Chapter 1: Into the New World

"Where in the world am I?" The young boy looked at his surroundings. All around him, there are nothing but trees. It is no surprise as this area is the middle of a forest. However, the young boy had no memories of having entered the forest.

He shook his head and thought back.

He was playing Elder Tales.

He remembered sitting on the bed in his room at the home (mansion) and enjoying the game displayed on his laptop.

That day, when he read the news about the release of the 12th expansion pack of Elder Tales, he logged again after one and half year of 'hiatus'. He heard the data he had downloaded beforehand would be lifted of its restricted status and would bring about new items, new zones, new monsters and battles; and, above all else, raise the level cap of the world of Elder Tales, which is 90 become 100.

So, to escape his reality about the mountain of paperwork sitting innocently in his office, he decided to play his favorite MMORPG again when he have (not really) a free time. His tutor and all Guardians are out for the mission or meeting in somewhere.

Sawada Tsunayoshi was a veteran player in Elder Tales.

He started that game when he was third year in middle school, and had been playing it for 7 and half years. Even after he became a boss of Mafia, he still played in his free time. Also, he invited his friends/Guardians to play with him. Surprising, the first person who joined him is his best friend and fellow boss, Kozato Enma.

Enma was with him when Tsuna first login. And the both of them make the character at the same time (with different PC/laptop of course).

Oh, his name in Elder Tales is Yoshie and Enma is Setchi.

Even after the Simon's boss moved back to Italy, he was still playing. And the both of them always logged at the same time. Whatever one is online, the other one is also online.

Then, some of his other friends also joined in later. But unlike Enma, they didn't login as often as him.

Of course Tsuna has been looking forward to the new expansion pack. After logged, he decided to pass time as usual. He'd been doing a small quest while waiting Enma (who messaged him that he'll late).

But there his memory was abruptly cut.

Tsuna remembered seeing some sort of demo. Words of shining flames in a black scene. The sky was filled with sticky darkness like asphalt scrolling quickly and a white moon that cut out that blackness.

And now, Tsuna/Yoshie was sitting in middle of forest with no one around.

The bright of the sun.

The smell of forest trees.

The noise of waterfall from afar.

The cold feeling of wind brushing onto his cheeks.

Everything is… too real.

He's still playing a game right?

Then he stood up and looked at himself. He paled by what he saw. He's really like the avatar he made in Elder Tales. Tsuna made an avatar almost like him in real life.

Yoshie is several centimeters taller compared to his real-life body, 168 cm (Tsuna made character in middle school when he's 157 cm). Instead of brown hair and eyes, Yoshie have blonde hair and orange eyes. He wears a gray vest and purple undershirt under a long, navy blue and purple hoodie cloak with pale yellow designs around the edges, chocolate belts, gray pants, a pair of dark brown boots and gloves. On his right wrist, he wears a blue bracelet (hidden), and white ring (hidden) on his middle finger. Also he have a purple tattoo on his left cheek. Yoshie wields a black grimoire.

Suddenly a screen appeared in front of him almost made him jump. It displaying his name, level, equipment, and other like that.

Wha-

"Eh…? This is a Status Screen?" feeling stupid, he searched every menu. When he touched the log-out menu, he can't.

"Don't tell me this is…"

Then he realized one thing, he trapped inside his favorite game. "Are you serious?! This is not anime or something!"

He seemed to be in the game world. He had the same body as his character and retained all the items and equipment he had in the game.

Thinking perhaps it was a dream, he pinched his cheek. The pain he felt conveyed to him that this was something he couldn't doubt; this was reality.

"Hello…? Can anyone hear me?" he yelled.

Of course there is no one around to respond him.

After few moments, he began to calm down. "First I should confirm the situation." He looked at surrounding once more time, the trees, the river, a mountain in afar. "Seriously, where…? I don't think log-out in here last time, then why?"

Where was he last time?

He remembered do some quest in middle of island with his friends.

Wait… Friend!

He quickly opened the menu screen again and scroll down the names in his Friend List. Some of his friend and other acquaintance are online. And one of them is Setchi!

Because he knew Setchi was with him last time, he should still in that island. Then he decided to use Telepathy function. This was a function to contact your friends that were online in the game. In the Elder Tales world, this function was similar to a cell phone, allowing players to contact their friends from far away.

However, they could only contact people registered on their friend list.

After a few second, he could hear his friend's voice.

'Yoshie…? It's you?' the other's voice seems bit surprise, of course who wouldn't if a voice suddenly ringing from nowhere?

But, can heard his friend again makes Yoshie smile, "It's me, Setchi!"

'Do you know what going on..?'

"Wait, where are you? Let's meet first."

