A young man was sitting in a dark room in front of two monitors. On his right screen was a discord that was constantly being updated with new notifications from thousands of people giving their ideas on different topics regarding scaling and battle arguments, and on the left monitor was an open browser on battles wiki. As the man was looking back and forth between both screens a new box opened on his second screen, it was a pure black box with green bold letters on his scene reading.
"PING"
"WOULD YOU LIKE A LIFE OF ADVENTURE?"
The young man was surprised because he has only seen a thing like this happen in anime mainly isekai animes. He frowned and thought of it as just a hacker trying to get into his software and private information. He looked towards the right corner for the exit button but it wasn't present. He frowned even deeper and clicked the ESC button, and to his frustration, it only enlarged the box. "Oh come on your the Escape key, you're supposed to do your job not the damn opposite!" he shouted in frustration.
The young man took a deep breath to calm his nerves and answered the question to just entertain the hacker.
"Yes"
"PING"
"WHAT WORLD WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO TO?"
This question stumped him because there were thousands of different worlds that he could think about. There were cartoon worlds, comic book worlds, tv shows, book worlds, and his favorite Anime worlds. He instantly took off the boring options on the list leaving him with Comic books and Anime. He even thought about the DC and Marvel comic worlds, but he came to the conclusion that they're too many seeing as how they have new comics of different events and timelines out. Thus it left him with anime worlds that he was very familiar with.
Now the question was which Anime world could be his option. He didn't want an anime world where you would have world, galaxy, or possible universal level threats, so Dragon Ball z and up in the series was out of the question. Also, worlds that were straight-up just school life were out because he could do that now if he wanted to. Going through the options in his head a notification on his discord screen caught his attention. "Is Freya(DANMACHI) Boundless?" he read and the discord when crazy. People agreed that she was and others said no she wasn't, it was pure madness.
"Danmachi" the young man whispered. It was a good world in his opinion it wasn't too much of a threat and it wasn't an overpowered world to the point you would have people randomly screaming "I will kill you along with your planet." Also, your strength was gauged by levels so it was perfect in a sense. The only real serious threats were gods who wanted you and would do anything to get you, asshole adventures which to my surprise there were a lot of them, and the one-eyed dragon. Who won't pop up sing as how it's in hiding. With his last moment of solidifying his thoughts he picked.
"Danmachi - Is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon"
"PING"
"NAME?"
The young man really didn't want to do it but at this point, if this was real then he wasn't going to waste it but if it wasn't then he was screwed from here till next Tuesday.
"Arthur Valentine"
As he looked at his name deep satisfaction came from it. "That name is just so noble!" he shouted in his room.
"PING"
"CHARACTER OR CHARACTERS YOU WOULD LIKE AS YOUR TEMPLATES"
As he looked at the new option that appeared two black boxes also appeared. Arthur was surprised because normally at this point they would ask you to type in the powers or abilities you would like which were limited to three or five, but not templates because that was too generous. You get to have the full abilities and powers of the ones you choose which in his opinion was broken. Now begs the question of which characters were he going to pick because he knew damn right he was going all out on his picks. Arthur wasn't going to pick stupid OP characters in a weak world, like Ultra Ego Vegeta who could obliterate a galaxy with just the wave of his hand, or Ainz Ooal Gown who could control concepts to an extent and also because a large number of his skills work with the undead.
Seeing as how this was a difficult decision and a one-time thing he needs good first-round picks or great second-round picks. He got up out of his chair to walk around his room to get some inspiration, but upon doing that his knee hit his desk which tipped over his PC. "Crap" he shouted lunging towards the thousand-dollar PC, but he didn't calculate the fact that his leg hit the chair sending it sliding across the room. As Arthur grasped his PC making sure it was secure in his arms. He breathed a sigh of relief but it wasn't long-lived when he heard a loud crash behind him. He was too afraid to look at the collateral damage done by the chair. "I don't want to look, but as a man I have to look" as he secured his PC he turned to look at the damage. He was heartbroken not because of the damage which was little to no damage, but it was the fact that his most precious collectible was out of its case and on the floor.
In a blink of an eye, he had the item in his arms crying anime tears and looking at the bad shape it was in. It was a colorful gold, green, orange, and red headdress that was worn by the women of his fantasy. As he cried he came to realize he had an elite second-round pick in his hand. With no hesitation, he kissed and prayed to the item before properly securing it back in its original spot. Grabbing his chair and sitting back at his monitor his first pick was selected.
