Chapter 1 : Reincarnation

Mages education academy, upper element's classes:

-.....As you all know, the most frequent upper elements are lightning, light, darkness, but there are some cases of rare upper elements like dark fire and...

"Hey Erec, why are you attending these classes while you still haven't mastered the three basics?"

"Dale, Stop bullying him you arrogant- "

"It's okay Talia, he's not wrong"

"Erec….." She looked at me with compassion and continued following the course.

Well yeah, I can barely control wind, fire, and water, and I have no innate upper element.

Normally, only people coming from a mage lineage can awake with a Shin Heart but my case was abnormal.

It's not like I awoke with a strong Shin heart though, I'm basically the weakest Shin user at the academy.

If it wasn't for my training even while sleeping and having almost perfect grades in the theory tests I would have probably dropped out already.

Well at least, as an apprentice I could have permission to hunt in some places reserved to us so it helped me financially support my family.

"Hey Erec, we're hanging out with Wilfred and the boys, want to join us?" one of my close friends asked.

"Are you kidding me? The level crossing test is in 3 days and if I don't pass I'll stay Apprentice for 2 other years"

"Oh c'mon man"

"I'll be training at my place, theory and mastery level aren't the only things you need to pass you know"

"Good luck bro, hope you don't fail."

When I came back home, I could see at my mom's facial expression that I was maybe A little bit late.

She didn't scold me given the circumstances, but my little brother, Elmer Pendragon started crying.

"Why ay you never here bigger bwother?"

Anyways, talking about him, he has a way better future than me as he already awoke with an innate upper element in ice and a way stronger Shin Heart, the world is unfair...' sigh'….., but I'm happy for him, I hope he will restore the image of our Family.

Since everybody went to sleep, I went to my room too and continued training for a while before lying on my bed too, surprisingly I felt really comfortable and relaxed…..as if all my muscles were relaxing and stopped contracting...ah it feels so good…..even my heart is taking a rest…my heart...wait-

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"Please do something to save him!"

"His heart already stopped beating; we did everything we could, sorry for your loss, my condolences"

The last thing I heard was my mother screaming, and the emergency doctor announcing my death to my family.

So that's what it feels like to die, I haven't suffered at all and I'm still conscious, it's really different from what I thought, it seems like I'm floating in some kind of void, maybe this is the transfer phase to the afterlife, or even better…..to an isekai whom I'll save from a demon king and have a harem of cute girls to serve me-

a female figure suddenly appeared in front of me, it was a white-haired young girl, just at the sight of her I felt charmed by her soft side, she had silky white angel wings on the right side, but oddly not on the left.

"Oh my- you're such a pervert"

"Don't get me wrong that's not it! W..Wait- how can you read my mind?!"

"Fufufufu, you're weird, is this how a 19 years old boy who just died would react"

"People already told me several times that I'm crazy, even calling me introvert pervert weeb, now if that doesn't bother you stop spying on my mind"

"If I could I would have already stopped seeing your naughty thoughts..."

"What am I doing here? What will happen? Where a-" Erec overwhelmed her by questions, but she interrumpted by putting a soft finger on his lips.

He started losing sensation in my toes as she started coming closer and closer, the coldness reached my heart and it felt as if he was dying a second time, when her body finally reached him, the last thing he could sense was the scent of her perfume before his eyelids closed and he progressively lost consciousness.

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The feeling of comfort that I felt upon waking up was particularly similar to that of waking up after a deep sleep in the morning of a peaceful Sunday. I started to mope and I curled up in this soft and warm quilt, I began to recover my senses and rejoiced at the satisfying texture of this bed.

"This isekai surely have great knowledge in sewing"

But as I totally regained consciousness, a foul smell coming from me and my divine bed disgusted me, I opened my eyes and had probably the most abrupt mood swing of my life.

I was lying and enjoying my life on trash….and the heat was from the leftovers of a freshly cooked meal that I was resting my head on…

I started walking searching for a water source to wash and hydrate myself, I was in the middle of a big crowded village in the medieval style, and the first thing that popped at me was that people were speaking English.

Maybe I was given the ability to understand their language by that cute deity who summoned me.

While I came near a shop that was obviously a Tavern, passers-by were avoiding me, a young couple even complained to the owner of the place

"Do beggars often enter here? Look at him he's disgusting"

"Let's go out, honey, Xyneph isn't a city worth visiting"

'D...Did he just said Xyneph, no it's impossible, it's my hometown. If this village really is Xyneph, then maybe I haven't been isekaid, but it can be a coincidence so let's not make a hasty conclusion.'

I headed out of the "city" to wash in a river, no one would answer my questions in the current state, I heard that there's a river in the forest, so I guess I'll wash there, in these situations I must focus on surviving, which means finding food drinkable water and habitat, without showing anything odd, so following the river might be the best way to achieve that, the main part of the city is probably near it, it will highly increase my chances of success.

But I don't expect people to help me for free, I saw some Artifact and potion shops, If my guess is correct and I'm really still in the same world then they should rely on all sort of ShinBeats-Related Products and rare medicinal plants so I can pick some and sell them for money –I know 6000 thousand different types of plants so it shouldn't be a problem, on top of that considering the fact people were talking an old English, I might be back to approximately 25 to 50 years after the beginning of the era of Shin Sekai, but I must wait to have irrefutable proof.