Traveling through the game world, starting out as a third-rate villain

Life in the college is more lively on weekdays than on weekends. Because students can leave the college on weekends, most students will go to visit relatives, visit each other or go out to play.

Given the age range of the students, it is understandable that they would want to socialize with each other. But this is not the case on weekdays. Almost all students stay in school unless they have special permission to leave.

Because of this, the cafeteria is now full of chirping sounds. After entering the cafeteria and taking a meal, I walked to the table in the corner and started eating alone.

I also started listening to other students talking to each other.

"Have you decided which club you want to join?" At this time, I heard an interesting topic.

"Oh, right...it's time to sign up for the club, and now it's exactly one month later." I thought to myself.

Since Arcadia Hunter Academy allows students to participate in club activities after one month, some students will forget the existence of the club.

There are many kinds of clubs in the college. Considering the number of students in each grade, it is reasonable that there are so many clubs. After all, as the last-ranked student, there are 2,450 students in the first grade. You should know that there are five grades in the college. Excluding the fourth and fifth grade interns, there are at least 10,000 students on this campus.

"Yeah. What do you think? Which club are you going to apply for?"

"I want to join the Tactics Club. I heard they focus on honing your strategic and tactical abilities. It will be useful in the future."

"Tactical Club? Sounds cool. I'm thinking about joining the Elemental Club. It sounds cool to be able to harness different elements in battle."

"You should check out the Adventure Club! They go on exciting missions and explore mysterious places. As a sophomore, I really regret not choosing that club."

"Yeah...but I think the martial arts club is the way to go. I've met some of their members, and they're like martial arts masters. Plus, you can learn self-defense. They even said they bring in a master-level hunter every year."

"But I prefer the lurking society. Imagine you can be like a shadow, sneaking around without being seen."

There are some prerequisites for joining some clubs, such as lurking in a club, which requires certain skills or characteristics.

"A lurking club? That sounds good, but I'm more interested in the robotics club. Building those gadgets sounds like fun."

Colleges encourage students to join these clubs because they can see improvements in the societies just from statistics, which makes sense. No matter how serious your studies are, every student needs time to unwind.

"If I remember correctly, Ethan will join the Adventure Society and the Lance Society." Although in the game, players can choose to join any society, there are two societies that players must join no matter what.

One is the Spear Club, where players can improve their spear skills and learn new moves, and the other is the Adventure Club, which aims to open the door to the world and explore what may be there.

"But I don't know what else he would choose besides these," I thought to myself. After all, there is no player controlling him now, and even if there is, I have no way of knowing unless I get close to him.

Anyway, the arrival of the society means one thing to me.

"The main plot of the game is about to begin."

The first month of the academy is basically a tutorial, so there aren't many events that affect the storyline. But from here on out, things slowly start to pick up steam.

Although I didn't really care for how the storyline developed, nor did I care for the main characters.

"But I want to kill all the demons."

Thinking of this, I stood up. There is still a lot of time before the club starts recruiting, so now I just need to train.

Just as I was about to leave the cafeteria, I felt a stinging gaze from behind me, and saw a girl with fiery red hair looking at me angrily.

"Tsk." Seeing me looking at her, Irina curled her lips, but I ignored her and went my own way.

......

Walking into the shooting range I used to train at, I grabbed my weapon from my bag.

"Please set a target quantity."

The same robotic voice welcomed me.

"Twelve," I muttered, increasing the number of enemies.

"Please select the difficulty of the training."

“You can choose from stage 1 to stage 9.”

"Phase 2," I began, and soon the lights went out.

Then, a group of blue insect-like monsters appeared.

"Then the only thing I have to do is train."

With this thought in mind, I recalled the posture of the mysterious man I saw in my dream when I got my stunt. It was deeply imprinted in my mind.

'Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh'

When I used a compound bow, the arrow went through their skin easily.

“Squeak!”

For some reason this time, the moles roared and attacked me with greater force, but I did not stop shooting.