"Quetzalcoatl (FATE/GRAND ORDER)"
She was a great first pick because she wasn't overly OP and her overall status was well-rounded and her abilities were great in and out of combat settings mainly were wisdom passive skills. Arthur didn't pick her out of all the other options who were better because he harbored so kind of feeling for her. No way if you think that then you're just wrong, maybe. For his last pick, he needed someone with dependable offensive and defensive abilities. When it came to this there were thousands of characters for anime that were like this even side characters, but his mind went to a one-eye grandpa from a popular new generation anime, Leonard Burns.
Burns was stupidly strong and a good grandpa figure to Arthur, because of the fact he cared about all the new recruits like how a grandpa would do it. But the thing that stood out to Arthur was all the things that he went through and even when people saw him as a guy who was intimidating he was just a great mentor and grandpa, also his ignition ability was stupidly strong. So Burns created a spot for himself in his final pick.
"Leonard Burns (FIRE FORCE)"
As Arthur sat there thinking about how he would just leave his world with no hesitation and not think about the consequences. He came to one realization his life was boring and grey in a way. He didn't have a relationship with his parents cause they were so focused on working that they forgot he existed to the point the whole family became strangers to each other. At first, he cared about their attention but as time when on, it became a numb feeling. With all this neglect he grew frustrated and decided to take it out on something, which lead to him becoming a delinquent.
When Arthur started as a delinquent it was exhilarating, all the fights, the drama, and even the dangerous situations that they got in. Then it started to dull as time when on because he became stronger and it became hard for people to beat him or even stay in the same league as him. Even when he was holding back he would win. Hence the grey in his life started to come back. Then it all changed when he walked by the anime store. At first, he thought of all the nerds and losers who talked about it in school and he almost vomited, but something told him if he entered his life would be changed for the better.
So with a push of the door and a step into the store, his life was changed. He came to a new world of entertainment whether it be mecha, school-life, romcom, shounen, or horror. He enjoyed it all and with every new one he read or watched his attitude and the grey in life would improve. "So yeah this is by far the best option for me because once I lose my enjoyment of anime, then what do I got left."
As he said this the monitor was downloading his two characters.
"LEONARD BURNS (FIRE FORCE) ...23%...42%...67%...87%...98%... COMPLETED"
"QUETZALCOATL (FATE/GRAND ORDER) ...33% ...58%...72%...ERROR...ERROR... DOWNGRADING 1 SKILL/ABILITY...ERROR... DOWNGRADING 2 SKILLS/ABILITIES...ERROR... DOWNGRADING 3 SKILLS/ABILITIES...ACCEPTED... SKILL LOCK... 88%...99%... COMPLETED"
"DOWNLOAD TO _ IS IT WRONG TO PICK UP GIRLS IN A DUNGEON (DANMACHI) ...05%... 14%... 38%...50%...75%....88%...99%... COMPLETE"
"HAVE FUN : ) "
As he read the screen his vision became blurry and his eyes became heavy. "Damnit" and with that his vision blacked out.
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With a loud gasp, Arthur found himself in a large tunnel with multiple corridors. He got up off the ground and looked around. "Ok... this is hella sketchy" he whisper but noticed his voice was lower in pitch. He looked at his hands which were bigger and saw he had gold wristbands with red feathers on the ends. "Yeah, this is super trippy... OH CRAP MY EYE" he brought his right hand up to his eye or an eye patch. He wanted to pull off the patch but heard scurrying behind and around him. Arthur started to spin in a circle to get a good location for the sound.
"SCREEEEEEECCCCCCHHHHHHHH"
A small shadow appeared in the air with a club, coming down to smash Arthur's head in. To his surprise, he could see the creature clearly and slowly as it descended on him. He raised his fist and launched it forward towards the creature. The club that was once used as a weapon was instantly splintered on contact with his fist and a devastating connection with the creature's face was met. A pained screech was heard as the creature rocketed into the opposite wall to Arthur. He looked at his fist and saw steam pouring off it. "Holy hell... that was a goblin." He looked at the small creature that's ugly face was reconfigured. Before he could bask in his own glory more screeches could be heard and running feet.
Arthur looked ahead of him and saw and saw dozens of red eyes peering at him with bloodlust. As the pressure was placed on him a ferial smile appeared on his face showing his sharp teeth.
"NOT ONLY A MINUTE IN AND I LOVE IT!!!" he shouted with excitement.