Prologue

Life sucks.

There really isn't much to it.

We as human beings live and die, some sooner than others like every living creature. However, unlike every living creature we were blessed with a high intelligence. Thanks to this we try to find meaning in everything including death along with our existence.

This caused religions to be created making people believe there is something behind everything, even death.

There are many beliefs about death such as reincarnation or going to heaven or hell.

This caused there to be massive debates around the world about which religion was considered "correct"

Many people turn to god thinking that if they do enough good deeds they can live a good life in the afterlife. Some people do stupid things to make memories while others just live because they don't want to die

But if we look at this from a scientific point of view, we realize that the purpose of our existence is to procreate, which doesn't satisfy many people. While science holds most of the answers to the universe it still doesn't satisfy our curiosity about the meaning of existence.

However, in trying to find meaning in both our actions and existence we ignore the one simple answer.

And that answer is that…there is no meaning.

As we live our lives our actions will not have an impact on the universe and the only impact we will have is on ourselves.

Sure we can have a family and other things like video games or something like that but in the grand scheme of things what exactly is that doing?

Nothing.

My life was normal.

I had loving parents, did good in school and even had a few friends. However, my life was flipped upside down after my parents died in a plane crash. It was sudden and I didn't know how to react.

My parents had cut off all contact with their parents due to them not approving of their marriage.

Thus I was left alone.

I thought I would have some friends to comfort me, but they all had moved on. They could live carefree lives and do whatever they wanted, while I had to ensure my grades didn't slip so I could enter university.

All of this was so I could live a stable life.

One day I was just returning from work and laid on a sofa trying to relax. However, the next second I was just trying to survive fighting against some ugly monsters.

I didn't know why or even how but I was transported to a different world.

A world that was on the brink of destruction.

I had survived for 36 years in that world and I had gained powers beyond my wildest dreams. However, there was something I wanted no matter what.

And that was to return home.

Besides that place sucked! I mean all those anime make you think you'd live the dream, get overpowered, make a harem or some shit like that!

Me? I didn't get shit!

I didn't even have a system like all those other webnovel main characters, how was that fair? I had to train until my bones creaked and cast spells then I passed out from mana exhaustion, all to survive.

However, I was able to create a spell that could send me home. While I did have to test it, the results pleased me greatly

But the problem I kept running into was my lack of mana supply.

I had tried many different methods, such as a dragon heart, the aspect of gods, and other things, but I was never able to get enough mana to send me back home. But there was one power that could probably grant me a magic supply that big.

When I was first summoned to Arcadia, I didn't know what was going on. I didn't figure it out until I was forced into boot camp.

One day a black crack appeared in the sky.

No one knew how or even why but the dragons and the demons tried to stop what was coming however, they failed.

Later, I learned that the world barrier had shattered, allowing a race known as the "Outer Gods" to enter the world and start destroying it. No one knew why, and attempts to figure it out were useless.

I didn't care though.

All I cared about was going home.

I didn't care who tried to stop me! whether it was an omnipotent dragon or an omniscient god, I killed whoever was in my way!

All of it so I could go home.

My wish was to live a predictable, stable and simple life.

And yet…

***

A warm breeze of wind hit me as I looked at the giant structure resembling a city. It was built on top of a mountain which would make you assume it was cold but it was warm like in spring.

This place was Evergarden Academy, an institution designed to train mages and psykers. It is hidden from the world along with all the other supernatural things.

Now how did I get in here?

Simple.

My rotten luck.

I looked at the people around me. They were around my age and wore a uniform similar to mine. But beside some walked creatures that seemed to be ripped out of a fantasy novel. In the distance, I saw 2 people fighting and throwing magic spells at each other.

This was not the university life I was expecting…

That though wasn't even the worst part! Nope, the worst part was…this fucker!

Looking to the side where a violet fireball was floating my hand couldn't help but twitch. This thing was the so-called "Great Calamity" of Arcadia. No one was able to even scratch the damn bastard other than me. At the last moment, he tried to off himself causing me to activate my spell and the result was this, our souls fusing into one. With the amount of power I had in the other world, I could've probably been living a peaceful life right about now enjoying a coconut on a beach somewhere as I watched money flow into my bank account.

But no, thanks to this asshole most of my magic was gone after our souls merged causing me to lose out on most of my abilities that I had grown to rely on such as space and time magic. While I still had some pretty overpowered abilities if I faced my old self I be decimated in less than a damn second!

However, that wasn't even the fucking worst part!

Even though I was able to get back and was stuck with a world ending being I thought I could still live peacefully. Sure he was annoying but it wasn't anything I couldn't handle.

After 2 fucking weeks of living somewhat of a normal life it happened.

Out of the sky fell a staff that hit my head.

Thanks to that I was dragged into a supernatural event where I was able to gain some new abilities and something else…

Looking at my other side I saw a small humanoid-like figure with a pair of jet-black wings sitting on my shoulder. She didn't seem to be looking at anything but the view in front of her which was probably filled with a screen displaying my memories of some shitty Romcoms that I watched when I was bored.

This woman was known as the "Witch of Ruin"

Apparently, in ancient times, she was a great witch who had brought destruction to the land. Her power was so great in fact she could only be sealed instead of killed.

I was hoping to absorb some of that power which I was able to do but an unfortunate side effect of this was her taking residence in my soul.

"Hey, human! Let's hurry up and get some food!" I let the words enter one side and exit the other side effectively ignoring him.

"Shut it, you shithead! I'm trying to watch here!" Then the damn witch chimed in causing an argument.

You know…I wanted to live a simple life.

Nothing too dramatic just a relaxing and lazy life that's all I wanted however, hearing the argument between the bastards and some stares directed at me and the small witch on my shoulders those dreams shattered.

Hearing the argument between these bastards I looked to the sky imagining all the ways I could end myself.

Not that they would work.

'Why couldn't I just live in peace?'