Nihility [ Isekai • Dragon Evolution ]

Chapter L1: Not a Normal School Day



Everything was fine, I was in class with my two best friends, Marcos and Alex, when suddenly he asked us if we could see something on the ground, but neither me or Alex saw anything out of the ordinary. Our teacher, Ricardo, dropped a bunch of heavy books on his desk because we were talking, but other than that the class kept going as normal.

After the bell rang and he left the class, Alex was asking what we would do later in the day, as it was Marcos birthday, but stopped after she had hit something. I tried to walk to her, but smashed my face into something as well. Right about this time, somebody had tried to walk out of the room, but found the door locked, and then it started.

Marcos began screaming in pain, causing everyone in class to look at him as he threw up on the floor and screamed, then white lines appeared all around the classroom, causing everybody to begin panicking. They tried to open the door and smash through the windows, but to no avail, it seemed that space itself was trapping us inside the room. I mean, what other explanation could you give to a glass window being able to resist a student picking up a desk and smashing it in the window, repeatedly? As I was frozen watching it all unfold. Alex tried to get to Marcos, who kept screaming in an agonizing way, but was being blocked by some kind of force field. She even tried to smash through it with a couple chairs, but like the other student trying to smash the windows, had no success.

Then, I heard a cracking noise, and the sound of Marcos' scream vanished. I watched in horror as he was still there, mouth opened and locked in a silent scream as his tears began boiling in his eyes. Dark cracks covered him, his desk, the floor and even the very air around him before starting to break apart like the very fabric of reality was a shard of glass.

Suddenly the whole classroom exploded in a blinding light, blinding me and muffling my and everybody else's screams. I felt my body being enveloped in something as I struggled to maintain my footing, but not failing as somehow even when my body was all twisted in strange angles, it still felt as if I was standing straight. The thing that enveloped my body began finding its way inside me through every pore of my skin. For a few moments I even felt that my body had been disintegrated before a screen suddenly appeared in front of me

[RPG HUD has been initialized]

[Friendlist has been initialized and friends automatically added]

[Game Inventory has been initialized]

There was suddenly a game-like HUD in my vision, complete with a mini-map, health, mana and stamina bars, a clock, an inventory button and a friends button. The mini-map was full of static when I looked at it, but then another screen appeared in front of me.

[You have been cursed. [Summon Soul Bind] curse has taken effect]

The blinding light faded away, revealing a few people with dark robes clad in amulets from head to toe. Everyone was scared, including me. Frozen in place, seeing those mysterious people appearing after the whole class was covered in a blinding light was enough to root me in place, only snapping out of it after one of those people sighed in relief and walked to the middle of the room.

Seeing the person walking near me in the direction of where Marcos was made me rapidly look at his direction, but to my dismay he was nowhere to be seen. The place where he once stood in pain replaced by a strange floor and a giant egg shaped glass that looked like it had a nebula trapped inside it floating in the air, it wouldn't take me much to actually believe it really was a nebula inside the egg if wasn't for the fact that once the person placed their hands on it, it cracked and broke apart like dust.

"No, no, no, no. This can't be happening" The person said, horror mixed in her voice.

"Pontiff?" Another person, clad with the same robes the first one had, walked through my classmates and reached the first one in less than a second.

"Ferdinand, please take them and get them situated. At least we will give them a chance to live. Forget the half-demons, Lilith herself will make sure the entire kingdom will cease to exist" The pontiff said to Ferdinand with horror and sorrow in her voice, as if she had just given up. Her face was still looking directly at the dusty remains of the once egg that occupied the center of the room.

Ferdinand looked at the dust on the ground for a moment before looking back pontiff. "I don't understand. Was the Void pressure too much for it to handle?" He asked, but pontiff just shook her head.

"Some form of resonance. Broke space apart like glass and drained what survived from any kind of energy until it couldn't even hold shape, turning to dust as you saw" She explained before turning around and looking at us. She removed the hood that covered her head, revealing a pair of long ears, long flowing blue hair and amber eyes. Her skin had a chocolate color and was smooth as a baby. If it wasn't for the situation that I was in, I would certainly fall for her.

"Welcome, otherworlders. I'm Avorá, the pontiff of the Church of Theo, the God of Space" The person that now I know wasn't named pontiff said, "I know you must have lots of questions, but I ask that you follow Ferdinand's orders for the time being"

"I am Ferdinand, cardinal of the church. Follow me, quietly" Ferdinand said, removing his hood as well. He had golden short hair, deep blue eyes and short ears. If I was to determine his species, I would say he was human, but we were probably in another world and who's to say humans are a thing here? He could be a subspecies of elf for all I know.

He began looking around our classroom and after finding the door, he began walking towards it. My body began to move on its own at the same time, it caught me by total surprise and I was shocked when I realized I couldn't control my own body, not even talk, though I could move my head and eyes slightly to look around, I had almost no control of my limbs.

After we started walking and the shock of losing control of my body faded away I began to think about the events up until now.

The flash of light and everything was probably a ritual to summon people from another world, a fact that was later confirmed by that woman, Avorá, by calling us otherworlders. And she is an elf! Dude, we're in an isekai! Like, a real one! Not something I would read on the internet, this is a real-life isekai! True, it didn't happen by being run over by truck-kun, but whatever. I thought to myself as I looked around seeing the strange architecture of the place. Everywhere I looked the walls and pillars I saw looked twisted, like space itself was twisted, which I didn't know if it was actually the case or just a clever trick of architecture.

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Next, in a classic isekai trope, I called upon my status screen with my mind, and if I had control of my body I would roll on the floor laughing after it appeared in front of my eyes as a holographic floating screen.

