Rebirth of a Star: Another Day, Another Drama - Chapter 138 - Estranged (2)

Anton is a great-grandfather. He is living quite a happy life, despite his advanced age and declining health… until a group of cultivator bandits moves into the area. The nearby guardians of the area, the Order of Ninety-Nine Stars, are unable to track them down as they continue to ravage nearby towns. During one desperate winter Anton is out on a hunt when his family- his entire village- is killed or taken as slaves by the bandits. He lacks the strength to fight them, and he wasn’t even present for their arrival to die with his loved ones. At the pit of his despair, he wonders if he ever had any chance to change things. What could he even do? He cannot even pull his best bow, and his eyesight is failing. If he had been a cultivator… perhaps there might have been a chance, but he was decades- perhaps even most of his life- too late.Participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge (2022)Notes on cultivation levels:There are five general stages of cultivation, though the fifth is extremely rare. Each cultivation style might have their own name for the stages.1. Body Tempering2. Spirit Building/ occasionally System Creation (Ninety-Nine Stars)3. Constellation Formation (Ninety-Nine Stars)4. Life Transformation/Galaxy Construction (Ninety-Nine Stars)5. Ascension

'Death' It was meant to be the end, but it brought a new start.After a destructive nether storm consumes his world, Jack finds himself face-to-face with a powerful being who tasks him with a mission he can’t refuse.Reincarnated as Asriel—the most tragic, doomed character from a novel he once read—Jack’s frustration grows: “Damn it, why this fool?”Now, he must navigate Asriel's cursed life, facing relentless supernatural beings that threats him with a single hope:[Necromancy System Activated!][Ascend as the Ruler of the Undead!]But can Jack rise above Asriel's fate, or will he, too, fall prey to the shadows lurking in his new world?

Lucian Black awakened to be the most powerful hunter in the world, but he even with all these powers, he could not protect that which he holds dear, and had to watch her die.Devoid of any feeling, he decided to focus his hatred on the monsters that caused all his suffering, and he became a killing machine until one day, he was betrayed and poisoned by those he works with but fate had another plan in store for him as he returned back to the day of his awakening, the day he awoke the most broken ability in the world.With this second chance, he vows to protect his sister and find out what really happened to his parents.

In the new era when the earth began the test to become a Level 2 Civilization, everyone's Constellations played the most important role because only from them could people obtain skills.Having a contract with a stronger Constellation meant getting skills with a higher class.Money was the determinant of getting stronger Constellations as they offered skills to those who paid more.Oliver had no problem with that as he was raised by his aunt who was a super rich woman.That woman could contract one of the Strongest Constellations.However, she suddenly offended the Constellation she was about to contract, causing an inevitable conflict.As a result, that Constellation used his influence to make all Constellations not accept contracts from the two of them.Even with a lot of money, their status was destined to plummet in this new era if they did not have a Constellation.They had to be prepared for the attacks of their enemies.Unexpectedly for Oliver, when he felt hopeless, he accidentally joined a chat group that he initially thought contained strange people but turned out to be the most powerful figures in the universe.Even two of them casually gave him SSS+ Class Skills...