JACKAL AMONG SNAKES - Chapter 128: The Old Guardians

Some exist with pride, others struggle with pride, some compete with pride, and there are those who fail with pride, but very few can walk away with pride.Congratulations, for as you read these lines, you have witnessed the whole lives of many great basketball players.This pronunciation was embodied when Stephen Curry, after facing defeat in 2021, claimed that no one would want to face them the following season; When Tim Duncan was convinced before the start of the 2014 Finals that they would not mess up; When Kobe Bryant promised at Old Buss's memorial to take the Lakers to the playoffs; When Nowitzki, shedding his label as a soft player, retreated to the locker room in tears at night; When Kevin Garnett let out a skyward howl after holding the championship trophy; When the 2004 Detroit Pistons won and the F4 Lakers lost…Our story begins in an era when pride still mattered.

“What... I'm a werewolf?!” Leo froze in fear. “And an alpha candidate?”----(Warning there will be gore and horror elements that will come into play in this story later)In the year 2125 the human race faced extinction at the hands of a giant colossal titan that appeared and vanished without a trace. It left a wave of monstrous beasts in its wake which humanity barely survived.Months after various portals appeared across all of humanity leading to another realm called Hellscape, here only humans who are called by Hellscape can become awakened superhumans and survive while trying to keep the beasts from coming through.Leonardo Hall a teenage boy who is known as the “peerless loser” has failed to get stronger till a near death experience causes him to awaken a strange cursed legacy and change his life.His only goal to keep moving forward is to provide for his sister and his family, now bestowed a legacy of the dire wolf he will begin a new path to become the strongest. And face the struggles of being a werewolf having to build a pack.

“Why don’t wizards just shoot each other with guns?” many people on Earth wonder.When Reynard died on Earth and was reborn in a world of magic, he became nobody. He had no parents, no system, no special bloodline, and a magical aptitude that only let him advance in magic by consuming expensive materials. Materials that he could never afford!So instead, he crafted a gun.Oh, you want to cast a spell?Then I cast bullet!From the most hopeless student, Reynard turned into a feared magus. But his path to riches and power was still full of peril!“Ah… why can’t I just stop pissing off wrong people and seducing wrong girls?”

You say you know about pain? To feel this sort of hunger... for your body to never be satisfied... your mind crazed by endless thoughts of satisfaction. To gaze upon the stars and know that it’s not enough, That is pain. Now you stand before me and I truly question myself. are you enough.He sought a cure for his power. Now, he'll use it to consume a world.At six years old, Dax's life ended. His trait, [Insatiable Hunger], awakened—a curse that promised only madness and an empty stomach. After two years of torment, he found his answer: [Synthesis], the power to integrate anything he touched.Four centuries of research later, known across galaxies as the Black Researcher, he finally achieved his goal. And in that moment of triumph, he exploded.Reborn in a brutal realm of cults and crumbling gods, Dax finds himself weak, but free. His Hunger is quiet, his Synthesis intact. The local gods think him a pawn. The cults see him as a sacrifice.They are all gravely mistaken.Dax sees this world for what it is: a Petri dish. His new traits are the ultimate research tools. His goal is no longer mere survival, but the answer to a new, thrilling question: Can a man who was once devoured by his own power, now learn to devour divinity itself?