A way to survive...

Inside the training room.

Jareth glanced at his inventory with a cold expression on his face.

Inventory:

[1. Attack Enhancement Card (Advanced)]

[2. Memory Card (Intermediate)]

[3. Memory Card (Low)]

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There are only three items in the inventory; these are the items that Jareth got from the 'Newbie Pack,' which he now considers a scam.

'Sigh, how did I end up falling into such an obvious scam... It would have been better if I waited for new items to appear…' (Jareth)

With complicated emotions, Jareth stretched his hand out and clicked on the 'Memory card,' and the description appeared beside the item.

[Memory Card (Intermediate): Helps the user remember past memories in great detail…]

'As I thought, it's this useless thing…' (Jareth)

Jareth had seen this very same card in the game before; all this card does is help the character remember some past memories in the form of a slideshow and some sound effects.

This was mainly used as a way to clear some character-related quests in the game. It has no other use aside from helping people remember their past memories.

'Ugh, moreover, it's just an 'intermediate' one, not even an 'advanced' one…' (Jareth)

Even the memory card has its own tiers.

While the 'intermediate' one can help the user remember their past memories in great detail, the 'Advanced' card can help the user remember every single detail about the user; the user will remember his whole life, like what he did on a random day several years ago, everything!

Moreover, the advanced card can increase the 'Int' stat of the user quite a bit too.

Jareth then clicked on the other memory card.

[Memory Card (Low): Can help the user remember some random important things…]

'This is even more useless…' (Jareth)

Not to mention the 'Low' grade memory card is barely ever used in any of the quests; it doesn't even help much, and most of the time is used by the players as a joke.

'Only this attack card is barely even usable…' (Jareth)

[Attack Enhancement Card (Advanced): Enhances the next attack of the user by 500 times…]

'This thing is like a trump card and can only be obtained during the late stages of the game, but the main problem right now is…. I can't even do a decent attack right now!...' (Jareth)

For an attack to be enhanced by the enhancement card, there must be an attack done in the first place. If the user is already incapable of attacking, then even the enhancement card is useless.

'Even if I had an enhancement card and tried to punch, this body is too weak to land a proper hit in the first place…' (Jareth)

He can't use mana or the original Jareth's magic either.

Jareth shook his head in despair; although his facial expression remained cold and the same, his internal emotions were a mess at the moment.

'Ugh, I miss the days when I used to live a carefree life with my lovely Shiina… I hope she is living a happy life now…' (Jareth) (Sadly, Jareth had no way of knowing what happened to Shiina after his death…)

'No! I can't waste this life like this; I must figure something out!' (Jareth)

With determination in his eyes, Jareth clicked on the Memory card and used it:

'This is the only way I have right now… here goes nothing…' (Jareth)

[Are you sure you want to use the 'Memory Card (Intermediate)?]

[Yes or No]

'Yes' (Jareth)

At Jareth's agreement, a huge amount of memories started to appear in his head all of a sudden. Jareth felt like his head would burst apart from this sudden rush of memories. He felt a lot of pain in his head, but his body didn't even scream or flinch a little bit.

[Ding! The personality trait 'Arrogant' is activated! The user can't show weakness and must maintain an arrogant demeanor!]

His character trait didn't even let him scream to relieve his pain, due to which no one outside of the training room found out about his agony. The silent screams in his mind never reached anyone outside of this room.

After a few minutes of continuous agony, Jareth finally felt the pain disappearing, the crazy rush of memories finally stopped, and he was finally able to calm himself down.

'F*ck! I thought I was gonna die!' (Jareth)

Although he knew that he was going to feel pain in this process, he had no other choice. (He had seen the game characters writhe in pain whenever he used the 'Memory Card' on them, so he knew beforehand about this whole thing…)

Jareth relaxed his body and sat on the ground with a plop.

'Sigh, now I know why the player character nearly went insane from using the 'Advanced' Memory card, this pain is similar to torture… it's not meant for a human…' (Jareth)

Jareth shook his head.

'But at least I got something good from this….' (Jareth)

Jareth stretched his hand out and felt the sensation of mana. From these huge amounts of memories, he had learned how to use mana, and now he can finally be called a real mage; without knowing mana, he was just an ordinary person earlier, but now he can feel mana.

'It's as if I have grown a new type of sensory organ… I can feel the mana coursing through my body and in the surroundings…' (Jareth)

As he had been an otaku before in his previous life, Jareth had always dreamt of using mana; now that he had achieved this dream, he felt extremely happy at the moment.

'Perhaps with this, I can finally survive…' (Jareth)

Jareth got up from the ground and stretched his hand towards the practice dummy again.

'It should work now… let's start with the easiest and lower rank fire magic first…' (Jareth)

[Fire Magic: Flame Arrow!]

A small magic circle the size of a human palm appeared in front of Jareth's palm.

At Jareth's command, a flame arrow was fired from the magic circle, and the bright red flame arrow collided with the practice dummy.

The practice dummy barely had a small burn mark from that attack, and it didn't even do some basic damage.

Seeing this lukewarm damage, Jareth was not disappointed though. Instead, he felt quite happy at this moment.

Jareth glanced at the system panel and saw his MP:

[45/50]

Due to his extremely low mana control ability, most of the MP was wasted during that attack, and it didn't even have the lethality an ordinary flame arrow spell should have, Jareth was happy that he had succeeded at this moment.

'I think I can survive with this for now…' (Jareth)

Jareth nodded his head as he glanced at his hand.

'If I apply the 'Attack enhancement card' and then use this attack, I can at least scare that wyvern off and also prove myself worthy enough, thus avoiding my expulsion from this university…' (Jareth)

'Although this could be only considered a temporary solution… it seems to

 be the only way I have right now…' (Jareth)

Now that Jareth had finally figured out a way to survive, he felt relaxed all over his body.

Oblivious to all the trouble he might have to encounter in the future, Jareth was quite satisfied right now.

'With this attack, I have extended my lifespan, by at least a few days I think….' (Jareth)

Originally, Jareth doubted that the memory card was of much use to him because he didn't expect that he would awaken the memory of how to use mana.

But now that he has found a way out of the current crises, he finally acknowledged that these memory cards are not useless.

'It seems the goddess of luck is smiling at me today…' (Jareth)

Jareth then glanced at the other memory card and looked at it with kinder eyes this time.

'Let's see what you hold for me, my little gem…' (Jareth)

The moment Jareth realized the usefulness of the memory cards, he directly changed his face and stopped treating them as useless, and indeed he is a shameless guy it seems.

(Fun Fact: Jareth had impressed Shiina in his previous life using his persistent efforts and his shameless nature; he didn't feel any shame even when he had to try to propose to her several times in a single day; eventually, his shamelessness won over Shiina…)

While smiling like a punk in his mind, Jareth clicked on the other memory card.

[Are you sure you want to use the 'Memory Card (Low)?]

[Yes or No]

'Yes' (Jareth)

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Author's Notes.

Yo! It's your beloved author here! It seems our villain has finally found a way to survive the devastating plot waiting ahead, but let's see if it actually works the way he wants it to…

Question of the day.

If given a chance, would you like to use a 'Memory Card' too?

1. Yes (It may help you remember what you learned for the exams….)

2. No (I don't want the pain, so I will pass… )

3. Other (Tell me in the comments.)

By the way, don't forget to use those power stones and also leave a review if you like the story. Comment your opinion about the chapter. Your support is my motivation.