Several hours have passed, now the young man begins to regain consciousness after fainting from the effect of severe hallucinations.
"Goodness, what happened and where is this?" Confused.
He then tried to get up, while holding his head that still felt a bit painful. Struggling to stand up, his body began to feel weak as he almost stood, because of that he fell sitting on his knees.
"My body, feels strange did something just happen?" still holding his aching head. Confused about what happened to him, he then tried to look around, where this room was a little dim, but when he looked up, "wait, is the ceiling of this place designed for sunlight to enter, and moreover that is very—"
"Wah wah, finally you woke up after waiting for several hours." someone interrupted.
"How was your sleep, did you have a nice dream!"
Hearing that, the young man then began to be alert, looking around and searching for the source of the voice coming from this room, but because it was too dim he couldn't see anything. That also made him less focused because of the lack of lighting.
Because the young man's condition was not fully recovered yet, it made things even worse.
"Who's there, I repeat who's there!" He asked cautiously.
"Hey calm down, we won't do anything to you," replied that person casually, from behind the shadow.
"It's my fault too actually, for surprising you directly. You just regained consciousness from fainting, but I ended up startling you, so sorry okay." she said jokingly.
The tone of that person made the young man a bit annoyed, but he couldn't do much because his head was still aching.
Slowly the dizziness in his head began to fade, feeling better, he stood up slowly so his body could balance, the young man then looked here and there because he was confused by the new place he had never seen before.
The room that was a bit dim before, suddenly lit up and he didn't know where the source came from, the young man who saw it was shocked and could only be confused and didn't know what was happening.
After taking a look, it turned out that it came from a floating lantern that was glowing.
Then someone appeared from above the inner balcony and said to the young man in a cheerful tone, "tada, it's not dark anymore right or still a bit dark, sorry for the inconvenience."
After that person said so, the young man immediately turned around toward the voice, and what was even more surprising, the figure speaking to him was actually a young woman with a graceful and beautiful face and wearing luxurious noble-like clothing, but why was her tone of speech made overly cheerful.
"Wait, who are you actually and what does all of this mean?" Asked the young man to the woman calmly and still cautiously.
"Ehhh, was I just joking all this time!" replied the woman in surprise as she realized she forgot something.
"Well, maybe," replied the young man, shrugging his shoulders.
Is there even a noble like this. I don't think so.
The young man then began to ask something to the woman, "sorry, if I may ask, what is this place actually?"
"Oh, this place, this is the summoning place!" replied the woman cheerfully.
Wait what did she just say!
"Ehh yes, oh my I almost forgot to introduce myself. My name is Casca I am a Demigod" making a funny face and both hands forming the letter V.
Is that what they call the greeting of a nation to a guest, that looks weird!
The young man responded with an uninterested expression.
Is it just my feeling, that this room has 6 black curtains and 1 red curtain.
All those curtains seemed to surround the young man where his position was right in the middle of the room.
Whether it was just his feeling or merely coincidence, the red curtain seemed intentionally placed directly below the inner balcony, which was also the position of the Goddess Casca who was currently still observing the young man's movements, and that also made the young man even more curious, why did the red curtain have to be below her, was it the most special one.
Being so curious about it, the young man suddenly got a faint memory, as if remembering something, like reminding him of a video game from his original world. When the young man tried to recall the name of that game.
A voice without emotion suddenly said something inside the young man's head.
[THE MAGIC WORLD]
Goodness it seems something just echoed inside my head, ah this makes me dizzy. Because of that the young man held his head and endured a bit of pain.
Casca who saw him felt confused and puzzled, then asked the young man because his behavior seemed a bit strange, "hey, is there something bothering you? you look kind of weird, are you sure you're alright?"
Realizing that Casca had been watching him all this time, the young man began to act as if nothing had happened, "well, isn't that normal, you saw it yourself that I just regained consciousness,"
"What, you already forgot about that?"
Yeah hopefully she doesn't get too suspicious of me, goodness do I start to look like a weird person now, and I hope she sees me as a normal person like usual, yeah hopefully so.
"Ohh, you're right too, it seems I'm a bit insensitive about someone's condition." replied Casca with a cheerful face and without the slightest guilt.
Ah, somehow my gut feeling says something is about to happen.
"Ok, since there's nothing else to discuss, I want you to get acquainted with them and also introduce yourself to us," she said with cheerful enthusiasm raising both of her hands.
