Steel and Sorrow: Rise of the Mercenary king - Chapter 203: The man behind the machine

A new law has been passed as part of the nation's measures to address the low birthrate.Rude women become livestock.Rebellious women become livestock.Women who commit crimes become livestock.In a world where common sense has been distorted, this is the story of women whose human rights have been erased.

In a world where every child unlocks the magical system at the age of five, Victor Hans awakens nothing cursed by the Gods.He is shunned and scorned by society.Just as he resigns himself to death, fate intervenes – He awakens the forbidden Crimson System with Divine help that will change his destiny.Victor grows from level 1 weak to strong after following the path led by the Crimson System.A hunger-driven chaos has invaded half of the Neero, allied with Bloodthirsty vampires. Only Humans and werewolves defend the remaining half.Now, tasked by Crimson System, Victor has to convince Vampires to follow the Moon Goddess again.As his power grows, memories of a forgotten past re-emerge.

WARNING: A Regency Era novel. Adult content with detailed smut…Read at your own risk ⛔️The young lady, Ines Hamilton. With an innocent face, she was actually secretly writing an 18+ romance novel. This was a secret hobby that must not be known by anyone… But she got discovered by her older brother’s friend, Duke Carcel Anderson. “I’ll help you. What do you want to know?” And so every night, the lady’s sensual hobby began with practical references.PS: This is a slow pace novel but I promise it would be worth your time.

In a world where power is marked by glowing runes and monsters bleed through the fabric of reality, **Ryu** is nothing—an orphan with no name, no status, and no hope. Beaten down by nobles who wield their divine-given strength like a whip, he survives on scraps and stubborn defiance.But when a black rift—an anomaly unlike any ever recorded—appears in the dead of night, Ryu faces a choice: die a beggar, or risk everything by stepping into the unknown.Inside, he finds a nightmare. Kolasis, a legendary predator, hunts him through a twisted forest. The rules here are simple: kill or be killed. To survive, Ryu must forge himself into something sharper than the claws of monsters and crueler than the nobles who cast him aside.Yet the rift has its own secrets. The same power that could make him a legend might also break him—if the monsters don’t tear him apart first.