Isekai Online's
Chapter 3 - Saintess's Request
The young man slowly opened his eyes.
A fragrant aroma pierced his nose, his gaze now replaced on a place with a row of elongated chairs and also an old grandmother holding a stick standing before him.
“Welcome, Guest177013” he said in a voice full of gentleness.
The young man looked at what was in front of him. His gaze was fixed on the old grandmother in white clothes and decorations that looked clearly like religious symbols.
The young man realized the point of view of his eyes had become higher than usual.
Now he looked at his body, raised his hand and moved one by one his fingers. Having such a strange taste sensation made the young man observe all his limbs.
The young man's gaze was fixed on the old grandmother's wand, the tip of the stick attached to something in the shape of a golden-colored ball reflected the young man's physical shadow.
The young man saw the reflection of his body much higher than the original world, a hand that was larger than his original size, even a weight that felt different. It looked like a man about 25 years old. A very unique sensation to compare the original world with the characters in the game.
A strange but real sensation was felt by the young man.
“This..?!”
“It feels very strange, I think I have to move a lot to get used to this new body.”
Making sure that there was nothing wrong with her body, she tried to do a light warm-up movement to feel some changes in her posture. In that light warm-up some sounds of stretched bones were heard.
Feeling that it was enough to warm up lightly, the young man looked back at the old grandmother who had been watching him.
“Em.. uh. how are you?” the young man was very stiff to begin greeting.
Their eyes meet each other. The old grandmother slowly bowed. Seeing such an unusual response made the young man speechless.
“Eh? Ne-grandmother? What happened?.”
“Wait! Eh? EHHH?!.”
The young man was full of misbehavior with this incident, anyone would definitely panic if meeting someone much older than him suddenly bowed before them. The young man's mind was only filled with how to respond to this incident.
“To-tooolong..help us!” said the old grandmother.
Instantly, the young man's expression became flat.
“Oh, yep, I almost forgot. That's that's what it's called.. Main Story? Telling's Story? A prologue? Or whatever it is a kind of.”
As if waiting for the young man's answer, the old grandmother still bowed. On the other hand, the young man's heart was still too fragile to ignore the old grandmother. The young man slowly approached the grandmother and led her to sit on an empty chair.
“Em, grandma. It's not about something like fighting a demon lord or anything like that right?”
The old granny shook her head, “This is much worse than that.”
The grandmother took something from her shirt pocket. A black crystal ball was sized according to his hand grip. Slowly the grandmother rubbed the crystal ball and a small light gathered together displaying a hologram of the building surrounded by trees and water that appeared to be a lake.
“Something worse than the demon king is threatening the peace of this kingdom” the voice of the old grandmother sounds weak.
The hologram enlarges and displays the contents of the displayed building.
“Eh?” the young man was surprised to see the building.
“It looks like I have to check the official rating of this game, I did not expect why there is such sensitive content in game” the reason the young man said it was so simple. The hologram shown to her contained a pile of corpses in rotting condition and piled up even the old grandmother looks restless holding her mouth with her hands to hold her entrails to stay inside.
The small sound of the old granny's tummy was heard. Felt it would be troublesome to clean it up, the young man tried to divert it by looking for another question.
“So, what's with this?” ask the young man.
The old grandmother looked back at the young man, her eyes slightly watering as a result of holding her entrails to stay inside. The young man understood how disgusting it would be if it happened so he took the small crystal in the granny's grasp and instantly the hologram containing the pile of corpses disappeared.
The grandmother regulated her breathing, her wrinkled little hands rubbing her tear sacs. The young man tried to calm him down by rubbing his back, he understood if it was useless but enough to change the atmosphere.
“You said something was going on even it was much worse than the demon lord? Actually, what did I just see?” without further ado the young man asked.
Although that sounds very rude to someone older but it is much better than seeing an old granny who has trouble breathing.
“Something bad is going to happen but we don't know what it is.”
“Hah? Whahuh? W-how? I don't get it! Please explain!” a big question appeared on the young man's face. Without clear information and armed with holograms containing corpses it is very difficult to understand what is going on.
[You got 3 incoming messages!]
His view is now diverted to the message he just received.
“Order?” the young man looked at the pop-up message floating before him until he remembered a voice command Isekai Online used.
“If not wrong.. Inbox!”
The notification screen was hit by the incoming message screen. There are several items with the same sender name clearly displayed.
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To: Super_Elite_Maid_#357947
To: Guest177013
Hello Master! The awaited item has arrived!
[1] 1 Exclusive Box
[2] 1 Newbie Box
[3] 1 Survival Box
P.S I made a little change!
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Just looking at the name of the sender [Super_Elite_Maid_#357947] already explains what the message is about. His main concern lies in the Exclusive Box. The young man recalled the words Maid had encountered earlier. An Exclusive package and very unlikely to be obtained by Player Isekai Online.
[Move everything into inventory? YES/NO]
The young man's hand pressed down on the [YES] choice option then looked back at the old granny who was beside him. If he did not do that, his attention would be far flung to observe the items present in his inventory. After all, the young man was very curious as to what was going on.
The old grandmother's body seemed to tremble, her lips were shivering, and her eyes lost their focal point as her consciousness moved from her body. Seeing this situation, the young man waved his hand and revived the old grandmother from her daydream.
“Actually what happened anyway? As the opening and main story part of the game, this plot is very strange.”
Again, the old grandmother had difficulty breathing. This situation made the young man very uncomfortable. This was the first time he had dealt with this situation. The young man tried to calm the old man down by touching his shoulder and shaking him hoping that the old man would calm down again.
“Nek?”
“Grandmother?”
“Oy! Please calm down!”