“This is quite fun?” I don’t know if it was because of the bow, or the feeling of being bold and skilled, but the more I shot, the more sense of achievement I felt.

And so I kept shooting, shooting, shooting... until I was tired.

'Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh'

As my training time came to an end, I found myself still surrounded by the few remaining blue insectoids, adrenaline coursing through my veins, urging me to sprint forward again to test the limits of my new stunt.

I pulled another arrow from my quiver and placed it on the bowstring. The monsters were approaching. Their glowing blue eyes stared at me. I took a deep breath and focused on the lesson in my dream.

[Sharp Eyes], as I commanded, the skill was activated, revealing the enemy's weaknesses. Without strengthening the arrow, I released the string.

"Swoosh...Bang"

Time seemed to slow down as I released the arrow, and it flew accurately and hit the target right between the eyebrows, killing the mole.

But the remaining monsters were agile and quick, rushing over and surrounding me.

[Baozui] activated another skill, and I felt my speed increase.

I dodged their attacks nimbly. Every time I shot an arrow, an enemy fell, but more enemies kept coming.

I moved nimbly, weaving in and out of their attacks, firing arrows at an astonishing speed. The monsters fell one after another, and my arms were aching from nearly three hours of continuous training.

'Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh'

With each arrow I fired, I could feel my confidence growing, as if the essence of the mysterious figure in my dream was guiding my actions.

Finally, the last monster fell, and there was silence on the shooting range. I was panting and sweating, but a feeling of victory surged in my heart.

"Ding, the second phase of shooting training is over. New record: 1 minute and 20 seconds."

When the training time was over, I looked at my results and smiled with satisfaction. The number of enemies increased, but the time spent was not much, and the result was achieved after I was close to my limit.

"Let's stop for now." With this thought in mind, I left the training ground and returned to my room. It was already dark and there were not many people on the training ground. Considering the time, this was normal.

It's 11 o'clock at night. I should go to bed.

I returned to my room, completed a series of painful body exercises under the effect of the potion, and finally lay down on the bed.

"By the way...there's this book..." The book I borrowed from the library caught my attention.

This book is in the arcane area.

Moon Rising: Legend of the Moon's Mana

Let me talk about these arcane arts first. As everyone knows, the background of this world is modern. There are cars, guns, computers, etc.

The reason for this is that the original inhabitants of this world acquired mana later than the other races after the Nexus Fusion. Therefore, they needed to develop themselves to be on par with them, because all other races had their own ways of using mana.

One of them is called "Arcane", which uses mana in a unique and ancient way. Unlike the modern way of using status windows and skills to use mana, Arcane handles mana in a different way.

It's more about communicating one's will to the world, and relying on a deep connection to the mana that flows naturally in the world. However, this also has its own limitations.

For example, at the start of the game, on the character creation page, if you don't allocate a decent amount of points to the Innate Mana Affinity trait, you won't be able to use arcane spells.

It's like, a person needs to have talent to be able to use mana as he wishes.

In the modern method, you just follow the steps shown on the record to learn how to form a spell from a magician. But in the arcane method, you will form your own steps to a certain extent, and you will use mana autonomously without a preset path, which gives you more freedom, but also increases the difficulty.

This requires a high affinity with mana and a great deal of practice to master, which ultimately led to the world giving up on this method.

Anyway, I was curious about this unique and ancient way of arcane magic. There was nothing else I could do except sleep, so I opened the book "Moon Convergence: The Legend of Lunar Mana".

The pages were filled with beautiful illustrations and intricate diagrams depicting the movement of the moon and its relationship to mana, while mounds and mounds of text began to appear.

I don't know why, but these words look familiar.

Some of the strange characters are not part of the modern writing system, but I always feel like I have seen them somewhere, although I can’t remember where.

This feels odd considering my memory is pretty good.

However, I decided to put these thoughts behind me and continued reading until the urge to sleep finally came...