An odd phone app transports you to various worlds, or something like that.

Dungeons & Dragons (c) Wizards of the Coast. All worldbuilding is my own. All classes, spells, and monsters have been references from the 5th edition Systems Reference Document, and on rare occasions, the Player's Handbook and Monster Manual.

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I simply cannot keep up with the large volume of writing.

As truck sama was on his honeymoon trip, aeroplane kun crashed on Liam's head and he transported to an another world with a lewd system.

WARNING: You can face critical grammar attacks while reading this novel.

Book Title: Return of the Cold Hearted Empress

Author: Ahce Darato Torres

Date Published: July 4, 2020

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She is a legendary figure who dominates business and reigns military power. With an ancient ring in her hand, she became prodigiously gifted at almost everything, but pity that she bears a curse of never falling in love. Envied by many, she is trap in a loveless family whose members maim her wings and force her to early death. However, her soul is summoned in the body of a heavily poisoned good-for-nothing miss whom everyone despises and plotted-against.

Now that she has taken over, who dares to bite her back?

Wherever she walks danger and miracles follow! Accepting a new life in another era fills her journey with endless adventure, there she meets several powerful figures who become her closest allies and help her discover the truth about her mysterious death.

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Greetings to my beloved readers, I just want to thank you for giving this book a chance to be heard. It has been a few months since Covid19 wreaked havoc around the world, tucking us into our homes for safety and security. I am delighted to be able to write and present such odd Ancient-Chinese themed novel to all of you. I know somehow most people around my age and younger are bored at home, so might as well motivate everyone to read and enhance their reading comprehension/ critical thinking skills. As an amateur Filipino teen writer I am not expecting so much from this book, but I can't help it, I want to be able to share a story to the mass and escape the world of reality for a while. Your reviews, comments and support are very much appreciated so don't forget to leave a note. I as a college student also want to improve my writing skills, so I'll thank everyone in advance. And I just want to remind everyone to avoid plagiarism, let's respect people's property and just enjoy reading, get lost in the world of imagination and have fun.

Please keep yourselves safe and follow WHO guidelines.

Love lots,

Ahce

She is a legendary figure who dominates business and reigns military power. With an ancient ring in her hand, she became prodigiously gifted at almost everything, but pity that she bears a curse of never falling in love. Envied by many, she is trap in a loveless family whose members maim her wings and force her to early death. However, her soul is summoned in the body of a heavily poisoned good-for-nothing miss whom everyone despises and plotted-against.

Now that she has taken over, who dares to bite her back? 

Wherever she walks danger and miracles follow! Accepting a new life in another era fills her journey with endless adventure, there she meets several powerful figures who become her closest friends and help her discover the truth about her mysterious death.

Book Title: Fated to Love You (命中註定愛你)
Author: Ahce Darato Torres
Pseudonym: AhceSthirteen
Date Published: May 19, 2020
Book Status: Ongoing
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She was a legendary figure, a genius neurosurgeon, a renowned lawyer and one of pillars of wildlife conservation. Her brainpower was too horrifying that the government saw her as an imposing threat to their jurisdiction. One day Feng Jiang Lei was sent to work for diplomatic relations with the terrorists and deal with the aftermath of risking her life to fulfill her duty. It could have been successful, but she was assassinated and died by the hands of her childhood best friend. Remembering that no matter how important a person is to you, there will come a time that love will abandon and betray you.
He was the son of an affluent technological expert, a professor from Harvard University and the heir to AdTech-Space Developers Corporation. Professor Qin Xue Rong spearheaded the expedition to Jupiter and ventured the lands of the unknown yet one night the great red spot appeared without warnings, thus putting everyone at risk. He could have saved his life, but he sacrificed his own to save his people and send them back to earthly safely. He was then sucked by the storm, bringing with him was a 17-Petaflop Titan Supercomputer and Valkyria the most advanced space humanoid robot.
But the gods seemed to have different plans. Two lost souls with untimely death were fated to meet in the era of the past and change the mistakes of the history. One became the wicked and outrageous miss who was banished to the mountains as the star of destruction. While the other was the fool who was stripped from his noble title and left to rot in the forest. Despised and plotted against, will they survive the test of time?
"What are you inventing hubby?" she asked
"A cultivation booster for my wifey!" he answered
"Will we get richer?" she asked again
"Indeed the richest!" he answered and kissed her forehead gently.
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Please keep yourselves safe and follow WHO guidelines.
Love lots,
Ahce

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Several years after major nuclear events, followed by the rise of robotic armies, have caused the world to become post-apocalyptic. The year is 2276 and Earth is now full of anarchy, corruption and death. A lone woman carrying a large backpack, in the shape of a coffin, comes to a small post-apocalyptic town in the middle of Utah whose only existence rides on the Colorado River. There is a dam which provides water, food and transportation to the several thousand people who have been congregating in the re-growing town. Many had hoped to fix the hydroelectric station to rebuild their lives, but corruption brews. 

The lone woman stops at one of the bars and gets into a fight with some local gangsters who were mistreating a young girl outside. Causing her to become at odds with the gangs of the town. This is the instance that first roots our heroine, Lisa Cunningham, to save this town and prompted her to grow her Black Market Empire here! 

However, gangs are the least of her worries! Robotic army’s, rebellion militia, mutated monsters, mad cults, competing companies and lustful men ogled over her all the time!! Not to mention the strange events that slowly begin to happen around the girl, Hanna, that she saved. 

Yet there is more to Lisa than good looks alone. She has come back from over 200 years ago and is learning more about what has happened while she was in cryogenic sleep. How will she be able to survive in a hostile world and reach her own goals? 

Follow along now!

