Hades, the Urban Legend - Chapter 42 - : Don’t Dilly-Dally

“I am the rot in your foundation. I will crawl back from hell and bury this world.”Those were Red’s final words as his classmates—the people he once sought validation from—watched him dissolve. They stole his life force to fuel their own ascensions, becoming Paladins, Sages, and Kings. They threw his empty husk into the Abyss, satisfied the 'Terrorist's Son' was finally gone.But death was not the end. While his body lay broken in the abyss, his soul drifted to the sanctuary of a Forgotten God.Awakening the forbidden SSS-Rank Talent [Exponential Divinity - 100x Growth], Red realizes that in this world, power isn't given—it's built. He doesn't need heroes; he needs monsters.From the chitin of hyper-evolved insects to dragons, from eldritch horrors to the nightmares sleeping in the dark, he begins to construct a civilization that defies the natural order. Under his hand, the weak do not just survive—they evolve into calamities.The Heroes are leveling up in their golden towers. The Gods are watching from their thrones.But in the shadows, Red’s Strongest Civilization is already preparing for war.[Betrayed and sacrificed, I awakened an SSS-Rank Talent. While others struggle to build a village, my civilization grows 100x faster.]

Like every (Isekai) protagonist, I got reincarnated after getting hit by a hyper-speed truck.

That was an empty and dark life anyway, so I was already looking forward to a decent, unknown afterlife.

But... the world had a unique thing in mind.

In this new world, I had parents, amazing ones at that.

My father was a talented mage, and my lovely mother was a sharp and cunning merchant.

Ignoring all of my weirdness, they loved me unconditionally.

This was the life that anyone would love.

Eating and cooking delicious food, practicing archery and magic, and playing with my parents.

Everything was wonderful until... those demons separated us and it left me in a ferocious forbidden forest, just to be eaten alive by beasts.

But dying wasn't even a question.

I will go back… to them.

After just graduating, Lin Xiaoyan suffers an injury to her left eye, and from then on, whenever someone touches her, she can “see” some scenes that others cannot.These scenes are of bad things that are about to happen.Lin Xiaoyan: Help, I don't want to be caught for dissection!On the bus, when a man getting off accidentally bumps into her, she “sees” him getting hit by a rickshaw and then run over by a bus.In the hospital, when a male doctor touches her eye to examine it, she “sees” someone with a knife attacking the doctor.Next...Lin Xiaoyan: Hello, is this 110? I saw someone planning to rob and kill a woman tonight, the address is...Dispatcher: ???...Lin Xiaoyan: Hello, is this 110? I...Dispatcher: Ah, Xiao Yan sees something again, quick, dispatch the officers!!!Lin Xiaoyan: ...

Ashlock awoke in the courtyard of a demonic sect… as a tree.

A tree that eats people.

And one that grows stronger over time due to a daily sign-in system and cultivation.