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 Chapter 2
 Chapter 2 – Summoning Palace (2)
 The iron gates on the walls surrounding the plaza opened and some alien creature squirmed through . A man with particularly good sight spoke with uncertainty .
 “Is that a mantis?”
 The man’s guess was correct . However, there was no way that something as simple as that would appear in the Blanche plaza . What had really appeared was a man-eating mantis, standing at the height of an adult male . There was a swarm of them numbering in the hundreds .
 “Now! Trashy humans! Weapons are going to start appearing . Pick one! Fight… or run! If you don’t do either… kekeke! You can just let yourself be eaten!”
 The homunculi began dancing as they taunted them . The crowd still stood frozen in uncertainty, but Sungchul was different . With callous eyes, he patiently waited for the arrival of the weapons . A worn blade suddenly appeared in the air .
 &lt; Blade of Beginnings &gt;
 Grade: Common – Lowest Grade
 Class: Blade
 Effect: None
 Note: Wield and fight . Die . Or Kill .
 “It has been a while since I’ve used a blade . ”
 He had been solely using his hammer for quite a while now . This didn’t mean he couldn’t use a blade . Sungchul’s mastery level with a blade was at the Master rank . It fell short of the ‘greatest’ ranking of Grand Master, but it wouldn’t be wrong to say he was humanity’s strongest swordsman .
 Sungchul hid amidst the rumbling crowd and observed the transparent beings that were meandering above their heads . They were transparent, but their bloodshot eyes clearly were of a summoner’s . Most people wouldn’t be able to notice it under its invisibility spell, but such illusion spells were just parlor tricks to Sungchul .
 ‘That must be the Observer’s eye . Did they already start filtering people out?’
 Sungchul could see a large observation tower above the walls surrounding the plaza . The bastards who held power in this part of the world were sitting in that tower . They were watching through the Observer’s eye for any seeds or ‘special talents’ they could nurture . But at this point, it was still too early for them to tell, so they were mostly just watching the people who had a relation to the higher ups .
 As if on cue, the Observer’s eye focused on those special individuals . This was a sort of privilege bestowed upon them .
 ‘The Observer’s eye are all enchanted with low-level repellent spell . I suppose it could avoid trash mobs like those man-eating mantises . ’
 Some of the Observer’s Eyes were held over the men and women who stood out from the rest of the crowd . These eyes were the property of the slave traders . Most likely, they would appear at a critical moment, trying to enforce a brutal contract on them that would place their lives as collateral .
 “Now, now! Trashy humans! The game will begin!”
 The homunculus with the red hat was hopping over to the humans . There was one man who walked over to the homunculus .
 “Hey! What the fuck are you? Huh?”
 It was a relatively muscular man in his mid-20s who also seemed quite agile . He must have used his fist quite a bit in the old world, but this was the Other World, old ways of thinking did not apply here .
 “Trashy human? You have something you want to say to me?”
 The homunculus with the red hat tottered along and asked . The man, seemingly full of energy, suddenly booted the Homunculus . However, the kick carrying all of his weight was easily grabbed by the Homunculus’ baby-like hands .
 “Uh…? Huh?!”
 The man’s eyes only briefly reflected the horror welling up inside him before the surrounding homunculi gathered like vultures and each happily held onto a limb . The man desperately tried to swing his blade, but it was all to no avail .
 “H-hey! Let go of me! Shit!”
 “Trashy human, struggling without knowing your place! Time for a lesson~!”
 Red Hat smiled viciously as he spoke .
 “This place is OUR playground! Break our rules, and this is what happens!”
 The homunculi snickered while tearing the man’s limbs apart .
 “KYAAAAAA!”
 The man’s limbs were torn apart, accompanied by a sickening scream . A woman’s shrill scream followed shortly after, leaving everyone in silent horror . The homunculi soaked in the terror of the humans and spoke out arrogantly, “From now on . You must all listen to what we tell you . Run over to that door with all your strength! Or else Mister Mantis is going to make a tasty meal out of you!”
