Light Novel Volume 1/Summary

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Prologue
On the day of his parents' funeral, an obese thirty-four-year-old NEET was kicked out of the house by his siblings. For the past 10 years, he has been an unproductive shut-in leeching off his parents' wealth; when he didn't show up at their funeral his siblings barged into his room, wrecked his computer, brutally beat him up. and finally forced him out of the house.

For three hours, he wandered the streets wondering how he can get a job only to find out he had no money on him to even buy a résumé paper and gave up on the idea.

As he lamented over his deplorable year in high-school where his life took a turn for the worse and wondering what he could've done to not turn out the way he is now, he heard people arguing near him. Three high-schoolers - one girl and two boys - were in a, apparently, lover's quarrel. The girl and a tall boy were in an argument while the other boy interplaced himself between the two to placate them.

Just as he was about to leave them, he saw a truck speeding right towards the group of students. Not wanting to see the students die in front of him and put another thing to regret in his mind, he rushed in to help them as his wavering shout didn't reach them. The tall boy who had been in a verbal spat noticed the truck and pulled the girl away with him but the other boy still hadn't spotted the truck yet.

The NEET rushed in and yanked the boy behind him and ended up bodily switching places in harm's way. He was struck by the truck and thrown against a concrete wall. As he was spasming from the shock, the truck was still moving towards his direction; it pinned him against the concrete crushing his whole body.

There, he died.

Chapter 1: Is This Another World?
When he opened his eyes, dazzling light encompassed his entire field of vision. When his vision had adjusted, he saw a gorgeous blonde young woman gazing at him warmly, and a muscular young man of the same age, his smile also directed towards him. The woman and the man exchanged words, the language was "oddly indistinct" to him. He heard a third voice but couldn't see the speaker.

As he tried to speak to them he came to realize all he could muster was garbled whining and moaning. The young man reached out to him and picked him up; this made him assume he lost weight after the truck accident and had probably also lost his limbs as he couldn't move properly. He thought his life was doomed.

After a month, he was able to confirm he had been reborn and concluded the first two persons he saw when the light lifted was his parents. He also realized that he wasn't in Japan anymore - his parents didn't sport Japanese facial features and spoke a totally different language. He was able to deduce they weren't in a developed nation due to the old-timed clothing and housewares; apparently a medieval-level country. He initially thought his parents were poor and that the maid in their house was one of his parent's relatives.

After half-a-year of listening to his parents conversing, he began to pick up some of the language. He conjectured that he owed his unusual knack for remembering things to his young body and brain. Around the same time, he started learning to crawl as well, he considered being able to control and carry his own body as a marvelous thing.

Being able to crawl around freely, he was able to learn a lot of things. He first learned that his home was definitely of a rich family - the house was all wooden, two-storied, had over five separate rooms, and one maid on staff. At first, he thought the maid was his aunt but given her deferential attitude towards his parents, he doubted she was family.

Second, he came to know their house was located in the countryside. Outside the windows stretched a peaceful, pastoral landscape, and just two or three houses nestled amidst the wheat fields. No telephone poles or streetlights could be seen, and no electricity in the house.

The third thing he learned was what intrigued him the most. On one afternoon, he clambered on a chair to get a peek out through the window and saw his father practicing the sword. In his daze of astonishment, he slipped from the chair and fell down. When his mother came rushing she stroked his head with worry and chanted an incantation; to his bewilderment, his pain was instantly gone.

After he saw his father practicing with his sword, his mother casting magic, and the unfamiliar names of countries and regions, he came to a conclusion; he wasn't on Earth anymore but in a completely different world - a world of swords and magic. It occurred to him: if he lived in the same world, he could do the same things they did.

With his former life ending in full of regret and frustration of never accomplishing anything, he now knew of his own missteps. He finally felt he could live his life right.

Chapter 2: The Creeped-Out Maid
[The maid - Llilia's POV]

Lilia used to be a royal handmaiden for the Asura Palace harem. In addition to her usual duties as a lady-in-waiting, the role also called for her to act as a guardswoman. She, however, wasn't so much of a competent fighter; her skill with the sword was average at best. As a result, when an assassin was sent for the newborn princess she was outmatched, the opponent's poison-coated dagger caught her in the leg. It resulted in her no longer able to run.

Due to being severely handicapped at her duties, the palace immediately discharged her from her position. Lilia felt that the palace set her free to lure out whoever was behind the assassination plot. Wanting to get away from the palace and the war of succession as far away as possible, she arrived at the Fittoa Region looking for a new job.

