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The Dragon King's VRMMO Escape(The Second Multiverse)

Agamenticus Rialto is the Final Boss of Aethelgard Online-Lvl 18,523, possessing infinite HP, and wielding forbidden mastery over time and frost. He should be the ultimate threat. Instead, he's terrified. Thanks to a catastrophic system anomaly, the Dragon King's Defense stat has been permanently reset to a pathetic 10-the same as a beginner. Every single high-level monster, and every clumsy player with a lucky hit, now risks triggering the System Deletion Protocol, forcing his permanent recycle. To survive, Agamenticus must venture outside the safety of his data core and begin a humiliating quest: recover the scattered Defense Core Shards, the only things capable of patching his flawed code. His first target is hidden within a mythical, long-forgotten tunnel connecting the bustling Tutorial Fields to the dangerous Soskano Woods. Forced to rely on the "insects" he despises, he teams up with a profoundly dysfunctional duo: Royson Eubhara, a high-strung, secretly royal Cleric who insists on procedure, and Susan Zenia, a chaotic, clumsy archer whose accidental damage output is so high she almost ended Agamenticus in the town square. With the relentless G-Force agent, Hina, tracking every anomaly, and an arrogant child sub-antagonist named "Lord" Pip constantly getting in their way, the Dragon King must survive the embarrassment of being vulnerable and keep his chaotic party alive long enough to reclaim his status-before the game's developers hit the 'Delete' button. (This is a new project set in a parallel multiverse to my previous protagonists, so there won’t be any references aside from a very surprising returnee.)
johnlnewstead1 · 11.3k Views

Affection: True Love

"I sold my soul to save their smiles. I will burn this Kingdom to hear her screams." For Alaric Vane, survival was never about himself. It was about the Grey Cradle, the only home he ever knew. When the ruthless Kingdom of Oakhaven decrees the destruction of his orphanage, Alaric chooses a fate worse than death. He crawls before the City Governor, Lunate Kenet—a woman whose beauty is as lethal as her cruelty—and signs a four-year contract of absolute enslavement. Within the blood-stained halls of the Kenet Estate, Alaric becomes a "human rug," stripped of his name and dignity. For two agonizing years, he endures Lunate’s heels on his back and her family’s sadistic whims. But in the dead of night, Alaric is no longer a slave. He is a predator in training, performing 15,000 sword swings in the shadows, fueled by a single hope: the day he will return to his family. Then, the world turns upside down. After two years of hell, the Kenet sisters suddenly shift. The kicks turn into embraces; the cold glares turn into a suffocating, twisted obsession. Lunate, the woman who broke him, now wants to possess his heart. But it is too late. Upon the completion of his contract, Alaric discovers the ultimate betrayal: The Grey Cradle was razed to the ground three years ago. The silence he endured for years wasn't protection—it was a void where his world used to be. Believing his family dead and his sacrifice a cruel joke, Alaric’s love for his masters turns into a dormant volcano of rage. He will climb the ranks, gain the King’s favor, and return as a Count to dismantle the House of Kenet from the inside out. He doesn't want their newfound affection. He wants to watch them fall into the same dirt where they once forced him to crawl. A four-year contract. A lifetime of vengeance. In the world of Terris, affection is the deadliest weapon of all.
Zeils · 15.7k Views