 The seal around the plaza fell away . The starving mantis swarm suddenly perked up . The humans finally understood the fate that awaited them . There was a desperate cry, followed by pandemonium . A huge group of 2500 people all bolted towards the door . Everyone pushed and shoved until the weakest of them were trampled to death . Sungchul calmly made his way through the chaos and towards the front of the crowd . This was all a familiar sight to him .
 The Homunculus’ repertoire hadn’t changed a bit . There will still be an unwelcome surprise waiting for them at the exit .
 “Kwuuuuuh!”
 A hand shot out from the exit followed by a creature shaped like a human . It was a ghoul, a zombie-like creature that sought human flesh but retained its consciousness . But their hunger still prevailed over their sense of reason .
 The starved ghouls became frenzied at the sight of fresh, living humans . They caught the most athletic of them, who were at the front of the crowd and started eating them alive . At the traumatizing scene taking place before them, those at the front came grinding to a halt . However, the herd of 2000 didn’t stop with them . The people at the back continued pushing, while those at the front continued screaming, “Don’t push! Don’t push!”
 Those facing the ghouls held the crowd back with all their strength, but in the end, they were slowly being pushed forward inch by inch, until they too were grabbed by the ghouls .
 “KYAAAA!”
 “So… hungry…! HUNGRY!”
 Accompanied by the screams of their victims, the ghouls began to feast . Not only that, there was another stronger, even more terrifying predator hunting those who had fallen behind .
 “D-dear!”
 A middle-aged man feebly tried to defend his wife with his blade, but a beginner was no match for the man-eating mantis .
 Clang!
 The mantis’ foreleg shattered the blade and snatched up the despairing survivor .
 Crunch! Crunch!
 The homunculus smiled contently to the music of it chewing on flesh and bone .
 “That’s why you have to run faster! You slowpokes, lazing about leads to this! Kehehe!”
 It was a scene comparable to hell, but all of this failed to affect Sungchul . To him, there was a greater objective to be accomplished; and that was to read the inscription that was at the front gate .
 “… Death will set you free . ”
 [You are a possessor of sharp observation . You have astutely observed the inscription written at the front gate, and completed Observant (Common)]
 Reward – Intuition +1
 The first quest had been completed . However, it was still far from over .
 [Oh Ho! What a nice guy! You have completed Samaritan (Common) by helping 3 people who have fallen over . ]
 Reward – Apple x2
 [Even in the bleakest of moments, you are a true romantic who would still stare at the two moons longingly! Romanticist (Common) has been completed . ]
 Reward – Palace Token x1
 Even in the process of escaping, he was able to finish a few trivial quests . Things like the apples were earned at Sungchul’s leisure, but the Palace Token was the most important item within the Palace Quest . It was through the number of Palace Tokens that classes could be chosen . One would have to feverishly collect if they wanted to take one of the hidden classes, but Sungchul only wanted the common mage class . He could easily collect 9 of the 10 tokens with little trouble . Trying any harder would only garner the attention of the large guilds and sects .
 ‘I guess I should get about 15 tokens to be safe . Either way, I should finally open up my status screen, now that I’ve managed to get some intuition . ’
 In this brief moment, A ghoul rushed towards Sungchul . He reflexively swiped across the ghoul’s skull with the back of his blade . However, he forgot to control his strength . The ghoul’s skull managed to pierce through the reinforced floor .
 “Shit . ”
 He tried to hold back, but it was still too strong . It couldn’t be helped . His physical strength had exceeded the superhuman and could be ranked within the realms of divinity .
 ‘There is definitely a need for me to conceal my strength . By a lot . ’
 Thankfully, his action went completely unnoticed, no one had any attention to spare for him . That was only natural, this was the arena of survival where preserving one’s life was difficult enough, without having to worry about what someone else was doing .
 The end slowly came into sight . The homunculi were waving blood-soaked cloths while shouting over people . Those that finished felt as if they were both suffocating physically and mentally . Sungchul softly muttered ‘status screen’ under his breath . Overall, the status screen of newcomers would be pathetic beyond compare . It wouldn’t be rare for it to be filled with just some meager stats and nothing else . This wasn’t the case for Sungchul . His status screen unfolded like a legendary epic .
