Chapter 1
Standard Opening, Strange System
“Isn’t that Henry Rumelter? I heard his family has already abandoned him, pouring all their resources onto Luning Rumelter instead.”
“Look at what you’re saying, a person who doesn’t even possess magic power, do you think the ducal family would allow such a person to become the next family head?”
The passing students had no intention of hiding their voices.
After all, in their view, Henry was just an abandoned failure.
Henry, sitting on the bench, didn’t become angry because of their words either.
Because after he had transmigrated here, he had already experienced betrayal, mockery, broken engagements, and even reached the point where even passing dogs wouldn’t put him in their eyes.
That’s right, he had transmigrated!
He had transmigrated into a large open-world game where magic reigned supreme.
The original owner, as the duke’s son of the Rumelter family that possessed enormous magical power, had not the slightest magical fluctuation on his body.
And after experiencing the assessment exam, the original owner was completely expelled from the Rumelter family.
Just when everyone thought this character had completely gone offline.
A few years later, he came sweeping back with dark magic.
He killed nearly a quarter of the students in the academy, especially not sparing anyone from the Rumelter family.
And as the boss of a limited-time dungeon, under the efforts of all players, they finally defeated this duke’s son who had once been looked down upon by everyone through the game’s protagonist.
So to say, the current Henry exists as a future dungeon boss.
You must know, tomorrow is the assessment exam, and right now, he still doesn’t possess magic power.
Like most transmigrators.
He also possessed a system.
But this system seemed somewhat off.
【DING! Congratulations host for activating the World’s Strongest Sword Immortal System】
【Please use this system to become the strongest sword immortal in this world!】
【Mission: Meditate for 24 hours】
【Completed: 22 hours/24 hours】
【Reward: Sword Control Technique】
【How could the world’s strongest sword immortal not know how to use a sword?】
Wait, buddy, shouldn’t this reward be some magic skill like fireball technique or something?
What the hell is this Sword Control Technique?
When others have magic flying everywhere, wouldn’t wielding a sword make me stand out awkwardly?!
Brother, did you give this system to the wrong person? Give me back the system that originally belonged to me!!!
Henry couldn’t help but complain.
It’s just that he had no choice.
At this stage, he should first get the reward in hand, then consider how to pass tomorrow’s assessment exam.
Since he had now become Henry, he couldn’t just be sentenced to death right from the start!
Thinking this way, Henry planned to return to the ducal mansion to finish the remaining meditation time.
“Henry Rumelter!”
Hearing someone call his name, Henry turned around in confusion.
He saw a girl wearing a school uniform, with golden hair and blue eyes, walking toward him.
She was like an elf who had walked out of a fairy tale, her golden hair brilliant as dawn, with curled ends forming exquisite twin tails that swayed lightly with her steps. Her fair skin showed a faint rose color, and her blue eyes were clear as a lake, reflecting mysteriously intertwined brilliance.
Sherisa Noel, daughter of the empire’s wealthiest merchant.
In Henry’s impression, this should be the first time she had spoken to him.
“What does Miss Sherisa want with me?”
“Do you have any intelligence information about Rumelter? I can exchange it for money.”
Hearing her words, Henry was first confused for a while, then understood the meaning in her words.
After all, after tomorrow, he would probably drop out due to the assessment exam.
At that time, the ducal mansion that valued reputation most might very well expel him.
The Rumelter family had no need for the existence of trash!
Seeing Henry’s silence, Sherisa didn’t say much more.
She turned around, only leaving simple words.
“The deadline I’m giving you is tomorrow. If you haven’t given me an answer before tomorrow, our deal will be considered void.”
Truly worthy of being a swift and decisive merchant’s daughter.
Her methods were identical to her father’s.
It seems that women with beautiful appearances don’t necessarily have beautiful hearts.
***
After returning to the ducal mansion, Henry began meditating.
According to his current status in the ducal mansion, no one was willing to get close to him, even the servants avoided him like the plague, afraid of getting involved with him.
They all knew clearly that Henry would ultimately be expelled from the ducal mansion, and the person who would control the Rumelter family in the future was Luning.
Precisely because of this, Henry devoted all his time wholeheartedly to meditation.
Time passed minute by minute.
Finally, the system’s voice rang in Henry’s mind.
【Congratulations host for completing the mission】
【Reward: Sword Control Technique】
Henry was also somewhat curious, would the sword techniques of this fantasy world really be useful in this magic-supreme world?
Just as he got up to go to the family’s internal training ground to practice, his room door was pushed open without permission.
He saw a white-haired youth standing at the door, looking at Henry with eyes full of contempt.
“The family head is looking for you.”
“Luning, didn’t your parents teach you what manners are? Oh, sorry, I almost forgot, you’re an orphan.” Though he said this, Henry’s face showed not a trace of apology.
Upon hearing this, Luning’s eyes instantly became sharp.
He stared fixedly at Henry, his aura suddenly radiating outward.
In the past, whenever he unleashed his aura, Henry would tremble with fear.
But this time was different.
Henry walked straight up to him, and due to their height difference, Luning even had to look up at Henry.
“What kind of look is that? What are you planning to do to me, this duke’s son?”
Henry’s eyes were calm, his tone carrying a hint of confusion.
“Don’t challenge my bottom line!”
Luning’s voice was low, the veins on the back of his hands gradually showing, as if he might explode in rage at any moment and beat Henry to death.
Only the next moment, a crisp slapping sound rang out in the corridor.
Such commotion was heard clearly even by passing servants.
Everyone looked at the scene in shock.
They saw Luning’s face turned to one side, with a large handprint appearing on his face!
Henry had slapped Luning!!!
Luning’s head buzzed, he had never thought this waste would actually dare to lay hands on him, and even more unexpectedly, the other party took out a handkerchief to wipe his palm, with a disgusted expression on his face.
“If you weren’t someone father values, just based on your words earlier, I could have you executed.”
Henry very naturally threw away the handkerchief, then walked toward the meeting hall without looking back.
Luning’s head turned like a rusty machine, stuttering.
His eyes were filled with flames of anger, wanting to burn Henry to ashes at any moment!
“Henry Rumelter, tomorrow I’ll make you know what despair is!”
He smashed the vase placed in the corridor with one punch, his voice like a demon from hell, making the servants watching from afar tremble involuntarily.
At the same time, Henry also came before his father.
Lore Rumelter.
Current head of the Rumelter family.
The other party was looking down, seemingly writing documents, and even when Henry appeared, he had no intention of looking up.
“You don’t need to participate in tomorrow’s assessment exam.”
The other party’s voice had no great fluctuation, as if stating a very ordinary matter.
Henry was about to open his mouth, but the other party dropped a bombshell.
“If you insist on participating, then you will be removed from the Rumelter family.”
Hearing this, how could Henry not understand how the original owner was removed from the Rumelter family?
Presumably the other party was also stubborn to the end, finally ending up in such a state.
But speaking of it, this father really wasn’t qualified enough.
He hadn’t even properly looked at his own child, so Henry really found it hard to develop feelings for him.
Since Rumelter would have nothing to do with him, then he didn’t need to save any face either.
“WOW, I’m so scared.”
Hearing Henry’s response, finally, Lore raised his head to look at Henry.
And Henry was staring at Lore with a mocking expression.
“I’m really grateful you didn’t directly kill me.”
