Prologue

What would you do if you were thrown into the world of novels you read? 

Would you get excited? Of course, right? Unless it was something outright bad. 

But what if you were a passerby villain who was destined to get trampled under the foot of the protagonist? 

Better yet, you hadn't completely read all the plots of the novel. 

How would you react? 

Uncertainties instead of certainty make life more challenging, and when you overcome those, you get a satisfying feeling of fulfillment. 

Ian Veilstrider was also like that as he got transmigrated into the world of a novel he had partially read. As the son of a Duke and the sole heir of the Veilstrider family, he had everything, yet his destiny was to be a stepping stone for the protagonist. 

"What a load of crap!" Ian expressed his disdain as there was nobody who liked being manipulated by another; even if it was destiny. 

In this world of wizards with countless extraordinary beings, Ian's aim was at the top, and he was going to claim that position by any means. 

He wasn't going to be a mediocre person who would only appear in one chapter and would get ruthlessly trampled by the protagonist. 

Instead, he wanted to be a being that would appear throughout the novel, even if it meant he had to be a villain. 

"Haha, let's see who is the protagonist and who is the villain, shall we?"