Counterfeit Hero - Chapter 20 - 210 Escape Magic

The protagonist transmigrates and becomes Brook, who was still in the depths of hell 52 years ago, and successfully revives!What’s that? Charlotte Linlin was just a 16-year-old wandering girl pirate? Recruited!Edward Newgate is only 22 and still an unknown pirate in some crew? Recruited!Shanks and Buggy follow after? Recruited, recruited, fully recruited!Time to head to the Kingdom of Germa and find more...I’ll recruit all the future powerhouses of the next era!!!

“Even if this universe is truly nothing more than a brutal bloody shadowy forest, we Cultivators will burn all that we have just to give off a single weak flickering spark in the darkness!

The Apocalypse is in full swing. Defiled - powerful creatures corrupted by the Great Collision - prowled the lands in search of prey. Unfortunately for them, the human race had long since retreated behind the secure walls of the Sanctuary of Everlast. During one of his regular excursions outside the Sanctuary, Alden is separated from Celeste. - his childhood friend and crush. In that moment, he came to regret never summoning the courage to confess. Somehow managing to survive thanks to some trickery, Alden awakens as a mage. Instead of receiving a normal power, he gains the ability to decay. What’s more, during his ascension, he received a vision from his future self advising him not to trust the Asterons - celestial beings who had saved his race from inescapable doom. Normally... such a revelation wouldn’t faze Alden. However, there was only one major problem with the declaration, though. Celeste was bound with an Asteron. And not just any normal Asteron... She had made a pact with one of the Divine Sovereigns.