—-Estimated current length for the novel once completed might be around a 1,000 chapters. I will determine a better guess for its final length in the future (As of 5/3/20).—-

—-Also, all chapters are unedited and are subject to very minor changes, minor additions and lots of error editing.(sigh) —-

—-Release Rate: 1 Chapter per day, occasionally more. If I miss a day it will only be one in succession. I work 50+hrs a week, so this is just a fun creative hobby. —-

Dro with a spear in his hand looked at the BOSS and unleashed a skill,
<Blood Lunge>
<Critical>
<-205,832>
<Magma Golem King, Level 25, BOSS>
<379,374/800,000 HP>
The BOSS health was currently below half, the BOSS stopped in his tracks and bellowed, "You dare to injure me?! You Dare!"
The BOSS bellowed and the bellow made the room shake, all the pools of magma that were created by killing the monsters rushed into the Magma Golem King's body, the moment each magma stream touched the body of the Magma Golem King, made the earth plates explode, and each time it exploded the Magma Golem King recovered his health, he recovered 5% for each explosion, but it didn't stop there. 
The path that was formed by the Magma Golem King, exploded with magma that shot upwards, the magma started raining from the skies, when the Vampire saw this, he tried his hardest to dodge each one, luckily for him they were not that fast, and he dodged every  strike of magma, but out of these pool of magma, formed a blob of magma, these blobs all moved towards the boss. Dro stared blankly as all this happened since the blobs had no health, Dro couldn't stop this process. Upon touching the boss, all the remaining plates on Magma Golem King body exploded away, but Magma Golem King didn't recover his health this time.
When the process was finished, Dro was dumbstruck by what he saw, the BOSS name was the same, but he looked completely different, and the BOSS was holding a weapon this time, Magma Golem King looked down at Dro and he bellowed, "I am the servant of the great fire lord, you mere human trying to slay me, one of the generals of the mighty fire lord. Will be purged in flames!"
Dro gulped as he looked at the Magma Golem King, he was now covered in only magma, every single part of his body, this magma also dripped on the ground, but luckily for Dro nothing formed from these small drops. The boss himself was holding now a sword, it was a big sword of magma, it radiated in red colour.
<Magma Golem King, Level 25, BOSS>
<499,374/800,000 HP>
The BOSS didn't wait for anything he rushed at Dro, the speed that he came running at Dro dumbfounded him, the Magma Golem King was no longer slow, he was as fast as Dro now, the Magma Golem King with both of his hands, slashed down his sword, Dro pupils constricted,
<Blood Pool>
He in time used a skill, the ground that was near him, the area that the sword descended cracked and exploded, the force of the sword destroyed the area around the blood pool.
<-0>
Coming out of this <Blood Pool> had given him enough time to recover all of his Blood, Dro now smiled as he had a plan in mind, he was going to use a skill combination. He was planning on starting with Blood Spear followed by Blood Lunge and finished with Blood Slash.
This combination would give him the maximum damage output, he could have. He started, he knew that if that sword hit him, he would die in one strike,
<Blood Spear>
<-57,454>
The first attack landed, Dro couldn't land a critical, he frowned because of this, but he still continued with his plan,
<Blood Lunge>
<-86,555>
The second attack hit, it generated more blood, which increased the damage even further, but he still didn't manage a critical, he knew that if he didn't score a critical for the third time he would without a doubt die, he attacked once again, 
<Blood Slash>
<Critical>
<-161,370>
<Magma Golem King, Level 25, BOSS>
<73,995/800,000 HP>
Dro cursed under his breath, he didn't manage to kill the Magma Golem King with his attacks, but when he saw the critical he knew that he still had a small chance of survival. He narrowed his eyes as he used his last skill, that did any damage, 
<Drain>
<-40,000>
<+42,000>
<Magma Golem King, Level 25, BOSS>
<33,995/800,000 HP>
The BOSS grabbed his sword and bellow in mid-slash, "Be purged by my blade!"
Dro narrowed his eyes, his Blood Pool was on cooldown, he had no defensive abilities to stop the attack, his all attacks were also on cooldown, he only now had his basic attacks. He was really desperate, Dro grabbed his spear in hand and slashed at the boss. Dro knew if his spear would hit the boss even a second too late or if he was one damage point short, he would die. It was, do or die situation for Dro. The young Vampire begged the game, he begged so that this attack would be a critical strike. Magma Golem King and Dro each launched an attack and each other, each weapon going against their opponent, Dro was a fraction of a second faster, his attack connected first when Dro saw the system message, he smiled happily, his wager had paid off.
<Attack>
<Critical>
<-51,313>
<Magma Golem King, Slain>
<+400,000 XP>
The Magma Golem King led the weapon go out of his hands and the attack didn't continue it got cut off, the Magma Golem King was dumbfounded, he looked at Dro and spoke in disbelief, "Impossible, to be slain by a human, I have failed you, my lord..." The Magma Golem King died before he could finish his words.
Dro sighed with relief, his legs gave out, and he fell, on his but, the BOSS attack was stopped when he was one inch away from death. Dro laughed into the ceiling. This laughter lasted for more than two breaths of time.
Dro slowly stood up, he looked at the corpse of the boss, the corpse was glowing in golden colour, this meant that the monster had loot, Dro slowly picked the loot. The items that dropped made him smile widely, seeing the weapon that the BOSS had used, in the loot window, made him smile happily, he was even happier when he saw the grade of the sword.










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Yun Shi is a postgraduate IT student, after completing university he didn't manage to get a single job. And so he became a NEET. For two years playing only games and living off what little savings he had. When he was at his ropes end the first VRMMO was released its name was AWO. And so Shi said "I will try it, after all, life is just crap"

