I WAS The Rank–1 Hero - Chapter 105: A Soothing Pause

The path of a demon lord is not one to tread lightly when the very world you turn against you. Very few could walk this road without losing their way.On Ryuji’s first day, he and his class get summoned to another world. The moment he arrives the entire class is given power from the goddess of light, Lumina.However, the calamity star appears affixed to Ryuji, and he faces a dangerous and unknown future. The red star's existence warned of the rise of a demon king and the coming chaos to the world.In order to survive and fight against this fate, he gained the class [Berserker] a tool for him to survive in this world.Despite a warm welcome, the obvious happens, and the king asks them to aid them against their enemy, the current Demon Queen. However, the kingdom is keeping something secret from the heroes.With a beautiful fox maid, Ryuji lives his life without constraints. If he wants to help, he helps. If not, he won’t. Armed with a colossal axe, Ryuji revels in the thrill of battle, relishing the opportunity to crush his enemies, regardless of their size!“Tell me. Why do you attack the demons without reason if you desire peace?”

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Tinsley Rutherford's life turns upside down when her rich parents are killed in a tragic car accident. To make things worse, her fiance suddenly breaks off their billion-dollar contract marriage engagement.

Sad and lost, Tinsley goes out one night to drown her sorrows in alcohol and meets the mysterious and handsome Kian Wilson at a bar. To her shock, she wakes up the following morning in this handsome stranger's arms. In her panic, she flees his house and leaves him to search for his mystery princess.

What happens when these two fated strangers meet again? Will they get a second chance this time, or will Tinsley make a run for it again?

HE WAS SUPPOSED TO AWAKEN A POWER. INSTEAD, HE AWAKENED NOTHING.Louis Lee is the son of two legendary Earth Defenders, but when the superpower evaluation test reveals that he's powerless, his world crumbles. Mocked, abandoned, and broken, Louis becomes a target in a world where strength is everything.But fate has other plans.When a devastating alien invasion shatters the city, Louis is abducted by the same monsters that once killed his parents.Subjected to a brutal experiment, Louis is implanted with a living alien core, a weapon to annihilate humanity at once but instead the core grants him incredible powers making him, half human and half monster.But now, Louis is Earth's only hope of defeating the invaders, but the more he uses the core, the more it mutates him, transforming him into something far more scary.

Starting from today, I am retired. But what should I be doing? I neither have the skills, nor the mind to do business, my only advantage is this pair of hands which have taken this world. What a headache…

Note: The usage of the term “retired” here doesn’t mean retiring from old age, work etc. It’s a specific term to refer to not involving oneself in the affairs of a certain society.

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