1 Foolish and Poor Mage
Lilia is a regular high school student. Her hobby is reading various novels and comics.
After school ended, she usually stopped by a bookstore not far from the direction of returning to her home to check if there is the latest novel.
Coincidently, today is the day when the newest books arrive at the store.
After Lilia managed to buy the novel she wanted, she always read it right away without having to wait to get home first. She was simply impatient when it comes to the newest novel.
This is one of her bad habits that even makes some people somewhat couldn't help but reprimand her like: "Girl, there's a hole in front of you"-- when she ignores their warning they could only shake their head and rebuked her quietly: "Did her mom ever told her not to read on the street?"
Unfortunately, even her mom couldn't rid this kind of bad habit of her, not to mention the stranger.
Meanwhile, Lilia just pretends she didn't hear it since she's confident enough that nothing will happen to her. Either it's stuff, hole, tree, or people, nothing can hinder her from reading.
She was trained!
...
Magic is the most mysterious thing in this world. It's a story that happened long, long ago, in the Old Land about Human Ancestor accidentally eat an unknown fruit which caused his body to explode because it could not hold the amount of energy that consisted of the unknown fruit. His spirit was scattered along with the mysterious energy which is now called Mana...
"Hahaha, this Human Ancestor has had the silliest legend, ever! He must have starved and accidentally found an unknown fruit and didn't even aware that he gonna created such legend" Lilia laughed as she finds it's quite amusing.
Lilia walked while reading on the street casually without realizing what was happening above her and suddenly someone yells at her hysterically which gave her quiet fright to the point she has no time to react...
BANG!
"..."
With that, a regular high schooler, Lilia dead without knowing what it caused.
"I told her to get away but she won't listen"
"Such a pitiful girl... someone else committed suicide but instead she died"
"Aiya... she didn't even know how she died. Poor, poor..."
"Eh? I didn't die?"
...
In somewhere else, the cold air filled every corner as warmth seemed to have never tried to crawl its way in the cave.
The entire wall of stone was engulfed in chilling blackness.
The giant stalactites line up on the concave to form like sharp teeth as the sound of dripping from it echoed throughout of cave.
Leaning behind the rocks, there was a young woman whose entire face was being filled with confusion and shock.
The young woman is none other than Lilia who was originally dead.
After she woke up, she unexpectedly found herself alone inside this cave.
She received so much shock upon she woke up. Not only she woke up in someone else body, but she also received memories that entirely doesn't belong to her.
The only conclusion that came up in her mind is she transmigrated!
After reading so many novels, of course, she knew some procedures and conditions for becoming a transmigrator. She might have done something noble in her previous life to be granted a second chance of life like this.
This must be! Lilia convinced herself with all her heart.
However, she unclear. Did she die by saving a dog or something? Tch, whatever...
Lilia slapped both sides of her cheeks with her hands, excited: "No way! this is the legend 'Transmigrate'!" and she is Transmigrator one!
Lilia immediately examine the entire area, she received the predecessor's memory, so, more or less she understood her situation currently.
She was an F-rank Mage, Liliana Corden. As for why she ended up in this situation was entirely due to her stupidity.
Liliana Corden has been stuck in F-rank as a mage for almost a year. To rank up to E-rank mage, she needs to complete fifty F-rank quests and one E-rank quest.
Within a year she had completed forty F-Rank quests, however, for some reason, she became impatient and rashly jumped up to picked an E-Rank quest.
The E-rank quest she chose was to collect five Luminous Egg Flower. Initially, this quest was considered as an only-a-bit-hard quest even for F-rank mage, however, because of her lack of information which eventually leads her into her doom.
The place where the Luminous Egg Flower grows is at Luminous Lion's territory and it guarded by Luminous Lion itself. Every treasure in the forest is always inhabited by a monster as its protector.
The protector of the Luminous Egg Flower itself is Luminous Lion.
A peculiarity of Luminous Lion is always sleeping during the peak of noon, by then, Liliana could only have a chance to collect Luminous Egg Flower at that sort of moment.
When the peak of noon arrived, she quietly sneaked into Luminous Lion's cave.
It's should be an easy task if she did it carefully but she didn't know that the stalk of the Luminous Egg Flower contained deadly poisonous microorganisms, which meant that she had to pluck it from its receptacle.
She was scared the sleeping lion will wake up too soon, so, she grabbed its stalk directly without so much thought, but suddenly the palm that Lilia used to pluck got prick and something unnoticed enter her flesh which made her released a small moan.
In the state of panic, she released the Luminous Egg Flower immediately and run off of the cave in feared the Luminous Lion would wake up.
She found a safe cave that far away from Luminous Lion's territory to treated her wound, unfortunately, she was ignorant of how dire her situation was in.
Although she had several antidotes for various poisons, this time she was completely unprepared because she had never heard of such poison.
Soon, when the poison entered her brain not long after, she was dead. And then another soul replaced the old soul.
"Huh? where the poison? how can I don't feel it!"
Soon, she realized... as expected from transmigrator!
As soon as the transmigrator entered the stage, all trobles dissolved! This is a common cheat of transmigrators.
Here in the cave, it's a safe place, as long as she doesn't make unnecessary movement maybe it will not attract some monsters nearby. If she wants to complete the quest then she needs to make it tomorrow.
According to Liliana's memories, Lilia remembers that she has a cosmos ring.
She looks at the cosmos ring on her index finger and examines it interestingly, and yet, she doesn't find it uncommon in appearance, it completely looks like a common black ring.
Lilia found various items inside it such as black robes like she currently wears, blanket, medicine, mana stones... bah, she was such a poor girl! there's not even a single magic treasure in it.
She has already carried out several quests in a year yet she didn't can even afford to buy a single magic treasure. Unbelievable!
Although the quests are only F-rank quests, its reward was decent enough, and if it was accumulated for a year she could at least buy one or two magic treasures.
She tries to recall why she was so poor, as she recalled it she faced palm. She spent entire mana stones for apartment rent payment.
Liliana inwardly cursed the original host for being a fool, being aware that she was poor yet she chose an apartment which its rental cost beyond her capabilities.
"Hah..." Sigh, not only she takes over the poor mage's body, but she inherits her predecessor's complicated background which full of trouble.
