Nuoyaji

Biodata

Background / History

Nuoyaji grew up in Dawn City-State, a border city-state of the Karelia Empire. His grandmother raised him single-handedly, and he lived with her while studying at the local magic workshop. At seventeen, his possessions consisted largely of basic magical supplies, study notes, and a small amount of money 5 12.

In his previous life, he entered the empire’s Tower Mage Corps as a low-ranking apprentice and later served as a junior adviser, eventually advancing to senior adviser. He traveled across the continent, fought on battlefields, and dealt with crises affecting multiple nations. During an early journey with his mentor, he passed through Luoweida after a miners’ uprising had been crushed and saw its young leader’s body displayed at the city gate—an incident he remembered for the rest of his life 14 22 25 152.

His work in the Tower Mage Corps primarily involved organizing materials and writing reports, while his research focused on the Demon God Seal rather than ancient creatures. Although he eventually learned many spells and barely entered the ranks of the powerful, his greatest present advantages are his accumulated knowledge and experience rather than restored combat strength 88 122.

He subsequently witnessed noble betrayals, devastated city-states, the empire’s collapse, and the awakening of ancient demon gods. His grandmother starved while fleeing the catastrophe, and someone he cherished was devoured by an abyssal aberration. Returning to his seventeen-year-old body in 1164 AD, he resolved to prevent humanity’s destruction, reinforce the demon gods’ seals, expose the nobles’ plots, and protect those he had lost 5 6 12.

Appearance

Nuoyaji has a slender, youthful appearance that contrasts with the composure and exhaustion carried over from his previous life 12 15 43.

• Hair and eyes: Light brown hair and dark brown eyes 16 23.
• Features: Pale skin, sharp facial features, and a jawline that has not fully developed 5.
• Early clothing: A navy-blue apprentice tunic with black trousers and a scroll belt; while traveling, he wears a frayed gray-blue apprentice robe 6 16.
• Later clothing: A Luopu mage’s robe given to him by Viscount Heross 42.
• During the Salvation Society investigation: His robe becomes stained with grass and mud, while its cuffs are slightly scorched by Black Owl No. 2’s destruction of the warehouse district 149.

Personality

Nuoyaji is driven by grief, responsibility, and a refusal to watch preventable deaths happen again. His concern extends beyond former friends and family to strangers such as Luoweida’s miners. Rather than simply suppress their resistance, he seeks to remove the hunger and desperation that would lead them into a doomed uprising 12 14 17 18.

He is pragmatic and attentive to how others think. With the miners, he uses the threat of the grand duke’s army to encourage caution without extinguishing their hope. With Yimulei, he avoids inflated claims and presents practical solutions. He conceals his regression, sometimes attributing his knowledge to an unnamed source of intelligence 17 18 24.

His battlefield experience has also made him economical with comfort, supplies, and trust. He eats when food is available, accepts rough accommodation, and takes only necessary equipment from Heross’s stockpile. He dislikes prolonged expressions of gratitude and prefers arrangements that produce immediate results 21 22 42 44.

He favors preventing catastrophes at their source over repeatedly repairing the damage caused by secret organizations and reckless experiments. This outlook informs both his intervention in Luoweida and his later investigation of the Salvation Society 22 143.

His recruitment of Chaluoke demonstrates a willingness to use painful personal knowledge to break through another person’s resignation. He considers the proper use of regression to be understanding what people want, fear, and suffer from, rather than merely finding talented acquaintances before their remembered achievements 68.

Despite remembering Fuyila’s destructive future, he treats her present self as a child in need of food, shelter, and patience. He does not force her to explain her origins or destination, and later shows quiet affection by brushing windblown hair away from her face 68 119.

Abilities & Skills

Regression and Retained Memories

Nuoyaji returns to his younger body with the memories of his previous life intact 5.

