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The Pawn Ascendant: Chronicles of the Expendable Hero

A coward 28-year-old convenience store clerk with crippling anxiety who apologized to customers and avoided conflict at all costs. Then he died saving a child and got summoned to a fantasy world as a "hero." There's just one problem: he wasn't meant to succeed. While three powerful heroes get legendary skills and royal treatment, He is given trash stats and a useless ability called [Adaptive Evolution]. The truth? He's the Expendable—a sacrificial pawn summoned to absorb the System's curse so the real heroes can shine. He's supposed to die within months. They didn't count on his survival instinct. Betrayed by his party, sold into slavery, and thrown into death matches for noble entertainment, he learns the world's cruelest lesson: kindness is weakness, and only monsters survive. So he becomes one. Copying skills from everyone who tries to kill him. Devouring the power of those who underestimate him. Smiling politely while orchestrating massacres. The cowardly hero transforms into something far more terrifying—a strategic nightmare who turns every attempt on his life into a new weapon. But as he climbs from Level 1 to god-slaying powerhouse, he discovers the horrifying truth: he was never random. His soul is a fragment of the First Hero—the one who nearly destroyed the gods 1,000 years ago. The Expendable Protocol wasn't designed to kill a nobody. It was designed to kill him before he remembered what he was. Now the gods themselves descend to finish what they started. But he has spent years learning from predators, tyrants, and monsters. He's absorbed hundreds of skills, toppled kingdoms, allied with demons, and killed without hesitation. The coward who apologized to goblins has become the man who makes gods afraid. From convenience store clerk to weapon of mass destruction. From victim to predator. From hero to heretic to something the world has no name for. One man's journey to survive in a world that wanted him dead—and his transformation into the exact monster they deserved. Genre: Comedy → Dark Fantasy | Isekai | LitRPG | Psychological Thriller Tags: Weak to Strong | Anti-Hero MC | Strategic Battles | Skill Evolution | God-Slaying | Betrayal & Revenge | Political Intrigue | Morally Gray | System Apocalypse Warning: MC starts sympathetic but becomes genuinely ruthless. This is not a redemption story—it's a descent into necessary evil. "I'm not the hero of this story. I'm the thing heroes are supposed to stop. The difference? I'm honest about it." —Hiroshi Yamada.
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The oneness

The theory of The Oneness, also known as the Theory of Everything, is a concept that seeks to explain the foundation of the universe — the ultimate origin of all things. For thousands of years, scientists across the world have pursued the answer to this question. Perhaps, it has been far longer than that — ever since the dawn of humankind itself. In modern times, humanity has come closest to uncovering this truth through Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and Quantum Theory. Both theories describe the universe, but on different scales: relativity explains the cosmos on a large scale, while it fails at the microscopic level, where quantum theory must be applied instead. This contradiction between the two has led many to believe that whoever manages to unify them would be able to fully explain the universe. Nawa, a young man in his early twenties, shares this fascination. With his Buddhist way of perceiving the world, he sees a different truth — one that reveals the hidden connection between the two theories. From this insight, he forges them into a single framework capable of explaining everything in existence: The Oneness. One of his experiments to prove the theory succeeds, but with an outcome far beyond Nawa’s expectations. It transports him into a new world — a realm filled with ferocious beasts and godlike beings. Fortunately, the experiment also unlocked the dormant potential of his brain, pushing its capacity to 100% and awakening his psychic powers. With these newfound abilities and his understanding of the universal truth, Nawa struggles to survive countless dangers and eventually discovers a way back to his own world. Yet, upon his return, he realizes that five years have passed — and the world has advanced in ways he could never have imagined.
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