Otherworldly Heroes

**The Otherworldly Heroes** is the title given to those who are summoned by the Goddess Vysis to fight against the menace of Root of All Evil (the Great Demon Emperor currently).

## Story

Back to the first apparition of the Great Demon Emperor and the golden eye Monster, Vysis developed the summoning as an counter measure against the Tyrants Miasma that weakened at the inhabitants of the world, even herself, so she used her magic to transport people from other worlds, who would be immune to the Tyrant's Miasma and would awaken special powers through the effect of the summoning magic.

Since the first time, Vysis seems to have summoned many generations of Otherworld Heroes to fight the Root of All Evil, and this summoned persons have left their mark on the world, being protagonist of legends, contributing to the culture, magic and technological development of the world and letting descendants, which is known as Heroic Blood.

## Overview

### **Selection & Summoning**

The criteria that Vysis use to choose who summon isn't clear, however she doesn't seem to be able to know which ones will be strong or weak, so she always summon a numerous group of young people in order to increase her chances to acquire high ranking heroes. When the magic is activated the individuals called to Vysis World would see and white light that seems to envelope the world and then they would find themselves in front of the Goddess. Although not confirmed, Vysis claims that she's only able to summon people to her world, but unable to sent them back unless she obtain the Source of All Evil, which came from killing the Great Demon Emperor.

### **Ranking**

Upon arrive to the new world, the summoned heroes receive special powers that allow them fight menace of the Demon Emperor, and according who strong are the powers that them receive Vysis give them rankings which indicates which heroes are more important as war assets. In order to rank the power of the summoned ones, Vysis has a team of mages and assistants with her that use a special orb to rank them from E to S Rank. This ranking orb helps them to identificate the nature of the hero according the color that glows when the hero put them hand in the crystal, and through the intensity of the light the Goddess can asset the rank of the hero. According to Vysis obtaining a single S-Rank Hero is very fortunate.

### **Sacrifice and Culling**

#### **The Sacrifice**

Upon having all the heroes ranked, Vysis proceed with her first culling, the sacrifice of the lowest rank hero. Since Vysis doesn't need or want any useless or disobedient hero, with the time she has came with a process for culling and conditioning for her heroes, in order to make them obey her through void promises and fear. The first part of this process is allow them to be feel the emotion of the ranking, normally the high rank heroes get emotional by feeling themselves as the chosen ones, meanwhile the lowest rank start to feel anxiety about their futures. So in order to dispose to the ones who are useless and bring a sense of superiority to the D to B Rank heroes, she publicly dispose of the lower ranked heroes, justificating that they become dead weight for the other heroes, and remarking that at difference of the unfortunate E-Rank, the others heroes are the true chosen ones and have a role to play and that they all are important. This way the other heroes could always feel good themselves believing themselves superior to the scarified ones, and also could be intimidated in the future with the menace of being disposed.

#### **Second culling / First Trial**

Following the end of the summoning ceremony and the disposal of the sacrificial lambs, Vysis surprise the heroes with a sudden trial, "**the First Trial**", kill a living being. Knowing the diverse nature of the humans Vysis make her second selection forcing the summoned ones to kill chained monsters in order to confirm that they would be able to fight and kill. So those who are unable complete the test are the next in the list of being disposed.

Out of approximately 41 of the summoned, only 8 could not succeed, and 7 officially failed "the first trial":

Those 8 are: Minamino Moe from Ayaka's group, the 3 other girls from Ayaka's group (not Sogou Ayaka nor Suou Kayako), the 2 boys from Ayaka's group, and Zakurogi Tamotsu; Kashima Kobato officially succeeded (via cheating done by Ikusaba Asagi)

#### **Progresive disposal**

After identificating the useful heroes Vysis put them under a training course to developed their powers. However during the process she gets sure to identify the ones who are more rebellious or problematic that could get in the way of the others at the moment to fight the Demon Emperor. So she tends to orchestrate cover assassinations that look as training accidents or ask the help of a strong native of the world to kill the ones she dislikes.

## Powers

### **Stats System**

The Stats System is a interface that show the growth of the summoned heroes. This interface is a unique feature of the heroes bestowed to them through the summoning magic and allow them to check their stats which comprises their current levels, the skills that they can use detailed in them skil trees and their stats modifiers; all this data appears in a flying window, can be seen by anyone and is automatically translated to the native language of the observer.

#### **Levels**

The levels are indicators of the strength of the heroes and as their level rise their stats modifiers also grows, making extremely important for them rise them as much as possible, meaning that the most they kill the stronger they would become, making battlefield the perfect place for them to grow fastly. It's important to note that contrary to games or the "fantasy world common sense" the levels could only by raised by killing monster, so even if a hero kills an extremely powerful human them levels wouldn't grow by any percent. It has been said that all the inhabitants of Seras World possess levels, however only the heroes are able to see their levels through that interface.

#### **Stats Modifier**

A stats system that indicates the added values that enhance the bodies of the heroes. This means that the stats modifiers not reflect nor show the innate strength of the bodies of the heroes and even if one of them reach the HP 0 in them stats modifiers they still would have their innate HP and would remain alive, the same would apply to the MP a fact the Mimori Touka personally experienced as he used his inherente skill without MP and described the experience as a vitality draining madness. The rate of increasing and the initial stats modifiers seem to vary from hero to hero along them rank, as per example the E-Rank Touka had **+3** as all their initial stats except for MP, meanwhile the A-Rank Oyamada Shogou had **+500 in vitality** and the S-Rank Ayaka had **+1300 in attack** and **defense** stats. However, contrary to the expectance, it seems that the E-Rank heroes, as Extra Rank Heroes, possess a different value increasing system that that of the other heroes, with them stats growing by multiplication and not by addition. The stats modifiers contain 7 indicators:

