Light Novel Volume 01

This is the first light novel volume in the Skeleton Knight In Another World series. It was released on June, 25, 2015. It details about a young player awakening in his game avatar in a whole new world.

Main Summary
Reborn as a heroic...skeleton?! A brand-new isekai fantasy light novel series!

A gamer falls asleep―only to wake up in the world of the game he was playing! Arc has the powerful skills and weapons of his character, but there’s just one problem… he’s stuck looking like that character, too. An adventure in a fantastical new land awaits him, if he can get used to being a walking skeleton!

Full Summary
A gamer awakens to find himself in his game avatar, a skeletal holy knight. At first confused at his situation, the player grows accustom to it and learns that he has full access to all his skills and powers that his game avatar has. The gamer then and decides to embrace the new surroundings he is in and explore it. He soon comes across some bandits accosting a maid and her lady. Just before they are violated, the knight steps in and slays the bandits with relative ease. The two women, introduce themselves as Rita Farren and Lauren Laraiya du Luvierte and are grateful for the knight's assistance. When asked his name, the knight introduces himself as Arc. To ensure their safety, Arc escorts the women back to their home town, Luvierte. Though they offer him a great reward for their rescue, Arc declines and instead uses the spoils he took from the bandits to gather funds.

After selling the weapons he took from the bandits to a merchant, Arc then goes to the Mercenary Guild and registers himself as a mercenary. Once he passes the requirements, Arc that a request from Rata Village for a girl named Marca and escorts her into the nearby forest to collect herbs. During the herb collection, they encounter a Giant Basilisk which Arc kills in order to protect Marca. The two not wanting to throw the village into a panic then swear to keep the death of the beast a secret as well helping Arc maintain a low profile. When they are about to leave the forest they encounter a Fanged Boar which Arc kills and gifts to the village to do as they like. Shortly after Arc left, men from the Luvierte territory appear to subjugate the second basilisk which they succeed but take losses. They discover the body of the first monster, causing them to wonder who could have killed the creature.

Unknown to anyone the Marquis Tryton du Diento was the one responsible for the attempted attack on members of the Luvierte family under the orders of the second prince Dakares Ciciay Karlon Rhoden Vetran who Marquis Diento he supports. After learning it had failed, he then proceeded to plant two basilisks in the Luvierte territory, but that too fails miserably.

Arc meanwhile decides to move from Luvierte and heads to the city of Diento. Whilst exploring the nearby forest, he encounters some bandits and kills them. In their hideout, Arc finds a strange green fox that the bandits captured. Taking pity on the creature, Arc heals its wounds and manages to befriend. After being freed it decides to stay with Arc and the knight gives the fox the name Ponta. Arc returning to Diento then comes across an elf. He approaches the elf but is regarded with hostility. Another hostility turns to wariness after the elf notices Ponta which he identifies as a spirit animal, creatures that normally would not befriend humans as they can sense greed and negative emotions. Though Arc tries to strike a friendly dialogue, the elf warns the knight to stay away from his kind's business in Diento before vanishing into the woods.

Though saddened by this encounter, Arc decides to head towards the forest to do some exploring. He comes across some human slavers in conflict with some elves who are trying to rescue some elven children they have captured. Though the elves are superior in fighting ability, the leader of the slaver, Udolan uses the children as leverage and forces the elves to stand down and surrender themselves as their prisoners. Arc refusing to stand by breaks the stalemate by pummeling the human slavers giving the elves the opportunity to fight back.

Arc then attended to freeing the children, though he was distrusted by the elves, who demanded why he helped him. However upon seeing Ponta with the knight the elven woman who was commanding the rescusers decided to trust him. Arc and the elves freed the children, who were all fine though had Mana-Eating Collar s, preventing them from using magic. It so happened that Arc's spell of Uncurse could break the items, freeing the elves. The adult elves thanks the knight, and the leader among them, Ariane interested in his ability asked for his help in rescuing her brethren that were held captive in Diento.

Arc accepted the commission, and together they returned to Diento via a teleportation spell by Arc which surprised Ariane on the ability. At the human town they met up with Ariane' associate, Danka Niel Maple, who turned out to be the elf Arc met several days ago. Though the other elf was unhappy of having a human join their rescue mission, he consented due to Arc's teleportation magic. The three then infiltrated the warehouses of the town to find that all the guards had already been killed by an unknown party. Arc alone in exploring a wing of the warehouse was attacked by a cat ninja. Though initially hostile towards him, Ponta's appearance calmed her down, seeing that he was not an enemy after realizing Arc had some connection to the founder of her clan. The ninja explain that she had killed all the slavers in the building and that the captive elves were down below. Before parting, the ninja gave Arc a list of names of buyers who bought some elves that were sold.

Arc regroups with his elven companions who have freed the caged elves. They are informed that two elves are being held by the lord of the town, and so both Arc and Ariane teleport there to free them. The two invade the marquis's home killing those that get in the way. They interrupt the marquis just as he was about to force himself on the elven women, Sena and Uhna. Powerless without his guards the human is beaten to death by the elves for his crimes. Meanwhile Arc finding a treasury of sorts plunders all the valuables under the reasoning to deprive the slave ring of its funds to prevent it from rebuilding. The group then proceed to teleport outside of Diento as the mansion descends into chaos. Ariane believing that Arc would be a useful ally in rescuing her fellow elves asks Arc to remain in her service. However in doing so he would meet the elders of her village. Arc worried about how they would respond to his skeletal appearance, decides to reveal his condition to Ariane. The sight of Arc's skeleton body shocks the elves though they come to an understanding that Arc while appearing as an undead is not. Instead the elves think it is some sort of curse, though in reality it is a skin Arc used for his avatar. Ariane does not reject Arc and even offers to help him find a way to cure him of his condition. That being said Arc accepts to assist Ariane in her mission to rescue the remaining elves.

Elsewhere, the royals of the Rhoden Kingdom gather to discuss about the death of Marquis Diento, and his connections to the elven slave ring, which is in violation against the treaty they have with the elves of the Great Canada Forest. However Prince Dakares Ciciay Karlon Rhoden Vetran calls the allegations false, to cover his own involvement in the slavery ring, getting into a fight with his older brother, Crown Prince Sekt Rondahl Karlon Rhoden Sahdiay who questions his activities with the dead marquis. The king though calls back to the focus of the meeting, which is to open a dialogue with elves so that they do not cut trade with the kingdom. For this task he sends his youngest daughter, Yuriarna Merol Melissa Rhoden Olav to the Grand Duchy of Limbult to open communications. Unknown to her Sekt schemes with a representative of the Holy Hilk Kingdom to have her assassinated so he may have one less contender to the throne.

Chapters

 * Prologue
 * Chapter 1: Journey to a Mysterious World
 * Chapter 2: The Wandering Mercenary
 * Chapter 3: Ariane, the Elf
 * Chapter 4: Operation: Elf Liberation
 * Epilogue
 * Side Story: Lahki's Merchant Diary, Part 1