Upgrade Specialist in Another World - Chapter 144: The Goal

Follow Chen Ming as he accepts disciples, establishes a sect, and fights his way in a world that deems him a cannon fodder.
He goes against any common sense using his wits and novel knowhow to finish missions and arm himself against his cruel fate.

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Some crowns are forged in blood. Others are drowned beneath it.In a city strangled by smoke and silence, where children are shackled to machines and shadows rule behind gilded masks, Keiran is just another forgotten soul—until the mark appears.Buried beneath the factory’s foundations lies a world long erased from history. Ancient oaths whisper through stone and water, and something older than memory begins to stir. As Keiran is drawn deeper into the abyss, he uncovers a legacy not meant for mortal hands—a crown shattered in defiance, a flood sealed by sacrifice, and a power that demands a price.Hunted by tyrants, haunted by echoes, and bound to secrets he never asked for, Keiran must choose: drown in the tide of what came before, or rise against the current and reclaim what the world was forced to forget.But the deeper he goes, the more the truth unravels…And beneath it all, something still breathes.

Each stroke of good luck is a triumph over someone else’s misfortune.Jack Grim, the son of two legendary assassins, was born and raised on nothing but coldness, and the skills to spill blood.At seventeen, Jack received his final task as an assassin apprentice under his parents.“Succeed, and you’ll run your own organization — live the life you’ve always dreamed of.”For Jack, it was everything he had ever wanted: the chance to finally become the professional assassin he was born to be.He struck his target at midnight, succeeded, and received everything his parents had promised.But in the wake of victory came a pounding headache, a relentless fever—and then… transmigration.Jack now found himself in Raiden’s body, the keeper of the Book of Ashes, the heart of the Devourer, and the very book the coward Raiden had died protecting with his life.Jack had no desire to live in another world, magic or not. He simply wanted to return to his life as an assassin.But duty had other plans. The balance of this world now rested on his ability to protect the book, and like it or not, the responsibility was his to bear.

Reborn in a World of Women?Dying as a pathetic convenience store clerk and reborn in a world ruled entirely by women?When Marcus dies, he opens his eyes in a world of women with magical powers where men are treated like treasures but submissively. He awakens as a son, the only son of the Duchess with two hot sisters.Marcus had it all—Magic, family, immortal ladies wanting to enroll him in the academy, the empress asking for a private meeting, princesses sending marriage proposals. Everything he ever wanted in his first life.But on the day, he was supposed to awaken, he was struck with a blessing and a curse.An Incubus System wanting him to enjoy this paradise by secretly taming these beauties, and a vengeful dead harem god wanting him to destroy this paradise.But some vengeful god wanted to use him for petty revenge? Hard pass. Marcus wasn't about to wreck his perfect paradise because a dead deity had unresolved issues. Hell, if the god kept interfering—why settle for being used when he could Snatch the god's power instead?Heavy romance, slice of life, action, magic and academy Immortals ladies, princesses, empresses.