Ascension: Rebirth in a World of Powers - Chapter 17 - : Secrets Unearthed

Night City, it’s a place of endless wonders and horrors. Opportunities and dangers, but before Motoko Kusanagi can access any of them. She first has to build up enough strength to walk again. Learn the basics of living in a world that was just a game to her before. Good thing she found a Shard hidden in her stuff that opens the door of opportunity. But like all opportunities in Night City, it usually ends up in a gunfight. Self-Insert with a modified Cyberpunk 2077 Gamer System. Not a direct Ghost in the Shell Crossover. MC just happens to share the name.

After transmigrating into a weak noble body, Marvin discovered that he was familiar with the world, this was the game he played in his previous life and… Damn! He only had six months before the Great Calamity!

Born blind and causing his mother’s death in the process, Adam did not have an easy childhood.Due to the circumstances of his birth, he was labeled a cursed child, enduring a harsh upbringing as he suffered mistreatment at the hands of his own family.Everything changed when, at the age of five, he was subjected to a talent test alongside other children. However, he failed spectacularly, becoming one of the rare cases in history of someone born without talent.His family immediately exiled him, abandoning him to his fate in a forest teeming with spiritual beasts.But by a twist of fate, a higher existence took notice of him—Selene Ashwyn, the princess of an immortal empire, who wandered in search of something that could help her escape her own destiny.Sensing something special within him, Selene chose to take him in as her disciple, determined to help him escape the deep darkness that had engulfed him since birth.Follow Adam’s journey and his inevitable rise to the top.

“Is Fate the excuse of the forsaken, is Free Will the delusion of the chosen?”Such was a question that Xavier, the Demon King, never had the chance to ask himself. As he lay defeated, awaiting his death, he wondered about the wretched life he lived.'The hero who killed me, the one who held the same ambitions as me. We both wanted good for the people, for the world. We are both two sides of the same coin, yet, fate decided that he will be the one the light will shine on.Perhaps it was me too, perhaps it was my karma for flowing the rivers of blood with my sword. But still... It was fate that squashed the humanity in me first!Damn fate, if I had one more chance, I would've lived for myself more, I wouldn't have taken this arbitrary role of being a necessary evil... This world, this game of destiny... It can burn to ashes for all I care.'As he sunk into the cold embrace of death, a certain [REDACTED] heard his dying wish with amusement and cast their die, reversing the wheel of time one last time and going all in on him on a risky gamble with the stakes of their world.