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 Three people sat around a rickety table eating scraps for breakfast. Rena smiled and hummed to herself as she fed Doevm. Hank sat at the other end of the table. Usually he was complaining about something going wrong in the village and talk in drunken slurs about what he would do. Today he was silent. He swirled his soup around, staring at the ripples. Rena completely ignored him, so he slurped it all down and went for the door. Rena's hum got louder the closer he got to the door, bordering on singing. When Hank cursed and left, she said, "Did you like meeting Jameson the other day? He saved you from the Kobolds. He's so strong, but Hank doesn't really like him."
 'I know all that.' Doevm thought. 'But why is Hank still alive? What did you do to him? He hasn't been this quiet all my four years of life.' He figured he would wake up with one parent left, not a family meal. While it was quiet, it wasn't peaceful. Hank had glared at Doevm even more than usual. But the strangest thing of all was that there wasn't a bottle of alcohol in sight. After both Rena and he were done with breakfast, she carried him to his crib.
 "Now don't escape this time," she said as she pulled out spare boards and placed them on top of his crib. "Mommy will protect you." She smiled and skipped out of the room. It was only after she left the house that Doevm took off his rags and inspected himself. His wounds were still open, but a layer of scabs was forming over them. Pus and dry blood hung at the sides. It hurt just to move. He put his clothes back on, sat down, and gathered mana for the rest of the day.
 He came out of his trance to an empty stomach and the evening sky. He waited for his mother to come back and give him his second and final meal of the day. The sun fell behind the mountains. He waited. The full moon rose and greeted him. He waited. His stomach growled. He waited. The stars faded away as tomorrow's sun rose. He waited. On the gravel road, Rena walked, carrying a beat and battered man. Doevm looked through his one window and realized the man was Hank. Rena dragged him through the front door with her frail arms and set him on the ground.
 "Doevm, are you still here?" She called as she stepped over him.
 "I'm here." Doevm replied while covering his nose. Rena was covered in sweat, probably from carrying Hank back. "What happened to daddy?"
 Rena came in with a bowl of soup and pulled the planks away: "He challenged Jameson to a duel." She scooped up a spoonful and fed Doevm. "Then he got beat up because he doesn't know how to fight. We spent the rest of the day with a doctor."
 "Why did he challenge Jameson?" Doevm asked, pulling out his signature cute baby eyes.
 "Because he's something called an idiot. He's jealous of Jameson and wanted to fight him. Jameson is the captain of the guard of Reginald Virility. Of course, he won." She looked up and smiled. "What a man." Then she touched her lips.
 "More please." Doevm pulled her out of her fantasies. He hadn't eaten in twenty-four hours after all. He was allowed to be greedy.
 "Of course." Rena said as she stuffed him full. "Listen, daddy's going to go away for a while so I'm going to protect you. Nothing will ever happen to you ever again. Isn't that great?" Her smile might as well be made of glass because one could see straight through its lie. Doevm nodded and put on a fake smile. "Now remember, daddy is taking a long trip. You probably won't see him for a while. Some people might ask where he went. It's important that you don't say anything. His trip is dangerous, and no one can find out." She grabbed him by the waist and tickled him. "No one can know. Do you understand?"
 "Yes mother." Doevm wheezed. The scabs opened up again and blood got on his clothes. "It hurts, please stop." Rena immediately let go.
 "I'm sorry, I forgot you were hurt." She backed away. "But you need to go to sleep now, don't worry, mommy will protect you. Just go to sleep and dream of a safe warm place." She bent over the crib, kissed Doevm, then put the planks back on so he couldn't escape.
 "Oh, the wind, the wind blows east," she began the lullaby. Since Doevm had stayed up for so long and now had a belly full of warm soup, he fell asleep immediately. That's what he wanted Rena to think. While he was tired, under his rags, he dug his fingers in his newly opened wound. The pain kept him awake. He did have a door to his room, which Rena tried to shut, but it didn't close all the way. Doevm closed his eyes and waited for her to turn her back.
 "To the edge of the earth, it runs from the beast." Something heavy was dragged across the floor. Rena grunted as she said the next line: "It's fangs are sharp, but mommy has got her harp." The door to her room opened and closed. "She'll lull it to sleep and count some sheep." He heard a soft hiss of metal sliding past metal. "Oh, the wind, the wind blows east." She grunted again and a liquid dripped on the floor. "Until the end of time, Mommy will save you from the beast." Doevm opened his eyes. There was a trail of blood leading to a pool coming from Rena's door. "And when mommy's harp is bent and broken."
