Soumok2007
When kaelen opened his eyes, he wasn't greeted by a prophecy or a system announcing him as the chosen one.
Instead, he found himself living as an insignificant extra inside the prestigious Arcane Academy-a place where awakened hunters, dungeon explorers, and future heroes gather to shape the world's fate.
It doesn't take long to realize one thing.
This world already has its protagonists.
The academy revolves around gifted heroes, brilliant heroines, noble heirs, hidden villains, and once-in-a-generation geniuses whose names everyone knows. kaelen is none of them. Stranger still, despite the world unfolding like an otome academy setting, he has no memory of any novel, game, or story resembling it. There is no script to exploit, no future events to predict, and no hidden knowledge to rely on.
He is simply... an extra.
After awakening, his class evolves into Sorcerer, a rare second-tier evolution of the common Mage class. While the title sounds impressive, reality is far less glamorous.
Among all the known Mage evolutions, Sorcerer is considered one of the weakest.
Its spells are slow to mature, its growth is inconsistent, its mana efficiency is mediocre, and its specialization lacks the overwhelming strengths of classes like Elementalist, Spellblade, Warlock, Archmage Candidate, or Rune Sage. Most guilds ignore Sorcerers, and many who awaken the class eventually abandon the magical path altogether.
To everyone else, kaelen's future has already been decided.
Forgettable.
But kaelen has no desire to compete with the world's destined heroes.
He isn't trying to steal the heroine's affection, overthrow the final villain, or become the strongest hunter alive. His goals are almost embarrassingly ordinary: survive dungeon expeditions, earn enough to live comfortably, continue researching magic, and avoid becoming collateral damage whenever the real protagonists shake the world.
Yet dungeons never remain predictable.
Every expedition uncovers stranger mysteries,