The Blockhead Became an Overpowered Magician

19 – Semester Preparation (1)

‘Fantasia’ was a game with a fairly high degree of freedom, but there were some things that did not change.

First of all, the environment was set as an academy.

It is possible to skip class and run away. However, like dropping out of school, I could not abandon my status as an academy student.

The second thing was that the main character was decided.

This game completely nailed down the settings regarding the main character’s attributes and family.

Because of this, customizing appearance was impossible. The only thing you could choose was your initial gender.

If you select a male character, you will play the game as ‘Ryan Bellator’, and if you select a female character, you will play the game as ‘Ria Bellator’.

It was entirely the player’s choice what kind of wizard he would become and where he would belong.

However, the events and background that make up the protagonist’s past were thoroughly determined.

For that reason, no matter how hard the player struggled, some episodes had to be completed.

“……”

Lia passed by Ern.

As described in the game, her hair was like starlight.

Lia’s hair, resembling pure snowflakes that had just fallen, was flowing and sparkling through the hooded hat of her robe.

Pure white hair, pure white skin.

Meanwhile, her eyes were a deep blue color like sapphires.

Perhaps she had not yet received the school uniform and robe provided by the academy, and Lia was wearing simple, plain clothes.

The robe he was wearing clearly showed signs of having been worn for a long time. The color of the robe that had been exposed to so much sunlight and rain had faded. And there were signs of mending on her edges.

‘These are clothes provided as standard.’

When starting the game, she had a few items from the beginning. The tattered civilian clothes that Lia is currently wearing were one of them.

The Count Bellator family is a historic family in the kingdom.

One could wonder why Lia, who had such a pedigree, was wearing such clothes.

But now she was ‘Ria’, not ‘Ria Bellator’.

It was because she and her mother were kicked out of her family penniless.

The ‘Blessing of the Stars’ was still just a curse to Lia.

Ern stopped and watched as Leah approached her employee, maintaining her standing posture and pretending to look around her store.

‘What kind of person is this person?’

Erne has met various people since she was possessed in the game world.

And their personalities, words and actions were identical to the original. It felt like meeting an old friend again.

Reina Mersen. She was friendly and cheerful.

Yves Eisenbern. He was calm and thoughtful.

Arbas Recto. As expected, he was a weirdo.

Rogera Tien is…

‘Write…. Rose… Well, no….’

Anyway, the aspects shown by most named characters were bound to be familiar to Ern.

However, she was not as predictable as the game’s protagonist.

Whether it was Rian or Lia, the main character was controlled by a player outside the computer. In addition to combat elements such as learning magic, you can also choose options when talking to others.

If I were to describe the personality of the main character, who is a player at heart, in one word, it could be said to be ‘outspoken.’

Jump into danger without hesitation and achieve success. Sweep the hidden pieces and use future knowledge to become the top student at the academy. Any enemy that gets in your way will be destroyed.

However, it was unclear what her intact personality would be like without the player’s intervention.

“Welcome.”

“Hello! I heard you are purchasing Sunset Wind Pool?”

“Oh, sorry, customer. We are not making any more purchases today.”

“Yes?!”

“That’s because the sunset wind grass has to be used as a reagent material on the same day. But our store has enough in stock right now.”

“Ah… Yes…”

A small voice creeping in.

Lia’s feelings of losing hope quietly spread throughout the alchemy workshop.

A dark shadow seemed to be subtly cast on her face, which was still wearing a hat.

“…I still buy it often, so please make sure to stop by next time!”

“Yes… I will…”

Leah let out a quiet sigh of her own from under her hood. That sigh seemed to represent the burden piled on her shoulders.

And then Lia walked out of the store, trudging helplessly.

Ern somehow felt like he had committed a sin.

“……”

Ern suddenly came to her senses and followed Lia out of the workshop.

‘Let’s just follow along.’

It is still too early to judge. Ern left his distance and began following Lia.

