DASH - Chapter 27Vol 2. : Side Story -

A back-to-basics(?) monster evolution novel.

On that day, the fog blocked everything.

On that day, he became the captain of a ghost ship.

On that day, he stepped through the thick fog and confronted a completely subverted and fragmented world—the old order had vanished, strange phenomonoms dominated the endless seas beyond civilized society, and isolated island city-states and fleets of ships challenged the sea that had become the last ember of lights for the civilized world. All of this while the shadows of the old days were still stirring in the deep sea, waiting to to devour this world that was about to die.

But for the new captain of the ghost ship Vanished, there was only one question he had to consider first— Who knows how to drive this ship?!

- Description from Novelupdates

In the third year of the Kaihuang era, as the Great Sui began to unfold between the fall of the Northern Dynasties and the rise of the glorious Tang Dynasty, Emperor Yang Jian created the House of Blades – an intelligence agency for strategies and conspiracies – in preparation to unify the world.

On a snowy night, a convoy of tribute from the Kingdom of Khotan was raided. Not one soul survived the attack. Feng Xiao, Second Commandant of the House of Blades, was ordered by the Emperor to investigate the matter in person.

On the distant border, a storm brewed as major forces gathered from all sides in Liugong Town. The strong rubbed shoulders with the strong; the skilled crossed paths with the skilled.

Here, the ever-successful Second Commandant Feng ran into a wall for the first time – all because of a feeble Taoist priest with ailing health.

Some things would never be known if no fights were ever picked. Only through their skirmishes did Feng Xiao realise that this sick bastard seemed to have way more aliases and personas than he himself ever did.

- Description from Novelupdates

”What is justice? What is evil? If given a second chance, I would no longer care about the opinions of others and only seek immortality.“With a cry to the heavens, Dusk Vale met his tragic end.But fate had other plans. He was granted a mysterious power that sent him back 300 years to the moment everything began.In this new life, he would live without concern for the judgments of others. No more restraint, no more hesitation — he would use any means necessary to achieve true immortality.What is the best villain? In my opinion, it is someone who does a lot of evil but is still considered a good person by some people. Someone who never really thinks about others but has many people who are loyal to him.Can one person defeat the entire world? Stupid, humans are born on the same level; surpassing one person is already not easy, let alone surpassing all of them combined. That is why Dusk will absolutely not act alone in this life.