A couple of days later, Sun Mei had her first visitor. After asking Mr. Wu for permission, she invited Yu Zan over. She had not been allowed to have friends over at Mrs. Lin's house, so she felt really happy about this opportunity. 

As soon as Yu Zan walked in, she was stunned into silence. Sun Mei waved her hand in front of her friend's face.

"Earth to Yu Zan?" she said teasingly.

"Girl, you got a serious upgrade!" Yu Zan exclaimed. "This is a palace! What does this man do for a living again?"

"He publishes books," answered Sun Mei.

"Did he publish Fifty Shades Of Gray?" Yu Zan asked incredulously.

Sun Mei grimaced. "You need to read some better books."

"No, you need to read some erotica." Yu Zan smiled slyly.

Sun Mei blushed. Her non-existent love life was a recurring inside joke between them. Yu Zan fell in love with a different guy every week, but Sun Mei, who had lived with her parents her whole life and had been locked up in Mrs. Lin's house for two months, had never even been out on a date. 

"Where's the housekeeper?" Yu Zan asked suspiciously. "Does she even exist? Or do you have to clean this entire house by yourself?"

Sun Mei smiled. "It's her day off. But you might meet Mr. Wu. He called and said he'll stop by to pick up some papers he forgot."

Yu Zan rolled her eyes. "Who cares about the old man? Does this place have a pool?"

Sun Mei smiled conspiratorially. "In the backyard."

"Now we're talking!"

Sun Mei and Yu Zan made two smoothies in the kitchen and carried them over to the backyard, where they sat down next to the pool and talked like schoolgirls while they dipped their toes in the water.

"Next time, I'll bring a swimsuit," said Yu Zan. "I'm so jealous of you!"

"What are you jealous of?" Sun Mei asked as she took a sip of her smoothie. "You live with a nice family."

"I know, but you live with a rich family." Yu Zan winked at her.

"The Lins were also rich, but they were…" Sun Mei trailed off.

"Jerks," said Yu Zan. "You might as well say it."

Before Sun Mei could object and defend the two little boys who had been nothing but nice to her, she saw Mr. Wu open the back door out of the corner of her eye. He was wearing his signature work suit and dark tie, but his hair was in its usual messy state.

"Who is that?" Yu Zan asked in a whisper. "Do you have a security guard too?"

Sun Mei frowned in confusion. "What? No, that's Mr. Wu."

"Are you kidding?" Yu Zan exclaimed. "He looks like a teen celebrity!"

"Hush!" Sun Mei elbowed Yu Zan in the ribs as Mr. Wu walked over.

"Hello, girls." Mr. Wu greeted them with a smile. "Having fun?"

"Yes, Mr. Wu." Sun Mei smiled back before she said, "This is my friend, Yu Zan."

"Nice to meet you, Yu Zan." Mr. Wu shook her friend's hand politely.

"Pleasure," Yu Zan managed to say as she shook the man's hand in a daze. She looked like she was about to drool all over Mr. Wu's white shirt.

"I unfortunately have to go. I'll be back with Lily later at noon. You two have fun!" Mr. Wu said before he walked away.

Yu Zan stared at his retreating back until he disappeared into the house. Soon, they heard his car roar to life and drive away.

"I think I fell in love…" Yu Zan said slowly.

Sun Mei laughed. "Again? It's the third time this week!"

Sun Mei is a young romantic girl who moves to the US to work as a nanny. When her host family takes advantage of her, charming Mr. Wu steps in to save the day.

Sun Mei moves in with Mr. Wu and his daughter Lily, becomes a member of their family, and slowly falls in love with her handsome boss…

Will their love survive their social class difference, society’s prejudices and the appearance of Mr. Wu’s mysterious ex-wife? Will Sun Mei get her happily ever after? Or will she move back to China heartbroken?

While Jayde, Raven and the boys strolled through the city streets to visit the bakery. Priest Vasserac's assistants were waiting at the bottom of the staircase. They stood undecided at the bottom of the stairs, they had been waiting for nearly an hour and hadn't seen anyone. After an intense debate between the two, one of the assistants decided to go up to the private suite and see if anyone was still there, while the other assistant would wait downstairs just in case.

When the assistant entered the private booth, he was dismayed to find it empty. Rushing back downstairs he informed his partner that the private suite was empty. The two had no idea how the female had bypassed them and only assumed that she must have run away before they arrived. Filled with dread, the two returned to Priest Vasserac to face his wrath.

Meanwhile, Jayde had just left the bakery, swearing to herself never ever to promise to buy Reiko as many cakes as he wanted. That damn shadowbeast, Jayde thought as she walked out of the bakery followed by three bemused teenagers. He wanted every single cake on display, Jayde groused to herself. Now those three think I'm a pig, she thought.

Jayde wasn't wrong, Ash, Nova, and Raven had been astounded when Jayde bought every cake in the shop, instructing the cakes to be delivered to her cottage. 

"Er... Jayde are you really going to eat all those cakes?" Raven asked hesitantly.

"Um, I wasn't quite sure which I would one like," Jayde said, quickly coming up with an excuse for why she had ordered over thirty cakes.

"Ah, okay. Just don't eat too many sweets, it's not good you," Raven said with concern.

"Hmm," Jayde said nodding. Thank the gods they didn't see me ordering a weekly standing order for Yinxin and Reiko, she thought.

While Raven, Ash, and Nova had been busy with their own orders, Jayde had spoken with the proprietress and arranged to have fifteen cakes delivered every week. The proprietress had been ecstatic to receive Jayde's order since Jayde had paid upfront for six months. Well, that should get those two foodies off Isha's back, she thought glumly.

After leaving the bakery, the four friends decided to go their separate ways since they each had their own errands to run and to meet at a local favorite tea room called The Tea Terrace in three hours.

Jayde followed the directions given to her by Raven to a local seamstress, she was in desperate need of new clothing. Her current wardrobe only consisted of the homemade leathers, the tunics she had bought in the small village outside of Aeris as well as her school uniform.

On the way to the seamstress shop, Jayde ducked into a small alleyway, after making sure that no one was around she quickly stored her new sword in her spatial ring, leaving the alley Jayde made her way to the seamstress shop.

Jayde was pleasantly surprised when she walked into The Golden Thread. It was brightly lit with glowstones. There were comfortable chairs lined against one of the walls for customers. A couple of wooden mannequins stood on display with ready-made outfits. Behind the large sales counter, there were rolls of different types of fabrics in numerous shades.

When Jayde walked in a sales assistant immediately walked over to assist her, when Jayde asked if the shop could make custom made outfits, the sales assistant asked Jayde to wait while she called over the owner.

A few minutes later, a tall, willowy woman walked over to Jayde, she looked as though she was in her early thirties. Her chocolate brown hair was tied up in a neat bun on top of her head, the dark color offsetting her flawless ivory skin. The woman was beautiful with an oval face,  high cheekbones, pert nose, and plump rosy lips. Her arched dark brown eyebrows emphasized her slate gray eyes.

The woman introduced herself as Maianna Belezin. When Maianna found out that Jayde required numerous custom made outfits, she requested Jayde to follow her to her office. Once seated Jayde removed pages of parchments from her satchel. Jayde handed over papers to Maianna, each piece of parchment had designs of various outfits that Jayde had created for herself.

