Author's Reincarnation in a Fantasy Setting

Chapter 59 To Set Things In Motion [1]

My doubts were clear now, it was now time to set things in motion.

The first thing I did was go to the nearest shop and buy a diary. I made it just in time as currently, the time was 9:30 pm and the shopkeeper was about to close the store.

It took me 10 minutes to go buy the diary and come back. After that, I sat at my desk, opened the diary, picked up a pen, and got ready for writing.

I bought this diary so I can write down the storyline of loli_pop's novel; this was a measure I took in case I forgot anything from the plot in the future and got in trouble because of that.

"Sigh~" Letting out a sigh, I played with the pen in my hand as I recalled the plot of his novel.

'Damn. I better kiss goodbye to sleeping this night.'

I mean, that bastard's novel had more than 300 chapters and was still ongoing. Even if I write only a rough outline of the events that'll happen, sleeping tonight is out of the question.

"Well, no use crying over spilled milk," with that, I began writing.

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The next day; at 9:00 am.

"Finally it's done!"

I slammed closed the diary, threw the pen I don't know where, and slumped my head on the desk.

It took me more than 11 hours but finally, it was complete. Actually, I wrote it all down earlier than expected, I had in mind that it'll easily take one day to write the whole thing.

…Anyway.

I got up from the desk and made my way to the bed, and then I slowly sat down, leaning against the wall.

There's still an hour left before the classes start so resting a bit won't hurt. I closed my eyes and started thinking about what to do from here on out.

It's not like I didn't have a plan, I do. But I just want to make clear what my goals are. After all, writing all that made me remember some events I had forgotten.

And due to one of those events happening in the future, the lives of my parents were also in danger. That's a thing I can't allow. Thus I needed a bit change of plans.

Hence, right now I have two main goals lying ahead of me. The first was to save me from dying by an event taking place in a month.

The second is to save my family from dying by an event that'll take place in a year or so.

Yes, it'll occur a year later.

In loli_pop's novel, that was the time when demons invaded this world for the first time.

Before that event, there were no signs of demons here and the only species in existence except humans were monsters.

Then how did demons come here?

Remember the portal discovered by the founder of the Zaforths academy? It was then when it all started.

The portal he found was the first one to connect this and the demon dimension together. While it disappeared a week later, the connection it created between the two worlds was still there.

As a result, those portals started appearing in different places one by one.

Humanity was not able to detect and prevent the upcoming disaster from happening because these portals had a vast time gap between the closing of one portal and the opening of another.

At first, only 5 to 6 portals appeared in a year and they were far away from each other. But slowly as time passed, their rate of appearance started increasing.

It went from 5 to 6 a year to 8 to 9, then 10 to 13, and so on. If I remember correctly then there should be a total of 16 portals spread across the globe right now.

Just like this, the numbers will keep increasing, and a year later—around the time when the second year of the Zaforths academy starts—their numbers will skyrocket out of nowhere.

The portals will appear everywhere in the world and the size of these new portals will be massive, massive enough to let an army of demons pass through.

The same thing will happen and demons will attack this world in waves. They will easily outnumber the human army as they will number in millions.

This event was named 'The calamity'.

'I kind of feel guilty now because I was the one who suggested the idea of increasing the numbers of demons to a crazy level. That time I did this to make things harder for the MC—Leon, now things will be harder for me!

Talk about backfire~'

Now, coming back to the topic.

The first place to get invaded by the demon will be, of course, the Zenith kingdom.

According to the main storyline the whole kingdom gets destroyed and everyone dies. Obviously except for Leon and his harem.

This was now loli_pop's idea. He wanted to make Leon suffer so that he can get a bit serious and the fire of hate against demons can be burned inside him.

This is specifically because until now Leon had no real goal in his life and due to this loli_pop was getting hate from his readers. He can't make him go serious without a solid reason, thus he added the destruction of the Zenith kingdom.

Everyone will die right before Leon's eyes and he won't be able to do anything, since the numbers of demons were too much even for him.

But it couldn't matter less to me, I don't give a fuck about Leon. The problem here is that my parents are also living in the Zenith kingdom and if everyone dies, then they also count in.

I want to stop that from happening, and I have a few choices to do it.

I can either change the storyline completely to stop the portals from appearing, or I can get strong, strong enough to help my parents escape this kingdom and the calamity.

I considered the first option at the start but after thinking about it for a while I realized that this plan has more cons than pros.

First of all, I don't know a thing about how these portals appear or what causes them to form as it was never explained in the novel, and if I don't know what makes them then naturally I won't know how to stop them.

Moreover, say I interfered in some events and changed the main storyline—with half-assed info on the portals.

But instead of stopping the calamity from occurring, what will I do if the changes I make boosted the event somehow and it happened earlier than expected? I'll be boned then.

Hence, I decided to go with the second choice; to get strong. I know what's going to happen in the future and using that knowledge to my advantage I can get stronger easily.

Hell, I even know an item that can make me 5x stronger than what I am now and I know its whereabouts. I can go and take it right now if I want to.

This plan was safe and had a higher rate of success. But executing it will take some time of course, since we are not allowed to go out of the academy I can't go and take that item.

Though I do have a plan for that, I don't want to rush and mess things up.

You know what they say right? [Haste makes waste].

The calamity will arrive a year from now so I still have some time in hand. I'll rather move carefully, making sure that I'll succeed.

Like this, it was decided, that to save my parents from the calamity I have to get stronger.

Now, coming to the other goal—to save me from dying. Here I don't have the choice to fail, since if I failed and died my parents will also die in the future.

I already know what I have to do to play this out successfully so saving me is not a problem. I'll say it's a piece of cake and put it aside for the moment.

Right now my priority is something else, and that is to clean the mess I made by saving Anya from Walric.

Doing that caused Anya to never meet Leon, if it keeps on like this then they won't have a relationship.

As to why this was a problem? Well, it's the same reasoning as for me not choosing to change the storyline to save my parents.

Anya played a big role in fighting alongside Leon in many battles in the future and she was there precisely because they had that kind of relationship.

I don't even know how much the story will change if I removed this element. Hence I need to somehow make a romantic relationship between Leon and Anya.

What was supposed to happen originally is skipped thanks to me so I'll have to find some other way to do it.

…Now don't get me wrong here, there's no way I'll let that Leon have his way with my sister.

I mean, I do want to recreate their relationship but I never said it has to be real.

As long as Anya expresses her feeling for Leon and fights alongside him everything will be fine, it doesn't matter if she's just pretending.

The end result will be the same.

But I was not so sure on this matter, on how to make Anya pretend. Well, I'll figure something out eventually.

I also want to experiment and find out to which extent I can interfere in the storyline without changing the main plot points.

"But that can wait," I exhaled as I got up from the bed.

I glanced at the wall clock, it was 9:50 now. The classes were about to begin.

Quickly changing into the academy uniform I took a final look in the mirror.

'Hmm, my eyes look sleepy,' though I can't do anything about it. I wore my black gloves and then left my room.

I was in a hurry, something interesting was going to happen today.