Golden Stage - Chapter 46: Shelter from the rain

In the grimy Black Hound Tavern, disgraced hunter Kael Veymar drowns his failures in ale, his father’s shattered crest a noose around his neck. When a Fallen beast attacks him—spewing acid and cryptic threats about the Harbinger—he’s saved by Lyria, a rogue huntress with a deadly smile and a glowing amulet: the Fractalis, stolen by Kael’s father.Their reunion is cut short by Dren, Kael’s former brother-in-arms, who slit Garrik’s throat for the Guild. After a vicious alley fight, Lyria helps Kael escape, but not before a Fallen’s ooze sears his flesh, leaving veins of corruption that **pulse with the Harbinger’s voice.Seeking answers, they flee to Ms. Miller, an old ally who gifts Kael a sword and a warning: “Find Torin. The skulls will whistle your name.” But the Guild is closing in. At Celestis Rise Dren is humiliated for his failure, while the Dozen Vanguards receive a bone-chilling letter—its author dead, its ink fresh.The stakes sharpen:- The Fractalis is not what it seems.- And Garrik Veymar’s shadow stretches long from the grave.Now, Kael and Lyria ride toward Godsgrave, where Hunter blades go to die—and where the Harbinger’s eclipse waits to rise.

“W-w-w-welcome to the simulation zone.”“New user recognized.”“Proceeding to register...”“Please wait...”“Register complete.”“Welcome, user number 4956: Evan Rotewed.”In a world of mana, those without reserves for it gets left behind. Rules and regulations are set to categorize everything into neat piles, each promising the highest potential a person with mana can get. Starting his life at the rock bottom, Evan Rotewed swore he will rise above it all, even if he had to break the ironclad system the entire world holds close to its chest. Wave a hand to the broken reflection beyond the mirror of ones and zeroes. System Discord.

Johnathan, an old man with an extraordinary past but an ordinary end, gets reincarnated in a dark fantasy world full of magic, darkness, and mysteries furled.

However, he committed a grave blunder by taking the fiction he had read as a reference. Reborn as a baby, he hoped to be deemed gifted by speaking early.

One thing led to another, and tragedy struck. The villagers declared him a demon-possessed and called the church. Johnathan, now known as Sylvester Maximilian, realized that he had messed up.

When the church's inquisitors came to judge him and burn him on a pyre. As a last resort and to welcome his soon to arrive second death, he started chanting holy hymns as his last breath.

Overwhelmed, they kneeled, thinking he was a messenger of Solis.

From there, the story of how Sylvester Maximilian rose through the ranks to sit at the top began.

But his life won't be ordinary, as he uses his cunning and the tag of 'God's favored' to his advantage. Fighting treachery, unearthing secret plots and world mysteries, facing the darkness around him and creating his place in history, engraving his name in the annals to be forever remembered as the—Immortal Pope, The Young.

[A/N: To not mislead you, the novel's name does not mean he instantly becomes the Pope from the start. The story will follow the life of MC. Though he will become the Pope at a pretty young age. 40% of the novel will be based around MC fighting to sit on the supreme throne.

If you enjoy world building and lore building, then you will like this story.]
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***Main Tags: FANTASY, ADVENTURE, MAGIC, DARK, STRONG MC(Weak at the start because he's a baby. Not an instant OP though.), WHOLESOME, COMEDY, KINGDOM BUILDING. MENTALLY OLD MC, Politics, Backstabbing, World Building.***

[WARNING: MC will not go around saving everyone. Absolutely not if it puts him in danger. But if he can save someone using his status or position in the church, he will. He will kill innocent people if he has to. MC is not crazy, cynical, or unsociable. The world at some times may seem very DARK.]
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[DISCLAIMER]
The religion will be fake. I won't make it similar to those existing in our world not to trigger anyone. However, the Church terminologies and designations may feel identical as they are simple vocabulary words.

Again, everything you read in this novel is fictional and has no relation to our world.

I hope you enjoy my work. Stay safe and eat healthy bananas.
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Limited Discount!Privilege comes with a 99% off discount for the month of August!----[Ding!][You have killed Elder Fuk Yu!][You have obtained 108 Quadrillion Evolution Essence!][Ding!][Would you like to Assimilate the Stats or roll for a Racial Trait of Elder Fuk Yu?]“Roll for a Racial Trait.”[Ding!][You have acquired the Infinite Fuk Yu Mantra!]...This is the story of Azmodeus—the only Trial Disciple of the Yang Sect—a boy who was born with everything and absolutely anything that could possibly impede his journey down the limitless road of cultivation.Weakest cultivation talent, weakest spiritual roots, weakest physique...However, it looked reality decided he hadn't suffered enough...On one day no different than the rest for the fourteen-year-old boy, as he was sweeping the courtyard's of the Yang Sect, misfortune struck once again, resulting in a Young Master killing him while in a drunken state...This was where his story ended, and also, where it began anew, and along with it, a system that guaranteed a new story for the boy—a story that would never end![Ding!][You have killed a Supreme Elder of the Godless Sect!][You have obtained 500 Trillion Evolution Essence!][Ding][You have leveled up!][You have leveled up!][You have leveled up!][Ding!][Would you like to Assimilate the Stats or roll for a Trait of the being you just killed?]“Roll for a Trait.”[Ding!][You have acquired the Galactic Quantum Flux Racial Trait!][Your overall combat power has improved by leaps and bounds!][Ding!][Are you ready to pay the price to ascend your plane of existence?]“I am.”...Join Azmodeus on his journey toward a limit that doesn't exist, as he figures out just how far he can Evolve through the killing and Assimilating of other existences!“You say I can sit in a cave and cultivate while having my clones do the killing...?”“There are other System Users!? And I can Assimilate their Systems into my own!?”“This will make too OP...”...MASS RELEASE OF 5 CHAPTERS EVERY SATURDAY!!The book may have similarities to Top Tier Providence, but I have not copied anything, and made my own versions of the concepts centered around the book. - Astral_PandemoniumExtremely Fast-Paced System Novel with a bunch of realms and new worlds/areas!! Don't tell me I didn't warn you beforehand!!There will also be comedic and slice of life aspects, even dark at times, so be aware of that before going in...Azmodeus chills in a cave and cultivates while clones divide and conquer.He will become progressively more and more evil, so beware...MC is a Murderhobo and certified Loot Goblin, so keep that in mind as well.This novel is benefit-driven, and things happen for the sole reason of obtaining benefits, so keep that in mind before moving forward...No NTR, No Yuri, No Incest, No weak MC's, lot's of grinding those levels!!No Harem! There will be women who seem like they're part of MC's harem, but it's not what you think! Let the plot cook!