Maianna looked over each page, surprised by the uniqueness of each design. While Jayde wasn't an artist, her drawings were clear and detailed with extra notes jotted down to explain specific details. Maianna couldn't help feeling a sense of reverence looking over the diagrams. Fashion in Doha had stayed the same for centuries.

"You designed these all yourself?" Maianna asked.

Jayde nodded, then pointing to diagrams she asked: "Will you be able to create these outfits?"

"Hmm, I don't see a problem..." 

Maianna voice trailed off as she came to the last couple of diagrams, looking at the picture drawn on the sheet, Maianna was perplexed. 

"What are these for?" she asked indicating the image in front of her.

Jayde leaned closer. "Oh, that's underwear," she said.

"Underwear?"

Jayde explained the benefits of adequately made underwear, especially bras. Jayde had been horrified when she questioned Lucia and Raven about women's underwear available in Doha. From what she had discovered the people in Doha still hadn't come out of the dark ages when it came to fashion. The women still wore stripes of cloths to wrap their breasts, similar to strophiums❶ worn by ancient Romans, and their panties were identical to the ancient subligaculums❷ worn by Romans.

Maianna couldn't help becoming excited as she listened to Jayde's explanation, just looking at the simple designs in front of her, she couldn't believe that no one had ever thought about this before. Jayde had a similar thought after her conversations with Lucia and Raven. Jayde theorized that this was due to Doha's civilization being based on magic, they had never had any reason to invest in technology, which Jayde thought was a severe problem with the society as a whole.

After reading through some history books and discussing the history of Doha with Raven and Ash, Jayde had come to realize that the people of Doha had stagnated, there had been no changes or advances as a whole for many centuries — the mages of Doha only researched spells and anything else related to magic.

Even the armor used by mages only relied on magic runes sewed into the cloth, no one had even thought about using different materials. The biggest problem about using rune magic as protection for armor was that the magic-infused thread lost its potency over some time. A mage had to remember to infuse the threaded runes before donning on his clothes.

Jayde had included a full set of various types of underwear including halter bras and corset brassieres. For armor, she had designed leather bracers, greaves, armor corsets with and without pauldrons, cuirass as well as thigh and full legged leather armor sets. For the thigh armor sets she had included various sheaths for her blades as well as pockets to hold small items, with leather ties to tie around her thighs.

Jayde had wanted to search the inter-dimensional market to see if they had any books available for her to buy that contained information on how to increase the strength and protection of her leather armor, instead of just relying on runes, but with White hijacking her for training every time she returned she hadn't had an opportunity yet.

"Jayde would you be interested in forming a partnership, and allowing me to sell these designs in my shop?" Maianna asked.

Maianna couldn't help feeling nervous as she waited for Jayde's answer. As a commoner without a noble family's backing, she just didn't have the resources to compete with other shops. It was a common problem in the Lower Realm. Most smaller clans struggled to eke out a living, the noble and larger families dominated the market.

But if I can offer these designs, I am sure that I will be able to stand toe to toe with those bigger shops, Maianna thought, especially these items called underwear. Just look at the brassieres illustrated by Jayde Maianna couldn't wait to make herself some of them, they look so comfortable, she imagined.

Jayde paused to think over Maianna offer, glancing towards the nervous looking woman. "Sure," she finally said. "What sort of deal are we talking about here?"

Maianna heart leapt at Jayde response. "A fifty-fifty split, you come up with designs and I will manufacturing the clothes as sell them."

Jayde thought Maianna was too generous, as Maianna would be doing most of the work, when Jayde bought up her concerns and suggested that they should instead go for a sixty-forty split, Maianna was adamant about sticking to her original offer. Jayde finally accepted Maianna proposal. 

Jayde had been racking her brains on trying to come up with a way to approach the Cotta clan, one of the largest merchant clans in the Lower Realm, and now she finally had a way to broach the subject with Camelia and Atia to arrange a meeting with their patriarch.

Part of Jayde's plan to bring down the Freehold clan was to cut off their financial support, and she was only going to be successful if she had a powerful group supporting her. Jayde didn't just want to kill a few members of the Freehold clan, she wanted to decimate the whole clan, and ensure that they never had a chance to rise up again, that is the vow she had worn to the previous soul, and one that she intended to carry out before she left the Lower Realm.

The two women started to discuss their partnership, with Jayde giving Maianna many tips on how to increase the turnover of her shop. When Jayde began to talk about chain stores,  Maianna couldn't help feeling a sense of awe for the young girl sitting in front of her. She would never have dreamed of any of the ideas that Jayde was coming up with.

Maianna quickly pulled out a piece of parchment and jotted down their agreement, once written she handed the contract over to Jayde to sign. Reading through the partnership contract Jayde and seeing that it contained no hidden surprises and had all the terms that they had agreed to, Jayde picked up a quill and signed the agreement.

After Jayde and Maianna finalized their partnership, Jayde promised to return the following Restday with more designs. Jayde still insisted on paying full price for her outfits overriding Maianna objections. After leaving The Golden Thread, Jayde made her way to The Tea Terrace.

Since her meeting with Maianna had taken so long, Jayde was running late for her meeting with Raven, Ash, and Nova at The Tea Terrace. Slightly out of breath when she walked up to the three sitting in a private booth, Jayde apologized for making them wait.

While Jayde and her friends were enjoying themselves, Priest Vasserac's assistants were facing an enraged mage. Priest Vasserac couldn't believe that he had lost the fire sword and he had no idea who had bought it. Even when he tried to strong arm the Aeris Auction House to reveal the buyer's details, they had refused to budge and had also dared to forcefully remove him from the premises, threatening to have the Temple of the Light banned from their auction house.

With a heavy heart Priest Vasserac had no choice but to back down and return to the Temple of the Light's Aeris branch, cursing the woman who had evaded him. He now had the unpleasant task of informing his superiors that he had failed in his mission to obtain the fire sword for High Priestess Sharlin. He was still confused why a mage from the Radiant Realm would be interested in the sword or even how she even knew about it, but he hadn't dared to question his superior when he had been given the mission to obtain the sword.

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❶  A band of cloth or leather around a women's chest.
❷ A subligaculum was a kind of undergarment worn by ancient Romans. It could come either in the form of a pair of shorts or in the form of a simple loincloth wrapped around the lower body. It could be worn both by men and women. In particular, it was part of the dress of gladiators, athletes, and of actors on the stage.

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JAYDE
Jayde is a genetically engineered super soldier, after decades of being forced by her human creators to fight their dirty wars, Jayde rebelled. During a desperate battle for the ultimate survival of her people, she is betrayed and dies.

Instead of it being the end, this is only the beginning of Jayde's journey, as she awakens on a strange new world, in the tortured body of a young girl.

Forget technology, this new world doesn't have spaceships, replicators or blasters, it has something better — Magic!

With her contract to an ancient artifact, Jayde has to navigate her way through this new world filled with magic, powerful mages, strange creatures, and monsters.

REN
Ren, the fierce demon king, must fight to save his race from the brink of extinction and once again stop the evil Zartonesh from invading the realms. The key to his success lies in the Lower Realm, where the Devil Wars began, and with a young woman whose soul is steeped in darkness, whose presence awakens the primal fury within his soul, and whose vast power can either save or destroy him and his people.

EXCITING NEW ADVENTURE
Follow Jayde’s journey as she replaces her blaster for a sword. Alone with only her guide, she has to navigate her way around this strange new universe, learning magic, traveling to different dimensions as she makes new friends and enemies.

