Azure Lotus was a game that had a relatively small impact on the gaming world. It wasn’t particularly revolutionary nor was it impressive. The only thing that attracted people to it was the beautiful woman it held and the sheer difficulty of the game.

It was a game with a simple concept however it took hell and spat on it when it came to its difficulty. Even the tutorial took people hours of restarting endlessly. It wasn’t a popular game as a result but the people that enjoyed such a thing were drawn to it like moths.

While the player's knowledge of the game was limited due to not actually starting the main story there were certain points they all decided to be universal truths. It was all limited but it was important background information.

The players had grouped together and recorded all the game’s information they had discovered onto a single fandom page spanning a total of 36,387 pages of detailed information on the game. The introduction of this page reads,

{The world of Azure Lotus takes place on the Ashtern continent that is split into five portions, three of which have been confirmed to be countries. The main story takes place in the Lux Academy, a school created to prepare the world against all invaders located in the Holy Thenia Theocracy.}

{The main character’s name is Dion Aster, a commoner who was accepted in Lux Academy by the principal Lucille Oran, a woman called the Hero of Light who fought in a war currently unnamed.}

{The game begins on the first day of school where the main cast is introduced, for more information read page 14. On this day, there are over 18,392 different paths that can be chosen, 18,392 of which lead to destruction at the current moment.}

{After three years of dedicated effort, there have been 374 players who have reached the 37th day, and currently, 14,926 different paths have been discovered and thousands more are assumed to exist.}

The game was assumed to be impossible or at the very least impossible to beat in a single generation. It wasn’t known how many days there were in total however many theorized it to be somewhere between 250-500 at the very least.

In this world of difficulty, mystery, and suffering there were more secrets than truths and nobody truly understood anything. In this world where not even the main character was safe something had changed.

“...” Silence engulfed a large room filled with simple but undoubtedly expensive ornaments. In this room, there was one boy standing in front of a mirror, a mix of exasperation and acceptance in his azure eyes.

The boy was just over eighteen years old and had glossy black hair that cascaded behind him like a waterfall, ending just over his waist. He wore no clothing besides tight undergarments which did little to hide anything whether it be his well defined muscles or what was underneath.

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The boy was Dion Aster, a young man with an ethereal type of beauty that few around the world could compare to. However, he wasn’t only Dion Aster. For a reason unbeknown to himself, Dion Aster had been replaced by another person from a different world entirely.

Hugo Farzan, a fairly normal man with a passion for gaming but without the time. He especially enjoyed games with a certain amount of difficulty so he had been one of the many to be attracted to Azure Lotus even if it was a decade or so old when he began playing it.

Regrettably, he didn’t have the thousands of hours needed to play through all the hours of gameplay to find the correct path throughout the game’s beginning and so he read through the fandom page, all 36,387 pages, over the course of a few years when he had the time.

He even went as far as to read through official materials that the developers had published no matter how rare they may be. Through those he had seen the appearance of a few of the more important characters, one of them being the boy in front of him.

Dion Aster was the main character of Azure Lotus, a boy who died in nearly every path of the game that had been discovered. For reasons even the boy didn’t seem to know he was canonically a magnet for trouble.

While it may just be the game devs wanting to spice up the story it seemed to have a reason in the story although it hadn’t been discovered as far as he was aware. On the fifth day of classes, the game had a mandatory event where the class he was a part of would go into a man made gate.

In this gate, each and every monster would mostly avoid his classmates to attack him as though he was an unreasonable drug to the demons. It was strange and it had never been explained but it was something he would have to be aware of.

Grabbing a set of clothing from a nearby desk, presumably placed there by Dion Aster the first last night, he began dressing himself. The clothing resembled the style of ancient Chinese clothing and was clearly much more expensive than what Dion Aster could have purchased himself.

‘It must have been the principal.’ Dion absentmindedly noted to himself. It wasn’t particularly important information but it did show that the Hero of Light cared about him more than it would seem at first glance.

However, this raised the question of why she had not seen him in the game. Of course, it was possible that she was merely busy or that their meeting was part of an undiscovered path in the game however it was still something to keep in mind.

Their relationship would dictate his future actions so it was important he knew how close the two had been. Was the Hero of Light his sponsor or was she something more or less than that? He knew very little about the Hero of Light so he didn’t know what she would have done.

The most he knew about her was her appearance which was on various posters and magazines and the like throughout the game. She was a fairly popular character however that didn’t change the fact that he did not understand her thoughts.

Looking at himself through the mirror he could confidently say that the images people of his world acted like depraved fools over didn’t quite capture his beauty. Perhaps it was because his personality was slightly different than the original Dion or perhaps it was because he was now real but there was little doubt in his mind that he looked better.

His clothing was loose however its white and azure color scheme fit well with his eyes and ethereal appearance. The golden designs dotted around made him seem like a rich noble despite his actual status and his revealed shoulders and half buttoned chest revealed his delicate skin.

“This feels perverted.” He noted to himself as he looked at the strange diamond shaped hole in his chest area. It was small enough that it didn’t seem obscene but its mere presence screamed perversion to him.

“That’s rude!” A strange voice that was young yet mature and teasing resounded through the room. Turning his head he saw a golden haired child standing in the doorway that had opened at some point. Hopefully, after he was done dressing himself. 

While he had never met the girl before he knew who she was, presumably anyone in this world was. She was a person written in history, a person that children desired to be like when they grew up, and a person famed as one of the strongest beings in history.

It was the principal of Lux Academy, the Hero of Light, Lucille Oran.