The top of the walls tastes awful.
How do I know this, you ask?
Well, it’s simple.
After being shot up high into the air by all the monsters that came out of Follis Darwin’s shadow, I fell.
I landed on top of the walls, on my face.
A fall like that would have caused anyone to break a bone, but somehow I'm fine.
Yeah, when I faceplanted into the wall, it hurt, but nothing broke.
Did get a mouthful of dirt, though.
Peering over the wall, I can see Follis Darwin surrounded by a few hundred monsters.
Because there are so many in a confined space, most of them are pushed out and away around the corners and turns.
Oh, that's a lot of blood.
Just because they’re monsters doesn’t mean they’re on the same team.
Small monsters have been trampled while the big ones feast on their corpses.
Follis Darwin seems to be fine.
He's not dead.
I don't want to kill anyone, but if my actions do cause his death, I won't feel too bad; he did try to kill me first.
All I did was taunt him a little bit.
It felt like a main character thing to do.
Can you really blame me?
You can?
Well dont!
Speaking of main character, though.
I suppose the thing I desperately needed to confirm has indeed been confirmed.
I first noticed it when I stood before that angel.
She was beautiful, white hair, opal eyes.
The wings on her back shone with the brilliance of an angel.
She was exactly like how someone would think an angel would look like.
Then I got to pick three skills.
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I was then summoned to Vendae as the hero so I could defeat the demon king.
Marin’s brother, second prince Loen Silivius, is an annoying ass.
He also attacked our carriage when on route to the academy.
Then we get there, and we have to do three tests.
When fighting Follis Darwin, I was able to miraculously see the threads that connect him to his summons and sever them with
You’re welcome for the summary.
But isn't it too generic?
It hits all the tropes.
Angel, hero, demon king, annoying second prince, academy, test, trying really hard at nothing, and succeeding.
If this world is a book, the author has no imagination.
There are two types of isekai.
Its real simple.
There are good isekai and bad isekai.
When I said good isekai, in your head probably flashed the image of Mushoku Tensei or Re:Zero, maybe even Konosuba or overlord or Saga of Tanya the Evil. (Kadokawa, please don’t sue me)
They did make an isekai quartet for a reason.
Those are good because they subvert tropes.
Now they aren't trope-free, but they also aren’t your average overpowered hero.
Let's look at Re:Zero for a second.
SPOILER WARNING.
He dies.
A lot.
His life is tragic; after being isekai’d, he meets a kind, beautiful girl.
While trying to find her insignia, he ends up at the loot house and is killed.
He then revives using RBD and tries again and again.
And depending on the route, it gets worse.
In the greed route, he dies over one hundred million times.
I don't want to die once, let alone one hundred million times.
Now lets look at Saga of Tanya the Evil.
SPOILER WARNING
A man that lack empathy dies and says fuck you to the self-proclaimed god, Being X.
He then suffers for it.
He's reincarnated as a little girl in World War I era germany.
The common themes between all these isekai are that they subvert tropes, and the main character suffers.
Some are worse than others, but thy’re still not having a good time.
The second type of isekai is the bad ones, or in other words, isekai slop.
The name of the isekai that flashed through your mind just now probably had a title longer than five words.
Because they’re a dime a dozen and all the same, I won't specifically target any.
In those slop isekai, the main character is overpowered.
Why?
Because he's the main character, that's why.
The main character always has a harem.
How many girls are in the main character’s harem?
Too many.
Why does the main character look like Kirito from Sword Art Online?
Because every Japanese man looks like Kirito from Sword Art Online.
The main character has a nice life surrounded by anything they could ever want.
I am someone who would like to be surrounded by anything I could ever want.
I don't want to have a tragic isekai like in the good isekai.
That must mean I need to work against subverting tropes and fill out as many tropes as possible.
I’ve already been working in that direction; picking
I am going to be the main character and live an easy life, being overpowered and surrounded by my harem.
What would the main character do in this situation?
Probably run, because that's a dragon staring right at me.
Looks like he is charging up a massive attack.
Oh damn.
Before I can think anymore, my legs take off running on top of the walls.
From the fire dragon Floga’s mouth comes a laser-like beam of fire.
As it follows me, it cuts right through the walls and floor, pieces begin to fall and smash into the gound breaking up into smaller pieces.
The fallen rubble ascends into the air and reforms into the place and shape it once was, healing the wall.
So even if the labyrinth gets destroyed, it will simply repair itself?
Running along the tops of the walls and occasionally jumping to another whenever I reach a deadend, I mess up a landing.
My foot slips and I fall all the way down to the floor.
With a fat thud, I hit the ground; again, not hurt that badly.
Looking up, I see the dragon fly past.
I think it doesn’t know where I am.
Oh, thank god.
I let out a loud, exasperated sigh.
I wasn’t running from him for long, but running from a dragon is tiring.
Ok, what would a main character do now?
Probably just break the test.
I think I might have a method on how to do that, but not right now.
Those monsters aren’t that far away, and with the dragon flying overhead, I would surely die.
I guess for now I should just wander around and hope to run into anyone that's not a teacher.