Trash of the Count's Family
Ch 84 as of 01/06/22 - baby black dragon is cute - ML awakes to find he is reborn as minor antagonist Cale Henituse 18yo, the trashy 1st son of a very rich Count in the novel “Birth of a Hero”. ML was an orphan with no attachments who fell asleep while reading the novel. - The hero is Choi Han 17yo, seeking to honour the dead and avenge the massacre of Harris village by a secret organisation who wore clothes with a star-shaped symbol. - Choi Han grew up alone in the Forest of Darkness, constantly fighting monsters. He escaped from the forest and was cared for by the people of Harris village that is in the Henituse territory. - ML aims to become reasonably powerful so he may live a long, peaceful life without any difficulties or pain. He needs enough strength and abilities to protect himself while not standing out too much. ML isn’t interested in being the heir and managing the Count’s territory in the Roan kingdom on the western continent. - ML lives in the city of Westin in the Henituse territory. - ML’s family are Count Deruth, Countess Violan (ML’s stepmother), and his younger half siblings Basen and Lily 7yo. - Basen had been acting as the family heir for the last 2yrs. - Choi Han comes to Westin to report the village massacre to Count Henituse. He’s denied access to the city because he has no ID papers. He jumps over the walls to secretly enter the city at night. - ML later adopts 2 x siblings from the Fog Cat tribe, Mist Silver ‘On’ and Red Poison ‘Hong’. He first met them as a couple of street kids. He fed them in cat form to get Choi Han to follow ML home. - ML brings in Choi Han as his house guest. Head butler Ron Molan and his son, chef Beacrox will follow Choi Han later. Ron and Beacrox are secretly skilled assassins from the eastern continent. - Ron was the heir to a family of assassins. - A group called “Arm” rules the underworld of the eastern continent. Arm are part of a larger organisation and have started to extend their reach into the western continent. - Ron and Beacrox have been in hiding from Arm. - ML obtains the “Indestructible Shield” after feeding the grudge of a glutton who starved to death a long time ago and was buried underneath the now ancient tree. It’s a formless shield around the heart, similar to a mana shield. It will prioritise the safety of it’s owner over everything else. - Princess Rosalyn, genius mage and heir to the throne of the neighbouring Breck kingdom. She’s not interested in the throne. Her dream is to establish the greatest magic tower on the continent. - Lock of the Blue Wolf tribe, heir to the Wolf King. When he goes berserk, he turns into a violent werewolf. - The Count wants ML to go to the capital as the family representative for a royal event after seeing the recent change in ML’s behaviour. To pay back ML for his hospitality, ML asks Choi Han to bring Rosalyn and Lock to ML in the capital. - ML encouraged Choi Han to protect and save, rather than just kill. - ML’s entourage for the trip to the capital includes Hans the deputy butler, the cat siblings, Ron, Beacrox and Choi Han. - Choi Han earns the respect of the Vice Captain and the other knights after defeating most of a large group of bandits. - Venion Stan, 2nd son of a Marquis. He’s a villain who crippled his older brother to become the unofficial heir. - On the way to the capital, ML stops at a village. Choi Han saves an old man who was almost run over by Venion’s carriage. - ML’s entourage stay at the old man’s inn. - ML used his knowledge of the novel to rescue a 4yo baby black dragon held captive and tortured by Venion ever since the dragon was born. This is to prevent the dragon as an adult going on a destructive rampage in the future. - Earlier ML rented a mana disturbance tool that makes all magic tools within a certain range stop working for 40mins. ML had the cat siblings bury this tool near the cave where the dragon was imprisoned. ML and Choi Han disguise themselves as masked men from the secret organisation that attacked Choi Han’s village. - Choi Han and the cat siblings take care of Venion’s guards while all of the magic tools around the cave have been disabled. - ML carries the injured dragon as they escape from the cave. - ML removes the mana restriction collar from the dragon. - While the cat siblings retrieve the mana disturbance tool, ML gets the dragon to drink a healing potion. He says the dragon has the right to live freely as one. It should live the way it wants to. - ML doesn’t want to be responsible for the dragon and the unwanted attention it brings. Even though ML told the dragon to go it’s own way, the dragon follows ML while staying hidden. The dragon keeps leaving animals it hunted for ML’s entourage to eat. - Choi Han separates from ML’s entourage at Pursal / Puzzle city to find Rosalyn and Lock. This city is known for it's rock towers. - Long ago during a time when the city fell out of favour with a god, the people started making rock towers as a kind of prayer. A person who has had their wish granted will destroy their rock tower. It means you must use your own strength to achieve your goals. - ML visits the ancient grave of a man who died naturally from old age at 150yo. Near the grave is the rock tower the man almost completed before he died. ML completes the tower then destroys it to show he’s overcome his limits. ML obtains the “Vitality of the Heart” from the man’s rock tower. This is another ancient power that makes ML’s “Shield” stronger and his ability to recover faster. - Taylor Stan, 1st son of Marquis Stan. - He was discarded as the heir when he became crippled. - He’s been desperately searching for a way to cure his legs. - Cage, a god of death priestess (who wants to be excommunicated?) and Taylor’s bodyguard. - She can hear her god’s voice. - She had dreams of meeting their future benefactor in Puzzle city. - ML had the cat siblings setup a fake message from god to Taylor Stan through Cage. It says to seek out the Crown Prince for his ancient power “Star of Healing” that can only be used once to heal any type of injury. They can obtain this power by helping the Crown Prince keep the other princes in check. - Taylor decides to head to the capital right away. - Taylor and Cage ask to join ML’s entourage on the way to the capital. ML has his staff treat them with respect and care, unlike everyone else who abandoned Taylor when he became crippled. - ML helps Taylor and Cage secretly get past the capital city gates using an invisibility tool before they part ways. - The royal event in the capital is the King’s 50th bday celebration. - At the Henituse residence in the capital, Choi Han and Princess Rosalyn arrive with Lock who is about to go berserk for the 1st time. Lock is taken to the underground training area. Rosalyn and Choi Han fight and protect Lock until he calms down and collapses. - On and Hong are yet to undergo their berserk transformation. - Beast people temporarily lose their sanity when they enter beast mode for the 1st time. This is due to the pain from their physical transformation. - Choi Han tells ML how he met Rosalyn and Lock as instructed by ML. There was an assassination attempt on Rosalyn as she was travelling from Breck via Roan to the magic tower in the Whipper kingdom. She decided to head to the Roan capital and go to an info guild to find out more about who was trying to kill her. She and Choi Han were hired as mercenaries escorting a merchant group. - The merchant group were scheduled to meet with the Blue Wolf tribe. Lock’s wolf tribe village was destroyed by the same secret organisation that wiped out Choi Han’s village. - The attackers were trying to kidnap the wolf children and killing everyone else. Lock protected the children. - Choi Han saw a mage drinking blood. Redika is a blood crazy, high level mage and the co-leader of the secret organisation. - ML takes Choi Han to the god of death temple. - ML vows by the god of death to Choi Han that he doesn’t know the identity or goal of the secret organisation. ML knows they’re planning a terrorist attack in the capital and he wants to stop them. - ML also vows that he has no desire to harm Choi Han. - Lastly ML vows to tell Choi Han if ML finds out the identity of the secret organisation. If ML breaks any of these vows, he’ll die. ML now has Choi Han’s complete trust. - ML has lunch with Rosalyn and introduces her to the baby dragon who has joined them. The dragon insists it’s with ML because he’s so weak and needs protecting. - House Henituse and House Wheelsman have a close relationship. - ML meets with the other neutral NE nobles, Eric Wheelsman (son of a Count), Gilbert and Lady Amirel Ubarr. To pacify the trashy, volatile nature of the original Cale, they insist on looking after everything at the upcoming events so ML can just relax and avoid anything annoying. All they ask is for ML to stay still and to greet the Crown Prince with them. - The plaza / magic bomb terror incident: - In the novel, the terrorist attack planned by the secret organisation occurs where the most people are gathered. - ML, Choi Han and the dragon go out late at night into the city streets of the capital. ML assigns Choi Han and the dragon to look around each night for any magic bombs. These bombs are scheduled to go off in multiple locations across the city in 6 days. ML plans to get rid of the bombs just before they’re detonated on the day of the royal event. - Alberu Crossman, Crown Prince and 1st Prince. - He’s the son of a maid who died when he was a young boy. - He’s ‘not weak’ according to the dragon. - Alberu is known for being skilled at manipulating people for the good of the Roan kingdom and it’s citizens. - The 3rd Prince is currently favoured by the King and his mother is the current Queen. Marquis Stan also supports the 3rd Prince. - Alberu was the one who called for a gathering in the capital of all the young nobles, as future leaders of the Roan kingdom. The 2nd and 3rd Princes also attend. The tables at the palace are arranged according to their noble faction: NE, NW, SE, SW and Central. - Taylor and Cage make a surprise appearance at the gathering. They are seated at the NE table where ML is. Venion is furious. - Neo Tolz, son of a Viscount and Venion’s lackey. - 5yrs ago Viscount Tolz became allies with Marquis Stan. The land where the dragon was imprisoned belongs to Viscount Tolz. - Lock takes ML to meet the 10 wolf children at the inn that ML has them staying at. Lock asks ML if he could protect these children. - Billos, illegitimate son of the Flynn Merchant guild master. - He owns the bookshop / tea shop in Westin that ML frequents. - Odeus Flynn, Billos’ uncle who started his own small merchant guild. Odeus was the one who hired Choi Han and Rosalyn as mercenaries. He secretly rules the underworld (?) - ML agrees to let Ron take a year off to kill ‘a group of foxes’. - He promises to send monthly reports to ML. He asks ML to look after his son. - Northeastern Shoreline Investment and Development project: - After a suggestion from ML, Lady Amirel seeks the permission of the royal family to build a military naval base in her territory and Gilbert’s territory. She asks ML to put in a word with his father to help fund the project. This will shift the balance of power to the NE nobles instead of towards the royal family who will also invest heavily in the project. - Count Henituse is already fortifying his territory’s walls. - The royal family are aware that the nearby Whipper kingdom will soon face a civil war. The kingdoms in the north are also gathering their forces. - Taylor is completely healed after making a deal with the Crown Prince, who wants to avoid a civil war in Roan. Taylor has promised to become the next Marquis. - King Zed Crossman. He succeeded the throne at 20yo. - The day of the King’s 50th bday celebration and festival: - In the early morning, ML has 3 teams (Choi Han / the dragon, Lock / Rosalyn, and the cat siblings) dismantle the 4 magic bombs they’d already located before. - Redika the blood crazy mage appears at 9am as expected. Several agents from the secret organisation also appear. ML activates the mana disturbance tool for 10mins to give his teams a chance to search for and remove magic bombs that 4 people are carrying. - The royal mages create a mana stabilisation barrier over the city centre. After the other bombs failed, Redika sends 2 suicide agents carrying magic bombs into the plaza. - The strong explosions from the 2 bombs are mostly contained within a barrier created by the dragon and ML who used his Shield ability. ML recovers quickly due to his Vitality ability. - Redika uses teleportation to disappear with the other agents. - Choi Han, Lock and the cat siblings were already sent by ML to where he’d reappear. Later Choi Han reports to ML that he killed all of the agents but only managed to chop off the mage’s arm and injure his eye. Ron and Beacrox have been informed of Redika’s appearance by Choi Han and will look out for the mage. - ML had publicly