• Remembers political conflicts, military threats, useful contacts, surviving trade networks, and mine routes 14 18 22 40.
• Uses this knowledge to identify Dezi, approach Yimulei, and secure official support for Luoweida’s relief effort 14 22 40.
• Retains knowledge rather than his former physical conditioning: the journey to Luoweida leaves his untrained body blistered and exhausted 14.
• Cannot rely on events unfolding as remembered. The unprecedented superstorm destroys resources, removes contacts, and disrupts the timetable of his plans 8 10 28.
• Recognizes Chaluoke Weier and uses detailed knowledge of his accomplishments and bereavements to persuade him to resume acting toward a meaningful goal 68.
• Draws information about ancient beings from firsthand experiences, secret reports, and the accounts of fellow survivors; he uses this knowledge to persuade the Light God to travel with his group 119.
• His knowledge has significant gaps. He never visited a living Vagrian in his previous life, knew nothing of Caesar or a three-headed golden dragon, and had encountered no organization called “G” despite his extensive dealings with other factions 77 91 152.

Supernatural Hearing

A practical spell that concentrates mana around the auditory nerves to detect sounds beyond ordinary human hearing 25.

• Requires neither high-level mana nor complex incantations 25.
• Previously used to detect enemies, locate ambushes, and find survivors in battlefield ruins 25.
• Allows him to hear footsteps beyond Luoweida’s blocked mine entrance and alert the rescuers 25 26.
• Thick rubble initially muffles the sounds; increasing the spell’s sensitivity consumes his limited mana 25 26.

Magical Training

Nuoyaji remains a magic apprentice after regression and explicitly states that he has not earned formal mage qualifications 16.

• Possesses basic magical notes, knowledge of practical spellcasting, and experience using magic in wartime 12 25.
• Has only meager mana in his younger body; after using Supernatural Hearing, he has little left and cannot assist with heavy excavation work 25 26.
• Is explicitly identified as a second-tier practitioner by Chaluoke in Vagrian’s capital 91.
• Knows numerous spells from his previous life but lacks the mana to use many of them. His former role as an adviser does not make him comparable in current combat strength to the legendary and divine beings traveling with him 122.

Perception and Magical Analysis

• Identifies a concealed vampire in Vagrian’s capital as a Darkblood Guard serving Marquis Darkblood 84.
• Senses a watcher associated with the Silence Society amid a crowded street. Chaluoke remarks that Nuoyaji’s senses are sharper than his own despite Nuoyaji being only second tier; Nuoyaji attributes this to talent 91.
• Recognizes black flames as a warning of the evil god’s impending revival and connects the Filth Nexus to the weakening seal in the Forbidden Land 98.
• Examines a magical communication device and distinguishes multiple aura imprints, correctly identifying it as thirdhand rather than new 146.

Strategy, Negotiation, and Administration

His experience as an adviser lets him connect military risks, food shortages, and political authority into workable relief plans 17 22 24.

• Proposes reopening an abandoned southeastern mine passage to bypass storm-damaged transport routes 17 24.
• Obtains the viscount’s authorization and funding, then helps establish a transparent Disaster Relief Committee with Dezi 40.
• Arranges advance wages for miners clearing and repairing the damaged mines 40.
• Writes a carefully balanced appeal for aid, revising it seven times; Yimulei judges the result better than his own writing 41.
• Handles contestant registration for the Continent’s Strongest Competition, recording names, nationalities, and signatures 131.
• Uses a public Adventurers’ Guild commission and circulating rumors as bait to draw out the Salvation Society, hiring Angnade’s platinum-rank party to investigate the Silent City incident 143.
• Questions a captured Salvation Society leader about the organization’s supply network, objectives, intelligence storage, and chimera project, obtaining leads concerning Doctor Cohen and G Squad 149.