Raising and extending my right arm, I swiped my fingers down, and the menu opened, the menu that I had already opened more than a hundred times. And like all those times, I scrolled down to the very bottom before letting out a heavy sigh as I saw that a crucial button was missing from its place. 
'I guess this is really happening.' 
Scrolling up, I tapped on the inventory button and the inventory window opened. In it, there were two items: a sheet of paper and a box. Tapping on the former, it appeared in my right hand.
{Dear player, Astrid
You amongst other lucky few players have been selected to live in [Ultimate World Online] 
We have sent you a gift, you can find it in your inventory
Death Penalty: -1 Level and resurrection in the home town
Please enjoy your life in [Ultimate World Online]}
Reading the sheet of paper for the second time, I gritted my teeth, crumpled it up into a ball, rose up from the ground, placed my left foot forward and threw the small ball of crumpled up paper with all the strength I had.
'I am yet to graduate from university! Find a job! Get married! Have kids! Live a full fulfilling life! And you are telling me that I have to live inside a game for the rest of my life?! Screw that! F*ck! F*ck! F*ck!' As I thought this, I was angrier than I had ever been.
I took in a deep breath through my nose and closed my eyes. 
Holding the air in my lungs for a few seconds, my anger somewhat calmed down, but it was not entirely gone. I breathed out of my mouth and slowly opened my eyes. 
'I have to find a way to get out of this game. But as far as I know, the only two ways of getting out of virtual reality is to either log out or get kicked out. Since logging out is clearly not an option, how do I get kicked out?... I can't think of anything… I am sure, I will think of something eventually.'
Letting out another heavy sigh, I tapped on the box in my inventory. It appeared in my right hand and I pulled the string.
The box disappeared from my hand and notification messages started flashing in front of me.
<<Randomising Gift>>
<<Randomising>>
<<Randomising>>
<<Randomising>>
<<Gift Randomised>>
<<Unique Class: Tyrant>>
<<Base Attributes>>
<<Health: 300, Rage: 1,000, Strength: 10, Dexterity: 4, Intellect: 1, Constitution: 6, Spirit: 1, Wisdom: 1, Charisma: 7>>
<<Strength: Increases physical skill damage, physical auto attack damage and physical critical damage>>
<<Dexterity: Increases physical skill damage, attack speed of auto attacks and physical critical strike chance>>
<<Intellect: Increases magical skill damage, magical skill critical strike damage>>
<<Constitution: Increases maximum health>>
<<Spirit: Increases mana and health regeneration>>
<<Wisdom: Increases magical critical strike chance and maximum mana>>
<<Charisma: Increases pet/follower damage, reduces prices when trading or repairing>>
<<Attribute points gained per level: 10>>
<<Do you wish to learn the class: Tyrant>>
<<Sorcerer, Base Attributes>>
<<Health: 150, Mana: 350, Strength: 1, Dexterity: 1, Intellect: 4, Constitution: 2, Spirit: 2, Wisdom: 4, Charisma: 1>>
<<Sorcerer, Attribute points gained per level: 5>>
<<Learning the class: Tyrant will make you abandon your current class: Sorcerer>>
<<Yes>> <<No>>
'Tyrant has double the attributes of Sorcerer at <<Level 0>>. And double the attributes gained per level. This is not even a choice.' I tapped the button, <<Yes>> and a few notification messages flashed in front of me.
<<Class: Sorcerer abandoned>>
<<Class: Tyrant Obtained>>
<<Skill: Tight Grip Learned>>
<<Skill: Double Slash Learned>>
<<Skill: War Stomp Learned>>
'Looking at the names tight grip, double slash and war stomp, I can already guess what they do and what class tyrant is.' I closed the inventory window by tapping on the x icon on the top-right corner of the window, scrolled up and tapped on the skills button. The skills window opened in front of me and I looked over my three skills.
<<Class Passive Skill, Tight Grip, You can wield two-handed weapons with one hand. Wielding a weapon in your right-hand increases its weapon damage and critical strike damage by 50%. Wielding a two-handed weapon in your left hand increase its weapon damage by 25% and critical strike chance by 75%>>
<<Class Skill, Double Slash, Slash with both of your two-handed weapons dealing 125% weapon damage + 101% Strength + 99% Dexterity as damage with each one, Range: Melee, Cost: 30 Rage, Cooldown: 5 seconds >>
<<Class Skill, War Stomp, Stomp with rage dealing 180% Strength as damage and slows all enemies in a 5-yard radius of you by 75%, Range: 0-5 yards, Cost: 10 Rage, Cooldown: 15 seconds>>
'Just what I expected from those three.' I closed my skills window and swiped my fingers to the right. And the menu closed. I moved my eyes to one of the boar piglets.
<<Level 0, Boar Piglet>>
<<20/20>>
'I need one more boar piglet to complete the quest,' I pulled out my two-handed stick from my back and held it in my left hand as it was my dominant hand and holding it in my left hand gave me 75% critical strike chance from the passive tight grip.
Walking up to the boar piglet, I struck it, and it was an immediate critical strike, <<Critical Strike, -21>>. Boar piglet squealed and it fell down to the ground, dead. It got enveloped in a golden glow which meant that it was lootable, and a few notification messages flashed.
<<Boar Piglet, Slain>>
<<+10 XP>>
<<10/10 Boar Piglets Slain>>
<<Return to claim your reward>>
Bending down, I touched the corpse and the loot window opened.
<<1 Copper Coin>>
Tapping on the 1 copper coin in the loot window, it got looted and I now had 10 copper coins in total. I straightened out and walked back to the quest giver.
The quest giver that I returned to was an old man standing in front of a house between many farm fields.
"I have killed the ten boars you wanted me to kill."
The old man nodded his head. "Thank you, young adventurer," he said and a few notification messages flashed in front of me.
<<Quest Completed>>
<<+100 XP>>
<<Level Up>>
<<You have gained 10 attribute points>>
<<You have 10 unspent attribute points>>
"Young adventurer, would you mind doing another task?"
I shook my head. "Not at all, what do you need?"

The path one walks only becomes clear when one is halfway through.

Nix opened all the cells, Ducky grabbed his hand to prevent herself from fumbling in the dark. He gave the keys to Sasi since she was a rogue and the most adept at moving silently without the use of skills.  

She moved silently through the next room.  They had decided to not worry about freeing the other prisoners until the guards were dealt with.  She lay on her stomach near the barred door and held up three fingers.  

Uta pointed to her, Nix and himself.  Rabi and Ducky would hang back.  They all knew that the key would make noise when she unlocked it.  