revealed he has an ancient power. - ML is treated as a VIP by Alberu who promises to generously reward ML. They understand each other and will use the aftermath of this incident for their own benefit. ML wanted his role downplayed, so Alberu portrayed ML as a young and weak nobleman who stepped forward for the kingdom’s sake. - ML asks for money as his reward. He’s given the authority to use the Golden Plaque twice. The Plaque can buy anything, no matter the cost. - ML and the black dragon are curious why Alberu chose to be weak and hide. Alberu didn’t reveal his strength during the suicide bombing where some people still died or were badly injured. Alberu isn’t human … - ML thanks everyone involved for saving so many lives. - Rosalyn will take Choi Han and Lock back with her to the Breck kingdom for her protection, now that her true identity has been revealed to the royal family in Roan. - ML tells Lock to return to the Henituse territory after 3mths where the wolf children will be waiting for him. Meanwhile ML has the wolf children training under Beacrox in the kitchen. - ML declined the medal of honour from the royal family. - ML uses a communication orb to reassure his family that he’s ok. - Taylor sends a message to say he’ll contact ML when he’s become the Marquis. That’s when the dragon can finally get revenge on Venion. - ML leaves the capital and arrives at the Ubarr territory. - ML plans to obtain the 3rd ancient power ‘Sound of Wind’ from the Ubarr territory. ML meets Lady Amirel Ubarr at a village near the Cliff of Winds which has many dangerous whirlpools below. - Toonka the tyrant, the “intelligent barbarian” and a mage slayer from the Whipper kingdom. - He’s the strongest on the western continent. - He’s obsessed with strength and danger. - He was rescued from a whirlpool by Lady Amirel’s people after he was shipwrecked. - The civil war in the Whipper kingdom is between the mage faction and the non-mage faction (called barbarians by the mages) who focus on physical strength. In the novel, the mages lose the war and the magic tower in the Whipper kingdom is destroyed. - During the day ML visits one of the islands nearby with Beacrox, the Vice Captain and the dragon. - The dragon saw 3 dead mer-people on the beach on the other side of the island and took ML there to confirm. - There is an ongoing war between the whale tribe and the mer-people. The mer-people want to expand their underwater kingdom beyond the south to cover the entire ocean, but the whale tribe don’t want to give up their territory in the north. - ML returns to the island at night with the help of the dragon. - A new magic bomb was made by the dragon using the condensed mana from the old dismantled magic bombs. This bomb divides itself into many smaller bombs before exploding. - ML throws the bomb into the strongest whirlpool near the island. After the bomb explodes, ML enters the whirlpool. - Long ago a legendary thief stole an item from a temple. She drowned when her legs were trapped under a boulder at the bottom of the ocean. She became a spinning top that creates whirlpools. - ML digs out the spinning top and crushes it to give freedom to the spirit of the thief. ML receives the Sound of Wind which seems to strengthen his Vitality ability as well. - ML finds a hidden cave near the water’s edge on the mainland. There he collects fire-suppressing water to be used later … - Paseton / Paethon, the only mixed blood member of the whale tribe and the son of the Whale King. - He was dying after being injured and poisoned by mer-people. ML saves Paseton by getting him to drink the blood of a mer-person. (The blood was from one of the 3 dead mer-people that ML confirms later were killed by Paseton). - Paseton’s older sister Whitira is the heir of the Whale King. - Lady Amirel takes ML and Toonka with a research team to investigate the explosion and the whirlpool that disappeared. - ML heads to the other side of the island and finds the bodies of the dead mer-people are gone. Whitira appears in whale form to thank ML for saving Paseton. Toonka suddenly arrives to challenge the whales to a fight. - Lady Amirel and her team hear the commotion. ML uses his Shield to protect them from the large wave caused by the fight. - Toonka is banished from the Ubarr territory for his act of violence. - ML helps to arrange for a ship to take Toonka back to the Whipper kingdom. ML tells Toonka to try not to destroy the Whipper magic tower so ML can buy it later. Toonka tells ML to visit the Whipper kingdom in 2mths. - Whitira and Paseton ask ML to help them enter the Forest of Darkness to investigate a swamp mentioned by the mer-people. - The mer-people suddenly became stronger about 2mths ago. The reason for this is connected to the swamp. - ML is offered the authority to use a sea route that hasn’t been discovered yet by humans. It is the safest out of all the sea routes and goes through the northern sea in the whale tribe’s territory. - ML asks for the whale tribe to lend their strength to him twice in the future. - The mer-people are trying to take control of all the sea routes between the eastern and western continents. - There’s an implicit agreement between those on the land and those of the sea. The sea routes were not to be touched by those of the sea, while those on the land didn’t interfere with issues of the sea. - ML returns home (with Whitira and Paseton hidden?) - ML contacts Alberu with a communication orb. He leaves a message to say he’ll be using the Golden Plaque to buy the magic tower of the Whipper kingdom. - the 4th ancient power, the Inferno of Destruction
Otherworldly Sword King's Survival Records
Ch 146 as of 07/09/22 - rate 3.5 so far (also on Tapas) ** Ch 129 missing (duplicate of Ch 128) - ML is Ryu Han Bin, discharged from his 2yr mandatory military service 3mths ago. ML was suddenly teleported to another world called Thelha Rath’na as a Chosen One (for the Demon God). - NB: ‘Chosen Ones’ don’t age and also have rapid recovery / healing abilities. Chosen Ones can see a guideline (ie status window) that shows the level of other humans and creatures. - ML must progress to L5 before he can move to another region. - There’s a system error with his transmission and he is the only ‘Chosen One’ to receive a defective guideline implanted in him. - He can only select the warrior class (rejected for all others) and he can only select the long sword as his beginner weapon. - He keeps ignoring the option to kill himself. - ML spends 22yrs alone, stuck in a starting safe zone called the Rock Mountains and trying to level up endlessly as a swordsman / warrior. He keeps going back to L1 despite gaining experience points (XP). - ML hones his basic skills (ie stab, side slash, vertical slash = cross impact / triple cross attack) to deadly perfection against the countless monsters that keep spawning and getting stronger. - He increases his vital stats to incredibly high numbers too (but they remain mostly hidden to others). - NB: Sathe Forest is in the Grailutte (was destroyed) / Exradd kingdom, Northern Rath’na continent. - After being noticed by one of the mysterious higher powers that be, ML is finally released from his solitary hell. He’s been teleported to the Sathe Forest. He’s attains L5 at last, and gains a communication skill of “language translation”. - He may now form a party with other ‘Chosen Ones’. - Despite not officially reaching L20, ML is on the Rath’na continent where the main fight begins. - His guideline (created by the Demon God?) gives him “The Final Mission” to kill 1 of the 6 Rath’na goddesses (of fire, water, wind, earth, darkness and light). - The final reward options are: - eternal youth and immortality, - return to Earth with his stats intact, or - 3 wishes will be granted. - ML must keep his identity as an other worlder a secret. - He must also register at the Hunters Guild in Onprous City. - ML meets Ephyr the wyvern L27, who attacked ML first but was beaten with one punch. Ephyr was a knights’ Mount but is now in hiding. A spoilt young prince died after falling from Ephyr while trying to ride her. - Ephyr tells ML that other worlders started appearing 40yrs ago and at first got along with the Rathnians. Soon the other worlders started killing Rathnians to increase their levels. They formed a group called Great Ursula (Great Earth) with the aim of killing a goddess. The 4 Heroes of the continent wiped out this group. - To meet a goddess, you have to be 1 of the 4 Heroes or you’ve done a great service to receive a blessing. Becoming a hunter and fighting the dungeon monsters created by the Demon God would count as a great service. - ML registers as a hunter at the Onprous Hunters Guild, with help and advice from Ephyr. He uses a fake identity under the name Eric Garrune from North Cambol. - The measuring stone at the guild reveals ML is L5, which removes suspicion he’s an other worlder who all start at L20. - ML is invited to join Burkeman’s party as a member. - Burkeman Ropall L25 swordsman, strongest tank in Onprous city. - Amber Bonnet L21 spearwoman. - Hubert Crutaus L18 magician. - Erwin Ropall L16 spiritualist, a healer, Burkeman’s younger sister. - Atisse / Artis Benister, L37 mage. - Head of the famous dragon hunter Benister family. - ML came across Artis naked in the forest when ML sensed a strong presence nearby and came to see if it was a large monster. - ML accidentally destroys the balls of Laude, L27 magic swordsman and Artis’ party leader. - ML is with Burkeman’s party for 3mths. - At Sathe Forest, none of the monsters’ levels are high enough for ML to gain XP. Ephyr has the highest level and even that’s too low for ML. - Iphen Plains dungeon: - ML comes across a magic portal to the dungeon after fighting some monsters. ML receives a fireball bracelet (30 uses) after killing a L40 boss monster. The item has a minimum L31 requirement for the owner to use it. - ML enters the central area of the dungeon. He’s attacked by a L45 tentacle beholder, the final boss. Laude was lost in the dungeon and arrives in the central area but thinks ML is an illusion. - The beholder possesses Laude and gets him to attack ML. The beholder is easily defeated by ML who splits it in half. - ML leaves the dungeon and returns to Burkeman’s camp without taking the magic core. - The guideline bug persists in how much XP is needed for ML to level up (54 billion!). He finds this out only after killing the final boss in this his 1st dungeon raid. - Burkeman’s party arrive back at Onprous city. - Someone else took the magic core which closed the Iphen Plains dungeon. This is why the city is now deserted as the city relied on hunters who came for the dungeon. - No one knows who took the magic core but the most likely suspect is it was an other worlder. An Inquisitor in charge of finding and executing other worlders is sent by the church of darkness. Anyone over L20 will be captured and tortured until they confess. - Artis tries to save ML from the suspicions of the Inquisitor after ML accidentally drops the fireball bracelet. - Laude shows up in time to admit he closed the dungeon and he is taken away by the Inquisitor instead. - ML is given monetary compensation by the Inquisitor. - ML gets Artis to give the money to Burkeman’s party on his behalf and to tell them he’s quitting the Hunter’s Guild. - ML did this to protect Burkeman’s party from the Inquisitor who might kill them for being associated with him. - ML spends the next 6mths working for the Chairman of the Onprous Architecture Association who knows ML is secretly an other worlder. - Artis the 150yo, L52 fire mage (and secretly a fire dragon) recruits ML to assist in collecting magic research samples in Sathe Forest. - They find an abandoned village overrun with kobolds. Artis destroys all of them with fire magic. ML finds a closed magic portal in a well. - ML and Artis fight a L72 lich. Artis reveals he’s a dragon and gets badly injured while protecting ML. Artis sees ML’s true strength when ML destroys the lich’s giant ice sword and the ice dome in one strike. ML grinds the lich's arms and legs to dust. - With it's body held captive, the lich initiates for it's body to self destruct. ML kicks the lich far away, saving himself and Artis. - ML takes Artis back to Onprous city for treatment. ML tells Artis that all he wants is to live like an ordinary person while adapting to this world. Artis is in ML’s debt and he’ll never forget the debt he owes to ML. The Chairman helps ML leave the city. - The lich was an other worlder called Shin Ha Jun, and he revealed to Artis and ML that Great Earth is involved. The comrades of the lich, Richard, Leslie and Alejandro later find where he exploded. These other worlders have captured Ephyr and are after Artis next. - Great Earth are experimenting on Rathnian humans by artificially implanting guidelines, but they can’t gain XP yet. They use monster parts to nullify the side effects of the implant, making the Rathnian half-human and half-monster. They want a dragon core to