Его не звали, но он приперся / They never called, yet he is here: Пролог

Prologue

Camrad_RIP 08.08.20 в 17:26

In any business from Street cleaning to Galaxy saving very important things - methodical approach and reinsurance from misfortune. Take care of it and the great part of the troubles does not disturb you. Wise humans and non-humans work like that methodical and careful. They don't want to fall over the plane surface and give numerous enemies the reason to push them.

Camrad_RIP 08.08.20 в 18:32

Rulers of Alureya considered themselves smart. and they have all reasons for this. That's why the problem of external interference they treat with great responsibility. Successfully, I want to say. So successfully, that couple of last centuries their power grew steadily, their scions receive new legendary and epic classes, gold and levels flow like river and problems ashamedly go away from chosen ones.

Camrad_RIP 08.08.20 в 18:49

Payment for power and stability - lives, blood, and souls. And the suggestion that they don't want to make payments themselves gonna be definitely true. Literary they didn't pay at all and live this very important responsibility for proper peoples.

Camrad_RIP 08.08.20 в 18:57

For Herous.

Camrad_RIP 08.08.20 в 18:57

Institution of Chosen Summon was a craft in the flesh of the world a long time ago. Before the time of first kings.Before the System itself. This institution was made by Gods but definitely not modern ones. Anothreones much older and elder Gods craft a structure that capable snatch a soul from the foreign world, clothe it in the flesh and most important give the Power.which was complicated even for their abilities. Chousens and Heroes received as a gift from the world itself power incredible for commoner citizens of Alureya.

Camrad_RIP 08.08.20 в 19:13

Get an epic or legendary class from the beginning? Easy. Heroes get such classes almost always. And they evolve it in something unimaginable. Keep in mind accelerated experience gain and simple leveling. Summarize it and as a result mechanism of destruction for the mortal, undead, and even entities immortal on the conceptual level.

Camrad_RIP 08.08.20 в 19:21

Obviously, the wielder of such power demands a high social status. Just through the low of power. Naturally, the elite doesn't want to share authority. No one wants to share with impudent newcomers. But newcomers were strong, very strong, incredibly strong. Rulers, on the other side not always were so powerful.

Camrad_RIP 09.08.20 в 17:45

They pitted Heroes against each other, sent to suicidal missions, poisoned them, and take care in other ways. They exalt certain Heroes, bond them through marriage, intrigue, and other social magic. Sometimes successful, sometimes not, In second case, intriguers just die.

Camrad_RIP 09.08.20 в 05:38

And then someone, maybe Gods themself, found and make the solution.

Camrad_RIP 09.08.20 в 17:47

Extremely sneaky and beautiful in simplicity.

Camrad_RIP 09.08.20 в 17:56

Good known that creators of Yoke very long talk with different Heroes and Chosen. They elicit the smallest nuances of the Call and mechanism of its work. And then they create a masterwork.

Camrad_RIP 09.08.20 в 18:03

Heroes have very high resistance against mental influence and brainwashing. This power-up linked to the Hero title. When the summoned soul became a hero, mind and will get proper protection. It was not unbreakable. But using mental control or mind trick against heroes was suffering. And after leveling and power grow any attempt to corrupt a hero was doomed to fail.

Camrad_RIP 09.08.20 в 19:44

Yoke didn't fight against the heroes' title.

Camrad_RIP 08.08.20 в 19:38

It works in between. In a moment when the soul was in the Hall of Сhoice already and didn't choose a class and gifts yet. At that moment the soul was a common human soul. from the scrubby world, often industrial. It wasn't easy to subdue such a soul, but definitely possible.

Camrad_RIP 09.08.20 в 19:58

Over time, local magicians even learned how to force the summoned to choose the right class, the right legendary, or even mythical, artifacts and other tinsel.

Camrad_RIP 09.08.20 в 20:13

Then, after the summoning was done, the Hero was carefully manipulated – some alchemy in food, a girl in a bed, some spells to completely bind his mind, and he never even noticed anything, much less resisted. Heroic title was a really solid defense, but if the path is already well known and cleared, bypassing the defense is just a matter of practice. The poor bastards were usually directed to clear camps of orcs and dens of bandits, just to get those first, easy levels.

