Chapter 1: Pleiades (1)
Count Bayer.
It was once a famous family of swordsn, and its head was the Margrave of the S?len Kingdom’s northern frontier, but that was all in the past, as they are now just an old family clan.
But even so, they were the Bayer family.
Even if the father and son fell and their family declined in approximately 3 years, they still maintained their position at the bottom place of the 12 northern families.
In the mansion of such Count Bayer…
There was a struggling man in the second son’s room, who was called the ‘anguish of Count Bayer.’
“Kkeuoeo…eoo…eoo”
It was a boy in his late teens who held his head and let out strange groans.
He had dark blue hair, a white and slender face, and a pair of mysterious green eyes that all blended together to show off his good looks, but now, he was thinking of his situation as he looked at himself.
The boy was nad Jude Bayer, also known as the second son of Count Bayer. The boy was now thinking as he stared blankly at the mirror hung on the wall.
‘Is this likeness totally real?’
Is everything that he could see in the mirror real?
The fact that Jude Bayer is now Jude Bayer.
The sentence was like a play on words, but Jude was serious. He would be, too, because he was both Jude and Kang Jin-ho at the sa ti.
‘No matter how I look at it, this is the world of Legend of Heroes 2.’
Two days have passed since Jude “awakened” his mory as Kang Jin-ho.
And that ti of two days was not short.
The na ‘Jude Bayer.’
The situation of Count Bayer.
The S?len Kingdom and its surrounding circumstances.
None of them were inconsistent with Legend of Heroes 2.
‘Pleiades.’
A world that is the background of the entire series of Legend of Heroes.
‘Let’s face it. This world is Pleiades, and I am Jude Bayer.’
It felt a little different from simply entering a ga, which was common in novels and manhwa (comics).
Rather, the situation felt like he was born as Jude Bayer, and then rembered his ‘past life’ as Kang Jin-ho.
So, even though he had beco Jude, it almost didn’t feel out of place.
Because from the very beginning, he was both Jude Bayer and Kang Jin-ho at the sa ti.
Jude raised his head and looked at the mirror again.
He saw the beautiful view of a handso looking boy with superior looks, sitting down in front of the mirror.
‘I am handso.’
He wasn’t just handso…he was exceedingly handso.
Jude rose from his seat and looked around the room.
It was spacious, nice, and clean.
It seed to be larger than the villa he had lived in when he was Kang Jin-ho, and though the furniture showed signs of age, one cannot deny that the all the furniture were luxury items.
Jude considered his situation objectively.
The difference between the days of Kang Jin-ho and the days of Jude.
He was young again, a dozen tis more handso than before, and he had beco a golden spoon noble.
It was absolutely perfect.
It was an upgrade to the point where he felt like applauding.
But then Jude thought.
‘Isn’t this f*cked up though?’
It wasn’t because of Jude.
Although Jude Bayer was a character with so flaws among the characters of Legend of Heroes 2, the bigger problem lies in the fact that this was the world of Legend of Heroes 2 itself.
The background setting of Legend of Heroes 2 was not a peaceful fantasy world.
No, it was a world of great tribulation – demons descended from the demon world, and angels ca down to fight against them – all the countries and races of the continent were embroiled and killed in the war.
In short, it was a world destined for Apocalypse.
‘I was fortunate that it wasn’t the third installnt.’
Legend of Heroes 3 dealt with the aftermath of the war between the angels and demons, where all human nations had collapsed.
If he had entered Legend of Heroes 3, he wouldn’t be sitting and looking in the mirror like this, but he would’ve been bitten and torn apart by monsters.
‘As expected, there’s only one way.’
He must beco strong.
So that when the tis of great tribulation co, he could endure it.
And if possible, he must beco strong enough to protect himself and those around him.
In the real world where Kang Jin-ho lived, there were clearly limitations for humans in becoming strong, but this was Pleiades, the world of Legend of Heroes.
It was possible for an individual here to demolish mountains and beco an absolute power that can shake the sky.
‘Well…the authenticity of that is questionable, but moving on…’
For a while, he looked at his slender forearm, but soon made up his mind and clenched his fist again.
‘Let’s do it.’
He can do it.
He must do it.
Jude himself is Outboxer009.
Wasn’t he the rotten water that kept the top spot in the server ranking list for a staggering 23 months!
So, Jude decided to consider Jude Bayer’s situation first.
Jude Bayer.
The second son of Count Bayer.
He hails from the Bayer family, which has produced outstanding warriors for generations, but he himself hasn’t mastered even one of the sword basics.
Of course, he wasn’t just a useless guy as he was one of the playable characters.
Jude certainly had a talent.
It wasn’t just an ordinary talent but a truly incomparable talent.
Cheonmujiche (Heavenly Martial Body).
As the na implies, it’s a heavenly talent for martial arts.
‘But there’s a trap card here.’
Jude was born with an abnormality in the Yin ridians of his whole body, particularly called, Gueumjulmaek (Nine Yin Severed ridians).
‘Short-lived, weak, inability to use mana, but possessing a trendous amount of yin energy.’
These were roughly the effects of Gueumjulmaek.
He was an unlucky genius born in a body with both Cheonmujiche and Gueumjulmaek.
That was the boy nad Jude Bayer.
