A Royal Obligation - Chapter 1: Shadows of War

Qin Guanglin is a regular guy living a cautiously regular life. Apart from his freelance job as an artist and his hobby of gaming, nothing has ever been out of the ordinary for him.However, when he meets a mysterious gamer girl offline, he is immediately blown away by how perfect she seems to be for him.Is it all a coincidence, or is it fate? He realizes that there is so much more to life than just staying in his own comfort zone.This is a tale of lost and found...

This is a prequel to the anime movie To Aru Majutsu no Kinsho Mokuroku – Endymion no Kiseki.

Just before the completion of the Academy City space elevator “Endymion”, the main characters Kamijou Touma and Index encounter a level 0 girl named Arisa. The Magicians are after Arisa, and they attack Academy City. A female leader named Shattoaura leads a unit from Academy City against the attack. Kamijou and Index learn from Stiyl that Arisa is key to a brewing war between the sides of Magic and Science. When science and magic cross paths, the story begins with Endymion as its stage!

Sienna Monroe and Caleb Sinclair have been in a relationship for three years and married for three years. They were as close as could be.Until one day, a strange text message informed her that Caleb Sinclair had cheated.She originally thought it was a prank, but she didn't expect to witness him embracing another woman and kissing her passionately.At that moment, the years of happiness and joy collapsed in her heart, completely sinking into an abyss.Later, guided by the text message, she successfully obtained evidence of Caleb's infidelity and the gifts of villas, bags, and jewelry he gave to the mistress. She then entrusted Sebastian Prescott, the top lawyer in Imperial City, to handle this divorce lawsuit.When the truth came out, Caleb Sinclair, with reddened eyes, begged pitifully, “Sienna, I was wrong. I really love you. Please give me another chance.”Sienna Monroe's heart was already filled with disappointment, “Your love is too filthy, I don't need it.”Everyone in The Capital Circle knows that in the legal world, Sebastian Prescott is noble and aloof, an untouchable and unattainable figure.Sienna Monroe thought the same, but it was precisely such a person who said to her, “I can help you heal, would you consider it?”

An unknown disciple from a small sect battling against the strongest in the cultivation world! The long journey working at cultivation, the realization of destiny and the chance to reach the apex of the world.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. Zuo Mo is a zombie faced low level cultivator in a minor sect of a little world. Ever since he was picked up by the sect leader two years ago, he has no memories of his earlier life except a recurring nightmare. Navigating the rigid class structure and intricacies of the cultivation world, as one of the lowest possible of the lowest class, Zuo Mo’s dream is to earn money, and lots of it, through being a spiritual plant farmer.

A chance occurrence reveals that someone powerful had changed Zuo’s features and erased his mind. The money grubbing zombie decides to set out on a journey of cultivation to find out answers. Fate colludes with chance, the drums of war are beating, the ghost of his past is coming… …

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