"Victor, you've really become famous!"
A woman's angry scolding came from the study.
A beautiful woman with short black hair was holding a newspaper, pointing at the portrait printed by the magic stone on it, fuming with anger.
"Are you trying to disgrace the surname 'Klevener'?"
Slap!
The newspaper was thrown onto the man's face.
He remained expressionless and took off the newspaper.
His bright obsidian - like eyes quietly scanned the content in the newspaper.
The man in the newspaper had regular features. Even on this paper that could only print black - and - white images, one could tell that the man was extraordinarily handsome.
This was already a face that could charm thousands of young girls.
But this did not include the girl in front of the man.
The man's gesture seemed to be an invitation to the girl, but the girl in the picture refused him with a smile.
There seemed to be a bit of disgust in that smile.
Bang!
A sound pulled his thoughts back.
The woman in front of him, Leah Klevener, slapped the table heavily.
"Asking you to represent the family at the dinner party, and you actually confessed your love to the duke's daughter in public at the party!?"
"She's still a minor! Are you crazy?"
Yes, the content in the newspaper read:
[Shocking! Viscount Klevener did such a thing at the dinner party of the duke's daughter!]
One had to admit that this newspaper knew how to attract attention.
If he saw such a headline himself, he might also spend a few coins to buy a copy as entertainment during afternoon tea.
Unfortunately, the object of entertainment on the front - page headline of this newspaper was none other than himself.
Victor Klevener.
He looked at the mirror placed on the desk, and the figure reflected in it was exactly the same as the handsome guy in the newspaper.
But as a transmigrator who had just crossed over today and had no memories at all, Victor didn't want to take the blame.
Although, in the face of the woman's angry shouts, all he could do was remain silent.
If a mental patient kills someone and claims to be insane, can they avoid the death penalty?
They actually can.
The premise is that you have such a certificate.
Victor didn't have one.
He could only listen to the other person's scolding with his head down.
But this attitude of seemingly letting it go in one ear and out the other seemed to make the other person even angrier.
Finally, with the words "I must be crazy to think you could listen" as the end, she ended this one - sided scolding.
Victor was able to sort out as much information as he could during this scolding that lasted for dozens of minutes.
The layout in the study and the appearance of the short - haired beauty in front of him could all be perfectly matched with a game he played in his previous life.
It was an adventure - type MMORPG game, that is, "Massively Multiplayer Online Role - Playing Game".
In this world of swords and magic, players could customize their faces, play different races, experience different occupations, play various plots, and take on challenges.
And his occupation?
He was a power - leveler.
This game also required leveling up. If you were not a cash - paying player, you also needed to grind out all kinds of materials.
If a player didn't want to spend money but didn't have extra time to gain levels and materials, that's when a power - leveler was needed.
At the same time, in some PVP (Player vs Player) ranked matches, when players needed to rise to a rank that didn't match their strength, they also needed the help of a power - leveler.
He did this job in his previous life and was quite famous in the power - leveling circle.
Just yesterday, he didn't eat or sleep and spent seven days finally finishing the seventeenth order for the rest of this month.
Just as he was about to settle the payment.
Bang, he died suddenly.
That's how plain and unadorned his transmigration was.
Back to the point, the character he transmigrated into now was named [Victor Klevener].
His status was a viscount.
In the Kingdom of Carencia, a country that distributes power and status based on the title system, his viscount status was more of a symbol of identity.
Besides having a territory, there were no other special privileges.
In the eyes of commoners, Victor was of course a powerful and influential figure.
A viscount couldn't compare with a duke.
"No wonder it's a villain boss. The starting difficulty is hell - level."
Victor muttered to himself.
"What did you say?"
Leah's voice rose a few pitches, as if in doubt or expressing dissatisfaction with his indifferent attitude.
This naturally made Victor look at his nominal sister.
Leah Klevener.
In the game, she was Victor Klevener's sister.
Due to her extremely high looks, she was also one of the few female characters in the game that players chased after shouting "wife".
Leah's high popularity was also closely related to her having a "villain brother".
Victor Klevener was a boss character that players had to defeat in the early and middle stages of the game.
Due to Victor Klevener's series of actions, the regime of the Kingdom of Carencia was overthrown.
The current empress issued a mission, asking players to help defeat Victor Klevener.
And this villain character, in the end, was also labeled with various tags such as [high - attack, high - speed, hard to defeat], [good - looking], [scumbag mage], and somehow became quite popular.
Overall, transmigrating into a game he was familiar with should have been a happy thing.
But his mood wasn't very good.
Because...
Victor had a lot of enemies.
Maybe it was because of being well - known attracting trouble, or maybe it was the plot planner's malice towards handsome guys.
