"A boring ending."
He said as he lay his fat body down on the bed.
"I didn't expect my favorite novel to end so disappointingly."
The novel he had just finished reading was titled Miracle Cube.
The name came from the cheat used by the protagonist.
The cheat itself — Miracle Cube — had the ability to accelerate cultivation.
If an ordinary person required a thousand years to reach the ninth level, the owner of the Miracle Cube would only need one year.
That's how broken the protagonist's cheat was.
Ironically, the protagonist was foolish, with a principle not to rely too heavily on the Miracle Cube, thinking it was unethical.
If only the protagonist had used the Miracle Cube freely from the start, he would have been overpowered early on.
It was the protagonist's attitude that frustrated him. If this novel wasn't a harem novel, he would have dropped it by now.
"If I reincarnated into this novel, I would immediately take the protagonist's cheat and become overpowered in no time. After that, I'd take all of his harem."
He then pulled the blanket over his fat body before going to sleep.
***
When he woke up, he found himself in an unfamiliar room.
The room's floor was made of marble, chandeliers hung from the ceiling, and antique paintings adorned the walls.
"A kid-kidnapping!?"
He quickly dismissed the thought. After all, he was just a fat man with an ugly face. What use was there in kidnapping a pig like him?
Then why was he here?
To answer that question, he got up from the large, luxurious bed and walked toward the door.
As he moved, he noticed that his body felt lighter than usual.
He passed by a mirror by chance, and it showed him a very different reflection than what he was used to.
"Huh?"
Confused, he stopped and looked into the mirror.
"Wh-who is this?"
The appearance reflected in the mirror shocked him greatly.
Silver hair, pale skin, red eyes, a tall and slim body. His appearance had completely changed, a total transformation.
"Is this really my appearance now…? This isn't a dream, is it?"
He was overjoyed. His fat body and ugly face had always made him insecure. He had longed for a slender body and a handsome face like this.
"But why did my soul end up in this body? Could it be that I've died and transmigrated?"
Suddenly, a flood of information rushed into his mind, causing him to scream in pain and collapse to the floor.
It was excruciating, like a sword piercing his head, twisting and making him feel incredibly dizzy.
However, as the pain gradually subsided, he realized that the information flooding in was the memories of this body's previous owner.
"This body… it used to belong to Amon Lucerion."
He remembered who Amon Lucerion was.
Amon was a side villain in Miracle Cube. He was extremely lazy and untalented. His clan would eventually abandon him, seeing him as a burden and a useless waste.
To make matters worse, he would later be dumped by his fiancée without warning.
His fiancée's name was Ariel. Ariel was, in fact, the future lover of the Miracle Cube protagonist.
Unable to accept the sudden breakup, Amon tried to assault Ariel, only to end up beaten to a pulp by the protagonist who came to rescue her.
"Looking back, Amon was such an annoying character. He even tried to assault his fiancée. I was really satisfied watching him get beaten by the protagonist. But now that I am Amon, I won't let the protagonist beat me up."
Luckily, he was a devoted reader of Miracle Cube. He knew every plot point and detail of the story inside out.
Using the knowledge he had as a reader, he would change his fate as Amon.
"I must take the protagonist's cheat."
Suddenly, the bedroom door opened, revealing a maid carrying a breakfast tray.
"Young Master, why are you lying on the floor?"
"When will Ariel arrive?"
"Your fiancée, Miss Ariel, might arrive today."
"Today, you say?!"
The day Ariel arrived was also the day he would meet the protagonist.
Ariel's carriage would be attacked by undead, and that's when the protagonist would appear to save her. That was the beginning of their love story.
But that wasn't what mattered to Amon.
After the protagonist saved Ariel, he would discover his cheat — the Miracle Cube.
In short, today was the day the protagonist would obtain the cheat. Once he had it, there would be no way to take it from him, as the protagonist had an incredibly strong plot armor.
Amon had to find the cheat before it fell into the protagonist's hands.
He had very little time. He needed to hurry.
"Hurry and prepare a horse for me!"
"Yes, I will prepare flowers right away."
The maid said as she ran off, but then suddenly stopped, realizing something odd about the order she had just received.
"Young Master, did you just say flowers? Not a horse?"
"Are your ears deaf? I said prepare a horse for me, quickly!"
"Yes, I will do that at once."
She ran off again but muttered to herself, noticing something strange about her young master.
"Usually when Miss Ariel visits, he asks for flowers to be prepared. But why is he asking for a horse today? Something is definitely odd about my young master today."
After the maid left, Amon remained in his room to get dressed.
Not long after, he grabbed two long, sharp swords to bring along.
The Lucerion Clan was one of the two strongest families in the world.
They mastered the art of swordsmanship and ruled a quarter of the world.
Another quarter was controlled by their rival clan, who mastered magic.
A quarter remained neutral and was not controlled by anyone.
The remaining part was ruled by the Death God, who sought to conquer the world.