Martial Conquest of the Nine Desolates - Chapter 46 - 044 Century-Old Jade Marrow

After a near death experience thanks to his own mother, Jake Hollander has an adverse reaction to people, baseball, and family. His feeling of abandonment is slowly lost thanks to his foster family, The Atkins. They take him in and change his mind about everything. He becomes more open, better at baseball, and craves for family. Slowly all wishes are granted.

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The protagonist wakes up to a superpower one day, out of the blue! But there’s no organization targeting the protagonist’s superpower! The prettiest girl in his grade doesn’t turn out to be a psychicer like the protagonist himself! No door opens to another world and he doesn’t get summoned! There is no secret history in the protagonist’s past! There is no reveal explaining the protagonist’s sudden attainment of his superpower! So normal! Such overwhelming normalcy! He graduates from school and gets a job without anything happening! He lives as a mediocre working adult! Having enough power to fight against all of humanity yet not seeing anything happen finally makes him snap! Fine, be that way! If this is the way it’s gonna be, then I’ll make it! I’ll make the secret supernatural organization myself! Welcome to my manmade extraordinariness!

Shen Sui has traveled to an era of Duel Cards, obtaining cards used for dueling from the Otherworld by directing Soul Card Followers to act.However, Shen Sui feels that his Soul Card, a girl named Alice, has some issues.[Alice is exploring the War God Temple.][Alice finds it boring and uses arson on the Temple.][Ding! You have obtained the Spell Card: Contempt][Alice finds the statue indecent.][Alice uses a shattering strike targeting the lower part of the statue.][Ding! You have obtained the Spell Card: Desecration][The War God Balgas awakens from slumber, extremely angry. Alice's life is in imminent danger.][Alice sends out a plea for help.][Help! Help! Help! Help! Help!]What are you doing again, Al-ice!

This is a ‘rebirth’ story where Chen Rong, the heroine, finds her second chance at life after burning herself to death. Set in the Eastern Jin era when bureaucrats and their lofty yet equally hypocritical and oppressive ideas once ruled the empire, Chen Rong is made to use her past life’s experience to survive and hopefully find happiness this time around.

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