'I am in the top of Honey Mountain.'

Yohie paused and looked up at the mountain in the east. "What are you doing there?"

'Remember that I was supposed to searching the rare plants for our last quest?'

He's face-palmed, "Oh right…" there is a special herb which only grow in the said mountain, Setchi took a solo quest for gathering the said plants.

'It would be quickly if you come here than I come down to your place.'

"Okay, wait for me."

Although the said mountain's not too far from he was standing, it will take 1 hour to climb up the mountain.

Yoshie is lazy to climb.

And Setchi can't wait for that long.

Looking at some options in menu, he sighed.

Few moment later, standing beside him is a big wolf. It was his summoned beast.

Yoshie was a Summoner, one of the 3 magic attack classes. Each of the warrior, weapon attack, healer, and magic attack categories had 3 classes each forming a total of 12 classes. The Summoner was one of these twelve.

Among the magic attack classes, Summoner's role can include offense, healing, or support. This inherent flexibility makes it an extremely popular class among players, including solo players.

Summoners have the magic that allows them to summon mystical beasts or spirits. There are over 100 different types of creatures that can be summoned.

Yoshie have two main summoned creature, which only he uses in big time, like a raid or facing the hard opponents. He also have several minor beast that always help him. And that wolf is one of them.

Forest Wolf, like the name said, it was a wolf that usually can be found in the forest or mountain. That wolf have dark gray fur and fierce silver eyes. Also, Yoshie's summoned wolf is bigger than the usual forest wolf made it can be ridden by one adult.

A summoner have a Phantasmal Ride skill. The skill that lets you ride on the back of the summoned beast.

The journey to the mountain is very fast because the Forest Wolf have ability to run faster in the forest and mountain area. Yoshie also meets some monsters on the way, but because the difference of their level is high, they mostly ignored him.

10 minutes later, he finally reached on the top mountain.

Honey Mountain, the 508m high mountain that dominates the island, Camellia Island is a small island that located in south of Akibahara. In real life, it's called Toshima Island, an island that lies approximately 147 km away from Tokyo. Camellia Island is not so well known among the Adventure and hardly any of them goes to that island. Approximately about 165 people live on the island, all of them are NPC or People of the Land.

NPC mostly worked as shopkeepers, selling all sorts of things, or helped with administration, such as guild registration. They also acted like pedestrians in the streets, interacting with players by providing information or quests.

Camellia Island is called spiritual island for some reasons. One of them because to reach the island, you must take secret quest from a Traveling Merchant between 5 major cities, or you can't enter the island easily. Yoshie and his friends 'accidentally' found the said NPC between Nakasu and Minami.

But it was a story for another time...

"Yoshie!"

After recalled his summoned beast, Yoshie could see his friend bellow the oak tree, waving at him.

"Setchi!" he waved back and speed up his pace.

Setchi, Enma's avatar in Elder Tales is taller, though thinner male than Yoshie, with red hair (same with his real self) and green eyes. He wears blue Hanfu (Chinese clothes) with gold design, fingerless gloves, and a pair of purple shoes. Setchi wore two bags on his waist to hold his vials of different potions, a green stone necklace tucks just beneath his collar, and wears blue painter hat matching with his clothes.

Setchi was a Sorcerer, one of the magic attack classes. In a way, it was a complete attacker class. They also were known for their strong attack power.

Sorcerers could not be like other mage classes, Summoners that conjured creatures to do their bidding, nor like Enchanters who raised the potential of their allies. Sorcerers used primal and strong magic, turning their magic power directly into destructive power. These destructive forces usually took the form of fire, water, or another elements, and could be directed at the enemy to defeat them in an instant.

Sorcerers' attack power, along with Assassins', were the peak of the 12 classes. Compared to Assassins simply attacking with weapons, Sorcerers could choose to attack based on the enemies' type affinity, which many players felt was even better.

A Summoner and a Sorcerer, although some people says it wasn't really good combination because they have same weakness which is very low HP, Yoshie and Setchi are a quite powerful pair.

Setchi is really good at elemental magic, especially earth and fire spells, he like to 'make things go boom'. His subclass, which is Alchemist, also made him can create things such as potions for HP and MP, debuffs (such as lowering defense), minor buffs to themselves (like a speed boost), or poison for damaged the opponents.

In other hand, Yoshie can summon creature or beast for attack, defense, and support. He have the summoned beast for riding, attack the opponent, defended him and his allies, or healing some HP and MP. He also have Cartographer as his subclass, a class which allows the user to Creates maps. Some monsters drop Treasure Maps, and it's up to the cartographer to decipher the map and hunt out the location of the treasure. So, it's no wonder if Yoshi have several 'rare' items.

