Back pain woke the girl.

Her body was contorted into strange posture, if someone to drew a white line around her, she would form a perfect corpse. Her short golden hair rippled messily down to her neck, touching the cold floor altogether with her soft, reddened cheek. Few extra seconds was needed to gather her latest memory, before she immediately flung herself into a sitting position, a move she instantly regretted as it sent a powerful coil of nausea twisting through her back to stomach.

Analise had been drinking for straight seven days, no less. She had too much free time, these days. A great sorceress she might be, Analise didn't even recall when was the last time she touched her staff. Heck, she didn't even remember where she'd left it. The poor staff could've walked off on its own, somewhere, in some place, doing staff things, for all she knew.

She scratched her navel while lifting up her night gown in the process. "What to do this morning," still half-awake, the young sorceress muttered to herself.

Analise clicked across the black and white tiled floor on her white toes. As her hand brushed back her messy, golden hair behind her ear, she placed herself on a mahogany curule chair, making her night gown poofed over its sides. She peeked at her pretty, ever-so-young face in a perfectly round crystal ball, floating staticly on top of her lap. It was a magic crystal she created on a whim when she went to the old heaven's garden. As the name suggest, the place was home for many legendary and mythical creation which was supposed to be, well, a myth. A place one, even the bravest adventurer, even the highest ranking demon, wouldn't dare to simply walk into without staking a couple limbs, or more. Analise went there for a vacation many years ago; though, basically everyday was a vacation, for her.

The crystall ball, with only the size of children's head, encompassed the whole scenery of world. It was a wondrous blue and green world, sculling through the deeps of space, at the mercy of countless stars, blessed by the sun. Her world. Her boring world. Infested with boring humans.

It was when she thought an interesting idea.

The focus of her gaze in the crystal ball flew towards outer space. Went through the solar system, beyond the cluster of galaxies, and finally, dives onward the similar blue-green magnificence of the world, but not her.

It curved away toward a big island.

She blinked.

Now she saw a big, crowded city, full of people, filled with dirty air sprayed from giant steels with wheels. This World that wasn't her was supposed to be far more advanced, one way or another. But for her, for the great sorceress she was, no World was too advanced in the mercy of her magic.

She blinked.

She saw a particular building.

She blinked.

She saw a girl, sitting on her tiny chair, still wearing her cute pajama on a warm sunday morning.

She watched.

In a voice that of a little girl who had just found her brand new toy, she said. "Welcome to my World."

"Relax for a little, won't you," said a rough, familiar voice.

A tall, black-haired man, claded in silver armor from waist to toe was leaning against the nearest pillar, just few feets from her. His usual heavy-looking breastplate as well as the pauldrons were absent, leaving only a comfortable plain black shirt on his huge body. That man was none other than her brother. His brown eyes gleamed luminously in the faint presence of green light, watching over her as he comfortably sat against the wall covered moss.

“How long was i unconscious?" she asked with a worried face.

"I don't know, aroud ten, fifteen minutes at most," answered the man as if it wasn't a big deal.

The girl sat up and tidied her hair as much as she could. She then started to relax her sore back by trying a yoga-like poses, twisting her hips left and right, and finally stretching her arms up high. Finished with a deep breath, she looked around. They were in a place that looked like a vast natural cavern. It was dark, but the moss covering walls were glowing faintly with soft green light, providing them enough amount of vision about the place. The ceiling arched far above them, showing off innumerable amount of stalactites with few of them can be spotted glowing light mischievously every now and then. The floor of the cavern was spiked with stalagmites, some as thick as man's waist, and rise twice as tall.

"Where are the others?" again she asked. The cavern was indeed, magical, and beautiful, it struck down her in awe for a flashing moment, but the matter in hand, regarding their recent event, was not to be looked over after.

She was in a party of five. Marching in the huge confusing labyrinth-like area carefully, while evading the already plenty mobs guarding here and there. That was when a giant monster appeared suddenly. With the size so big it easily towered any giant sized monsters from their previous encounter. It was very likely that what they met was, indeed, a boss monster.

"I can't confirm that, yet." replied the brother.

