A year or two before being scooped up by Leviathan, Rubian remembers her past life. She read a novel that this exact world resembles and believes she needs to prevent Leviathan's death to keep the world from becoming a living hell. Rubian waited until she could successfully fake her death in battle, she made bodies with magic and fled. Ran into a fire monster that burnt her hair short, dressed in rags to conceal her whereabouts, she ran and found money from the corpses along the route.

She greeted Leviathan while leaning over a corpse. Dirty, skinny, dressed in rags with short hair. He thought I was a boy? Sure, I'll be a boy for now. I'm not the 10yr female runaway wizard everyone is searching for. Who? Not me.

Khalid

4th Prince, Richt

Khalid.

Also translated as: Carl, Kalen, Kaen, Kaleid, Karl...... Finicky haha

Our mercenary king hottie. Tall, dark blue hair, two verticals moles downward from his left eye. This man bound his magic to Rubian and they have a telepathic connection to talk from where ever. His overflowing magic was contained with a magic restrain item created by Rubian, he has massive quantities of magic, and Rubian has knowledge of nearly all magic yet not so much magic power.

They work well together. Rubian draws the magic, and Khalid supplies the magic power to activate it.

Oh, you want his personality? Ok, one sec.

His power can communicate/control animals so he usually has his pet squirrel nearby to send messages or play with Rubian. Uninterested in others, he doesn't talk much except to Rubian, he's not openly rude or argumentative to others unless something irks him. He was raised with Rubian in the Dukedom by Leviathan, so he respects/cherishes him as a father figure. Khalid is a good kid, he is supportive, protective, calm, rational, and takes pride in his capability. To others, Khalid is a sly good kid who likes Rubian, runs away from training, and doesn't play/socialize with others much, also the older knights love to tease him since he's a cute hedgehog.

He was locked in a cave when Rubian first found him, she utilized her deep knowledge of magic to break his restraints and remove his rusty shackles. Despite the mystery of 'how human is he?' Khalid grows at the same rate as Rubian, so he has/using a human growth pattern.

- Leviathan: Adoptive Dad, Current Duke, and main hero in Rubians life. Tall, strong, black hair, purple eyes, knight physique. Dark power aura rises when his power fluctuates/unstable, 9.9/10 children cry when they see him, tends to show an emotionless face when under extreme stress/duress.

- Rosetta: Adoptive Mother, Current Duchess, and hilarious personality. Tall, strong, light pink hair, blue eyes, talented archer, leader of a retired/nonactive mercenary group. Hobby: unannounced town hide-n-seek with Leviathan.

- Unnamed Gerbert: Rosetta+Leviathans baby's tomb in the Gerbert family cemetery. Died in a carriage accident when Rosetta was attacked by a runaway wizard.

- Boyd: Second oldest brother, treats Rubian warmly. Purple eyes, I don't remember else, Rubian grew up with him so he got tall and strong too. Youngest son, or now the middle child, no actually still the youngest son. Rowdy, affectionate, shy yet became a proud older brother to the new recruit, I mean younger brother, I mean younger sister. Had his diary swiped and returned with spelling corrections by his younger brother, I mean sister.

- Liam: Oldest brother, tad OCD, offends others when pushing up his glasses, study manic/bookworm, monster encyclopedia researcher, no sense of direction. Confident in beating up nobles with words. Purple eyes, I don't remember other details, he's tall and has his mental strengths.

- Grandpa: Tbh I forgot his name, but he's Leviathan's dad, the former Duke. Has a leg injury and likes to rub his scratchy beard on Rubian. Greying/white hair, knight physique, looks like can wield bulldozing techniques to kick down sturdy thick doors.

As of chapter 230. The Sorcerer King's children are the most magically adept children he found and plucked to raise for his benefit. Not biological, just magically strong.

'First'. The most relied on, longest lived, right-hand man of the sorcerer king. Not much personal opinion comes from him, that's why the king keeps him around I guess. He says what the king wants, and works to improve the king's plans.

'Second'. Female, a bookwork that never left the castle. She studied all day. She secretly left the kingdom to find Rubian.

'Third'. Unknown.

'Fourth'. Male, red hair, anxious, and a bit dumb in the sense of believing the king's lies. He left the kingdom on the king's orders to capture 'Seventh'.

'Fifth'. Unknown.

'Sixth'. Unknown.

'Seventh'. Rubian, our MC.

'Eighth'. Unknown.

I could tell you whether they live or die, but. I guess I won't.

Should I even write it? I feel like knowing this ahead of time might ruin the novel.

Hey, I'm all for spoilers that make the novel a little more fun and give a sense of security in 'this character can't die yet since they're in ch 104 or so'.

But this novel is based on 'Who is Rubian, and What happened to her?'

So solving that right here and now for you will remove the ping pong guesswork that will happen from reading.

yandere ML?? If the ML is who I think he is. We've barely seen him and he's like my type already (by that I mean ML type, not my irl type lol) BUT he may not be the ML (I'm talking about the mage whom FL saved and communicate with through some ear marking??)

Usually in cases like this, it's obvious that the MC is the "dead" unborn child of the adoptive parents, but in this case, I'm actually on the fence about whether she's the daughter or not since the author gave her a parent (the king of the mage kingdom) and that backstory seems equally compelling/legitimate.

FL's adoptive father realized that she went to look out the window to gauge the time instead of looking at the clock, and he wondered if she was involved in the war (yes, she was, sadly as a child soldier) before ultimately dismissing the idea. Just the fact that this detail was caught impressed me a little. On a similar vein, the other minor characters all kind of had a gut feeling that FL was a girl, which added a touch of realism to the story, but they sort of deluded (?) themselves into believing that she was a guy because no way would her adoptive family not know that... right? (Yeah right 😂) I can't wait for the reveal lol.

Grandpa calls FL booger LOL. I guess because she's very tiny in their eyes and sticks to them??