Without waiting Sasi unlocked the door, Nix slammed against it an instant later sending it open with a loud bang. The guards at the table seemed to freeze for a moment.  

Nix charged the nearest guard, he kicked the table into the other two and grabbed his target by the neck.  The Nether guard had the face of an elephant seal, a grotesque looking trunk that stopped at his black chin. He wrenched hard with his hands twice, hearing an audible crack after the second movement, the guard tumbled lifelessly to the ground. 

You have slain a Nether guard.  

Uta grappled with the 2nd guard, the largest of the three.  Nix kicked him in the back of the knee and held his arms while Uta gripped his throat with both hands and tore it out.  Sasi had already dealt with her target and was already opening the chests when the last guard slumped to the floor.  

A few moments later, the group had all of their gear back and was formulating a strategy. As agreed Rabi went back and unlocked all the prisoners.  They still had a mission to carry out, those who had been set free were on their own.  

Sasi slipped out the jail to scout the area, immediately she popped back into view and motioned for them to follow.  

Nix brought up the rear of the group, the room just outside of the jail was obviously some kind of mess hall.  

[All Class and Archon skills have been enabled]
[Group messaging is enabled.]
[Instant Travel has been enabled]
[You may now access your inventory]

Nix immediately activated his red scimitar and stealth package.  

/Qi Family: Uta: Okay, part one of the mission has been completed.

/Qi Family: Nix: Part one being 'escape from an obvious trap?'

/Qi Family: Uta: Yes. Well done by the way. 

Uta opened up his hud and examined the map.  

/Qi Family: Uta: We are on the first floor, I'm guessing he is in the Depository on the third floor since that's where the Prism would be stored.   

/Qi Family: Sasi: Probably.  

/Qi Family: Ducky: Want me to find him?

Uta looked at Nix for confirmation since he had no real clue as to what Ducky's capabilities were.

/Qi Family: Nix: Find his location and bring us back someone to talk to. Keep in contact.

/Qi Family: Uta: We'll move to the first-floor exit and wait.

They waited until Ducky left and then exited the Mess Hall with Sasi leading the way.  Between them and the stairs was a large library and a dark chapel.  They were about to stealth through the library when Sasi spotted a high-value target. 

/Qi Family: Sasi: It's a Dark Chancellor. We need to kill him.

/Qi Family: Nix: Dark Chancellor?

/Qi Family: Uta: It's the Nether version of the Breach Commander, their rare so of course we need to take him.  

/Qi Family: Nix: I'll move in closer and start the fight.  

The Chancellor was in an empty section of the library, he was sitting at the table apparently reading.  Up close his neatly cropped black hair was actually thousands of sharp-looking quills, his greenish skin had a smooth snake-like shine.  His all-white eyes were staring at the words of the book in his hands.

His slender hands turned the page and a moment later a dozen strands of Ice Flame burst through the back of his chair and exited his chest before wrapping around him.  Nix yanked back as hard as he could, pulling the Chancellor back toward the wall.  

[Viper Strike]
Sasi Qi has scored a critical hit on Chancellor Demian.

[Quartered]
Rabi has crippled Chancellor Demian and exposed a weakness to Ice Attacks.

Uta rushed in and slammed his shield into the face of the target.
Chancellor Demian has been stunned.  
[Sudden Switch]
Uta has equipped an Ice based weapon.  

[Up front]
Uta has slowed Chancellor Demian with the power of Ice.  

[Double Finish]
Sasi scored a critical hit on the stunned target.
Sasi scored a critical hit on the stunned target.  

[Blind Side]
Rabi has scored a critical hit to Chancellor Demian's eyes.

Chancellor Demian has been blinded.  

Nix was content to hold the Chancellor in place.  The Qi family was strong and their dps were higher than anything he had seen before. 

Sasi has slain Chancellor Demian.  

Rabi looted the Chancellor while Nix took the book he had been reading and stowed it away.  He was about to take more off the shelves when Sasi grabbed his arm.  

/Qi Family: Sasi: Taking the ones on the table are fine, an alarm will go off if you pull something off the shelf without authorization.  

Nix nodded and took the other two books from the table Demian was reading at.  

/Qi Family: Uta: Let's move out!

Nix activated his stealth package and followed the Qi Family through the library.  The hallway outside of the library led into a small chapel where a half dozen demons were kneeling reverently while chanting in cadence.  Their bodies slowly swayed back and forth.  

Unexpectedly Sasi and Rabi moved among them silently.  

Sasi has pickpocketed Desciple Duvin
Rabi has pickpocketed Ender Fear
Sasi has pickpocketed Desciple Hoyin
Rabi has pickpocketed Shola Mas
Sasi has pickpocketed Desciple Gerion
Rabi has pickpocketed Bu Fonti

/Qi Family: Rabi: You went for all the disciples Sasi!

/Qi Family: Sasi: Sorry I got a bit excited, I will share.  

/Qi Family: Rabi: I have a key!

The small demon-man held up a black key, his fanged mouth twisting in a smile.  

/Qi Family: Uta: Great!  We'll let Sasi summon it after we kill the Bishop.

/Qi Family: Nix: Summon?

/Qi Family: Uta: Sasi has a special thief skill, whenever she finds a key she has a chance to summon the container it goes to.  

/Qi Family: Sasi: It fails if the container is too big.  

/Qi Family: Rabi: Or if it's trapped.  

Nix followed them silently to the door leading to the stairway exit. They would now wait for Ducky to return.  

/Qi Family: Uta: Great job with the Chancellor Nix. It's much easier to kill one when they are being restrained.  

/Qi Family: Sasi: I've heard of your strands, they are just as impressive as I was told.  

Voices from the stairs caused the group to pull back from the door.  Ducky walked through a moment later, her hand was tucked into the arm of a Dark Chancellor. This Chancellor was female and had black raven-like wings that made Nix instantly think of Rhylia.  Her pale features and fanged teeth were plainly visible when she stepped into the light.  

/Qi Family: Uta: Holy... It's the Fallen Chancellor.  

