When I think back to that moment the day was like any other, I woke up, I got dressed, I went to school nothing out of the norm. I get to registration class, the usual chatter all around me as I sit at my desk my friend Peter sat next to me on his phone.
He started telling me about a new game coming out soon but I looked out the window thinking I seen a peculiar looking pigeon before he tapped me and I looked back, the teacher had left to deal with some boy outside who started a fight but as one of the girls was about to leave hearing rumours that it might be her boyfriend the door clicked.
It didn't make sense no one was near the door except her and she wasn't close enough to lock it, she tried the door to no avail and since she wanted to be funny she screamed that we were all gonna die which made a few people chuckle.
Bang! A storm outside the window no warnings just instant a tree was lit on fire, it was weird as storms don't usually get bad here let alone light something on fire, people weren't panicking but it felt uneasy.
Power went out and in succession everyone put their phone flashlights on now people were slightly panicking I finally stood up and was gonna go for a bathroom break as an excuse to do a lap or even skip school the door wouldn't budge like someone was holding it from the other side.
Everyone's phones short circuited and noises were heard thud thuD thUD tHUD THUD, getting closer till I succumb and hit the floor, my head is spinning, my routine is out of place, today was all normal and now I'm passing out
I can smell roast dinner like my dad would make for Christmas it smelt good I reached out my hand to grab a fork and grasped at nothing realising it was too good to be true, nothing ordinary happened today not even a dream, I walk around my room finding the small crack in the wall my little brother put their all those years ago tearing it open I'm sucked into a void violently woken up with a sharp pain in my head and now we're back to to the present.
As my head leaves the ground it's not carpet but dirt I can't smell the usual scent of the candle my teacher refuses to put out it smells like sick, I quickly find out why since a few people in my class threw up but I already see a few people standing up so I slowly stand along with everyone, we seem to be in a courtyard of sorts as a knight sword in hand walks over his face littered with scars his hair was grizzled but he didn't look like your average old man he was bigger and wider than anyone in my class and his gaze was cold making me feel a shiver.
He spoke in a deep rasped voice "I won't say this again, all of you will follow me now questions will be asked when we are there" the whole class looks around but even if we out number him we have a feeling he wouldn't lose to us no matter the weapon in hand.
We follow obediently forming a line of our own accord the popular girls kept yapping to eachother which didn't surprise us but what did was the man's patience for not doing something, everyone gets a little comfortable shoulders falling into a more relaxed position as we begin looking around as we are already walking toward a camp in the distance.
The farmer boy jack in the front with confidence from who knows where asks "where are we" the man lets out a huff and turns around before gripping his sword and speaking "we are on the continent Elphasia and right now your at a military camp" he begins walking again but his answer made the girls start ranting about conditions of the camp and how they weren't built for the military while checking their nails.
My friend Peter isn't scared he's quite excited since we were transported to another world we are gonna be heroes, I'm also excited though I'm a bit hesitant in the mangas I read if a hero gets transported they usually get a greeting from royalty with promise of reward, here it's a land of forest and one camp nothing like I've read.
As we slowly enter the camp we can already here whispers "newbies for slaughter" they chuckle "captains brung us more shields", we slow to a halt and the captain lets a shout "shut up!" It felt like a roar like his words were imbued with ferocity, some of my classmates fell back holding their ears the soldiers immediately shutting their mouths and going back to their weapons or whatever they're meant to do.
I was at the end of the line I was least affected by the shout, the man looks around and speaks "you are all here to fight for our continent from the demons that persist to fight on, you cannot return home so you have to learn to live your life here, all of you will have a skill in a status window, if you say status window it will open, got it" he says the last part likes he's talking to toddlers but I don't mind it.
"Status window" my voice comes out raspy from not speaking for a bit, the typical blue screen in all the mangas pops up telling me my name, race, class, stats and skills, i look around finding a log to sit on before I look at my stats, worse than average in most places, an average human has 10 in each stat but I've got low everything aside from one stat.
Name:
Race:Human
Class:None
Stats:
Str 11
Vit 9
Int 7
Dex 8
Agi 8
Skills (1)
The captain speaks after he had to explain how to open the status window to the people who took the full force of his shout "you get one skill when you are transferred over you have to develop other skills by yourself" the girls begin huffing about having to work as the captain leaves us with a few tents and a spot to put them.
Me and my friend set up the tent and go inside to rest I lay back and look at my status window and click the skills tab
Skills:
Swordsmanship F 0%
Your understanding of the sword is slightly better than that of a beginner, this skill is a main branch skill which means you can develop other skills off of it, sword attacks do 1% more damage
Into floods into my head about how to hold a sword and the stance for a basic attack before I shut the window as the girls wandered into our tent "hey you two we can't set our tent up and it would be great if you could do it for us" they're hands are infront of them showing off their cleavage before I think I'm already stood up helping them make a tent with Peter they looked nice and even asked us nicely why should we say no?"
After we got back to the tent we slumped back with a sigh as I spoke "dude we were used" I chuckle, Peter replies "I know dude, so what's your skill Noah?"