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Becoming the Dark Lord - Chapter 103

In front of Luke, the forest felt alive and hostile. Orcs emerged from every direction, crawling out of the shadows, from behind trees, and through the tall grass. A living trap, every pair of eyes locked on him, hungry for blood.

Among them, two stood out by sheer presence. Orc Captains, massive brutes clad in crude armor made from bone and metal.

“So what now, kid?” growled the lead captain, lifting a massive axe. “Gonna beg for your life? Cry, and I might make it quick.�...

Becoming the Dark Lord - Chapter 102

It was another group of Renegades, and definitely not from the same camp as before.

“Well, look at that. A friendly little Renegade,” one of them said, grinning in a way that was anything but friendly. A blade gleamed in his hand.

“You guys gave me a scare,” Luke replied, trying to sound casual. “I just came to fill my canteen and, well, take a leak. I don’t like doing that near camp, you know? Feels awkward.”

Some of the men relaxed. A few weapons were lowered...

Becoming the Dark Lord - Chapter 101

Luke crouched in the shadow of a tree, still as a predator lying in wait. It had been days since he started tracking the escaped prisoner, but the target had changed. The man, cautious and worn down, hadn’t met anyone directly. All he did was leave five fruits at the base of an old tree. A signal.

The next day, someone else showed up.

They met under the shroud of dawn, exchanged no names, spoke barely a word, but information passed between them. That’s how Luke found t...

Becoming the Dark Lord - Chapter 100

Luke had been there for at least an hour, hidden among the trees, silently watching. Ever since he spotted that flicker of torchlight, he’d approached with extreme caution, analyzing every step, every shadow.

After sweeping the perimeter, he finally found it: a small campsite set up deep within the forest. The fire was lit, but the area was surrounded by large pieces of cloth tied between trees, forming a crude circle of visual cover. A simple trick, but effective. Barely any light le...

Athena's General - Chapter 358

Sebastian Blake:

“She’s improving, slowly,” Tiffania said, examining Lady Katherine’s wound. She had taken a healing potion, but whatever strange phenomenon was dampening our magic was also slowing down its effects.

‘BAM!’

A blast echoed from above, shaking dust from the ceiling. We were deep in the underground tunnel network, part of the noble district’s emergency shelter system. The soldiers remained at the surface hatch to help guide other s...

Athena's General - Chapter 357

Kinue:

Professor Adrihna stood up abruptly, blasting away the rubble around her with a burst of radiant light that lit up the chaos.

“Damn it…” she muttered, placing a hand over a wound on her shoulder. Even visibly exhausted, she tried to force a smile as she assessed the situation. “Don’t worry… My mana’s weak for healing, but I can handle scratches,” she said as a faint glow shimmered from her palm, closing the cut partially.

Before she co...

Becoming the Dark Lord - Chapter 99

Several days had passed since the incident at the Haven. And though the wounds, both physical and collective, had begun to heal, something still lingered in the air. A heaviness. As if the world had shifted and hadn’t settled back into place.

Allison seemed... distant. Not from Luke exactly, but from everything around her. Seeing that woman, Erza Grimhart, had stirred something inside her. Something old. Something she'd clearly tried to bury. Luke noticed and gave her space. She hadn�...

Becoming the Dark Lord - Chapter 98

Everything happened too fast. By the time Luke registered what was happening, Angelica was already on the ground, a dagger pressed to her throat. Kruger’s skull mask glinted in the firelight: cold, inhuman, unreadable.

"Give me the name of the traitor, or she dies!" the Phantom Assassin roared.

Jonathan was the first to react. He stepped forward, sword in hand, eyes locked on Kruger. Behind him, members of the Haven unsheathed their weapons: swords, spears, bows. A makeshift arm...

Becoming the Dark Lord - Chapter 97

Angelica appeared in front of him, holding two wooden mugs that probably held something alcoholic.

“Well, if it isn’t my battle partner. Come on, let’s drink and eat some meat,” she said with a wide grin, handing him one of the mugs.

Luke took it but hesitated. She was already raising hers in a toast, clinking it against his without waiting.

“I don’t drink…”

“Oh really? But you’re eighteen, aren’t you?” she replied, genuinely surprised. “If yo...

Becoming the Dark Lord - Chapter 96

The memory of the previous night’s attack felt... distant. As if it had happened somewhere else, to someone else. The camp was more alive than ever. Children ran between barrels and makeshift benches, wide-eyed as they pointed at the massive tyrannosaurus corpse—half fascinated, half hungry.

Despite the Haven having storage chests and people with similar storage items, the dinosaur was so enormous that Angelica remarked, “Even if we emptied all the chests, we’d still have meat l...

Becoming the Dark Lord - Chapter 95

Luke was alone in the tent, seated in front of the pale system light. The interface hovered before him, silent but heavy with meaning. Upon reaching level 20 in his class, five skill options had appeared. He could choose only one.

