Chapter 249
The air reeked of death.
Not just the smell of blood—but the deeper kind. Burnt flesh, ruptured guts, the copper sting of fresh kills soaked into the sand. It clung to Ansel’s skin, heavy as armor, and no matter how deep he breathed, it only filled his lungs with mor...
Chapter 139
Anji had never imagined a life like this. Not only was she busy to the point of her whole day being scheduled, but to feel the most content she’d ever been.
Morning to night was a blur of stock-taking, customer requests, and counting spirit stones. There were moments ...
Chapter 138
Tiefang sat with his back straight looking at the dozen scrolls that lay open in front of him like ribs of a beast. They were all marked in crisp strokes, so fresh, he still smelt the ink. Broken Ridge City sales counts. Profit margins. Ratios of loss. Pill fluctuations. He sca...
Chapter 248
Kai stared back at the hardened face of Valkyrie’s soul fragment. Her white eyebrows were knitted into a deep frown and the lips turned to a scowl. He hadn’t known what to expect when the bowl had pulled him into this strange realm, but it certainly was not an angry Magus. ...
Chapter 137
Jiek Wai walked with a nervous tic in his step through the streets of Broken Ridge City. It had only been a few days since the kobolds nearly ripped his life apart, and the load of survival had settled heavily on his shoulders.
Recovery had taken time, not just for his...
Chapter 247
Feroy stared at the sky in disbelief, his left hand tightened around the reins of his mount as the beast shifted uneasily. He could tell that it was scared, not just nervous.
Honestly, Feroy couldn’t blame it.
Above the distant cliffs where Valkyrie’s tower ...
Chapter 136
Chen Ren hadn’t expected the shop’s opening day to bring in waves of customers. If he did, that would mean that he hadn’t learned anything during his time in this world.
Selling perfume to mortals was one thing—impulse purchases, curious noses, a low-stakes deci...
Chapter 246
Kai knew exactly what Khorvash had consumed.
Liquid mana.
Every competent Mage knee of it—it was a substance of myth and danger, raw power condensed into fluid form. It was just pure, volatile mana. Enough to turn even a novice into a threat. Enough to turn some...
Chapter 245
They climbed floor after floor, and with each one, the guardians changed.
Not all wore the faces of orcs. Some prowled on four legs, lupine constructs with stone-forged hides and eyes that gleamed with mana. Others rose like mountains—pretty huge golems shaped from obs...
Chapter 135
Zi Wen crouched beneath a thick patch of bushes, his eyes locked on the clearing ahead. Several beasts circled a large tree, their wings rustling and sharp beaks snapping as they guarded something high in the branches. Striker beaks.
After months of following traces and...
Chapter 134
Jiek Wai stared into the basin, watching the rippling reflection of his face.
A frown tugged at his lips as his gaze landed on the scar slicing down his left cheek. Ugly thing. Should’ve known better than to try his luck with a giant slasher monkey. They were tier 2 be...
Chapter 244
Just by looking at him, Kai knew Khorvash had bled his way through more battles than most warlords lived to see. Despite the way he sat, the orc looked ready to leap up and tear flesh from bone. His skin bore the pale, scarred sheen of someone who had absorbed too much mana—m...
Chapter 243
Once the three orcs agreed to escort them, the atmosphere shifted. The desert didn’t feel the same anymore. The wind still howled and the sand still bit at their skin, but now they were moving deeper into enemy land—under escort, yes, but it felt more like being paraded by ...
Chapter 133
Gao Moyue sat tall at the head of the long, polished stone table, his sleeves folded neatly over each other as his cold eyes swept across the elders gathered before him. One by one, they stood and reported.
Progress on training.
List of promising disciples.
Recen...
Chapter 242
Kai’s plan was simple. Not in its details—no, those were bold, even dangerous—but in its intent, he and his party would carry the risk, so the tribes could carry hope.
That was the only way they’d even consider rebellion.
