Throne of Magical Arcana - Chapter 54: Calm Hunters

The year is 2025. A devout Christian named Arthur Bennett wins a lottery to participate in a revolutionary virtual reality experience at a high-tech company called Elysium. The program utilizes a unique VR pod to immerse users in a world based on a popular anime.As the other participants—a mix of personalities with varying degrees of anime knowledge—prepare to enter the simulation, Arthur remains the only one who has never indulged in anime. Upon entering this new world, he discovers an unsettling truth: pain is excruciatingly real, despite the creators' claims of a dampened pain response.He eventually finds himself trapped in prison, unable to log out, and demanding to be released from the program. Calls go unanswered, and the world of ninjas becomes a nightmare where hunger, thirst, hygiene, and even death are all real.Angered that he was deceived, he abandons all sense of logic and vows to become a villain no one would have ever anticipated.

After being betrayed and dying in the hands of her former family and friends, in the guise of a seemingly unprecedented accident, Ling Yu, the Apocalyptic Queen, found herself regressed back to thirteen years ago in the past.Returning to her life when she was still 18 years old, the first thing Ling Yu did was sever the relationship with her so-called family and run to the countryside, to which they thought she had given up. Much less to say, Ling Yu returned full-fledged and started to do bizarre things, which made them think she had finally gone crazy.However, to their misfortune, who was Ling Yu?The former Apocalyptic Queen!Even a queen has her own hardships, doesn't she?Ling Yu went through all of those once; she didn’t want to suffer a second time.The thing they called Apocalypse, Natural Disaster, or whatnot, Ling Yu knew that things were deeper than that.With doors to another world appearing in this realm, monsters pouring out, power entities from another world intervening in this world, and humans gaining special abilities, nothing was able to stop the world from being destroyed.However, along with the system’s help, Ling Yu was determined to survive this time; thus, she started on the epic journey to find her family, as well as people who would join hands together to stop the end of the world.A/N: The story might not have any romance elements, or I may add them in the future, so it'll become a slow-burn love story. Readers who are interested in fantasy elements are free to explore the story!

A cultivation story about how a declining sect is restored by a narcissist, a troublemaker, a meanie, an idiot, and a wimpy kid.

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“Here's what happened. I was in a desperate situation when I accidentally encountered a dragon. It told me I was a martial arts prodigy and said it would teach me the Dao of Immortality…” “This excuse for skipping class and cultivating in secret… is that seriously the reason?” “I don’t care whether it’s human or not, what matters is that the dragon said: ‘If you want to become strong, kneel and call me Master.’”