In a world blessed by the Gods and thriving with monsters, what if there was one that was forgotten and neglected by the Gods.
This is the story of Simon Velthorne. He who was forgotten yet beloved by the Zodiacs.
Simon Velthorne was writing his textbook with precise and factual information in the academy library.
In the New Year of 2025, a joyous occasion happens, and humanity celebrates the passing of 2024. The veil holding fabric of reality separating humanity from monsters finally broke
And the cataclysm started.
For 2 months into 2025 monsters kept on killing humans almost to the brink of extinction as 8 billion humans were reduced into 2 billion humans.
But the Gods were back and they blessed humans with abilities, ranging from magic to supreme martial arts.
And after 2 years of fighting back the monsters humanity has been stabilized into a balance.
And now fast forward to 500 years later summer break of 2525, abilities are classified into classes based on ability. Mages, Fighters, and Tanks but in these main classes more subclasses arose taking the main premise of the
Main class and adding their own ability coming from the Gods or Family.
-Textbook of Simon Velthorne.
"I'll end it here it is getting late already evening is approaching. "
Simon Velthorne the 4th son of the Velthorne family one of the most influential family.
The Velthorne family is one of the first generation blessed humans by the gods and they were blessed with the manipulation of the veil.
Though Simon Velthorne was a genius at magic theory he was not blessed with the ability to control mana.
As Simon Velthorne was packing up he saw Lucia Dravenheart his childhood friend.
She was a beauty to behold with silver hair and with a noble aura.
Lucia Dravenheart belonged to the Dravenheart family which fought alongside the Velthorne family in the great cataclysm.
Simon Approached Lucia
"It has been a long time since we talked, how have you been?"
Lucia looked at Simon and looked happy to talk to him
"Oh, Simon it has been a while indeed, I've been doing well still being called The prodigy of Dravenheart, it feels heavy to burden such name. How about you? How have you been with your studies, still persuing magic?"
Simon smiled with a hint of sadness as mentioning his studies
"Well yeah, but it's hard to control mana, when you aren't blessed with the ability to sense mana itself..."
Lucia looked at Simon with a sorry face
"I apologize for mentioning that... But I wish you well in your studies."
Simon shrugged and spoke once again
"It's fine, I wish you well in your studies too, I have to say it is getting late I have to go back to my dorm, goodnight."
Simon took his books and other things and went back to his dorm
As Simon went back to his dorm a book containing information about stars sits on his table
"This is a book supposedly revealing the secret of the stars"
Simon sat down on his chair and read the book
"This is an intresting name for a book"
"Secret of the forgotten stars"
Simon reads a notice at the next page
"He who will realize the stars true names and what they are will become the saint of the forgotten stars"
"If ye are the inheritor of the stars ye will be the child of stars"
Simon closed the book and looked at his telescope. He used it and he was enamoured with the beauty of the skies.
He kept staring at the constellations and was interested at the history of such stars.
Simon stopped gazing and performer a stance and tried to sense mana he felt it for a short moment, yet mana rebounded and he spit out blood.
"Fuck, atleast I felt it again, something said to be impossible for me."
He wiped the blood away, and took a bath. As he walked out he goes to bed and drifts away to sleep
He woke up 3 hours before a practical exam.
He gets his gear, and goes to to get ready.
3 hours later he finally gets there almost to be late yet on time, he goes to his team and he looks to be stressed because of something
"I'm Simon Velthorne, on of the mages for the team"
A random tank speaks with a loud voice aiming to humiliate him
"Oh great! A fallen prodigy, how unlucky could I get. "
Simon spoke with a timid voice
"I-i apologize... "
Before the tank could speak more the professor spoke with a loud and commanding voice.
"Students of the academy, I welcome you to the practical midterms exam. Our exam will be conducted in teams of 5, one tank, 2 swordsman
2 mages or tanks, and the location will be in a D rank gate"
Simon and his team gets ready, and enters the D rank dungeon, his team consists of 1 tank, 1 swordsman, 1 rouge, 1 archer, and Simon the mage.
They started off with the formation, and the rouge uses her skill to scout the surrounding and reports the monsters.
"Alright, so there are 10 goblin swordsman in the next room, so let's get ready."
Simon breathes nervously, and they advance to next room, the tank uses his skill [Aggression] to attract the goblins attention, and he blocks the damage the rouge sneaks behind the pack and kills some the swordsman covers the flanks while the archer and rouge finish the rest of the monsters off.
"Okay, good progress so far we keep this up we might get into the rankings."
Said the tank, aiming to give the team motivation to give them hope to achieve their high goals.
The team kept advancing and they encounter 5 ogres, the formation is almost the same but now the swordsman stops defending and attacks but one ogre slips away and tries to attack Simon, but he dodges the attack
"Help!"
Simon shouts for help as he dodges like the wind, and the ogre gets an arrow to the head from the archer.
"Thanks so much!"
The archer replies to Simon
"Your welcome but next time try to be less noticable for the monsters."
After 20 minutes they finally advance to the boss room expecting a goblin knight but they see a goblin king and 5 goblin knight and shamans with 25 goblin fighters 25 goblin archers 25 goblin tanks and 25 goblin tanks
"What the... Wh-why, how did this happen, this is supposed to be D-rank this is an A rank at most!"
They panicked and feared for their lives, Simon looked back and saw a dimensional crack he realized the monsters came from another dungeon this is a rare phenomenon where dungeon breaks happen in dungeons.
They took formation trying to be ready to fight to their last breathe, yet they were overwhelmed.
Though the Goblin king, knights and shamans did not fight, they were still overwhelmed.
The tank's shield breaks and he gets gravely injured, the rouge gets surprised with an attack, the the swordsman gets his arm cut off, and the archer freezes in fear getting a shot in the legs from the goblin archer.
Simon still shook with fear rushes to attack but he was met with a ton of slashes from the back and front leaving him to the brink of death.
Till a status window showed up and a message shows up.
[Child of Prophecy, rise and realize your potential to become the Saint, embody the power of the stars and 24 Zodiacs, will you accept your destiny as the illuminator of the dark skies and Saint of The Forgotten Stars?]
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