complete these experiments which is why they want Artis. - ML travels to the next city, Heitan the dungeon city. On the way he picks up a bandit called Calindor and accidentally gives all of ML’s gold coins to Calindor to start a new life. - Artis bought a house in the city and wants ML to join his party. - Heitan is built over a huge gorge that has the largest dungeon in the north, the Crater Valley dungeon. - When Artis registers at the Heitan Hunters’ Guild, he has ML disguise himself as a Valterian warrior. ML breaks the measuring stone as an “evil artifact” so his level isn’t revealed. Artis registers ML as his bodyguard. - Crater Valley dungeon: Artis tells ML about a dragon’s ability to absorb an opponent’s life force into it’s dragon core. Too much life force is dangerous and could even kill the dragon. - In order for greater dragons (older than 500yrs+) to absorb even greater life force, a place called a dragon’s nest was created where life force could be gathered like a well. - Ellie the blind girl, L34 magic swordswoman. - She’s a subordinate of Alejandro’s that has an artificial guideline. Her mother was a hunter who died when she was a child. Ellie was taken away by Alejandro and the guideline was forcibly implanted in her, making her lose her sight. Her role is to test the other Rathnian experiments by fighting against them. - Alejandro and his comrades were given the dragon’s nest at Heitan as proof of their alliance with the greater dragons. - Ellie tries to stop Ephyr from flying higher out of the dragon’s nest. Ephyr is hit by a massive amount of life force. Ellie saves Ephyr who has somehow survived. Ellie senses Ephyr might have a dragon core but is keeping it a secret from Alejandro. - Artis suggests raising ML’s notoriety by helping out other parties to show off ML’s strength. If ML’s fame as a hunter increases, so too will his chance of meeting the goddesses. - While helping out a party, Artis and ML are faced with a massive L50 spider queen dungeon boss. ML throws his sword with a magic wand attached and it stabs the boss monster then explodes, wiping out the monster in one go. Artis and ML saved the party and sold the artifact reward to them at a discounted price. - Emil Otto, L45 spiritualist and a high priest of Altia the goddess of light. He approaches Artis who agrees to go undercover for the order of light, despite ML’s objections. Artis will go alone and be disguised as a woman to spy on Alejandro and the dragon’s nest. - Lady Adora Benister died 10yrs ago while fighting the greater dragons with the 4 Heroes. Adora was like an older sister to Artis. He feels it’s his duty to look into this dragon’s nest which Adora gave up her life to ensure they were all destroyed. - Alejandro has been seen as a hero in the refugee villages outside of Heitan. This is because he sends hunters like Ellie to fight the monsters that attack these villages. - People are applying for work at the dragon’s nest for the high pay and conditions. Artis applies as a L30 mage to do magic research (he’s now L45). - Hendy L50 aura user and secretly a spy from the order of light, is Alejandro’s head of security. He’s killed by Alejandro who knew Hendy and Artis were spies. - Alejandro fights Artis, trying to force him to change into a dragon. - Ephyr hides and activates the dragon’s nest with her dragon core, which shifts Alejandro’s attention away from Artis. - Ellie and Artis realise they’re both on the same side. - Artis tells Ephyr that he knows ML. - ML needs money and is assigned a small quest by Emil’s sister to find him and return the clothes he stole (the clothes were for Artis). ML finds Emil in a cave. He was captured by half-monster Rathnians with artificial guidelines. ML destroys the half-monster test subjects and rescues Emil. ML learns that Artis is in danger. - Alejandro is rebuilding the dragon’s nest so it can be used to infuse a massive amount of life force into a dragon core for a genuine artificial guideline to work. - After exploring the dragon’s nest with Ellie, Artis thinks Ephyr’s newly formed dragon core is the key that has been registered to operate the dragon’s nest. Rather than waiting for Ephyr’s dragon core to be completed, Artis and Ellie want to look for the life force fusion in the basement. Artis will absorb the life force from there. - A test subject escapes and goes on a rampage. - Ephyr wants to prove herself and confronts the test subject alone. Ephyr takes the test subject up to the top of the dragon’s nest where it explodes after getting struck by the life force. - Ephyr survives but has revealed herself to Alejandro. Artis and Ellie fight him to give time for Ephyr to flee. - Alejandro defeats them all and captures the dragon core from Ephyr. He wears an artifact that stops dragons from morphing into human form, which is why Artis can’t transform. - ML saves Artis before he’s killed by Alejandro. - Alejandro uses Ephyr’s dragon core to absorb life force and become stronger. As Alejandro fights with ML, Artis telepathically tells ML not to kill him. Alejandro is using the dragon’s nest to absorb the life force of the nearby Rathnians to heal himself. Killing Alejandro would kill the other people too. - ML holds off Alejandro while Artis, Ellie and Ephyr look underground for the life force fusion. - Ellie steals the artifact from Alejandro while they were fighting. Artis transforms into a L67 dragon to fight Hendy who has become a monstrous test subject. Ellie cuts the pipe that disrupts the connection to Alejandro so he can no longer heal himself. Hendy is killed by a huge blast of fire from Artis. - Final battle: Alejandro injects himself with an artificial guideline(?). He transforms into a L72 humanoid with an incomplete Demon God’s Blessing. He still feels immense pain when ML rips him apart with his sword. - Artis can only stabilise the life force with his dragon core. - Ellie is mortally wounded by a loyal servant of Alejandro’s who then sacrifices herself to reconnect the pipe. - Ellie uses the artifact to change Ephyr into human form. Ephyr becomes a L5 magic swordswoman. ML fights Alejandro after they’ve crashed through to the basement. Ephyr replicates Ellie’s dancing sword steps and avoids Alejandro’s attacks. Ephyr slashes through the life force fusion as ML slices through Alejandro. - Emil and reinforcements from the order of light arrive. - In the end, Ellie dies. Ephyr is imprisoned awaiting trial as she and Ellie were seen as close associates with Alejandro. - Leslie secretly procures the (almost complete) Demon God’s Blessing from the dragon’s nest. - Haunted house: the Ghost Maiden L35 is a test subject with an artificial guideline. She’s an orphan who sees Richard and Leslie as her saviours. The house was the site of many secret experiments by Great Earth and has many traps. ML, Artis and Ephyr are sent there on a ghost subjugation mission by the order of light. - A dimensional trap was set to catch them. The place will cease to exist if they don’t find the operational tool (ie the Ghost Maiden) and destroy the source. - The Ghost Maiden possesses ML and fights him inside his mind. Artis creates a magic circle around ML that he activates when the Maiden comes out of his body. They escape the dimensional trap. Artis also nullifies the Maiden as an operational tool which meant she’s lost all of her abilities and is just an ordinary human now. - The Maiden reveals a golem transport carriage to help Ephyr get to her trial on time. The carriage is powered by a fragment from the Demon God’s Blessing that ML had. - At the trial, Ephyr is exonerated thanks to testimony from the Maiden. Later with her extensive knowledge of magic tools, the Maiden becomes an appraiser. - “Thinkers” the mage guild is a top level magic research institute in Rune the Magic Kingdom. - The mage symposium: where new magic tools are revealed, and nobles socialise and show off their possessions. - Richard and Leslie go to Rune the Magic Kingdom. They secretly meet with Zenovia during the mage symposium. - NB: The goddesses blessed the heroes so their bodies would never grow old. They maintain a youthful appearance. - The legendary 4 Heroes of the continent (from 20yrs ago): - Zenovia / Zenova, Archmage and ruler of Rune the Magic Kingdom. She’s also the leader of Thinkers. - Barolt the Sword King, a Valterian warrior. The strongest of the heroes and the strongest swordsman on the continent. He hasn’t been seen in recent years. - Garhan the Terrible, the top magic swordsman and monarch of Kaldurie, the kingdom of 1000yrs. He’s the only one still on active duty. He’s killed more other worlders than anyone. - Hollian, the strongest nymph, Queen of the nymphs and Queen of Allendia the fairy / spirit kingdom. The ultimate spiritualist and the transcendentalist of life and death. - The Heroes still have a limited lifespan. - Garhan and Zenovia (and supported by Hollian) want immortality so they can continue to protect this world (as the new gods?), instead of the goddesses who act as passive spectators. - With dimensional sealing magic, Zenovia and Garhan have sealed Kivryelle the Goddess of Darkness. They must remain in the neutral space to keep the goddess trapped. Communicating with the outside world, they’re using the Inquisitors and the Dark Brotherhood to collect the remaining fragments for the Demon God’s Blessing so they can use it to transfer the goddess’ powers to themselves. So far they’ve absorbed half of Kivryelle’s powers. - ML meets Zhanglu Xin (from Shanghai) when he registers as a new L20 hunter at the Heitan Hunters Guild. Ephyr (with a new dragon core) is registered as a new L15 hunter of Artis’ party. - ML and Zhanglu are sentenced to the Crater Valley prison camp for 100yrs after accidentally hurting the Baron who is in charge of the prison. Zhanglu tells ML to hunt monsters in the dungeon for their magic stones to bribe the guards to reduce their sentences. - Zhanglu is a naive idealist who hopes other worlders and native-born will be able to coexist peacefully. He also believes in being a hero that protects and cares for the weak. - Zhanglu died in a car accident and was reborn as a Chosen One. In his past life he was a loner and a bookworm. He made good friends when he was L5 to L19 but was alone again when he reached L20 and was teleported to the Rath’na continent. He wants to become famous so his friends will hear about him and come find him. The 4 vital energies / great powers: Aura - Strong physique and destructive energy. Mana - Magical energy. Prana - Regenerative and protection energy. Force - Lightning and internal energy. - Sir Leonhart Catel Francis, Inquisitor and L120+ spiritualist. - He was a hero blessed by the goddesses. He maintains a youthful appearance and has a limited lifespan. - The Dark Brotherhood have been locating and securing dragon’s nests held by Great Earth in search of fragments of the Demon God’s Blessing. This has been directly ordered through oracles from the Goddess of Darkness, but it’s actually Garhan instructing them. - Garhan and Zenovia were the ones who created the new “fake” Great Earth group. A spell is cast on its members that if they try to reveal any info about the 4 Heroes, the taboo magic will melt their brain and they’ll die. - Garhan sends Leslie to infiltrate the prison and retrieve the fragment of the Demon God’s Blessing from the other worlder. - Zhanglu starts a protest chant among the prisoners to release them while the Baron is visiting the prison. The Baron offers a deal for ML to fight the other worlder prisoner, a L61 magic swordsman (who is actually Laude). If ML wins, the Baron will reduce everyone’s sentences. Leslie volunteers to be on Laude’s side to fight against Zhanglu and ML. - At the battle arena, Laude uses his beholder arm to control the monsters and makes them swarm around ML. After the monsters are easily wiped out by ML, Laude summons a L80 dungeon boss. - ML splits the boss monster in 2. His killing instincts from his 22yrs in the Rock Mountains have taken over. - Before ML kills Laude as his 1st Rathnian, Zhanglu intervenes and his arm is severed. - NB: Other worlders become addicted to killing Rathnians from the pleasure that’s released to their brains after they do so. That’s why other worlders become murderous monsters. - Leslie was in a cell with other worlders like her and they were suffering from withdrawal symptoms after killing Rathnians. She was made a subordinate of Hollian, Garhan and Zenovia, and did their dirty work for 10yrs. She’s under a “restrain” spell / seal that keeps her murderous intent under control. - ML sees that Leslie is a spiritualist and has her heal Zhanglu as much as she can. Laude covers for them from the Baron’s guards as they escape into the tunnel created by the boss monster. ML becomes wanted for escaping prison. - Zhanglu asks ML for his help in fighting for what he believes in. ML agrees to help Zhanglu achieve his ideals. - Sir Leonhart has a merchant investigate the Crater Valley prison