Power Progression

Equipment / Weapons / Items

Relationships

• Grandmother — His sole remaining family and the person who raised him. Before leaving Dawn City, he gives her an address and password for the Stargazers so she can seek help in an emergency 12.
• Dezi — The miners’ leader whom Nuoyaji remembers dying in the previous timeline. They become partners in organizing Luoweida’s relief effort 14 17 40.
• Fuke — A miner whose suspicious nighttime movements lead Nuoyaji to Dezi’s meeting. Dezi assigns him to scout the proposed supply route 15 16 18.
• Yimulei — The viscount’s secretary and Nuoyaji’s principal administrative collaborator. Their initial scrutiny develops into efficient cooperation and mutual understanding 24 28 42.
• Viscount Heross / Heluos — Luoweida’s ruler. He grants Nuoyaji relief authority, funding, clothing, and access to his stockpile, then entrusts him with the western-mine inspection 40 42 44.
• Meweiro — A noblewoman and dependable collaborator from Nuoyaji’s previous life. In the new timeline, she authorizes grain sales at pre-storm prices. Her question about his birth year unsettles him; privately, she wonders whether he is the child of someone she knew. She later sends several people to his caravan through a griffin-riding knight, including Chaluoke 41 42 43 68.
• Kehulier, A Qiu, Chaluoke, and Lufuna — Former comrades who stood beside him when he most needed help. After securing Luoweida’s grain, he records their names as people he hopes to find 41.
• Chaluoke Weier — Nuoyaji recruits him after recognizing the fallen spellcaster among the people sent by Meweiro. By confronting his abandonment of magic after losing his closest friend, teacher, and lover, Nuoyaji wins his agreement to help build a stable world. Chaluoke becomes a principal traveling companion, investigator, and protector, although he is repeatedly puzzled by how much Nuoyaji knows about his life 68 91 141 154 157.
• Fuyila / Yifula — Someone he knew in his previous life as the Cursed One, a girl whose destructive power resulted from ancient-bloodline experiments. He initially intends to watch for reports of her, then discovers her hiding among his caravan’s rations. He gives her food and a place to ride, and she becomes a regular companion. Her quiet, childlike behavior surprises him because it differs sharply from the destructive figure he remembers 21 22 68 77 119.
• King Ghidorah / Caesar / Black Owl — An observer who knows Nuoyaji is a regressor. Ghidorah follows his activities through Black Owl and secretly provides the footsteps that guide him toward the trapped miners; Nuoyaji initially does not understand the source of those sounds. Nuoyaji later meets him directly as Caesar, is ordered to work under him, and cooperates with his remotely controlled Black Owl No. 2 during the Salvation Society investigation 16 27 28 40 128 143 146 149.
• Light God / Weierxi — A deity Nuoyaji seeks because of his remembered victory over the evil god. Nuoyaji later persuades the Light God’s remnant soul to travel with the group in search of the deity’s true body. After recovering that body, the Light God remains involved with the group and eventually teleports Nuoyaji and his companions away from the collapsing ruins 77 119 128 166.
• Silver Radiance Dragon God — Transports Nuoyaji, Chaluoke, Fuyila, and the Light God, and destroys surviving creations of the evil god while Nuoyaji observes 119 122.
• Sangis — Nuoyaji warns her of the evil god’s revival in Vagrian. When tentacles engulf the palace, she orders an evacuation and takes Nuoyaji and Chaluoke into her carriage 98.
• Na’er — An acquaintance of Chaluoke whom Nuoyaji knows about from his previous life. He approaches her with information about the destroyed city connected to Chaluoke’s past, bringing her into the investigation. She later watches over Yifula during Nuoyaji and Chaluoke’s infiltration of G Trading Company 141 154.
• Angnade — A platinum-rank adventurer who accepts Nuoyaji’s commission to investigate the Silent City incident with his party, agreeing to a seven-day deadline 143.
• Nuoleila — A contact in the investigation of the Salvation Society’s dealings. Nuoyaji has him contact Anglinna and coordinates with him before the Society’s planned payment collection at Dongping Village 146 148.
• Leisaina — Briefly encounters Nuoyaji during the G Trading Company investigation and senses that fate favors him 154.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Regression and the Superstorm

• Apekus identifies Nuoyaji as a human capable of changing the world’s course and explains his regression to King Ghidorah 4 5.
• Nuoyaji awakens expecting the peaceful year he remembers, only to find an unprecedented superstorm devastating the continent 5 6.
• He recognizes and unsuccessfully pursues a white-robed woman connected to the Silence Society, whose warning about dangers beneath the ocean’s abyss he remembers from his previous life 6 7.
• The disaster undermines several plans: an ancient mana vein may be lost, a Silence Society informant disappears, and the imperial tower’s apprentice selection may be postponed or canceled 10.

