Advent of the Three Calamities - Chapter 13: The Weakest Black Star [1]

It's been 25 years since the apocalypse, when the world we knew changed forever. It was then that terrible monsters appeared and some of humanity evolved to fight them.Seraphine a 18 year old citizen in Newber, was living a peaceful life with her parents, learning at the Academy, to get a nice job within the government. At least, until everything turned for the worse and she ended up as an Evolved in a destroyed city.

Born blind and causing his mother’s death in the process, Adam did not have an easy childhood.Due to the circumstances of his birth, he was labeled a cursed child, enduring a harsh upbringing as he suffered mistreatment at the hands of his own family.Everything changed when, at the age of five, he was subjected to a talent test alongside other children. However, he failed spectacularly, becoming one of the rare cases in history of someone born without talent.His family immediately exiled him, abandoning him to his fate in a forest teeming with spiritual beasts.But by a twist of fate, a higher existence took notice of him—Selene Ashwyn, the princess of an immortal empire, who wandered in search of something that could help her escape her own destiny.Sensing something special within him, Selene chose to take him in as her disciple, determined to help him escape the deep darkness that had engulfed him since birth.Follow Adam’s journey and his inevitable rise to the top.

Lu Yan has traveled to a peculiar world where the entire world would undergo a version update every once in a while.He has witnessed the once-flourishing metropolis replaced by an ancient and authentic Immortal World and been forced to work for a vicious shopkeeper.Luckily, he is the only one who has the ability to know the progress of the current version and choose the next version update.[Current Version: Immortal WorldVersion Update Progress: 99.3%]When ths next version comes, he will make the shopkeeper pay.

It’s been 11 years since I’ve lived for others and not for me.

The moment I cried out wanting to get away from my exhausting life, I opened my eyes in the body of some Count’s 20-year-old daughter.

Since this happened, I decided to live my life freely as a single woman.

But…

“I need a lady to act as my fake wife for a certain period of time.”

“A contract marriage?”

“The term is one year. When the time is up, I’ll give you divorce with no strings attached.”

The Duke of the Empire whom I had happened to meet at a ball was hitting on me.

Turns out he’s no other than the Emperor’s beloved brother, Duke Scade!

Hold on, it’s just going to end in a clean divorce with no strings attached?

“You should also give me alimony. Give me one of the best lands of the Ducal household with 10 years’ worth of profit.”

“…..What?”

“If you don’t want to do that, then we cannot get married.”

This time I’m going to live a life taking care of the things I need first!

***

“I’ll escort you since it’s late.”

Where to? My bedroom is just around the corner.

“Tonight, I’ll do my best.”

No, I don’t need you to do that.

“Did you just look at that man?”

Excuse me, Duke, you said it’s for a limited time only, so why do you keep obsessing over me?