 &lt;Current Status of Kim Sungchul, ‘The One Who Crushes’&gt;
 [Blessings] Covenant
 (Unknown)Unshakeable
 (Immune to Mental Attacks)Blessing from God of Chaos
 (10% Bonus to Strength, Dexterity, Vitality)Heir of Heracles
 (+100 Strength)Bloodline of Zealot
 (Major Bonus to Regeneration when Below 10% Vitality)Champion of Humanity
 (+ 50 Resolve)Rapid-Bow of the High Elven Kingdom
 (+ 30 Dexterity)Heart of an Ancient Warrior
 (+5 Strength, Resolve, Vitality / Resilience)[Curses]Covenant
 (Unknown)Final Declaration of Grand Mage Balzark
 (-10 Intuition)Blessing of Blademaster Karakardra
 (+ 1 Dexterity, -1 Strength)Ancient God’s Champion, Arrak – Garr’s Criticism
 (-3 Strength)Dark Dragon Groteus’s Karmic Curse
 (- 20 Strength, -20 Vitality)Adelwight of the Haunted Forest’s Common Curse
 (- 5 Strength, Erectile Dysfunction)Enemy of the Kingdom
 (Faction: Nemesis of Human Kingdom, Blank Check Reward)Destroyer of Hora Mountain Sect
 (Faction: Nemesis of Hora Mountain Sect, Destroyed)Destroyer of Mewra Sect
 (Faction: Nemesis of Mewra Sect, Destroyed)Enemy of the Coalition of Mages
 (Faction: Nemesis of Coalition of Mages and affiliated guilds)Steel Fist Curse of Crimson Orc Chief, Drakuul
 (Race: -30 Orc Favor)Recorded on Dwarven Log of Villains
 (Race: -200 Dwarf Favor)Recorded on Merchant Coalition Blacklist
 (Faction: Trade impossible with Merchant coalition and their affiliated factions)
 “… . . ”
 Too long . It would take ages to read completely down to the class screen . This was why he had avoided opening his status screen before . There also hadn’t been any need to .
 Sungchul sifted through the tightly packed lines of words to find what he was really looking for .
 ‘Ability power, class and soul contracts’
 [Class]
 Main Class – Primordial Warrior (Legendary)
 Sub Class – High Class Chef (Rare)
 [Stats]
 Strength 999+ Dexterity 853
 Vitality 801 Magic Power 3
 Intuition -9 Magic Resist 611
 Resolve 501 Charisma 18
 Luck 18
 [Soul Contract – 6 Slots]
 Soul Harvester
 ([Legend] Vitality Leech 15%, Vitality restored from fallen enemies)
 Thunder Shield
 ([Legend] All Magic Damage reduced by 50% / Negate all mental attacks below legend rank)
 Eye of Truth
 ([Legend] Negate all blessings below Epic rank / Identify all items, consumables, and skill details)
 Soul Storage
 ([Epic] Can store 1500 different items)
 Deceiver’s Veil
 ([Rare – High Tier] Conceals status window)
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 With the comparably lighter data, Sungchul first looked over the classes .
 ‘I suppose mage should be slotted to the sub class . I haven’t really messed around with it like some other people . ’
 Sungchul then looked over his 5th soul contract, Deceiver’s Veil . Soul contracts were, as the name suggested, an agreement where a deity or a similar being inscribes some of their power into the user’s soul . Each of these contracts were exceedingly difficult to obtain, but they also granted significant power .
 Deceiver’s veil effectively deceived other users . It hid the user’s strength, but also their name . It was something essential for an unreasonably powerful loner with more enemies than friends like Sungchul .
 ‘I should play around a bit when I get the chance . ’
 He finally looked over his stats, or more importantly, his intuition .
