Orion huh..." Anna muttered and thought about what happened.
She did feel a little guilty, but that was all. Her friend Isabel was way more important than Orion.
"What is he doing with the princess alone?!"
"Yeah! Could it be that his growing hormones were released ?!
Jake and Jaxon complained loudly.
"What the hell are you saying guys ? Orion wouldn't do something like that." Austin replied to their idiocies.
"B-But he was pretty scary back then!" Jake said as he remembered Orion's bloodied figure.
Truthfully, at that time, he was more scary than the leader.
If someone who was known for years to be a harmless creature was suddenly acting coldly beating up two guys, it was sure scary.
"Anyone would have snapped at his place Jake..."
Austin answered with a guilty voice.
If his dead family memento was broken in front of him, he would surely have snapped and sent them flying the same way Orion did.
Maybe.
Sensing a gaze, he turned on his left to see Elena staring at him.
Then she immediately averted her gaze.
"What's up, Elena ?" Her friend Daisy asked.
"No-Nothing!"
"Hm ? Your face is bright red though ?" Daisy asked with a teasing smile.
"Y-You! Don't say nonsense! I hate that guy!" Elena tried to deny it but dug her own grave by bringing up Austin.
"Yeah, yeah, I know that you hate him very much!"
"Daisy...?"
"H-Hey Elena, don't you think Sienna is acting strangely ?"
Daisy shifted the topic hurriedly and it worked.
"Sienna...?"
Elena looked at Sienna. She always had a cold face, but since she knew her from a child, she noticed that her eyes were more emotional.
"Hey Sienna, what's happening to you...?"
Claire suddenly asked her best friend after noticing her strange behavior.
Sienna turned toward Claire and shook her head.
"I...Nothing Claire."
"Sigh..." Claire abandoned with a sigh.
Sienna looked at the stele without words. She was in her own world thinking about what happened to Orion.
The scene of him crawling toward his memento overlapped with an incident that happened in the past. She had forgotten now. It was bugging her.
'If I was stubborn like him maybe...'
"Oh he is here!" Claire took her back from her thoughts.
Turning around she saw a shy Orion in black suit walking alongside the most beautiful girl she had seen.
It was a totally unbiased opinion.
She wasn't stupid. She knew that she was one of the most beautiful young girls here alongside her three other classmates, but the golden-haired girl in front of her was on another level of beauty.
"H-Hey Andrew! I think I'm in love!"
"Yeah..."
"Me too..."
John, Tyler and Joseph said with an entranced face. He wasn't the only one by the way, as all the males were nearly drooling looking at her. Several girls were jealous of her beauty.
Andrew ignored them and stared fixedly at the girl in front of him while throwing aside Orion near her.
Golden hair as if they had sliced gold ore to make her hair, shining golden eyes, snow white skin and a perfect golden dress sticking to her body.
'She is mine...'
Andrew thought darkly in his mind.
Andrew Whiteford was the son of Mayson Whiteford, a Command Sergeant Major in the United States. He was very handsome and had dotting parents, so he got all he wanted from little. On one day, he met a few little girls at a party. At that time, they were children, so he didn't care, but as they grew up, he found them more and more beautiful. Until that day, they became known throughout the whole world as the most beautiful high school girls in the world. Of course, it didn't mean there were no other beautiful girls like them, but these four were the most famous and had a great background for their beauty, so they were really desired by all men. Unfortunately, Andrew was famous for being a skirt-chaser and those rumours got into the four girls. Andrew quickly understood that the four of them were keeping a good distance from him, so he changed his plans. Upon entering high school in Paris, he made a few friends. For him, they were stupid, but they inflated his ego nicely, so he d
Raising his head, Orion looked at his classmates. They were all wearing suits and dresses. In all his class, Orion was without a doubt the most average one. With Princess Liana next to him, he was outshined easily. They were all mostly looking at Liana except a few. "Eh ?" Suddenly, Orion met Aura's gaze. She was smiling awkwardly at him. But Orion quickly averted his gaze. He remembered when no one stepped in for him when the leader punched him and took his pendant. He knew it was normal as they didn't consider him as a friend or acquaintance to begin with. But that's why Orion preferred not to do anything with them anymore. At that time, he believed naively that someone would step up, as he was just a nobody who didn't have a background like them. Unfortunately, no one stepped in. At that moment, Orion truly understood that his classmates didn't give a damn about him. "Lord Orion ?" Liana called out, seeing Orion's conflicted face. Orion looked back at her and saw her wor