 A loud clunk and squishing sounded out, like a board being sawed in two. "She'll. Wait. For. The. Earth. To. Darken."
 She stopped the lullaby. Doevm laid down and pretended to be asleep, all while creaking his eye open. Through the doorway was Hank's body. Not only was his throat slit, but he was also stabbed numerous times. One of his arms had been sawed off. The blood-covered Rena walked to Doevm's side.
 "She'll wait for a chance to come.
 And when she's done waiting.
 She'll stop delaying.
 Her heart keeps hating.
 and slit his god damned throat."
 She took off one of the boards and stroked Doevm's hair with her bloody fingers. "He's dead. I finally did it. You can be safe for tonight, but what if the Kobolds come again? What if someone wants to take you away from me? What if you starve to death in your crib?" She slid one of Doevm's sleeves up and looked at his wound. "I'll do anything for you. Nothing will come between us ever again." She skipped back to her own room. Since she forgot to shut the door, Doevm saw her saw Hank into pieces all with her motherly smile on her bloody face.
 Doevm looked at the boards that formed the roof of his new cell. If he tried, he could push them off, but judging by the hammer and nails at the other side of his room, she probably planned on sealing his escape route. By the time she finished with Hank, it was night-time. She collected the chunks of meat and bone, stuffed them into Hank's empty bottles, grabbed seasonings and some vegetables, and walked out of the house. Doevm pushed his boards off and secretly followed her. Since he was still hurt and much smaller, he fell behind quickly, but that didn't matter. He knew she was going to the river to wash off.
 Sure enough, he found her rinsing the pieces of Hank and humming her lullaby. She chopped up the carrots with the murder weapon and threw them into the pot with some of Hank. She pulled out another jar and did the same.
 Doevm watched her for a few moments before finding the rose he had left behind. There was still one thorn left in the rose. Since he didn't have enough time to go to the field, he only had this one chance. He picked it up and hurried back to his house.
 After setting everything up, he waited in his crib with the boards put back on top. Well into the night, Rena returned with a bunch of full pots. She opened the cabinets and placed each one inside. The smell of roses that usually followed her home from the field was gone. She smelled like copper. Doevm once again pretended to sleep and waited. Despite it being late, Rena didn't go to her bedroom. She dragged a chair from the dining room right next to his crib and stared at him all the while still humming that lullaby. An hour later, she wasn't showing any tiredness. She actually seemed more energetic. Finally, Doevm couldn't handle it. He fell asleep.
 "Wakey wakey." A delicate hand slowly shook Doevm awake. He sat up and nearly jumped. Under her bloodshot eyes were massive bags. She leaned so close that he could still see some blood around her ears: "You're so cute when you're sleeping. Don't worry, I watched out just in case something would come by. No monsters will snatch you away from me." She handed Doevm a bowl of soup through the bars of his cage.
 "Eat up, I made it myself with a special recipe." She hummed as she slurped up her own helping.
 "It smells like liquor." Doevm complained and pushed the soup away.
 "Please eat it." Rena said. "You're so hungry. I haven't been feeding you right. You need to grow up big and strong like Jameson. And now that daddy's gone, we won't eat good ever again. We have to keep eating." She pushed the soup closer. It sloshed back and forth. Doevm saw his own reflection in the brownish-red water.
 "Ok," Doevm said as he held the soup to his mouth. She was watching too closely. He had no choice. Internally sighing, he gulped the soup down and left the meat chunks. He looked to Rena and smiled, displaying his teeth dyed in red.
 "All of it please." Rena got up and picked up a chunk with her spoon. "Open up, I want you to get extra strong. We don't usually get to feast like this." Doevm opened his mouth. The spoon entered, and he was greeted with the horrible taste of liquor. When the bowl was clean, Rena smiled and picked up the hammer and nails. Holding a nail to one of the boards, she raised the hammer.
 "Mommy, what are you doing?" Doevm had to pinch himself to stop his own shaking. That nail was over his coffin. He wouldn't be able to pry himself out.
 "I'm going to keep you safe. Now that it's just me, I need to keep you safe and feed you. No Kobold will be able to get to you in here. You'll be safe. Jameson will be so proud of me." She winced and dropped the hammer. A single drop of blood came from her wound. She seized up and fell. "Doevm, I can't see, are you OK?" She shrieked as she spasmed. She tried to pry her eyes open with her numb hands. "What's happening? I can't see you."
