ACT 1 – Kingdom of Lies

Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles 01 - Kingdom of Lies (精霊幻想記 01 偽りの王国) is the first installment of the Seigensou Light Novel series, it tells the story about Rio just after he awaken his previous life memories, a Japanese university student named Amakawa Haruto, his out of place life in noble society and the level of rot inside Beltram Kingdom.

Summary
Haruto Amakawa, 20 years old, a college student from Tokyo university, died in a traffic accident when a truck crashed into the bus he was riding in, he died carrying regret where he failed to confess to his childhood friend, a promise that he worked toward his entire life since their separation. Right before his death a melodic voice of an unknown female echoed in Haruto’s head. At the same time, a huge, circular, geometric pattern of light appears under his body as his conciseness drifts away.

One day in a slum somewhere in the kingdom of Beltram, an orphan boy Rio, woke up with Haruto's memories inside him, he soon gets involved with a kidnapping incident involving a member of royalty, and somehow (with the help of an unknown female voice) repelled the culprit by using magic and martial arts that awaken along with the memories of Haruto, enabling him in saving the princess.

After he managed to prove that he's not the culprit, the king grants a chance for him to enroll in the royal academy, something that he grateful for because he really is lacking in that world's information.

For a lowly orphan from the slums to enroll in aristocratic academy, he soon gets into all kinds of trouble with the rest of the student body, and is eventually completely isolated, with only one person in the whole school that accepts him for who he is, his own teacher Celia Claire.

Seeing how fast Rio is able to acquire knowledge, Celia chooses to personally teach all kind of subjects to Rio, from magic theory, noble manner, to tea brewing, the times spent together bring both of them closer and closer.

Yet it didn't last long, another incident happens while in the school excursion event outdoor drill, where even when Rio once again saves the princess from falling to her death, the rest of the noble children tried to shift their own fault in endangering the princess at him, that ended with the king himself declaring him guilty of attempted regicide and putting him on a wanted list circulated throughout the kingdom and its allies.

Though at first Rio was indeed planning to leave the country after graduation, he has no choice but escape from the country and starts his journey toward his parents' homeland because of the false charge and danger to his life.

Saying a farewell to a tearful Celia, Rio escapes from Beltram kingdom on the same day, and starts his journey to the east, not knowing that one of the noble families sent an assassin to silence him once and for all.

Character Debut

 * Rio
 * Celia Claire
 * Christina Beltram
 * Flora Beltram
 * Vanessa Emal
 * Alfred Emal
 * Aria Gavaness
 * Aishia (Dream)
 * Gustave Huguenot
 * Stead Huguenot
 * Alphonse Rodan
 * Lucius L'Orguille (Flashback)
 * Reiss
 * Roana Fontina
 * Garcia Fontina
 * Helmut Albou
 * Charles Albou
 * Phillip Beltram 3rd
 * Ayase Miharu (Flashback)
 * Ayame Karasuki (Flashback)
 * Latifa
 * Gigi

Trivia

 * In the WN, instead of Minotaur, the one that attacking the excursion group are a horde of goblin instead.