Lightning Is the Only Way - Chapter 198 - 198 – Close Combat

After years of exile, Marcus is coming back home. A powerful mage with few equals, Marcus lives in a world full of monsters and powerful adepts, many of which have bad histories with him. But he has not come back to pursue vengeance or start a fight. All Marcus wants to do is reconnect with old friends, build himself a house, and maybe train a successor or two.Alas, the world didn’t stop just because Marcus went into exile, and not everyone is content to let go of old grievances. Strange things are happening in the world at large, too, hinting at a looming disaster of unknown nature. Still, where there is a will, there is a way.If nothing else, Marcus has a lot of magical power to throw at problems.+++Zenith of Sorcery is set in its own original setting and isn’t related to Mother of Learning… beyond being written by the same person, of course. This is a more classical fantasy story than my previous one, with a lower level of technology and stuff like elves and dwarves, but it has a lot of worldbuilding effort put into it and its own complex magical system. The story has significant xianxia influences, but isn’t meant to be a xianxia story.For those of you not familiar with my previous work, I write relatively slowly. I intend to publish chapters at the rate of one chapter every three or four weeks, subject to further delays as life intervenes.

I, Zhang San, am absolutely a good person!I swear by the eight generations of my ancestors!What!? My ancestral grave just exploded!?

Throughout this current life of mine, I will pay no attention to my past lives, nor will I seek future lives. I wish to live vigorously, to pay back debt of gratitude and fulfill duty to avenge, to defeat valiant heroes from all species, and to proudly laugh at all the Gods and Demons of the Six Path of Reincarnation!

They erased her name...They rewrote his life...Now they both remember.She was the secret buried beneath the apocalypse.Lupin-13- also known as Mikka Hale-was the government's biggest mistake. A girl experimented with werewolf DNA, failed the expectations, then thrown into the deadlands like trash.She wasn't supposed to survive... But she did.Now she's a myth.A shadow in the ruins.A hunter among the hunted.Major Jay Cruz was their perfect soldier. His mission: retrieve the cure.But the “cure” is a girl...And she was the woman he once promised to burn the world for.Now, hunted by the very system that rewrote their pasts, Jay and Mikka must face what was stolen-and what still burns inside them.She was the cure.He was the blade.They'll bring the system to its knees -then to its grave.