Lia was familiarly walking through the downtown shopping district.

‘You’re looking for all the quests?’

Out of the many stores, she was visiting only those that gave quests.

‘The key is whether Lia has a magic book acquisition system like me….’

There are various quests in this city.

Simple labor, collecting items, performing requests, etc….

There were many different types, and the rewards you could receive were all different.

There are quests that give a lot of money but few points, while there are quests that give you a lot of points even if you don’t make much money.

What Lia was looking for was the former.

Therefore, Ern was becoming increasingly skeptical about the possibility that Lia knew about her point system.

‘There is no point system, are you just trying to make money?’

She was skipping all the stores where she could get points at a good price.

‘By the way, did you really save your basic money like this…? ?’

The original game begins at the academy’s entrance ceremony. Before that, the past was only shown through simple cut scenes or dialogue.

When the player started the game, he had some funds to spend from the beginning, and it seemed like he had figured out the source of it.

“Umm…”

Lia has an unfortunate past.

She was the child of a Bellator heir and a commoner woman.

If her child, born from her brief affair with fire, had resembled Bellator, she might have been recognized as an illegitimate child and lived a leisurely life.

But she ended up receiving the ‘blessing of the stars’.

She was born with star-colored hair, and even her eyes resembled her mother.

-Riola! What is this! What did you think of my favor until now?

-Carrion! Leah swears it’s your baby! It’s unfair!

-Get out of here! Saving someone’s life is the last act of mercy. If you talk about me, the knights will come looking for you!

‘If you think about it again, it’s trash.’

Carrion had complete control over Lia’s mother. She didn’t look alike, but she guessed Leah was her own child.

However, as he was facing a major event for his family, he decided that he could not acknowledge her illegitimate child. It was a decision to abandon her conscience and save her face.

It was a situation where justification came into play.

He denounced her Liola as a flower snake who dared to defraud her nobles and completely erased all traces of her and her Leah.

‘When I played the game, it was just a foreshadowing for cider….’

All the player had to do was put aside the past for a moment and focus on character development at the academy.

Then, you will be able to complete the mandatory quest ‘Glory of Bellator’.

And through this quest, the protagonist was able to chase away Karion and regain her honor.

“Thank you always, Lia. Here is the request fee.”

“Thank you!”

But without knowing that fact, she couldn’t help but feel strange as she watched Lia facing reality.

After completing her request from her store and earning her money, Lia began to walk with a slightly lighter step.

‘… ‘He’s in such a mood?’

Where had the sullen look from earlier in the White Cat Alchemy Workshop gone? Now she was humming her song.

‘Hmm…. I need to figure out how good my magic skills are.’

Leah couldn’t gauge her skills if she couldn’t use her system like a game, and she had to study each spellbook.

‘Star’s Blessing is only useful if it has basic specifications….’

Ern continued to follow Lia. There was no need to worry about getting caught because Kagon always had a large floating population.

After passing through a bustling shopping district and a relatively quiet residential area, Lia arrived at the Adventurer’s Guild.

Lia seemed familiar, as she opened the door to the adventurer’s guild and entered, heading straight to her request board.

The guild building had a noisy atmosphere as adventurers exchanged information and formed parties.

Ern also stopped a few steps behind. And while she had Leah in her sights, she glanced over her requests posted on her bulletin board.

[Quest: Cleaning the training ground]

[Quest: Magic Tower Information Desk Internship]

[Quest: Dungeon Goblin Subjugation]

‘The Adventurer’s Guild also has enough quests. ‘Anyway, what was he looking at earlier?’

Lia, who was looking at her cooking bulletin board while moving her head left and right, suddenly found her eyes fixed on one of her requests.

Leah, who was scratching her head over her hood, suddenly turned around. Sapphire-blue eyes began to look around her.

“Hmm….”

“?”

Ern and Lia’s eyes met.

“Hey….”