Will the darkness in her soul allow her to find her true-mate? Will she ultimately save this world or will she destroy it?

WARNING: Please note that this story is a slow-moving romance.

TAGS: Female Protagonist, Adventure, Transmigration, Pets, Strong FL, Late Romance, Revenge, Inter-Dimensional Travel, System, Sword and Magic, Weak to Strong

Novel Started: 18 Jan 2019.

NB: Please note that I am busy writing and editing at the same time, so there are still quite a few chapters that have spelling and grammar mistakes, so please bear with me as I get to them to fix those errors.

RELEASE SCHEDULE
1 Chapter per day (Minimum) / 7 Chapters per week. Although I do try to release more.
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No pain or joy would last longer than time itself.
As dawn arrived, the obscure gray-white fog was dyed with a layer of gold radiance by the first rays from the sun. Streaks of bright but heatless radiance fell through amidst the cracks between the clouds, only to be devoured by the darkness that covered the land.
Orderly footsteps and the clanging sounds of armor colliding could be heard within the darkness that quickly advanced, but there was not a hint of human interaction.
Some silent visitors had arrived at the southwest wastelands of the Grandia Continent.
The ripples of contorted dimension lowly dissipated behind them. These dark beings carried a deathly presence that did not belong to this world were warped here from the far northern dust highlands.
Klang. The sounds of clashing metals echoed even as the sun slowly brightened. It broke through the gray-white clouds and illuminated the land, and the Death Shades that were scattered around quickly vaporized just as the darkness that engulfed the world slowly vanished, revealing the beings behind it.
It was an elite unit of heavy infantry that was as systematic as machines, their banners soaring overhead.
Each of these soldiers were adorned in black full-body armor. Each flail, heavy crossbow, and broadsword that hung by their hips or javelins they carry behind their backs were exquisitely crafted, gleaming with cool light of bloodlust.
But the most astonishing thing was that these beings with no hint of being alive did not disperse despite the arrival of the sun. They were protected by a dull black halo over their heads, containing abnormal Death Shade power that kept the sun from harming them.
At the very front of the troops, a warrior wearing a heavy armor decorated with a ferocious looking dragon-head while carrying a dragonslayer great sword behind his back led the team through the dimensional doorway as they advanced towards the soil of the Southwestern Wastelands.
No pain or happiness was more somber than death.
Great commander Arman was deeply aware of that fact.
As a dead general who once led endless armies and was awakened from eternal slumber, no one was more aware of how cumbersome time and death were—enough to crush all spirit and discolor all glory.
Armand Fernand was a general five-hundred and fifty-three years ago who served the Central Empire—the former incarnation of the Ulan and Gelug Empires. He led their grand army overseas to hunt the giant dragons that inhabited a dragon island, killing hundreds of those reptiles due to the unexpected ambush.
Then, under Armand's instructions, the army closed down the space where the dragons lived on every other turn until the powerful general killed the Elder Dragon of that particular generation by his own hands. Thus, the ancient, glorious and powerful race was almost completely wiped out, leaving just a few dragon-blooded descendants behind.
Now, five-hundred and fifty-three years later, the reawakened dragon-slaying general led his revived armies and walked upon this land. And yet, everyone was now ignorant of their past glory, their records becoming but a light scribble in the history books. Just as the draconic races that were slaughtered and thus forgotten all those years before, everything they did slowly return to dust and silence under the sweep of time.
Now, this undead army that was filled with past glory, pressed on towards the wastelands with a confident stride.
Their goal was to wipe out all life within.
Since the Death Shades engulfed the continent, every faction in the world of Grandia crumbled beneath their boundless invasion. Most cities fell or self-destructed swiftly, leaving survivors who ran to live within the ancient forests.
Thus, ninety percent of life on the continent was extinguished, and the expression 'nine out of ten' was no longer a hyperbole but reality.
However, even those survivors were slaughtered by the gradually active Death Shade Army one after the other.
As the one behind all that, grand commander Armand neither felt ashamed nor hesitant. It was because all of it were orders coming from 'that person', and everything 'that person' did was unquestionable justice.
Even if it was war, slaughter and destroying this world.
Suddenly, the army stopped.
The sounds of their footsteps vanished in an instant, leaving the sounds of billowing wind in the air. The dawn sun had completely broken through the clouds, allowing the world to be blanketed in light and filled with warmth.
The general wearing a dragon-head helmet lowered the hand he used to gesture for the army to stop and looked up towards the seemingly borderless plains.
Behind the v-shaped opening of his helmet, two bundles of red flames could be seen contracting into specks, and he tightened his grip over the hilt of his sword that hung by his hip.
Armand had seen someone.
The plants over the wastelands were withered; the land cracked in countless spider-web fissures due to drought.
And yet, a warrior with black-hair and scarlet eyes and whose body emanated with an indescribable presence was simply standing over the plains that offered no cover, as if he was waiting for their arrival.
He wore a black light armor; his face was so calm it was almost cold. Beside him was a silver great sword almost the height of a person that stood upright as if a pillar, while he held another weapon—a war axe over his shoulder.
His imposing presence radiated to regions dozens of miles around him, holding such power that the dawning sky dulled. He therefore became the greatest source of heat in this world, scorching all things around him. Still, the dried plants were but incidental victims—the undead spirits around him were the ones being bombarded heavily.
Nonetheless, Armand stood before his army. The halo over his head whirled slowly, blocking the opponent's cleansing lifeforce that radiated out of his entire body.
He immediately knew that the person was the target of their journey.
A Heavenly champion who stood before the threshold of Divine, capable of breaking through at any moment!
An equal of their current broken bodies, a power that belonged to the peak of this world that was deteoriating by the day.
"So, you're that person from another world."
Through mana resonance, the dragon-armor general's voice that was so flat it seemed to have no emotion resounded across several kilometers. "We have a list of all remaining Heavenly champions of the entire continent. Heavenly-pinnacle champions who are about to make a breakthrough are especially given more attention—and yet, you're not included."
The warrior did not reply, however. Joshua seemed to have no intention of talking. He merely tightened his grip over the hilt of his axe and sword, while tremendous energy flowed within his body.
Armand, on the other hand, was indifferent to the fact. Seemingly having other thoughts, he simply carried on speaking.
"Although it's not known why you would come to this world without hope, whatever the case may be, it's better if you quickly return and not interfere in our struggle against the living. This isn't something people of another world such as you could step into."
Though Armand's words were laced with thick caution, there was no hint of enmity. Even Joshua paused for a bit at his demeanor, but he soon shook his head as if mocking the other for thinking too much.
I'm just doing what I want.
Slowly lifting the greataxe and greatsword and assembling both into the unsophisticated Dragonslayer Swordspear, he assumed a combat stance with a spear in hand, inviting the other into a fight.
There were flames within his gaze, as if narrating a simple truth.
 —Only victors have the right to talk.
With that, the lifeforce emission that was spreading incessantly everywhere quickly shrunk, cascading back into Joshua's body.
Knowing that his opponent was a being that did not dull in comparison against Herlas—perhaps even surpassing him, the warrior would neither be careless nor spare an ounce of power.
"You wish to fight?" Armand smiled coldly on the other side, shaking his head as he grasped Joshua's intentions. "Pitiful fellow. You totally have no idea what you're dealing with."
In the very next moment, the general drew the longsword from his hip, his fingers clenching over it as he held it before himself.
A resounding reverberation came banging from his body. With the thunderous boom, endless black haze ejected out from the seams the general's dragon-armor, shaping into a gigantic black halo formed from endless runes and totem constructs over himself and his army. The halo chained every Death Shade together as if fusing them into a single body.
Moving clouds shifted under the manipulation of that power as if a pair of colossal, invisible hands were condensing every energy on this earth. Armand's voice was also gradually growing more powerful, turning from your typical speech into the roar of a million dragons at once. Gales formed from the sound waves billowed across the skies of the wastelands, causing clouds to surge and the world to lose color—as if all things could not disobey his view.
The dragon-armor general lifted his head slightly and focused his gaze on Joshua, a cruel killing intent exploding instantaneously. 
"I am the titled Divine, Armand Fernandez the dragon-slaying general of the Central Empire and the Fourth Death Shade commander."
"You face the judgment of ten thousand armies!"
Klang!
Every undead spirit that stood behind Armand drew their weapons. Blood-red radiance gradually concentrated within their red eyes, as if they desire the slaughter and flesh that followed.
With nary a sound, the phantom of a military god that seemed to pillar heaven and earth had seemingly awakened from the netherworld. It appeared out of thin air, and yet had not an inch of flesh but merely pale-white bones. Over its body was a heavy dragon-scale armor, its hands brandishing a bone-breaking war hammer and an armor-piercing longsword, while its entire body unleashed bloodlust and ferocious killing intent.
And as if the will and curses of the vengeful millions it had murdered had gathered upon the military god's specter armor, its surface seemingly swirled with a black luminescence of malevolence.
Five-hundred and fifty-three years ago, the dragon-slayer general had condensed the power of armies. The taboo spell [Lord of the Armies], undefeated in all wars and wiping out nations or dragons alike has reappeared on this day!
Though his opponent was but one man.
"I am the army; the army is I."
"If you wish to fight me, you would have to fight my armies. If you wish to kill me, you would have to kill us all."
Armand pointed his longsword towards the silent warrior before his eyes.
Amidst the ranks of undead spirits, the military god that was comparable to a titan drew out its longsword and pointed at the warrior too. Its savage impulse for bloodshed poured out, as if to freeze all things and have all life bare their necks for its blade. 
On the other hand, the warrior's eyes glinted.
Then, he spoke—the first line he uttered since he met Armand.
"Doesn't sound too difficult."


