Fate/Inheritance

Remember that weird Chinese Gu ritual or something? The procedure that puts a poisonous critters in a container and they would start eating each other. That the winner of such weird war of eating each other up will have the strongest and vilest poison? Well I learned that in a hard way that I am actually one of those critter.

[Kuooooo!!!!] The fire giant roared.

"Shadow Thorn Bind Hostage! No. 1 hit the thorns!" Yamada roared after using a similar spell from a certain Job of a famous novel. (A/N: Log Horizon :P)

"Roger!" No. 1 said and swung his sword ki infused sword while chanting a spell.

[Kuaaaaaghh!!] The fire giant roared in pain.

"Oi! Who taught you that!" I screamed holding my spear while dodging the sword ki flying to me from No. 1000's direction. Hearing the shout of the Lord of Musphelheim beside me I took a glance at the fire giant that burned down a world being binded by thorn-like shadows. Stretching my arm, I wrote a rune that Lancer taught me dispelling the shadows binding my fellow compatriot.

[You damn brats!] A pissed off Surtr said and swung his blazing fist.

""Ice Buster!"" No. 1 and No. 1000 suddenly released a spell at the same time.

[Arrrgghhhhh!!!] Roared Surtr in pain. With them distracted No. 17 finally finished her spell and cried out its name.

"Earth's Judgement"

Raising the green spear, I rushed at the fleeing no. 1000 with the red spear aura I have. I sensed a sudden change in the mana around us and no. 1000 and Yamada who was running further had their path blocked by stone pillars and an earthquake broke their balance suddenly. Looking at such a big opening I rushed and beat up the two bastards and binded them with energy sealing restraints (which I asked the instructor to procure knowing Yamada who uses internal qi).

"Run rampant Surtr!" No. 17 ordered Surtr and started hitting No. 1 with his body clad in flames.

"Damn it!" No. 1 screamed when he saw me approaching. Dodging such blows No. 1 weaved in between the attacks easily but he still need to choose in the end. Choosing between the heavy and huge hitter Surtr and me who uses techniques No. 1 chose the former one.

"Sky Slash!" Releasing a strange sword technique, I was sure that it came from somewhere. (A/N: From Naver webtoon Nightrun, Sion/Zion Zail haven't seen it but I heard it's good)

In the end Yamada and no. 1000 did not get their fill and I got first. Honestly, I wanna cry from our situation. Pulling such techniques from fiction that I know a certain someone taught them makes me want to cry. Technically I am using things from fiction also but I can say they are now facts because it was given to me by a certain dimensional hopping troll.

Before we started eating our food the instructor suddenly walked to us alongside a beautiful silver haired, and slightly similar red eyed woman who is strangely fidgeting between approaching and distancing herself from the instructor.

"This is Harnel Sia the vice-director of the Intelligence Agency of the organization. She will ask you some questions for a few moments so stick around before you start eating." He said and left quickly but before he left a whisper suddenly reached my ears. "She is also your senior…"

Flinching at such words I sneaked a peek at my fellow trainees and saw their expression. Seems they heard it, I looked back and saw the smiling face of the woman in question and with her strangely mellow yet cold voice said to us.

"Let's start the trainee evaluations shall we~ my dear juniors~. The first one will be no. 17 follow me in this room for a bit and I will ask some questions~." She pointed at a prepared secure room and looking at the serious face of no. 17 walking in that room made me confused at such evaluation.

'Ma~ let's just talk and hide some things if she wants to ask s.e.n.s.i.t.i.v.e stuff~' I slightly taught like that unaware that I would question the weirdness of this organization in the future.

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Extra:

*Title Below*

While William and Yamada is busy working their selves up in another world back on Earth in a Japanese styled room in London a middle-aged man is holding a brush in front of a calligraphy canvas.

This man is the father of William born from a family of calligraphers, Mikado Michiriku. (A/N: I am not skilled in Japanese so with the power of the internet I mixed the noun for 'flow'; Michishio and the romanji of ink so to those who knows Nihonggo please don't get angry with me TwT.)

He just learned the undercurrent happening in the world currently alongside the fate of his missing son, William. So for such a stoic and silent man he distracted himself with the only thing he can do, write a calligraphy. His wife had already recovered from the shock and is now cooking in the kitchen while her daughter even if worried of her older brother is now concentrating in training herself in her mother's hobby of martial arts. Sighing and hesitating in writing Michiriku thought of his son.

