MC's father dies when he's 8, afterwards his mom abandons him to get a better life for herself and he gets taken to an orphanage (later he meets her by chance and she doesn't even recognize him). In the orphanage he meets a fallen noble girl who is supposed to become her uncle's concubine when she comes of age to preserve blood purity in her super duper magic family.

Said girl falls in love with MC, becomes extremely possessive of him and basically forces MC to be in a relationship with her.

She's pretty annoying, but when put into the context of they're both 8 year old's and she's a former noble with a sense of entitlement+MC is too young and lonely to realize how toxic this relationship is, it's believable.

When they are 14 she drags him on a journey to get something that will let them escape from her uncle... MC almost dies protecting her and later wakes up to learn she was forced to go back to her family after the incident. Since he's just a normal person he can't do anything.

2 years go by and she finally returns to the orphanage as a proper noble lady now and a new knight boyfriend. She tells MC her new boyfriend is from an even more super duper family then hers. He saved her from her uncle and she fell in love with him. She realized her and MC are too far apart and could never be together even if they wanted to.

Now she's definitely terrible, but the way all of this is handled is great.

The way they got together, and why the two of them become so codependent on each other is realistic because of they're upbringing. Even the way she ends up breaking the relationship with him isn't done in a b*tchy way, she tells him as kindly as she can that it's for the best for both of them to go their separate ways (Which honestly is the truth).

You don't need to like her (no one would), but you can get where she's coming from and how all this came about.

It's a very realistic breakup situation that doesn't feel cringe for the sake of making MC such a miserable and sympathetic guy.

He gets taken by an orphanage and there met the CHILDHOOD FRIEND who is mentioned in the detailed description. The girl is a noble lady who lost his parents and his uncle wanted to make her a concubine to preserve the blood purity of the mage lineage.

Both of them started getting along a become the support of each other. But the girl developed a toxic relationship with him; She started getting obssessed with him and doesnt let anyone (specially other girls) get near or talk to him, the crazy girl even sprinkle toxic powder in their beds. I like how Damian tried to finish off the relationship because her toxic behavior, this shows, although he is still a kid, knows that is wrong. This kind of development is expected since their early age and upbringing.

Time passes by and her talent as a magician started to blossom. This is bad because her family is paying more attention to her, So she decided to embark in a journey to look for some starfall pieces that will her help to get away from her uncle. The Journey, in which the MC is dragged by her selfish wishes and almost died trying to save her from a monster (he is a normal guy), ended in vain and as punishment she is forced to go back to her family.

Here comes the part that make me dislike her. The girl came back to the orphanage with his handsome and noble fiance, however Damien cannot stand this, so he sneak away to the city and came back at night. She was waiting for him and started the breakup that is really necessary because the two belong to different worlds, she is a noble, he is a commoner, blah blah blah. My problem is how THIS bit*h RUB HIS WEAKNESS AND INCAPACITY IN HIS FACE, She said " My fiance would have protected me from the demon if He Had been in your place" and even asked for damien to see her off when the poor guy was absent the whole day to not see her. TOO SELFISH, take in consideration the boy feelings!!!, and I know this was a way to make distance between the two, however the worst way possible.

By the way, he crossed paths with his mother, however she established a new family with a pot-bellied fatass noble and has two kids, that hits hard.

After a long and hard trip crossing a curse and dangerous land in which the monsters wander around and the pitch black darkness of the night that covers everything; the MC finally found his detiny. He discover a light magic sword embedded in a meteorite, but not only that!! When he was in middle of figthing ghouls, swinging his sword and cutting them like a knife through butter and only few minutes remaining before he collapse from exhaustation, he is saved by a red-haired nice body big sister (the woman from the cover). After a long time of misfortune and suffering, the luck is knocking on his door.

In accord with Silveryne, the red haired beauty name, his light magic sword is powerful but has the downside that absorbed the MC mana and mental strenght, but he is a normal boy with neither talent nor magic lineage. In other words he has limits, has to train his body and use his power and energy in the most efficient way possible, right?..... No.

