Ren Dover/History

## First Life

In his previous world, Ren Dover (he forgot his former name) became an orphan at the age of 14. Although he lacked support, he believed he could get a scholarship with enough effort. Thus, studying became his priority. With a clear goal in mind, he neglected his relationships and pushed his friends away, leaving him alone. Despite his sacrifice, Ren did not get the scholarship in the end. Although he managed to get on the top 1% percentile in the national exams the scholarship he wanted was taken from him by some rich kid (ranked lower than him) whose could've easily paid the university tuition fee. Unfortunately, Ren could not move to another city for university because he was dirt poor. With no other choice, Ren stopped his education and began taking multiple part-time jobs. Manga, web novels, and food became his coping mechanism.

As time passed, he gained more and more weight, making it more difficult to continue his jobs. It changed when he started to write novels. It began as a hobby, but soon became his profession. While his first novel was a hit, the succeeding ones weren't. While working on 'The Luminescent Swordman', Ren died from a spike in his blood pressure because he read the comments criticizing his "masterpiece" and reincarnated into the very novel he had yet to finish.

Considering the attitude of what he thought to be the original Ren and the fact his "past life" has a lot of plot holes, he begins to suspect if his memories are real or not.

## Volume 1: Adaptation

### First Steps (Chapters: 2-6)

After his reincarnation into his novel, the author discovered that he was in the body of an unknown extra named Ren Dover. A student at the Lock with only D rank talent. He then decided to collect The Seed of Limit and The Keiki Style before the academy starts to increase his surviving chances in that world.

### The Lock (Chapters: 7-19)

When the first semester began he discovered he was in class [A25], the classroom where the novel protagonist: Kevin Voss and the other main characters stayed for half of the novel. His parents sent him a package where he found the mysterious Red Book. He then started experimenting it's effects to test its limits.

In the Virtual Reality class, he was teamed up with other 5 participants and their task was to survive for 1 hour. One of his teammates, Arnold, humiliated him warning him, the lowest rank in the group, not to lose. He managed to complete the hidden task, Lake Trial, gaining an extra point for his team while Arnold died.

### Black Market (Chapters: 20-34)

Ren wanted to make easy money to support his training so he decided to use his knowledge of the future and bet on stocks. In order to bet safely and remain hidden he seeks Lost Reapers, an Information Brocker group where he met Smallsnake for the first time. He then went to the Black Market stalls and bought a sword, Silver Edge, a Dimension Storage bracelet, and some low-quality potions, preparin for his trip to the Dungeons aiming to collect 50,000U for his bet.

He enters **Red Desolation** owned by Dungeon Seekers in which he encountered a Wiped Party. He, after some hesitation, decided to help them, but shortly after they die of Mind-Breaker Curse. Despite knowing about the presence of a Demon, he continued exploring the dungeon until he ran across a sand storm. He finds a black castle in the eye of the storm in which he met Everblood for the first time. Everblood tortured him to collect information but Ren managed to stab into the core of his clone destroying it before a rescue team reached him.

The Black Market decided to grant him a skill for him stopping a possible dungeon desync. He was taken to their treasury to choose the skill from the F and G sections, from which he took Monarch Indifference. Before leaving, Thomas gave him a V.I.P card.

### Elective (Chapters: 35-48)

He chose **Food Exploration** as his elective, ending with Amanda. Shortly after, Smallsnake informed him that he received 14 million U from his bet.

He sought Melissa Hall to form a business contract, in which she agrees to provide him intermediate potions in exchange for his knowledge regarding her research. Smallsnake informed him that a third party is looking for their traces, which Ren revealed it was W.V. Pharmaceuticals and orders him not to take action against them.

At Elijah's party, he warned Amanda of the possible trap to kidnap her. Later, after everyone was narcotized, he activated **Monarch Indifference** for the first time to face Elijah. He played weak letting Elijah beat him purposely, and once Elijah lowerd his guard, he stabbed him in the heart. He knocked Amanda down before stabbing arrows in Elijah corpse, fixing his clothes and hair, and forcefully knocked himself unconscious.

## Volume 2: Establishment

### Inter-Academy Tournament

While Ren waits for the tournament to begin, he trains and gathers all the information he can regarding Monolith's plans to ruin the tournament. By teaming up with Kevin, he manages to extract useful information thanks to Kevin's system.

Ren takes part in the [Doll Massacre] and [Battle Royale] games. He achieves first place in the [Doll Massacre] event by tanking damage with his body. His main opponent for this event is Aerin. After his victory, Amanda meets Ren's sister Nola, and tells Ren that she will drop out of the Academy to take over the guild.

Before the [Battle Royale] begins, Kevin and Ren have the needed details regarding the upcoming attack thanks to the system. They split up once the event begins and go to the respective portal summoning locations. However, it turns out to be a partial trap. Both Ren and Kevin get ambushed. Ren ends up using Monarch's Indifference to settle his side of the conflict, and goes to aid Kevin. As a result of this, Ren's 5 star sword art gets revealed to the world.

