CH 1

———- It appears that I possessed a character from a game I used to play.

The structure and size of the room suggested that it was an academy dormitory.

A very spacious room for a single person, with medieval furniture all across.

Each piece of furniture was old-fashioned and magnificent as if it revealed the owner’s character.

I shook my head and scratched my chin.

This won’t change anything, but it was ridiculous.

Not so long ago, I was sitting in front of my computer, waiting for a new patch of this game to be downloaded – looking forward to a new shop system that was added for the first time in the game and an additional story with a big twist.

“……….”

Slowly raising my head, I looked around.

Still, it was the academy’s dormitory room that I saw all the time in the game.

The full-length mirror in front reflected the visage of a handsome boy with light silver hair and red eyes.

Of course, it was a character I knew.

Suddenly, the transparent window floating in front of my eyes shone softly as if to inform me that this is a new country.

“Haa – – – – – -“

Still, why this guy?

If I already possessed someone, even if it wasn’t the main character, shouldn’t it at least be a main supporting role?

Theo Lyn Walderk, the character that I possessed from the game ‘Kyrenzena Chronicles’ – he wasn’t even the main character’s aide, but just a third-class villain extra who doesn’t even have a presence.

A character who came from a long-established family of Heroes, but had the worst talent and personality ever, and was arbitrarily inserted by the development team for an ignorant, true education cider in the beginning.

In other words, he was a character with no special abilities – the characteristic that he would die on any route.

Whether he’s killed by an angry protagonist, killed while fighting a monster, killed by a disappointed fiancée, or otherwise killed by other characters.

[Main Quest: Graduate from Elinia Academy’s Department of  Hero with excellent grades.]

Remaining Period: 3 years 5 months 23 days <View Details>

Reward: ???

But graduating from the Department of Heroes with a character like this, and that too with excellent grades – I don’t know what the reward is, but the clearing difficulty was too high.

To be excellent in the ‘’Kyrenzena Chronicles’ means to be in the top 10%.

— I can’t even run away.

In ‘Kyrenzena Chronicles’, the failure of the main quest immediately leads to death.

Of course, it may not be like that in reality, but it was too dangerous to try.

In the end, if I want to survive, I have to somehow graduate from this academy’s Department of Heroes with excellent grades—.

Even as a player who is treated as developer-approved waste in this game, I saw the world’s first ending, but I’m not confident about this.

Why?

The Department of Heroes, where only the continent’s best talents gather regardless of origin, gender, age, or race, has only half the people graduating from 4th year safely.

Keeping aside the excellent grades, it was impossible to even graduate with this character.

Departments such as the Knights Department and the Magic Department are also places where outstanding talents gather, but the Hero Department was different.

They would rather have one genius than 1,000 mediocre people.

For that reason, in this game, they received great treatment just because they are ‘A Hero from Elinia Academy’.

After about an hour like that.

“Whew——.”

Before I knew it, my complicated mind had calmed down.

A Hero must be rational in any extreme situation.

From teaching assistants and professors, to board presidents – it was a word that was mentioned a lot at the level of brainwashing.

Originally, I was on the rational side, but I accepted it too quickly.

Being able to make up my mind so quickly would mean that Theo was influencing me.

It seems that this character was also a student of the Department of Heroes.

[Name: Theo Lyn Walderk]

Gender: Male

Age: 16

Race: Human

Affiliation: Elinia Academy Hero Department/ Marquis Walderk

Muscular Strenght [근력] 7

Physical Strenght [체력] 7

[T/N:- confused about this. It literally translates to Physical Strenght but it also loosely translates to Stamina. Plus I don’t see that much difference b/w Muscular Strength and Physical Strength.]

Mana [체력] 0

Perseverance [끈기] 2

[T/N:- Originally wanted to translate it as Endurance, but later changed it to ‘Perseverance’ because the author compared this stat with ‘gamblers’, It could also be translated to ‘Tenacity’.]

Traits

– Descendants of the Hero (Passive / Blood Ability) <View Details>

– Dignity of a Twisted Aristocrat (Passive) <View Details>

When I imagined the information window, a bluish window that I had seen thousands or tens of thousands of times in this game appeared.

These were horrendous stats for a student of the Hero Department.

The average muscular and physical strength of third-class mercenaries was 5. If it’s 7, it’s probably at the bottom of the Knights Department.

Mana is 0. I must be the only one in the Academy with 0 Mana – even local innkeepers usually have two or three Mana.

Magic cannot be used unless I am reborn.

Perseverance is 2 – just 1 higher than the local gamblers.

The general average was 5. At this level, it was impossible to simply run for more than 10 minutes.

“Haa.”

It’s pathetic to look back.

Even though I am the eldest son of a long-established family of Heroes, how could such a person be admitted to the Elinia Academy, and also to the Department of Heroes?

[Descendants of the Hero]

[Dignity of a Twisted Aristocrat]

Even having only two traits wasn’t going to be of any help right now.

‘Descendants of the Hero’ was only effective against powerful enemies such as demons, demon kings, and ancient dragons, and ‘Dignity of a Twisted Aristocrat’ was a very useless trait in the Department of Heroes, where meritocracy is prevalent.