"You said the Bishop is actually on the 2nd floor and not the 3rd?" Ducky's pleasant voice purred sexily.  

"Yes, the person on the 3rd floor is just a decoy." The Chancellor leaned closer to Ducky, inhaling deeply.

"Do you have anything for me, Leva?  Perhaps information or special documents?" Ducky caressed the woman's arm with the tips of her fingers.  

"Yes, I have deployment orders and the map of Solomon City."  Leva handed Ducky a bit of parchment and a rolled-up scroll.  "I'll have to upload the battleplan directly to you."  

Ducky nodded.  "Thank you, Leva."  The Water Witch waited until she received the information. "You mentioned the deterrent you carry in the event you are captured?"

Leva leaned close and licked the side of Ducky's face with a blackened fork tongue. "I have a Tzai seed that I can take to end my life quickly."  

"Hmm..."  Ducky patted the woman's arm gently.  "I want you to sit down right here and take the seed, you are in danger of giving away vital information."  

The Sasi Family watched with open mouths as the second Dark Chancellor died by her own hand.  

[Whisper: Uta to Sasi] She was scared of the dark.  

/Qi Family: Sasi: They are planning to hit Solomon City?  Would they dare something like that?  

/Qi Family: Uta: I'm not sure, let's continue.  

/Qi Family: Nix: Great job Ducky.

Ducky smiled widely when Nix patted her head.  "Thank you."  

******************

Jun Li dodged to one side and immediately extended her blade to open up the throat of the small demon she was facing.  It wailed pitifully and splattered black blood on her armor before collapsing to the ground.  

[Hands of the Goddess]
Tess has fully healed Jun Li.  

The cleric was staying close to Jun Li, the two of them along with Captain Locas were holding the street in front of the Emerald Salamander.  The Nether creatures were appearing throughout the city in small groups.  Jun Li had been sending groups all over town in an attempt to stem the tide.  

/Inferno: Chael: Market Square incursion has been dealt with.  

/Inferno: Jun Li: Thanks Chael, it's good to have you back.  

Chael had shown up at Phai City right when the fight started.  Jun Li immediately reinstated him and assigned him a squad of rangers to look after.  

/Inferno: Jun Li: Anyone near the town housing? 

/Inferno: Pinky: I am.  Dalton and Darsi were both killed.  We'd have lost the housing area if the Mage hadn't shown up.  

/Inferno: Jun Li: Are our snipers back up?

/Inferno: Pinky: Yes, back in the fight.  

Jun Li frowned slightly, several times during the ongoing battle an unknown Mage had appeared and aided the members of Inferno.  Gypsy had seen her in action and claimed she was close to Pon's level. 

[Direct Contact: Jun Li]
Deidra's holo image popped up in front of Jun Li.  The dragon had stayed out of everyone's way, only using her Breach abilities to move troops wherever Jun Li asked.  

"Vice Leader Jun Li, something big is coming through the Breach near the City Gate.  You may have to abandon the town."  

"Thank you for the info Breach Commander. Please send all available rangers to the City Gates.  We'll fight to the last before we lose our town."  

"I could send you reinforcements from the 12 Pillars, but indications are that they are about to face a similar battle at their locations."  Deidra was shocked by the number of Incursions coming into Loki, without a doubt it was the biggest she'd ever seen in the lower planes. After witnessing the ongoing battles, she was beginning to understand,  Inferno was a well-hidden powerhouse.  

/Inferno: Jun Li:  If you aren't actively fighting at this time, head to the front gates!

Nicholas Phire was sentenced to life in prison without any possibility of parole.  Because of the mercy of a lonely prison guard, a new world is presented to him.  Nix finds himself in the Virtual World of Colonial with a hundred-year assignment as Lifestyle player in the Gladis Hub.  Will Nix stay in the remote village located on the polar Ice Cap?  Or does adventure await for the man whose life was supposed to be over?

For now, I am releasing daily chapters of 1500-2000 words.  Follow us on discord!

