Ikaris

**Ikaris** is the main protagonist of the *Blood Legacy: New World of Doom* novel. On Earth, Ikaris was a genius student admired, exploited, and hated all his life for his brilliance, until he suddenly finds himself transmigrated into The Forsaken Lands, a fantasy world of myriad species born with the ability to use magic with imagination as their only limit.

## Physical description

After transmigrating to the Forsaken Lands, Ikaris had the appearance of a boy of about 14-15 years old. His face was pallid. His looks were rather average, not to the point of being ugly, but he was a bit puny and the bone structure of his face was not particularly delicate. The two unique features that made up for it were his raven black hair and his almost equally dark eyes sparkling with intelligence. His skin was also covered with blisters and badly healed burns.

## History

### Death and transmigration

Before Ikaris came to the Forsaken Lands he was at his University. He was about to file the patent for a new technology he was working on when he was suddenly stabbed. In his memories, he saw himself getting injected with some substance and then entering a machine. After that, he felt a piercing cold, followed by an excruciating pain as if he had just been electrocuted. After remembering the prisoners' stories from his first night, he recalled that most of them claimed to have been struck by lightning before waking up in the new world.

## Synopsis

### Volume 1: New World of Doom

Shortly after Ikaris was summoned to the Forsaken Lands, the villagers from Karragin roughly patched up his injuries and brought him along with the other summoned people to their village where they are bound in front of the village altar. Then, Grallu and Malia makes their entrance, where the elder woman casts a language spell to impart them with the Forsaken Lands' native language. After establishing a means of communication, Malia saunters to the prisoners and gently asks them for their names. Afterwards, she orders the villagers to slit the selected prisoners' wrists to collect their blood in a bowl placed above the altar. Then, the prisoners were tied up again kneeling in the village square for the whole day. But as soon as day turned to night, the aboriginals guarding them left for the safety of their own tents, abandoning the prisoners in the open to survive the night against the invading Crawlers under complete darkness. In the ensuing chaos, Ikaris managed to survive by hiding under the altar. The other prisoners were all killed except Ikaris and the Swedish student who like Ikaris, hid and stayed silent through all the chaos. Ikaris was then found by Malia who welcomes him as one of their own after surviving the ordeal.

The day after, Ikaris approaches Malia expressing his desire to learn magic, but is met with a laughing fit from the young chief. The noise attracts Grallu who inquires Malia about it, whom in turn informs her about the boy's request. After laughing in amusement, the elder woman then explains the folly of Ikaris' request. After a long litany from the old woman about the dangers of Magic, Ikaris still insists to learn, thinking that his intelligence will serve him well in his endeavor. Surprisingly, the Swedish student, whose name Ikaris remembered as Ellie also expresses her wish to learn magic, revealing that she too had been awake for some time, quietly listening to Grallu's lecture. The elder woman finally relents after a while. She then instructs the two to cast the **Black Veil** spell on her to determine their talent. With each instructions, Ikaris demonstrates his sharp mind and monstrous talent. He was able to cast the spell immediately from his first attempt, but collapses after due to fatigue. This ascertains Grallu of Ikaris' monstrous talent, but also that his Divine Spark in contrast was miniscule.

After his lesson with Grallu, Ikaris decides to explore Karragin to try to find food and clothing. One of the natives, Koko, points him towards a pond inside the jungle where the villagers usually get their water. The whole time, Ikaris is closely followed behind by the sniveling Ellie. However, with his bad luck, the pair encounters a starving goblin while they were near the pond. The goblin salivates at the thought of eating the duo, which frightens the cowardly Ellie who abandons Ikaris without a second thought. Ikaris is able to deal with the goblin with his quick thinking and his Black Veil spell, but is exhausted due to the spell's toll on him. However, a second goblin appears and spots the exhausted Ikaris. The boy starts to lament and accept his end, but quickly changes his mind, refusing to die a second time. In his desperation, he inadvertently creates two new spells to finish off the second goblin, but passes out completely due to the huge drawback. Fortunately, Krold, another villager, found Ikaris and quickly gave him CPR to save him from dying due to the spells' backlash. After regaining his strength, Ikaris returns to Karragin where he is intercepted by a crying Ellie, who is repeatedly apologizing for running off earlier. However, Ikaris is still resentful and just ignores the sniveling girl. Seeing that night is about to fall, Ikaris swiftly chooses some tents and arranges the other tents in a tight formation around his own tent. By the time he was finished with the layout of his new home, his tent had become so protected, that no matter where he entered from, he would have to go through at least three successive layers of tents to get to it. A moment later, Ellie sneaks inside his tent, seeking shelter for the night. Realizing that night has already fallen, Ikaris allows her inside. Hearing the growls outside, the pair remain awake until morning, successfully surviving their second night at Karragin.

