Finding light in the darkest places—through love - Chapter 73 – Unspoken, Yet Understood

“What are you doing? ” he asked solemnly

“We kissed ” Lia confessed, finally letting the cat out of the bag. It was better for him to release his anger openly than giving her this silent torture.

“I'm not going to lie, I enjoyed it” She disclosed “It just felt so right like this is what a part of my soul was missing out on all these years but.... ”

She stared him straight in the eyes and asked “But as blissful as that sounds, why do I still feel guilty?”

His gaze remained unwaveringly on her's while

Her voice broke and tears began to slide down her face.

“W-why do I feel bothered? Why does my heart feel guilty when in fact I'm following it? why does everything seem so complicated with you? Why do I feel for you when I've already been destined for someone else? ”

Asher clutched his fist, trying so hard to contain his emotions that were threatening to surface but the girl's words were tearing his heart out

The tears continued to trickle down her cheeks “What is wrong with me ? ” she asked exasperated, and began to wipe her face with her palm obsessively.

At her sixth wipe, Asher stopped her and drew her towards him, staring at her with this odd gleam in his eyes.

His cold, smooth hands cupped her cheek and rubbed away a hot tear with his thumb.

“Nothing is wrong with you” He assured her, his thumb caressing her cheek while his eyes fixed on her's intent.

He was just conflicted, was it right to confess the truth to her now? All this time, he's been careful, what would happen if he becomes careless for once?

Maybe it's time to become selfish after all.

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Having two Mates?

What an absurd joke

Here comes Lia originally mated to a werewolf but an accident and conspiracy had her mated to a vampire as well.

Now she has to figure out the raging feelings she has for the Alpha of the silver pack and the Alpha of the Nicoli Clan and fighting off dark forces in need of her ability as well.

Ash Burn was just an ordinary gamer—an orphan scraping by in the real world—until he accomplished the impossible: beating the hardest VR game ever created, Apocalypse Online. But instead of the promised riches, he’s thrown into another world—one eerily familiar.It doesn’t take long for Ash to realize where he is: the chaotic, doomed universe of Heaven’s Favorite: Wrath of Gods, a novel he once read. Worse, he’s not the protagonist or even a supporting character.He’s just an extra.Armed with fragmented knowledge of the future, an unyielding will to survive, and the secrets of the Runes—mysterious power coveted by gods and demons alike—Ash must outmaneuver a reckless hero, power-hungry angels, and an inevitable war that threatens to consume everything.But as he treads the fine line between altering fate and unleashing chaos, he begins to realize something chilling: the endgame may not be as simple as he thought.In a world where survival hinges on power and cunning, can an ordinary extra change the fate of an entire world, or will he become just another casualty of destiny?Was he ever just an extra to begin with?Note: The image on the cover is not mine.

Dual cultivation and apocalypse—words that mix like oil and water. There's nothing charming about seducing feral women on the road.

However, when Kaze Lexicon, the emperor of the Immortal Plane, got transmigrated into the past, he refused to give up his debaucherous ways—apocalypse or otherwise.

Armed with the knowledge of the future and an encyclopedia of overpowered cultivation techniques, he immediately set forth to obtain resources and build a lavish settlement to live a comfortable life dual cultivating in the apocalypse.

However, while it's obscenely protected and powerful, he finds himself in another predicament. The cultivators farming humans for their war, and the desperate humans, become enemies far more dangerous than the zombies and monsters that afflict humanity.

Join Kaze as he rebuilds his reputation from a bullied weeb, obtains wealth, builds power, starts a faction, makes lemonade, trains his people, protects his past lovers, conquers settlements, and fights humans, monsters, and cultivators, all for the sake of two obscene goals: enjoying life and building an army of engineers to bring modern technology to the higher planes.

Quanzhi Fashi, or ““, may be a Chinese web novel of the genre. The author of the online novel goes by the name of ‘‘.

The story follows a young man named , and his journey to become one in every of the strongest mages within the world. he’s perpetually fighting in dangerous things, with foes sometimes surpassing him in strength. These battles permit Mo Fan to breakthrough his inner barriers to awaken higher levels of magic, sometimes serving to him to beat his challenges.

The focuses heavily on the event of Mo Fan’s skills. every story arc concludes with Mo Fan profiting either wizardly instrumentality or cash, that permits him to strengthen his wizardly skills. The story is incredibly descriptive concerning the assorted components and also the state of the planet.

He woke up in a familiar world that had vastly changed.

His familiar school had become a mystical school that teaches magic, encouraging everyone to become a mighty magician.

Outside the city, many wandering magical beasts and monsters attacked and preyed on humans.

His world of advanced science changed into one that praised magic. Despite this, his ambition in life, and his social status remained the same; one of the dregs of the society with a struggling father and a disabled step sister that couldn’t walk.

