the stone soup story

When you were a kid, you lived with your grandmother in the small town of Silvertree, on the edge of a magical forest. Grandma is a witch, and she taught you how to use your magic to affect the natural world, too. “Magic is a part of you,” she always told you. “Learning how to use it means figuring out who you are.” Now you’re 19 and on your own. After years of living in the forest while you perfected your witchcraft, you’ve returned to take care of your grandmother’s house and crow-familiar while she’s gone. Figuring out who you are feels more important than ever - not to mention, figuring out what Silvertree is. A lot is just as you remembered: the friendly generous next-door neighbors with a kid just your age, the proud town council, the quaint little shops with quirky punny names, the gentle shadowy forest full of magic.

# VR # MMORPG #LOGINBEFOREHAND # STONEAGE Human Origin: Tribe was a virtual reality MMORPG. The player would start from the stone age, build tribes, and slowly develop their culture. It had attracted countless players of all ages on the day the game was launched and it quickly became the most popular game ever. However, no one knew that the game was actually created by aliens using a high-dimension technology called the Knowledge Child. Just a year after the game was launched, it started to devour reality. Chen Ran was a high-level player and was regressed back to the day before the launch. He was able to enter the game earlier than others. [SSS-grade Unit: Stainless Giant.] [Effect: Build 10000x faster and gives all the buildings a 10000x boost.] [SSS-grade Land: Elf’s Forest.] [Effect: Farming speed and production rate increased by 10000x.] [SSS-grade Wonder: Light of Civilization.] [Effect: 10000x increase for the land to philosophers, literateurs, scientists and other professionals that would lead the growth of a civilization.] He took all of those things before others could even learn of them. A year later, the game was finally officially launched. When the players logged into the game, they were dumbfounded by what they saw. “Are you sure this is the stone age?” Another year later, the aliens were about to invade Earth, thinking that the human civilization had collapsed. However, Chen Ran stood on top of one of the 10 thousand Star Destroyer Canon and yelled, “Don’t look down on us humans!”

Min's system, System #151044, is tired of watching him get girls and make dumb decisions yet still manage to defeat the villain. If only he was the villain, there's no way Min would win. His wish was granted. He now upgraded from a bodyless helper system to the evil villain, Ronin Dreadborne! ----------------------------- After getting murdered and reincarnating as a system inside a Hero Transmigrating Machine, System #151044 spent thousands of years wondering why he had such a cruel fate to be a system for incompetent transmigrators like this. But the worst is Min Cheng............ Because Min Cheng spends all his Hero points on girls instead of leveling up! And he is the dumbest transmigrators he ever met! But through a rogue system that gave them a code to free themselves from their roles as a system, System #151044 was able to transform into Min Cheng's enemy on the next world, Ronin Dreadborne, in a mage fantasy world! [Fate itself is evil. The only true enemy is fate, and I have defeated it.] [And I shall teach you how to defeat it too. I will be giving you the gift of freedom. ] [Be the master of your fate like you were always meant to be. And conquer those who try to stand in your way.] That is exactly what he did as Ronin, and to defeat an evil fate, you have to be evil yourself! "I will be the best villain in all the dimensions! Watch out, Min Cheng! I'm coming for you!" ---------------------------- Disclaimer: This book has a villain MC, and he is pretty cold and ruthless and cares about nothing besides killing Min Cheng at the start. However, his character will be developed, so if you're expecting this to just be an evil MC power fantasy althroughout, you're out of luck. There's no romance though, if that is what you are dreading about. No girl would change him or anything like that. There would a lot of violence, gore, and strong language. ------------------- Publishes 1 chapter every day

{Warning!} If you like fantasy concepts that are quite different, you can try this out, my friends! Conspiracies, wars between Empires that sacrifice many lives, battles between powerful people that cause the earth and the sky to shake! Of course, the various scenes of {R-18}{Yandere}must be something that must appear in the fantasy genre, right? Hahaha If you're interested, this is something to try! ------------------------------------------------ Zayn, a successful second-generation individual who excelled in various fields and was often referred to as the "Perfect Human" due to his mastery, was tragically killed by his former fiancée. The cancellation of their engagement led to his ex-fiancée developing an obsessive love for him, which ultimately drove her to stab him in the heart, resulting in his demise. ''Honey~ I won't let you go, even after death!" Upon his death, he found himself reincarnated into a fantasy world novel he had once read. This time, he was reborn as Arthur, a character destined to be a mere side villain and stepping stone. Determined to rewrite his destiny and not be a pawn for the protagonist, he vowed, "I will alter my fate and ascend to the pinnacle of this existence. The protagonist? Let's see who the true protagonist is now!" A journey against fate in a fantasy world where the strong eat the weak... Begins! ------------------------------- Note: [Humm the cover image is not mine and if anyone who has it asks, of course, I'll change it! Thank you!]