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In the first two difficulties, the players would only meet the enemies as they proceed further into the dungeon. However, in this situation, they will start gathering up. If you are in a party, you can immediately gather your bearings as your tank will be the first one to quickly act as the decoy and absorb the damage, meanwhile in solo, especially when you are first-timer, you won't be able to get on your bearings before you get overwhelmed by the enemies.
I am quite prepared for what will happen so before the first attack will occur, I transformed my Versatile Weapon into a Magic Sword and immediately swing it to my back.
"SQUEAK!"
-You dealt 10,000 damage! Critical!
A big rat with flaming fur was the one who received it. Although the attack was critical, it didn't kill the monster in one hit. The damage is not enough to kill it in one hit.
[Hellfire Rat]
Level 30
HP: 7,500/17,500
Attributes; Beast, Fire
Not only this enemy, but there are also others and some of them are undead and ghost attribute monsters.
[Burning Soul]
Level 30
HP: 15,000/15,000
Attributes: Ghost, Fire
[Suffering Damned Corpse]
Level 35
HP: 25,000/25,000
Attributes: Undead, Fire
Not only that, but there is also a need to avoid the mini-boss' attacks that are added on the fry of this annoying mob.
[Skeleton King](Mini-Boss)
Level 40
HP: 100,000/100,000
Attributes: Undead, Knight, Fire
The Mini-Boss hits hard and is the bane against Tanks. Therefore, to last longer against the horde, you need to defeat the Mini-Boss. Killing the mini-boss also stops the spawning of the mobs endlessly. For those who plan to finish the dungeon in the least time possible, it is recommended to kill the mini-boss first so that you won't get held up with the smaller mobs. The longer the fight is, the more exhausted you will be. And since I am planning to beat the time that Kazuki and the party are trying to accomplish, which I have rough estimation,  I will have to defeat this boss in the least time possible due to my knowledge in the past timeline.
I slice and rush forward to the Mini-boss. Just killing it will stop the spawning of the smaller mobs allowing me to fight it without worrying for endless monsters pouring here and there.
The Skeleton King, despite being a skeleton packs a whole lot of defense. Hitting it with brute force is not enough to destroy and kill it. You need strategy and defense penetration to immediately dispose of it before you are overwhelmed with the smaller mobs. AOE attacks and magic skills also work well with the boss. Healing and Holy Magic do not work with this boss so spamming healing magic or any kind of magic that involves healing won't work. It can only be killed with brute force.
The small mobs are in the way and will always try to block your way to the Mini-Boss.
"Get out of my way!" Swinging my Magic Sword, I hit them and throw them aside whenever the chances present themselves.
The hit the smaller mobs received are not enough to kill them but will reduce a little bit of their HP. Reducing their HP like this is enough because killing them will only multiply the number of enemies trying to stop you.
When I got near the Skeleton King, I changed my weapon to shield and spear, the weapon of choice of the Paladins, the main tankers. I am fine with the Magic Sword but I want to also raise the AP of the Paladin so that I can learn some skills for the class like a few passives it possesses.
"GRAAAAAAHHHH!"
The Skeleton King pounded its rusty armor using its greatsword before hitting me. Of course, I blocked it with a shield. The attack is very strong and I barely managed to block it but thanks to my expertise in handling this boss allowed me to reduce the strength of the attack.
After the greatsword attack, I gripped the spear and poke the Skeleton King's armor. If the Versatile Weapon has the ability to reduce some defense of the monster, then I can at least reduce this mini-boss' defense.
-Inflicted 3,250 damage. Defense was reduced by 5% for 30 seconds.
The 30% chance activated! When the debuff activated, I quickly changed the shield and spear into a hammer and quickly bash the Mini-Boss with it.
BANG!
-Inflicted 10,000 damage! CRITICAL! Defense was reduced by 5% for 30 seconds.
Another stack which means the defense of the Mini-Boss has reduced to 10%. And based from the damage inflicted aside from the critical hit, I am sure the defense penetration activated, allowing me to inflict more damage.
The HP of the Mini-Boss will not last at this rate if the skills of the Versatile Weapon continue to activate. But the mobs are starting to gather now. To avoid being ganged up, I retreated from the boss and let the mobs follow me away from the boss. The Mini-Boss has slow movement and will only attack whenever you are in his 2-meter range. If he is far from you, he won't bother to follow you.
I kite around the mobs to make sure they won't be gathering around the Mini-Boss. It was successful and the mobs followed me and ready to clobber me. I didn't bother hitting them since I already hit them earlier too much and if I hit them again, they will die, causing a new spawn of enemies multiplied by two and I don't want that many hindrances to appear.
Dodging every mob and enduring their attacks that reduce my HP bar slowly, I drink potions whenever I get low in health before I continue. After a few seconds, I managed to shake off the mobs. Back to the boss again but this time, I used another strategy.
Instead of shield block, I decided to rush using the hammer instead of changing it to shield. Why? Because the enemies in Alternate World are somewhat sentient and can remember strategies did to them. If you keep repeating the same pattern, twice, the enemy will remember this and will immediately use a new way to counter your strategy, destroying it on the process.
While heading to the 2-meter distance of the Mini-Boss, I activated [Berserk] immediately, raising my attack power tremendously but reducing my defense too much now that the Versatile Weapon has now the ability to enhance the power of the Berserk Status and also reduce your defense further.
"EAT THIS!"
Swinging the hammer with all my strength on the Skeleton King's skull, I expected the defense to fall further but I didn't expect to hear a sound when the hammer struck the skull.
CRACK!
I paused and saw the Skeleton King crumble to dust after that and the interface showed me the notification.
-Got 25,000 EXP(Additional 25,000 EXP for Instant Kill)(Additional 5,000 EXP for killing a Mini-Boss)(Title Effects activated, 55,000 EXP gained)
-Got 15 Paladin AP
-Got 30 Berserker AP
[Congratulations! You were awarded the title: Skullshatterer!]
[Skullshatterer]
Type: Unique Title
How to acquire: Inflict 500,000 exact damage to the Skeleton King while hitting the weakness which is the head.
Effect: Basic attacks and skills has 2% chance to inflict stun that would last for 5 seconds. The effect cannot be stacked. The effect continues even if not equipped.
Note: You smash heads like melons easily, now, are you willing to smash eggs too?
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A/N: Someone asked me if all the unique titles that Manato obtains in the game continue its effect despite not equipped. Well, the answer to that is no. As you recall his title [Early Billionaire Tycoon], despite being a Unique Title, lacks the "Effect continues even if not equipped" description on its effect. Which means it needs to be equipped to activate. In the future chapters, there will be similar Titles that will lack that description. So don't immediately assume that all his Unique titles will immediately have an effect even if he didn't equip the same title.
As for the stats of Manato, I noticed that many of you complain about showing his stats panel frequently so I decided to remove it for now. I will reveal it from time to time to show his progress but I won't be bothering to show it all the time because you are reading a story, not a statistical novel.
On the side of killing Kazuki early to avoid future trouble, don't worry, we will reach that part but let's not be too hasty. Remember that death is just mercy for people like Kazuki, so why don't you enjoy his pain first in the later chapters? Muahahahaha, isn't that much better? Taste revenge to it's finest. Anyways, good day to all and happy reading.

Manato Tsukasa is one of the top tier players of the game, Alternate World. However, before he managed to reach the top, he originated from the bottom and experienced different sorts of humiliation and downsides. Instead of being down and depressed, he used those events as motivation to rise up, resulting in becoming one of the strongest Magic Knight player. Also, due to the game, he found the love of his life. When he was about to get married to the woman he is engaged with, he discovered that he was one of the few targets to be assassinated and she was tasked to do so. Without knowing who did it, he furiously escape.

After desperately escaping death, he encountered a similar person in the alley, bloodied and out of breath. Manato recognized this person to be the creator of the game, Alternate World. The creator then handed him out an item that will return him to his past self, hoping that he will be the one who can change their destiny. He was also entrusted to travel back in time with a peculiar data that can only be accessed back in the past since he is already dying. Desperate to survive, he grabbed the item and decided to return.

