before he was crowned king

Equivalent exchange is the basic principle of alchemy.

How much material is put into the crucible determines how much product is finally recombined.

Sean burned this principle into his mind on the first day he came into contact with alchemy.

He forgot, however, that this principle applies not only to alchemy, but also to human destiny.

Sean was taking an invitation to the Imperial Academy of Magic from the leg of a carrier pigeon when a flood of strange memories flooded him.

However, before he had time to rejoice, scenes as sharp as steel arrows easily shattered his fantasies.

He finally remembered something that he had forgotten for too long.

Some things need to be traced back to their original roots.

Sean grew up in the country, living alone in a wooden house.

He had burns on his face and a disability in his left leg. He was able to survive only because of a morsel of bread and milk from his neighbors.

When he grew up, he began to do some simple physical work in exchange for food.

Later, when there was a serious insect infestation, people in the village moved out one after another because they couldn't grow anything.

For some unspeakable thoughts, Sean insisted on staying.

It was also in this year that Sean's fate changed drastically. He met a woman.

His adoptive mother, Lady Mary.

After Mrs. Mary asked his name and age, she took him back to Rose Manor and gave him an iron mask and a silver-tipped cane.

When the time came, Sean's status changed from a poor boy in the mountains to the heir to the viscount.

However, it is not so easy to be a nobleman, deportment, self-cultivation, and knowledge are all indispensable.

In order to succeed in succeeding to the throne according to Mrs. Mary's standards, Sean has received countless admonitions and whips during the four long years.

The whole process was too depressing and painful, and Mrs. Mary was undoubtedly extremely strict with him.

Sean didn't complain, on the contrary, he was very grateful to Mrs. Mary.

In his opinion, it is a great favor to him that Mrs. Mary is willing to bring him back to Rose Manor for cultivation.

Fortunately, he was smart enough, and after successfully completing all the courses, he finally transformed into a real noble from the inside out.

However, today, half a year after inheriting the title, Sean suddenly regained some strange memories.

He found himself not of this world.

But the magical world he is in now is derived from a book called "God on the Throne".

In his vague memory, Sean was inexplicably born in the Saint Via Empire after reading this book.

Now he still has the general plot of the book in his mind.

The whole story is somewhat similar to The Growth of a Prince, and the plot revolves around the protagonist Erics.

Alex is a man deeply favored by the gods.

He has a distinguished status, his father is the head of the wealthy Kabede family, and his mother is Mary Victoria, a well-known female magister in the empire.

He was handsome and talented. He was exposed to magic at the age of ten, and became the youngest [intermediate magician] in the history of the Saint Via Empire at the age of 14.

Such a perfect and powerful person will be sought after and adored by people wherever he goes.

Men are obsessed with his strength, and women are obsessed with his appearance.

Along the way, there are countless people who admire Alex.

Among them, the one who has the deepest affection for him is the heroine Lilian.

Lilian is a rare elf in the world. She is beautiful and kind. She travels around the world disguised as a human, looking for the meaning of true love.

Her human identity is Alex's childhood sweetheart.

As they get along from time to time, the two are gradually attracted by each other's shining points, secretly fall in love, and privately decide for life.

This is an ordinary love that lasts for a long time and crosses races.

If all this had nothing to do with him, Sean would not be so shocked by this boring love story.

Elves are a magical race, they have a moving appearance and a long life.

In order to live a stable life in the world, they often have many different identities.

Just like Lillian.

She is Alex's childhood sweetheart.

She is also the daughter of the Duke's family.

She is also the titular mistress of Rose Manor

Just last month, for some reason, Sean married the daughter of Duke Oscar. The two made a promise under the auspices of the priest of the Holy Grail Church and completed the sacred wedding.

His wife happened to be named Lillian Frederick.

The truth of the matter may not be pure, but it is by no means simple.

Sean himself appears in the descriptions in the books.

Sean Cabed, the useless half-brother of the male protagonist Erics, is an unremarkable stumbling block on the road to becoming a god.

Since ancient times, true love has always suffered hardships.

Not long after the two fell in love, Erics was accidentally pulled into the endless abyss by the stubborn demon during the process of assisting the priests to seal the evil holy relic in the Holy See of Light.

The Endless Abyss is an independent time and space, where it is a forbidden place for demon carnival, a black hole of sin and depravity.

That is a place where even the gods cannot set foot.

Eriks disappeared into nothingness, and the entire empire tried every means to rescue him, but no one could open the entrance to the endless abyss again.

Alex can't come back.

Everyone was disheartened, thinking that the bright new star Erics had just fallen.

Alex's father, Viscount Norman, could not accept this sad news. He devoted a lot of effort to Alex's growth and regarded it as the hope of revitalizing the whole family.

Such a fatal blow made him suffer from a heart attack and passed away.

