The Inner Odyssey - Chapter 165: True Manifestation

He was supposed to transmigrate to a magic world, but due to an accident, he ended up trapped in a massive library. The system assigned him a task: for every book he read, he would be rewarded with mana stones, until he finished reading all the books. A trillion years later, Daniel finally finished the last book! [Ding, detecting that the host has finished the final book. Calculating system rewards.] [Ding, reward calculation complete. Dispatching rewards. The total number of mana stones the host has accumulated: 99999999...9999.] “Damn, am I that rich now?” [Ding, detecting that the host has completed the task. Loading world...] ... Goddess of Fate: “Daniel, my divine realm needs expansion. Could you sponsor me with some mana stones?” God of Storm: “Daniel, the divine punishment is about to descend. Could you lend me some power to help me get through it?”

Damien reveals an ugly truth.His sister and only family, Ahara, leaves the house every midnight whilst he's asleep—a time that he soon discovers is when man-eating beasts named Rouges start hunting for prey.Unable to question her directly, he decides to investigate her and quickly figures that Ahara isn't human but rather, a vampire hero who saves them from beings like herself coming from a world she calls Gibbous—a place where entities like vampires, wizards, and beast shifters alike reside. What’s more, he also learns that the real reason behind his parents' death was the leader of the Rogues, who's rumored to have escaped after Damien’s father almost killed him.A series of fateful events lead to Damien’s long-lost power reawakening in him, and he finds himself with no choice but to return to Gibbous, a strange world where power means survival, and weakness leads to death. As such, Damien enrolls in an academy to train his newfound abilities with one thing in mind...Becoming more powerful.However, he soon discovers that the path to power is one filled with troubles and pain, and he isn’t alone in this lust for more at the academy. It’s a bloody competition against time and formidable opponents, and only those willing to sacrifice their comfort are the ones who can attain it.With a deadly foe lurking in the shadows somewhere and a strong desire to protect his sister, Damein has no choice but to fight.The only way is up, and he is going to be standing at the top of them all, ready to counter any enemy.

Wen Jiang, whose soul had failed the deification tribulation, was struck into a strange world.Here, she became the sadistic protagonist of a tragic romance, enduring a love-hate relationship that bordered on life and death. After the original protagonist was beaten to death, she was even bound to a Drawing System that catered to such tragic heroines.System: “Draw cards! I have everything you need—the Beauty and Skincare Card, the Rose Body Fragrance Card, the Pitiful and Charming Card—all the looks the male lead desires. Your mission is to assist the male lead in becoming the greatest support in the world!”The once fearsome Wen Jiang, who would draw her sword and strike anyone she disliked: “......”......In this world, humans could summon Divine Beast card spirits for combat after a great war.However, the Yunxia Empire experienced a civilizational break after a large-scale war, not as intact as the Western civilization.The West possessed the pantheon of cards systems, including the Angel System, each of which was incredibly powerful.The civilization of the Yunxia Empire was lacking; the Phoenix, the true Dragon, the legendary Four Divine Beasts, and so on, were nowhere to be found.In the world card competition, they suffered repeated defeats, subjected to endless ridicule by the Western Empire.Latter, with the Azure Dragon card in her left hand and the White Tiger card in her right, Wen Jiang stepped on the Western countries, slapping the faces of everyone in the world.System: “Where's the male lead? Where's my big male lead?”(The male lead was drawn from the cards)

When disaster struck, Ling Mo knew that the kinds of zombies depicted in doomsday movies would in fact, be totally different from reality…