He woke up once again, in his 17-year-old body where the game is still launching. In his hands, is the weapon entrusted by the creator that has been transported with him? With his photographic memory and the data in his past, he won't just go down easily now that he had returned to the past. Instead of choosing the Magic Knight class, he instead choose the class that most players have to struggle with using. However, after doing a few things different from the past timeline, he found out that the past is now rewritten slowly as he messed up the events that should unfold, making a new future. Questions and mysteries slowly arises as he pieced together everything he knew. And what is the secret behind the game? Is it really a game or something more?

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[Master Stroke (Party): Hey guys, I got to go off now. See you in class tomorrow.]
[Mich (Party): Ok!]
[Transcending All (Party): Cya] 
[Transcending None (Party): See you.]
[SamuRyan (Party): Bye]
[System Notice: Master Stroke has left the party.]
"He sure cleared the quest fast!" Alex couldn't help but praise Jayden.
"Yeah, how did he do that?" Nicholas added.
"It's probably just dumb luck! Maybe he managed to score a bunch of critical hits in a row, that's all!" Ryan finally could not stand it anymore and cut in with his opinion.
"Haha, maybe it really is like that!"
"Yeah, that would make more sense!"
Alex and Nicholas bought that reason immediately. In World of Kings, every single attack had a chance of scoring a critical hit, resulting in it dealing more damage than usual. If Jayden really managed to get lucky on every hit, then it would even be possible for him to take less time than he did to complete the quest!
"Forget about him. Let's just finish up and go change our class!" Ryan suggested, drawing everyone's attention back to the game.
"Shouldn't we wait for Jayden to change our class together?" Michelle asked hesitantly.
"There's no need to!" Ryan hurriedly objected, then realised that he could be coming across as pushy, thus quickly softening his tone as he continued. "In fact, it would be better for us to gain more levels first since we are in charge of dealing damage. This way, next time when Jayden rejoins the party, we can help him level up faster as well."
"Is that so…" Michelle was still a little unsure, but decided to trust his words since she was still new to the game.
"Don't worry, Michelle. He will join us again tomorrow. It is not like you don't know how little time he spends playing. If we have to keep waiting for him, then we will take forever to level up!" Ryan added.
He was already unhappy that this Jayden suddenly lucked out and indirectly robbed him of his position as the leader of the group. Now that Jayden had finally logged out, it was the perfect time for him to retake his rightful place at the top!
At this juncture, how could he allow everyone to stop and wait for Jayden?
No way!
This was the best chance to put an insurmountable gap between them so that this Jayden would never be able to match him again!
Even though Michelle was still feeling a little uncomfortable about it, she could only nod in agreement after hearing Ryan's explanation. She had seen her brother levelling up new characters. Indeed, if Jayden only played an hour a day, then it would truly take too long to get to max level.
In any case, Jayden still had his main account, so he probably would not mind them pushing forward without him, right?
Convinced, Michelle finally stopped worrying and returned her focus to the game, trying her best to pick up all the tips that her classmates were trying to impart to her.
As for why Jayden did not continue playing with them, instead logging out immediately after hitting Level 10, the reason was simple – the time was now 9pm.
In other words, it was time to start his daily revision.
Even though he agreed to play a new character together, it did not mean that he was willing to sacrifice his precious study time.
His grades were much more important than some new Cleric character after all!
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Jayden was once again one of the first few students to arrive in class the next day. When he arrived, he routinely took out his textbook to start reading ahead on what would be covered today.
"Good morning, Jayden!" a clear voice suddenly sounded out from the other end of the classroom, catching Jayden by surprise.
"G-Good morning," Jayden instinctively answered while looking up to see who it was.
Upon making eye contact, Alex casually waved as he walked over to sit down among his own group of friends, who were just as surprised by Alex's gesture as Jayden was.
"What? Since when have you become so chummy with our star pupil?" one of them could not help but asked.
"Yeah, are you going to start studying all day as well?" another laughingly added.
"What do you guys know? We are playing WoK together now so of course I will be greeting my party Cleric. Heck, he was even the first among us to hit Level 10 last night!" Alex answered nonchalantly.
"Oh? You mean your new characters to play with Michelle? But isn't Ryan playing together too?" the classmate turned to face Ryan who was also sitting among them. "I didn't see Ryan greeting him just now! What? Ashamed about losing to a nerd in the game?"
"Are you kidding me?" Ryan sneered. "He just got lucky with his crits to hit Level 10 so early. From now on, our disparity in skill levels will only start to show! Even though he managed to reach Level 10 first, we are already ahead of him in levels by now!"
"Hahaha, just kidding! No need to get pissed, man!"
"Yeah, how can a nerd who only studies all day be a match for our great Ryan?"
The group laughed among themselves, but they managed to keep their voices soft enough that Jayden was unable to hear it. Otherwise, he would definitely have burst out laughing!
Got lucky with critical hits?
Yes, he did manage to get more critical hits than the rest to clear the Grass Wolves at a faster rate. However, that less about him getting lucky, and more because every single one of Jayden's attacks was aimed perfectly at the Grass Wolves' heads!
In World of Kings, every attack that hit the target's head had an increased chance to score a critical hit. This was a game mechanism that was deliberately included so as to provide mechanically skilled players with another avenue to utilise their talent, further separating them from the average players.
Of course, at his classmates' level, they were completely incapable of pulling off such precise aiming in the midst of battle. Thus, they never even considered the slimmest possibility that Jayden had been able to use this to his advantage.
The rest of the day passed by quickly, with nothing exceptional happening other than everyone being given an especially tough assignment to complete at home.
Still, even though it was considered tough to most people, it was still manageable in Jayden's eyes. After all, if even he was unable to handle it, then the rest of the students would not even need to try!
After heading home straight after school, Jayden immediately buried himself in the assignment. When he finally looked up at the clock again, Jayden nodded in satisfaction.
He managed to complete the assignment just barely within an hour, not too bad!
At this moment, Jayden could hear noises coming from the front door.
Perfect timing.
