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FOUR YEARS EARLIER....
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"Lucas Estellan.....Lucas Este- is that boy sleeping in class again. Wake up!"
"Haaa... haaa. What... what happened?"
The youth woke up with a severe pain in my head and saw a stunning green haired woman who seemed to be in her thirties staring at him from behind her glasses.
She had dark green hair that fell to her shoulders in loose waves and her skin was pale and smooth. Dark eyebrows framed big green eyes with thick black lashes and her lips were full and painted deep red.
She wore a tight black dress that ended just above her knees along with silver earrings that caught the light when she turned her head. Her hands were thin with short, unpainted nails and she was about average height in low black heels.
"What is up with him? How did he even get into the academy being so lazy?" A beautiful girl with pink hair spoke from right beside him.
What the hell? The last thing I remember doing was playing Aquestius. Where is this? Did I fall asleep and am now dreaming! How else could two beautiful women suddenly appear before me?
The youth looked around and saw that he was in a classroom. The classroom was a long, narrow room made of stone and the walls were rough gray blocks with dark seams from age.
A row of tall windows ran along one side, the glass bumpy and cloudy, set in wooden frames that let in dim light. The floor was made of wide wooden planks, worn smooth in the middle from tons of feet walking on them.
At the front sat a heavy oak desk covered with scratches and ink stains. Behind it was a tall chair with a straight back and behind that was a blackboard.
"Silence, Lydia. It is not your place to scold fellow students no matter how badly they are doing. Have you done your homework?" The older woman, presumably a teacher, scolded the pink haired girl.
They say playing too much games can cause you to see it everywhere but this Lydia girl looks the dead stamp of Lydia Astrolome from Aquestius.
As the youth pondered, the severe pain in his head intensified by the second.
Suddenly, memories started flashing back into his mind.
"This body is not mine. I have been reincarnated into a fantasy world with magic. The original owner of this body was Lucas Estellan, a young noble of the Noclies Kingdom currently studying at the Lerastad Royal Academy in the capital city of Lerastad."
Wait! This feels familiar. I swear I have seen it somewhere before!
"Yes, Ms. Ocsol, I have finished the Magical Mechanics and Theory homework and I am sure all of the other students have as well..... with the exception of Lucas, of course. But that is to be expected." The girl said smugly.
Ms Ocsol.... Lydia... Magical Mechanics and Theory.... Lucas Estellan. I've got it. This is..... This is the world of Aquestius! I've been reincarnated into the game!
Aquestius: Doom of the Legion or Aquestius for short had been one of the most famous games ever released due to how absolutely garbage it was.
Said to be the passion project of a mysterious man said to be the world's first trillioniare, the game spend a large amount of time in development hell as the creators didn't have a proper identity for the game and were just throwing money until something stuck.
It was about a world in a tragic state, with a war waging between the Heroes and the titular Legion, the main antagonists of the game.
The game released to garbage reviews and flopped financially as it was priced at $100 despite being a released as a basic ass dating sim,due to the trillioniare running out of patience with the devs and pulling funding.
Then it was turned into a open world rpg and when that flopped, it became a pay to win open world rpg gacha game that leaned very, very heavily into the sex appeal.
The youth himself would have never played the game if his father wasn't a developer who had gotten a free copy of the game.
In the game, Lucas Estellan was one of the seventeen main party members you could recruit and among the game's small, dumpster diving fandom he was agreed upon to be the worst of these characters.
Not only was he weak and easily killed in just five hits by most enemies in the early and midgame, his repertiore of abilities was quite pathetic until the halfway point of the game and the youth had - of all people - been transmigrated into him.
"Just my luck," The youth -no, Lucas- muttered under his breath.
The whole class had started laughing from Lydia's joke but Lucas had no time to pay them any mind. He had to sort this situation out fast.
"So, I'm in the world of Aquestius and since it's late into October, the second month of school. I think we're halfway through the first chapter of the game but something isn't quite right."
Since I'm in class with Lydia Astrolome that must mean I'm in Class C but Lucas, in the game, was originally in Class A where the protagonist was and where Lydia would transfer next semester after proving she was very, very competent despite her limited Mana.
While in Class A, Lucas would be bullied relentlessly for his small and weak physique and his weak Mana as the bullies believed he wasn't suited for Class A but the MC would save him and he would become one of the first teammates of the MC.
"Mr. Estellan, you are awake yet it somehow seems like you are still asleep. Should I give you detention to get you focused?" Ms. Ocsol said with a sharp stare.
"No, ma'am. That won't be neccessary. I'm wide awake." Lucas answered.
"Excellent!" Ms. Ocsol said, "Now we can begin. So as you all know, Asarv the Legless created the Lightning Bolt spell while trying to create a spell to levitate. How a Levitate spell could have been turned into Lightning Bolt. I'm glad you asked. You see-"
Lucas paid careful attention. He planned on using the information he was hearing to reinforce what he already knew. That way he would be ready for any situation.
Hopefully.
[Ding!]
A loud sound suddenly rung out within his mind. Lucas was stunned and then happy.
Is this what I think it is?
[Synchronization successful. Source: Soul profile 78-ESX. Classification: Villain Potential. Override confirmed.]
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