Sage Monarch - Chapter 27: Hostility from the City Magistrate

Calamity descends upon a a tranquil world in the black of night, transforming it into a death game! This a a true apocalypse, but this is not the end of humanity!

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{Ding! You've seduced the Ice queen}{Reward: you've earned 10× her net worth: $20M}{Multiple orgasm!}{Extra reward: $10M}As if losing everything wasn’t enough—his job, his pride, and his life, all stolen in a single day. First came betrayal. Then came Truck-Kun.Caleb Monrrow thought it was the end.Until he woke up in another world.Now reborn as the bastard son of a ruthless business tycoon, Caleb enters a life where his name is ignored, his worth dismissed, and his powerful siblings want him erased.He has one mission:Rise above them all and claim the legacy that should’ve never been his.But then…{Ding!}[10X Rebate System Activated]Seduce and conquer all female Cardholders. Receive 10X their wealth.“Getting rich while having fun? Sounds like the perfect deal.”Or so he thought.What the system didn’t say was that every Cardholder is linked to Group X—a shadowy organization that controls wealth, media, and power from the shadows.Each cardholder is powerful, seductive… and hunted.Rival Cardholders, deadly assassins, and secret alliances threaten to unravel everything.And now Caleb is in the middle of it all—with his life, heart, and future on the line.“Wait… the system never mentioned this!”In a game of lust, betrayal, and survival, Caleb must seduce, outsmart, and endure—because in this world, love is a weapon... and wealth is war.

He lived like a king, died like a grandpa... and woke up as a bratty villain inside a fantasy novel.Nice.Born into the mighty Arkanveil family, he’s expected to grow up spoiled, arrogant, and doomed. But sorry, fate — he’s got better plans.Armed with a broken Proficiency Panel, two god-tier Traits, and the mind of a seasoned conqueror, he’s here to rewrite the script.Demigods plotting. Councils scheming. Demon Emperors laughing.They’re all just EXP waiting to happen.Pretending to be a clueless baby genius, he secretly trains, conquers, and stacks power like a final boss.Because this time, the EX-Rank Villain isn’t playing to survive.He’s playing to win.The world’s greatest families have no idea what’s coming. But hey... they’ll find out soon enough.“EX-Rank problems require EX-Rank solutions.”

He Lang died by his own hands for the sake of his imperial younger brother’s ambition, whom he loved. He was offered to be reborn in exchange for giving up his past romantic feelings. Reborn without the burden of his romantic feelings, he brings with him a manual to new worlds. He wholeheartedly followed the instructions of the manual to complete the tasks, not knowing that the originally slag gong was blackening…
He pleaded to his affectionate Emperor brother to release him, he pleaded to the paranoid prisoner next door, but until the end he remained baffled.
In the end, he discovered that the full name of the manual was – “Slag Shou Cultivating Manual”
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