Seeing how the kids were panicking, the old man with the long beard who had welcomed them earlier decided to step in.
"Calm down, great heroes. Do not panic, I'll explain everything right away." He voiced out before proceeding to explain.
"As you already guessed, you are no longer in your world of origin. This is planet Aidori and we have summoned you all legendary heroes to help us, the king will address you now."
After he finished his piece, the man stepped to the side and the eyes of Alex and the four teenagers landed on the king in front of them.
"Four legendary heroes," the king stood up while saying but he stopped after realising something, there were five people standing in the center of the hall.
'Huh, didn't the ancient scripture say that four legendary heroes would appear?' the king thought to himself in confusion but chose to let it be, one more hero wasn't a bad thing for them.
"Pardon me, five legendary heroes. Welcome to the planet of Aidori, I am the king of the remaining human region.
Our planet has been invaded by demonic creatures and humans are on the verge of going extinct. A long time ago, an ancient scripture was found which contains records of five legendary heroes who would come through the summoning circle to save our world from destruction.
These great heroes will possess incredible talent and power to turn the darkness trying to destroy the world. Now that humans have been pushed to such a state, we had no choice but to summon you legendary heroes to come save us.
Please, save our planet, great heroes!" The king said.
"Please save our planet, great heroes!" The other people who were standing around the hall chorused after him.
Alex and the four teenagers stood there in silence. Alex didn't know what the four teenagers thought of the situation and he really didn't care, he was here for a reason and definitely not a part of the great heroes.
The king's earlier mistake of saying four heroes was enough proof, he wanted to leave and start searching for the universe stone on this planet as soon as possible.
'System, where is the universe stone?' Alex asked inwardly.
[I don't know its exact location but it's certainly on this planet.] The system replied.
Alex "..."
'What is that supposed to mean? Did you mean that you made me come here without knowing where the stone is?' Alex snapped.
[I just know that it's here, as for its exact location, I do not know. This planet is so small that it feels like a small ball, the presence of the universe stone is scattered everywhere!] The system explained, sounding frustrated.
Alex sighed, now he had to search an entire planet for a stone that he didn't even know its appearance other than its name and use, just great!
Meanwhile, the four teenagers barely calmed down after listening to the words of the king, they were still dazed and had a lot of questions.
One of them, a boy with short black hair and wearing simple house clothes, stepped forward and asked a question.
"King, right? How do you know that we're the right people? What if you made a mistake and we aren't the heroes that your ancient book talked about?"
The people around the hall began to murmur while the king replied.
"Rest assured, it can't be wrong since only the heroes would appear through the summoning circle, there are no mistakes." The king replied confidently.
'Yeah sure, I'm also a hero.' Alex rolled his eyes in his mind after hearing the king's words.
But it turned out that the king wasn't done yet because he resumed speaking shortly after.
"The heroes all possess incredible talent and their stats are higher than normal people even at a low level, you just have to check your profile to confirm."
"Profile? What's that?" The four teenagers were confused.
As for Alex, he was starting to feel that what the king said sounded familiar, too familiar for his liking.
Seeing the confusion on the faces of the teenagers, the king continued.
"Don't worry, the awakening orb is here. You can awaken your ability profile with it and at the same time check your potential."
Immediately after he finished his words, the old man with the long beard stepped towards the center of the hall with a ball sized crystal in his arms.
"This is the awakening orb, place your hands on it and it'll display your ability profile, then you'll believe that you are the legendary heroes." The king said.
Alex and the four teenagers stared at the crystal in the hands of the old man. The surface of the crystal was smooth and its inside seemed to be filled with frozen smoke, it looked mysterious.
The teenager with short black hair was the first to step forward and place his hand on it. Seemingly fearless and even excited.
Immediately after his hand touched it, the crystal released a burst of light and formed a large translucent card in the air.
Information about the boy with short black hair appeared on the illusionary card.
Name: Nike Elyon.
LV: 0
Ki: 0/100
Age: 18
Strength: 20
Speed: 10
Durability: 10
Stamina 30
Immediately after the card appeared, everyone looked at it and began to murmur. From their expression and words, Alex guessed that they were impressed by the points of the boy's stats.
But Alex felt like this was just too trash.
"As you can see, you're still at level zero but all of your points are already at ten or above. The people born in this world all start from zero stat points at level 1 and need a thousand ki points to move up a level, do you understand now?" The king explained with a smile on his face.
"I see, so this is like a video game." The boy whose name appeared to be Nike mumbled as he withdrew his hand from the crystal, his eyes gleaming with a bright glint.
"It seems so, and we're like characters with cheats." Another teenager said, his expression turning into one of excitement.
Alex was confused listening to them, what was a video game? The king was also in the same situation as Alex.
"I don't know what the video game which you talk about is but you can think of the abilities of the heroes as cheats, you all have the greatest talent upon arriving to quickly grow stronger and save the world." The king said.
"And don't worry, you can summon your status card anytime from now on." The old man who was holding the orb explained to Nike after seeing the boy's expression when the status card disappeared because he removed his hand from the orb.
Nike let out a breath of relief while the next teenager was invited to come awaken their status card.
Alex watched and the stats of this teenager wasn't any better than Nick's, maybe a point off or over but everything was still within 5 points.
'Hey, why are their stats so low?' Alex asked the system.
[Because the power threshold of this planet is low, they can only possess a thousand points for a single stats and the highest level that they can reach is ten.
Every hundred increase in stats means a new level.]
'Only level ten? That's so weak, I'm practically invincible here!' Alex exclaimed inwardly, he was at level 70 after all and all of his stats had over 7000 points.
[True, but you can't use your full strength here. I already reduced your strength to match level ten when we entered the planet.] The system replied.
'What? Why? Increase it immediately!' Alex demanded.
[Calm down, this world is too weak. Entering with your full strength will awaken the spirit of the planet and it'll want to remove you forcefully.] The system explained.
'The spirit of a planet, there's such a thing? Can I beat it?' Alex asked, his eyes narrowing subconsciously.
[Yes, every planet has it. The strength of a planet spirit depends on how long the planet has existed and it's usually twice the max strength of those living in it. So since the strongest being here is only level 10, the planet spirit will be at level 20.]
'Just level 20? Then I can easily defeat it if it tries to throw me out, you don't have to reduce my strength.' Alex stated.
[True, but killing the spirit planet will cause the planet to explode. We'll never find the universe stone if that happens.
And since this planet's spirit is still weak, its intelligence will be low and it won't know what surrender is; it'll keep fighting until you leave or kill it.]
'I see, fine then. At least I'm still one of the strongest beings on this planet.' Alex sighed.
"Umm, sir hero, it's your turn to check your stats." A voice sounded in Alex's ears.
He focused and realised that everyone was looking at him, he had been so engrossed in his conversation with the system and forgot about what was happening in front of him.
Turned out that the others were done checking their stats and he was the only one left.
"Hmm, okay." Alex said and walked over.
He didn't even know why he bothered to but still did it anyways, he approached the old man and placed a hand on the crystal.
Name: Alex Yxev
Level: 0
Ki: 0/100
Age: 0000
Strength:0
Speed: 0
Durability: 0
Stamina: 0
Alex "..."