Ascendance of a Bookworm - Chapter 24 - The Road to the Meeting

Alex, a young man with ambition but unfortunate life.He grew up as an orphan and from a very young age, learned to stand on his own feet.Barely making a living by searching through the dumpsite for things that could be sold.One day, when he came back home from the dumpsite, Alex decided to rest on the new sofa that he got from the dumpsite just the other day.But unexpectedly something magical happened to him.A stone inlaid on the sofa suddenly brought him to an alternate dimension!And there, Alex rise started, controlling the luck of the world.Everything runs through his favor.Whenever a problem comes up, it gets solve unknowingly.When he lacks money, gold suddenly fell down from the sky.Opening a treasure chest will always give great rewards.Lottery is nonsense, he will win no matter what.When a strong monster is about to kill him, it will trip on a rock and have its head explode, dying by itself.That's how against the sky he is!From then on, Alex became known as 'Fortune', the one who controls luck!

[ Mission completed successfully ][ $200,000,000 have been transferred to main account ][ Mission completed successfully ][ $1,000,000,000 have been transferred to main account ][ Unique key to a private Island has been transferred to Inventory ][ Ancient Relic: Excalibur has been transferred to Inventory ][ Skill Book: Dark necromancer has been added ]Awesome, isn't it?This became the regular lifestyle of Alister Ashworth, a poverty-cursed orphan who, following a torturous encounter, awakened the Infinite System, granting him the ability to travel through countless dimensions and realities, complete quests and engage in unique and ancient stories and obtain extraordinary rewards.Was it money? Fame? Treasures? Magic? Or even immortality?With the Infinite System, all these and even more could be achieved, although a deeper mystery quietly beckoned from the shadows!

Shoved into the backseat of his father's car right after graduation, Riley Hale ended up marching toward a company building with a bagged lunch and a pen.Still in his toga, the fresh graduate never thought he’d land in the office of the continent’s top lizard, err, dragon, as his aide.And that would’ve driven any person wishing for a corporate career to tears. After all, who wouldn’t want to serve the fastest ticket up the corporate ladder: Kael Dravaryn, the infamously elegant, unhinged, and extremely overpowered Dragon Lord of the continent?Well, that would be Riley.The same Riley who didn’t expect to spend his days dodging fireballs, dressing his boss in robes more complicated than dark magic, and serving as a literal target during morning sparring.Now trapped in a job he never truly agreed to, the hardworking aide decided to hold out until it was time for his glorious resignation. But leaving a dragon’s clutches could never be easy, especially one with elemental mastery and a finger worth a private army.Yet, as Riley, who longs to quit, attempts to navigate ancient politics, wyvern threats, and other accidents (many of which are definitely not his fault), he might just hallucinate himself into seeing something beneath his boss’s arrogance and molten glares.Maybe he’d actually care if Riley got turned to ash.

Pressured to get married or lose her father's financial support to pay for her mother's medical bills, Joanna Baker, the illegitimate daughter of the Baker family, is devastated when her boyfriend chooses another woman over her on their wedding day.Joanna, feeling distraught, witnesses a man in a wheelchair proposing to his girlfriend at a restaurant. The girlfriend's rejection and subsequent insult for his disability left everyone stunned.Feeling a shared sense of betrayal, she approaches the man with a vengeful proposition.“Excuse me, sir. Your girlfriend dumped you, and my boyfriend chose another woman over me. Let's get married for six months and get revenge on them.”What will Joanna do when she finds out the man she proposed marriage to was none other than Alexander King, the heir of the wealthiest family in NYC? He was also the cold CEO of King Multinational, with a hidden identity, Salvatore Black, whose name caused even presidents shiver? Has she just signed a deal with the devil?