Introduce myself to them, what does she mean by that. Suddenly the black curtain to the right of the red curtain, fell down and without the young man expecting it that the contents of each curtain were—,
"Hello newcomer, nice to meet you my name is YAIRA, I am a light and cute little girl. Hope we can be good friends," said Yaira with a cheerful and lively pose.
[Status: Female, 16 years old]
[Advantage: ???]
Wait is that a panel screen, is that the status panel, and why only the gender and age are shown, what does this mean.
While the young man was thinking about what happened, now each curtain opened gradually until reaching the red curtain.
After Yaira's introduction next was Kocu [status: Male, 18 years old] with an arrogant face and indifferent to others, though his face was handsome.
Then there was Koyui with a face that looked condescending [status: Male, 8 years old].
Samanta [status: Female, 18 years old], Yano [status: Female, 17 years old], Kanae [status: Female, 18 years old]. The three of them showed expressions of fear toward the young man, and their advantages were also the same, unknown.
"Oh, yes now it's your turn, come on introduce yourself," said Casca enthusiastically.
Wait was that red curtain intentionally skipped, but why not from the beginning earlier.
"My name is Ace, Ace Hankaza. Nice to meet you all," said Ace while politely greeting.
"Wahhh, your name is so unique, hellooo Accee," said Casca cheerfully.
But that didn't last long after a panel screen appeared, where that panel screen, "wahh, Ace this is your status, let's see it," said Casca excitedly. But the excitement didn't last long, "wait what is this, why is only your name here!" Casca's voice that was cheerful before now sounded like someone dissatisfied.
"I expected too much from you, because of this I think you Ace, ARE NOT WORTHY TO BE HERE!" said Casca firmly with a displeased expression.
After Casca said that to Ace, coincidentally the red curtain directly below Casca fell and the person inside it was different from the others.
Wait who is this person why is he covered with a cloak, and why do I feel,
A BIT FAMILIAR WITH HIM
"You're already weird, because from earlier you just kept quiet when we first met there wasn't anything special about you," said Casca with a disgusted expression toward Ace.
"Wait but—"
"Rey, move him to the abyss now," interrupted Casca coldly and ordered Rey to deal with Ace.
Wait abyss, what does she mean by abyss and Rey who is he.
Without many words, Rey then did something like chanting a spell. A rather large magic circle appeared right beneath Ace and where it removed the floor beneath him according to the size of the circle.
"What the—"
Ace then fell into the abyss and he also screamed because he felt betrayed, because he was only considered as useless scrap.
Ace fell too deep, into the dark abyss, is this the end for him or,
THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF HIS NEW JOURNEY.
As Ace now slowly closed his eyes and only thought that he would really be taken by death, but fate said otherwise where he instead landed on a spider web whose size was larger than his body.
Even so it seemed the web was thin, which meant it couldn't support Ace's weight, until finally it made him fall below with a little pain.
"Ahh, am I, am I still alive, haahh thank goodness, I thought, ahh never mind the important thing is how do I get out of this place." he said with relief but a bit hesitant.
Is this a warehouse, maybe more precisely this is a place to survive.
"A bunker, wow it seems my life is starting to become something I didn't want," he said calmly.
Ace looked around in all directions, and found something that caught his attention. That thing was a different lantern on a table full of cute animal dolls.
Ace approached the lantern and saw a piece of paper beside it, Ace then took it and saw that the paper was written (The little star will always guide you to the safe path).
the words from that paper already showed that Ace, Now was not alone down here, but what is that.
"Such beautiful words, does it mean the light from this lantern is to help me get out, haahh I'm very grateful, to whoever wrote this," said Ace while keeping the paper.
Ace then immediately took the lantern, but something suddenly fell from the direction of the storage rack.
Ace approached it, cleaning the dust off the object, as he looked closely it was a weapon in the form of a knife, "a kitchen knife, wow I'm really lucky now, but I shouldn't be happy because I have to do something now," he said while taking the knife.
Feeling ready, Ace then approached a giant iron door.
"This is no longer preparation, but the worthy one is the one who will survive. Goodness I hate those words," complained Ace, holding the knife and lantern tightly.
Ace then saw a button on the side of the door where when Ace pressed it, the giant door opened and there was also a slight tremor.
Alright I have to be strong, whatever happens I must stay firm. Now Ace walked through the huge and dark corridors, but he wasn't alone because something was lurking at him from all directions from the darkness.
Will he find a way out for his freedom, and will he get good fortune now.
End of chapter (There's no way back).