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"Biographies are lifelong pursuits." |
Lyelth, known as Lyle in Japan, is one of the main protagonists of Lessons from Lainecrest.
Lyelth is a leader of the Portalcraft class. His leader skin can be obtained by purchasing season 12 of the premium Battle Pass.
Personality[]
Do to the obssession with taking revenge on his father, Lyelth associates his self-worth with victory and strength, and believes that strenght is only proved by defeating the opponent. However, although he displays confidence publicly, he loses his composure when alone and is shown when he brags about his puppet's capabilities instead of his own, showing his lack of faith in his own strength. He is very attached to his fake persona as a perfect fighter, getting furious when his lack of magic is exposed.
Later, thanks to Verdilia's teachings, Lyelth understand that there is more to victory that winning battles; its about fulfilling your objectives, something he's lost sight of to the point he doesn't even know what he's fighting for.
Story[]
History[]
Lyaelth was cared for by his loving mother, despite her weak heart making her sick. When Cornelius learned about Lyelth's efforts to learn magic, he showed genuine interest and gave him praise. From that point on Cornelius would spend a bit more time with Lyelth to teach him his methods, including how to conceal one's emotions to avoid showing weakness. Delighted by his father's praise, Lyelth studied more ambitiously than ever before.
However, one day he reckless tried to show his mother an incantation that would increase mana efficiency, but it was far beyond his abilities, and something went wrong. After being exposed to Lyelth's magic, his mother's condition grew worse and the incantation somehow stripped Lyelth of his ability to use magic.
When Lyelth told Cornelius about what happened, his father was indifferent and actually seemed satisfied, causing Lyelth to realize his father never had any expectations for him since the beginning. When Lyelth's mother was on her deathbed, she gave her son her marionettes to keep him safe before passing. When Cornelius came home that night and discovered the death of Lyelth's mother, he was excited by her passing and used his magic to resurrect her as an undead soldier. Cornelius reveals this was the reason Lyelth's mother married into his household and Lyelth, overwhelmed with grief and horror, fled his father's home with only her mother's puppets. Furious that her mother was just fodder for Cornelius's experiment and that he was just a side product of his plan, Lyelth vowed revenge with his mother's puppets.
Ever since his mother's death, Lyelth spent all his time training to master his mother's puppets until he mastered them. When he enrolled into Lainecrest, he used his position as the headmaster's son to bypass the mandatory mana examination. He then began his plan to destroy his father's legacy in revenge,
He put on a fake persona, an armor being the idol prefect student, using his father's teachings, and began teaching the independent track. However, he needed more to obtain the admiration of his peers and it came in the form a teach trying to shut down the independent track, believing Lyelth is inciting them to riot. Lyelth goaded the teacher into a duel and knowing from his studies the key to battle is getting the first blow, used the teacher's underestimation of himself to his advantage and defeated him using his puppets, making it look like he wielded invisible magic and reinforcing his image.
Lessons from Lainecrest[]
Lyelth leads a lesson for independent students so they can prove their track is superior. Verdilia arrives to recruit Lyelth to her class, but Lyelth is more interested in waging war against the guiding track in order to change Lainecrest to fit his views. Lyelth does agree to join the class, but only on the ridiculous conditions of transferring all other independent track students with him, forbidding lectures, ten years' worth of operating capital in cash, and authority over all faculty. Knowing the conditions are just an excuse to get her to refuse, Viridia warns Lyelth of the danger of his aggressive plans and makes her own offer; if Verdilia defeats Lyelth in combat, he will join her class. Lyelth, desperate to prove himself, agrees on the condition his previous demands will be met if he wins, but Verdilia postpones the battle so she can prepare, to Lyelth's shock.
After teaching a class, Lyelth finds independent students fighting with a guiding track student and intervenes, declaring the fight against someone who didn't do anything is unjust and an attack would break the non-intervention pact and give the teachers a justification to retaliate. The guiding track student thanks Lyelth and flees to Verdilia who hired him provoke the fight to get a glimpse of Lyelth's power.