 ‘Intuition is -9 . That curse from the geezer, Balzark, is holding me back now . ’
 The image of an old man covered in countless inscriptions, spouting curses while being turned into tenderized meat flashed through his mind . Intuition was a core stat for a mage, going along with their magic power . Magic power represented a magician’s destructive strength and their mana retention, while intuition was related to their understanding of the higher tier magic . No matter how high your magical power was, without sufficient intuition one could never learn high tier spells . As far as he could recall, the Mage class required at least 10 intuition .
 ‘It is critical that I raise my intuition, but the limit for common quests is 10 . I could raise strength by 23, but why is there so little room for intuition?’
 It hadn’t been planned, but a need for hidden quests arose . However, he didn’t know the requirements for triggering any of the hidden quests within the Summoning Palace . He had only managed to get his hands on the common quest log . It wasn’t like there was another way…
 Sungchul searched for the most leisurely among the survivors . He found one . One with the Observer’s Eye floating above . In other words, ‘a shoe-in’ . A way would appear if he trailed him . A way to uncover a hidden quest .
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 Enemy of the world, cursed by all, Kim Sungchul goes on a quest to prevent the ‘prophecy of the end’ from coming to pass.
 But no matter how much he raised his strength, there were still some things he could not achieve with physical strength alone.
 Resolving to obtain the power of magic, he goes into hiding to learn magic from his most hated of enemies, The Mages.
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 Xie Mu’s task was to make scum gongs fall in love with him.
 He skillfully disguised himself as a white lotus, delicate and pitiful, kind and naïve.
 Even if he became an existence thrown away by the slag gong like a cheap pair of shoes, it didn’t matter, because Xie Mu would quickly make him kneel and apologize, even willing to dig out his heart and present it on a silver platter.
 —— and once the slag gongs fell in love, he would, step by step, lead them into hell:
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 The villainess sees herself executed in front of a large crowd by the order of the emperor (her husband and the one she loves). However in the next moment after her death, she is back in the past. Monique is sent back into the past because of her brutal memories of her previous life with a prince who was engaged due to their similar age. When Empress grew and looked at the past, she killed her emotions to live as an Empress and remained one emotion, that was sickening affliction. Where in her next life, she made new connections in order to avoid getting executed again…
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 Seria, a social outcast, has changed.
 Seria Stern, the wicked woman who made everyone tremble with fear, was now calm.
 In fact, she wasn’t just changed, she was a completely different person.
 The moment she realized that she had possessed the body of the villain Seria, in a romance novel, she had a hunch about the future and decided to live low.
 She would avoid kidnapping and harassing the original heroine, hence preventing her death by decapitation at the hands of Kalis, the second male lead.
 In order to avoid that, she had to fix her bad relationship with Kalis and even healed his injured arm.
 Thanks to that she got engaged with him, so it’s all worked out.
 Finally, the original heroine returned, and her husband, Lesche, should be on good terms with her now.
 “I’ve been waiting to escort her, so…”
 Lesche asked, resolutely cutting off Kalis’ words.
 “Miss Seria, it would be better for you to choose. With whom would you want to go with?”
 Something was strange.
 The original, wasn’t it perfectly fine?
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 In the Province of the Nine Skies, far above the heavens, there exists Nine Galaxies of Astral Rivers made up of countless constellations interwoven together.
 For Martial Cultivators, they could form an innate link with one of the constellations, awaken their Astral Soul, and transform into a Stellar Martial Cultivator.
 Legend has it that, the strongest cultivators in the Province of the Nine Skies, were beings that could open an astral gate every time they advanced into a new realm. Their talent in cultivation was such that they could even establish innate links with constellations that existed in a layer higher than the Nine Layers of Heavens, eventually transforming into the heaven-defying and earth-shattering power known as the War God of the Nine Heavens.
 Qin Wentian is the MC of this story. How could a guy, with a broken set of meridians, successfully cultivate? There were countless Stellar Martial Cultivators, as there were countless constellations in the vast starry skies. What he wanted to be, was the brightest constellation of all, shining dazzlingly in the vast starry skies.
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 In a tyrannical world, what is evil? What is benevolence? All living creatures are brutal. Passing through the heaven road to find one’s purpose in life. Struggles to be stronger is not an easy path. The whole journey thistles and thorns, one blade chops open a path, I alone will be supreme!
