She Professed Herself The Pupil of The Wisemen

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Ahh, that’s right . He had fallen asleep before he logged out .

After he had sorted out the situation in his head, Kagami remembered that he had fallen asleep after he had received the morning call . And then pinching his forehead, he looked up at the sky . 
He couldn’t tell how long he had slept . However, he judged that the fact that he hadn’t been woken by his young sister Mayu meant that he probably hadn’t been sleeping too long .

Squeezing his eyes shut and then opening them as though to clear away the sleepiness, he realised that he was in the dead centre of a grassy plain surrounded by a forest . Here and there the plain was dotted with nameless flowers, and in the distant he could see a splenderous mountain range . And he spotted amongst the mountains a number of dully shining silver towers .

In the middle of the plain, before the familiar scenery of the game, he lazily placed a hand to his chin and began thinking to sort out the situation . At this point, he still hadn’t noticed that feeling of wrongness that he had suddenly experienced .

First, “Falling asleep in-game” was a famous term amongst online gamers . It referred to falling asleep whilst in-game, and having your avatar stand there without reacting to anything . 
However, the VR system was designed so that it would automatically shut down the system when you fell asleep, and cut off the equipment from the power source, so it was fundamentally impossible to wake up inside the game .

However, the towers among the mountains were, however you looked at them, the 『Linked Silver Towers』 . Each of the nine towers was used as a base by one of the Nine Sages, so there was no way that he would mistake them .

The first thing that he suspected was that there was a bug . However, his thoughts never went past ‘rare things do happen sometimes‘ . There was one more baffling point after all . If you compared the two points, this one was the more important .

It was that he could smell things . Each time the wind blew, a grassy scent tickled his noise and he felt a sense of discomfort .

The developed VR technology could reproduce the sense of touch, but the sense of taste and smell weren’t developed to a practical level yet . Despite this, when he inhaled through his nose, his brain was clearly telling himthat there was a scent . This was incomprehensible .

So when he tore off some grass by his feet and began to chew, he found that a bitter and astringent taste spread through all of his mouth . Unable to stand it, he spat it out along with a large amount of saliva, and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand . The taste was annoyingly intense, and they even meticulously reproduced his saliva .

Unable to understand what herbivores were thinking, he turned his sight down towards a fairly closeby thicket of grass when it happened . A roar suddenly came from within the forest along with a rumble of the earth, and then the high-pitched sound of metal rubbing against metal resounded through the air like the roar of a gale . 
It was a sound familiar to him .

Ah, that’s right . He recalled that he had come out to subjugate the group of monsters that had appeared at the national boarders . Had somebody unluckily run across them, or had somebody else taken his place to subjugate them this time? After thinking that the second wouldn’t happen and giving a wry smile, he began running .

If you continued past the forest into the grass clearing, you would find that knights proudly emblazoned in the emblem of their nation were cutting down small creatures the size of a child, with blue skin, and a pointed nose and ears . However, immediately after, two of three of the blue creatures with dully flashing knives in on of their hands grouped together, and attacked that knight . It was a complete battlefield .