Joshua woke up in the middle of a battlefield one day only to discover that he has been transmigrated into a popular MMORPG, Continental War. Discovering that he has not only been displaced in space but also in time, Joshua realizes he has knowledge of the events unfolding around the world as he had played through them as game events. Read on to discover how Joshua forges his path toward becoming a legendary warrior embroiled in the struggle of Order and Chaos!

I love colors. I'll say it over and over again: I love colors! They're beautiful. They're stimulating. Sometimes I even think they're magical. I love everything about them, from the power they have to evoke emotions to the subtle yet distinct differences they make in a work of art. But my favorite thing about colors is their symbolism, the way they can be used to hide secrets and hint at details of a bigger picture without drawing focus away from the story at hand.

It's simple enough to use colors in visual art, but what about in writing? Challenging as it may seem, I believe it is possible to create symbolism with words, such as when describing color schemes of character outfits and settings. Color symbolism has fascinated me for as long as I can remember, and while it would take an entire book (or series of books) to get into it all, I'd like to at least scratch the surface today with some of the basics I've picked up throughout my experience researching and implementing meaningful colors in my stories. You may want to consider these tips the next time you set a scene; they can help add a vivid new layer to your story! Enjoy!
Red – Red is a bold and passionate color, often symbolizing such strong ideas and images as courage, fire, power, and violence. It's a color that demands attention, which is why it's commonly used to signify danger. Use red for passionate or aggressive characters, or for any sort of intense scene, whether it's the heat of love or the violence of war.

￼Orange – Not quite passionate and not quite joyful, orange is a middle ground between red and yellow. It symbolizes energy and creativity, and is used in psychology to stimulate enthusiasm and determination. Use orange for adventurous or creative characters, or when you want to paint some vibrant warmth into a scene.

￼Yellow – Yellow is the two-sided coin of colors. On the one hand, it symbolizes happiness, optimism, sunshine, and friendship. On the other hand, it can also stand for cowardice, illness, hazard, and deceit. Golden shades represent wealth and luxury. Use yellow when you want to add hints of joy or caution to a scene. For the best effect, I recommend using yellow ambiguously, such as for characters who seem jubilant and optimistic on the outside but who are fearful or deceitful on the inside.

￼Green – Think of green and you're sure to picture beautiful scenes of nature, complete with lush vegetation as far as the eye can see. Indeed, green is the color of the environment, and it represents such ideas as youth, fertility, health, and rebirth. Abstractly, it also symbolizes jealousy and good luck. Use green for characters associated with natural themes such as environmentalism or the practice of healing, or to hint at fortune or envy in relationships.

￼Blue – Blue is my favorite color because it represents all my favorite things. It's a color that symbolizes intelligence, tranquility, trust, and loyalty. In nature, it's associated with the sky and the sea, and different shades from turquoise to navy can be used to signify sophistication, knowledge, and integrity. Use blue for characters who are more intellectual than emotional, and for settings fitting an atmosphere of calm and authority.

￼Purple – Purple is the color of royalty, and has long represented such themes as nobility, wisdom, honor, and extravagance. Being a relatively rare color in nature, it is often associated with mystery and magic. Lighter shades such as lavender also convey grace and elegance. Use purple as a motif for regal or arrogant characters, mysterious settings, and storylines brimming with fantasy.

￼Pink – A soft complement to the bold red, pink is the color that most famously signifies love and romance. Strongly associated with femininity, it represents tenderness, caring, and acceptance. I myself tend to associate the color pink with flowers. Use pink to add a soothing or feminine quality to a scene, or to signify elements of a romantic subplot.

￼Brown – Brown is well known as an earth tone, and as such tends to represent stability. Common ideas associated with the color brown include simplicity, comfort, and endurance. Use brown when you want to convey a sense of plainness or tenacity in a scene without having to resort to the blatant dullness of gray.

￼Gray – The dull middle ground between white and black, gray is most commonly associated with boredom and depression. On the positive side, it also stands for security, modesty, practicality, and reliability. Use gray for conservative characters or when you want to create a colorless air for a particular setting.

￼White – White is the international color of peace, and is often regarded as a symbol of light, purity, and faith. Some even go as far as to associate it with perfection. Note that white takes on a different meaning in Eastern cultures, where it's associated with death and mourning. Use white when you want to convey innocence in your characters and cleanliness in your settings, or when you want to create strong religious symbolism in your scenes.

￼Black – The exact opposite of white, black represents everything that its counterpart doesn't. Darkness, evil, and death are themes commonly associated with black, but it can also stand for austerity, formality, style, and sexuality. Arguably the most powerful color of all, black has a long history of symbolizing strongly opposed ideas on the spectrum of good and evil. Use black to convey depth in your characters or to add dark themes to a scene. For best results, combine it with other colors to create interesting contrasts of ideas in your stories.

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Every love story is beautiful but ours is my favorite.

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New school new opportunities, right?

Let's hope. 

With Small Yet self-assured Staps I walked towards the door and I knocked "Inside" I heard a loud yet sweet men's voice, As I step inside I stood in front of a man in his late 30's.

