《Rain Revert》Chapter 11: [ Claiming ]
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After the princess introduced herself, it was followed by the prime minister-looking man who was actually a duke and was acting as an adviser as well as a prime minister for the royalty because the former prime minister was caught embezzling the kingdom's budget and was imprisoned.
What a scumbag… even corrupt officials are quite popular here too? Serena thought that people don't change even in other worlds.
The duke's name was Alejandro.
And the king was called Jeril Persil Louridia while the Queen was Pevina Austril Louridia .
After the introduction, Princess Alice and the duke started telling their story.
Unlike the other summoned people, Serena didn't listen to it that much. She had only listened to the beginning of it because she's not really that interested.
It was the typical story out from a fantasy novel.
She only picked some information from the princess.
First, the world is divided by several continents and the continent they were in was called [Lividia Continent] and was one of the biggest.
Second, Aside from the three continents including this one, most of the continents were called [The Unexplored Desolate Continents ] for they were still unexplored and filled with danger.
Third, in the [Lividia Continent], there were several races aside from human such as; Beastmen, Fairies, Demons and etc...
Fourth, the demons were defeated in the war several hundreds of years ago and had remained silent not until three years ago which they suddenly began appearing and rampaging around the continent. There were some rumors that a demon king appeared and was now leading them.
Most of the human and other races kingdoms were slowly defeated and conquered.
Although the Louridia Kingdom had several strong people, however, the demon commanders and generals were too many and all of their strength were also enormous thus causing them to have no options than summoning heroes.
Listening to their explanation, Serena couldn't help but scowled at their selfishness.
This was their own world… so how could they selfishly kidnap people from other worlds to protect it for them. Only idiots would agree to it.
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“I, I will do it!” as soon as Serena thought about that, someone raised their voice.
Oh my God, here are the idiots… Serena rolled her eyes as if disgusted.
“I, I think I will do it too…”
“Being Hero seems interesting right? Like those from novels and anime… I never thought it would happen to me!”
“I know right! Oh my God, I wish I could post this in FB…”
Like a wild fire, the cheer spreads through other people.
But Serena didn’t voiced out her real opinion, after all, this is a big kingdom and she was standing in front of the King. Their power encompassed this place… who knows what they will do if she complained.
Although it might looked like they were asking but if one looks at a different view, they were actually being threatened. Of course, Serena might be over thinking things… but nothing goes wrong in being cautious!
“Tha, thank you very much!!” The Princess seems overjoyed. “First of all, please follow me…”
As the princess started walking, Serena and the others began to follow. Although some was startled about Leona’s existence, since she was following one of the heroes, they just tried pretending as if they didn’t see anything… that same goes with the King and Queen.
It might be that it was also one of the Heroes! A wild thought appeared.
The princess led the group in front of the several statues standing beside the Audience Hall. They were all female with different appearances.
“They are the Gods we revered.” The princess started. “We will ask for their blessings.”
She kneeled in front of them. She urged the others to the same, not really understanding but they obeyed.
“…Goddess Thalia was the goddess of reason and wisdom.
Goddess Saliyon was the Goddess of Love and Beauty.
Goddess Brid, the Goddess of wild animals and hunt.
Goddess Hurd, the Goddess of bloodlust, Fire and war.
Goddess Prim, the ruler the world of the dead.
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Goddess Thion, the Goddess of Order and Magic.
And lastly, Goddess Siam, the Goddess of Light and Healing.”
“These were the 7 Goddess we Louridia worshipped… please bestow blessing for this courageous warriors.”
She muttered. Seconds later, the six people’s body even including the Lion started lighting up.
Truthfully, they were still many Gods they know but only these seven Gods the Louridia worshipped and revered. Some were not popular, some also quite troublesome especially the likes of Atria who are known to be a dark Goddess who loves chaos and war. One of the worst tricksters they called her.
The princess stood up, followed by the others. They felt something had changed within themselves but they don’t know what.
As they were wondering what it was, the princess spoke:
“You might have felt something strange but it’s normal…” The Princess reassured. “It means that you have been properly claimed.”
“Claimed?”
“Yes, that’s right… please look above you…” The princess said respectfully. As they did, the group finally noticed something floating above them.
Symbols?
At the top of their, an image of something was floating.
A Battle Axe, a Scale, an image of a woman’s face looking sideways with a long hair, book and a pen, and lastly a Bow.
Serena noticed the image floating above her head was that of a Bow.
“… Those were the symbols of the Goddess of your respective Patrons.”
“Now, please hold this and say [ Status Open ] With this, you can check your status…” Several servants immediately walk forward and gave everyone a small fist-sized blue orb.
Hm? Status?
What?! They have a status system? Serena was quite adept in games since one of her friends was into online games so she knows quite a bit after learning her talk about it with much enviable enthusiasm…
“Status Open…” Almost simultaneously, the Hero group called out.
[ Rick Simonth Lv1
Strength: H15 Endurance: H12 Dexterity: H12 Agility: H13 Mana: H40
Title: Hero
Patron: Goddess Hurd, the Goddess of bloodlust, Fire and war.
Unique Skill: [ Warcry ], [ Heroic Soul ] ]
[ Janice Simonth Lv1
Strength: H13 Endurance: H10 Dexterity: H10 Agility: H12 Mana: H35
Title: Hero
Patron: Goddess Saliyon was the Goddess of Love and Beauty.
Unique Skill: [ Charm Speak ], [ Charm Aura ] ]
[ Marc Trent Lv1
Strength: H13 Endurance:H12 Dexterity:H12 Agility:H15 Mana: H32
Title: Priest
Patron: Goddess Siam, the Goddess of Light and Healing.
Unique Skill: [ Healing Stream ], [ Light Blast ] ]
[ Marjorie Grey Lv1
Strength: H12 Endurance: H10 Dexterity:H12 Agility:H11 Mana: H28
Title: Sorcerer
Patron: Goddess Thion, the Goddess of Order and Magic.
Unique Skill: [ All Elemental Affinity ], [ Basic Elemental Magic ] ]
[ Serena Hail Lv1
Strength: H18 Endurance:H15 Dexterity:H17 Agility:H19 Mana: H22
Title: Huntress
Patron: Goddess Brid, the Goddess of wild animals and hunt.
Unique Skill: [ Beast Language ], [ Beast Tamer ], [ Bow Mastery ( Beginner ) ] ]
Guardian: Leona the Infernal Lion ]
Serena examined her status and saw that her level was one. If this was a RPG-like world, this was only natural, since she hadn’t fought with anyone yet and had just entered the game.
However, a Huntress ha…
Well, indeed, she had some knowledge about animals and how to survive in the wild since she always helped her uncle in the zoo and some workers there teach her their personal knowledge sometimes… but are skills given somehow related to you…?
Aside from her, the other people besides her were feeling ecstatic upon seeing their status, saying ‘I’m really a hero!’ and ‘Wow this is like a Dream!’ and stuff but Serena completely ignored them. They are just people with no brains…
Being a Hero isn’t always good…
Couldn’t they understand that they will be forced to fight if this goes on? Stupid teenagers!!
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