Verdilia later finds Lyelth and reveals she suspects his magic is inherited. She also reveals he knows Lyelth's status as a charismatic idol is a deception and Lyelth gets defensive. He declares he intends to prove his worth through strength and that the guided classes have nothing worthwhile to teach him. Verdilia counters that she makes classes taking by knowing about her students and she has done just that during her study of Lyelth. She asks about his late mother who died of illness and suspects his rebellious behavior is based on that. Lyelth grows furious and declares that his mother gave him strength and that is the reason for his rebellion. He challenges Verdilia to the duel, but she declines again, because she wants to duel where Lyelth's magic won't be exposed. Lyelth storms off declaring he will have victory.
Verdilia confronts Lyelth and reveals she's discovered the secret of his invisible magic and proves it by deflecting one of his attacks. The secret to discovering the truth lied in the sheer speed of Lyelth's attacks and his secrecy with using it, which revealed that Lyelth wasn't using magic, but a set of enchanted marionette artifacts he inherited from his mother. Lyelth unveils his puppets and Verdilia recognizes the care and maintenance he's put into them. Verdillai battles against Lyelth, who plans to win and challenge his father afterward.
Verdilia proves she is able to evade Lyelth's puppets by reading his string pulling. She tells Lyelth he has a critical weakness and also reveals she knows that the reason he kept his puppet's concealed was because he was trying to hide the fact he couldn't magic. Angered at being exposed, Lyelth declares he can still battle with his flawless puppets and prove he is not a disappointment. Verdilia verifies that she wasn't referring to Lyelth's lack of magic as his weakness and begins her duel.
Verdilia exploits the puppet's weakness in drawn out battle and Lyelth's own inexperience against real combat magic. She offers to show him a real demonstration of her power. Virdilia unleashes a frightening display of her plant magic, turning the classroom into an ever growing forest. Lyelth tries to counter, but Verdilia easily predicts his plan to get close and reveals his weakness is a lack of balance. Verdilia tells Lyelth his weakness is that he values his puppets over himself and takes them hostage to showcase his dependence on them.
She gives them back when Lyelth makes a desperate rush to rescue them. Verdilia tells Lyelth that his worth isn't determined by strength and that he doesn't have to prove it by defeating her or his father. She tells him to have faith in his own abilities and himself and that Cornelious would exploit his weakness by targeting the puppets and kill him. She offers to teach Lyelth how he can defeat his father in a way that matters. Conceding defeat, Lyelth accepts his part of the deal and joins Virdilia's class.
Lyelth heads to his former class, to stand before them not as his persona, but as himself to apologize for all the lies he told. When he meets with the independent track students, they believe that Lyelth being defeat by Verdilia is just a rumor spread by Weiss. Lyelth wonders if the professors were trying to expose his loss, but reveals the truth to the students and admits he is joining Verdilia's class. He also reveals that Verdilia was different from the teacher he defeated because she saw the real him and reveals his persona was fake from the beginning. He admits he wanted people to fight with him in his rebellion and that the headmaster is his father. Lyelth apologies for using the students in his war and explains he is rethinking his methods so he can defeat his father as himself, not his persona. When Lyelth prepares to leave, he expects the other students to scorn him, but to his surprise they wish him good luck and thank him for all he taught them. Uplifted by the student's encouragement, Lyelth goes to Verdilia's class to begin his lessons.
Lessons from Lainecrest: Testament[]
Lyelth practices with Verdilia to prepare to fight Cornelius. Verdilia reviews that Cornelius is a master necromancer and that the normal method of countering Necromancy by taking control of his corpses won't work since he uses specially preserved corpses that give him unrelinquishable control over them. She also encourages Lyelth to interact with Amaryllis, believing he could learn from her, but Lyelth doesn't see the point in befriending her.
Lyelth and Amaryllis later spy as Verdilia talks with Castelle, and the latter come out of hiding. She explains she knew they were following her the whole time and decided to play along to test their growth and give them practice for the skills they were working on. She also explains that Castelle is none of their business, but if they want to know more about her, all they have to do is ask. Amaryllis realizes that Castelle brings out a kinder side to Verdilia and the makes her Verdilia's weakness, but Lyelth considers the kindness a strength.