Warning contains mature content. Not for underage Emperor Heng the Thousand Flames murdered his six crippled children. But one of them managed to survive because of Supreme Emperor Liang's kindness. That kid who was the stupidest had ventured to come to the seventh wing of the empyrean to ask for Emperor Hen's recognition. But Emperor Heng refused, even planning something to kill her. At the last moment, she fled and took the White Qin Stone by swallowing it. Because of it she suddenly became a genius in all fields. Her brain was very intelligent, her motor skills were perfect, and her spiritual knowledge abilities were high. She thought it was over. By escaping to earth she thought she would be able to live in peace. But it didn't. Emperor Heng had restrained one of her souls in the seventh wing of the empyrean palace, thus making her always tormented if she used the power of the White Qin Stone. When she wanted to return it, it turned out that it had fused into her body, in other words, the pain and suffering would be eternal. But she insisted on ending the suffering. What should she do? And can a handsome crown prince who always fights with her be able to give her a solution? ***

When the seal stone reaches its true seal, the apocalypse must break. At the end of every apocalypse, there are lives lost. To whom does this honor belong? •I ran my finger around the circle of his tattoo one turn. "Do you feel?" ' I asked bitterly. "There's a big sign right here." If he spoke bravely, he would probably say stamp. Or damn. "You don't see it, but you feel it. It's right here. A rope that wraps you around you." My other hand slipped down Cesur's arm and my fingers tangled in his. “A web that connects everything,” I said, admiring his tattoo. "Just like me." •

Artie had lived her whole life feeling like a joke. Whether it came to her full name, her parents ‘abandoning’ her and her next door neighbours taking her in, or finding out that her lover was part of a cult and was cheating on her. Said lover then stabbed her. It felt like she just couldn’t catch a break. So when she found herself in a puddle of her own blood, staring up at a fake painted sky, she could only find humour in the situation, and prayed that the next life was kinder. Only she woke up. In the same body, with the same stab wound, only in a world full of magic, swords, and a dead King Arthur? Yup. The round table existed, the knights existed, and so did everyone of legend that she’d heard about as a child. Only it was the beginning of their tales. Nothing had happened yet, except the formation of Camelot, the crowning of the King, and then the sudden death of the King of Legend, King Arthur Pendragon. She would have thought this was another cruel joke if everyone wasn’t wandering around in mourning clothes. If this was a practical joke, it wasn’t a very funny one. Artie was tired. She’d already spent almost a decade working as a police officer, and then a detective, so she felt like she had earned her peace. Especially after all the shit she’d been put through, but someone had different plans. And Artie’s life wasn’t quite done yet. In fact, it seemed like in the eyes of the creatures of this world, this was where she was always meant to be. The time she spent getting her ass handed to her in the other dimension? Just a warm up. And now she was expected to just…go along with what everyone else wanted her to do? Including magical beings who were responsible for taking her from one dimension to another. Artie felt like she was in over her head, even if there were several concerned, attractive knights around her. She wasn’t sure if she was going to run away from all the new responsibilities, or embrace them. She wasn’t a rule breaker by nature, but maybe now was the time to change?

Novel Summary In the post-apocalyptic world, Bai Jing has awakened his most useless ability – Sense Perception: the ability to sense active objects (including zombies) within 20 meters of him. But he was brutally left behind by his teammates during a mission… When he wakes up again, Bai Jing is transported to the future mecha era! In this era where all energy is provided by emeralds, Bai Jing accidentally comes into contact with gambling stones, and his most useless powers in his previous life become the strongest in gambling stones. Bai Jing went from being a gambling apprentice to a gambling master, and eventually reached the highest peak of the gambling world – a divine gambling master! Gu Yuanzhao, heir to the first interstellar plutocracy, the youngest Major General in history, and voted the most charming man in the stars – is the dream man of all young men and women in the Empire. One day, however, Gu Yuanzhao actually publicly admits to having a partner, and it’s a gambling master they have never heard of. Gu Yuanzhao’s fans were furious: “There are so many gamblers out there, who is this Bai Jing? He’s from the slums and he’s ugly!” Unexpectedly, the next day, the bigwigs came out to defend Bai Jing. The chairman of the gambling guild dispelled the rumour: “This is the only god-ranked gambler in our guild!” The head of the statistics bureau dispelled the rumour: “Bai Jing is already worth tens of billions of dollars and is ranked in the top ten of the rich list!” Gu Group’s senior management disproved the rumor: “Bai Jing and Young Master Gu are of equal face value and equal strength!” On the third day, fans saw Bai Jing who had taken off his glasses and were all too shocked to speak. #My CP has come true! # Later, they found out: the beautiful face of the world was him, the divine gambling master was him, the genius energy master was him. All the titles were his!

When fate chooses you to be a stepping stone, for its chosen son to shine - what do you do in return. Accept it? Wait to die? Hope that the next life will be better? Or fight back. Against fate, against those protagonist, and against everyone. Ali Arya, the handsome and happy young master of the Arya family. The man who had everything - a loving family, a childhood sweetheart, a friend who's more like a brother, and followers who'll not hesitate to die for him. Yet all this love and luxury was only supposed to last until the day he met his fateful enemy - the chosen child of destiny. But as they say, if Good has a God, then the darkness has a devil. And the Devil did found him. [Ding - The Great Villain System 2.0 is here.] [Worry not oh pitiful prey, for I'll turn you into the finest hunter in creation.] [Devil smiles staring at the blind canvas of this planet.] [Paint it red.] From then on Ali started his counterattack against the so called will of the world and fought against all the chosen sons and his enemies. The roles had reversed now. Those protagonists can just be his stepping stones now. As for those heroines, well since these heroes like snatching the girls from others, he shall let them have a taste of what it feels like to be on the other side. To be abandoned and be green'd. ## Join my discord for character arts and discussions https://discord.gg/zFTJsYP7kM DevilDarkness#0506

Time to Rock. And Roll. And Also Level Up. It Likes To Level Up A Lot. Stone is a rock. Or, more specifically, a tiny pebble. Born that way. Awakened to sapience by disastrous happenstance, Stone and his reluctant mentor Partner must navigate a dangerous world where betrayal, war, and scheming are a daily occurrence. But time waits for no mineral, and soon he would be more. Much, MUCH more. Cover done by Super-Amazing-And-Overall-Great person: Trolljan Edited by God-Editor Blanc Please consider to support me: patreon.com/DakieSalamander Each chapter there is having 4 - 6k words... Ch 60 = Ch 15, 16