"Mr. Marka Tuan?"
I nod quickly and looked fastly around trough the class, I briefly caught someone's else eyes before I turned over to the teacher.

If everyone's eyes were on me, except for one boy who was wearing a leather blackjack.

His attitude was quite arrogant even though he was just looking in a notebook.

"Sorry, I was lost"
I still get to just out of my throat.

"There is another place besides Jackson" the teacher pointed to the boy in the leather jacket, I blinked bravely though I was scared. 

The boy, called Jackson, looked up when he heard his name and then looked up at me when I stepped over to him

When I sat down on the chair next to him I put my bag on the floor.

I had my notebooks but didn't get my school books, though I was getting my school books tomorrow,  I hadn't any idea what they were talking about.

"Aren't you going to  introduce ourselves anymore, beautiful?"
When I heard the voice of the boy next to me, I was a little shocked and couldn't resist blushing, I looked into his beautiful brown eyes seeing a beautiful sparkle. 

"Mark Mark tuan" 
I squeaked out of my mouth my cheek become Fifty-Shades red but now with shame, yet he seemed to understand me. 

"Jackson wang"

I blinked and try to know what the focus was not possible since Jackson who sat next to me occasionally looked at me and made me blush. 

"C-Can I look into your book" 
He pushed his book to me so so we could both follow the lesson, I was grateful. 

"Assignment 15"
Jackson said, I blinked and looked at the assignment. 'This is not so difficult' I thought.

"Mr. Mark Tuan, I understand you want to make friends but you can do it after class."
I was shocked by the loud voice of the teacher who stood in front of the class I blinked. Friends, who want to be friends just like me?

- Madam Farblight POV

The great saint has given us all missions to prove ourselves. I immediately chose to go after the crow worshippers. I used to be engaged to their leader. It was a family thing and I had no say. However, once that corpse fucker saw me, he had the engagement called off right away. 'How am I supposed go sleep with a huge chunk of lard?' Even after elevating my family to new heights, even making dukes show respect to us, my rage didn't boil down. 

If I had the choice, I would murder all of these crow worshippers. To bad that the crows are known to have very little corruption. How you ask? Through a complex system of slavery. Every member of The Crows is a slave. They are all enslaved to each other which makes it impossible to overule an order unless every member agrees. 

I gather a large amount of forces at their cliff. Their main temple is built a small distance away from the capital on a precarious cliff.It looks extremely unstable but, it has remained for hundreds of years. Other forces have attacked it as well to try and make it buckle. All failed attempts. We are not really on a murder mission so that is not really an option... It would be a good point of attack though..... Kess' spiderlings can crawl their way up. We also have a good number of Xelu's spiderlings with us. It was easy to smuggle them here as the temple is a bit away from civilization. So, have our forces with a small number of Kess' spiderlings go in through the front with us. While we are doing that a huge force will climb the cliffs as Xelu's spiderlings cause choas from above. 

Only thing left is to get started. Already have a layout of the place. That shit should be sitting on the top of the weird leaning tower sticking out of the stone temple. We need to make sure to capture all of them though. All of the members of the main temple are here at the moment but, if even one escapes, their slave crests will become an obstacle to agreeing with our orders. They have a good amount of orders inprinted inside them including ones that prevent them from working with outsiders...

I have a group of mages that I borrowed from Drun set up a barrier to prevent any type of teleportation. Seeing as they worship crows, they may have some sort of thing that could allow flight so I will leave of couple dozen of Xelu's spiderlings to keep them out of the air. Have to be quick. After the barrier is set up We'll rush these fuckers. The Crows are not know to be strong or magically inclined. Instead they are slippery bastards. 

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I rush along with my subordinates as the barrier is erected. Hordes of metal spiderlings flow forward tearing down any sort of defense. They are having a little trouble actually catching anyone but, after they start laying web throughout the whole area they start catching preys. The subordinates I brought along have very strong defenses and good movement techniques. Very little offensive capabilities though. Although they are not very agile, they can move in ways that helps them corner these slippery fucks. Add on the metallic webbing that's starting to cover the labyrinth-like passageways this mission is going relatively smoothly.

We make our way up the temple capturing more and more of The Crows until we reach the top. The top of the temple is opened up to the skies. Their is a giant staircase that leads to the leaning tower. Close. We arrive after a bunch of Kess' and Xelu's spiderlings have already dealt eith most of the situation. They probably came from the cliffs.... As for Xelu's spiderlings, I can see a couple drow wrapped up in their tentacles. They look terrified as they should be.

So. That just leaves the tower. I lead the way and open a large wooden door. Inside the tower is wooden as well. He must've thought that the place would never be invaded.....

Books and vials cover the floor and walls as a wobbly staircase winds its way up the tower..... I don't want the place to collapse so, I only have Xelu's spiderlings follow along, floating. Walikng up the staircase carefully I eventually make my way to the top..... That was frightening... He must have made this place so that people who are a little hefty will have trouble. I'll engrave my foot into that little shit.

What I see at the top is quite suprising. The place looks to be made of fine wood. Very neatly arranged unlike the bottom, which had books and vials laying about. The main point is the giant multicolored glass 'eye' that looks over a huge distance. Luckily, it can only see far away, otherwise, he may have noticed the spiderlings at the bottom of the cliff earlier.

The shit is sitting in a fluffly couch that looks like it is made of feathers. He's smoking a pipe and just gazing out of the eye. There is no way he doesn't know that I am here due to the 'moderate' amount of noise that I made in my..... Approach..... I see a beautiful skinny girl sitting next to him, gazing as well..... He turns the chair and they both end up facing me. He is..... Old? Not really old but, his hair is starting to whiten. He should be around fifty so that is way to young for something like that. Drow usually have happen when they are at least 200 years old.....His eyes have shades of grey as well. Signs of turning blind.

He smiles wryly as he mumbles something inaudible to me. The beauty by his side smiles wryly as well.

"It's been a while ehh, 'Madam Farblight'. Quite a new title. Though, I guess that nobility will not mean much in the days to come. The days of drow will come to an end. It's just too bad that it couldn't be achieved through our father.... He's a open god though. Won't care if we worship one, two, or a hundred different gods. Sillith. To think that a relative of hers would appear.... Quite spectacular....." Crow leader

What? Relative of Sillith? How does he know some of this information? 

"Hmmmm? Are you confused? More than one prophet has seen what is to come. Most have kept quiet about it though. Whether we work against the flow or accept it, nothing will change..... What will be, will be." Crow leader

"Then why didn't you guys just give up. If you knew that this would happen why fight back." Farblight

"Well..... I'm not a dictator you know. They all chose to fight back with everything they had. All useless though. I gave plenty of warnings but, they just slipped their ears. I do want to see the man himself. Sylphy and me may be able to experience 'love' as well. I do have to apologize for myself those years ago. I was, after all, 'just a regular teenage drow'." Crow leader

Apologize? What has happened to this little shit? My rage. Is being replaced with indifference. I just don't care about it anymore...

*sigh

I guess everythings done on my end.....

Gin Cinder's life has lost its luster it had in his youth. Depression kicking in he decides to end it all only to fail. Under a bridge, broken, he would meet an odd individual that would force on him an alternative future.(Kinda cliche, I know)

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It's been thirty years since it happened but it feels like yesterday....... maybe that's what happens when you've just found out that you can live “FOREVER". 
I can't tell you my name or where am from,I can't disclose where I live......or at least used to live. I am monster yet the disgrace of my clan,I don't drink what they drink. I don't want to be like them,......I want to "die". Isn't that what human beings do? That will never happen,I know for sure. I AM NEVER GOING TO DIE. Maybe I will but this monster in me never will. 
Vampires are strong,scary and practically invincible but not this vampire! She does not like the taste of blood,mirrors, garlic,loves being in the sun and is the disgrace of her entire clan. What will happen to the young vampire who doesn't want to be a vampire.....

