A World Worth Protecting - Chapter 173: The Calm Before the Storm

[SPECIAL QUEST:Objective: Have sex with Selene on a crowded metro train.Success Condition: Keep her quiet and avoid being seen.Reward: +7 SP | Unlock: ‘Shadow Touch’ | Bond Access with Selene initiated.]Nash Blaze blinked at the screen.“Excuse me… what?”..............They say the Upperworld is paradise, clean air, real sunlight, and lives worth living.Down here, we've got rust, shadows… and Breakball.A savage fusion of street basketball, bloodsport, and raw spectacle, Breakball is the only way out of the slums.No rules. No mercy. Men and women grind together, shirtless or in skin-tight outfits, fighting for points, pride, and power.Drugs flow. Sex sells. One match can change your life... or end it.And once a year, the rich come down to watch us bleed. The Blood Star Invitational, one shot to rise, or vanish forever.Nash Blaze was built for this world. Quiet. Tactical. Obsessed with winning. A pass-first point ghost who made his trash team look like stars.But on the day of their miracle call-up, his teammates kicked him out.“You're too weak for the pros. Just a ghost on the court.”Even his girlfriend left him, right into the arms of the new team ace.Abandoned, forgotten. Nash was ready to disappear.Until something inside him snapped.[REWRITE SYSTEM ACTIVATED]Categories: Body | Mind | Lust | Dominance. Boosts gained through Training, Victory, Seduction. Trait: Erotic Ascension | Hidden Stat: LegacyNow, Nash can rewrite everything, muscle by muscle, stat by stat. From stamina to sex appeal, reflexes to raw size, every conquest pushes him closer to the top.The court made him a ghost. Now he's coming back as a demon.Fame, vengeance, and women are just the beginning. Because when you're born in the dirt…You don't rise. You burn your way up.

In a world where monsters dominate, and humans are but one out of ten thousand of the population, Gao Yang, having transmigrated to this world at the tender age of six and led the life of a normal boy until his eighteenth birthday, must seek the truth and survive against all odds—with the help of a mysterious system, a bottom-of-the-list Talent, and the companions he meets along the ways.

What is hidden under the facade of an ordinary city and its ordinary occupants? What are these different manners of monsters, and where is the line drawn between monsters and humans? Could relationship and love be true when all are merely playing their own parts?

Ride along on his journey and find out!

Official blurb translated from Chinese:

An orphan, Gao Yang transmigrated to a parallel world at the age of six, and he was given the gift of a loving family of five.

However, with the coming of his eighteenth birthday, Gao Yang found out by chance that this is no parallel world, but a strange domain where his family and friends can all be terrifying monsters! He almost got killed when he realized the truth, and he would, if not for the system and Talent he acquired at the last moment, Lucky—the longer he lives, the stronger he will become!

Now commenced the battle royale of a lamb among wolves…

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On doomsday, Tang Yu unexpectedly got the Lord of the End System, he remained very calm.

Lack of experts? I will construct a pub so I can make ten draws in a row;

Lack of food? I can’t be too cheap with the large pack full of food supplies sent from the market;

Lack of safety? Arrow Tower, Mage Tower Artillery and all kinds of automatic defence buildings. Having many isn’t too many;

Lack of equipment? Workshop production must produce high-quality items. Sir, would you like one? We are having a 20% discount special at nine!

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In short, this is a story of Great Lord Tang building up his territory, attacking some monsters, and ripping off…… Cough, making some money at the same time.

[Congratulations, you have earned +9 coins. You have repaid 999,999,999 / 1,000,000,000 Coins. You need 1 more coin to repay your debt.]“You’ve got to be kidding me.”______After living a hundred lives, Lucian finally managed to repay his debt to the system. World after world, he fought, bled, and struggled—all for the freedom he had foolishly given up the day he begged the system to save his life.At last, he had done it. 999,999,990 coins. Just one more mission, one last world, and he would finally be free...Or so he thought.But this was no joke. The system had screwed him over one final time.Still, there was hope. With only a single coin left to repay, the system could no longer play its tricks. Freedom was just within his grasp—if he could survive this last world.All Lucian had to do was reach the end. Simple, right?Except this time, the world itself seemed determined to destroy him.