"I see. That's too bad," she let out a heavy sigh. "I thought we were a goner."

The clash with that boss monster was one impossible to be avoided. It was a long, harsh, and termendously fierce one, any battle they've done couldn't even compare quarter bit. The battle lasted for hours, but couldn't meet its conclusion for the boss suddenly went into raging berserk and casted a termendously powerful struck to the ground, causing the floor to be torn apart as if it was just some fragile piece of glass.

"Didn't we all fell straight into the hole it created? I remember that you caught me when we fell, but that was it," she asked for confirmation whilst reaching for her bang covered forehead with her fingers in hope that her memory didn't served her wrong.

Her brother replied with look of dissapointment. "Well, i was looking me some Noa to caught, but i got you instead. You had to be so light that you bounced so far from your rear position, even i could reach you from mine. Good thing that you still kept your weight in check, even after we were brought to this world."

"I really don't know how to react to that," she casted aside her disgusted eyes as she peeked into upper left corner of her vision. What she was looking for was a green line called HP bar, the visual rendering of her lifeline in this world. No apparent loss in the thin bar. Her brother really protected her when she was unconscius, she had to thank him properly for that.

As an attack mage, she was casting powerful attack magic from the rear, while her brother getting intimate with the monster, tanking most of the damage in order to kept the rest of his members all safe. Most of the time, she had to stood as far as possible from him, especially their latest battle in regard to the giant's riddiculous reach. There were two other members posted at rear position, and one other battling on front with her brother. For both she and her brother, getting isolated together with no other members present was pretty strange. Just how impossibly chaotic was the scene back there, she wondered.

The Demon King's Palace is indeed, dangerous.


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“You guys sure are taking your sweet time getting here. Enjoying the scenery?”

“Now, now.. don't be so harsh captain. Though we weren’t that far separated, the monsters here are a little bit nastier than the ones up there.”

The first one to reply with a smile on the face was a young boy with light armor. He was an archer with a cross-bow attached to his left hand. He was the most hated player at the battleground, mainly because he was specialized in setting nasty traps and enhanced every single of his arrows with all kind of poisons. Regardless, he was the most cheerful person in the party.

“The hardest part was when we’re still separated from each other. It was especially tough for me to deal with the mobs alone.”

The second one was a tall man wearing sand colored robe. Thought he couldn’t really fight well by himself, he was known as one of the greatest sorcerer, with incredibly vast range of knowledge and supportive abilities. He was the main brain of their party.

“Situation like this is bound to be happen, sooner or later. I think this is a great occasion to test our individual abilities in various ways. I myself are getting more and more used to fight in this world.”

The third one was a blond haired girl cladded in full-plate-knight’s attire. Contrasts to her rather slim figure, there was a great sword resting at her back of armor. She was always so calm and collected, to the point that even in their own world, the others can still felt her dignified and noble aura. No one knows she was a girl until recently, though.

“It’s too impressing that you can still see yourself improving in such disaster of situation.”

The black haired sorceress could only be amazed by how the knight girl brought herself. She looked just like a noble knight from fantasy world. A little one at that.

“Dear little sister. Your big brother would be so relieved if you could learn even a little from her.”

“Shut up you damn lolicon. Take the lead already, now we’re all gathering here.”


Now, all five members have gathered.

Though it might not looked like it, thought it might be hard to believe, this five members here were known as the strongest raid party ever formed. The little sister was a famous sorceress that could casts almost every strongest AoE magic known by people, while the big brother was the best tanker with highest defensive capability, even among the monsters.

These members were the top players when this world was still not how it appeared to be now.


The heavy armored lolicon tanker was their proud leader, Logarithm.

The cute black haired sorceress that everyone adores was DoRemy.

The tall sorcerer acting as their main supporter and control tower was Click.

The infamous mischievous trap loving archer was Silver.

The surprisingly a beautiful female knight was Noa.


Of course those fantasy-sounding names were only their in game name.


It had been only two weeks since they came to this world.

These problematic members were once again banded together in the new world, with one and only one objective.

It was to slay the demon king.