Eighteen-year-old Oliver Shaw is just your average, introverted high school student. No friends, no presence, no future. His life of quiet classroom corners and late-night games is turned upside down when his entire class is suddenly summoned to a fantasy world.

There, they're hailed as heroes — champions chosen by the Goddess to defeat the Demon King and save the world from destruction.

But while his classmates awaken powerful combat skills and legendary classes, Oliver is given… Linguist.
An F-rank support skill with no combat abilities and no future. Just a single line of description: "Can understand any language."

Mocked, ignored, and ultimately cast aside, Oliver finds himself abandoned at the edge of death.

But in the silence where others hear nothing… he begins to hear everything.

Now, in a world shaped by words and magic, the boy they left behind may hold the one skill that can break it all.

The sound of wheels crunching against stone came from outside. Heavy hoofbeats echoed, growing louder.


Oliver turned toward the window — just in time to see a dark carriage, polished and engraved with the sigil of the Valtaine family, rolling to a stop in front of the inn.


The laughter in the room faded. A hush fell as the weight of reality returned.


The door creaked open. A liveried driver stepped in, bowing low.


"By order of Viscount Theo Valtaine," he intoned, "I have come to escort Oliver Shaw and his companions to the estate."


The Valtaine carriage gleamed like polished obsidian under the setting sun, pulled by four black steeds in ornate silver tack. The driver held the reins with military stiffness, and the sigil of the Valtaine family — a rampant lion crowned with laurels — was etched proudly onto the carriage doors.


Oliver tugged at his belt, glancing at Isolde and Nyra. "Well… looks like our ride's here."


Chapter 68 - To the Viscount estate