Chapter 2: Summoning
This is a tale from another world.
A castle built on a cliff overlooking the sea.
This place was in the middle of a war. A group of human soldiers were holed up in the castle under attack by a long-eared race, the elves.
The battle was clearly lost on the human side. While the elves have an army large enough to fill the land, the humans have only a few hundred men.
Even though they are holed up in a solid castle, there is no doubt that they will fall in less than a day at this rate.
“Saint-sama! We can’t hold them any longer! The elves are going to break through the east gate!”
“Ugh, just hold on a little longer! It will be almost finished soon!”
In the central hall of the castle, a beautiful woman known as the Saint answered the screaming messenger soldier.
She was looking at a huge magic circle drawn on the floor of the hall.
“The hero’s summoning magic circle. With this enormous magic output, we could probably even summon a great hero to fight off the massive army of elves. “
The Hero Summoning Magic.
The revived lost magic, magic that only she, the saint with great magical power, was able to perform.
The hope of the human race is brought together and given form. It’s a technique that summons a hero whose name is engraved in legend.
It is one of the few means of counterattack left to the vastly outnumbered human side. If a hero with excellent fighting skills appeared, he might be able to turn the tide even against this overwhelming disadvantage.
This was their last hope.
“This castle is the last stronghold of this country, and if it falls, there will be no place for humanity on this continent. We must make it work.”
“Saint-sama!, the magic circle to summon the hero is complete!”
“Gramps, is that true?”
“Oh, this old man makes no mistake! Summon him, quickly! This castle will not last much longer!”
The magic circle is complete, then we know what to do.
The King, the Knight, the Sage. In front of everyone, the saint took a deep breath, then she cast her magic power and activated the magic circle.
The magic circle began to emit intense light. Immense magical power swells up, and the connection to the other world is formed.
” Th-this is…”
“Amazing! With such a great magical reaction, the legendary hero of legends must have been summoned, one so great that he could repel the elves!”
Those who saw it were convinced of the success of the magic.
But in spite of that── the harsh reality came.
The light faded, and there was nothing inside. All that remained was a magic circle that had been shattered by powerful magic.
Despair reigns. A nightmare no one can put into words.
The summoning of the heroes has failed. The magic circle is also destroyed and cannot be used to summon again. No, even if the magic circle had remained, it would not have been possible to summon a second time anyway, because the saint’s magic power had been exhausted.
The conclusion to be drawn from this situation is… the destruction of the kingdom.
No, it’s not just that. The entire human population of this continent will be violated by the reign of the elves.
A reality that makes you want to throw everything away.
But in the midst of all this, only one man did not lose his composure.
“I did not expect it to fail. There is no time left to perform the summoning technique again. Hey, guards! Take the Saint-sama and the Sage-dono at once and escape from this castle!”
“But, King! There is no place left to flee from the elves on this continent!”
“There’s a ship! Take it and flee to the sea! If we use the secret passage now, we can reach the location of our hidden ship! We must not lose hope in humankind!”
The hero summoning has failed. The downfall of the kingdom and the loss of rights for the humankind. A future where all humans on the continent are slaves to the elves.
This is now an inescapable reality.
But the king had not given up.
“I, the King, will buy you time until the Saint escapes! Hurry!, my knight, will you keep me company?”
“Yes, of course, our lives are dedicated to the king.”
The old king gave the order. To the kneeling knight.
The soldiers gave their final salute to their resolve and fled the castle with the saint.
And then ──
“King! The castle gate has been breached. The elves are rushing in… Gaaaah!”
The door to the great hall is flung open, and the messenger who rushes in is burned to death by fire magic shot from behind.
“Fragile, so fragile, this last stronghold of the inferior race could only take a slight nudge and be blown away by the power of the superior race, this Elf-sama”.
Behind the fallen soldier, a long-eared race of elves appears before the king and his men with a grin that is both smug and savage.
Further behind him, there are countless more elven soldiers. All of them were confident of victory and had sneering smiles on their faces.
The elf, who seemed to be the captain, looked around mockingly at the last few remaining troops on the human side, less than a hundred men, and then noticed the remnants of a magic circle drawn on the floor.
“Whoa, what’s with this magic circle? I think there was some big magical reaction, is it the art of summoning heroes? but there is no hero here, the technique seems to have failed! what an appalling display of inferior race!”
“What then, long ears? Don’t get too cocky just because you defeated us, you self-proclaimed superior race! Remember, we humans have not yet perished. Hope remains.”
“Are you a sore loser? Well, soldiers, kill the men and rape the women! you cannot have a child between an inferior race and a superior race, enjoy yourselves!”
The elven soldiers cheered at the outrageous order.
Although the human soldiers fought bravely to the end, they all died in the battle, needless to say, the fate of the women.
With that, the castle fell and the last human territory on this continent was lost.
But as the king said, hope remained.
It was not because the saint had managed to escape.
The Hero Summoning Technique hadn’t failed.
The Hero Summoning Technique was not just a technique for summoning a person who was considered a “Hero”.
It was meant to summon an existence of hope for mankind.
In the ocean far to the east of this continent, a massive magical reaction is occurring. And what appears is an island nation unknown to this world.
『Yamato Empire』
This was the moment when the modern country in the game, led by a certain player with various aliases such as “Bricas,” “Art College Dropout,” and ” Führer,” was summoned to this world.
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