After a month Lilia finally came across a job posting from Buena Village that caught her eye. The posting specified for someone with experience in raising children and could also act as a midwife. She perfectly fitted the specifications. The message, however, that immediately caught her eye was the employer: Paul Greyrat, a former swordsmanship acquaintance of her. She sensed she definitely had a chance of getting employed there.

Paul welcomed Lilia with open arms. His wife, Zenith, was due soon. Apart from her expertise, the familiar face made the family happy to have her on board.

(Enter Rudeus)

When the child was born, Lilia broke into a panic - the child looked like he might have been stillborn. But there was warmth and movements of his breathing. She was able to confirm the child was indeed alive.

She conjectured the child Rudeus to be unsettling. He was a very peculiar child - he never made a fuss, he made his way anywhere and everywhere around the house safely. She slowly developed an instinctual fear of the child, he was always smiling and his unsettling grin that appeared from time to time, similar to that of a perverted old man, was the kind that viscerally repulsed Lilia. She thought the unusual behaviours he exhibited was due to a demon possessing him and attempted to exorcise him but ended in vain.

Lilia lived in fear for the first year or so but at some point, Rudeus' ever-unpredictable behaviour changed. He was always holed up in Paul's study looking through books, at times it seemed he actually comprehended them. The unsettling oddness in him had abated a fair bit and gotten a sense of earnestness and diligence from him. Lilia no longer got chills from him and from that point on, she figured it was best to leave the boy be.

[End of Lilia's POV]

Chapter 3: A Textbook of Magic
It had been two years since he had been reincarnated as Rudeus Greyrat, and he could finally speak the world’s language. Having resolute to live a life without regrets this time, he made an arrangement for his daily life – study, exercise, and develop skills and techniques.

Their home housed five books, namely: Wandering the World regarding the geography and culture of different countries; The Ecology and Weaknesses of Fittoan Monsters about the monsters of the Fittoa Region; A Textbook in Magic a manual on Beginner to Advanced level attack spells; The Legend of Perugius concerning the famous summoner - Perugius and his companions saving the world; The Three Swordsmen and the Labyrinth on the subject of the adventures of three master swordsmen.

Rudeus was particularly drawn towards ''A Textbook in Magic. ''He discovered various things about magic. First, he came to know magic came in three types: Attack magic, Healing magic, and Summoning magic. Second, that you need magical power in order to utilize magic. Third, that there were two ways of performing magic: incantation and magic circles. And fourth, that the quantity of magic power in a person was determined at birth.

Eager to learn more, Rudeus decided to try his hands on magic. Waterball was his first spell. On his second try at producing Waterball he accidentally succeeded without an incantation. But on his third try, he ended up passing out due to exhaustion of this magical power. During the practice on the next day, he became conscious of his new limit - six Waterballs. He theorized, by exhausting his magicial power every day the maximum quantity increases twice the next day. He practiced until he was able to cast up to twenty-six Waterballs a day. Discerning his rapid growth in magical power he thought if he was special or something but immediately got rid of the idea since it was primarily the cause of the failure of his former life.

Next, he came across how spells were broken up into seven levels: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Saintly, Kingly, Imperial, and Divine. He hoped to be a Saintly level magician.

After two months of practicing how to make his spells fly, the complicated process of it finally became clear, and was finally able to cast attack spells. Having learned the fundamentals of spell-casting he began to experiment on various types of magic till exhaustion of his magical power every day.

Chapter 4: Master
Rudeus is now a 3 years old boy, he still maintain his magic training as secret from his fathers, because don't know what they may thing about that. One day he casually use a intermediate spell that leave a hole in the wall and his fathers arrive, after seeing the book, his mother asked if he was culprit and Rudeus nodded, happily, she want to hire a magic tutor for him but his father wanted to raised him as a knight, with the intervention of Lilia, they decides to teach him magic and swordsmanship, because there isnt a inn in the village, the tutor is going to live in the house.

The next day a blue haired young girl named Roxy arrives to the house for the job, because Rudeus was a child, she think that his fathers have much expectation on him, in the yard of the house, Roxy start her instruction in magic, after seeing that he can use magic without chant, she find that is worth to teach him. After the magic lesson, Paul train him physically.

Four months later, Rudeus was able to use intermediate spells, and Roxy now have lessons with him, teaching about various things about the magic, and the world. He learned that she is from the Demon Race and that his fathers were scared because her blue hair sometimes with the sun looks like green, and that was related with the Superd race, that has esmerald hair and a red jewel in their forehead. they were dangerous race in the Great Human-Demon War. she warns him to be careful if see one and escape if is necessary.

Another year later, Rudeus learned every Advance attack spell, and decides to address Roxy as master.