The thought of meeting the past heroes had been on my mind since the day I encountered the skeleton.

There were many reasons for this.

One reason was that the various items they possessed could be useful not only for me but for the people around me as well.

Another reason, similar to how the skeleton I met in the academy’s underground seemed to offer me valuable skills, was the possibility that they could provide me with powerful abilities.

But above all, the biggest reason was simply that I wanted to meet them.

Though they were mere fakes who imitated …