‘Couldn’t I just have been Leon? Or Maximilian?’
In Legend of Heroes 2 where various playable characters existed, it was Maximilian who was the main character of the ga.
A cheat character born with a great talent in both sword and magic.
It was the so-called title character prepared by the production team to allow beginners to see the ending of the ga.
‘Then, Maximilian will be here too, right?’
Maximilian wasn’t the only one.
There was a high possibility that all the characters in Legend of Heroes 2 existed here.
‘It’s making excited for no reason.’
He had just lanted that he had fallen into this world, but this was Legend of Heroes 2.
His heart began to throb when he thought that he would be able to et the characters of the materialized Legend of Heroes 2.
‘Okay, if that’s it, all I have to do is treat my Gueumjulmaek.’
Then the heavenly martial body will start to bloom.
Of course, it was not an easy task to cure Gueumjulmaek.
The evidence was that Count Bayer had not been able to do anything about Jude’s Gueumjulmaek even up to this day.
‘But there is a way.’
As the rotten water of Legend of Heroes 2, he was a player who knew several treatnts for Gueumjulmaek. However, knowing and executing it were different.
Is it possible to secure a redy with his current body, which is itself weak because of Gueumjulmaek?
No matter how much he thought of it, it was impossible.
It wasn’t sothing he could do alone.
But that was not the case if he could leave it to others.
All of the thods he could think of were quite complicated, and he wondered if the Bayer family mbers would even believe in Jude’s words.
‘I need allies.’
Soone who will believe and carry out Jude’s words.
Soone who will be on Jude’s side anyti and anywhere.
But it was then.
“Young master, may I co in?”
The voice he heard from outside the room was Maja, Jude’s exclusive maid.
‘Exclusive maid.’
Although it was a world where a great tribulation was predicted and he had a body with Gueumjulmaek, Jude thought that his life was much better now than when he lived as Kang Jin-ho.
After his brief lapse of thought, Jude imdiately raised his head and said.
“Oh, it’s all right.”
With his permission, Maja opened the door silently and entered.
She was a woman in her early twenties with her blue hair tied neatly, and her cold expression belied her attractive beauty.
As soon as she entered the room, Maja bowed to Jude and said imdiately.
“Lady Cordelia Chase, your fiancée, is here to visit you.”
“Ah.”
Visiting a sick person.
Co to think of it, he thought, it was worth it coming here. When he awakened his past mories as Kang Jin-ho, he rembered a lot of nonsensical stuff.
Moreover, wasn’t Jude usually considered a sick person here?
‘What should I do…’
He had awakened Kang Jin-ho’s mories, but Jude’s mories did not disappear.
In other words, eting his fiancée, Cordelia, didn’t pose any problems.
‘Cordelia.’
She was an incomparably beautiful girl with red hair close to pink.
Wasn’t the ratio of handso and beautiful people here too high? Then again, wasn’t the original ga characters all like that?
Anyway, if it’s Cordelia Chase, Kang Jin-ho knew quite a lot about her.
‘Chase, the famous family of wizards.’
If Jude’s family, the Bayer’s, were a famous family of swordsn, the Chase family were a famous family of wizards.
Of course, both families were now weak compared to the past.
In any case, Cordelia Chase was a wizard character, born with a fairly outstanding magic talent.
She didn’t have a natural-borne talent like Jude, but instead, she lacked a weakness like Gueumjulmaek, making her easier to handle in the ga.
‘I’m nervous.’
He didn’t think he would et his fiancée who’s also a playable character in Legend of Heroes 2.
“Young master?”
“Huh? Oh, yes, okay. I’m going to see her right now.”
When Jude willingly answered, Maja hesitated for a mont, but soon nodded and stepped back.
“She is waiting in the drawing room.”
After Maja said that, she began to take the lead as she guided him to the place.
‘I am a real nobleman.’
It was a new experience for him, but as he stepped out of the hallway, Jude realized that this was a noble family’s house, a residence that once boasted great power.
It was a hall that emphasized practicality rather than splendor, but it was so big and grand that it felt like he was walking in a big castle rather than a mansion.
“Mr. Jude Bayer has arrived.”
Maja, who raised her voice once they were in front of the drawing room door, opened the door with a restrained movent.
Unlike the hall which gave a stark impression, the drawing room was well-decorated. Inside, there was a girl with red hair close to pink, and a female knight right next to her who served as an escort.
‘Cordelia Chase.’
Jude Bayer’s fiancée.
Jude swallowed deeply as stepped into the drawing room. He faced Cordelia with a natural smile.
But right after…
The mont he made eye contact with Cordelia…
Jude widely opened his eyes. And so was Cordelia.
The two shouted almost at the sa ti.
““Why are you here?!””
Most of the nas used in this series are German in origin. Researching about the correct spelling of the character nas was what took up most of the ti in this translation.
An example is Jude. The Korean for it is ??, which is read as Yudeo. I first thought it wasn’t Jude because of my knowledge of the Christian bible’s Jude, which is spelt as ??? (Yudaseo). It was when I thought that the nas might have co from German that I confird that the correct na is Jude, as the German pronunciation of Jude is similar to the Korean pronunciation. It’s the sa for Maja, which can also be spelt as Maya or Maia, but I stuck with the most German-sounding na, so it beca Maja.
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