camp for him, and he sees photos of ML. He recognises him as the L5 hunter who evaded him in Onprous city. He arrives at Heitan and runs into Artis. He pays the Baron a visit with Artis and Ephyr. - The Baron runs away, fearful of being punished for having a fake other worlder (ie Laude). Artis, Ephyr and Leonhart follow him to the empty arena. The Baron uses the captive Laude’s beholder ability to summon another dungeon boss. Leonhart swiftly defeats the boss monster. - Zhanglu unites the prisoners that were sent after them by the Baron. Under his leadership, the prisoners want to expose the injustice and inhumane treatment in the prison, take the Baron to court for his illegal actions, and gain their freedom. - Leslie succumbs to her murderous intent as the seal has been weakened. She kills a prisoner who was against Zhanglu’s plan. - ML and Zhanglu find Leslie unconscious after possibly trying to kill herself. Nearby are the dead prisoner and a dead guard killed by Leslie. ML chases after the surviving injured guard. - Zhanglu leads the prisoners while carrying Leslie towards the boss room. They are met by guards who shoot a barrage of missiles that kills everyone. Leslie feeds the dying Zhanglu the fragment of the Demon God’s Blessing. He transforms and kills all of the guards. - ML is interrupted in his chase by Leonhart. - Leonhart and ML battle it out, with devastating effects. - After a massive blow from Leonhart, ML seems to be no longer conscious and his body is fighting purely with his survival instincts and veteran hunting skills. ML’s aura is awakened at last in a huge explosive burst. He manages to injure Leonhart and the residual aura makes it slow to heal with his prana. They continue to fight this battle of epic proportions. - Artis and Ephyr arrive at the boss room. They carefully approach Zhanglu who is holding an unconscious Leslie. Artis tries to separate the fragment from Zhanglu using the other fragment she has attached to her staff. She’s interrupted by a surviving prisoner who takes the boss room artifact that would close the dungeon. It becomes a portal that teleports all of them to Heitan. - Zhanglu now carries an unconscious Artis with Leslie. He kills the hunters who surround him and attack him. He flies away with Artis and Leslie, heading towards the Eastern Valley to meet ML as promised. Ephyr frees Artis with a slash of her sword. - Zhanglu’s mutated body is trying to use Leslie’s life force to heal itself. Zhanglu regains control of his body and breaks free from the mutant shell. His severed arm is restored with properties from the fragment. Artis casts a huge fireball at the still live mutant shell, incinerating it completely. They can see the fight between ML and Leonhart from afar. Zhanglu decides to sacrifice himself to stop the fight between ML and Leonhart. - Just as ML makes the perfect combo sword attack, the power of ML’s aura in the end overwhelms his body and eventually destroys his weapon. He asks Leonhart to spare Artis, Ephyr and Zhanglu, and he’ll take full responsibility. - Before ML lets Leonhart kill him, Zhanglu interrupts. He admits to being an other worlder and that he has killed innocent people while under the Demon God’s Blessing. He’s prepared to be punished and pay for his crimes. All he asks is to stop the needless fighting and killing. - Suddenly Zhanglu’s body is pierced through with a spear. The hunters want revenge for those Zhanglu killed earlier and come running towards him, screaming for his other worlder blood. Leonhart stops the mob with what appears to be a final strike that makes Zhanglu’s body disappear. Leonhart has the fragment of the Demon God’s Blessing in his hand. - With Zhanglu’s death, nothing has changed. - The Baron denies any illegal activity at the prison camp. - The Baron blamed the deaths of the prisoners and guards all on Zhanglu. He even made Laude his military commander. - ML blames himself for Zhanglu’s death and is finding it hard to see the way forward. - Leslie cancels the banned mark magic contract with the Maiden. The contract forced the Maiden to never betray Leslie or else she’d die. Leslie tells the Maiden to live freely. - As Leslie’s own contract is still active, she decides to go back to Great Earth but will fight for Zhanglu’s ideal from within. - Sir Leonhart secretly saved Zhanglu. Leonhart is suspicious of who is really behind the oracles directing the Brotherhood. - ML and co. deduced Zevonia, Garhan and Hollian are behind everything. They head for Allendia the fairy kingdom 1st to deal with Hollian. The fairy kingdom is made of an alliance between 4 races / species (Branch sylphs, Shrub nymphs, Root elves, Underground dwarves) concentrated around the world tree. Each race has their own culture and ruler. The capital city is located at the trunk of the world tree. Solondia, largest city of the elf kingdom: - ML, Ephyr (L38 magic swordswoman), Artis (L52 mage) arrive at the elf kingdom. ML breaks the sword while trying to pull it out from the ground for the Thanksgiving / Harvest festival. The sword is meant to be a symbolic gesture, with the elf king as the only one who can release the sword from its magic. - ML uses his aura to destroy the giant boulder golem that was summoned by the elves. Elf soldiers surround him and … - Prince Rondelle Atlancis, a half-elf who was about to be killed by some humans in an abandoned sanctum of the Goddess of Darkness. A bright light appeared and scared the humans away. A woman called Kivye appeared from that light. - … Kivye tells ML to surrender to the elves. ML, Ephyr and Artis had saved Rondelle who was nearby. The Crown Prince sees Rondelle and immediately hails ML and co. as Rondelle’s saviours. - ML’s guideline initially showed an error with Kivye but later it said she was a L80 warrior. She tells ML that she’s the embodiment of the Goddess of Darkness. She was created to protect Rath’na from destruction. Kivye was sent to test him as a candidate for assistance by testing his abilities. - Before Kivye can challenges ML, he meets the old elf king in a secluded space. The elf king mistakes ML for the Sword King initially, then the elf king sticks a sword into the ground. ML’s broken sword is pulled into the ground by tree roots. - ML pulls out his sword with great force and buries the elf king up to his chin in dirt. The sword is repaired with wood from the roots of the world tree (it’ll help ML control his aura). The elf king admits he was testing ML as he was curious about his abilities. - NB: Rondelle is the youngest son of the elf king. His human mother ran away and abandoned him. Elves despise half elves. - The elf king asks ML and co. to go with Rondelle to find out the cause of what’s killing the people and livestock in the eastern small root village. When they arrive after being chased by monsters, they discover the 2nd elf prince (the Crown Prince’s younger twin brother) is hiding in the village after being banished from the elf kingdom 10yrs ago. The 2nd elf prince is the only mage and doctor in the village. - Kivye has another mission from the Goddess of Darkness: to find Barolt who can defeat the other 3 corrupt heroes. - Kivye tells ML and co. that the Goddess of Darkness has been sealed away by Garhan and Zenovia. - Bloodsuckers have been sucking out the life force from living beings in the village, while also infecting them with parasitic larvae. A “mother” monster creates and controls the bloodsuckers. They are also attracted to and feed off aura. The entire village was already infected 6mths ago before Rondelle’s party arrived. - The bloodsuckers came through a rift to another dimension. After sensing bad energy, the 2nd elf prince and the villagers went underground to inspect the root of the world tree and saw the rift. - The infection doesn't seem to affect the 2nd elf prince. - The “mother” is now playing happy pretend families with Rondelle’s party. Kivye overcame the infection herself and has infiltrated the “family”. Rondelle remains uninfected. - The bloodsuckers are dungeon level monsters. - The parasites need memories to work. The infected are brainwashed with new memories that overwrite the old ones. - Rondelle breaks through a brick wall in his cell and uncovers roots of the world tree. He uses his royal power to communicate with the roots and break the connection of the “mother” monster with the parasites. Kivye uses that interruption to wake up ML by kissing him to transfer aura. It works and ML uses his aura to incinerate the monster. - The main body of the monster is underground absorbing life force from the roots of the world tree. The 2nd prince took the still infected Artis and Ephyr down there, but ran away when they attacked him. ML, Kivye and Rondelle arrive. ML fights off Artis and Ephyr while Kivye fights the multiple clones of the monster. - Kivye steals the polymorph necklace from Ephyr and uses it to force Artis and Ephyr to transform into their true original selves, a dragon and a wyvern. - They all attack the main monster which has possessed the entire world tree. Rondelle has connected with the world tree which stops the monster from regenerating. - The 2nd elf prince reveals to Rondelle that he was banished because the elf king discovered his experiments with bloodsuckers. The 2nd elf prince had been experimenting with them on humans for the past 20yrs. Once the main monster dies, he wants Rondelle to open the rift to let more monsters in so he can control the world. - Leonhart is on an unofficial mission. He saves Laude who had been arrested as a suspect in the murder of the Baron. Leonhart is with Laude and Zhanglu in a barren icy wasteland. - Leonhart mentions the appearance of rifts about 6mths ago. Over 100 have been reported to the Dark Brotherhood. As they approach a rift, Leonhart asks Zhanglu to share what the guideline says. It’s “Unstable dimensional rift: For the abandoned homeland and the god of the gods”. - ML and co. discover the true form of the main monster. ML talks to it as the guideline says it’s a L32 Angel species. It was originally living in a barren valley hunting smaller creatures to survive. It was badly injured by a larger predator and escaped through a rift. It was found and cared for by a young boy, his vet father and mother. The boy named it Snow and it was happy to have a family. - The boy became sick from a mysterious illness infecting many of the villagers. The 2nd elf prince was invited by the parents and he helped the boy get better. He also helped heal many of the villagers which helped him to be accepted. - The boy was too weak and eventually died. His parents were overcome with grief. Snow had the ability to take on the characteristics of anything it ate. Snow ate the boy’s body and evolved. It wanted to ease their grief but the father was horrified and tried to kill it but the mother protected Snow and was struck instead. Snow lost control and the father died as well. - Some villagers came to kill Snow as it was seen digging up the boy’s grave. Snow tried to escape through the rift but discovered it was able to control the villagers. This was because the boy it ate and the villagers were infected by bloodsuckers. The 2nd elf prince made a deal with Snow to help it so it could live like a human. Snow gave him 2 of it’s 4 eyes so the 2nd prince could control the bloodsuckers too. - Snow sends all of the infected villagers far away from the world tree, so that the bloodsuckers will naturally die off. - Snow goes with ML and co. to look for Rondelle. - They find Rondelle under the mind control of the 2nd Prince at the undergound roots of the world tree near the rift. - Rondelle can connect with the world tree but the Crown Prince and the 2nd Prince can’t. This is because Rondelle is the true heir as the son of the Crown Prince. The 2nd Prince sent assassins that killed Rondelle’s mother and almost killed Rondelle. - A large L148 Angel suddenly appears through the rift and devours the 2nd elf prince, evolving further. As ML fights this Angel, it pulls ML through the rift to the other world. ML struggles to fight the Angel as his guideline doesn’t allow him to use aura. - The unstable dimensional rifts lead to the land of the Demon God, the same place ML trained at for so long. - The ‘Angels’ seem to be the Demon God’s experiments to create weapons for an invasion of Rath’na. All Angels have the ability to take on the traits of what it’s eaten, accelerating it's evolution. The size of an Angel indicates how much it’s eaten. - The Angels aren’t bound to a dungeon and keep trying to crossover through the rift and wreck havoc. Ephyr as a wyvern and Artis fight a swarm of smaller Angels that end up eating eachother and evolving into a larger Angel. - Ephyr and Artis lead the large evolved Angel underground and through the rift, killing the smaller Angels on the way. Their Angel and the L148 Angel fight eachother while Ephyr and Artis help an injured ML back through the rift. - Using Kivye’s divine power and some of her aura, ML