Mortis_X 20.11.21 в 11:24

And then they, who didn’t even understand what was going on, were sacrificed in rituals, their classed literally ripped from their very souls, and then implanted into those who needed them more, that is in; sons, daughters, in most loyal of the ruler’s underlings and of course, in rulers themselves. Sometimes, if the Hero is eye-catching enough, he or she may be used as human pet or a lover, seeing that their personal power was still just as absurd. However, I believe this is still death, even if not a physical one.

Mortis_X 20.11.21 в 11:32

Why they keep Heroes alive at all?

Camrad_RIP 08.08.20 в 19:35

Simple, if you extract someone’s class, it gets downgraded by a rank. Mythical class turns to legendary, legendary becomes an epic, epic becomes rare and so on.
Sometimes, if you need a good and reliable weapon, its easier not to kill, but to use (in every possible way) Heroes as they are. The fact that it wouldn’t be you, who have to risk your life on the battlefield, but the summoned nobody, was just a sweet bonus.

Mortis_X 20.11.21 в 13:29

Add all this to the fact that Heroes, unlike normal people, receive a right to acquire three classes on their very first day in Auriel. They don’t have to wait until twenty fifth level to get the second class, and until level fifty to get the third. Heroes are getting the best stuff. No registration or SMS required. The full fledged Chose Ones get a total of five slots for classes, as well as a wider choice of said classes, all on level one too.

Mortis_X 20.11.21 в 13:30

It's a dream, not reality.

Camrad_RIP 10.08.20 в 06:05

Heroes live and even didn't know about slavery.

Camrad_RIP 08.08.20 в 19:23

Thay die like this.

Camrad_RIP 08.08.20 в 19:23

It had been like this for a very long time and it seemed that it would be so forever and ever.

Camrad_RIP 08.08.20 в 19:34

And then I came to Alureya.

Camrad_RIP 08.08.20 в 19:24

I was saved by a universal power of human -and inhuman- idiocy multiplied by a factor of sheer chance. Someone didn’t get the right ingredient, someone wasn’t watching the ritual carefully enough, someone just plain and simply fucked up… and so I lived.

Mortis_X 20.11.21 в 13:31

It actually wasn’t uncommon, sometimes the Yoke wasn’t successfully applied on the summoned, those things happened from time to time. Its troublesome, it causes unnecessary expenses, but it isn’t really a problem. Said ‘lucky’ summoned were killed the moment they appeared in the summoning circle; they were given no chance to survive.

Mortis_X 20.11.21 в 13:33

Everyone knew about our strength and no one wants unnecessary risk.

Camrad_RIP 10.08.20 в 06:08

However, the fuck up in my summoning was considerably more major then just failed attempt of brainwashing – as I didn’t even appear in the summoning hall. Even that, by itself, was hardly a problem. Things like that happened from time to time too, and the way to deal with those situations was also sharpened by millenniums of practice, that is, sending a search-and-destroy taskforce after the Hero always did the job.

Mortis_X 20.11.21 в 13:31

No, the real problem was that they though that the summoning itself failed, those giving me the most precious thing they could, the very same thing that they shouldn’t have given any rogue Hero no matter what.

Mortis_X 20.11.21 в 13:33

Time for preparation and leveling.

Camrad_RIP 10.08.20 в 06:09

And here we go.

Camrad_RIP 09.08.20 в 05:29

Actually, let’s take a step back. To the time, when I just appeared in the Halls of Choice and was completely fucking awe-stuck by what was happening, as any normal being in my situation should.

Mortis_X 20.11.21 в 13:34

Literally a second ago I’ve seen a blinding light of a crimson, glowing pentagram, that appeared under my comfy chair, then boom! I am here.

Mortis_X 20.11.21 в 13:35

The ‘Here’ appeared to be a giant hall, where the ceiling was so high up, I wasn’t able to see it. In the middle of said hall, like pumpkins in Harry Potter, a lot of cards were floating. At the time I had no idea what they were there for. I felt no panic or excitement. I just knew somewhere deep inside that ‘that was it’. I got issekaid. Just like in so many novels about issekai with a System that I’ve read.

Mortis_X 20.11.21 в 13:35

Yep, no more no less.

Mortis_X 20.11.21 в 13:35

So, I didn’t break down sobbing, I decided to look around, instead of, say, go around choosing cards, that were probably gifts from the System that any intitled Issekai protagonist was supposed to receive. This decision, by the way, saved me and my ass from a very terrific fate, as when I was turning my torso around, I caught a glimpse of movement behind my back. I’m so glad I was smart enough not to freeze, or turn around to search for the source of the movement. Instead, I jumped ahead, as if diving into transparent-looking black floor.