 "You poor woman." Doevm lifted the boards that weren't nailed down and bent down to take a closer look at his mother's face. "I'm fine. I'm OK." He stroked her disheveled hair.
 "She's going to die anyway. Why are you wasting your time comforting her?" A voice whispered, sending chills up Doevm's spine. He scanned the area. A shadow lept out of sight.
 'Was that...a skeleton?' He shook his head. 'I didn't sense any mana signatures. Maybe I'm just hallucinating.' He turned back to his mother.
 "Thank the goddess that you're ok," were her last words. Doevm walked outside of the hut and threw the soup back up. It tasted the same coming back up as it did coming in. He returned to his home and inspected the hammer. The thorn he had put inside the handle's leather had done its job perfectly. The rest of the day he spent getting rid of the soup his father's remains were cooked into and building a sled out of the boards and Hank's bottles. He couldn't drag his mother with his strength, but with a sled he could. Now came the hard part, pushing her body on it. While she was extremely skinny and short, to a four-year-old, she was heavy. It took nealy half-an-hour to push her onto it. He dragged her under the cover of night, the bottles that served as wheels clinked together as he went through the forest until he reached the rosefields and dumped her body. Now, all that was left was to act. He threw the sled away and got in his crib. In the morning, when the farmers walked to the rose field, Doevm cried his lungs out. He screeched louder than a banshee and howled more terrible than a wolf. They passed him but came back when his mother's body was found.
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 "Screw magic, I want to learn how to do cool flips and stuff." Magic is awesome, until you've studied it for centuries. Doevm reincarnates into a human to experience the path of a fighter to its fullest and swears not to rely on magic. There is only one problem, a goddess stands in his way. She pits him against both the hero and the villain for all of eternity. How will he escape this, with magic or his fists? Maybe both?
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 The weak are hoarse, and no one cares, the strong whisper softly, but it can be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
 A flaming talent tree, each leaf carrying a different spirit pattern, the sect was destroyed, and Lu Ye, who was reduced to a mine slave, became a monk and stirred up the situation in Kyushu.
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 Traveling across other worlds, Xiao Chen can upgrade his body with the system to fight monsters, complete tasks and obtain various artifacts, and even kill a chicken to burst the blood of the beast!
 What, the system has a call function?
 The world of Jin Yong, the world of beautiful knights, the world of Naruto Pirates of War Soul, and the War of the Three Kingdoms are simply invincible, but Xiao Chen is totally unhappy.
 “System, you come out!”
 “Why can’t I use the suit?”
 “Why can’t I use the artifact?”
 “Why does alchemy keep failing?”
 “Cheating system, if you don’t cheat for a day, you will feel uncomfortable, isn’t it?”
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 Bai Lian, the eldest martial sister of the Qiongming peak of the Duxian sect, is as pure as jade. and unparalleled in beauty. She is known as a Natural Saint and is sought after by thousands of people. 
 One day, she suddenly remembered the memory of her previous life. This world was actually an r18 gal game called the Battle of the Gods. 
 Her master, An Lan the reincarnated Immortal Heaven Lord; √ 
 Her second martial sister, the future Holy Spirit Goddess; √ 
 Her third younger martial sister, the rebirth of the Rebellious Shura; √ 
 Her fourth younger martial sister, the future Dragon God of War; √ 
 Her fifth martial sister, the future God of Martial Arts; √ 
 And she, the eldest martial sister, was a [b*tch] and [white lotus flower], who had a villain system and could become stronger by bullying her martial sisters, and had as many as 108 death endings in the original game! 
 ┌(。 Д。) ┐ 
 Bai Lian was speechless. 
 [Every dog has its day, don’t look down on me!] 
 “I will be quitting cultivation!!!” 
 Bai Lian gave up the struggle. 
 …… 
 Several years later, Bai Lian sighed: 
 “Can you women with the protagonist models stay away from me!” “I am not a Natural Saint!” 
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 Feng Yun was an ordinary young man who was unable to cultivate. One day, He got the inheritance of the Ancient Yang Demon Clan and a mysterious sword. With these he became a super genius and started his new journey from a small town to heaven, sweeping across the world, vying for the supreme existence.
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 Before his death, he was the only sword cultivator in the whole world, who dedicated his entire life to the path of sword immortality. 
 When he opened his eyes again, the world had completely changed. He began to cultivate the path of sword immortality again, slaying the heavenly way, shattering the universe with his will, and achieving the realm of sword immortality!
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 Ye An travels into a novel world, becomes a villain, loses his cultivation base, but also activates the simping system.