manipulates his guideline and is able to fight against the L148 Angel. With support from Artis, ML lands a cross impact blow and splits the Angel’s head open, but it was just a shell. A smaller humanoid body emerges that’s evolved from the elf it consumed. This Angel copies ML and targets Artis with Ephyr and Snow. - Kivye distracts the Angel and brings ML back through the rift. Artis and Ephyr are also there, having survived thanks to Snow who absorbed the Demon God’s Blessing fragment from Artis’ staff. - The elves led by the Crown Prince arrive to help close the rift with their magic using the world tree roots. After Snow helps to hold onto the humanoid Angel from the other side, Hollian drives this highly evolved Angel back with her huge magic crossbow. (tbc Snow either perished or was also pushed back) - Hollian fully heals ML, Artis and Ephyr. Rondelle remains in a coma. The heads of the fairy alliance meet and are informed of what happened. The sylph king steals the polymorph necklace from Ephyr to lure ML to the dwarf king who wants to test his new weapon. Artis interrupts ML and the dwarf king with an ice blast. Ephyr chases after the sylph king and eventually wins in magic swordsmanship against the king. - ML and co. explain to the elf king about what’s happened to the Goddess of Darkness. He shows them some letters he’s received from Barolt. They contain cryptic messages, with the most recent letter delivered by the merchant caravan that’s leaving that night. - ML and co. join the caravan as mercenary guards. - The dwarf king gives Artis a customised weapon. The sylph king gives Ephyr a secret book of magic. Rondelle wakes up and gives something to Kivye. - NB: The dimensional rifts are due to the goddesses’ weakened protection over Rath’na after the Goddess of Darkness was sealed. The rifts don't appear in the territories of Garhan and Zenovia. - Hollian expresses concern about the rifts to Garhan and Zenovia, who had given Hollian an early warning about them. She knows about their plans and supports them as her team mates and friends. They’re keeping some aspects a secret from Hollian. Richard has been tasked with killing Hollian if she learns the whole truth. - The 450yo elf king is assassinated by Richard, under the orders of Garhan and Zenovia. Publicly his death is announced as caused by chronic illness. - Leonhart is arrested by the Dark Brotherhood for conducting an unauthorised investigation, and for going against the oracle of the Goddess of Darkness. He tells the shaman that he suspects someone is pretending to be the Goddess and has stolen her divine power. - Laude and Zhanglu who were set free, attempt to break Leonhart out of the Brotherhood prison. They are surrounded by the Brotherhood but Leonhart breaks free from his restraints and protects Laude and Zhanglu. - The shaman has the Brotherhood surrender and admits it was a test to see Leonhart’s resolve. The shaman also suspects the Goddess is an imposter. The latest oracle ordered the arrests of ML, Artis, Ephyr and Kivye, with wanted posters to be put up soon. They are accused of assassinating the elf king. - Leonhart with Laude and Zhanglu go to find ML and co. - The fairy alliance don’t believe ML and co. are guilty so an investigative team is set up to find out the truth. Richard is assigned as the team leader. His task under Garhan and Zenovia is to kill ML and co. Leslie is assigned to keep an eye on Hollian. - The 4 heroes in the war 20yrs ago sent the defeated other worlders to a sky dungeon and sealed them away. As punishment, the other worlders with an average of L80 were made to hunt monsters to collect their magic stones for the heroes. - Richard has a group of these other worlders hunt ML and co. - ML and co. enter the desert and reach the forgotten ancient city of Callan. It’s situated on a huge oasis in the middle of the desert. The desert city was built on the rooftops of the ruins. A dungeon appeared 35yrs ago and is known as the Great Labyrinth. - ML’s team save Madame Celia from thieves. She owns and runs many of the businesses in the city. She gives them a map to help with exploring the labyrinth. She also gave them artifacts called chain fragments that tell you if a team mate is in danger. - In the dungeon, ML fights the monsters and leaves the final blow to Artis and Ephyr so they can absorb the life force and level up their dragon cores. With great teamwork, they destroy a large and difficult monster. They realise the map Celia gave them was to the thieves’ hideout. They bring the thief leader back to Celia and ML threatens her for tricking them. Suddenly ML is grabbed by someone and smashed through the wall and through the lower floors. It’s Barolt (L200+ alpha). - Barolt refuses to listen to ML and insists on fighting him. They’re stopped by Celia before they demolish the whole city. - Kivye explains the situation to Barolt and he refuses. - Kivye tries to kill herself as she feels unwanted but also needs to send word back to the Goddess. ML saves her. ML, Ephyr and Artis convince Kivye that she’s a much valued member of the team. - Barolt wants to take ML with him to defeat the divine beast that’s guarding the lowest floor of the labyrinth. Once the beast is defeated and the dungeon closed, Barolt agrees to go on the mission set by the Goddess of Darkness. Kivye cuts her hair and gives it to ML, hoping the divine power in her hair might help him. - The merchant caravan that ML’s team had guarded earlier is approached by the other worlders group on behalf of the fairy alliance. The other worlders kill everyone in the caravan and frame ML for their murder. - Leonhart, Laude and Zhanglu are in the desert and they come across the bodies of those from the merchant caravan. A survivor tells them it was a group from the fairy alliance before she dies. - Leonhart can tell the killers were other worlders from how the caravan people died. He recalls an incident 15yrs ago when Richard’s family were killed by the villagers after they found out he was an other worlder. Richard killed all of the villagers for revenge. - Martin the warrior and the sister spiritualists Elza and Poelle were in the party that ML saved from the spider queen before. - Martin was also the one who speared Zhanglu. - Martin is obsessed with getting stronger than the other worlders. - Barolt saves Martin from a strong monster. A horde of monsters surround them, so Barolt takes the sisters while ML carries the injured Martin down a long and winding water drain. - They arrive at Barolt’s home base that he’s created from the remains of monsters. Barolt offers to train ML and Martin for 15 days until they run out of food. - ML has an abnormal amount of aura which developed due to the extreme hardships he faced and fought against. As he only recently manifested his aura, he is bad at controlling it. It’s almost as if ML is cursed to be unable to control aura. He wants to learn how to create an aura blade like Barolt. - There’s a massive door near Barolt’s home. Behind the door is the divine beast that Barolt wants ML to defeat. The door can only be opened by slashing it with an aura blade. - After a few days, Barolt opens the door with his aura blade and pushes ML through to the other side. The door seals up behind ML. A giant arm of an Angel is trapped (by Barolt) and blocking a rift in the ground. - Barolt used the skin of the Angel to make the door. - Barolt wants to bring out ML’s true nature while surviving in a situation where ML can’t escape and is faced with death. - ML fights that arm for 5 days straight. After ML has run out of aura, he can finally sense all 4 of the vital energies around him. - ML realises the wood from the world tree acts as a sheath for his sword while it absorbs ML’s aura and creates a blade from bloodstone (red aura crystal). He unsheathes his sword and slashes the door into pieces while severing the Angel’s arm. - ML is unconscious for 2 days. Ch 120 to 125 [ Barolt’s story and how he met the other 3 Heroes ] - 70yrs ago, dungeons and monsters suddenly appeared on the Rath’na continent. Valterians were treated as simple barbarians and often hired as cheap mercenaries. As a boy, Barolt lost his family while fighting monsters during a mercenary job. 21yo Barolt leaves his tribe and travels to the Rath’na continent to grow stronger. - Barolt pushed himself to grow stronger as he endlessly fought monsters. 25yo Barolt meets Garhan, a magic swordsman from Thunderbolt, a hunter guild. Garhan hides his identity as the heir of the noble Andrews family. While Barolt and Garhan fought each other, they destroyed the monster that killed Barolt’s family. Barolt awakened his aura during their fight. - Garhan takes Barolt to his guild to collect the reward for killing the monster. Garhan convinces Barolt of his sincerity in hunting monsters to protect the weak. Barolt agrees to join Garhan’s party as his guardian knight. Garhan is disowned by his family for becoming a lowly hunter. Barolt and Garhan focus on closing dungeons and become famous. They sell their dungeon artifacts to Zenovia who researched the Demon God’s magic. She later joined their party. - They saved Hollian, a nymph slave who was being mistreated with other slaves by a nymph noble family. Hollian also joined the party and they became known as righteous hunters who helped the weak. Their strength and their followers grew. - Years pass. The party hold promotional exhibition shows to encourage the nobles to invest in more hunter guilds. - Other worlders have started to appear. - Garhan’s father dies and he decides to retire as a hunter to return to being a noble and a political figure. - Barolt challenges Garhan to a duel to determine who was the strongest. After an epic battle, Hollian and Zenovia stop them from killing each other. Garhan begs Barolt to stay by his side. Barolt doesn’t agree with Garhan giving up his sword and leaves the party. - 20yrs later, Barolt continues to search for “true strength.” - Garhan of Kaldurie declares war on Great Earth and the other worlders. Barolt finds new purpose in representing his tribe and joins Garhan in the war. - After the war ends, the 4 comrades are called Heroes by the goddesses. A massive volcanic eruption occurs on the island where the Valterian tribe is. They’re all killed, leaving Barolt as the last surviving Valterian. - Garhan secretly spread a false rumour that the other worlders are demons to justify the war (?) [ ML’s story resumes ] - ML and Barolt enter the rift to fight the Angels. - Those who can see guidelines can’t attack Angels. That’s because both other worlders and Angels are sent by the Demon God. - ML is able to kill the Angels by using aura. Barolt trains ML as they fight the Angels. - Artis, Ephyr and Kivye work at the Oasis bar under Celia as they wait for Barolt and ML to return. - Richard and the other worlder assassins arrive at Callan and target Artis, Ephyr and Kivye right away. - Leonhart arrives with Laude and Zhanglu and they help Artis, Ephyr and Kivye against their attackers. - Kivye was to be captured alive. As the goddess’ embodiment, she is an avatar that has a share of the goddess’ power. If Garhan kills Kivye with his own hands, he’ll obtain more of the goddess’ power. - Garhan needs the knowledge and info to control the goddess’ divine power that was sealed inside Kivye. - Martin is finally able to manifest his aura. - More other worlder assassins arrive at Barolt’s home. - ML receives a signal from the communication device that Celia gave him. Barolt continues to fight the Angels while ML leaves the rift to check on his friends. ML arrives at Barolt’s home just in time to save Martin and the twin sisters from being killed. - ML kills the assassins except for their healer who ML gets to help Martin and the sisters recover, then they head to Callan. - Garhan arrives in Callan and he kills Martin and one of the sisters. Garhan easily defeats ML and Leonhart. Garhan absorbs the knowledge and info from Kivye. Multiple rifts suddenly appear across the darkened skies and angels come pouring out. - Barolt appears through a rift. Garhan offers to share his divine power with Barolt who has less than 4mths to live. - Barolt creates a new divine power from his own aura. - Garhan and Barolt fight a colossal battle. Both are critically injured and weakened. As the skies clear and the rifts close, Zenovia arrives to finish off Barolt. He still manages to sever her legs. ML and co. arrive to protect Barolt. As ML fights Garhan, Zenovia opens a portal. Zenovia and Garhan escape. - Barolt is using the small aura he has left to stay alive. He asks ML to strike the last blow so Garhan and Zenovia, who have artificial guidelines from the Demon God’s blessing, don’t get the XP from his death. This is his last battle as true warriors. - Barolt found Celia as a baby among the ashes of his tribe. She is now the last surviving Valterian. - Barolt’s death is announced. The truth is yet to be revealed. - From the XP received, ML finally levels up.