She stood by a wall,her shadow resting against the floor. She was about seventeen years old....or was she? She stood six feet tall,red hair, blue eyes and and lush red lips. She was wearing a black net blouse and black tights with black boots. Her whole demeanor was intimidating yet she was harmless. 
Most of her clan drank what she would never drink and do what she would never do. How much she hates the sight of red....used to be her favorite color but now...? How far can she run away from red or the sight and memory of it? She is red headed and her name means red and even her zodiac sign signifies red. This can't be a coincidence or can it? Is this where she really belongs? Is this the life she is made for. Can she really go back to her past life? How much she hates being stuck in two worlds?
She is a rebel in both her worlds,she will hunt you down if need be. But now she can't be so sure,she is weak and starving. She hasn't fed in years and it's wearing her out. She knows she can't stay long without blood but she is determined to starve herself to death. Too bad Vampires can't die....or don't die. How did things go wrong for the red haired Aodh Scarlett Flynn?
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She was born on the 21st of March,an Aries. She is Irish and American. She was born a twin. Her sister Ambrosia Tuesday Flynn was killed by an occult group during Halloween. Strange things aren't strange anymore as even the word is engraved in her story. All this... being a vampire and all. It all started thirty years ago.

Flashback,thirty years ago. 
.........This can't be happening to me-no,not at all. I had my whole life planned out in front of me,I was a rebel-yes but that didn't mean I didn't want a life. A life with Ian,I hadn't gotten my revenge with Arianna. I haven't avenged my sister's death. Too bad am about to join her. Too bad am getting crushed between two walls. The bricks fell and made a wall with a small crevice. I walked through the wall in an attempt to be with the others but it was too late, useless. The wall closed. I was trapped. Forever. 
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Ling Ran brought Lu Wenbin, Yu Yuan, Zuo Cidian, Ma Yanlin, Xiang Xueming, Zheng Jun, and Guan Fei for a ward round for the rooms belonging to Ling Treatment Group.
Ling Ran took the lead, and he was followed by seven doctors who wore white coats. Their presence alone was already very powerful. 
When such a big group of people entered a hospital room, even the most troublesome patients and their families would become polite. 
At the same time, the probability of Ling Ran getting Sincere Gratitude Treasure Chests would be much higher. Ling Ran kept receiving the Treasure Chests as he moved along. He received eight Treasure Chests as he passed through around seventy hospital beds. Many patients had given their Sincere Gratitude Treasure Chests before their surgeries. If it was calculated based on the ratio, since the set up of the Emergency Medical Center, the chances of Ling Ran obtaining the Treasure Chests was as high as 25%.
Naturally, this was the data he obtained after performing multiple ward rounds. If he was too busy and only did one ward round or did none at all, the probability of him getting Sincere Gratitude would be much lower. 
However, the patients who were willing to give Sincere Gratitude were always the minority. Most of the patients would not have such strong feelings. 
As they walked along the ward, they also saw the differences in attitude between patients with mild and serious injuries. 
Patients like Boss Shao were the most obedient. He smiled when he saw the doctors come in. He would even call his son, "Quji, come over and greet the doctors."
"Hi, Doctor Ling, Doctor Lu, Doctor Yu, Doctor Ma, Uncle Zuo…" Shao Quji ran over when he was summoned. He was as tame as usual. 
Ling Ran showed a socially-acceptable smile that everyone wanted to see as the reward. Then, he looked at Boss Shao's hand and said, "It has recovered well. You can be discharged within the next few days."
"Then, I'll ask to be discharged tomorrow." Boss Shao was still quite guarded against injuries and illnesses.
Ling Ran nodded. While he paid a lot of attention to the number of hospital beds available, he still supported the long-term hospitalization system.
If anyone wanted to point out the drawbacks of long-term hospitalization, it would probably be that the costs of the hospital would increase, but that was a problem Ling Ran cared about the least. 
"When I recover, Doctor Ling, you must come to my shop. I'll make you braised bamboo rat." Boss Shao also expressed his gratitude to the other doctors like he always did.
The other doctors also became even more enthusiastic. 
"Boss Shao, you're being too courteous."
"What's the difference between braised bamboo rat and roasted bamboo rat?"
"Boss Shao, you must come often!"
During this period, Ling Ran always stood quietly at a corner. 
He took a chance to look at the Treasure Chests that he had accumulated—there were a total of 129. 
After the Emergency Medical Center was upgraded and they experienced a shortage of hospital rooms for some time, it was unavoidable for Ling Ran's surgical volume to be slightly reduced. 
129 Treasure Chests was actually quite few. 
This figure was more than 128, yet less than 130, and it could even be divided by three!
Such a figure was truly terrible among numbers. 
Ling Ran used his elementary school knowledge to think for dozens of seconds before the scowl on his face disappeared. '129 in the hexadecimal system should be 333, which is a repdigit.'
Although it was not as much of a repdigit as 666, if he considered that 333 was half of 666, Ling Ran felt that he could somewhat accept this result. 
'System, open up all the chests.' Ling Ran made a firm order in his heart. 
Right after he finished speaking, the bright light that came from the Treasure Chests being opened shone in his eyes.
129 Treasure Chests was the highest number of Treasure Chests Ling Ran had ever accumulated. 
After all, he did not have a high demand for the Treasure Chest right now. The real issue that reduced his surgical volume were hospital beds. However, Ling Ran's mindset had been changed tremendously after the appearance of eight silver white skill books. 
Ling Ran directly ignored the bunch of green Energy Serums and opened a book in excitement. 
[Regional anatomical dissection experience: Gained ten times of lower body anatomical dissection experience.]
Ling Ran quickly remembered that he had obtained three regional anatomical dissection experience books before this. One of them was from an Intermediate Skill Book, and it gave him three thousand upper limb anatomical dissection experiences. 
The other two were from when he performed surgery for the South African crybaby. He obtained two one hundred feet anatomical dissection experiences when he opened the Sincere Gratitude Basic Treasure Chests he gave him. 
This time, he had obtained ten lower limb dissection experiences. Although the number had been reduced, his knowledge of the human anatomy had broadened. 
For Ling Ran, the lower limb anatomical dissection experiences obviously included the knee area as well. So, this had direct benefits when he performed knee arthroscopic meniscoplasty. Compared to the feet anatomical dissection experience, which was solely limited to feet alone, the application for this was much wider. 
However, when Ling Ran saw the gray color of the Skill Book, he frowned. 
Then, he opened the second skill book. 
[Regional anatomical dissection experience: Gained ten times of lower body anatomical dissection experience.]
Ling Ran pursed his lips and went to open the third skill book. 
This time, he gained feet anatomical dissection experience.
[Gained one hundred instances of lower body anatomical dissection experience.]
In the end, among the eight Skill Books he obtained, five books gave him lower limb anatomical dissection experiences, while the other three were feet anatomical dissection experiences.
There was not even one book that provided him upper limb anatomical dissection experience.
However, Ling Ran felt that this was pretty reasonable. No essential changes would happen even if he gained ten or twenty experiences after he had already received three thousand experiences for upper limb dissection. But fifty lower limb anatomical dissection experiences and three hundred feet anatomical dissection experiences would clearly be more beneficial for him. 
Ling Ran nodded quietly, and he also claimed the remaining 121 Energy Serums.
He had accumulated 403 Energy Serums, but Ling Ran did not waste any of them. 
Energy Serums could boost his efficiency when it came to how he spent his time and how he used his resources. It was only natural that he had more of such good items. 
"Doctor Ling, shall we continue?" Zuo Cidian asked his leader's opinion in a humble manner. 
It was only then that Ling Ran freed himself from various calculations. He then nodded at Boss Shao before he headed out of the room. 
After Ling Ran checked the last two rooms and the final six beds, he announced the end of the ward round and let all the doctors go back. 
Lu Wenbin and the others left after the order was given, but Zuo Cidian alone stayed, because he wanted to. He lingered a little once he got out of the door before he came back again. He asked, "Doctor Ling, is there anything that's troubling you?" 
"I want to perform a few arthroscopic meniscoplasty cases today," Ling Ran answered honestly and said, "But I don't have anymore hospital beds available for me to perform surgeries."
Although the Emergency Medical Center had been upgrading, and hospital beds had been increased, most of them had not been placed in the wards yet, and even if Ling Ran wanted to use them, he could not. 
Zuo Cidian smiled. "I have an idea."
"What idea?"
"Do you still have Chief Wang's phone number?"
"I still have it, but his knee joint does not need any surgery as of yet."
Zuo Cidian shook his head and said, "It's not for him. My suggestion is that you can perform a patient follow-up for Chief Wang. Then, you can briefly mention your desire for patients, and we'll see how he reacts."
Ling Ran did not understand. "What can he say?" 
"I think, at Chief Wang's age, he will definitely know a lot of people who will need surgeries related to the knee joint. Once you contact him and let him contact others, he should be able to bring over many patients for you in the system." Zuo Cidian did not beat around the bush. He used a calm tone and said, "The people who can form connections with Chief Wang with whatever indirect methods they used will definitely score themselves a hospital bed when they come to Yun Hua Hospital, right?"
"Can they stay at the VIP wards?" Ling Ran saw light. 
"It won't just be the VIP wards, but some of them can even use the hospital beds in the other departments. What I mean is that if you find the right person, they can solve the hospital bed problem by themselves." When Zuo Cidian said this, he clenched his fist. Although his expression spoke of relaxation, in truth, in order to get this idea, Zuo Cidian had thought of this for a long time until his hair turned white.
Ling Ran did not seem to understand him, but this was the most constructive answer he received recently. 
"Then, let's do a patient follow-up for all my knee arthroscopy meniscoplasty patients." Ling Ran felt slight regret when he said this, and the reason for his regret was shown in his next sentence. "My research article might take some time before it can be completed again."
Zuo Cidian was dazed for a moment before he whispered, "Actually, you don't have to be so serious. Chief Wang will understand once he receives your call."
Ling Ran looked at Zuo Cidian in confusion and asked, "Isn't it better if we follow-up on all the patients?"
Once he finished speaking, Ling Ran took out his phone and called Chief Wang. 