The day for exams arrives and Verdilia sends off Lyelth and Amarylis with some encouraging words. In the room where Lyelth is taking his exams, he and the others present hear the explosion and they are attacked by small dragons and the independent track students believe the teachers are responsible and declare war. Verdilia tells the two to stay safe while she finds them, but Lyelth and Amaryllis reveal they want to help stop the fighting by defeating Lilium and Cornelius.
On the way to confront his father, Lyelth witnesses some students aided by Lillium's dragons and professors aided by Cornelius's undead blaming each other for the attack and realizes that the same thing is likely happening all over the school. Lyelth fights his way through the undead soldiers and finds Cornelius in the courtyard. When Lyelth reaches his father, Cornelius still considers him a failure and not worthy of his time. Cornelius then summons the corpse of Lyelth's mother to use against him, but Lyelth is still determined to fight and show Cornelius what Verdilia has taught him about the true meaning of victory.
Lyelth is furious that Cornelius has weaponized his mother's corpse and Cornelius explains his necromancy's power depends on the strength of the individual he revives, and he set about personally acquiring powerful individuals. He married Lyelth's mother seeing her as an excellent candidate for his magic because of her weak health and having the capability to produce a powerful heir, though the latter plan failed when Lyelth lost his magic. Cornelius asks Lyelth why his is fighting him and Lyelth answers it is to achieve victory over Cornelius and make him pay for his inhuman selfishness. Lyelth realizes the people who have gone missing were killed to be Cornelius's soldiers and to thin down those Cornelius deemed unfit or unworthy for his plan. Disgusted at how Cornelius views everyone, even himself, as dispensable and vows to stop his father's mad ambitions. Cornelius mocks the idea that Lyelth can defeat his mother's corpse, and the countless others he has saved up, but Lyelth doesn't waver and battles his mother's corpse.
Lyelth manages to destroy his mother's corpse, but at the cost of sacrificing his puppets. Cornelius is unfazed and points out he has countless replacement corpses ready while Lyelth's weapons are gone. He summons more soldiers to fight, but Lyelth remembers his lessons with Verdilia and figures out he can use his puppet's strings, which were enchanted by his mother, to take control of the corpses. Lyelth admits that while he did not inherit his father's magic, he inherited his precision dexterity. He points out that Cornelius directly controls his corpses with mana strings to control them like Lyelth does with his puppets, but Lyelth can do the same without magic and turn Cornelius's corpses against him. Any corpse Cornelius summons is taken over by Lyelth's strings and joyously Cornelius admits he has lost and that any attempt to take back control will ultimately fail because his magic will run out while Lyelth doesn't have to use any magic at all. He awaits Lyelth to kill him, but Lyelth points out that all Cornelius values is talent without ever considering the people who are involved so long as results are achieved, even himself. Lyelth declares that he won't play along with Cornelius's beliefs and that all he wanted was for Cornelius to acknowledge him, which he had finally achieved and obtained the victory he sought. Lyelth knocks out Cornelius, but an even bigger explosion then before goes off in the distance.
As Verdilia was facing Castelle, Lyelth and Amarylis protect Verdilia, declaring that Verdilia isn't only just Castelle's sister, but also their professor. The three struggle to fight Castelle, who is angered by Lyelth and Amarylis's presence, believing they aren't worthy of Verdilia. Lyelth gets back up and restrains Castelle before explaining to Verdilia that she wrongfully believes that she has to carry everyone elses' burdens and that the Goddess's power exceeds her own. He tells Verdilia it was her, not the Goddess, who taught him the path of true victory and allowed him to make Cornelius acknowledge him.
After the battle, Lyelth take over as the academy's temporary headmaster after Cornelius disappeared after being defeated. Since his body was never found and only his clothes were left behind, Verdilia appreciates that perhaps it was never his real body. Knowing that Cornelius's mad drive to understand magic's secrets makes him an active threat, Lyelth continues to train and prepares for the day he'll return.
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