Hades, the Urban Legend - Chapter 2 - : Pay Up

I lived like any ordinary person when a stranger suddenly approached me, “You are… a hero.”

Bubbles…Soft, fragile, and fleeting. They drift without purpose, bursting at the slightest touch.They aren’t weapons. They aren’t threats. Just harmless playthings, forgotten the moment they vanish.But what if bubbles weren’t so innocent?What if, in a world of Hunters—where magic shatters mountains and fists split seas—someone awakened a Skill based entirely on bubbles?A joke. A death sentence.Goblins would laugh.The weak would pity him. The strong wouldn’t even bother to look twice.But powers can hide secrets. And some truths are buried in plain sight.When a nameless F-Rank awakens the “Bubble Skill,” no one expects him to survive.Let alone rise.However, the indomitable spirit of River Faelan refused to die.Step by step, he climbed to the top—shattering every limit placed on a “mere” Bubble Mage.He proved them all wrong.And he’ll do it again,Even if it means starting from the very bottom… for one more time.

Jing Yan, a once top-performing genius of the Jing Clan who broke through the rank of Ninth Heaven of martial arts and entered the Precelestial Rank at 16, was second to none in Dong Lin City. Yet out of nowhere, his rank dropped dramatically after he was enrolled in the Wind God Institute and became the object of ridicule.After breaking the seal of The Ring of the Universe, Jing Yan was reborn. He finally became the conqueror of The Mainland of Tian Yuan and became the man countless warriors looked up to.

On the day his parents died, Aleric was cursed and became hated by all.His flesh took on the pallor of the undead, marking him as a monster in the eyes of the living. From that day, Aleric was forced to survive alone in the world that despised him.Everything changed when he uncovered an ancient necromancer’s crypt and a staff that promised him the knowledge of Dark magic and uncovered what the curse truly was.Aleric was a death-touched–a person to whom all Dark magic was as natural as breathing! He learned in days spells that took years to others.Dark magic had long been branded evil. The kingdom of Dark mages was destroyed and its people killed. To accept this power was to become hunted as well... But to the world, Aleric was already a villain.So he chose to become not just a villain, but one so powerful that not even the entire world couldn’t bring him down! He will build a kingdom that will stand eternal, and every killed foe would join his undead legions!The nations of the living shook in fear. The age of the living was ending, and the armies of the Supreme Necromancer were going to reshape the world.