I Don't Want to Get Hurt, So I'll Max Out My Defense - Chapter 982 - 983: A Disciple with Fortuitous Encounters Really Saves Money

Kazuki’s life was painfully average—just another cog in the nine-to-five grind. His only escape? Binge-reading novels and no-lifing video games.Then he woke up inside one of those novels.Armed with unstable morals, unhinged humor, and a penchant for pettiness, Kazuki is determined to survive, thrive, and maybe cause a little chaos along the way.The world has no idea what’s coming.

They stole her work. They stole her future. And they thought she’d just walk away.Aria Solona was a prodigy—an orphan who clawed her way out of poverty and rose to become a Cloud Architect, one of the unseen hands shaping the digital backbone of modern civilization.Until the day her boss stole everything.Humiliated, betrayed, and broken, she rage-quit her job… only to be swallowed by a glowing white door that tore her out of reality.Now, in a world of monsters, dungeons, and gods, she is no longer a Cloud Architect.[Job Assigned: Dungeon Architect][Skill Granted: Assistance System (EX)]Instead of code and servers, she can now create traps, safe zones, and fortresses out of thin air. Her knowledge of design and systems, the very skills that kept the digital world alive, are now her weapons in a realm where survival means building faster, smarter, and deadlier than anything hunting her.No swords. No spells. No plot armor. Just her mind, her system, and her will to never be used again.In a world where dungeons devour the unprepared, Aria won’t just survive—She’ll architect her own legend.Additional Tags: Female Protagonist, Transmigration, Isekai, System, Creation Class, Dungeon Building, Survival, Overpowered Growth, Sarcastic MC.

“You’re the Demon King?”

In response to the woman’s voice filled with murderous intent, the man opened his mouth.

“No, I quit that?”

※ Demon King & Hero will show you the absolute limits of chaotic storytelling.

Chi Yan had always had a weak constitution, and ghosts had always tried to kill him. He had tried many ways to change his situation, but it was all futile.

Coincidentally, Third Master Ye of Shiming City passed away, and a priest informed Chi Yan that Third Master Ye possessed the “look of demon,” Carrying a bit of this man’s ashes and installing an altar for him at home could help control the evil spirits around Chi Yan.

Left with no choice, Chi Yan took a gamble. Amazingly, it worked. However he didn’t expect that he’d be instead be haunted by the most persistent ghost of them all.

Obsessed with love, undying resentment, possessed by evil.

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