I've Become the Villainous Empress of a Novel
Read ch 76 as of 28/12/21 - ** Gaps in story make it confusing and hard to follow. Some really bad translation. I’ve had enough - DROPPED - FL was a 32yo office worker who woke up after a night drinking and is reborn as Empress Julia Domina Berius of the Ranchea Empire, 3 days before she’s due to be executed by rebels led by her knight Eustos Marcus (illegitimate son of a Duke). - FL was a just ruler who changed into a hedonistic tyrant. This was due to Duke Kierr Fez who secretly drugged her. Duke Fez handled the internal affairs of the Empire as FL’s proxy while she was at war for a year and continued to do so in the year after the war ended. - To prevent her death, FL frees those imprisoned in the Tower of Exile who were falsely accused by Duke Fez. - FL reinstates the 17yo archmage Felix and Count Cyril Venus to gather evidence of corruption, embezzlement, bribery, etc by Duke Fez and the nobles he led over the last 2 yrs. - FL summons all of the nobles and has Count Venus present in detail all of the crimes Duke Fez is accused of. FL sets a trial date in a few days time to prove she is fair and just. - Eustos gives up the rebellion after seeing FL’s golden aura. He asks to pledge his loyalty to her again. - Duke Fez is freed from prison by his ally Count Arita but they are met coming out of the sewers by FL, Eustos and Felix. - FL holds a trial that day with the extra charge of treason, including leaking secret files to foreign parties and obtaining drugs that were secretly given to FL. All of those convicted were executed immediately. - FL appoints Count Venus (a foreigner) as her Chancellor. - After a month of hard work, FL is forced to take time off for the Thanksgiving festival. She goes with Eustos who takes care of some thugs, former knights of Duke Fez. - FL can’t recall an incident from 2 yrs ago involving her safety that has Eustos and Felix always worried about her. - The threat of the Eton Empire still lurks... their Emperor is on the run? Daughter of the Emperor is Gaiana who used her manipulation power to send a psychic msg to FL: “Don’t come back or remember”. She seems aware that FL went back in time. - An underlying problem identified by FL are the former nobility of countries who surrendered to the Empire. Their loyalty is questionable and corruption likely. - Highlighted as a priority by Count Venus is the ex-Nasran kingdom (now a colony of the Empire) and its corrupt nobles under Baron Schetta vs Count Envida. A petition from the commoners sent to FL was about the corrupt ex-Nasran nobility protecting their privileges and using extortion (done previously under Duke Fez). - FL goes w/ Eustos and Felix to visit the Baron to investigate. - The Baron wines and dines FL in his opulent residence, including supplying handsome men who were in debt to him. FL pretends to be her old tyrant self. She gets the men so drunk they fall asleep. - A lavish hunt is arranged by the noble sycophants. - FL tours the town and receives full reports later by Eustos and Felix on the extent of corruption in the region - Baron’s ball has all of the corrupt nobles assembled. FL exposes them all, including Count Envida. They are arrested and sentenced for their crimes. - While FL looks for a capable person to take over Count Envida’s estate, she looks more broadly at the noble feudal system and wants to reform it. Titles of honour should be awarded based on merit and not inherited. Eustos and Venus are the first nobles to give up their hereditary titles. FL awards them with titles of honour. Other nobles soon follow. - New Years Ball: a political event. Foreign dignitaries are invited. This is the 1st imperial event since unification. - Jena, former royal from Iren kingdom. Known as a Saint for her healing powers, her ability is conditional. Whenever she uses her powers, she’s forced to relive her unhappiest memories. - Brig Wade, former king of Wedene. Has a weak body. - Gaiana is being forced to be the villainess by her father. She wants to save FL … - During the ball, a large fire breaks out in the Western Palace. The archives with all documents of Duke Fez’ corruption were destroyed. Jena saw an ancient magic symbol that night. - Usdan kingdom, Count Leoncia Virez, pirates … Virez had rebelled against FL when she was under the influence of drugs and alcohol. She became a pirate for the greater good and in the public interest (?) - FL takes an expedition south to take care of the pirates. Jena asked to join them. On the way they come across a group of refugees fleeing from Tern. The Viscount is weak, delusional and corrupt, made worse by his half brother the Knight Commander. FL takes control of Tern. - FL uses Tern as bait to lure Count Virez, who has the ability to disrupt magic and repel detection. Virez enters Tern under the guise of peddlers. FL and Eustos go to confront Virez but she surprises them instead. Virez tests FL by having a sword fight with her. FL wins and Virez acknowledges FL as the Empress. Later FL confers the position Duke of Usdan to Virez. - FL arrives at Nator and meets 17yo Camellia Arden, the Queen of Usdan. She has the ancient magic ability of clairvoyance.
My Sister Picked Up The Male Lead
Read ch 37 as of 13/05/21 - translation weird - Sister is Diana, ML is Grand Duke Lennox / Nox, FL is 16yo Amy. Diana found an unconscious ML in the forest. He was on the run from assassins sent by the Crown Prince and lost his memory. - ML is under a curse where he is a child by day and an adult by night. His adult self has no memories of his child self and vice versa. As a child, ML follows FL around closely and acts like a child. The adult ML is very distrustful at 1st. - While Diana is away for a few days, FL and ML go to the abandoned house to look for any magic books that could help with ML’s curse. The Origin of Spells book falls open to the same emblem as the necklace that also spills out. The emblem flashes briefly on FL’s hand as she reads the name Matari. - ML is injured by monsters on the way back home. - Mercenaries follow Diana home after they had a fight in town. ML wins in a sword fight against them but further aggravates his injuries. In distress FL prays for him to be ok and the symbol on her palm glows as ML is healed and also returns to his child self. - Diana discovers ML as an adult - Diana brings home a bound and gagged Grey, one of the Shadow Knights / Knights of Dawn loyal to ML. Despite ML’s amnesia Grey departs to tell the other knights that ML is alive. - Soldier spies for the Crown Prince saw Grey and raid the house to find FL and child ML. As FL prays desperately for help, the symbol glows and ML becomes an adult. He fights off the soldiers and they flee into the forest as a fire starts around the house. ML returns to the house to fight alongside his knights and FL comes out of hiding at the end to find Diana and ML badly injured. FL’s power is activated to make ML a child while also healing him. - Diana and FL are teleported with the knights and ML to a doctor for treatment. Once Diana is stabilised, FL uses their own teleport marble and vanish as they are fugitives. - 3yrs later and the sisters have made a new home in a southern village. Diana is finally training as a knight and FL works as a healer. ML has since partnered with Serena the mage and they’ve become renowned as heroes. - FL has a surprise client that she cures of poisoning and he reveals himself as the Crown Prince. FL tries to run away from him by attending the crowded festival nearby but he finds her easily thanks to the traces of her magic. She evades him again and runs into Grey who tries to kidnap her but she uses poisonous herbs to disable him. In the end ML is the one who finds FL. - ML teleports FL to his estate after another attempt to escape by FL. There is talk of wedding preparations and FL assumes these are for Serena and ML.
Suddenly Became a Princess One Day
Read ch 81 as of 06/10/20 - FL reborn as outcast princess baby. Meets cold emperor father as toddler & attempts to build good relations as she grows up. - Support FL believes she is half-sister of main FL princess. More likely daughter of fake death older brother to Emperor. Use of black magic implied. - Emperor suffers amnesia after unexplained magic incident. Relations revert to bad with main FL.
