Lord Theodore's Favorite Ritual - Chapter 158: Seductive And Nervous Lydia

Lucien's last memory was skidding tires, blinding headlights, the sickening crunch of metal.But that wasn't the end.He lived his life and died an overworked and underpaid, but he rose as Lucian D’Aureville. Incumbent heir to House Aureville, one of the most powerful houses in the kingdom.However it wasn't as rosy as it seemed.His predecessor had been murdered by someone, and they wouldn't be happy to see Lucien alive.Follow along as Lucien navigates the complex and treacherous path of nobility and wealth as he rises to the top.

In a world where 70% of the population possesses powers managed by a LitRPG chip, Kang Ji-Hoon, a timid young man, joins the prestigious Apex Academy to save his sick mother. Ranked last at F with his seemingly useless ability to summon a dagger, he becomes the target of relentless bullying. Pushed to his limit, he unleashes the true power of his weapon, a dark and destructive force. As he transforms into a ruthless anti-hero, a cosmic threat emerges to assimilate humanity. Ji-Hoon then realizes his dark destiny: to save everyone, he must destroy everything.

[Attention, humans][Welcome to Midgard, a realm between life and death.][All 300 players accounted for!][Evaluation successful!]Jamie never expected his life to end while saving a stranger. One moment he was pushing a pregnant woman out of the path of a roaring truck—the next, he awakens in Midgard: a realm where death is just the beginning.He isn’t alone. Two hundred ninety-nine others, torn from their final moments, stand beside him. Their fate? To endure ten brutal trials that test body, mind, and spirit.Each challenge grants skills—swordsmanship, magic, strategy—that could mean the difference between survival and annihilation.And at the end awaits a choice:Reincarnate into a fantastical new world, carrying every skill earned.Return to Earth … alive, but powerless.But in a world where trust is fragile and every alliance can shatter in an instant, Jamie must decide—Is mere survival enough?Or will he fight for something greater?

In the heavens, where the Divinity resides, there exists the records of life and death.After the fall of the Gryghori onto the earth, the land of man is corrupted. Abominable creatures never before seen are born of the consummation of heavenly and earthly beings and spread across the land to further corrupt the world.A thousand millennia later, humanity has created civilization once again, based on the knowledge left behind by these Fallen Angels.However, in this new civilization,Man is not alone.Nero is thrown into a world infested with demons, the souls of the dead Nephilim, and abominations of all shapes and horrors, when he stumbles across the very eye of the Divine.A story that preludes an apocalypse and the existence of slumbering evil that threatens to envelop the earth begins.This isn't a story of fulfillment or triumph.These are the very Records of the beginning of the end.Welcome— To the Land of the Abominations.