Name: Leonardo Silva Monteiro

Age: 17

Species: Transmigrated Human

Lv. 1

Status: Normal [Cursed]

HP - 5.000/5.000

MP - 5.000/5.000

SP - 1.000/1.000

Strength - 1.000N

Defense - 1.000N

Magic - 500

Magical Defense - 500

Dexterity - 500

Stealth - 500

Precision - 500

Titles -

Otherworldly Human

Universe Hopper

Skills -

[Unique] RPG HUD

[Unique] Friendlist

[Unique] Game Inventory

[Curse] Summon Soul Bind

So, apparently I wasn't a human anymore, but a "transmigrated human". Sincerely I don't think it makes a difference? I'm still "human" after all. I'm level 1, That's usually what happens on isekais (most of the time). I have a status condition of being cursed, probably that thing I saw earlier. Then there's life, mana and stamina, again, pretty normal stuff for a game-like isekai. Then my attributes, a thousand for strength and defense, I guess that's neat? But without anything to base off of, I can't be sure, though I wonder what is the N on them, it's the only two attributes that have them. Continuing, next are my titles, I have two, and they are pretty self-explanatory huh? I am a human from another world and I jumped (more like kidnapped) universes. And finally my skills.

The first of my skills is the one responsible for me being able to see the HUD around my field of vision, but I have two more game-like skills, a friendlist and an inventory. Accessing my inventory was as easy as pulling my status screen as I just had to think about it to bring it up. The inventory itself was really game-like, a screen with various slots to store things, though I can't exactly test them, and it is currently empty. Finally I had the [Friendlist] skill to check, I left it for last because it probably was one of those normal looking friendlist of games.

Opening the friendlist yet another screen appeared before me, as I guessed. Though the content of it made my eyes wide a bit.

[Maria da Silva Monteiro [ Mom ] - Out of range]

[Ricardo Roberto Menezes Monteiro [ Dad ] - Out of range ]

[Alessandra Rimenes Alves [ Alex ] - Message ]

[M̶̟͗à̷͎r̵͈͝c̴̼̀o̶̖̚s̸͎͐ ̷̹̔L̸̢͗e̴̠̎a̶̩͂n̷̼̐d̷̺̽r̶̛͍o̶̥͒ ̶̾͜N̵͖̕á̷̻h̶̦̔a̷͔͑ľ̶͇a̸̩̿ ̸̕͜[̶̘͂ ̴̧̐Ḿ̶̡ā̴̭r̵̬̉c̸̰̾o̵̝͋s̷͖̚ ̸͍̌]̵͖͌ ̷̲̈-̶̜͛ ̵̞̆E̸̝͂R̶̖͠R̴̠̍O̷͉̐R̸̼͋ ]

There were a few more entries on the list, people I considered friends, but the ones I cared the most were right on top of it. My mom and dad, still on another universe, were out of range, I guess it was too much to ask for an extradimensional telephone, huh? Next was Alex, right behind me, normal, but then the next entry made my mind blank for a few seconds. The text was almost unreadable, but considering how the [Friendlist] was working, it was Marcos' entry, and it was completely bugged. I assumed that it meant he was dead. I mean, what other explanation would there be for only his name to be this bugged? If he was still in our universe, it would read "Out of range" as most of the others, but no, only his specifically has this kind of error. Meaning I can only assume the worst…

I closed the screen with my mind as I couldn't bear to think that my friend was dead, just like that. As I looked around I noticed we left whatever place we were before and entered some kind of mega church, with a lot of statues of a strange creature being depicted. It was like a humanoid cat, and judging by the fact that elves existed, it probably was some kind of therian.

As I observed the statues, I noticed a person leaning on one of the statues. When I observed it closely my eyes went wide. It was me! No, I was not joking, it was a complete copy of me, even the same clothes I was currently wearing! He was staring straight at me with a judging gaze that I couldn't understand, but before I could even process it, I blinked. Huh? Why was I staring at a blank space beneath a statue? I didn't know.

It looked like we were about to leave this mega church, but I was not interested in the slightest in what was outside. I went back to my friendlist and before my eyes even registered Marcos's name on the list, I mentally clicked to message Alex, on which the friendlist itself closed and another screen opened. This screen was basically WhatsApp, for what I could see, no, seriously, it was basically a copyright infringement of Whatsapp. Anyway, I decided to leave the copyright infringement to Facebook's lawyers to take up with whoever made this skills and simply messaged Alex

[Hey] I sent.

.

..

This is taking a while…

[aywghaodwe] Was the thing I received.

[Had a stroke there?] I sent

[Dude, what the actual fuck is this? How did you place Whatsapp on my head like this?] Alex answered.

[It's the [Friendlist] skill. Tho, I don't recommend trying it rn] I sent.

[The what? wtf are you talking about?]

[Think about your status screen, it'll show up. It's down there]

[There's nothing about friendlist at all, only some weird stuff]

What? Alex didn't have the [Friendlist] skill?

[Do you have the [RPG HUD] and [Game Inventory]?]

[No…? And how are you doing it?]

[Doing what?]

[Putting stuff on this…idk box?]

[You mean the little box that has the name of the thing?]

[Yes]

[No idea, I'm just thinking about writing the name and it ends up like this]

[Oh, I see. Anyway, I have this curse [Summon Soul Bind].. Oh hey, I did it]

[I have it too, but the other stuff it looks like is different]

If she doesn't have [RPG HUD] nor [Game Inventory] as well as [Friendlist] I'm safe to assume only I have them, considering they are unique types…Now that I think about it, I'm pretty dumb for not realizing it sooner.

When I realize, we were walking on the streets of a medieval city. The people walking around were stopping and looking at us with confusion in their eyes… Yeah, I somewhat understand you, if it weren't for the many light novels that I read about isekai I would be pretty confused as well right now.


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