Damian has an astounding mana regeneration. Apparently, in the past, Damian had a close relationship with someone with great talent in this field, his Childhood friend, so he underwent a magical phenomenon, magic transfer. Thus he has a powerful sword and the mana to back up.

In adittion, he has the power to foresee little fragments of upcoming events, in other words, can see the future. isnt this a little overpowered?

Well, he still has to train since he is lacking in experience on the field and doesnt know how to use a sword, right? No. Meanwhile Damian can slay a group of tens of ghouls ALONE, three knights with years of experience, hard training and flawless coordination can kill only one.

Super fallen from the sky magic light sword, astounding mana regenaration, one of the most powerful teachers in world who can reduce to ashes an army, access to any ingredients to make potions, social connection, money, etc.

A PERFECT MUNCHKIN!!

For some reason that I dont understand the boy has to hide his identity from his peers. WHY?

In accord with Silveryne there are powerful people who will try to steal the Light sword from him, and will use any mean to achieve their goals. Okay, This make no sense at all.

First: he is your disciple, living in your house and is under your wing. You have to protect him until he can take care of himself. Second: who are they? Nobles? a demon lord? a dark cult?. This is never specify. Third: To protect his family? Friends? Relatives? He doesn't have any of that. The people from the orphanage or his workplace? He never made a close relationship with them. Fourth: There is a bunch who knows that Damien is Silveryne disciple and has a great potential with a f*ckING LIGHT SWORD, AND LAST, WHAT IS THE PURPOSE WHEN HE USE IT FOR EVERYTHING!!!

Ohh, who is this powerful masked man who wield that light sword and is leaving a mark in the hearts of the people, who is this Mystical and misterious entity who is saving the world. BULLSHIT.

a very POOR attempt to create tension. The main character is hiding his face to delay the approaching encounter in the academy with the Childhood friend, thats all. And if you want to know who is candy man, keep reading.

Liza: Childhoodfriend and first love. She is obsessed with Damian. I assume she had her reasons to do what she did but the execution was horrible. Pray for their paths never cross again, but I afraid that the author may give a redemption or justification for her actions.

Silveryne: Has a master-disciple relationship with him. she had never taken a disciple until Damian arrived, strange. I think there is no romantic feeling involved yet and she only see a little resemblance to his brother. Actually, I am rooting for her.

Cecile: Noble lady whom Damian met at the entrance exam. Damian was acting here as CANDY MAN, someone who doesn't speak, just nod with his head, make hands signals and GIVE f*ckING CANDIES. The girl didn't know his identity, never heard his voice or saw his face, but know he is reliable and his candies are tasty. She tried to invite him at her party and even got jealous when another girl got near of him, yeah, GOT Jealous for a complete stranger.

Lilith: Noble lady with high pride. Damian regained her possessions when she was robbed in the street. In the Entrance academy exam they met again. Even though they never crossed a word, exchange their gazes and the MC ignored her most of the time because he was CANDY MAN, but didn't give a candy. She started changing her vision of the world by the influence of a complete stranger and began to obssessed. Complete no sense. The girl even kept a handkerchief stained with his blood as her possession.

Zion: Disciple of the sword saint. Again, they met in the entrance exam and another one who fell for CANDY MAN. She got obsessed when Damian beat her at the examen. Nothing more.

Luna: Spirit user. By far she is not obsessed yet, but, very soon will be saved by the MC since he began a training about the control of spirits and coincidentally she has problems with hers. You know what will happen, don't be surprise is the MC also has great synergy with spirits.

MC had a childhood friend who was from a high-ranking noble family where her parents are dead and her uncle wants to f*ck her so that the bloodline is purer (in*est) and over time he falls in love with her.

The protagonist is a commoner orphan who has a talent for blacksmithing and over the years they become close and so on.

