The Monarch - Chapter 637: Aetherion

Jack regarded himself as the greatest failure in the world; a broke unemployed law student who does nothing but laze around all day.This was until he was chosen by the Urban System.[Urban System Activated.]With its activation, the system elevated him beyond ordinary, gifting him the kind of video-game skills only protagonists possessed… and exposing the world’s real, long-buried truth.In reality, no human in the world was actually human. Everyone were descendants of fantasy races, each possessing strange powers and abilities that was supposed to exist only in myths and legends.Moreover, with the activation of the system, he had inherited the fate of the previous user who live the truth of the world all his life.Now Jack must confront that destiny, facing the dangers of a world far more fantastical… and far more perilous… than he ever imagined.

What the hell is this? What the hell happened here?

“Keep it in your mouth… Swallow it… Baby, be good…“

“Verily, after sorrow shall come great joy.And after this pitiless winter shall come a gentle spring.Be patient my child, you only need wait to receive its soft rains.”There wasn't much good that could be said about Leon or his life in general.He'd been raised by his single mother in the bad parts of town, Neither he nor his sister knew their fathers, He'd dropped out of school early on to make ends meet, something he'd barely done even with him and his mom working their asses off.To top it all off, the useless son of a gun that was apparently his father had genes that were susceptible to cancer. So at the ripe age of 18, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.Such suffering would've almost been comical, if it wasn't his life.Having lost his physical ability, he finds work writing novels online to help with the bills.And then the world took his family from him.Left in a hospital with terminal cancer, american healthcare and his novel as his only companions, Leon decides to end it all.Only to wake up as Victor, an extra in the brutal world of his novel. His troubles were only just starting.Soft rains be damned.