Ling Ran, a med school senior, begins to see the world like a game UI. He uses it to pave his way towards graduation, a residency, becoming the greatest doctor in the world... And finally getting a Transformer from his newbie packs? Maybe. We don't know yet.

"That was a whiffed Q, and what a pity—the Skycrown coach was so close to dealing the final blow to Blood Eagle!" Zhang Aijing lamented.
As he slipped out of view, Zhao Tinghua feinted and caused Yu Luocheng's skillshot to miss him. Still enjoying the benefits of the Blue Buff, 'Safeguard' was soon available to him again, and he hopped right back to the same ward he'd placed a moment ago, before continuing to flee back towards his side of the jungle.
Soon, Luocheng had lost track of him completely. He declined to pursue, allowing the miserable wretch to scurry away with his life.
Turning back, Luocheng fired another Sonic Wave into the Golems camp, and promptly resumed farming.
Earlier, when Tinghua used his 'Resonating Strike' on the Golems in order to escape, he was still bearing the shield from 'Safeguard', otherwise they might very well have just beaten those last fifty HP out of him. If he'd gone down that way, it would have been the death of his legend.
Finishing off these Golems would finally allow Luocheng to reach Level 4. He rained a flurry of blows upon the nearest one, while at the same time luring it after him to the junction which opened out to the Bottom lane. Besides protecting against a sudden ambush from Tinghua, it also spared him a few of the Golem's attacks. This was the most painless way to clear the Golems camp.
This sort of thing was common practice in DOTA, but LOL had compensated for this technique so that it couldn't be exploited too much. At most, Luocheng could only reduce their damage slightly by kiting them like this—he couldn't outright mitigate their damage entirely.
By the time the last Golem had been reduced to rubble, Luocheng hadn't lost that much health, thanks in part to the Lifesteal provided by his second-phase W-skill, which helped to recoup some of his lost health.
Now that he'd attained Level 4, Luocheng experienced a sudden bout of indecision.
Which of his skills should he upgrade?
Considering the current state of his health, if he raised 'Safeguard / Iron Will' to Skill Level 2, those skills would quite likely enable him to claim the Red Buff with the health he had left.
Blood Eagle had definitely gone back to base this time: he wouldn't be running around with only a handful of HP left. This was the perfect moment to take the Red Buff![1]
Let's do it!
"What… Is the Skycrown coach really going to try for the Red Buff? With that itty-bit of health he's got, he might just get slaughtered by the Lizard Elder. According to the rules, being executed by creeps also constitutes a loss. If he just gets killed off by a monster…" Qi Qiao watched Luocheng's Lee Sin anxiously.
He really didn't have much health left, and he didn't have Smite. Challenging the Lizard Elder in this condition, it was no different from committing suicide!
Upon the screen, Luocheng's Lee Sin slammed a palm into the ground, starting the fight!
The Lizard Elder lashed out in fury, mighty claws tearing away no mean amount of Lee Sin's health!
Thank goodness for that Cloth Armor, otherwise each attack from the Lizard Elder would be lopping off fifty to sixty health from him, and he'd be down in moments!
"Hoo!" Safeguard!
A damage shield worth eighty HP surrounded Lee Sin, and it would persist for up to five seconds. Sadly, that was barely equal to two of the monster's attacks.
W again: Iron Will!
10% Lifesteal for the next five seconds.
Lee Sin's health was very nearly at zero. It felt as though a couple more attacks from the Lizard Elder would put paid to him.
And yet, somehow, after one skill combo from Luocheng, his health rose back up by no small amount. He'd even mitigated perhaps two attacks' worth of damage!
"What's going on? Lee Sin suddenly got back a whole bunch of HP!" Qi Qiao wondered aloud.
"He used his Level-4 skill point to raise his W to the second tier, which grants 10% Lifesteal and Spell Vamp, so that he's regaining health through his skills as well as his basic attacks. If he goes for maximum damage during the five seconds that effect is active, he can get back quite a bit of his health. Keeping your health topped off while Jungling as Lee Sin relies upon optimal usage of Iron Will," Aijing explained.
Luocheng's low-health Jungling method was another instructive demonstration for the members of the audience. Countless players who favored Lee Sin were realizing for the first time the different functions served by variations in the order of their skill combos.
The Lizard Elder's health continued to dwindle away to nothing. One last kick from Luocheng, and it toppled over dead, transferring its flaming red aura over to Lee Sin!
Effortlessly swatting down the two Young Lizards, Luocheng now found himself at Level 5!
Level 5, and he had the Red Buff, to boot. The next time he caught Tinghua would also be the last!
A smirk lit up Luocheng's face.
"Hah!" Suddenly, a Sonic Wave streaked in from beyond the wall!
Luocheng was in the middle of Recalling, and this sneak attack had caught him completely by surprise! His heart leapt into his throat!
Tinghua hadn't Recalled, after all! He'd anticipated that Luocheng would make a move on the Red Buff!
The audience gave a start at the sight of that Sonic Wave. It seemed to have come out of nowhere!
Luocheng glanced at his health. Five HP left. That one Sonic Wave had nearly slain him with a single hit!
He heard a shout from the other side of the wall. Like an eagle diving straight down from the clouds, he dove towards Luocheng!
Luocheng had truly let his guard down. Unable to respond to the situation, all he could do was watch helplessly.
Tinghua was already grinning. This one kick would end it!
Wham! That was a hit.
Luocheng's Lee Sin fell sprawling to the ground, and the Red Buff changed hands again.
He'd been slain!
Everyone had watched it happen: Zhao Tinghua had taken down Yu Luocheng!
The attack had come too abruptly. No one had expected it!
After Luocheng claimed the Red Buff, he should have been guaranteed to get the kill on Tinghua the next time they met, what with his advantage in levels, not to mention the Red Buff providing True Damage and Slow.
Who could have known that instead of Recalling to base, Tinghua would double back? He didn't even have fifty HP just now… Where did he find the guts to come lay an ambush for Luocheng in that state!
