The Retired Hero is an Extra

"Yes," Victor agreed without a moment of hesitation.

He truly wasn't interested in wasting his time with a remnant that shouldn't even exist anymore.

The question hadn't even stirred his emotions in the slightest. He had killed far too many to care.

'I already know his future, but acting like him would be hard,' Victor mused, recalling the details of Amael Blake.

First Son of Duke Blake and the heir apparent with a half-sister, Amelia Blake.

'His father slept with another woman and got her pregnant, giving birth to Amelia and that woman just so happens to be a sister of Sera Ramille.'

The information flowed seamlessly into his mind as he tried to recall it while the system was busy dealing with the real Amael Blake—or what remained of him.

'A constrained couple, yet they love their children,' he thought before his expression soured as he muttered, "Annoying."

He wasn't one for acting like a family when he was in their son's body.

It wasn't because of guilt but because he had lost his family too long ago, and his emotions along with them.

Ultimately, he couldn't compel himself to change or to feel emotions for a group of strangers.

As if wanting to force him go the route he detested, the system chimed in at the perfect time.

{Removal of Remnant Will failed!}

{Integrating...!}

{Access Denied!}

{Override!}

{Forceful Integration Initiated...}

"Wait, what!?" He voiced out in confusion before frustration overwhelmed his emotions as he read the system messages.

"I never agreed to any integrations!" he shouted in grievance.

Yet the system couldn't care less.

—Thud!

"Urgh," he grunted as the sudden nerve-wracking pain hit him. He fell to the ground, clutching his head.

His teeth ground in agony as he took the toll of a forceful integration with the remnant will.

However, his frustration slowly dissipated as he got the past memories of Amael and his plans for the future.

It helped him fill up the holes inside his head as he completed the entire storyline of Amael Blake, allowing him to alter it to his whim.

Though the pain was definitely not something that would go away anytime soon as he rolled on the ground due to the sudden bursts of pain.

One second he'd get used to it before the pain would spike, and the next second, it would have already vanished.

The excruciating cycles of pain continued for thirty minutes—not too long, but for him, it was worse than anything.

"NO! JUST WHY!?" he cursed the moment he returned to his senses since the changes were too apparent to him.

His rippleless emotions were morphed and forcibly changed due to the remnant will of Amael Blake.

Just as he was about to complain and curse out loud at his shitty situation, the system surprised him.

{Quest Process... 99%}

{Error...!}

{Quest deemed impossible!}

{Calculating Rewards...!}

"Oi System, what the f–" He began, but the system cut him off.

{The system failed to account for the remnant will and had to forcefully integrate it.}

{Hence, there is no longer any previous or true owner.}

{Welcome Amael Blake to the Villain System 2.0!}

Several confetti appeared on the panel as if congratulating him, but he didn't feel the slightest bit happy.

"What do you mean?" he asked with a dark face.

{For the lack of a better term, consider Allen Vox as your past life as you're now Amael Blake.}

"Does that mean that I was Amael Blake and I am Amael Blake?!"

{Yes, Host. There was a low probability of you ever regaining your memories throughout your life as Amael Blake, however.}

"So, am I not a transmigrator? Was I reborn instead?"

{No, Host is a transmigrator since your soul didn't go through rebirth and the ###### ## ### ##...}

"System, I can't hear you!" He complained, unable to hear anything except a beeping after knowing he was still considered a transmigrator.

{Insufficient Authority!}

"Huh? Seriously, I need to upgrade you," he muttered in helplessness.

He had swiftly grasped the system's workings, despite lacking any prior knowledge.

Thus, he didn't act like a manchild and whine about the things he couldn't change. Instead, he accepted them as it is.

"What about my quest reward?" he wondered aloud, an attempt to change the topic.

{Calculating...}

{Congratulations! Host has completed his first quest!}

{Quest Rewards: Already given.}

"Given? Where? When?" he muttered in bewilderment.

In response to his own confusion, his body instinctively tried using mana and it worked perfectly.

But it was far worse than the memories of the past.

"It seems Amael truly had no talent for mana," he mumbled in irony.

Not only did Amael's mana pool have a smaller size, he couldn't even wield it as per his command.

"Just how did he contest with the protagonist?" he asked in intrigue, interested to know what sort of advantage did the OG Amale have?

{It is recommended that the Host find his own path and overcome the shortcomings to guarantee his survival.}

The system chimed in, pouring cold water over his plans once again.

He ignored the system and continued to feel the magical euphoria mana gave him at the moment.

Right after he stopped, he recalled something.

"System, Status Screen!"

{Host has initiated the Status Screen command for the first time.}

{Status:

Hunter Rank: F+ Rank

Strength: E- Rank

Agility: E- Rank

Endurance: E- Rank

Stamina: E- Rank

Mana: F Rank

Mana Color: Dark Orange

Villain Points: 0}

"Hm? That's different from this world's power system and too strange?"

The system hadn't adopted the flawed complex power system of the word and instead improved it better based on its own understanding.

{The ranks give you an estimate of a hunter at the same rank based on the data in the Hunters Association and world's average.}

'It actually went one step further?' he thought doubtfully, but the system didn't seem to hear his thoughts.

{Congratulations for completing the tutorial!}

{System Update Initiated...!}

{Welcome to the world of Aeternis Ājānia!}

For the first time, he was entirely shocked not because of the world's name that remained missing from the information, but the sudden system update.

It truly came out of nowhere.

"Who gets it this easily?" he mumbled in interest if it was that easy for all system bearers?

Uninterested in its host's mind, the system continued with a brief description of the world, presenting him with new information.

{The name Aeternis Ājānia represents the eternal potential of the world's inhabitants that came to be accepted by the three races as they live in harmony.}

{Though the origins of the name remains unknown, it was deciphered by the human race over the countless years they evolved.}

{In the world, the mana color plays an important part instead of other power systems regarding mana.}

{It follows a unique system granted by the Goddess of Light, or so everyone believes.}

{Then,...}

The system continued giving some basic information about the world as well as about itself as the seconds ticked by.

The transmigrator, now Amael Blake, absorbed it entirely as if he were a sponge.

He easily got used to this new world despite the difference being as big as a chasm.

Within a few days, Victor, now fully immersed as Amael Blake, was accepted by the Blake Ducal Family without suspicion despite the change in his personality.

As time passed, he easily dissolved within the Blake Ducal Family due to all the memories and emotions he gained.

Alas, the time for the banquet came, where his perfect streak would come to an end.

All due to the unexpected presence of yet another anomaly: Jash Ramille.

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