The young man was still trying to appease the old grandmother.
Suddenly, the sound of a door creaking through the ears caught the young man's attention. The sound of heavy footsteps could be heard. The source of the sound was located not far from its location.
Behind the wide-open door, soldiers with heavy iron armor gathered around the young man. Someone among them approached the old grandmother and extended his hand.
With a small sound, the hand let out a green-colored light and a small gust of wind could be felt by the young man. Slowly the old grandmother's breath was back to stable.
Because the door of the room opened suddenly, light from outside entered this room. The young man saw a lot of thin smoke and dust flying.
“Oh, so this is the cause” the young man just muttered.
An environmental condition that can make the airway narrow. For young people, this environment does not affect anything but for someone who is already old this environment is very dangerous. Thin smoke for room fragrances and dust that can be seen clearly has certainly made this room very difficult to breathe.
“Em.. granny.. How about talking about this outdoors? With your condition like this it is very unlikely to continue in a room like this” the young man gave advice.
The young man followed him from behind.
Passing through the thick gate stunned the young man.
“Heeh?! What is the time setting of the game adopts the medieval style.”
A much different atmosphere can be clearly seen.
As it passed through time space, the young man found himself in a medieval feel that was so thick with buildings that the majority contained rock walls.
His admiration continued until he saw a flock of dragons flying freely.
“Not bad also” the young man looks very enjoying the scenery in front of him.
The young man breathed the air around him. The fresh air that felt cold made the young man wonder about the time he had experienced.
The morning?
The cool air it breathes is similar to the atmosphere of the morning mountainous area.
They walked through the flower garden. Judging from its shape, it is not a common flower on earth. That was because its petals and flower stalks exuded a striking color and glowed yellowish white.
Their footsteps stopped right at a small gazebo surrounded by a flower garden. The shape of the gazebo is circular with a dome-like roof with a white color pattern. From a distance there is a round table complete with chairs around it.
The young man noticed a small symbol engraved in the middle of the gazebo table.
The old grandmother and young man were now sitting opposite each other. The atmosphere between the two became serious again.
The young man took out the crystal ball he took out and placed it in the middle of the gazebo table.
“I think it's better we continue our pending talks” the young man started talking.
Without any excessive movement, the soldiers who followed them began to form a circular lineup to cover and protect the two of them.
“After what I have seen and based on your sentence, there is something else that is threatening this kingdom. More precisely what?” the young man began to ask.
“That's what we want to know, Guest177013.”
“Means?” the young man looked confused.
“One of our Priestess found out the message there will be someone who can help us will come today, she said that after getting a hint from one of the holy angels of our goddess.”
“Priestess? The goddess? Angel?” the young man's brain was trying to digest the information he had obtained.
This world is much different from the original world, this kind of logic is indeed very difficult to accept by the common sense of educated youth. But because the world was different, this young man tried to accept everything beyond logic to stay on track.
The young man tried to dig up information that he might have been able to obtain.
“Our young priestess said there will be a Player capable of helping our impasse. He said there would be a Player with a Detective Class who would be born into this world. So for a while we closed our temple and waited for your arrival, Guest177013.”
“Huh?” it seems that this young man is reminded of a story of a savior of mankind from ignorance to better behavior. But, put that aside. It is highly unlikely that these are related.
“By the way, why do you know my name? We've never met before, have we?”
“...”
The old grandmother remembered that they had not met each other.
“Ah, sorry for the delay. My name is Vallie Lister, currently serving as Saintess of the Temple of Goddess Relena.”
Priestess and Saintess, those two words permeated the young man's mind. He felt he had heard at least that name but his memory was a little vague. For all he knew, the name was very important for rank in a religion.
“Em.. The saintess? Isn't that the person who matters?”
“We can put that aside, after all I'm too old to be a Saintess. I feel like taking a break and handing this position over to someone else”
“Is it okay Saintess said that? Isn't that position high enough?”
“...”
“Even if my position is high enough but if it can not cope with a situation like this is very disappointing.”
A heavy aura was among them. The topic of discussion felt heavy.
“You said I could help you? What kind of help?” the young man tried to straighten out this unfinished topic of conversation.
“I want to Guest177013 investigate what creatures we are dealing with!” the old grandmother's gaze became firm.
Right after, a thin screen window appeared before the young man.
The young man looked intently at what was in front of him.
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Special Quest – Saintess HOPE
Saintess Vallie Lister sensed a dark force trying to wake up. His duties as a Saintess protecting the surrounding community led him to send a reconnaissance unit for investigation. However, right after three days of the reconnaissance unit departing there was only one survivor. In her last attempt she gave a recorder crystal to give to Saintess Vallie Lister.
Main Objective:
[1] Find a lead to the perpetrator!
[2] Identify the perpetrator!
Difficulty Level: [Uncertain]
Recommended Level: [Uncertain]
Gift: [Uncertain]
Time Limit: [Uncertain]
Do you want to receive this Quest? (Voice Command: YES/NO)
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“It looks like it will be very difficult, but what about this uncertain gift?” the young man muttered slowly to make sure his voice did not leak out.
The young man looked worried.
As a student, he had absolutely no experience as a detective and suddenly got a request like this.
“So, what do I get if I help you?”
“...”
“...”
The young man's question made the atmosphere become washed away in silence.
The old granny fell silent and looked for the best move to answer him.
“You can give me money if too much consideration” the young man broke the silence.
“And now..”.
The young man stood up from his seat.
“Are there any eyewitnesses who can explain about this incident?” the young man said as he tapped on the crystal ball with his index finger.
Then, a confirmation voice [YES] sounded vaguely, as a sign of the Quest's approval being received.