JACKAL AMONG SNAKES - Chapter 698: Trial By Fire

Waking up as the most hated noble family in a fantasy world is bad. Inheriting a 50,000 gold debt with a death sentence attached is worse.​But the Sanusi family isn't scared. They are from Earth, and they brought the Industrial Revolution with them.​Now, the magical realm faces a new kind of warfare.Knights vs. Tanks.Mages vs. Railguns.“You have a Dragon? That’s cute. We have Anti-Air Cannons.”​It’s time to pay debts and conquer kingdoms.

Internet celebrity chef Chen Muxue transmigrated into a book, becoming the final boss of a cultivation story. The instant she arrived, she hit the male lead with a wok. Staring at the dilapidated conditions of her sect and the children she found waiting for their next meal, she decided that everything could wait until after she had a full stomach. And yet, that one meal resulted in a remarkable change in destiny... On a certain day, a man swirling with divine qi visited. He asked, “Do you offer meals here, milady? If you do, I am willing to join your sect.” Chen Muxue replied, “No problem! Go work the farm first!” The next day, the cultivation realm was in shock! Everyone began to visit the Heavenly Cauldron Sect, but no one knew why a celestial was working at a farm in his pure-white robes...

“Every person has an equal amount of 8 skill holder slots. There are normal skills such as 【Physical Strength】 which takes up 1 slot, but there are also rare skills which take up 4 to 5 slots, or even rarer ones which take up all 8 slots.”

Is what old man Hinga taught me at the Orb Mine, where skill orbs are unearthed.

But we “s*aves” could not acquire skills due to Contract Magic, thus s*aves had no future.

On one fateful day.

The noble who owned the mine, that is, our “Master”, came to visit the Orb Mine.

Due to a sudden earthquake, the ceiling collapsed. Rocks fell directly on the noble’s head. And he died.

At that moment, our contract magic disappeared.

The clever s*aves ran straight to the warehouse where the skill orbs were stored.

They absorbed rare skill orbs, and used their newfound abilities and magic to defeat the guards and escaped the mine.

It was a riot.

I was too late to pick up a skill orb.

“–It’s over. I will be forced back into being a s*ave,” I despaired.

But just then, I saw a skill orb that shouldn’t exist.

An orb which used 10 skill holder slots -【All Things In Creation 《World Ruler》】

A non-standard skill orb that would be of no interest to anyone but researchers because no soul in the world could use it.

However, I was able to absorb 【World Ruler】.

Why? That’s because I was a “reincarnated person.”

I had 8 more skill holder slots than an average person, for a total of 16 slots.

The mine is besieged and there is only one exit. A mysterious skill 【World Ruler】 in my hand.

What do I do now?

Angelo thought he could throw me away? Bella thought she could take everything from me?They were wrong. So wrong.Every single thing Angelo had his job in the Melendez Corp, his money, his fancy life, I gave him that.I would take everything from them.The car stopped in front of the huge iron gates of the Melendez estate.Now, I was back.And I was done hiding… Ariana Melendez was back!******Ariana Melendez, a hidden heiress, thought she had the perfect life until her husband Angelo and best friend Bella betrayed her in the worst way. After losing everything, including her unborn child, she returns to her powerful family, burning with revenge. To punish her, her father arranges a marriage with Dante Russo, the ruthless son of a business rival. Dante Russo, the cold, calculating heir of their greatest enemy and Angelo’s Uncle one that could destroy her ex-husband with a single word. Now, Ariana is trapped in a dangerous game. On one side her vow to ruin Angelo and Bella to make them suffer as she did. On the other her forced marriage to Dante, a man as ruthless as he is intoxicating, whose loyalty is as uncertain as her own heart.