Lucien Ashborne was supposed to be a nobody — an early-game villain who existed only to be crushed by the protagonist. After provoking the wrong person, he vanished from the story without even a dramatic death scene.

When a player named James dies and wakes up in Lucien’s body, he inherits every bit of the villain’s broken reputation and zero of his privileges. Bullied, scorned, and abandoned by his own noble family, Lucien now stands at the bottom of the academy hierarchy.

To make matters worse, the world he knew as a game has no guaranteed happy ending… and the protagonist’s party treats him like a criminal.

But James isn’t the Lucien they think he is.

With fragments of meta-knowledge, a half-broken system that barely works, and a determination to avoid becoming cannon fodder, he chooses a different path.

He doesn’t seek glory.
He just refuses to disappear.

This is the story of a former villain trying to rewrite his role — not as a hero, but as someone who survives on his own terms.

Lucien closed his eyes and funneled his mana into the Primordial Earth Crown. Instantly, his consciousness expanded, sinking deep into the frozen bedrock beneath Winterguard. He felt every crack, every fault line, every grain of dirt stretching out into the Wilderness.


Then, he triggered the Rosary of the Weeping Saintess.


[All conditions met. Unlimited Divine Force is supplied to the user!]


The frozen earth outside the fortress violently shuddered.


Commander Viktor grabbed the parapet to steady himself as a localized, catastrophic earthquake ripped through the battlefield.


The charging monster horde suddenly lost their footing as the frozen tundra directly in front of the fortress physically split wide open.


Chapter 203 - Winterguard [5]