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.
Love Tractor
Read ch 35 as of 24/06/21
Catharsis
Read ch 182-183 on Webtoon as of 09/10/20. ** INCOMPLETE - on hiatus ** Chapters too short and very slow plot. Need more!
Trash of the Count's Family