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 Fate had never been kind to Ji Ning. Wracked by illnesses and infirm his entire life on Earth, Ji Ning knew early on that he would die as a teenager. What he didn’t know was that there really was such a thing as life after death and that the multiverse was a far larger place than he thought.
 A lucky twist of fate meant that Ji Ning was reborn into a world of Immortals and monsters, of Ki Refiners and powerful Fiendgods, a world where Dynasties lasted for millions of years. A world which is both greater… and yet also smaller… than he ever could imagine. He would have the opportunity to join them, and in this life, Ji Ning swore to himself, he would never let himself be weak again! The Era he was born into was a Desolate one, but Ji Ning would make it his era.
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 Du Yun Xiu is a very gentle and kind person. He can throw away his chance to be successful in his career for a one-sided love that has no solution. He will stand up to a mafia boss for an actress he does not know.
 When the media exposes his se*ual orientation, to cover up for the other person, he does not utter a complaint, and he faces the discrimination all by himself, to the point it brings him down to the pitch of hell with no return.
 Even after he was dead, standing in front of his own grave, he still does not have any grudge against Xie Yi, he even takes Xie Yi as his motivation to urge himself to be more successful in his new life.
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 Also known as Venerated Venomous Consort. In a modern world, a professional assassin was murdered by her beloved and found herself revived in an ancient world as a general’s daughter with a weak physique. She was engaged to a prince, but because she did not have a nice appearance, her fiancé and sister attempted to kill her. Although she had to struggle to survive, there were also those who unconditionally loves her that supported her in her time of need.
 How does she intend to adapt and survive in such a foreign and hostile world? Follow Gu Xijiu on her journey to discover her one true love!
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 On the 15th of March 2164, the world mourns the passing of Darius Stone, billionaire broker, and philanthropist.
 Yet while his family and friends put his body to rest, Darius wakes up to find himself reborn into a younger body in a different world.
 A strange voice informs him that his soul has been transported into the magic-filled world of Faust on the behest of a mysterious Goddess called Vena, for the sole purpose of entertaining her through his struggles.
 In this world where any dream can be achieved with enough effort, he sets out to become a Supreme, an existence above Mortals and even Gods!
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 “I curse you to never die in peace!”
 Thus, Shang Ke started a never-ending (forced) cycle of constantly throwing away his miserable life.
 He would always show himself as a martyr while letting others cry over his death.
 It was because of a woman’s curse that Shang Ke was hit by a car and turned into a human vegetable. This led to him becoming bound by an unlucky system in which he was cursed to die. The most unfortunate part was that he never cheated on anyone’s feelings. The reason for why he was cursed by a woman was because of a guy named Qi Chen. Qi Chen was a ladies man, and he would always use Shang Ke as an excuse to break up with any woman that he was with. As a result, Shang Ke was always blamed for the breakups. Since then, the main character could only be forced to cross into different worlds. He would thus experience for himself, the hero’s “thrill”.
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 One moment, Luo Jing was at the brink of death after accidentally touching a power outlet while showering. The next, he was in the body of a man named Garen, with memories of a past he was never a part of flowing into his head. As he slowly gets used to the body of Garen, he begins to explore a planet beyond his own logical comprehension. His journey will see him go from surviving in a planet locked in the 20th century, to wielding secret techniques so powerful that they level cities overnight. However, his journey doesn’t end with Garen. Instead this is but the first of many bodies that Luo Jing will come to wield in his mystical journey between worlds.
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 After his death, Hang Qing got a system that allowed him to release the halo of Gary Stu (aka. Mary Sue) and conquer the villain in every world.
 “You have an unparalleled appearance, a charming body, an irresistible voice, is conquering a villain that difficult?”
 “…………… But I’m a f*cking man. “
 “It doesn’t matter getting bent a little, you’ll get used to it.”
 King of Swimming: √
 Cold Singer Pop Star: √
 Murder Movie Abnormal Boss: √
 Most Beautiful Alpha: √
 Ghost Imprisoned in the Castle: √
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