The Exhausting Reality of Novel Transmigration

wing whether it was blood or tears, Rosetta continued to stay silent.

Soon, however, she could feel the face in her palm move slowly.

Even this stiff expression trembled.

“Even so, if I still die no matter what… I just want to continue enduring.”

Anger.
Sadness.
Misery.
Despair.

And hope.

His voice was tinged with several different emotions.

“Save me.”

Where desperate words and confessions were laid bare, the air was now filled with silence.

Devoid of either his breath or the beating of his heart.

“…Cassion?”

Rosetta called out to him, a heavy foreboding weighing on her shoulders.

She couldn’t feel any movement on her palm.

She couldn’t feel even his staggered breaths.

As her hand grew cold over his skin, the novel’s contents flashed through mind.

「 He collapsed to the ground underneath the red, burning sunset, but when he hurriedly opened his eyes, the cold evening air hit his body.

He could see the night sky, where clouds peacefully floated by.
The moon, which was covered by the clouds, slowly revealed itself.

His body temperature rapidly dropped as his clothes were soaked with his own blood.

The darkness that quickly followed the dangerous night made his throat clench.

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“Urgh…”

With a pained groan, his bright red eyes finally lost their light.
His breath stopped and no longer passed through his throat.

Like a blank sheet, his cold body lay motionless.

And thus, Cassion’s heart stopped.
」

‘No way.’

As Rosetta recalled the original scene, she urgently collapsed in front of him.

The cold body slid down as she moved.

“Cassion! Cassion!”

The man’s eyes wouldn’t open even as she called him desperately.

His face grew paler and paler.

‘No.
This is fine.’

It turned out great.

Yes.
His heart simply stopped here.

Although the time and location changed a little, it was still the same day of the accident.

Around this time, the heart of Cassion in the novel had also stopped beating, so in a little while, his heart should also start back up again.

Just like the original.

From the start, a mage’s source of mana was their heart.

They used the mana that flowed through their heart to conjure magic, and a mage’s ability was determined by their mana affinity and prowess with mana application.

Therefore, a mage needed both effort and natural talent.

Since the condition was to have both mana that flowed through one’s body and the ability to control this through mana application, if one or the other couldn’t be achieved, then the result would arrive at zero.
If one wasn’t born with mana affinity, then they wouldn’t be able to become a mage.

But here, Cassion couldn’t comply with the requirement of ‘mana application’.

There was mana in his body, but he couldn’t use it because it didn’t flow well through him.

Because he wasn’t born with the natural talent to control this, he couldn’t become a mage.

But this was half right and half wrong.

It was true that Cassion’s mana was trapped in his heart.

It was also true that his mana couldn’t flow through his bloodstream because there was something blocking the pathways.

However, it wasn’t true that he lacked the ability to control his mana.

‘The fact is that his mana has just been blocked.’

That’s the only thing.

With regard to mana application and mana affinity, he was the purest sense of ‘natural talent’.

He was a genius that was born only once in a thousand years.

With his mana blocked, no one noticed his talents.

No matter how much of a genius he was, if he was never given a chance to explore his talents, then he wouldn’t be able to live up to his potential.

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Just as when one wouldn’t know if they could kick well until they actually kicked a ball.

Cassion had never been given a ball, let alone a chance to kick one.

And in the original work, when his heart stopped, this served as a trigger for him to be able to receive that ‘ball’.

What gave him the power to become a villain was this revival.

His heart had now cooled and stopped moving.

Rosetta once again recalled the original text.

「 It hadn’t been long since Cassion’s heart stopped.

Mana began to flow through it instead of blood, trickling in endlessly.

It was something of a ‘defense mechanism’.

In order to save the dying body, the heart began to supply the mana trapped within it instead of blood.

It was a miracle.

A marvelous phenomenon that his mana was flowing.

Truthfully, this alone was not enough to save his dying body.

The amount of mana that began to seep was like only a thin stream of water.

However, as a result, Cassion’s heart began to beat once more.

His ‘mana application’—that he or anyone else never knew about—was on the level of a genius.

As the shallow mana began to trickle, his overwhelming talent began to flood.

His body became warm again.
And he could breathe once more.

His stiffened fingers were spread out, and his leaking blood slowly stopped.

And finally.

His heart, which had stopped beating, began to pound loudly.

Boom, boom, boom.

“Heuuk.”

The breath he took in was ragged and pained, just like the one he breathed out as he died just moments ago.

Cassion opened his eyes.

The world was still dark, yet the stars blanketing the night sky glimmered fiercely.

He could tell without ascertaining it.

This strange sensation that now flowed through his body.

After being abandoned by everyone—after being abandoned by the world—he finally became a Carter who could wield magic.
」

That’s right.
According to the novel, he should soon open his eyes and realize his own abilities.

Although the mana flowing through his streams was unstable, he would become a formidable mage because of his remarkable mana application…

She was confident that this would be solved.

So, Cassion just needed to open his eyes…

“You can open your eyes now.”

Rosetta bit her lower lip.