Each decision would shape not just his combat style, but possibly his fate.

The skills were:

[Corpsewalk Teleport], [Thorncut], [Blood Drain], [Reaper’s Eyes], and the final one.

And it was the last that made him hesitate the most.

Becoming the Dark Lord - Chapter 94

[All five Beast Captains have been defeated in combat! The Event has ended. The Beast Lord’s forces will remain distant from this Zone for a while.]

“F-five?” Angelica repeated, stunned. “That hasn’t happened since last year…”

The hotel doors opened. A few people stepped out, weapons still in hand, their faces pale with tension.

“Please focus on helping the wounded! Keep the children inside the hotel!” Paul shouted, taking control of the si...

Becoming the Dark Lord - Chapter 93

The rubble shifted. Chunks of stone tumbled down with dry, cracking sounds as a silhouette slowly emerged from the smoke and wreckage. Luke crawled out, covered in dust, scratches, and dried blood. The explosion had thrown him clear of the warehouse just as the support columns gave way, bringing the entire structure down in a cascade of shattered concrete and splintered wood. The building was gone. Nothing remained but ash, smoke... and silence.

His left arm was a mess: burned, raw, and...

Becoming the Dark Lord - Chapter 92

Before him, a massive monster roared under the trembling light of distant flames. A giant lion with leathery bat wings, a metallic scorpion tail, and eyes like thunderclouds ready to strike.

[Lightning Manticore, Beast Captain – Lvl 27]

The Manticore moved slowly. Each step made the ground tremble. Its scorpion tail twitched like a coiled whip, but that wasn’t what unsettled Luke. What truly shook him was that this was the third Captain he’d seen that ni...

Becoming the Dark Lord - Chapter 91

‘Zzzzzt…’

A faint buzz filled the air, and Luke and Allison froze.

A small blue crystal embedded in a tree trunk began to blink. The soft blue glow shifted into a deep, pulsing red with each passing second. Both of them stepped back, carefully, cautiously. The crystal returned to blue. Still. Silent.

Relief washed over them, but it came laced with tension.

Luke took another step forward. Instantly, the crystal flashed red again. He stepped back. Blue once more. 2025-06-06 11:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Becoming the Dark Lord - Chapter 90

Luke sat in silence, wiping himself down with a damp cloth. The pain still echoed in his bones. Princess Charlie was tucked away inside his soul, slowly regenerating.

The place he was in—an abandoned stone house on the edge of the Safe Zone—had become his hideout. One of the last houses before the nothingness beyond. That entire area was completely uninhabited. And the reason was simple: in case of an invasion, they’d be the first to die.

Even those who couldn’t pay the tr...

Becoming the Dark Lord - Chapter 89

Luke ran like a shadow through the crumbling ruins of the city, leaping over shattered rooftops and sliding across rotted wooden beams. He had mapped this area dozens of times. He knew every corner, every hidden path used by the Midnight Wardens, and every spot where the Reward Event chests appeared.

The event came once a week. The chests glowed in the darkness like the bait of a deep-sea predator. They also emitted a high-pitched tone, something between an alarm and a distorted chant.<...

Becoming the Dark Lord - Chapter 88

Several velociraptor corpses lay scattered across the ground. Luke was clearing the path, advancing through the streets.

Up ahead, Charlie charged straight toward a massive carnivorous plant. Thick tendrils burst from the soil, but she sliced through them with clean precision, cutting her way forward with her sword. One larger tentacle lunged to grab her—but Charlie activated her Fire Ring, and a small blaze ignited the air, driving the attack back.

Spectral Charge.

She su...

Athena's General - Chapter 356

Victoria Vargulfson:

A massive portal tore through the center of the city, right in the heart of the crowd and chaos. This wasn’t supposed to happen yet. It was impossible. All the calculations, all the predictions said the portals wouldn’t start appearing for months—maybe even a year—and never something this big. Not this colossal.

I remembered the conversation I had with that higher being—a woman named Eira Green. She’d told me something had come thr...

Becoming the Dark Lord - Chapter 87

Luke was making his way through the Wild Zone, heading back toward the Safe Zone.
It was still a long way off.

Each day in that place, each night, only reminded him of home. He tried to forget the Baumann family, but he couldn't. Most of the time, he simply avoided thinking. The Wild Zone did the rest for him. The ever-present sense of death lurking nearby, the monsters, the unexpected encounters—everything in that cursed territory demanded his focus. Especially here, in the heart ...

Becoming the Dark Lord - Chapter 86

The orc had fled, clutching the severed heads of his fallen Captains. Luke watched him vanish into the trees. The creature was mindless, irrational, but even so, they knew the message would be delivered.

And even if it wasn’t, the heads were message enough.

When he opened his inventory, Luke examined the new item he had earned by defeating one of the orc captains.

[Bracelets of Gromm's Bones (Rare)
Description: A pair of bracelets made from the ...