The Imperial family, guards, maids, butlers and priests were shocked by the attributes of the otherworlders. Half of them had extremely rare attributes and the others, though they had nothing special, their affinities on their attributes were very high. Indeed, they were all already very strong even though they had just awakened! There was no doubt that in a few weeks they would be the strongest people in the Empire. Now, there were still two people left to awaken and the atmosphere was very lively. "You want to go first, Orion ?" Austin asked with a smile, causing several girls to blush. "N-No, it's okay. I will go after you." Orion also replied with a smile, but there were no blushing girls around but concerned people. Orion was so different from his classmates that the people of the empire wondered for a second if he was not a random guy from their Empire. "Okay", Austin nodded and walked toward the stele. Placing his right hand on it, he waited. [Austin Lachman, Blue F
The whole hall looked at the figure of the crying Orion running away. Unfortunately, it did not stop the mockery, but there were more. "L-Lord Orion!" Liana tried to chase after him. "Liana leave him." The Emperor stopped her. "B-But father...!" "You have a job as a princess, don't forget." Liana closed her mouth. She was the princess of the empire, so she had to accompany the others heroes in priority. Aura and Austin tried to rebuke the others but it was useless. As for the others who didn't mock Orion, they were just indifferent. "Please heroes." A sweet voice echoed and the mocking stopped. Turning around, they saw Liana looking at them with an award-winning gentle smile. "Please follow me. We will explain to you about our world." Saying that, she walked ahead. Her voice was soft but even an idiot could tell that she was angry. Angry at those who made fun of Orion and those who didn't do anything either. She was the princess of the Empire, so she couldn't rebuke the
The continent of Dreamland was composed of several Empires and Kingdoms. The Solaria Empire, Lunarstella Empire, Nychterin Empire, Ankouna Empire, Niveis Kingdom and Fulgura kingdom. Three groups could be formed inside those countries in enmity with each other. The Solaria Empire, Nychterin Empire and Fulgura Kingdom on one side. The Lunarstella Empire and Niveis Kingdom are on other side. Finally, the great Ankouna Empire on the last side. There may be other continents but it was impossible to reach them due to the huge space rift blocking the way. The Solaria Empire worshipped the God Solas, while the Lunarstella was the Goddess Lunaria. The reason the Goddess Lunaria was considered as heretic was because it was said that she betrayed the God Solas, while in the Lunarstella Empire it was the contrary. Nobody knew what really happened but both Empires chose to defend their gods. "Sigh...there is something strange about their gods." Orion let out a tired sigh as he closed th
"Rion ?""Y-yes...?"He was feeling even more weirder when she called him 'Rion'."Rion are you ...""Your highness."Suddenly, a voice called out to Liana.Turning around, she saw a knight in golden armor, the signature armor of the Solaria Empire."Yes ?""His Majesty called you and Lord Hero. It is time for the training under Lady Riona."The knight replied while glancing at Orion. He had been there since two minutes ago and was shocked by their interactions. They were not in love with each other, so why was it like they were flirting in public?!"I see, let's go Rio...Orion."As expected, even Liana was embarrassed to be watched when they were calling each other by their nicknames."Yes..."Orion stood up with a reluctant face. It was Riona who was training them today. She was extremely strict during their training and Orion was the one suffering the most obviously.Orion and Liana walked in the hallway. The maids, butlers and knights all bowed nobly but frowned upon seeing her wi