Eleceed
(on Webtoon too) - Ch 239 as of 14/11/23 ** Fight bullying with superpowers ** With great power comes great responsibility ** True strength is having the courage to face a stronger opponent. - The powerful loner, Kayden Break (electrokinetic ability) transforms into a fat ginger cat to hide and recover his strength after he was severely injured from an attack by a large group of Awakened. He’ll stay as cat until he’s fully recovered but later finds out he can’t control his human transformation / it’s unstable. - Jiwoo Seo hides his awakened speed ability and lives on his own (his mother works overseas). Because of his ability, they move around a lot. Jiwoo loves cats as his 1st friend was a stray cat. - Kayden teaches Jiwoo a method to train, develop and strengthen his powers, ie grow and control his ability (ie FORCE CONTROL). Kayden also teaches Jiwoo combat moves as Kayden believes you need a balance between physical and awakened abilities. 1st ARC: - The Professor (Dr Delein) - Wooin (psycho-telekinetic ability) - The Professor illegally experiments with forced awakenings on stray animals. He is Wooin’s saviour and mentor. - Jiwoo befriends Wooin at school. - The Professor is arrested by Seongha Park and his men from the Korean Awakeners Association (KAA). - Chairwoman Jiyoung Yoo (wind ability), brother Jisuk Yoo and Inhyuk Goo are all under the Shinhwa Group. - Jiwoo and Jisuk fight in a supervised match at Shinhwa. - Wooin and Jisuk also fight each other at Shinhwa. - Jiwoo, Wooin and Jisuk all become friends. (NB: they all go to the same high school) - Wanted criminals, the Klein Brothers come looking for the Professor and face the 3 boys. Jiyoung and Kayden save them. - Subin Lee (ice ability), the KAA leader’s grand-daughter, fights Wooin at Shinhwa. Wooin rejects Mr Park’s offer to join the KAA. 2nd ARC: - Jiwoo, Wooin, Jisuk and Subin attend the new Awakened Academy event for 2 months. The Principal is Seongkik Han. - Other students are from the Baekdu Group, the Baekho Group, and the Mir Group (animals) - Unaffiliated vs Affiliated Awakened (ie conditions, privileges) - There’s a sparring match: Wooin and Jiwoo kick arse. - Jiwoo is tested for his limited animal ability with Kayden as a combat cat. Kayden also kicks butt. - Jiwoo is rated very highly by all of the teachers as a result. - Jiwoo is invited to learn under Principal Seongkik Han and the Baekdu Elder but he declines both. The Baekdu Elder takes this as an insult and attacks Jiwoo. Kayden in human form blows the roof off the gym and reveals Jiwoo is his student. 3rd arc: - Back at school: the gang is as tight as ever lol - The Professor and the Klein Bros escape from the KAA with help from Robert, an Awakened with psychic and mind control powers. - The friends agree to search for the Professor together. They split up. Wooin finds the Professor, while the other 3 face off against the older Klein Brother. All 4 get injured but are successful. - Sucheon of Baekdu challenges Jiwoo to a rematch, which he accepts. Jiwoo blows him away to win. Kayden reveals himself as Jiwoo’s teacher here too. He thanks Shinhwa for looking after Jiwoo and says he owes them a favour. - Kayden is still in human form at Jiwoo’s house. He is introduced to Jiwoo’s shocked friends when they drop by. - After much teasing by Jisuk and Subin, Choi Kangseok of the Baekho Group makes a surprise visit to Jiwoo’s place and challenges him to a match in the future. Jiwoo accepts. 4th arc: - Jiwoo is kidnapped and brutally tortured by 2 overseas criminal awakened for info on Kayden. Baekdu VP Sooman Kang finds Jiwoo and tries to save him. Kayden comes and finishes off the main torturer Dylan, while the other criminal called Dark flees. - Jiwoo is in hospital at Shinhwa. The doctor says he’ll never be able to use his powers or arms the same way again. Jiwoo’s friends visit him in intensive care. All try to keep a brave face but when they leave, his friends are angry and in despair. - Wooin convinces the Professor to help Jiwoo. While the Professor has no healing abilities, he can help with awakened abilities. The Professor tells Jiwoo that his awakened core was destroyed but he still attempts to treat Jiwoo. - Kayden asks Shinhwa to find out who leaked Jiwoo’s info. - The Baekdu VP secretly investigates the Baekdu President / CEO (and brother of VP) and finds out he’s been dealing with the Group of Flames. They’re an organisation of criminal awakened from different countries around the world. - Shinhwa locate Dark and Chairwoman Jiyoung faces off and defeats him. Dark is imprisoned by Shinhwa. When interrogated by Kayden, Dark asks why did he accept Jiwoo as his disciple. Kayden says Jiwoo doesn’t expect anything from him. - The Baekdu VP outs his brother the President as the one who leaked Jiwoo’s info and allowed criminals into the country. Kayden faces off with him and kills him. - Dark escapes during a transfer and visits Jiwoo but doesn’t kill him. Kayden also lets him go. - The Professor fixed Jiwoo’s arms but can’t fix his core. Kayden asks Curtin, a world ranker renowned for his healing abilities, to fix Jiwoo’s core in exchange for learning Kayden’s force control. Jiwoo declines the offer to be treated but Curtin insists on trying after Kayden agreed to teach him animal transformation. Curtin saw Kayden transform into a cat and thinks this is an extension of Kayden’s abilities, but it’s actually useless according to Kayden. - Jiwoo is healed initially but needs ongoing healing treatments by Curtin. Kayden taught Curtin the technique and he transformed himself into a scrawny white neutered cat. - Jiyoung tells Jiwoo about the Academy starting up again sooner than expected. Jiwoo is ok to participate but he must not use his powers. Sucheon of Baekdu is seeking revenge and will also be attending the Academy again. 5th Arc: - Jiwoo returns to the Academy with Kayden and Curtin as cats. Uninvited guests from the World Awakeners Academy (WAA, an international school of elite bullies) are also there. - Their reps are insisting on a sparring match between the world students and the Koreans. The world students include 2 of the strongest rookies of all, Asher Brian and Duke Grayne. - Principal Seongkik Han reminds all of the instructors that they must hide their Academy’s true strength to avoid being targeted and crushed by the WAA. - The world students keep provoking the Koreans until they get in a fight and badly injure the unaffiliated students. The affiliated ones can’t hold back any more and decide to give their all in the sparring match. The strongest aren’t included on purpose by the instructors. When the first affiliated Korean is beaten badly by a world opponent, the strongest step up to take them on. - Choi Kangseok, Sucheon and Wooin all win their matches. Jisuk and Asher end in a tie. Subin is last against Duke. Jiwoo interrupts their match to save Subin from a killer strike by Duke. Shocked by Jiwoo’s speed, Duke demands a match with Jiwoo in 3 days time. Although Subin was defeated, the Korean academy defeated the world academy overall. - Principal Seongkik Han teaches his force control to Jiwoo before his match with Duke. With his speed, tenacity and strategy, Jiwoo wins with an incredible punch utilising what he learnt. - Another world awakened student Gahin Loutrain arrives with his mythical beast panther Lancelot. (The panther is an awakened animal). Kayden as a cat wins in both encounters against this panther, with Jiwoo pretending to use his animal ability. - Iseul’s white dog Doori from the Mir Group was badly injured fighting Lancelot to protect Kayden and Curtin (in cat form). Curtin offers to heal Doori in exchange for learning Kayden’s cat punch. Curtin uses that punch on Gahin Loutrain who insulted Curtin by calling him an ugly neutered cat. - The world reps try to scout Wooin and Jiwoo to join the WAA but they both reject the offer. The reps approach all of the other strongest students who also refuse. - The world reps decide to destroy the students instead. Dark kills one of them who is targeting Jiwoo. Dark meets Jiwoo to tell him to become stronger as Kayden’s disciple, and that he’s paid back his debt to Jiwoo. - Jiyoung briefly visits the Academy. 6th arc: - Back at Shinhwa, Jiyoung receives a marriage proposal from the Patrick family who have strong awakeners in the top ranks. Veramundt Patrick is in the top 10 and his grandson Julian Patrick is expected to debut in the top 100 in the world. - Jisuk interrupts to oppose the proposal from Julian and he even says Jiwoo is Jiyoung’s boyfriend. Julian disparages Jiwoo and Kayden interrupts, angry that his student is being insulted. - Julian is forced to apologise by his grandpa. Julian challenges Jiwoo to a match, which he accepts to everyone’s surprise. They agree to meet again in a month to have the match. Jiwoo admits to Kayden that he expects to lose the match but he’ll do his very best and learn as much as he can from the experience. - A month later and the match is held at Shinhwa. Julian offers to concede defeat if Jiwoo can lay a scratch. Initially Jiwoo tricks Julian to think he uses electrokinesis like Kayden, then Jiwoo launches a massive speed attack that surprises Julian. - Jiwoo injures his arm, but Julian is pushed back and his clothes are shredded. Julian concedes it was his loss this time. Jiwoo wants to have a rematch when he’s fully qualified to do so. 7th arc: - Dr Kang Yoojung, Jiwoo’s mother returns home briefly. - She’s a pharmaceutical scientist for an overseas company. - She chose this line of work to learn more about Jiwoo’s ability and see if there was a cure. (She saved Dark in the past?) - When Jiwoo tells her that he’s discovered he’s an awakened one, she already knew this through her work. - She decided not to tell Jiwoo to protect him from the very dangerous world of awakeners. After meeting his friends and Kayden, she realises he’s much happier as an awakened one. - Jiyoung drops by with a fruit basket (Jisuk messaged her). 8th arc: - Curtin confirms Jiwoo’s core is fully recovered and no longer needs treatment. Curtin extends his stay with Jiwoo. - Vator, world rank no. 50, is in Seoul looking for Kayden. - Baekdu are threatened by Vator to bring either Kayden or Jiwoo to him, or risk the group being destroyed. Sucheon visits Jiwoo to get Kayden and Jiwoo to meet Vator themselves. - Jiyoung comes to help Baekdu and show the world the strength of South Korea’s awakeners. She fights Vator who uses up too much energy against her. He retreats but is met by Kayden who attacks Vator until he concedes. Vator sees Curtin with Kayden and wants Curtin to remove the scar from his face. Vator keeps asking and Curtin keeps refusing. 9th arc: - Chairwoman Kim Hyeyoung, Mir Group. - Hyeyoung is also Iseul’s grandmother. - Hyeyoung wants to meet Jiwoo and his cats. - Iseul takes Hyeyoung to Jiwoo’s house. The other cats are all over Hyeyoung while Kayden and Curtin as cats remain wary. - Hyeyoung offers to teach Jiwoo how to communicate with animals. He politely declines as he doesn’t think he could handle the responsibility of knowing what animals think and feel. Hyeyoung understands and says the offer is there if he changes his mind. - Principal Seongkik Han receives an invitation for admission to the World Awakeners Academy (WAA). The students invited from the Korean Academy are Jiwoo, Wooin, Jisuk, Soobin, Sucheon and Kangseok. They will be away for about a month. The true purpose of the invitation by the WAA is to analyse everyone’s abilities while breaking everyone’s spirits. - Jiwoo wants to go even though it’ll be dangerous. He’s keen to fight and learn from other awakeners like Duke. - Inhyuk Goo and Seongha Park chaperone the students to the WAA. Kayden and Curtin as cats are also with them. - Kariss Loutraine, WAA principal. - She’s an Elder and head of the Loutraine family. - Lia Eresby, president of the WAA student council. - She’s 1 of the top 10 students at WAA. - Duke and Gahin are friendly with Jiwoo and the others. - Jessica officially challenges Subin to a sparring match which is allowed under the WAA rules. Jessica had earlier provoked Subin and got punched in the face. Subin overwhelmingly defeats Jessica. Subin also issues a challenge to Duke. - Fjord, WAA vice principal - He is supportive of the Korean students. The WAA has become stagnant and reflects the real world of awakeners too much. - Kariss visits Jiwoo in his room to see the cats for herself. She detects the strong killing intent from Kayden and thinks he’s a naturally awakened cat. She asks Jiwoo to give Kayden to her but he refuses as Kayden is his family. She then asks for Kayden’s kittens (!) She later gives Jiwoo some photos of prospective mates for Kayden (!!) - Glant Gesimov, 1 of the top 10 students at WAA - Jiwoo officially challenges Glant to a sparring match. - Glant has impenetrable defence as his strength. - Jiwoo knocks out and defeats Glant by using a powerful combo of super speed and electricity. Even though he lost, Glant knows he gave it his all and has no regrets. - Curtin helps to heal Jiwoo’s injuries from the match. - Jiwoo lets it slip by mistake to Lia that Curtin healed him. - Kariss thinks a cat has awakened with healing abilities. - Jiwoo says he wants to challenge all of the top 10 WAA students. He’s just excited and enjoying the experience. The other Korean students decide to officially challenge the top 10 with Jiwoo. Duke, Asher, Gahin and Glant have already fought with the Koreans. There are 6 WAA students left to match up with the 6 Korean rookies. - Sucheon (gravitokinesis) vs Laura Jenson (ground manipulation) - Wooin vs Jean from Omega (fire control) - Kangseok vs Eley Pikaroon (close combat) - Subin vs Lia (barriers / shields) … interrupted - Fjord suddenly imprisons the WAA staff, Kariss, Inhyuk Goo and Seongha Park behind a special barrier. A criminal trio called Earthquake appears. Fjord and Earthquake are members of the Group of Flames. They plan to