In the game, any NPC that players met might have a feud with Victor.
It could be a teacher at the magic academy, an old man in the village.
Even a dog on the roadside might have been kicked by Victor.
What's more ridiculous was that even a series of main - line characters wanted to kill him.
Among them were Victor's fiancée, Victor's sister, and the duke's daughter.
This was also the origin of Victor's title, [scumbag mage].
There were only a few well - known female characters with high looks, and Victor had all of them.
It was already remarkable that he could survive until now.
And now, he had replaced the original Victor and become the current Victor...
Just the hatred value accumulated by the original body was enough for him to have a hard time.
'I wonder what time it is now.'
After Leah's previous question, he didn't mutter this time.
He just thought about it in his mind.
And this thought of Victor made Leah in front of him think that he was deliberately not speaking to humiliate her.
Her anger value was immediately maxed out.
"Enough! Victor, do you have no idea what kind of situation you're in!"
She angrily took out a contract from her famous - brand handbag and threw it on the desk.
"If I hadn't used my connections to contact the academy and asked them to draw up a professor title for you immediately, the duke's private soldiers would have already arrived at the gate of your mansion!"
"But you're sitting leisurely in the study, drinking coffee and reading a book! Up to this point, you don't even want to say a word of thanks?"
"Thank you."
"I hate you like... Eh?"
Leah's words stopped for a moment. She blinked, and even forgot how to vent her anger.
Victor sat in his seat, took the contract, and said while looking at it, "Thank you for handling these for me. I'll pay attention to my words and deeds outside next time."
"..."
Seemingly not used to this sudden thank - you from her infamous brother, Leah's finger nervously twirled a strand of her hair.
She felt a bit complicated.
"Anyway, I did this just because I don't want the family to be shamed. Also, I can only solve this for a while. You have to go and apologize to the duke yourself."
"Besides, don't just thank me. First, think about how to deal with Sister Gwen."
"Gwen Dering?"
"Yes, just my nomination alone couldn't make the academy agree, so I asked Sister Gwen for help."
At this point, Leah's eyes turned a bit colder. She looked at Victor as if looking at a worm.
"Having a fiancée but still thinking about flirting around."
"Truly worthy of you, Mr. Victor."
Victor actively filtered out the last sentence.
"Although I don't know what you might have misunderstood, I will thank her."
In his mind, he thought of this character.
Gwen Dering.
The second daughter of the knight family that guards the northern border, and also Victor's fiancée in the game plot.
She was a true knight of justice, and a knight of justice was destined to be on the opposite side of a villain mage.
In the game, although this justice - filled knight was Victor's fiancée, the two of them were never on the same front.
Including in the final plot of defeating Victor, it was Gwen who arrived and ended Victor's life with a single shot.
The relationship between the two was more like a forced family marriage, without any feelings.
The fact that Knight Gwen personally stabbed Victor to death seemed to prove the players' speculation.
But the damned game planner never mentioned the pre - story between these characters. Until the end, the relationship between them could never be confirmed.
'Another dangerous character has been added.'
Sighing slightly in his heart, Victor felt that life was very difficult.
Gwen Dering was no ordinary character.
As the strongest knight in the Kingdom of Carencia, even during the late - game stage when gods and demons danced wildly, her combat power was still astonishingly powerful.
In the late - game, Gwen Dering would even become a boss that players had to face. During that time, the power of Knight Gwen was clearly engraved in the hearts of every game player.
Victor had a clear understanding of her combat power.
This woman must never be provoked.
Otherwise, he would really die.
Although he had transmigrated, it seemed that he didn't have any cheat codes to use.
As if seeing that Victor was a bit deflated, Leah felt inexplicably happy.
She thought it was the other person's pride that didn't allow him to accept help from others, but in fact, Victor was just thinking about how to protect himself in this doomed - to - die situation.
"Hmph, there are still some things to deal with in the territory. I'm going back."
Leah sneered coldly, picked up her handbag, and was about to leave.
"Oh, right."
Just as she was about to leave, Leah turned her head and glanced at Victor with a pitiful look.
"Actually raising a crow, and it's a one - eyed crow as a pet."
"Your taste is still as bad as before."
Bang!
The door of the study was closed.
The voice of the maid could be heard outside.
'Sister Leah, do you need a carriage to be prepared for you?'
But at this moment, Victor's thoughts couldn't be focused on Leah who had left.
He turned his head and saw a mass of jet - black creature in the corner of the desk.
It looked like a crow, but it was slightly larger than a crow.
And as Leah had said.
It had only one eye.
That eye seemed full of humanity, rolling around.
Finally, its one eye met Victor's gaze.
Then, it showed a human - like smile.
"Hello, I am the evil god - Habika."