Kubei was just an ordinary pencil and button pusher working a day job, hating his boss and making horrible speeches when one day he fell asleep after pushing an all-nighter. When he woke up, he was bound to a chair, facing three creepy robed women and in a body way too young and way too weak to be his own. As he slowly came to, he realized that he was no longer in the same universe as he was before. He had teleported to the Kingdom of Helius, where an all-powerful church rules its lands and wages war against the elusive group known only as Mages. Armed with an incredibly cocky neural interface that just won’t shut up and his own sheer wit, our MC will find himself not just fighting to survive, but maybe even something bigger than himself.
Benjamin left the rune research team appalled.
Truth to be told, the practice of human experimentation was not uncommon in this era of loose morals. But to conduct an experiment on one’s own body was unheard of.
"Even if we don’t do this, our lives are nearing its end. Since it has come to this, why not try out something new? Perhaps in this way, we will be able to see magic in its purest form before we die."
This was how the elderly mage had put it.
Benjamin understood as well. The mages who gathered here to research runes already had one foot in their graves. Without any new breakthroughs, they could only dwindle until their final days. Now with a possible breakthrough in their reach, they would not hesitate to sacrifice all that they had just to pursue it.
And so, after a fruitless attempt at persuasion, he could only bid the elder mages good luck.
Upon returning to the private overseer quarters, Benjamin once more dived into the space of consciousness.