An incident occurs and he almost dies because of her. She goes to the academy as said in the title, because she has magic and a lot of talent, and is thus separated for almost 2 years until she takes a vacation and visits MC with an older boy, and tells MC that he is the talented son of a very influential duke, that during the time away from MC at the academy, The two became close and he protected and helped the girl from her uncle, causing her to fall in love with him.

She is honest and tells MC the real thing, without being the typical b*tchy one and shows the difference between realities between them and MC.

(And without being like those novels where the protagonist has a golden finger or a heaven-defying talent, he is a simple blacksmith so far and even if it hurts, he understands the truth. So I'm really enjoying the novel so far, unlike the novels where the MC challenges everyone to get the fmc's love or when the MC suffers ntr, in this one he shows something close to real life without forcing it too much).

MC is an orphan with abandonment issues, who is seemingly left behind again when backstory!FL comes back from the academy and tells him she found someone who can do more for her. More on this later. After a self-destructive level of blind trust in a vision quest, MC obtains a "magic sword" type of power. It's not clear exactly what it is, it just kinda... is, and anything supernatural appears to be terrified of it. A grand magician investigating the same area rescues him and decides to take him on as her disciple, providing him with training, affection and a much-needed safe space. And enrollment opportunities.

At the academy his power has him placed into the super secret Master Class. This concept could have been refined more and presented clearer, but I kinda like it. The usual top grade elite class with all the publicity is a distraction to draw attention from Master Class students. These are maybe 1 or 2 people each year who are special or talented enough that the academy can't afford to risk other countries or organizations knowing about them and doing something to them. Like hiding a tree in a forest. They get disguises and fake grades to make them look normal and a secret bat-dorm in a magic forest and everything.

Most of the direction of the plot is shaped by his interactions with FLs, and a healthy dose of vague visions of the future that slightly guide him where to go. Those are a semi-regular thing thanks to a very deeply rooted magic connection he got from his past with OG FL.

This is most likely one of those plotlines where she was trying to pull some long-term plan off and it didn't go according to her script. Her actions when she shows up after MC is unconscious show she clearly still thinks of them as being a thing, and a few other scenes indicate she hates the current situation. A little conflicted about that, it was kinda unique to have a situation where the childhood FL actually moved on over the years without being evil or cruel about it or going into weird fetish territory. It's oddly rare to not have them spend their life obsessing over MC, but I get why.

Anyway, when MC was badly injured from FL looking for a magical prophecy plant I think she actually found it. Later chapters confirm she's seen at least one vision of bad things happening to him. Which provides a motive for her to try things to stop that, okay. What I don't get is what this character was thinking was going happen as a result of her actions afterwards. It raises a lot of questions, and I'm hoping there's unrevealed angles to it, because... wow.

Keep in mind she knows MC had abandonment issues due to his mother, who had ditched him to starve to death so she could have a new, happy family (to be fair FL may not know that last part). Despite that, on this train of logic she figured the best way to keep him safe was basically having MC think yet another loved one found something better than him again... And saying she wanted him to meet the guy, which made me laugh, I thought that was a really impressive level of ballsy in that situation. After that I guess then she went back to the academy to cry to herself and paint sad paintings about MC being her only reason for living?

So, she definitely needed protection from the family situation, and was likely being monitored because nobility, but how did she really think this was going to go? It's like she was expecting MC to sit and pine for her for god knows how many years and then they'd have a happy reunion scenario later on. And never get close to anyone else. Maaaaybe should have communicated intent to him then? I am really curious to know what the original plan was there, and what happened.

ATM she's stuck sitting in a disguise (FL is likely another Master Class enrollment) watching MC from the back seats of the art club, increasingly distraught that he's showing signs of moving on and progressing his own life. And apparently breaking into his dorm sometimes. It was a bit funny how she tried to establish a carefully distanced connection between her fake identity and him and failed when he instinctively noped out.

Boy loves obsessed childhood friend. She is taken away by her family and meets another guy. He feels powerless and searching for power and gains it. The plot then slowly leads MC to his childhood friend again but never gets there.