The both of them were veteran players in Elder Tales. Many other Adventure know about them. Many invitation came from different guild, but both Yoshie and Setchi refuses all of them, because they like to being solo players, not tied in the guild. Of course they also always make party together, partying with other players, and sometimes their friend from real life joined them.

Both Yoshie and Setchi known as 'The Duo Magicians'

"So, Yoshie, do you know what going on?" Setchi asked. The both of them sitting under the shade of big tree. Some /Horn Rabbits/ watching the two Adventure with their red eyes, but Yoshie and Setchi didn't care for now.

"I'm not sure, Setchi," frowned Yoshie, "But we can concluded some things."

"Yeah," the redhead give him 'go on' look.

"Firstly, this is not a dream."

"And we somehow inside the Elder Tales." Setchi nodded. "The question is how?"

Yoshie give a long sigh, "That's what I don't know. We must gather more information."

"Akiba?" asked the redhead.

Akiba or Akihabara is the largest of the five main cities on the Japanese server of Elder Tale and is the hometown of half of the Japanese players. Even though Yoshie and Setchi like to travel to other cities, Akiba was their starting point, their hometown. And also Akiba is the nearest city from Camellia Island.

"Akiba." the blonde confirming, "But..."

"But?"

"The only Adventure on this island are the two of us." said Yoshie.

"Yeah, because we're the first Adventure who able to enter here after the 10th expansion pack of Elder Tales added Camellia Island." Setchi nodded.

"And none of our other friend is online."

"Yeah, I look at it earlier. So?"

Giving his friend a blank look, Yoshie answered in a calm voice "We can't leave this island before we complete the quests in here."

Finally Setchi realized the situation they were facing right now, he paled. "...Oh no."

Actually the whole of Camellia Island is a dungeon, a special dungeon. Yoshie and Setchi realized it when they first set foot on the island. They can't leave the island or contacted any Adventure outside before they completed all the quest in there. If one NPC have 1-3 quests each, how much is for 165 people? (even if not all NPC in that island have quests, but still..)

The quest is various, some is easy; which is like looking for herbs or repair the roof, but sometimes it will be hard quest; like chase away some spirits at haunted building or fight with Mash Apes in the forest. With 4 more people, Yoshie and Setchi be able to clear 28 quests in five days.

But now, with only the both of them who available in that island, how many days does it take to complete all the quests?

"Wait... have we tried 'Call of Home'?"

Call of Home was an instantaneous transport spell every player could use in Elder Tales, warping you to the last of the 5 major cities you had visited. The casting time was several minutes and could only be used once every 24 hours, not suitable for use during battles. For the game, it was normally used when the player decided to call it a day and returned to the city before logging out. There was also an inter-city transport gate in each of them, so it was possible to move instantaneously between these 5 cities... (both of them still didn't know that inter-city transport gate were not functioning right now)

"Lambo, I mean Gyudon tried it on the first day, but for some reason that spell didn't work."

"Then how about Fairy Rings?"

Fairy Rings were a teleportation device located in the field zones, a magic circle formed by several boulders. You could teleport from one Fairy Ring to another, a teleportation network in the world of Elder Tales.

There is a Fairy Ring somewhere near the beach.

"I can't and never want uses Fairy Ring without the experts." Yoshie shook his head. The only one who could use Fairy Ring easily is Raito, Hayato's avatar in Elder Tales. The connections between Fairy Rings were affected by the lunar cycle using a complicated formula. If you were familiar with it, you could complete your journey in a very short time. But using it at the wrong time would teleport you to unknown places. Last time he heard that someone careless using Fairy Rings made that person somehow ended in the North America Server.

"What should we do then?"

That was a good question.

Meanwhile in Akiba. With certain glasses male and his two companion.

"Umm, that's strange... The both of them are online but I can't contacted them."

"Who are you trying to contact, my lord?"

"The The Duo Magicians."

"Who are them?"

"You never heard of them, chibisuke?"

"Don't call me that baka!"

"Ouch, don't kick me in there!"

"Calm down you two. Let's go to Guild Hall first, I can contacted them again later."

~OWARI~

... Yeah, this is my another KHR crossover, this time with Log Horizon. I know I haven't continued my other stories. But, I can't help to write this while I getting the idea.

Anyway, questions, critic, correction, or other comment are welcome...

Also, I (finally) make a wattpad account with same name and profile's picture.

Anyone have an account in Wattpad?

Even though I'm still not used to it, if anyone tell me his/her nickname in there, I'll follow them. And can you follow me too? ;) {you can pm me if you want}

Bye bye for now~