After taking a deep breath to prepare himself, Jayden opened his drawer to fish out an envelope and headed out of the room.
"Darling! How was everything while we were gone?" his mother smiled warmly upon seeing him.
"Welcome back! Don't worry, everything's fine at home," Jayden returned the smile.
"What's that in your hands?" his father caught sight of the envelope immediately.
"It's something I need to discuss with you about," Jayden headed over to take a seat on the sofa.
His parents only shot each other a quick glance before joining him.
"What is it, darling?" his mother asked.
"I was approached by a professional gaming team, offering me to sign with them and become a professional player. So I want to hear your thoughts about it," Jayden opened up the envelope before passing the contract to his mother who sat directly beside him.
"Oh? A professional gaming team? Is it for World of Kings?" his mother started reading through the document.
World of Kings currently took up more than the bulk of the gaming market and had maintained its position as the undisputed market leader among games for the past years. Thus, Jayden was not surprised that his mother was familiar with the name despite never having actually played the game before.
"Well, I say that it's a professional team, but it's actually more of a team that is just starting out," Jayden clarified.
"Wow, they are giving you 20 thousand dollars up front? That is a lot of money for a high schooler!" his mother exclaimed in surprise before passing the document over to her husband. "Is this a scam?"
"Actually that money is mainly to compensate for acquiring my game account. I looked it up and it seems that it is a normal practice for professional teams," Jayden explained.
With how popular the game was, Dis Pear with his Star Ranked Equipment was actually worth a lot more money that he looked. It was extremely rare to for such equipment to drop in the game, and many rich people were willing to pay in order to acquire accounts with such equipment.
"Looks reasonable enough," his father finally looked up at him after reading through the document. "Are you sure you want to do this?"
"I would like to give it a try."
"Are you sure this won't affect your studies?"
"I will do my best to manage."
"And if you can't manage?"
"Then I will quit the team."
"Breaking the contract then? What about the penalty fees?"
"For that, I would have to rely on dad," Jayden did not hide his intention at all.
Jayden's mother kept quiet throughout the brief exchange between father and son, taking a back seat as she let them sort it out. 
"Looks like you have thought it through. Since you have already decided, I have no objections. Give it a try then, go have some fun while you are still young," his father did not take long to give his approval.
"Got it, thanks!" Jayden subconsciously let out a snicker before returning to his room with the contract.
His mother then turned to look at her husband with a smile, "I'm surprised that you agreed so easily!"
"I'm sure Jayden knows what he is doing and would not step over the line. He is my son after all."
"You mean OUR son!" Jayden's mother sulked unhappily.
"Yes, yes, our son…"
At 8pm, Jayden once again logged into the game as Master Stroke. This time, he did not message the rest immediately, instead heading to change his class first.
It was already 9pm by the time he received the quest rewards the day before, and thus he did not have the time to go change class into a Cleric. So Jayden intended to quickly do so before joining the rest tonight.
Heading to the middle of Beginner's Town, Jayden could see the 7 buildings that corresponded to the 7 primary classes – Mage, Weapon Master, Warrior, Thief, Archer, Knight, and Cleric. 
Not even taking a second look at the other buildings, Jayden's Master Stroke walked right into the Temple where he could change his class to a Cleric.
It was an easy process. He simply had to approach the NPC in the Temple and confirm that he wanted to become a Cleric, and a beam of light would shine down on his character. The next moment, Master Stroke had already advanced to become a Cleric.
[System Notice: You have successfully advanced to be a Cleric. Class Bonus: Your maximum MP and MP recovery speed have increased.]
The first thing that Jayden had to do after changing class was to rearrange his stats.
There were 5 basic stats attributes in WoK – Strength, Vitality, Agility, Intelligence, and Wisdom.
Strength increased a character's physical damage and knockback distance.
Vitality increased a character's maximum HP and HP recovery speed.
Agility increased a character's movement and attack speed.
Intelligence increased a character's maximum MP and MP recovery speed.
Wisdom increased a character's magical damage and negative status resistance.
Before changing classes, with every increase in level, all characters gained an equal amount of stats points in each attribute. This meant that a Beginner class character would always have the same number of stats points in all 5 attributes, and that their Strength level would also be the same as their Wisdom or Intelligence level.
However, this rate of increase would start to differ after changing classes.
A Knight's Vitality increased the fastest while for a Cleric it would be the Intelligence attribute. This played to the strengths of each class, allowing each character to perform their role optimally.
But that was not all.
After reaching Level 10, apart from the natural stats increase, characters would also gain additional stats points with every increase in level, which they could invest freely in any of the 5 attributes. This allowed players in WoK to further customise their characters according to their preferred playstyles, creating diversity in the ways to build each character.
Over the years, there had been many people who tried to research on the optimal way of building each class, and there had already been no lack of guidebooks posted online. Despite that, no one could confidently point to one specific guidebook and confirm that it was the optimal build.
This was because the game was simply too complex for there to be an 'optimal' build.
Too many factors played a part in the decision, such as who were the other characters in the party as well as their respective stats distribution.
Thus, most players chose not to dwell on this for too long, either following the guidebooks with the highest ratings or simply copying the builds of their favourite professional players.
Jayden, just like these people, did not even hesitate when adding his free stats points. But unlike them, he did not follow any guidebook or professional players. After all, he had already made his decision the moment he chose to go for the Arcane Painter class.
With a few clicks, he spent all his stats points, adding them all to Master Stroke's Strength attribute!

Despite his skills in the game World of Kings, Jayden had never considered becoming a professional gamer. 

After all, as his parents always say, games are for kids. Out of so many people playing games, how many had actually succeeded as a professional gamer?

Rather than wasting time playing, studying to be a real life professional was much more practical!

However, a chance encounter with a professional gamer made him realise that perhaps this wasn't such an impossible goal after all.

Inhuman adaptability coupled with godlike mechanics.

This was the journey to be the best of them all, the path to kingship!

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