The Maknae Has to Be an Idol - Chapter 192

You say you know about pain? To feel this sort of hunger... for your body to never be satisfied... your mind crazed by endless thoughts of satisfaction. To gaze upon the stars and know that it’s not enough, That is pain. Now you stand before me and I truly question myself. are you enough.He sought a cure for his power. Now, he'll use it to consume a world.At six years old, Dax's life ended. His trait, [Insatiable Hunger], awakened—a curse that promised only madness and an empty stomach. After two years of torment, he found his answer: [Synthesis], the power to integrate anything he touched.Four centuries of research later, known across galaxies as the Black Researcher, he finally achieved his goal. And in that moment of triumph, he exploded.Reborn in a brutal realm of cults and crumbling gods, Dax finds himself weak, but free. His Hunger is quiet, his Synthesis intact. The local gods think him a pawn. The cults see him as a sacrifice.They are all gravely mistaken.Dax sees this world for what it is: a Petri dish. His new traits are the ultimate research tools. His goal is no longer mere survival, but the answer to a new, thrilling question: Can a man who was once devoured by his own power, now learn to devour divinity itself?

Damian, a Centurion of the Punishment Unit of the Baroque Kingdom. “Damn it.” Just once. If I were given just one more chance… ‘I would have truly conquered the battlefield with these guys.’ At the age of 30, he closed his eyes on a nameless battlefield. But when he opened them, he found himself back 17 years in the past. And this time, he had a perfectly functioning mana core that could wield magic. ‘This time.’ I will rise higher than anyone else. I won’t be swept away by the turbulent times. ‘I will conquer.’ Damian, who has returned to the past, wields his spear toward the world.

Villains.Characters who opposed the protagonist.There are charming villains, there are villains with a touching backstory, there are villains who are simply pure evil, there are villains you can sympathise, and there are villains who simply have that title because they aren't on the same side as the protagonist.But no matter what kind of villain you are, at the end of the day, you are just a stepping stone for a protagonist.But in this vast universe, where immortals can pluck the stars and gods can create the sun, there are villains who won't stand for their fate.They will trample over the protagonist and defy their predestined fates and declare to the heavens,“Villains aren't stepping stones!”

“They say the eyes are the window to the soul.”But what if your soul isn't human?Yuki always felt different... too quiet, too distant, too aware of things that shouldn’t exist. But when a strange voice calls him kitsune under a moonlit sky, his world shatters.Awakening powers he can’t control, chased by shadows from a forgotten world, Yuki is thrown into a realm of spirits, mythic creatures, and ancient war.As his true nature begins to surface, so do enemies... and allies... with secrets of their own.This is the beginning of his awakening.And the mythos has only just begun.