Toaru Majutsu no Index SS - Volume 2, Chapter 10: Would You Accept or Decline an Invitation for the Night? The First Friday of July.

Having transmigrated into the world of Journey to the West and become Tang Monk, equipped with a gaming system that allows for battling demons and leveling up, while looting equipment, from then on, the demons on the path to the Western Heaven were in danger. Monk Sha: Big Brother, it’s not good, another demon has been captured by Master. Tang Monk: You all listen to me today, it’s not you protecting your master on his journey to the Western Heaven to seek scriptures, but rather your master has to drag you all along, you know? Without you, your master alone would have fought, uh, made it to the Western Heaven by now...

When Lu Wu opened his eyes, he found that the world had changed completely.The world before him did not have fancy magic, nor ultimate Dou Qi.What it had were summoners that form contracts with summoned beasts.And coincidentally, he was such a summoner, although not a professional one, and his first summoned beast was a piece of crap.But that was fine, because he also had a golden finger!

【Nonsense】【No morals】【No routine】

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The majestic world, nine heavens and ten earths.

In a colorful world, happy cultivating immortals.

When Chu Liang opened his eyes, he found that he had become a disciple of the Shushan School, and he was carrying a strange pagoda… Since then, he has embarked on an unimaginable road.

The thirty-sixth peak rises in the morning smoke, and the dragon is returned eight thousand miles away!

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“My lord, please kill the demon!”

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I don’t need companions. I don’t do party play. But… the game forces party play?