A Background Character's Path to Power - Chapter 177: March of the Hollow

Each stroke of good luck is a triumph over someone else’s misfortune.Jack Grim, the son of two legendary assassins, was born and raised on nothing but coldness, and the skills to spill blood.At seventeen, Jack received his final task as an assassin apprentice under his parents.“Succeed, and you’ll run your own organization — live the life you’ve always dreamed of.”For Jack, it was everything he had ever wanted: the chance to finally become the professional assassin he was born to be.He struck his target at midnight, succeeded, and received everything his parents had promised.But in the wake of victory came a pounding headache, a relentless fever—and then… transmigration.Jack now found himself in Raiden’s body, the keeper of the Book of Ashes, the heart of the Devourer, and the very book the coward Raiden had died protecting with his life.Jack had no desire to live in another world, magic or not. He simply wanted to return to his life as an assassin.But duty had other plans. The balance of this world now rested on his ability to protect the book, and like it or not, the responsibility was his to bear.

A century after the Spirit Qi Awakening, the world enters a new era. Humans are able to absorb the world’s awakened spirit qi, allowing them to tread on a new path—spirit qi occupations!

At the end of the road, in the throes of despair and impending death, Le Yu shouted defiantly:“If you have the guts, then kill me.”The enemy sneered and said:“I've never heard such a strange request.”Le Yu died.Then Le Yu came back to life, living in the enemy's body.This is a story where being killed means possessing the killer.“Why are the ones who kill me always some enigmatic, cunning figures with complicated backstories and numerous impending quests?Why aren't there some honest, wealthy, lady-charmer winners in life coming to kill me!?”

One elite school. One dead student. Two boys who can’t stand each other… and can’t stay away.Welcome to Blackwell Academy.The most prestigious high school in the country, where the rich are powerful, the powerful are dangerous.And everyone is playing a role in the chain.At the top of the chain?The Glass Circle……six untouchable students born into legacy, wealth, and manipulation.They are feared, worshipped and corrupt to the core.One night, one of them, ends up dead.What happens when Ash Rivera….a quiet, artistic scholarship student from the slums of the city…witnesses the one thing he was never meant to see?He wasn’t supposed to be at that party.He wasn’t meant to see the body fall from the rooftop.He wasn’t meant to survive it.He definitely wasn’t supposed to catch Dominic Vale’s attention.But one wrong night changes everything.Now Ash is the only witness to a murder, and someone knows he saw too much.They want him silent.“Keep your mouth shut, Rivera. Or you’ll be next. You don’t belong here…and you’ll die trying to.”But the real danger isn’t the killer.It’s Dominic Vale…..Blackwell’s golden boy and Ash’s sworn enemy.Because Dominic has his own secrets. His own obsessions. And one terrifying promise.“Ash Rivera is mine. No one touches him… no one… except me.”As Ash digs deeper into the truth behind the Glass Circle, one thing becomes clear:Love is dangerous.And the truth? Might get you killed.