In the game called Academy Of Legends, there existed many controversial topics. It was a typical RPG game where the main character with an overpowered ability teams up with other powerful kids that he meets and either befriends or dates to overcome monsters, demons, evil gods, and worst of all, homework! Naturally, there were debates between players about what the best hidden items and events were, who the best Heroine was, and many other small squabbles between hundreds of thousands of fans of the game. There was one thing that was universally agreed upon, however. The rival character who becomes increasingly powerful and deranged throughout the course of the game, was the dumbest character in the entire series.
The main reason for this was the fact that he not only refused his ducal family's resources and legacy techniques, he received the most broken Unique skill, on top of ignoring his affinity to Dark mana, which was just as powerful as light mana in terms of versatility and power The thing that made every character grind their teeth was that the heir of the entire Vector duchy was so petty about being better than the protagonist at everything that he didn't even try to learn anything about his unique skill, Adaptation, or his magical affinity. He stubbornly tried to overpower the player character with whatever type of weapon the player focuses, and deliberately only compared his techniques and his inability to use light magic to the player character, which only had the light element and the player's own unique skill, Lucky Break.
Unfortunately for one unlucky Earth soul, he found out the hard way that Academy of Legends was just a test that was designed by the god of the multiverse who oversees the concept of time to weed out different candidates from alternate worlds to find someone suitable to change the future of the world that the game takes place in. It's a long storyline, but the general idea is that in the "game", also known as the future of the world of Hern, the god of the concept of Nothing uses the protagonist's rival as a vessal to nearly destroy the world, and the rival character, Corvin, wakes up for a brief moment thanks to his Adaptation skill and destroys his own body and soul to halt the god of nothing's descent.
The gist of everything being that Corvin's soul was destroyed permanently when the god that oversees time took a look into the future. Basically, Corvin destroying his own soul basically happened once because the god of time got curious, and the world of Hern was about to be doomed because Corvin would be born without a soul and the god of nothing would be able to inhabit Corvin's body as soon as he was born. In other words, there would be no fully grown protagonist to slow down the god's descent and no way to stop the world's destruction once the god succeeded.
So, the god of time pulled some strings across the worlds and found a person who resonated reasonably well with Corvin down to their soul. He found someone suitable from their interactions with the game, waited for them to die of natural causes, and tossed his soul into the body of Corvin. Thus, the god of nothing, also known as the god of the void, was prevented from descending into the world of Hern.
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Twelve years After The God Of Time Found A Replacement For The Original Corvin Vector:
In a well kept mansion with a moderate size and a family of six, Corvin was now the oldest child of the Vector Duchy, and considering that he had two past lives to draw memories from, he was also the most well behaved and knowledgeable of the duke's children.
When the god of time combined that Earth soul with what was left of Corvin's soul, he erased many memories of the two of them so that this new Corvin would have a fresh start on life. Essentially, if it wasn't related to Corvin's fall into darkness, the regrets he left behind, or useful information that Corvin and the Earth soul picked up in their lives, it was discarded.
As a side effect of this, the Corvin of this timeline was a twelve year old natural prodigy in everything weapon and magic theory related. He also had excellent financial handling and general life skills from Earth, as well as a few good ideas that he got from there.
Today was the day where Corvin's life started to take a turn for the worse in his last life, and it was Corvin's first opportunity to truly deviate from his fate in this world.
The sunlight's rays beamed into the second story room as Bell, the family's main butler drew back the maroon curtains and revealed the lush garden beyond the glass window. It was still just sunrise, but Bell had gotten a good enough handle on his young master's temperment to know that Corvin could very well sleep late into the day before awakening.
"Bell, it's too early. Let me sleep longer."
Of course, the speaker of that sentence was Corvin.
Of course, Corvin wouldn't be so bold if he could see the vein that popped up on the old butler's temple and the obvious clench in his jaw, but he was too well wrapped up in his blanket to peek his head out and check.
"I could do that, but Eileen and Ciel are already asking where you are. They're refusing to eat a bite until they see their brother's face."
Corvin's fortress of warmth visibly shook, and Bell watched blankly as Corvin's head popped out from within his makeshift cocoon.
"Is it really that late? Why didn't you wake me up sooner!?"
Bell's rebuttal was swift and straight.
"You wouldn't have gotten up unless I waited."
Corvin opened his mouth and almost spoke, but when he wanted to say something, he found that his family butler was right. So, Corvin acted his (physical)age and sulked while turning his head away. He even crossed his arms in a blatant disregard of his supposed dignity.
"Let's go young master, everyone is waiting."
Bell half drug Corvin out of bed and brought him to his personal bathroom. Corvin found a miniature nobleman's suit there. Magic often made up for this world's lack of finer Earth style technology, and sometimes made even more convenient than what was common on Corvin's memories of Earth. Purification chambers were one such convenience. Bathing, brushing one's teeth, and selective hair removal were all functions of the cylindrical tube enchanted with light attribute purification magic.
There was also a magical toilet that functioned on similar magical engineering principles, so cleaning up and changing clothes took barely ten minutes to finish, even though Corvin had to put up with Bell adjusting the suit and Corvin's hairstyle once he was dressed.
Walking out of his room with a gloomy face and a smiling old man behind him, Corvin's charcoal black eyes gleamed with a flicker of some emotion before he returned to a well practiced blank expression and gaze. Ready to face perhaps the biggest turning point of his life, Corvin made his way through the mansion to the main dining hall.