* **HP (Health Points)**- Determinates how long they can last in a dangerous battle.
* **MP (Mana Points)**- Determinate the amount of times that the heroes can cast them skills.
* **Vitality (Physical Strength)**- Represent stamina, body endurance and how fast they naturally heal. At the mark of thousands in this stat the skin repairs automatically in minutes.
* **Attack Power**- Increase physical and magical attacks.
* **Defense**- The resilience of their bodies a high value allow them to receive the strike of monsters claws and slashes from weapons without more consequence than a scratch.
* **Speed**- The agility and velocity on the movements of the hero
* **Intelligence**-

#### **Skills/ Skill Tree**

Upon their summoning all the heroes become able to see the skills available to them though them skill tree, and using it they could decide the direction of them growth and which skills they want to acquire in the future. This feature is common in all the heroes and technically speaking is possible for them acquire any skill listed in the skill three meanwhile they reach the necessary proficiency and take the right path in their three towards that skill. The skills seems to be classified in level with advanced skills being very difficult to obtain. Also, they could be divided in attack, defense, buff, healing, and debuff skills according to them purpose, thus the common skills categorized in five frames:
1- Attack
2- Defense
3- Recovery (healing)
4- Ability enhancement (buffs and reinforcements may include debuffs)
5- Abnormal States (currently weak-achieved debuffs, aka the failure frame)

Although said that the skill tree is a common feature for all the heroes, in the current generation have appeared two heroes with a rare kind of skill tree. The first is Sogou Ayaka who received an specialized tree that allow her learn advance attack skills from the beginning, however she can only learn attack skills. Meanwhile, the second case, Mimori Touka received a skill tree that grows downwards, contrary to all the others that grow upwards, and only allow him to acquire abilities related to his inherent skill.

### **Inherent Skills**

The inherent skills, also called unique skills, are extremely powerful skills that are unique of high rank heroes and as fit for their names these abilities vary greatly from one to other and seem to be connected to the nature and aura of their heroes. This type of skills usually manifest only in the A- Rank and S-Rank heroes, although there seem to be exceptions as how the B-Rank Ikusaba Asagi and the E-Rank Mimori Touka who awakened these powers. The inherent Skills are one of the reasons of why Vysis put a lot of effort in order to acquire at least one of them, since the power of these skills becomes great weapons against the Great Demon Emperor. Also, although the unique skills appear in the skill tree of the heroes from the start, with the exception of Ikusaba, the skill wouldn't become available from the start, with rare exceptions as Touka and Kirihara, and the amount of time required for the heroes to awaken it is variable, as in the case of Ayaka who needed six months to awaken hers. Nevertheless, it seems that more that time a special trigger its what awaken this power as Sogou obtained access to it after reinforce her determination.

#### **Known Unique Skills**

* **Abnormal State Endowment** ---> Mimori Touka
* **Dragonic Buster** ---> Kirihara Takuto
* **Wind** ---> Takao Hijiri
* **Lightning Shifter** ---> Takao Itsuki
* **Laevateinn** ---> Yasu Tomohiro
* **Bullet** ---> Oyamada Shogou
* **Queen Bee** ---> Ikusaba Asagi
* **Silver World** ---> Sogou Ayaka
* **Disclose** ---> Kashima Kobato

### **Unique Items**

The unique items are byproduct of the summoning magic that materialize for each one of the summoned heroes and possess different powers. These usually boost the stat modifiers of the heroes and take the form of accessories like Sogou Ayaka pendant that gives her a boost of **+500** in agility, however there are also rare items like Touka's Leather Pouch that have the ability to teleport object even from different worlds. The items materialize by the side of the unconscious heroes upon their transport to Vysis, so the goddess lackeys take them as a prevention before awaken the summoned ones in order to prevent that the confused newbie heroes try to use them to attack Vysis or them; following the end of the first culling these are returned to the heroes after Vysis and her team confirm the powers of each one. These items are one of the reason of why the Goddess found so profitable to summon the Otherworld Heroes since the generated items can be used by anyone and remain even after the death of the heroes.

## Known Heroes

### Current Generation

#### **S Rank Heroes**

* Sogou Ayaka
* Takao Hijiri
* Kirihara Takuto (cryosleep (WN 331))

#### **A Rank Heroes**

* Takao Itsuki
* Yasu Tomohiro
* Oyamada Shogou (deceased)

#### **B Rank Heroes**

* Ikusaba Asagi
* Murota Erii
* Sakura Asami
* Kariya Ikumi (deceased)

#### **C Rank Heroes**

* Suou Kayako (manga reveal)

#### **D Rank Heroes**

* Kashima Kobato
* Zakurogi Tamotsu

#### **Unknown Rank**

* Minamino Moe
* Nihei Yukitaka
* Mamiya Seiko
* Chigasaki Atsuko
* Kanou Isuzu
* Amakawa
* Hiroka Akiyoshi (deceased)
* Sakuma Haruhiko (deceased)

## Current Generation factions

* Sogou Group
* Takao Dupla (joined Touka's mercenary group, allied with Sogou Group)
* Asagi Group
* Kirihara Group (cancelled)
* Yasu Group (cancelled)

Although not a heroes faction or group, Mimori Touka makes a group but with non-heroes, Fly King Squadron, unrelated to defeating the Great Demon Emperor (rather, for revenging against Goddess Vysis).

## Trivia

* Given the name of the previous hero Angrin, it could be supposed that the heroes doesn't always come from Japan or even from the Earth.
* Vysis prohibits the fights between high ranking heroes, however she doesn't care for enmities or the fight of lower class heroes.
* In the past Vysis had tried many methods to dispose of lower class heroes, the one who work the best and prevent their friends' rebellions was sending them to die to another place. So nowadays she sent all of them to the Disposal Ruins.