(Damien's POV)
After a few days of being in bed, I was allowed to go anywhere in the mansion after begging my father that I want to go take a walk once in a while.
Although 'my' memories are coming back to me little by little, the influence of my previous life was greater than this one.
I don't even know if I'm this boy or if I simply received his memories, however, I do know what to do; live and survive.
All my life, I've always fought and struggled to survive, however, due to the care of my father, I'll have an easier time, or so I thought until I decided to learn history in our private library.
I was correct, this world is more dangerous and filled with savages than my previous life as it has magic and monsters. The existence of magic and monsters alone is proof enough that everything will not be the same as my previous life.
Basically, due to the convenience of magic, the technology of this world isn't that developed, after all, if you have magic that can basically do what modern machines can do, why do you need technology at all? Although because of this, transportation and communication is underdeveloped as well as a few others such as medicine and culinary.
It's been a few days since I've stepped into this library, during this time, I've learned a lot of things. For example, the history of this world, the beings that exist here, and how they've lived. In this world, Heroes, Demon Kings, and Gods exist.
In the history of humanity, there was one hero that stood out the most, the Spirit King "Helios". Born from the common people, and is loved by spirits ever since he was born. He was someone that fought the "Heavenly War" from 200 years ago.
The "Heavenly War" was initiated by the Demon King of Destruction. He wanted to conquer everything and anything, his desire and greed for territory has made God's blessed a few certain people to stop him. Helios was one of those people they blessed.
In the war, many sacrifices were made. Many talented, and kind people fell. Including the heroes of the world. The Demon King of Destruction was too strong for even the blessed that they needed to sacrifice their life forces to even stop him.
The Spirit King, Helios.
The Sage, Mirage.
The Saintess, Anastacia.
The Paladin, Randal.
The Joker, Hel.
Many heroes fell, but among them, these five were the most notable.
Ultimately, the Demon King failed to conquer the world, Exudia.
And after the Demon King was subjugated, the races that collaborated with each other split into 5 territories, at least in this continent.
The 5 races; Humans, Beastmen, Elves, Dwarves, and Demons moved to different places.
However, unlike humans who fight for territory, the other races have a clear "Ruler". The Beastmen is ruled by the Beast King, the hero that fought during the war. The Dwarves were ruled by the Dwarf King, however, he was only a descendant of the previous Dwarf King as he fell down in the war. The Elves were ruled by the Elf Queen. A High Elf that also fought in the war.
Having lost their King, the demons fled to a wasteland, that was later called the Demon Continent and is ruled by the Demon Prince. A descendant of the Demon King of Destruction.
Humans have divided their territories into 3 Big Countries.
The Magic Kingdom of Artasia.
The Kingdom of Heroes "Hellion".
And Lastly, The Empire of Tyran.
Our Dukedom, the Maxwell's, belongs to Hellion. Due to the achievement of our great grandfather who helped the hero, he got a peerage of "Duke" and was nicknamed "Iron Knight" due to his incredible tenacity and willpower.
"Fuu" a short sigh escaped from my mouth as I closed the book. That seems to be the general history of the World and its current situation.
"That's a lot to take for my brain, but it's not like It was a lot as it was only a brief summary of the history and the world today."
*Grumble*
"It seems I'm hungry, well that's it for today."
I informed Melissa, my exclusive maid, to prepare my lunch.
As I was heading to the dining hall, I saw a cute little stature on my way, it was my sister, Alicia. Yep, I learned her name after a few days as she's being called that by the maids. When I called her by her name, her face lightened up, believing that my memories are slowly coming back. It's not like it's wrong though.
"Hey, Alicia, want to go together at the dining hall to eat?"
I called her, and she seemed to be surprised, after a few moments though, she heavily nodded.
'Seriously this girl sure is expressing what she wants through her actions instead of words. Does she have a communication disorder?'
As I was pondering on why she's always quiet, we arrived at the fining hall, which surprisingly, our dear father is there.
"Hello Father, it seems you're here as well?"
"Umu, I heard both of you are on your way to the dining table, so I figured I should set up some time for my children. I'm always busy, the only thing I could give both of you is being together at the dinner table."
"It's alright, Father. We know you're doing your best."
"Thank you for your understanding, Day."
After briefly chatting with Father, the maid soon prepared a meal, which I think is high class even though I was from the modern world.
Everyone here, uses the pet name 'Day' because when you pronounce my name, it's Daymien, instead of Da-mien.
All in all, I'm comfortable in this family. Everyone is kind and hospitable. Perhaps it might be a facade because I'm the son of the Duke, however, it's fine. After all, I was from the "Plastic Era".
An era which communication and word are more powerful than words. As such, it's fine with me.
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(A/N)
Did your brain hurt when I dumped huge amount of info to you? I'm sorry, but well, I need to set it up so the world- building will be simple going forward as I already painted a rough world background.