The academy notifies all students to exit the event dome. As Ren is leaving, he gets ambushed by Aaron and ends up caught in a massive explosion. He is from that point forth publicly proclaimed as dead.

### Monolith (ch 256 - 288)

As a final bid to save his own life, Ren uses the Monolith Ring to teleport to one of their facilities. Upon arrival, he is severely burned and disfigured, and so no one could identify him. Shortly thereafter, Monolith starts brainwashing him with a serum, but fortunately he has minimal access to mana and can activate Monarch's Indifference. He endures for a few days, and then throws up the storage bracelet in his possession. With it, he can heal himself, and prevent any further mind erosion. Ren intentionally showcases the mindset that Dr. Joseph desires. Thus, Ren gets resources suitable for a super soldier to grow.

Ren spends 7 months in this manner while getting progressively better treatment. Unfortunately, a thought enhancing and location tracking chip was implanted in his brain. At this point, he escapes the research facility, and runs off into a nearby forest. There, he fights and destroys the squad chasing him. He takes over the face of the squad captain, and infiltrates Monolith HQ.

During his escape, the Union also stages an attack on Monolith, by sending Monica, Amon and Tasos (traitor) to stall for time. The monolith's plan is to get rid of Amon and Monica. However, Ren interfered by destroying the teleportation core used for the common portals, resulting in a SS rank explosion. Due to this, the Union attackers could retreat, and Ren also manages to escape via teleportation. Meanwhile, the Monolith vice-leader is forced to use a defensive artifact and sustain heavy injuries to contain the explosion.

Volume 2 ends with the reveal that "subject 876" is wanted by both the Union and the Monolith, with a bounty of 10 billion U. The Union and the Monolith agree to a truce, under the conditions that Monolith will give the Union research regarding portals.

## Volume 3: Emergence

### Dwarven Domain

Ren makes preparations to leave Ashton City. Upon leaving the city, he recruits Hein Kraaijenschot. Then, the entire mercenary group travels towards the dwarven mountains. Along the way, Ryan informs Ren that the tracking chip has activated. Ren chooses to slowly travel while training his comrades for 4 months. Then, the assault squad from Monolith arrives, at which point they get easily disposed of.

Meanwhile, 2 elves are tracking Ren's group, but not interfering. Ren and the gang eventually make it into the capital of the dwarven domain. They find a place to sleep and Ren goes to gather information at a popular pub. There, he meets with Emma's father, and tells him of Emma's current difficulties. He then meets with a master blacksmith, but gets his own request rejected due to his lacking swordsmanship foundation. Then, the demons attack the dwarven capital, and Ren and Co. decide to help out, gaining acknowledgement from the other species present. After the first wave of attack, Ren gets a strong headache. This headache is caused by Kevin touching Ren's magical novel book. Kevin has a dream where Ren gets killed by Everblood, and Everblood telling Kevin that he is the embodiment of Kevin's sin.

This is an event orchastrated by Monarch Ren (the OG Ren ; the Ren that has experienced Kevin's regressions).

Then, the second wave comes. Ren focuses on the basics, and slightly improves his foundation during this fight. After the battle, Ren is summoned by Douglas, the president of Lock academy. Ren tells Douglas of his experience after the tournament, and helps with the plan to end the war against the demons. Before Ren leaves though, Douglas notices Angelica and things are resolved peacefully. After this, Oliver (Emma's father) offers Ren a mission to protect the engineer responsible for maintaining the defensive barrier. Ren accepts.

When Ren reaches the engineer's location, he is given a pill that helps him advance to C rank. He then trains with Oliver until the Inferno organization attacks. Meanwhile, Kevin will on occasion stalk on Ren's progress by using the red book. The plan begins by Ren taking a shortening potion and turning into the engineer, while the actual engineer has already hidden himself. Then, Ren lets his guard down while eating food, and allows himself to be captured. After arriving in Inferno HQ, Ren impersonates his interrogator known as Karl and infiltrates the organization.

Ren tells the Inferno decision makers that he can disable the defensive barrier given enough time. The elder offer to give him a high status position if he can disable 1 pillar within 2 days. Ren is successful, and thus gains status and a hefty reward. He also learns that Monolith is looking for him, and hoping to strike a deal with inferno. He recommends that Inferno accept the offer, with the intention of disclosing the Inferno HQ location to Monolith, hoping to spark conflict between the 2 groups.

[To finish later]

## References

1. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 1
2. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 401
3. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 423
4. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 2
5. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 6
6. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 4
7. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 7
8. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 10
9. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 12
10. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 11
11. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 14
12. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 16
13. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 20
14. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 21
15. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 23
16. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 25
17. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 27
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 The Author's POV - Chapter 28
19. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 29
20. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 30
21. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 31
22. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 32
23. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 33
24. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 34
25. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 40
26. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 41
27. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 42
28. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 43
29. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 45
30. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 47