 As long as he completes the system tasks wholeheartedly, he can get rewards. 
 Therefore, he must accumulate strength and use all the points to deal with the protagonist in the future.
 However, what he doesn’t expect is that no matter what he does, he just cannot get the system points.
 Chikusho (God damn it)…
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 I, Akabane was graduated from the university of arts &amp; design in the 21st century then suddenly traversed into the Naruto’s world, by bringing my knowledge of arts and my love of Naruto comic I decided to recreate Naruto comic here… [Ding! Comic System has been activated!] Great! Ninjutsu? Kekkei Genkai? As long as I can draw more comics, I would be unmatched! …Or am I?
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 Genius e-sports players did not give up their dreams after suffering, return to the league, and create a brilliant story.The protagonists are the twin stars Qin Mo and Xiao Han. The game “Peerless Jianghu” is the author’s original martial arts online games. Eight faction with 16 different play, dozens of kinds of Jianghu cheats and characteristics of the competitive model, welcome everyone into the new world of competitive online games.
 This is the last part of the the god series. The first two parts have been finished. The plots do not affect each other.
 E-sport God Series 1 “The Strongest God”
 E-sport God Series 2 “God Level Summoner”
 E-sport God Series 3 “The King’s Return”
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 The Cambrian Explosion, now the largest life science puzzle…
 500 million years ago,among single-celled life on Earth , there suddenly began mutations similar to evolution, a variety of gorgeous creatures were born “out of thin air”, all ancestors of today’s species appeared in that short period of time, each species were evolving at lightning speed; billion times faster than today, it was a brilliant era.
 Unfortunately, the life of brilliant things are always short, after the brief “Cambrian”, life on Earth entered another 56 million years of evolutionary era at turtle speed. And humans, were also one step faster during the turtle race, and become the leader of life on Earth.
 But now — a greater “second age” has come again.
 During the lightning speed of evolution, humanity was kicked off of the throne on the food chain in the shortest time possible, and life on Earth, welcomed the second brilliant big bang.
 The real end of the world, is no longer brainless zombies or desolate earth, but — the end of mankind, the whole earth’s paradise.
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 And the country, New Tokyo. 
 Higashinohara, who wears his soul, only wants to live a quiet life without being disturbed, but [Crime Manual] accidentally appears in his mind. If you arrest the criminal, you can get attribute points and random rewards. 
 What? Can't you do it? 
 According to the criminal star of the prisoner, you can enjoy the free distribution of temporary attribute points (mission Buff) when arresting. 
 The poorer the prisoner, the more vicious the evil the prisoner is! 
 The harder my Buff is! 
 The fruits of mysterious ability, powerful swords, and various sequences of equivalences have all been transformed into magic rewards on the [Cevil Manual]... 
 Police Department: These extrajudicial maniacs are simply crazy, extremely vicious, full of evil...!!! 
 Higashinohara: 
 I mean... 
 Is there anything worse?! 
 ... 
 ... 
 The following is the protagonist's self-introduction: 
 My name is Higashinohara, a 16-year-old high school student. I'm unmarried. I boarded at Aragaki Detective Office, Ogawacho, Edogawa District, New Tokyo. After high school, I worked as a discipline committee member of the Academy City. I cooperated with the Academy City Guard to arrest the offender and didn't go home until 8 p.m. 
 When I get home, I will exercise with my fingers upside down for an hour and taste different brands of canned coffee before going to bed, just after recalling some subtle differences, just like recalling the criminals who fell into my hands. 
 I will fall asleep on time at 11 o'clock. 
 Everyone says that my work and rest is very regular and healthy. 
 But it's a little ashamed to say. 
 Recently, in my mind, 
 It seems that something strange has appeared....
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 The mysterious golden dragon tattoo on the chest, the strange human-shaped corpse in the grave, the dying beggar speaking a strange language, the modern writing on the ancient stone tablet, all these deeply trouble Wu Zhongyuan, who am I? where am i from? where am i going…
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 Encountering a car crash, the King of Silver Screen, Ye Sinian, was bound to a Cannon Fodder Counterattack System.
 After reincarnating for hundreds of lives, he has finally earned enough “travel expenses” to go back home.
 However, he didn’t think that the system would suddenly malfunction, making returning back home from then on hopeless.
 With the shackles of a millennium broken, Ye Sinian aggressively counterattacked!
 Reversing fates while hugging the mentally ill* Lord Seme, he walked towards the apex of humanity!
 *Mentally ill – Schizophrenic
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