Chapter 302 (1/2)

What Zhang Dong was looking at was a group of high school kids. They were wearing matching school uniforms and even carrying bags. It was clear that the summoning ritual forcefully pulled them over here.

This was different from how he got here. After filling up that strange email his mind was transported into the body of Zhang Dong. His previous persona of Matt was slowly being fazed away through all these years.

In his mind, he would always go back to his core beliefs but it was clear that he was slowly changing with time. Killing enemies and defending his loved ones was the biggest reason for that. Now he was a leader, one that needed to make hard decisions and prioritize the many over the few.

Now, these four were put in a similar situation but instead of leading others, they were here to kill demons. Those creatures didn't pose a threat to someone as powerful as he was but to non-combatants as these, it would probably be hard to stomach.

He also robbed them of a few encounters by taking out three of these archdemons during his travels. Thus he might have saved them from actually having to participate.

'Were these children supposed to arrive here at this time?'

Zhang Dong started thinking, he wasn't here for long. Only about a month had passed since his arrival. If these youths came at this very moment the demons back in the academy wouldn't have even shown themselves.

If he took this as a generic plot to a movie or novel then the kids here would be the protagonists. They would go through their training phase slowly fighting progressively more powerful demons till finally taking out one of the demon lords. The ones he fought were of similar power but they got progressively stronger with each iteration.

'I wonder if they also have some kind of system like me…'

He turned to Bob, his Ai companion. He wasn't visible to anyone besides him here as he resided in his soul world and reacted to inner voice commands.

'Scanning… scanning… affirmative, signs of similarities to the user's system detected.'

After nodding he continued to look at the quartet. The kids sure looked confused with so many people staring at them. Even more, considering they were of a different race and from a different world. He didn't notice it before but black hair was rarer here than blond or even the other exotic colors like green and blue.

'Interesting… now what will this King do with these kids….'

”The heroes are here but the language they are speaking is foreign to us, mages!”

The butler-looking person called out to the group of mages. They quickly moved in to deliver some kind of accessories which they then tried giving to the scared kids. They looked to be earrings, probably they would convert the sound and let the youths hear this place's language.

There was a slight problem that these people miscalculated. These adolescent youths weren't that trusting of the people gathered here. Everyone was looking at them as if they were zoo animals. The smallest girl quickly went behind the oldest while the only male from the group tried going forward to block the approaching mages with his body.

'Hm, at least he isn't a coward… though I can see that he is quite afraid himself…'

Zhang Dong could tell that the boy was sweating, his eyes were darting all around. It was clear that he was under a lot of stress but the mages continued pushing forward with outstretched hands, some of them even stepped forward while trying to put one of the earrings on one of the girls.

”Hey, get away from me you weirdo!”

The girl delivered a swift kick to the middle age mage that was going towards her. The man was clearly not expecting this as he fell on his butt while grasping his stomach. This girl looked like the more sporty type that was prone to anger, the look on her face was quite dejected.

”Is everything okay… the heroes look scared…”

Beatrice commented from the side while everyone looked at the scene playing itself out. It was clear that these kids weren't prepared for the summoning. The people here were quite mistaken in thinking that the heroes would just accept this sudden turn of events.

Zhang Dong on the other hand knew very well how they felt. He also was scared when he first arrived in a strange new world. There were monsters lurking in every corner but he was lucky enough to have an iron body to protect himself. He wasn't sure if these youths started out with enhanced capabilities. Their form of world travel was different than his so probably not.

”Don't worry, let me handle this…”

The King that was hanging out in the back looked progressively angrier. If he didn't do anything about this, there could be consequences for these rowdy high schoolers.

Thanks to him being quite of a weeb in his old days he had sat through many anime shows alike. Now with his enhanced intelligence, he was able to piece the language together that he once heard. The people here couldn't understand what these scared youths were saying but he on the other hand could.

”Wait, what is that spirit doing…”

The king wasn't alone in his booth, he was there with his current queen as well as with his concubines. His children and current crown prince were also here. This young man was in his early twenties and had a similar stern look like his father.

”Interesting… let us see what that spirit does…”

The king proclaimed which made everyone in this booth quiet down. Anyone besides the crown prince was afraid to utter a word, even he went silent the moment his father spoke up.

Down on the ground Zhang Dong had arrived at the scene of the summoning. Even before speaking to the high schoolers, he had Bob perform more scans on this area.

”Calm down, no one is going to hurt you.”