However, Mo Fan found that when most people could only practice a single major element of magic, he was a Versatile Mage!

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Here are some of the Versatile Mage’s main characters in this novel.

Mo Fan wont to be a really naughty and vindictive kid once he was very little. He loves his father and sister however was aforementioned to own two-handed in empty test papers by choice simply to spite his academics. he’s terribly intelligent nevertheless and will do okay if he really tries. sadly on the day wherever he determined to require his exams seriously, he was transported to the magic world and failing his tests once more.

This results in Mo Fan experiencing associate degree extended amount of your time being scorned and burdened by the wealthy and powerful letter of the alphabet Family junction rectifier by letter of the alphabet Zhuo Yun in Bo town. because of Mo Fan’s decide to fly with letter of the alphabet Ning Xue that was seen by everybody as him capture the innocent adult female, letter of the alphabet Zhuo Yun was implicit to own dropped very laborious on folks operating beneath him. Mu Bai, Zhao Shen San (Fat adult male continually with letter of the alphabet Bai) and plenty of people goddam Mo Fan for the tough times that lasted for years.

In his Star Appraisal Stone assessment is C due to schemes of Mu Bai and Mu He; however, the radiance becomes brighter to that of B in . However, Tang Yue objects this mark in the same chapter. In takes test with another Star Appraisal Stone and receives S in . In magic release test, he receives two A and one B.

In he understands that Tang Yue also possesses Shadow element.

As lightning mage Fan Mo, in applies to city hunters whose captain is Xu Dahuang (fire), vice-captain is Cai Tang (ice) and members are Xiaoke (water), Li Wenjie (wind), Feishi (earth).

In starts duel with Yu Ang. In uses Fire Burst: Rupture, Novice tier level 3 spell. In uses Lightning Strike: Wrath Shock, Novice tier level 3 spell and wins the duel.

While he is very flirtatious and will take advantage of beautiful women if given a chance (even now), but Mo Fan has clearly stated that he only view Mu Ning Xue and Ye Xin Xia as his love interests. They are only the two girls that he calls “Wives” and they are the only two he blatantly states he wants to marry. Other females that received the nicknames from Yan Ji were never and will never be his actual love interest.

Every other females, especially Azaela and Sakya‘s possibilities of being love interest has been completely eliminated with them swearing oath as sworn brother and sisters as per Chinese traditions and customs: Absolute Zero. Even if every women in existence goes extinct leaving these two behind, there is still absolutely no chance as per the oath.

All other girls are remain as friends/allies/everything in between, know that any ship that isn’t Mu Ning Xue and Ye Xin Xia has sunk to the bottom of the ocean along with the Titanic, I’m really sure.

As the owner of the Natural Talent: Dual Element Awakening which allows Mo Fan to awaken 2 Elements each Mage “Tiers” he is nothing short of a Magic powerhouse. Mo Fan’s fighting style is full out aggressive as noted by many people that while most mages hurl spells while keeping as far away as possible from monsters, Mo Fan was seen on almost every occasion to charge headfirst at the most powerful monsters on sight. He has awakened just about every Element that is consider most “violent” or destructive so far.

Although Mo Fan tend to seemingly charge brainlessly into the middle of battle, the most deadly aspect of him is not his immense firepower but his deceptively fast ability to think on his feet and showing no qualms in display of ruthlessness when required. Coupled with the wide array of options Mo Fan has at his disposal, he was called “One Mage Army” on several occasions as a result.

Mo Fan’s classmate and one of his best friends since their youth. He majored in wind magic in High School. He is an outstanding person who is also humble and kind.

After the events of Bo city, he joins the military directly under Zhang Kong and quickly rises in power and through the ranks, gaining power on par with the national representatives and being able to stand beside Mo Fan on the battlefield.

Later on in life he was shown to become a little bit more like Mo Fan, diving head first into trouble, make people sorely regret wronging him and he devised a strategy to feign amnesia in order to lure out a Black Vatican spy and then killed him without restraint, stating that sparing members of the Black Vatican is the one thing he will not do.

Zhang Xiaohou is very kind and gentle, he also suffers from being greatly underestimated often as he was implied to have a baby face.

His skills as a mage is in fact very high and is only second to Mu Bai in class initially. Even after Mo Fan’s strength was revealed and despite being ranked lower… Zhang Xiaohou was in fact a better mage than Xu Zhaoting who is the only other Lightning Mage in their school.

Later on in life, he quickly becomes a superb wind mage. Being able to use his defensive wind wings as offensive swords, something that no other wind mage could accomplish and being able to stand on equal grounds with some of the best high tier mages in the world of his generation.

FYI, Zhang Xiao Hou shares a Dragon he purchased with Mo Fan and Mu Bai.

Awakened Elements

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