kill everyone. Fjord activated another barrier that traps everyone in the stadium. - Jiwoo gets Earthquake to focus on him instead of killing the other students. He is also trying to stall for time until the barriers deactivate after 30mins. The other Korean students join Jiwoo to distract Earthquake. Their teamwork and self sacrifice shock the WAA students who are only accustomed to seeing the strong trampling the weak. There are no true friends or allies among the awakened in their ongoing power struggle. - Kayden in human form arrives just in time to save Jiwoo from Earthquake. Curtin in human form protects the other Korean students. Kayden confirms he is Jiwoo’s teacher. Then he wipes out Earthquake and Fjord for harming Jiwoo. Kayden declares war on the Group of Flames. - Andre from the Group of Flames is a top 10 world ranker. - He arrives to stop Kayden. After rejecting Kayden’s challenges to fight in the past, Andre finally agrees to fight Kayden. - Curtin protects everyone and activates his spatial isolation barrier to minimise the surrounding damage. - Andre and Kayden clash with enormous power. Andre voluntarily stops the fight for now. Kayden declares he is still intent on fighting all of the top 10 world rankers in the Group of Flames. Curtis heals Jiwoo’s life threatening injuries. - WAA is indebted to Jiwoo and Kayden for saving them. - The world students all thank Jiwoo for his bravery. - WAA will close temporarily while they install countermeasures to ensure everyone’s safety. The Korean students will return home early as a result. - Gahin discovers Duke is actually a Group of Flames member. Duke joined them in exchange for learning force control from 1 of the top 10 world rankers. Jiwoo saves Gahin who is badly injured by Duke. Curtin arrives and Duke runs away. - Rost, Schnauder’s disciple & a top 10 world ranker. - In the past Kayden refused to let Rost (and anyone else) be his disciple. Rost attacks the WAA to meet Jiwoo. Roar challenges Jiwoo to a fight. Dark suddenly appears and provokes Rost by mentioning Kayden’s past rejection of Rost. They fight but are interrupted by Kariss and her massive familiar Phoenix. 10th arc: - Subin’s grandfather and head of the KAA. - He only has about 3yrs left to live. Subin’s parents died after they were betrayed by awakened who were their friends and colleagues. He avenged her parents but sacrificed his health to do so. He forbids Subin from seeing anyone outside of the KAA and makes her focus on training and getting stronger. - The Professor treats Subin’s grandpa after Wooin begged him. Then Curtin examines Subin’s grandpa after Kayden and Jiwoo hurt Curtin’s pride in his healing abilities. After a few days undergoing treatment from Curtin, Subin’s grandpa is completely healed. Subin returns to play with the boys and cats. 11th arc: - Kayden warns Jiwoo to maintain control when he’s trying to get stronger by using force control. Uncontrollable power can cause severe internal damage. Kayden teaches Jiwoo how to knock someone out by shocking their brain with electricity. - Ian Patrick, Julian’s younger brother - He warns Jiwoo to be wary of Julian … - Jiwoo is worried when he hasn’t been able to contact his mother Dr Kang Yoojung. He takes Kayden and Curtin (as cats) and visits her home address, but the apartment looks like no one has ever lived there. He visits her workplace at Ohin Pharmaceutical. Jiwoo agrees to go with some men who claim to know where Dr Yoojung is. They drive for a long time then try to kill Jiwoo when he gets suspicious. - Dr Yoojung was hiding the fact she had a son. - She’s been secretly helping awakened test subjects escape? - She’s being interrogated by Layla, a psychic awakened. - After beating up the men, Jiwoo makes one of them take him to Dr Yoojung. He sees his mother’s bruised face and Layla admits she plans to use her psychic ability to extract intel while driving his mother insane. Jiwoo beats up Layla…
The Pet of the Villainess Webtoon
Ch 109 as of 27/12/21 - also on Tappytoon ** VERY SLOW PLOT ** really bad translation from ch 90s to 100 or so - Thru character interactions learn true value of human relationships and being true to your emotions ... - FL reborn as Sasha Tarte in novel “Atlanta’s Lover” - “Villainess” Rebecca Aertsen is engaged to human trash and spoilt playboy Crown Prince Johannes of Atlanta. - Arth Klein is the close aide to the Crown Prince and at first doesn’t express emotions very well until he meets FL. He is known for his brilliant intelligence and academic skill. His noble father was an alcoholic. He struggled all his life against those who discriminated against him as his mother was a commoner. - FL becomes very close with Rebecca and Arth. Her sincerity and warmth help them find their own happiness in their lives. - Rebecca after meeting FL decides to look for her own happiness rather than accept the role society has given her. She learns swordsmanship and gets closer to her cold estranged father who ignored her after her mother died. Her father was a renowned swordsman and is now retired. She aims to be next heir for her house. Grew up in strict household learning to be the perfect Crown Princess, even though the Crown Prince never had the same restrictions. She loved him but he never loved her. Rebecca felt bitter and empty but this void was filled by FL. - Naska the Silver Dragon, finds humans hard to understand. Learning about society from FL. - 2nd Prince Payne, next in line to throne but shunned and discrimated against. ‘Prince of misfortune’, he’s a skilled knight and is always sent away to the battlefield. - Lady Lilith, the female protagonist who was supposed to marry Johannes as per novel. She becomes close with Payne instead. - Lilith’s mother Angela was reborn too and was very strict w/ Lilith. In the end Lilith rebels against the original novel. - Arth proposes to FL to help her get out of an arranged marriage to a much older man. Their engagement is on a contract basis for now. - Naska asks FL why she doesn’t get angry, only worries about others (FL was also this way in her past life). For FL this was her means of survival and she also wanted to be loved. - Naska, Rebecca and Arth are pleased when FL admits she needs to be more honest about her feelings, and she will openly receive their help, care and support too just as they’ve received hers. - Rebecca admits to Arth and later to FL about her frustration and pain at the limitations placed on her personal goals because she’s a woman and too progressive for her time. Arth promises to help her. - Naska realises he might have feelings for FL. - Desert nation of Kanakta: want to tempt Payne to their side. - Arth is helping Payne to get Lilith away from her mother. - Johannes is in charge of looking after the delegates from Kanakta. Normally he would dump this work on Rebecca and Arth but the Emperor ordered him to do this. - Mary the maid for Lilith sent a spare invitation to the delegation welcome to Lilith’s parents. This was planned by Arth. - Kalia, the female captain of the Kanakta guards is approached by FL and they become friends. FL thinks the Sultan has sent Kalia as a message to Payne that he’ll recognise anyone as long as they’re skilled, unlike the Emperor. - The Sultan has secretly joined the delegation. - The Emperor collapses from being poisoned at a gathering of Atlanta nobles and the Kanakta delegates. Arth and Rebecca quickly act to look after the Emperor and secure the area. - Payne takes command of the situation, and intervenes to stop the Kanakta delegates being thrown in jail without proper investigation. - It is found that the Emperor has been given small amounts of poison over the last few months. His body was already weak and he’s not expected to last. - Johannes has Arth investigate the poisoning on his behalf. Payne leads the investigations overall. - FL and Naska visit Kalia who is with the Sultan (undercover). FL presents a small gift to Kalia as an apology for how the delegates were treated earlier. All of the delegates will be receiving a small gift, as organised by Arth. - The Sultan is tempted to somehow use the chaos in Atlanta to his advantage. The Sultan is surprised when his pet leopard warms to FL immediately. FL gets emotional as she talks about her concerns over Johannes becoming Emperor. - Payne asks Arth if he poisoned the Emperor. Arth says he didn’t. - FL speaks with Payne about his relationship with his family and with Lilith. She thinks he’s loyal to the Emperor from a sense of obligation only. He should act according to the best interests of himself and Lilith. - Angela has arrived at the palace and is beating Lilith. No one stops her until FL and Arth come. Arth has the guards arrest and imprison Angela and the maids who didn’t help. - Payne is accused of poisoning the Emperor by Johannes and the Empress. Arth escorts Payne with FL, Kalia and the Sultan to Johannes. Everyone hears the only basis for the accusation was because Payne looked like his mother, who was executed after being accused of trying to poison the Empress. - Rebecca arrives with her soldiers and shares evidence of Johannes colluding with the royal physician to poison the Emperor. - Arth was the mastermind behind everything. He wanted to show the incompetence of Johannes and highlight the suitability of Payne as the Emperor. - Arth allows the Empress to set Johannes free from prison. Rebecca and Naska meet Johannes as he’s about to run away. Naska kills Johannes. - FL and Arth’s wedding ceremony. - FL, Arth, Rebecca and Naska go on a trip to Kanakta.
Under the Oak Tree
Ch 34 as of 29/08/21 - slow plot, nice art - FL is Maximillian (Maxi) Croix, oldest daughter of a Duke. - Her more favoured younger sister Rosetta is pretty and smart. - FL suffered constant mental and physical abuse at the hands of her father. She was also neglected and mistreated by the household in all manner of things, ie social events and outings, good food, fine clothing, basic care. She has a bad stutter, very low self esteem, insecurity, and constant self doubt. (Annoyingly helpless and useless, keeps fainting. I’m trying to be patient) - ML is Riftan Calypse, a commoner knight who was away for 3yrs on a dragon expedition that was forced on him by Duke Croix. ML unexpectedly returned victorious. He has his own fief, Anatol which he built up from a monster-infested wasteland using his own funds including the castle walls. - ML won a swordsmanship competition at 14yo and was given the powerful magic sword he still carries today … (Don’t know why but) he seems genuinely attracted to FL. He has trouble expressing himself without coming across as scary. (He gets horny a lot!) Dragon expedition party: - Princess Agnes, reputable mage. ML was falsely rumoured to be romantically involved with her. - ML takes FL from the Croix estate to his castle in Anatol. - He thinks she’s used to a lavish lifestyle when the opposite is the case but FL doesn’t tell him about this. She’s worried he’ll be disappointed in her and tell her to leave or throw her away. - She becomes overwhelmed by the warmth and kindness shown to her by ML and the people at the castle. NB: the knights still show contempt for FL because of her father. - FL is told by ML that she may decorate the castle as she sees fit. She tours the castle with the butler. It's very dreary and neglected in most areas unrelated to training and defense. - FL wants to become a good Lady of the House that is suitable for ML in the hope that he’ll keep her by his side. - She struggles to deal with Aderon the merchant and to understand the accounting books for the castle. - ML and most of the Remdragon knights leave for the capital to attend the victory celebration for their successful dragon expedition. - Ruth the mage remains behind to help guard the castle. He gives private lessons to FL after he sees her mistake-riddled account ledgers and her overblown budget for the castle renovations. - Ruth offers to bring the large dead oak tree in the castle grounds back to life as part of FL’s garden plans. The locals hold trees sacred, dead or alive, due to their strong belief in the legend of Sir Wigrem, an ancient hero and his lover, the nymph of the oak tree. (NB: ML is considered to be the reincarnation of Sir Wigrem.) - After Ruth casts a spell that infuses the oak tree with mana, he tells FL that she seems to have mana affinity. - Ruth explains the different currencies in use to FL. He mentions the dispute 30yrs ago between Duke Croix (of the Wedon Kingdom) and the Dristan Kingdom who demanded he return a fief he’d stolen. The Duke had a political marriage with FL’s mother, a direct descendent of the fallen royal family that previously owned that land, to settle the dispute and secure his claim. - The castle renovations are soon to be completed. FL inspects different parts of the castle to check for any supply requests for winter. She is met by 2 squires who insist on escorting her. - A group of knights led by a Livdonian noble demand entry to the castle despite having no official ID. When FL denies them entry, the leader ridicules her stuttering speech. The noble’s knight group attacks but ML and the Remdragon knights return just in time. - The group surrenders and are imprisoned after Ruth convinces ML not to kill them all or go to war. - ML is very angry and upset with worry that FL was put in danger. FL is afraid he is going to berate and abuse her. Instead he is very passionate and relieved that he’d pushed to come back in record time. ML brought back a large number of gifts for FL. She feels like a fraud when he treats her like a princess. - With her literacy and numeracy skills, FL helps Ruth with the design of a new protective magic device ordered by ML. - The couple go on a horse ride together and talk about each other’s likes, dislikes etc. FL says she hates herself. She was scared of ML at first as he seemed callous and angry, but she isn’t any longer.
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