Herald of Steel - Chapter 579 Cambyses’s Preparations (Part-5)

Progression, magical cards, weak to strong, card reforging!The young, sickly Irwin has seen nothing but bad luck in his short life. When his brother finally returns with a magical card for him, his luck is about to change. But will it change for the better? Irwin is sent off together with another group of youths to placate a group of sorcerers. With just a weird utility card granted by his brother, he can only pray to stay alive long enough.[Has been updated with the rewrite of the first 27 chapters]This is a Card gathering story! Crafting is initially not the main focus, but as the story progresses, it becomes more and more important to the MC.Release schedule: [Fri/Sun] Roughly 22:00I am still a non-native English speaker (hard to change), so even with the edits and rewrites, you might find some oddities. Let me know, and I'll fix them right up.

In a world where power is marked by glowing runes and monsters bleed through the fabric of reality, **Ryu** is nothing—an orphan with no name, no status, and no hope. Beaten down by nobles who wield their divine-given strength like a whip, he survives on scraps and stubborn defiance.But when a black rift—an anomaly unlike any ever recorded—appears in the dead of night, Ryu faces a choice: die a beggar, or risk everything by stepping into the unknown.Inside, he finds a nightmare. Kolasis, a legendary predator, hunts him through a twisted forest. The rules here are simple: kill or be killed. To survive, Ryu must forge himself into something sharper than the claws of monsters and crueler than the nobles who cast him aside.Yet the rift has its own secrets. The same power that could make him a legend might also break him—if the monsters don’t tear him apart first.

“Since you rescued Xi’er from endless despair, then absolutely, never leave my side.”

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“Assassin~ Mister~Sir~, I heard that you have some unspeakable relationship with that Miss Yuexia?”

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“Is it delicious? Today it’s all made according to your preferences.”

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This is a story of Meng Xin who wears a warehouse with Bounce to Bounce. This is a crazy world.

Here, Lao Yang has become a younger sister, and Otto has also become a younger sister, and the latter was picked up by the steel bar on the construction site and hit with a sap ugly new…

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Humanity lives under an unseen rule—the Ascension Cycle. A hidden system selects individuals at random, forcing them to complete tasks and gain different abilities as a reward. Anyone who fails a mission assigned by the system will instantly die on the spot.Ronan Vale wasn’t chosen at random.Killed on a mission gone wrong, he wakes up with a system unlike any other:[Evolution Path: Kill to Survive][Failure to Execute: Life Force Erosion Begins]Ronan has only one way to stay alive—which is to obey every mission assigned to him by the system. Unlike others, Ronan evolves after every task, each kill makes him stronger, sharper....but less human.As he fights to survive, he realizes his system is different. It evolves with him. It whispers to him. And it may not be just a tool—but a living thing.As war brews between Harbingers—those who embrace the system—and Eradicators, who seek to destroy it, Ronan is caught in the middle. But he has no time for their games.Because the real question isn’t how to survive.But what he’ll become in the process. A heartless monster bred only for destruction? he was about to find out.A:N; will there be romance? umm...NO!Harem? NeverKilling? YES!dark triller? YES!overpowered mc? hundred percent YES!