Khorvash’s name hung over every...
Chapter 132
Chen Ren hadn’t planned to stay three days.
Yet there he was, still in Jadefire Hall, sipping tea that had gone cold for the fourth time that morning, while Hun Tianzhi scrawled red ink across yet another clause of the contract. The old man wasn’t stalling. No, he wa...
Chapter 131
Throughout the meeting with Hun Tianzhi, Chen Ren couldn’t shake the feeling that the old man in front of him was misunderstanding something. He didn’t bother asking about it or correcting him, though. From the moment Chen Ren brought up the idea of acquisition, Hun Tianzhi...
Chapter 241
Knowing exactly what they were dealing with gave Kai an edge and he knew it. Every piece of information the orc had let slip gave him leverage to gather the tribes together. The very moment he shared it with Maari and Sahlira, he felt the atmosphere shift. At the same time, h...
Chapter 130
Hun Tianzhi brought the ceramic cup to his lips and sipped the slightly bitter tea. He put the cup down and his lips curved into a smile—a smile he’d used too many times that settled on his face like a second nature.
That smile had seen him through feasts and funera...
Chapter 240
Interrogation wasn’t something Kai had done often. He’d witnessed it before—plenty of times in his old life. Watching men scream and beg, threats whispered into ears, fingers broken one by one, flames brushing skin just enough to blister. That worked—on humans.
B...
Chapter 129
Despite how much Chen Ren appreciated Tang Boming’s ability to gather information, he quickly learned that good intelligence on sects was still hard to come by.
The markets were full of rumors—whispers about this sect being on the decline, that sect harboring grudges...
Chapter 239
Kai charged right at the orc, just as his massive fist smashed through his own shield—an act that sent cracks through the air and a wave of pressure toward Kai’s head.
He ducked.
The gust of force brushed past his cheek, but in that brief second, Kai caught ...
Chapter 238
As Kai had expected, all the tribal leaders agreed to help him launch a crusade for the tower the next morning.
He had seen it coming. With their families taken and their pride wounded, rebellion was only a matter of time. His presence merely accelerated what was inevita...
Chapter 128
Chen Ren’s nose twitched as he took a sniff off the phial filled with shining purple pills. They gave off a faint medicinal smell with a slight hint of bitterness that lingered in the air for long.
He turned the phial in his hand, watching the light catch the engraved ...
Chapter 127
Chen Ren was floating in a void—or so it felt like that.
It was a dark expanse all around him. He tried to squint his eyes to see, but there was no light, no sound, not even the beat of a heart to anchor him. It was the kind of silence that didn’t only deafen a pers...
Chapter 237
As soon as the battle ended in his victory, Kai gave the tribal leaders time to rest and recover. He knew they needed it.
Out of all of them, Adil had taken the worst of it. Shards of glass had torn through his legs, one even breaching the side of his chest. It hadn’t...
Chapter 126
On Earth, acquisitions and mergers were standard practice in business—that they were almost mundane. But in this world, they were rare.
Poaching? That happened all the time. Cultivators jumping sects, clans bribing each other’s elders, rogue talents being lured away...
Chapter 236
Kai didn’t want to fight the tribal leaders. Certainly not five of them at once.
Every part of him preferred to avoid that outcome—mana was better spent on orcs than politics, and a fight with five tribe leaders, even at Rank 2, wasn't something to take lightly. But ...
Chapter 125
Once the vessel was filled up enough, Chen Ren let Feiyu handle the rest of the process. The man moved immediately, mixing the herbal essence water with starch—the same binding agent they had tested before and found effective. As Feiyu focused on the blend, Chen Ren turned t...
Chapter 235
With just those words, the atmosphere in the room shifted.
It wasn’t immediate—more like a ripple through still water—but Kai saw it. Hands brushed against hilts. Fingers tightened around spear shafts. The Sand Knights standing along the stone walls didn’t move, ...