Luoweida Relief Effort

• After arranging a possible refuge for his grandmother, Nuoyaji leaves for Luoweida to establish connections around its strategically important magic nexus mines 12.
• He finds Dezi and warns that a successful attack on the viscount would still bring the grand duke’s heavily armored army. He instead proposes restoring food supplies to remove the immediate cause of rebellion 16 17 18.
• At the collapsed mine, he persuades Yimulei to investigate the abandoned supply route and suggests checking ventilation shafts for survivors 24.
• His Supernatural Hearing helps direct the excavation that recovers thirteen injured miners. Black Owl had already gathered those survivors near the entrance and deliberately made the footsteps Nuoyaji heard 25 26 27.
• With the viscount’s backing, he reopens the route, secures grain, and organizes paid mine-repair work through the Disaster Relief Committee 40 41.

Western Mine Investigation

• Once Luoweida’s immediate food crisis is contained, Nuoyaji begins planning to locate his former comrades 41.
• Heross asks him to inspect the western mines under a ducal order. Nuoyaji accepts partly because the choice of distant Luoweida over nearer territories seems suspicious 42.
• He departs with five guards and mercenaries, a supply carriage, and practical equipment from the viscount’s stockpile, leaving Yimulei to manage Luoweida 44.
• Near the flood-submerged ruins of Weierna, he surveys the destroyed city and directs his ragged group to continue west 67.
• During the journey, he discovers Fuyila hiding among the rations and allows her to travel openly with the caravan. Her altered circumstances reinforce his uncertainty about how far the timeline has changed 68.
• A griffin-riding knight delivers people on Meweiro’s behalf, including Chaluoke Weier. Nuoyaji recognizes the spellcaster and recruits him by confronting his grief and offering him a role in preventing future disasters 68.
• When asked about unusual events he has witnessed, Chaluoke recalls seeing a golden, three-headed dragon after a storm 68.

Vagrian and the Evil God’s Revival

• Nuoyaji travels by airship with Chaluoke and Fuyila as an accompanying member of Karelia’s diplomatic delegation. Concerned that the altered timeline may have affected Vagrian’s sealed evil god, he intends to investigate the country and search for the Light God, Weierxi 77.
• His knowledge of Vagrian is incomplete: in his previous life, he learned about the dragon-ruled nation through Lufuna and read a secret report of its destruction in a war between gods 77.
• After arriving in the capital, he leaves the delegation under the pretext of visiting an old friend and identifies a Darkblood Guard among the pedestrians 84.
• He investigates the palace with Chaluoke, but the presence of the Silence Society and numerous unfamiliar powers convinces him that a major crisis is approaching. Caesar’s existence is particularly troubling because Nuoyaji has no knowledge of him from his previous life 91.
• Upon seeing black flames, Nuoyaji warns Chaluoke that a disaster is imminent. They inform Sangis that the Filth Nexus is the evil god’s creation and that the Forbidden Land’s seal has weakened 98.
• Enormous black tentacles erupt through the palace. Sangis orders the surrounding area evacuated and takes Nuoyaji and Chaluoke away in her carriage as the palace is engulfed 98.
• After the Old World’s collapse, Nuoyaji confirms that King Ghidorah has destroyed the evil god and persuades the Light God’s remnant soul to take his companions along in search of the deity’s true body. Riding the Silver Radiance Dragon God, they head north toward a former gathering place of the evil god’s followers 119.
• Nuoyaji observes while the Silver Radiance Dragon God destroys the evil god’s surviving creations, acknowledging that his own mana is insufficient for the powerful spells he remembers 122.

Service Under King Ghidorah and the Strongest Competition

• King Ghidorah summons Nuoyaji, Yifula, Chaluoke, and the Light God to his gathering. Nuoyaji greets him as Caesar and learns that he now considers himself a retired emperor 128.
• After the Light God regains her true body and is contracted to serve Ghidorah for a hundred years, the group reaches restored Valerilus City. Nuoyaji declines Valerirus’s invitation to compete in the Continent’s Strongest Competition, while Chaluoke enters 128.
• Ghidorah tells Nuoyaji and the others that they will work under him for the time being 128.
• Nuoyaji serves as a registrar for the competition, processing entrants including Jack and Kamiizumi Nobutsuna 131.
• After the assembly, he approaches Na’er and Chaluoke with information connected to the city destroyed in Chaluoke’s past, setting up a new investigation 141.

