Underground Maddog: I Reincarnated to Save the Villainesses
Warning: This webnovel contains explicit R-18 scenes, violence, and dark themes. The protagonist is deeply morally grey — Cassian is not a good man, and he doesn't pretend to be.
Haruto Takahashi spent four years inside a single game.
Scarlet Roses: Academy of Cursed Fates. Everyone logged in for the golden hero and his harem. He logged in for the others — the six villainesses, the ones the script doomed to end up broken, exiled, executed. He reloaded hundreds of saves trying to win them a different ending. He tried everything. He failed every time — until that last fight when, once again, the screen bled red before his eyes.
He tore off his headset, alone in his room, without having saved a single one.
This time, something listened.
[The World has heard you.]
His soul is ripped from his body and cast into the very world that had consumed him — into the skin of Cassian Valerian von Nachtveil. Heir to one of the oldest houses of the Empire, and the true master of its Underground. Power, fortune, a web of shadows in every city, a command of the dark arts few dare to cross. Everything Haruto never had, Cassian already owns.
And this time, for the first time, he might actually have a chance.
[Main Quest — activated]
Objective: save the six villainesses from their fate.
Reward: unknown.
On failure: permanent death.
But, the world, though, had already chosen its hero.
Caelum von Luminar. Beautiful, overpowered, adored — the kind of chosen one for whom everything works out, no matter how many people he tramples on the way. In the original script, he's the one who wins. The six villainesses end up exiled, broken, or executed. That's how it's been written from the start.
Cassian intends to rewrite the ending.
He has the memories of the game, the title, the fortune, and the shadows of House Nachtveil. He also has a problem: saving six women the entire world wants to see fall doesn't get done with clean hands. And the further he goes, the less clean his own become.
He knows it. He keeps going anyway.
iwanttosleep · Fantasy