Chapter 2

*Boom*

His phone suddenly blasted and sharp pain assaulted him,

"Agh! wtf! Agh!"

Mike tossed in the road like a dying fish and closed his eyes as he gritted his teeth.

The pain gradually subsided and he slowly opened his eyes as a large portal-like thing materialized in front of him and sucked him to a distorted space.

Mike rubbed his eyes, trying to make sense of the chaotic scene around him. One moment he had been staring at his phone, the next everything warped and shifted into a dizzying blur. When his vision cleared, he found himself standing at the front of an unfamiliar classroom. "Huh?"

 I looked around in confusion. This classroom wasn't familiar at all. The faces of the other students also looked unfamiliar. Where was I?

"Woah! Look at that shiny red hair!"

"Is he the new student who was going to join us today...."

"Omg! I have seen him on some podcasts!"

"No way, h-he is the grandson of Choi Hok-in..."

"What!? That makes him the nephew of Choi Jong-In..."

"My God! he is the nephew of an S-rank Hunter!!!"

"Shh! I remember from the interview that he doesn't like someone talking about his family"

"Ya, I think I heard that his parents had a divorce.."

"Haw! Shut up, he is looking here!"

"Wtf is all this?" Mike said in his head.

Rows of desks stretched before him, each occupied by Asian teenagers watching his every move. At the teacher's desk, a middle-aged Milf met his gaze expectantly.

Panic rose in Mike's chest. These people didn't know him - he didn't know them. As he scanned their foreign faces, confusion swallowed him whole. He racked his brain, desperate to understand how he got here.

Then, a name surfaced through the haze: Azaroth Morningstar.

Yes, his name was Azaroth Morningstar.

(MC's Image)

The son of Lucas Morningstar and Choi Hana.

The memories came rushing back - his parents' divorce, the move overseas, living with his rich and influential maternal grandfather in South Korea.

He was no longer Mike, but Azaroth, a transfer student from America.

Taking a deep breath, Azaroth faced the teacher. She motioned for introductions. "Um, hi. I'm Azaroth Morningstar, just transferred from the US. Nice to meet you."

He expected to fumble while speaking the truth he didn't grasp himself but surprisingly to himself, he sounded confident..... and..

What The Fuck was happening?

He just now spoke... Korean? Which he hadn't learned in his life, what was happening?

As Azaroth introduced himself to the class, some of the girls couldn't help but blush slightly. He was handsome, with charming features and a calm composure despite his obvious powerful background.

Azaroth sat at his desk, near the window as an MC should be, trying to process the flood of new memories and information.

Trying to get his bearings, He suddenly clutched his head in pain.

Memories that were not his own started flooding into his mind.

-I saw visions of dungeons full of monsters, magical powers, and skills, different nations and islands. Memories of growing up watching monsters and Hunters from my Television, cheering for the Jeju Island raid.....?

My heart started racing as realization dawned on me. I had read about this world some years ago in a Manhwa!-

'There was no way this was a coincidence. Somehow, impossibly, I had been transmigrated into the world of Solo Leveling,'

Azaroth's POV

As more memories flowed into my mind,

I remembered that I had been born Azaroth Morningstar in America. My father was a powerful businessman and the vice Guild master of the Berserkers Guild named Lucas Morningstar, who was also a rank S hunter.

Ever since I was young, my father had high hopes that I would awaken as a hunter as well one day.

But as I grew up, no hunter abilities manifested in me. While I trained hard and enjoyed learning about the hunter lifestyle, I remained an Ordinary. This greatly disappointed my father.

After their divorce years ago, when my mother fought for custody over me, my father did not object. He was too focused on his business to pay attention to a son who showed no promise in that area.

After the divorce, my mother started going on dates with various men, some of them were just fuck boys and sometimes she dated the teens around my age.

I felt distracted and started consuming alcohol and fooling around with girls, seeing all that my mother's father who I always admired contacted me, I told him about me being depressed and he understood.

Grandfather Hok In eventually decided to immigrate with me to Korea, where we could start anew.

3rd POV

He was the Grandson of Choi Hok In, one of the richest men in Korea, and nephew of Choi Jong In, one of the most powerful S-Rank Hunters in Korea and leader of the nation's Hunter's Guild.

During the class, Azaroth found himself wearing an old-fashioned ring, the ring seemed like a family heirloom but he had no memories of where he got it.

Thinking about his new life he overheard some girls hushed conversation.

"The new foreign exchange student is kinda cute, don't you think?" one girl whispered.

"Yeah, I like his eyes and smile. It's nice of his grandfather to get him a spot here," the other agreed.

Azaroth felt his cheeks flush, still adjusting to this mysterious new identity and the attention it brought. Back in America as Mike, he didn't have many friends.

But with his grandfather's clout and good looks, perhaps this new start held promise after all.

"Haah~ not awekend huh?"

Azaroth remembered that while he did not have a hunter's abilities, he is quite well-off thanks to his grandfather.

His monthly pocket money is enough to buy the father of Terry who humiliated him in his previous world.

While he would no longer have the potential to grow into a powerful hunter, he thought perhaps he could live a comfortable life with the wealth and resources available to him.

'My previous life hadn't been anything special. This new chance seemed good enough.'

Just then, a strange thought occurred to him. "If this was real, would it follow the same progression as the novels?" 

He was deep in musing when suddenly a blue screen notification appeared before Azaroth's eyes out of thin air.

"Ha!" He quickly covered his mouth.

Startled, he looked around but didn't see anyone or anything else that could have triggered it.

".....Monarch of Lust" Azaroth's eyes widened as he began to read the message on the screen.

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A/N: Give your power stones to me mortal!

And there is a f<king reason behind his name like that which will be told in future chapters. < p>