Looking at the receding back of Andrew's group, Orion sighed. It was not the first time someone pushed him during his run and it would certainly not be the last he thought. 'They are acting like those typical villains in movies or animes...' Thinking about that, Orion rolled up his pants to his knees. "Ouch!" Blood was flowing out from the wounds of both of his knees. Then he took out bandages from his space ring. During his first meeting with the princess, the space ring was already attached to his finger as it also had a language translation functionality in it. It was thanks to that, he and his classmates could understand this continent's language. But now it was useless as, upon their awakening, they were able to understand different languages without the ring, which was amazing for them. Still, he and his classmates kept the ring for storage functionality. "Orion ?" As he was covering his knees with the bandages, a familiar voice rang out. Looking up, he saw Aura and h
Bam!Austin slid several meters back. His classmates behind him quickly dodged him."Urrghh!" Austin let out a groan.Austin felt a great pain in his left arm, which was red now.Seeing the state of his hand, Austin shook his head."No choice but to use my fire."He wanted to know how he fared without using his blue fire and the result was clear. If he continued like that, he would lose in the next attack.He gripped his sword again with his two hands but this time he channeled his mana."Flare."Sizzzzzle!Blue fire appeared on his hands and it quickly spread on the whole sword. He also put more mana to cover his body."You're finally taking me seriously."Riona uttered. She gave him a good punch to force him to get serious and it worked.Whoosh!Austin jumped at full speed toward Riona.Swish! Swish! Swish!He swung his sword at a very high speed. Orion could see just the afterimage.But Riona parried all of his attacks just with her hands.Or rather she was using her ability to par
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“You-You want to take part in the tournament?”Selena stammered, speechless at Aita’s demand.“Yeah.”Aita nodded casually.“Why, suddenly? You told me yesterday you were not interested?”Selena tried her best to keep her calm.“I want the reward.”“!”Shock filled Selena’s face. Did he want the reward? So Princess Evelyn? She couldn’t believe it.“Wh-Why? You already have me…”Selena started to doubt her own worth now. She didn’t want to brag about it, but she considered herself not less beautiful than Evelyn Nychterin. Or maybe Aita liked the innocent-type more?“What?”Aita, as dense as ever, wondered what the hell she was speaking about. He only wanted the second reward, the other part of his spear after all.“Can I use you in need every day? Would you be with me any time?”Aita said in a mocking tone. She wasn’t a weapon after all.“Idiot!”-Thud!Selena threw the cup of coffee in Aita’s face and ran away with a tomato-red face.***“Princess.”“...”“Princess?”“Ah!”Selena brok
“Ahhhh…He’s taking his time.” Daisy yawned as she rubbed her sleepy eyes. More than an hour had passed and Aita still hadn’t come out. She was on the verge of sleeping on the floor but held back. She could wait for Aita. Aita had still saved her best friend and her. “What the hell is he doing?!” Anna, still hidden in the corner, was reaching the limits of her patience. “Anna, seriously, we should go…I really want to sleep…” Isabel leaned on the wall and was on the verge of falling asleep like that. “No! Wait a little mor-” “Daisy?” “““!””” “Le-Lena?” Daisy was surprised to see Elena here. She was sure Elena would play or speak with Aura for a few more hours at least… “What are you doing outside and you will catch a cold like that.” Elena sighed, seeing Daisy standing there in a negligee. Elena was also wearing a blue negligee but she was wearing a jacket on it. “A-Ah, well…” Daisy scratched her head, not knowing what to do. Aita was still inside the room after all. Still,
Late at night, Aita left his room. He wandered in the corridor of the palace aimlessly. The guards roaming around would bow to him upon seeing him, otherwise they would let him. They probably thought he wanted to take a breath of fresh air.After an hour or so, he started to walk toward the section reserved for the girls in his class. Like Daisy had promised, she would leave him in their room. Waiting for the right time, he went to the ladies' side. He made sure to erase any sound of his steps with his wind. He didn’t want to cause another uproar and be labeled with another cringe nickname. He already wanted to erase his memories just thinking about what he was doing. Infiltrating the ladies’ dormitory at night? Anyone would label him as human trash.Reaching the room of Daisy and Elena, Aita knocked on the door. He was having a hard time keeping his face from distorting. All his actions seemed like he was going to sleep with a woman late at night…“Look, Isabel, I knew it!”At the en
