Chapter 1
The Summoning
Royal Capital Palma
A world parallel to Earth, where swords and magic, humans and demihumans, and also demon race as well as monsters exist, a capital of the so called fantasy world.
In one district of this Royal Capital Palma's castle town, here, in the loading station of the Spade company, he, Banaza, today as well, was checking the luggage that being loaded into the cart.
[Banaza-san, how many more boxes still needs to be loaded?]
[Uhhhm, that cart is for the remote city of Batcombe, was it.... Please depart after loading three more boxes]
Banaza gives the instructions while comparing the documents at hand and the contents of the cart.
He, who despite being young, is being left in supervision of this place, spends his days while having a staring contest with carts, luggage and documents, and coordinating business talks that come from time to time.
He is extremely busy, but Banaza liked this kind work concerning numbers and commerce, so he spent his days fulfilling days without having much displeasure towards the situation.
[Now.... That should be the last of the shipments leaving first thing in the morning....]
After finishing checking the documents and the other line of carts that are unloading another time, seeing that the numbers match perfectly, Banaza nodded, as if satisfied.
[Well then, guess I'll go to eat lunch after checking the luggage to be loaded in afternoon shipments]
While saying that, Banaza lifted his head from the documents.
And
『The summoning of 198th Hero candidate was successful』
.....Excuse me?
Seeing the surroundings clearly different from the Spade company's luggage loading station where he was supposed to be until just now, Banaza was dumbfounded.
[Hero candidate-sama, please come over here]
Something like a miko looking female was talking, but Banaza who couldn't understand the situation happening to him, didn't realise that the words were addressed to him, just remained standing in place.
Where he was now looked like the middle of an altar, with a number of priest and magician looking people surrounding it while continuing to chant some magic chant.
This altar seemed to be inside even a bigger building, and the whole aspect of the place couldn't be seen with just the light coming through a few stained glass windows.
[Hero candidate-sama, the next candidate will be summoned shortly. Please move here quickly]
The aforementioned miko, took Banaza's hand, who was looking around in confusion, and moved him away from the magic circle.
Towards Banaza, who let himself be pulled off the magic circle, the miko, after properly facing him, respectfully bowed down.
[Hero candidate-sama. For answering our, magic kingdom of Cryroad's summons, thank you very much. This might be sudden, but we shall have Hero candidate-sama go through ability measurement]
...Summons?.....Answering?....Me?
Banaza gets even more confused with miko's words.
[You seem to be confused because of this abruptness. Well then, I shall explain briefly while the measurement taking place]
After saying that, the miko started explaining while leading Banaza.
According to miko's explanation
This place, magic kingdom of Cryroad, is one of the countries in another world that exists in a different dimension than the one that Banaza lived.
Cryroad is a giant nation that boasts having the biggest territory in this world, and is ruling many existing countries as their leader.