Silent City and the Salvation Society

• After his companions defeat a group in the woods, Nuoyaji finds a bronze badge connecting them to the Salvation Society 143.
• In a southern Karelia city, he posts a gem-funded Adventurers’ Guild commission to uncover the truth behind the Silent City incident and identify the responsible culprit and organization. Most adventurers refuse, but platinum-rank Angnade and his party accept 143.
• Caesar sends Black Owl No. 2 to accompany the campaign. Nuoyaji explains that the commission and rumors are intended to draw the Salvation Society out, while he also plans to seek nearby friends 143.
• Nuoyaji learns that Society members will collect payment at Dongping Village. Before that meeting, Black Owl No. 2 takes him to the organization’s warehouse district and destroys it, exposing and then obliterating the remains of an experimental victim 146.
• Nuoyaji’s recollection of the Society is limited: in his previous life, he arrived only after Chaluoke had entered a killing frenzy and destroyed its headquarters 146.
• At Dongping Village, Nuoyaji emerges from hiding after Chaluoke defeats the chimera and disables the black-robed group. He interrogates the surviving leader, learning that the village is a supply-transfer site whose original residents were murdered 148 149.
• The leader reveals the location of stored intelligence and identifies Doctor Cohen and G Squad as participants in the chimera project, opening a lead unknown to Nuoyaji’s previous-life memories 149.

G Trading Company and the Descender Crisis

• Troubled by the unfamiliar name “G,” Nuoyaji leads his companions to Luenxi City, where they learn about G Trading Company. Unlike the factions he remembers from his former career, this organization offers him no reliable basis for predicting events 152.
• While Black Owl No. 2 investigates independently, Nuoyaji and Chaluoke decide to infiltrate the company themselves, leaving Na’er to watch Yifula outside 152 154.
• During the approach, Nuoyaji encounters Leisaina and Keluosi. Leisaina senses that fate favors him, while Nuoyaji remains unaware of the significance of her assessment 154.
• Nuoyaji and Chaluoke enter the company’s corridors, detect Venerable An’s presence, and approach Anasi’s office 154.
• When a spiral pillar crashes into the area and the building loses its support, Chaluoke rescues Nuoyaji from the collapse. The group then faces the creatures released from the pillar as the Venerable Lord of Ten Thousand Crowns emerges from a black hole 157.
• As the tremors intensify and the ground collapses into a vast pit, the Light God teleports Nuoyaji, Fuyila, Chaluoke, Na’er, Kazama Hayato, Kokonoe Yuki, and Kamiizumi Nobutsuna away from the ruins 166.

Notable Quotes

“If I said I simply didn't want to see anyone else die for nothing, would you believe me?” 18

“I'm not here to persuade you to give up. Quite the opposite. I'm here to tell you there's a better path.” 17

“I want those disasters that take people's lives to stop happening, so everyone can live happily in a stable world.” 68

Trivia

• Apekus identifies Nuoyaji as a world-changing variable, while King Ghidorah later senses the aura of a world node around him 4 21.
• King Ghidorah interprets Nuoyaji’s rapid relief successes as the work of a “protagonist halo,” alongside his retained knowledge. This is Ghidorah’s assessment, not an ability Nuoyaji knowingly uses 40.
• Leisaina independently senses that fate favors Nuoyaji during their brief encounter in Luenxi City 154.
• His second-tier status and his continued description as an apprentice coexist: Chaluoke identifies his tier, but no later formal mage qualification is established in those scenes 16 91 119.
• After seeing the departing forest elf ancestor, Nuoyaji recalls a woman from his previous life who wore two braids, kept a gray squirrel on her shoulder, and served him unusual mushroom soup. He dismisses the possible resemblance rather than establishing her identity 141.

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