“You had a tough day, Aita.”Selena said with a glare.They went back to the palace and the first person who welcomed Aita was Selena. She had an exhausted complexion but she still looked like a perfect princess. Her sapphire eyes were staring angrily at Aita and mostly the knights of Lunarstella. She told them to look after Aita so he wouldn’t do anything, threatening their truce, but they couldn’t do anything. They all averted their faces in shame. They couldn’t tell that Aita at that time was too scary to speak to. More than that, they were also angry at Rex and the others for what they had done.“...”Aita stared at Selena. Her face overlapped with the mature Selena of the recording. Her tears, her sad expression, her helplessness, everything overlapped with the current Selena. He couldn’t understand why that woman he didn’t know at all was making his emotions stir that much. He cared for Selena Luna Lunarstella, but not her great-great-aunt.“Aita?”Selena called out to Aita sinc
“What happened…”Aura asked. Behind her were all her classmates, the knights of Solaria and Lunarstella. They were silently waiting for two people to answer. The two people were, of course, Aita and Elena who, after two days, finally reached the entrance of the rift. Austin, Jake, Jaxon and Daisy had already arrived as well the day before, so everyone was there. Well, everyone except Gaut and Rex, who were killed by Aita. By the way, Bein was sitting with a blank expression in a corner ignoring them. Anyway, most of the stares were gathered on two people. Aita and Elena. Aita had his black mask off but he still had his skin mask, which didn’t please him in the slightest as he felt uncomfortable with it, so his current annoyed expression. Right behind, strangely close to him, was Elena, who seemed to be happy to finally reunite with her classmates.“Nothing.”Aita replied clearly, showing that he was annoyed at her question, and walked ahead. “Hmpf!”Aura harrumphed and went to Elena
“...”“...”Silence reigned in the empty hall. The runes weren’t glowing anymore. Aita and Elena were not speaking. Elena had a pained expression, a little more and she’d have cried. Remembering Selena’s face and her words, she felt despondent for her. She glanced at Aita. He was playing with a little stone. It was the White Crystal that was inside the coffin with the book. The book disappeared as soon as the recording was over. As for the skeleton, Aita had put Selena’s remains inside his space ring. Elena looked at the stone with a complicated expression. She needed four of them to go back on Earth. No. She needed five of them. Four to destroy the space rift, once on the other side, she needed another one to finally reach Earth. In any case, the one in Aita’s hand didn’t belong to her, in the first place, so right now she had nothing.-Gurgleeeee“...”“...”Elena buried her face in her knees, not daring to look at Aita’s current expression. She depleted her mana, so she was exhau
“I am going with the name of Selena Mona Lunarstella. The First Princess of the Great Lunarstella Empire.” Her domineering voice echoed. Looking at her, Aita started to understand why she was hailed as a heroine back then and even now. He could understand how she alone was able to defend Lunarstella from enemies everywhere. She really had the aura of a leader. “I do not know who you are, but I know that you are here with the help of my blood. How many years had gone since the war ? I just hold the hope that my Empire is still there flourishing like it should…” She said in a nostalgic tone. “You, who discovered my tomb. I am going to reveal what I discovered in the hope that you are my blood, or at least someone of my Empire. I gave my spear to my brother so he could give it to his children. I engraved runes on my spear that will serve as key to entering this place when the time will come. I transmitted this emplacement to my brother before leaving the Empire forever.” Selena spoke
“I did nothing! B-Believe me, please!”Elena’s quivering voice kept ringing in the hall. She was speaking to Aita, who was standing, looking at his surroundings. He didn’t seem to care about Elena’s words. Stretching his limbs for a minute, he removed his shirt.“Ah! W-What are you doing, Lord Aita?!”Elena turned her head away with a flushed face.Aita ignored her and took out a new white shirt and put in on while making sure to hide his pendant so Elena wouldn’t see it. He glanced at the ground and saw the silver spear. Stooping down, he took the spear. As usual, it looked like a newly crafted spear as its silver color shone with purity. Swinging the spear a few times, he turned around. Elena was looking at him nervously.“How long have I been out?”He asked. Vivid memories of Artemis were still present in his mind. Memories he shouldn’t have as he wasn’t even born at that moment. Why had he the memories of other people? Anyway, it felt like years had passed, so he wanted to know.