Oversummoned, Overpowered, and Over It! Volume 1

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-7183-9248-9
Verlag: J-Novel Club
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten

Reihe: Oversummoned, Overpowered, and Over It!

Name's Inori Takafuji. I'm not really much of a 'go-getter,' if you catch my drift-sleep's more my style-but getting summoned to another world kinda messed things up. Bit hard to chill when you've got a king in your face telling you there's a bad guy you've gotta go slay or whatever, you know? Plot twist, though-it's actually not so bad. Getting the hero treatment sounds pretty nice, right?

But then it happens again! Some other clown summons me, I get my obligatory superpower, and off I go. And sure, that's fine. It happens, sometimes you get isekai'd to the wrong place. But then it happens AGAIN! Someone ELSE summons me, I get ANOTHER superpower, and then I'm somewhere totally new. Repeat ad nauseam.

All right, goddess, where to next? And lemme just say this-the next time I get summoned better be my last, because I am so over this!

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saitosa

Weitere Mitwirkende

Tsugutoku

Dunn, Geirrlon

Leseproben

Prologue

Today should have been like any other day, but it wasn’t. Out of nowhere, a pale blue light appeared on the floor in the classroom during our break, forming what looked like a summoning circle, and before I knew it, the room was enveloped in a blinding white light.

When I came to, I realized that I was standing in a blank, white space that stretched as far as the eye could see.

“Wh-What happened?!”

“Aghh!”

“Where are we?!”

The air was filled with the frantic screams of my classmates as they reacted to this incomprehensible situation. Well, I call them “classmates,” but truthfully, I’d barely ever talked to any of them. I didn’t even know most of their names.

But that was the least of my worries right now. Sure, I wasn’t as outwardly freaked out as they were, but in terms of cluelessness, we were all in the same boat. If I had to take a stab in the dark though, I had a good idea of what was going to happen next. Just going off of precedent, since we were in an empty, white space like this, then...

“Be at ease.”

Just as expected, a beautiful woman exuding elegance and grace wrapped in a pure white raiment appeared before us. She was very well endowed in both her looks as well as her figure, and the halo of light surrounding her caressed her pale skin hypnotizingly. In short, she was super hot. As proof of that, all the people who had been screaming and shouting just a minute ago were now either dumbfounded or blushing—even the girls were enthralled.

“I am what you would call a goddess. You are currently in the space between worlds.” Her voice sounded dignified and as if it came from the very heavens themselves, making my classmates gasp.

Some of them even blushed and averted their gazes. still

“Allow me to explain your current situation. You have been summoned to be heroes and tasked with defeating a demon lord. As such, your souls will be transported to Haigen Kingdom in the world of swords and sorcery, Beluze.”

“Summoned to be heroes...?” These words fell out of the mouth of one of my classmates before the space was once again filled with silence.

“Can we... Are we allowed to ask a few questions?” our class representative asked, raising her hand.

Wait, was she really raising her hand? Guess she was a really earnest person. Anyway, while even being able to ask a question in this situation was praiseworthy, the goddess only shook her head slowly with a mournful expression.

“This is but a passageway for souls. The time afforded to you in this space is short. Ten seconds is all that remains before you are transported to Beluze. As such, I haven’t the time to answer your questions.”

“Oh... I see.”

“However, first, I will bestow each of you with a Gift—a special power appropriate for the world you are summoned to. However, I advise you all not to allow yourselves to be consumed by this power, and to guide the people always, never straying from the path of righteousness. I pray that your futures are bright.”

Then, engulfed by a white light, we were transported to our new world.

“I-I have succeeded...” an unknown voice said through ragged breaths.

When my sight returned to me, I saw that we were now in the middle of a very large room, not too different from the size of an auditorium or a gymnasium. It was seriously huge, and the interior design reminded me of the Middle Ages in Europe. It was apparent from the marble pillars and such that it was expensively and carefully decorated.

The other thing I noticed was a young girl who seemed to be out of breath. She was wearing a blue ritualistic garb that didn’t exactly hide the sweat dripping off of her pale skin.

“It was a success.”

“We’ve done it!”

“Heroes!”

“Our saviors!”

The people around us were abuzz with excitement. From their extravagant clothing, I could tell that they were most likely nobles—maybe royal advisors? Apart from them, I also glimpsed a group of people wearing armor. At the very least, it would be safe to say that this wasn’t a normal sight in modern society. My classmates were apparently of the same opinion because they had become extremely guarded.

None of them seemed excited about this at all, though.

“Silence,” said a large man with a great beard who looked as though he were in his forties. He spoke in a low but powerful voice, leading the rest of the nobles to shut their mouths.

Judging by the way he was standing in front of the throne, I had a strong suspicion that he was the king.

“Well met, heroes. I am the monarch of Haigen Kingdom, Lizen Haigen.”

“Heroes, Haigen Kingdom welcomes you with open arms. We ask that you aid us in defeating the demon king—the scourge that has run rampant across our lands.”

As soon as he knelt, everyone else in the room did as well.

“King Lizen, please raise your head. May I be allowed a question?” our class representative asked.

“Yes. You may speak.”

“Will we be able to return to our original world, Earth?”

It made perfect sense that this was the first question asked. And of course, the answer was...

“Indeed, you will.”

“Direct any further questions to our holy woman here who oversaw your summoning,” the king said, instructing the woman dressed in the ritual garb from before to approach us.

She was definitely another looker. She had a slim figure and a cute face, which stood in contrast to the mature look of the goddess.

“I am the holy woman of Haigen Kingdom, Luishia. Returning you to the place from whence you came poses no difficulty. However, I am unable to do so immediately. It will be possible in one month’s time, during the next full moon. Those who do not wish to aid us in defeating the demon king may wait within the castle until that day.”

“When we’re sent back, will a month have passed in our world as well?” Our class representative posed her next question.

“No. You will return to the point in time that you were summoned. No time will have passed in your world.”

“Are there any among you who wish to return to your world? We will not stop any of you from doing so, even if it would mean that none of you remain here. However, I beg you all to heed our call. Bring salvation to our world!” At these words, the holy woman burst into tears.

Usually, this would have been the part where a self-proclaimed hero stepped up to the plate and rallied the rest of our classmates to stay and help. Unfortunately, the silence was deafening.

“I must apologize, but I think I speak for everyone when I say that this is too big of a decision to be made on the spot like this. Would it be okay if we used this month to think it over?” another one of my classmates said.

“I understand. In that case, we ask that you participate in some training on a provisional basis. Our knight commander will provide further instructions.”

At that point, a brown-haired man with a full mustache and an intimidating face emerged from the group of tough-looking warriors. “Thank you for the introduction. Hail, heroes. I am the knight commander, Lugario. As for the specifics of the training, those will have to wait until we actually begin. First, I must determine your abilities.”

“Our abilities?” the class representative asked.

“Correct. Either speak or think the word ‘status,’” he instructed us.

“Status,” I said. This whispered word opened a window that showed me all sorts of different information.

“It seems that you have the status of an average man of age,” the knight commander observed.

“All of my stats are average?”

“Indeed.”

The knight commander followed up by saying that heroes don’t start off with ridiculous stats. Judging by the reactions of everyone else, it seemed like they all had average stats...