Ascendance of a Bookworm - Volume 7, Chapter 2: The Child That Was Abandoned

"Bowzer, we'll stop here for the night."

Our protagonist Caam is a man from Earth that was reincarnated into this world as a demon. In order to survive, he spared no effort in avoiding the sparks of battle and without noticing it, he became strong himself.

“You shall command… Legacy.”Charon thought he would grow up to be a hero, a savior, a shining light for all humans across the galaxy.But humanity is at war.Beset on all sides, their empire is standing only through the combined forces of technology and magic. Massive mechs were constructed, the fabled Colossus Machines, designed to defend the galaxy. The Mages were rallied, bringing forth elemental destruction.Yet it wasn't enough.Planets fell, their people enslaved to the enemies of mankind. Even the Colossus Machines, strong as they were, could not keep up.Charon was one of the orphans caught in the war effort, surviving through determination and courage, earning him the gaze of the God of Death.Gifted with a great and terrible power, the reviled element Soul, the dead around him suddenly become gateways into a realm thought lost to time. Through it, he can chain undead beasts to himself, forcing them to serve in his legions.He is sent into the River Acheron, the realm of the strongest undead, and is made to fight for his release. During this time, he attempts to uncover secret histories and advance his powers to master the undead.With these powers, he learns something new about magic and technology: He can fuse souls into the Colossus Machines, allowing the power of Death to run through their cores. They become warped, twisted machines of vengeance that earn malevolent abilities.They become strong enough to win a war.Magic and machine are mixed to create something more, something darker. An army fit for a master of magic, a general of legions, a conqueror of the stars...An Archon of Death.**WARNING**The story has a lot of nuance and subplots. If you like complex world-building and lore, you'll love this.He gets his power around chapter 5 or 6, and it then develops from there.DISCORD: https://discord.gg/BJ3DTumc29

'They always said knowledge is power but what if, Power is knowledge.'At the brink of extinction, with no other options humanity decided to take the leap forward by inducing evolution, with a serum meant to take us to new length became the bane of our existence.Levi Kane, after witnessing the massacre of his family is bitten and mutated into a being beyond both vampire and human, with a promise only to destroy all vampires.After waking up from a coma to find the world he left nothing like the past, as vampires ruled both day and night.With the threats of Vampires, world organisations and even humans. Levi threads the line between human and creature as he navigates the delicate and fragile new ecosystem.Find out why evolution doesn't happen in a lab.When the Earth says it's time to leave, just leave.Because there are certain things worse than even death.