The Survival of an Inferior

One Year Later

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[SUMMARISED PLOT RECAP]: Samuel cleared a notoriously difficult game, "Elvis Arcane", and found himself inside the game minutes later, overtaking the character "Arsto" existence. Arsto is a scoundrel brat illegitimate child from a noble family. From there, he cleared a dungeon and visits his mansion, where he meets Arsto's, now his, mother and prepares to head to a town to meet a dwarf alchemist.

The town was under attack upon arrival and Samuel repelled the attack despite his weak stats using the power of muskets and strategy.

To gain favour from the dwarf, he agreed to find the root cause of the attack and encounters the elves who tricked Samuel into a deadly dungeon. 

Unfortunately for them, Samuel is the protagonist and clears the dungeon. Threatening the destruction of the elf's land, Samuel manages to obtain two sets of valuable artifacts. One which saved his life later on. 

The elf gave false information to Samuel and the siege on the town was worse than Samuel thought but through wits, they were able to make a solid defence. At least until the arrival of a high demon forcing Samuel to use the last resort that destroyed everything and killed him. 

The Pill of Life revived him and turned him into a demonic human, allowing him to trick the world with his death. His biological father was sad from hearing the news but not his stepmothers, who celebrated his death. One even went to his funeral to belittle his mother. His mother Maile, enraged and about to go bat shit crazy, found a note by Samuel that indicated his survival, calming her. 

Samuel then went on to steal Arsto's name due to lack of originality and created another person to go to Rodgof since it is the first kingdom that fell. The first thing he does upon arrival is to check out the black market and hit the jackpot upon finding the hero's broken sword and meeting his sister who never appeared again in volume 2. 

Next, Samuel noticed the suspicious couple that brought him into Rodgof scheming something and did an uno reverse by using their scheme for his scheme. He meets Liam. 

There was an attack on the city of Ikas, Rena was part of the defending forces and met several demons, one called Lei. 

After that, he manages to get a clue about Despair and attacks the orphanage that was cultivating demonic children, saving a bunch of people that pledged loyalty to him. 

Stuff happens and Haren infiltrated Rodgof. For some reason, he painted eyes everywhere. Somehow those eyes collect Mana and fuel a pyramid device that shot fountains of red worms into the sky. 

People become crazy and kill each other when infected by the worms. Samuel used Rena to take down the source as he go for Haren and humiliates him. Afterwards, Samuel mind controlled him. 

Samuel used Haren to join the Bureau of Virtue as a contract mercenary and was invited to the banquet. He saved Botev and allied with potentially strong allies. 

Lastly, he attended the banquet and met Rena who flirted with Samuel and bamboozled Prince Armin. 

End of recap. 

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One would expect something big to happen after the barrage of events and pretentious displays during the banquet. But nothing major happened. Large-scale investigations were launched after Prince Armin's banquet utilising The Royal Army and the BOV and one year passed. 

Nothing is found and all evidence led to suspicions of suicide. It made no sense to Armin. 

The Royal Army had another agenda which is to find Rena alongside investigation. That, likewise, resulted in failure. She completely disappeared after the banquet.