Most unbelievable of all: it had worked!
That one skillshot had found true onto Luocheng. While everyone was still considering how Luocheng had secured the upper hand by seizing the Red Buff for himself, Tinghua had shown up all of a sudden and struck him down!
This outcome had arrived too abruptly, completely unanticipated.
For a long moment, everyone stared up at the screen in a daze.
Tinghua's Lee Sin stood triumphantly over the fallen body of Luocheng's Lee Sin, thoroughly pleased with himself.
A smirk pulled at the corners of his lips. He stole a glance at where Luocheng was sitting.
Despite not saying a word, it was clear that he was declaring his victory!
Luocheng remained fixated on his own screen. He snapped the view back to the Item Shop at the Fountain, unsure of which items to get…
"What a shocking turn of events! A daring ambush by Zhao Tinghua has ultimately won him this solo—no, wait! His Lee Sin is still burning from Ignite!" Qi Qiao had just been about to announce the conclusion of the duel when she noticed this.
Ignite… When was that Summoner Spell placed upon Tinghua?
The smile froze on Tinghua's face. He looked at his own champion, dumbfounded.
Little by little, the damage-over-time from Ignite was eating away at his health, and there was nothing he could do to stop it!
Inconceivable!
Tinghua stared at his screen in disbelief.
"Argh!" With a cry of agony, Tinghua's Lee Sin flopped down to the ground three seconds later, and the scene of his victory was now cast in shades of gray.
"This… this is all too much to take in! Team Skycrown's coach used Ignite on Blood Eagle's Lee Sin in mid-flight! What an incredible response speed!"
Tinghua's Sonic Wave out of nowhere had been impossible for anyone to react to. Following up immediately with the flying kick, he'd killed off Luocheng before anyone even understood what was happening.
But who would have thought that, during those last few milliseconds, Luocheng had managed to set Ignite upon Tinghua?
True, Luocheng's champion had fallen—but Tinghua's was quick to follow suit!
They'd traded kills again!
Apparently, the duel wasn't over yet. It had been a heart-pounding battle so far, with one shock after another as both players demonstrated the very limits of Lee Sin's potential… but it had ended in another draw!
It defied words to describe what a spectacular feast for the eyes this duel between both Junglers had been!
A cheer suddenly arose from the crowd. To the spectators, it would be a shame if an epic clash of this magnitude were to be ended so quickly!
***
Displeasure shone from Tinghua's eyes. He looked over at Luocheng again, only to find him watching his screen indifferently, probably shopping for items.
"This guy…" Tinghua cursed him silently, in his heart.
To be able to throw out an Ignite even in that situation… He hadn't been playing professionally, but his responses were still that sharp. It was downright aggravating!
Everyone else on Team Skycrown had sprouted a few white hairs for Luocheng, but as Tinghua fell to that Ignite, they were all smiles once more.
That's the captain for you. One couldn't help but admire his natural-born reflexes and adaptability.
It was a crying shame that he wasn't playing professionally!
***
"How can that guy be such a bad-ass? It feels like even the Blood Eagle can't keep up with him," Huang Lin of Fudan University remarked.
Lin Siyong didn't take his eyes off the screen. This solo duel had clearly demonstrated to him the truth of Luocheng's abilities. Thinking back to those couple of times when they'd met face-to-face, he now understood why he'd experienced that sense of dread.
This guy named Yu Luocheng was a prodigy to challenge even the gods. He was up against the top Jungler in the nation, and he was soundly holding his own. So this was what he was capable of!
"Head coach…"
"Head coach, you came as well?"
The sudden sound of his teammates' voices pulled Siyong out of his reverie.
Turning around, Siyong spotted a tall man in his mid-twenties heading this way. He was wearing an American-style cap and a heavy coat, giving one the mild impression of foreign cultures.
He had the features of an Easterner, but his style of dress made him stand out from the locals.
Siyong's expression lit up instantly with delight. "Head coach!" he greeted the man reverently.
The man with the American sort of flair nodded in reply. Smiling, he asked, "You lost the match?"
"Yeah, we…" Huang Lin's tone was heavy with shame.
Siyong lowered his head as well.
The guidance and instruction of the man who stood before them was the main reason why Fudan University had been able to accomplish all those breakthroughs. They'd thought that the assistance of this top instructor from America could get them into the LPL, but they'd been defeated in the end.
"I'm not blaming you guys," the guy declared sedately. Looking past the barrier, he watched the solo duel playing out on the screen. "Team Skycrown comprises three world-class pro players. For you to have taken them two games out of five, I'm already overjoyed."
"Three world-class pro players? Coach Li, were there really such amazing talents on Team Skycrown?" Siyong's face was marked with consternation.
"Yup. They've been inadvertently left out of the faulty memory of the e-sports world, and no one's been sparing them any attention. However, in the United States, Korea, and Europe, they still have a great many fans."
[1] Translator's Note: Yes… last chapter, returning to base was forbidden by the rules of the duel—and it was a key point, no less.


When a national athlete of China laughs at the concept of being able to win a gold medal in video gaming, what a pro-gamer like yourself ought to do is take your size-42 shoe and measure it against his pretty face!
When parents, relatives, friends, and all the rest of society scoff at pro-gaming and say it’s not a real job… what else can you do but hold true to your passion for the competitive multiplayer scene, and resolutely turn away from their doubts!
Have you ever thought that it could actually become an official event during the Olympics, perhaps within the next four years—a game of split-second reactions and seamless teamwork between five-man squads, the ultimate test of reflexes and finesse, in an arena where players compete with all their heart and soul… 
This is e-sports!
Let the champions roar ‘Demacia!’ and rock the world to its foundations!

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