If her daughter has the active personality of her mother, his son is similar in nature to him. He first wanted him to learn from his craft similar to him learning from his father but the boy did not have any scant interest so he gave up after he learned the basic. Her daughter instead learned enthusiastically not just his craft but she has also talents in the academic and martial side of things. Even if they growing up from each other, while her sister was being blatantly praised and him ignored Michiriku knows that they have a very close relationship and his son loves his sister with no malice.

The boy was instead fascinated by history and a specific type of entertainments that marked him as the derogative modern term of 'otaku'. Even if it can be considered wasteful for him to stick in such path were people tend to rot, he and his wife did not stop the boy for he only 'genuinely' smile and be filled of joy when he reads and watches those particular subject. Michiriku can only silently give his encouragement to his son.

"Geist particle…" Michiriku secretly whispered. After the children vanished the parents was suddenly called not just by the principal but also some big wigs from the governments and powerful families in the world and told them about an event brewing even from the time of World War II.

It seems that aside from the propaganda that the Nazi party at that time of being a 'superior' race they discovered a specific particle that will fully change the world. They called it the ghost particle or Geist particle for its elusive nature because it packs an energy stronger than any 'mundane' elements and more versatile to use in theory and the human body contains them. It may be elusive but it tends to be more active and visible in the crafts made from the occult so they tried to hoard those supernatural objects to study the particle and may be weaponized it.

But the war was quickly over before it was implemented and with the dawn of Operation Overcast and the succeeding Operation Paper Clip this knowledge was spread to the different superpowers in the world. They thought what their old enemy thought so they studied it. They discovered that it is also slowly changing not just the human body but everything in the planet to the atomic level. Then an event that shook their very foundation happened at the time of the 20th century. A 'visitor' suddenly arrived at the time in the middle of a secret World Summit proclaiming an upcoming invasion.

The 'visitor' is actually a missing person from the time of WWII. Ignoring him not aging aside, he manipulated the particle like an extra limb and did some things that will break the rules, theories and scientific knowledge humanity knows using no tools whatsoever. Bending space itself. He explained that he was 'spirited away' from another dimension were an endless war is going on between an 'invader' and a 'defender'. Because both sides discovered this world, the 'invader' plans to invade here and enslave them to be weaponized while the defenders thought to shield such a world full of potential.

The people at that meeting scoffed arrogantly at the man's remarks for they already saw the power of modern technology especially nuclear weapons but the man showed an interesting ability. Blocking a shot from a tank using his body only. Hearing that the most 'basic' soldier can do that easily (they can actually only block it by intercepting the shell using a mana cladded sword) so in their shock and fear they took his words seriously and followed his plans by sending the 'best' potentials this world can offer to that world, which his son actually belongs in that category.

Using a whole school building the man set upped a spell that will seek a 'group' (namely a classroom) that has the 'best' potential and send them to that world.

Because of the requirements of a specific age group to be sent, they had no choice but to send a group that barely reach the border requirements the spell can hold while they prepared and study the particle as much as possible in Earth for they need to be ready for the 'surge' of mutation that the particle will bring that supposedly would happen in the near future. (A/N: Think of it like a sudden growth spurt of magical things from the Fauna and the Flora akin to what happened in Everyone Else is a Returnee novel)

Sighing Michiriku finally started writing after thinking of those things and poured all of his turbulent emotions and worry for his son with his work. Finished in writing he heard his wife calling that the food is ready so he left his room after making some minor arrangements.

He did not know at that time inside his room that the two Japanese Characters he wrote… 'summon', 'magic' suddenly glowed brightly illuminating his room.

Rising of the Calligraphy Hero (part 1) [Side Story]

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Author's Note:

Basically this is a huge amount of complaint to a certain ScientistX-san~. Finally you made me surrender damn you! I finished this extra thinking I would drop it as a side story when I posted the Zelretch meeting William scene(I actually haven't written it yet due to me having not found yet the proper inspiration) but I noticed that some readers are not interested in this arc so to spice it up I dropped this. I had a hard time digging conspiracies stuff happening before, the german word for phantom, digging the name for William's dad and the half an hour rolling in my bed if I want to post this extra or not but my conscience finally won over my reason so basically... dmn you ScientistX-san!! Tell me your address right nao and I promise I won't beat you to death!!! >:3 Still no hard feelings ScientistX-san~ :3