Vampire Overlord System in the Apocalypse - Chapter 401: A Bad Omen?

Joseph Sullivan is at an all-time low. He lost his job, his fiancée dumped him, he moved back to the Midwest and currently lives in his parent’s basement—oh, and his workout was just interrupted with the arrival of the System.Earth has become a playing field in a contest amongst the gods, where mortals are the pawns. The winning god gets the glory, and their chosen champion gets a single wish. The first stage of this game: Tutorial – Class Selection.Provided the ideal stat array for a physical, combat-focused class, the choice for Joe is obvious. Until he fat thumbs the selection screen and ends up selecting Spellcaster. His starting Intelligence stat? 1.With a useless class selection and only his raw testosterone-fueled strength to back him up, Joe decides class optimization is for dummies. Pumping all stat points in Strength, he hopes to not only survive the contest of the gods, but to win the whole damned thing.After all, a real wizard should be measured by how much they can bench!

I tried to establish the Tokugawa Shogunate in another world.With the knowledge of the ruler of the country, the young Ieyasu unifies another world!?Has the era of Ieyasu the old fox already over!?This is the story of the super-cheat young Ieyasu and the naïve elf princess unifying another world!Tokugawa Ieyasu, the ruler of the country.He thought he would die a regretful death after eating tempura, but he suddenly found himself reincarnated in an unknown world with a 20-year-old body!?Moreover, after saving the elf princess, Seraphina, from a human thug, he is appointed as the general of the “Edda Forest”, which is on the verge of destruction.He is a coward and a thrifty person, who think that he can simply waits until his enemy dead before fighting.Ieyasu’s mind is not like a hero, and because of coward’s disposition, he begin to gather useful people in the “Edda Forest”.The cheapstake dark elves are are being made to raise funds.The dwarves, who dig holes all the time, are tasked with flood control work and building secret paths.On top of that, he even employs a family of assassins to control information.Ieyasu is reforming the “Edda Forest” to be like the Tokugawa Shogunate, butーー

The protagonist, Punk, is a cautious, cold-blooded, and ruthless Mage.

His goal is always his top priority, over feelings or morality. When unnecessary, he doesn’t like to act like pigs to eat tigers; there are almost no life and death struggles, sometimes risky but steady progress. No strong enemy everywhere, Instead, Punk is always a strong enemy of others.

And he has a very keen interest in the secrets and teachings of the Netheril civilization.

As the final dragon lay defeated, Aaran stared at the sky while the rest celebrated.[Awaiting the gods’ response...]He clenched his fists, his heart pounding. A shred of hope flickered in his eyes, only to be extinguished like always.[The attained outcome was deemed unsatisfactory.]Aaran had seen the message for the twentieth time. He had become the gods’ plaything in their desire to witness the “perfect ending”.He regressed once again, but this time as a toddler and charm being the only stat he had.But something was amiss. The world he remembered had changed. Powers that did not exist before had taken hold of the world.Tired of following the traditional route, Aaran chose to fight darkness with darkness… as the gods’ chosen necromancer!