The next morning, Ikaris visits Malia and Grallu again to ask his questions from the previous day. Inside their cottage, he sees Oliver, the lone survivor from the prisoners the previous day, but Malia is nowhere to be seen while Grallu is still sleeping. Later, he finally catches sight of Malia carrying a Rank 2 Demonic Boar that she hunted. Ikaris then approaches her and poses his question. After, hearing the events of yesterday, Malia gives Ikaris and Ellie a lecture about Magic Principles and Secondary Sparks. Done with his questions for the day, Ikaris heads back to his tent, with the intention of creating a System spell to aid in tracking his stats and future Secondary Sparks. After his success with the **System Spell**, Ikaris spent the next several days perfecting this secondary spark and levelling it up.

In one of his hunts in the jungle, Ikaris stumbles upon Malia who was fighting a carnivorous bison as big as an elephant. He initially thinks that Malia was after its' meat, but in the center of the clearing, Ikaris spots a plant bearing fruits that greatly resembled strawberries. Instead of helping Malia, he quietly hides and steals a bunch of these fruits. However, unbeknownst to him, Malia had been aware of his presence in the clearing. After arriving at his tent, the young chief intimidatingly forces Ikaris to give her two fruits as payment for the boar meat that she gave him earlier, and traded three more for two kilos of demonic boar meat. To exacerbate the situation, Oliver had also seen Ikaris scurrying with the fruits, which prompted him to give Oliver a slice of the fruit to silence him.

## Personality and traits

Ikaris was as agnostic as could be, and hardly dared to consider the infinite possibilities that stemmed from magic when he first witnessed it being performed by Granny Grallu. However, Ikaris was also quick to adapt and change his views as he quickly accepted the reality in front of him. He also did not try to reject or deny the existence of magic which opposed his past beliefs, and his mind was thoroughly shaken as he slowly came to accept what was happening to him. He was also able to see the advantages of his current circumstances, reasoning that if he had been transported to a world where magic was a reality, then it wasn't so bad for him.

Since childhood, Ikaris had always been abnormally observant, but according to him, this was also one of the characteristics that had caused his downfall. Hence, after transmigrating to a world of magic, he had resolved to hide what he was capable of, which exhibits his cautious and distrustful nature. On Earth, Ikaris was a prodigy like none other. He had always been a fast learner and had naturally turned to invention and research when he grew up. He was one of those people who succeeded in everything he undertook if he put his heart and soul into it.

Ikaris can also be resentful at times, an notable instance of this was when Ellie abandoned him when they were intercepted by a goblin while foraging for food and water. Ikaris was both furious and maddened by Ellie's betrayal, and he strongly affirmed in his mind why cowards and crybabies couldn't be trusted. He remarks that when things were going well, they could be the best of friends, their kindness usually genuine. But as soon as things turned sour, there was no one to be found.

Surprisingly, Ikaris is also quite good with his hands. In his initial days in Karragin, Ikaris sought to arm himself with any kind of weapon to use in hunting. But seeing that the village had little to offer in terms of weaponry, Ikaris improvised instead. He made use of wooden stakes and spears for hunting, which he made from tree branches scattered around the jungle. Ikaris also sought to employ the use of a bow to increase his efficiency, however, according to Krold, there are no such weapon present in Karragin and no one also had any knowledge of how to create one. Still determined, Ikaris made use of a straight tree branch that could be bent. For the string, Ikaris improvised by using the sinew of the goblin that he killed earlier in the jungle, weaving it into a string after extracting the fibers.

## References

1. ↑ Synopsis from Webnovel
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chapter 1
3. ↑ Chapter 13
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 2
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 5
6. ↑ Chapter 7
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chapter 8
8. ↑ Chapter 10
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Chapter 12
10. ↑ Chapter 11
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Chapter 14
12. ↑ Chapter 16
13. ↑ Chapter 17