Mortis_X 20.11.21 в 13:35

When I finished the roll (and it was a roll, not me falling painfully on the floor!) and turned around to face the source of my troubles, I screamed. Like a virgin nun on the gathering of serial rapists, I too, was ready to confess all my sins and repent in hopes of divine salvation. The eldritch-looking thing, that resembled a product of love between a flying spaghetti monster, and classical tentacle monster, didn’t appreciate my heroic maneuvers, nor did it like the strength of my vocal cords, and it was clearly planning to repeat the previous leap, probably to hentai me in every hole I’ve got.
My heroic soul was strongly against said act of hedonism, which immediately maxed-out my motivation bar, and made me scream a few pitches louder then I already was, even as I started running in circles, wobbling from side to side, praying to god and everything holy to save my ass, and for the first time in my life I meant it literally.

Mortis_X 20.11.21 в 13:36

God didn’t come down for me, but it seems he was somewhere nearby or was at least listening, because somehow the fucking thing didn’t catch me. In my attempts to escape from it, I crawled into the furthest corner of the hall, -said hall, by the way, wasn’t actually as big as I would’ve liked-, when suddenly this filthy thing just… vanished.

Mortis_X 20.11.21 в 13:36

I still had enough fight in me to silently curse, after that I fell to the floor. It seems, I even lost my consciousness from all of the new traumatic experiences I lived through. Maybe I fell asleep. Can’t tell.

Mortis_X 20.11.21 в 13:36

When I woke up again, there was a giant folder just frozen in the air in front of me. No, really, like an actual folder with files, it was white and made of paper that was held together by paper clips. Back where I worked, we had some of our useless reports stored like that. The kind, that we weren’t allowed to just dump in the trash because the boss said so. The funny thing is, the folder was there from the start, I just never noticed it – I had other things to worry about, problems that needed to be addressed first. Saving my anal virginity, for once.

Mortis_X 20.11.21 в 13:36

I got to my feet, trying really hard to burn a hole through the folder with my stare alone. Then I carefully and quickly touched it, after which dove to the ground, shielding my head, you know, like in the movies. When the main character is being bombed, or have a grenade thrown at him, and he falls to the ground like that, while the shrapnel and the blast wave just goes past him. You know, the classics!

Mortis_X 20.11.21 в 13:37

Nothing happened, and I felt like an idiot. I mean the bigger idiot then usually, and that by itself is one hell of a milestone!

Mortis_X 20.11.21 в 13:38

I rose to my feet once again, this time touching the levitating folder a bit firmer, then I opened it, and did what is supposed to be done with any folder with a report. No, not whipping my ass with it, even though I did consider that option. I started reading the thing with caution – you know, in case it’s a Necronomicon or something and I’ll accidently summon good old Cthulhu?

Mortis_X 20.11.21 в 13:39

But my caution seemed to be in vain, in the folder there was exactly what one would expect: a report. A report about all the heroes who were summoned, about their deeds, lives and deaths. Amazing read I must say, even if a bit dry in language and written too methodically, but that’s how a report should be. And the further I was digging into the lives of my predecessors, - I didn’t start with ancient times, I actually started reading about the ones who got summoned just before me – the more I was getting enraged, well that, and also horrified immensely.

Mortis_X 20.11.21 в 13:39

You know, I, myself am quite something. I can’t really call myself a good person, but neither was I a complete scum and degenerate, or at least so I hope. And even though my mind was seasoned by internet and 4chan, I was getting grossed out by what locals did to my fellow issekai-victims/colleagues. I also was getting scared shitless the further I went, as a realization settled in, that what happened to them, could have happened to me. Still could happen in fact.

Mortis_X 20.11.21 в 13:39

I was forced to something unfamiliar I sit and start thinking.

Camrad_RIP 09.08.20 в 20:16

It was obvious that I had to choose classes to leave this place. I didn’t feel thirsty or hungry, but neither did I felt like spending the rest of eternity here.
So, I had to actually open the System window, and start reading the information provided there.

Mortis_X 20.11.21 в 11:11

I, as a full-fledged Hero (and it’s a real shame I wasn’t a Chosen One) was supposed to choose one legendary and two epic classes. I could’ve exchanged one of those things on, say, an artifact of a higher grade but that’s it. Considering the sheer scope of the problems I will be having, what I was offered wasn’t exactly enough.

Mortis_X 20.11.21 в 11:09