No one could inherit the title, and the family was in crisis. In such a desperate situation, Mrs. Mary had to go to the countryside to pick up the child of the viscount's ex-wife and keep the hereditary title.

This child is Shane.

Yes, Viscount Norman was his biological father.

Lady Mary was his stepmother, not adoptive mother.

A problem that has troubled Sean for a long time was finally solved today.

Why did Madam Mary go to such trouble to find a disabled and useless person like him to inherit the title?

Because apart from Erics, only he can legally inherit the title.

At this point, Sean originally thought that his nerves had been numb from the stimulation of the subverted fact.

However, fate told him that everything could be worse.

Erics is the protagonist in the book and a person protected by the gods, how could he die so easily.

In the five years in the endless abyss, he kept fighting to survive, not only found the crack in the endless abyss and escaped, but also vaguely realized the mysterious law of time, and seized the opportunity to ascend to the throne of god in the future.

Erics found Sean's existence when he returned to the manor.

A counterfeit who inherited his title and married his woman.

Sean's breathing gradually became rapid, and his heart beat faster and faster.

In the book, he didn't provoke and do bad things secretly, nor was he jealous because of Lilian's feelings, and he didn't have the ability to fight endlessly with the magic genius Erics——

His ending was flat and silent.

On the night that Alex returned home, he was directly locked in the attic by Mrs. Mary in the name of being insane.

A month later, he was sent to an old house in the suburbs.

A sudden fire will come and burn him to ashes.

There was a thin layer of sweat on Sean's back.

So far, every line of description in the book is completely consistent with the reality he has experienced.

He couldn't easily dismiss the book's ending as a ridiculous conjecture.

His mind is in turmoil right now.

He took out the snow-white envelope from his arms, and today he quietly ran to the post station in the city in a carriage just to get it.

An invitation to enter the Imperial Academy of Magic.

Santa Via is a country where magic is supreme. Its top resources belong to the nobles, and especially to the powerful magicians.

This is not a contradiction, because the people on both sides basically overlap.

Maybe some people are very talented and born in poverty, but as long as they have great strength, they will always have a way to be promoted to the upstarts in the upper circles.

Of course, there will be some embarrassing outliers left in this case.

Inherited the title of her parents, but has no magical talent.

Such people will be rejected by the upper class, because in the eyes of those arrogant people, nobles who cannot use magic are as ridiculous as a naked king.

Sean is such an outlier, born without the ability to use magic.

In order not to shame the family because of him, Sean must be recognized by other nobles.

However, not being able to use magic is a fact that cannot be changed.

Fortunately, the cultivation of the nobles would not allow him to perform live, Sean thought that as long as he got a very credible certificate, it would be fine.

So, he set his sights on the Academy of Magic.

It was a lucky turn of events.

Although he is not good at illusory magic, Sean is quite accomplished in alchemy, which requires complex calculations and replacements.

After half a year of alchemy research, he refined a magic reagent that alleviated the manifestations of human aging.

After confirming that the test was successful, he deliberately wrote down his operation roughly and inserted a lot of redundant theories to turn it into a conjecture, and finally sent it to the alchemy professor of the Imperial Academy of Magic in the name of Sean.

Sure enough, with this conjecture, the Imperial Academy of Magic admitted him exceptionally.

This was originally a surprise that Sean planned to give to his family.

But now there was nothing but shock.

There was a neighing sound outside, and Sean was taken aback, only to realize that the carriage had stopped.

"Master Viscount?" A servant reminded cautiously from outside the door, "The carriage has arrived at the manor."

Sean's throat rolled, and he held the silver-headed cane tightly in his hands to support himself.

He is now a little thankful for his habit of wearing an iron mask all the time, at least for now, under the mask, no one can see the turbulent waves in his heart.

"Master Viscount, good evening." The valet Joe was waiting outside the door for Sean's return.

The wrought iron gate engraved with rose patterns creaked open.

I saw a woman wearing a wide skirt and accompanied by a maid walking over.The slender eyebrows were tightly frowned, and the thin and many wrinkles bloomed at the corners of the eyes, and the snow-white satin collar added a bit of dignity to the woman's pale face.

"Mother." Sean held the cane beside him, controlling his emotions.

It was his stepmother, Lady Mary, who came.

"Why are you back so late?" Madam Mary narrowed her slender eyes.

"Sorry, mother, I didn't keep track of the time in the library."

"Library? Is there not enough collection in the attic for you to read?"

"Because recently I've been researching—"

"Forget it." Sheen was interrupted by Madam Mary in the middle of her words.

"Your brother is back, you know?"

"brother?"

Sean's voice was hard, his heart beating wildly in his chest.

Before he knew it, murderous intentions had descended upon him.

The author has something to say: Ah, I have started a new article.