Lucien Ashborne was supposed to be a nobody — an early-game villain who existed only to be crushed by the protagonist. After provoking the wrong person, he vanished from the story without even a dramatic death scene.

When a player named James dies and wakes up in Lucien’s body, he inherits every bit of the villain’s broken reputation and zero of his privileges. Bullied, scorned, and abandoned by his own noble family, Lucien now stands at the bottom of the academy hierarchy.

To make matters worse, the world he knew as a game has no guaranteed happy ending… and the protagonist’s party treats him like a criminal.

But James isn’t the Lucien they think he is.

With fragments of meta-knowledge, a half-broken system that barely works, and a determination to avoid becoming cannon fodder, he chooses a different path.

He doesn’t seek glory.
He just refuses to disappear.

This is the story of a former villain trying to rewrite his role — not as a hero, but as someone who survives on his own terms.

"Well, it's somewhat repaired, thanks to the time provided by your spikes," Roderic answered, walking beside me along the snow-covered parapets. "But if attacks like the ones before keep hitting us, it won't last long either. The masonry is basically held together by freezing water and Princess Celestia's magic."


A wall held together by glacial ice is naturally weaker than the original reinforced stone, leaving aside the terrifying question of how long Celestia's massive magical barrier would actually hold under continuous assault.


Maybe I should pay Commander Arthur a visit tonight and finally hand over the Titan's Heart, I thought. See if that could be integrated as a permanent replacement for the failing Frostward Core.


Chapter 207 - Winterguard [10]