The Grandmaster Strategist - Volume 2, Chapter 16: Hanging in the Balance

In the year 2090, technology has advanced to the point where Simulation Boxes, (Sim Box for short) are common place, allowing for the user to link up their brain's neural network to a full dive Simulation. While initially used for educational purposes, recently a large gaming company, Averon, released a fully fledged immersive MMORPG simulation where users can become anyone they desire, level up, choose their class, and become a hero or a villain. The name of this simulation is The Shattered World Online.

Eli Winters had no interest in playing it. His father, a jobless bum who spent his entire life playing games in the hope of becoming a famous player or streamer, was able to use the release of The Shattered World Online to gain wealth and fame, quickly becoming the number one player and a household name as the game took the world by storm. He immediately abandoned Eli and his mother in favor of being with someone from his guild, despite his mother having worked two jobs to support them and raise Eli by herself. Eli had nothing but spite for his father and the game.

When Eli's best friend convinces him to try out the game, his father's fame begins to interfere, culminating in him being singled out and shunned by his peers, and his father offering to pay for his university tuition in return for Eli hiding their relationship and quitting the game. Instead of complying with his father's wishes, Eli decides to prove to everyone how useless a guy his father is by challenging him that if Eli is able to surpass him in the game world he must delete his account and quit his streaming career. His father accepts the challenge believing his son to be useless at games - but Eli will soon show him just how ambitious a spiteful person can be.

#r18 #smut #No-Yuri #No-NTR“I Died for my own happiness, I died because of my selfishness, I died because I feared living without her again, But I died only after I killed the Gods.”Rael, the Demon King, died. He was born from the Great Darkness and was given the name of 'The Last Demon.' Rael's birth was the beginning of the world's demise and the end of all life in it.His birth was the start of his loneliness, which would eventually become the cause of his madness and destruction.But when that girl showed up, he felt the loneliness slowly fade away. The girl, with a smile so kind, became the first one to look at him without any trace of fear or disgust.That girl's smile, the way she talked to him, and her eyes full of genuine affection... they were all he needed to become the person he was.He would never let anyone take her away. She was his everything, and no one could separate him from her.But...“Why!”'It should've been fine.''We should've lived happily together.''Yet why...!'“Why she has to sacrifice herself for me, when she was the one who was supposed to live a happy life?”“Why she had to give the future we could've shared together, just for my sake?”Those were his last words as he died fighting the Gods, but he knew deep inside his heart that he wouldn't be able to see her again.And yet...“Where am I?”He wakes up in the same girl's room, naked, but in another world.Ding![Infinite Harem System has been activated!]Now he is gonna evolve his harem. The one who has the strength to defeat the Gods, the one who possesses the most powerful and destructive power.And those are the Demonic Queens, who have the power to shake the universe.Ding![Bat Queen has evolved to S+ Rank.][Vampire Queen's teeth have upgraded to max level.][Dragon Queen....][Queen of Bees, Queen of Scorpions, Queen of Tentacle Monsters.... All of them have maxed their abilities and are evolving to their ultimate form.]But, he has more than ten queens, so how is he gonna manage all of them?“I will be fine,” said Rael.Rael, the Demon King.His new story begins.No, his harem starts now!P. S. Cover isn't mine.

If you could return to the day you met, what would the two of you do?

“Ah! Fate is unfathomable like that. Never would anyone be able to guess that such an ordinary encounter could lead to such an extraordinary future. Although our encounter that day contributed to a resplendent future, I sometimes find myself reminiscing about ordinary days. If time could be rewound, would I choose to step foot into that tavern where we met… Ah, no! Even if that tavern had not existed, we would definitely have met anyway, because our encounter was indispensable fate!”

– Bard

“With my blade, I’ll cut the tavern, destiny, and this bastard in half all at the same time.”

– Red Cloak

Female Warrior details the 1st generation of the Twelve Holy Knights from .

The literature of this other world was atrocious.So, I plagiarized.Don Quixote, Anna Karenina, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Metamorphosis… I thought that unraveling the literature of the original world would advance the literature of this other world.“Those who dream and those who do not, who really is the mad one?”“To live or to die, that is the question.”“No matter how fatal the mistake, it is different from a sin.”But then, people began to immerse themselves too deeply in the novels I plagiarized.Can’t a novel just be seen as a novel…?