I am a character with no real ability.

I can’t run away either. I don’t want to die.

In the end, in order to live, I have to graduate as this trash character.

So how?

It’s hard to implement, but the answer is so simple – Getting stronger.

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Hero.

An existence that can hold and shake the country. The One who will save the continent from destruction.

That is the ultimate goal, but it has changed a lot now.

At this point, over 200 years have passed since the demon king and ancient dragons that were trying to destroy the continent disappeared.

Should I say that the current Heroes are top-notch troubleshooters?

In modern times, there are very few professions.

In the past, if he was a monk who walked the path of hardship, today’s hero is the dream job that everyone desires.

It is natural to receive a lot of envy. They are treated socially and earn a lot of money.

The most common tasks are subjugating monsters and searching for relics.

Of course, because the cost of the quest is expensive, the mercenary guild is mainly in charge of tasks that are difficult to handle.

Some Heroes even intervene in conflicts between nations.

There are also Heroes who are made Prince of a low succession rank Kings, and rule the country from behind.

—–And I must become such a Hero.

With a cool head, I made a plan.

The remaining period was 3 years, 5 months, and 23 days.

In order to graduate with excellent grades with this poor ability, the amount of time was not enough.

Fortunately, I knew a lot of things that would happen in every route, just like an old-fashioned user who was certified by the operator.

The location of the Hidden Piece, or an NPC who might be of help.

I was confident that users with more game knowledge than me could be counted on one hand.

[Main Quest: Graduating from Elinia Academy Hero Department with excellent grades.]

Remaining Period: 3 years 5 months 23 days <View Details>

Reward: ???

In order to graduate from Elinia Academy, students must normally complete 4 years and 8 semesters.

Judging from the remaining period, this is the very beginning of the story, just a week after the start of the second semester.

In this game, the story and difficulty vary greatly depending on which route the protagonist chooses.

The main character, Neike, was 16 years old, the same age as me, and a fellow of the Department of Heroes.

If so, the first thing to check is ‘which route will Neike choose?’

In the wizard route, Neike’s aide is a merchant, and he becomes a villain who annoys Neike in every case in the merchant route.

Neike formally chooses the route in his second and third semesters.

But since the first semester has already passed, he must have made some decisions in his mind.

‘I hope it is an easy route.’

That way, I will have more hidden pieces that I can take with me.

Even with the help of Hidden Piece, it is doubtful that I, who is overwhelmingly inferior, will be able to graduate from the academy with excellent grades.

I don’t even know what route the main character, Neike, is going to take, but I can’t even get a hidden piece.

In the wizard route, it was possible to graduate from the academy without difficulty by following the main story without the need for a hidden piece, but without the help of the hidden piece in the merchant route, you would die before graduating from the academy.

And in this game, without Neike, the academy won’t be able to withstand numerous accidents and would collapse.

Neike is a must.

“Hmm, then–

Let’s go out and gather information for now.

Even in the midst of this, the precious time continued to pass by.

At that time,

“Ugh!”

I felt a stinging pain.

It was because of the Perseverence stat of only 2.

Sliding. {Sound of door sliding}

My unwilling eyes turned to the bed and the white and thick pillow looked very soft.

I wanted to sleep right away.

“Damn it.”

But I have to resist.

The stats go up naturally.

Perseverance 2 won’t do anything.

“Whoo.”

Fortunately, this was negligible. The degree to which one feels bad because one is bothered.

I think I should wash up before I go out.

I headed to the bathroom in the room.

The bathroom was splendid, in case it was a place where the high-spirited noble master washed

Judging from the condition, it was clear that it has been recently remodeled.

It was different from the boring bathroom of Neike that I saw in this game.

The dormitory room assignments change on a yearly basis, and Theo Lyn Walderk — he spent a huge sum of money remodeling it for the year he was staying.

Once again, I felt that this man I possessed was a vain lunatic.

“Still, it’s okay to be a third-rate extra.”

I was tall and had a slim body.

After washing, admiring the more gorgeous appearance than the interior reflected in the mirror, I left the bathroom.

Looking at the window, time had passed and the sun was setting.

Without drying my hair, I just wiped my body and tried to leave the room-

“Ugh, ooh!”

I felt a pain that was incomparable to before.

It felt as if I have been electrocuted all over my body.

I shouted at the pain.

“Oh, why again!”

Then I felt another stinging pain.

Only then did I realize why.

[Dignity of a Twisted Aristocrat]

It was because of this passive trait.

An aristocrat with a father, a descendant of the Hero family and a Marquis, tried to go out without drying his hair and shouted loudly for others to hear him.

Both were actions that went against the dignity of aristocrats.

“That’s right.”

It’s really varied.

It reminded me of the various filthy things Theo did before being possessed.

Publicly embarrass the commoner students of the academy, and publicly say that they won’t be attending classes from professors with commoner background—— There were so many other things besides this.

Oh, so is this the ‘twisted’ aristocratic character?

—–But what can I do, now you are me.

I don’t even know how to go back.

Even at this frustrating moment, the limited time continues to pass.

“I should dry my hair first.”

After that, I was able to get out of the door only after spraying perfume that matched my outdoor clothes.