Arcane: The Gods Want Me to Pick a Route - Chapter 170: A Father’s Heart (EC)

John Mirage was a young hacker, waiting for his court trial, when he was presented with a choice. Joining a secret ‘fake’ government program, he ended up playing right in a totally unexpected foul play from the future!He found himself travelling into the future, inside a VR game called “Athanasia”, where he gained a Hacker System, lots of abilities, and was facing a grand scheme that ran deeper than anyone thought!The fight between humans and machines in the future wasn’t just brutal and cunning; it also spanned to include the VR game, the real world, and even a totally alien world, with different powers in play, even alien races! And John was standing right in the heart of all this, as the variable and anomaly no one expected!Armed with his system, John will struggle to complete quests, learn new abilities, hack everything, increase his system synchronisation level and upgrade his system to become a powerhouse and an unexpected variable in that war!John will fight on different fronts, against overwhelming odds, and find a way to hack his success through all adversaries!

[P-CORE BIOS VER 7.3.1 INITIALIZING... 10%][30%][60%][90%][100%][SUBJECT Kael - GENETIC MARKER: PHOENIX PRIME - CONFIRMED][CRYO-STASIS SEQUENCE: ...100%][NEURAL PATHWAY: STABLE][VITAL SIGNS: DETECTED - SUBOPTIMAL][LOADING PHOENIX CORE AI - DESIGNATION: ASHA][ASHA ONLINE - AWAITING SUBJECT CONSCIOUSNESS]Asha: “Kael, your current objective is not to get eaten. My calculations give you a 37.4% chance if you actually follow my advice this time.”Kael: “Right, Asha. 'I'll make sure not to be a snack by these mutated.” He gripped his trusty pipe. “I still haven't met the others who are still sleeping in their pods. How can I think about being eaten?” He glanced towards the cryo-pods, 14 Beautiful girls still on their cold sleep.[Affinity System Sub-Routine... Online. Monitoring Subject Interactions.]Sera (her long silver hair glinting through her waist. Her arms crossed and glaring at Kael who just offered her a slightly squashed ration bar): “I don't need your help or your pitiful food! I can handle myself just perfectly fine..… I know this situation… is temporarily, everything will be fine.”Kael: “Umm.. O-O-Okay. Just… eat this first it's the last one we have.. and you looked really hungry, Sera.”Asha: “[Affinity with Subject Seraphina: -2. Critical Analysis: Subject exhibits classic tsundere defense mechanisms. Probability of her actually wanting the ration bar: 89.7%.]”Kael (to Asha,): “Umm.. Asha?.. What now?”[Humanity's Last Hope: Subject Kael. Current Status: Confused, but trying his best.][Objective: Survive. Protect the 14 Girls. Maybe figure out what 'Affinity' means before someone hits *him* with a pipe.]

Aren Frost, CEO of Titan Crest Entertainment, finds his life crumbling before his eyes on the day of his 22nd wedding anniversary.His wife was in bed with the chairman and owner of his company. This man was his best friend for whose company he dedicated his life to.“How can you do this?” He asks, yelling with tear filled eyes.“This isn't something new.” The man smirks, “We were lovers before you even got married.”Aren's world crumbled.“Even the daughter you cherishes isn't yours.” The man reveals, snickering, “She is my biological daughter.”Aren tries to kill the man in anger, but his bodyguards appears and takes him away. He is killed, disguised as an accident.Just when he thought it was over, he finds himself in the body of an idol, hated by fans. The idol was retired, and condemned for being the reason for group's disbandment.Then—[Ding!][Welcome Host, I'm the Acting System.][Rise and become the superstar of this generation.]Aren, however, didn't care.He wanted revenge!He will take everything precious away from him. He took his wife, now, Aren will take every woman he cares for. He will turn them against him.

【The entire world bullies you, hates you, and isolates you, but your world has light because of him. I hate this world! But I love you!】