
by TheFlamingSea
Ten years after Earth was integrated into the System, Ivan Marcellion is still nobody important. While others became warriors, mages, nobles, and Champions, Ivan ended up as an [Arcane Scribe] stuck in a basement, copying cheap spell scrolls by hand for people who barely remember his name. His Class is slow, his future is worse, and the world has made it clear that production-class workers are meant to stay quiet and replaceable if they want to remain useful. Everything changes when the ruler of Sky Reach forces him to copy a corrupted Mythic Scroll that has already killed or broken every scribe before him. Ivan survives by doing the one thing he was never supposed to do... He [Comprehends] it. The scroll is not merely magic. It is System code. That discovery costs Ivan his Class, his Levels, and the miserable life he spent ten years building. In return, he awakens [Inscriber of Principles], a Unique Class capable of reading the architecture behind spells and rewriting enchantments others consider absolute. Exiled and hunted by powers far beyond his Level, the insignificant scribe must turn a decade of thankless rune-spell copying into something no warrior, Champion, or God knows how to control.
Current
8/11/2026
Peak #9
2d
#4
7/7/2026
Peak #9
29d
#3
7/6/2026
Peak #7
31d
#2
7/3/2026
Peak #1
38d
#1
6/25/2026
Peak #9
8d
Rank updated 13 Aug 2026, 14:28 UTC
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