Master Smith Under Ministry of National Defense - Chapter 167: System

A conversation with a handsome stranger leaves Ariane chained in a cellar with a strange affliction. She soon discovers that the darkness of the nineteenth century’s Deep South hides many dangers. Mages, wolf shifters and the humans who hunt them play a risky game where to stumble is to die, all under the amused gaze of the apex predators of the supernatural world: vampires.

It is never healthy to attract the gaze of the aristocracy of the night. It takes much to survive in this merciless world, but Ariane will not let that deter her. The southern belle has a bite, and she is willing to learn and to grow in this hostile new world. She will use whatever means necessary to reclaim her freedom, be it guile, charm, or those intriguing new instincts that make blood so delectable.

This is a story of vampires as I believe they should be, with their strengths and weaknesses, with their remnants of humanity and the beast inside. Updates every Friday. Mind the tags.

Cover by Antti Hakosaari: https://www.artstation.com/haco

Special thanks to Svensonsen for getting me started, as well as Omi Nya, Hesketh, Rhaegar, Yaksher, Selkie and Raven for proofreading my stuff. Thanks to my patrons and you dear readers, for the support. I could not do it without you.

Journey is on Amazon, both in ebooks and audio. here is a link to the first one:

https://www.royalroad.com/amazon/B08DK6G8Y8

The story probably exists in your local marketplace as well of I can tempt you.

“When everyone scorned me because I was merely a woman, I kept convincing myself: ‘Actually, you can give it a try.’” – Fang Feng Sheng

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There was a famous saying in officialdom: there is no yamen without Shaoxing.

She was the only descendant of the Fang family, the most prominent family of private advisors in Shaoxing.

A calamity broke the Fang family apart. Her father was implicated and put to death, and she cut her way through thistles and thorns to prove her name.

However, walking down this path, she discovered that there were things beyond her imagination.

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Zong Yue knows that he could marry Fang Feng Sheng because he had blocked all her paths of retreat. But it doesn’t matter—one day, the person will become his, and so will her heart.

- Description from Novelupdates

[Choose 1: kneel down and ask for reconciliation, you will get the “Sunflower Collection”]!

[Choose 2: Kiss her, you will get the “Jade Girl Heart Sutra”]!

[Choose 3: Immediately turn your face, break up immediately, you will get the “Northern Underworld Magical Art”]!

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The seal of time and space in different dimensions is broken, the creatures of different races invaded, the demons and beasts swept across the sky, the city fell, and the human race was in crisis!

[Choose 1: Awaken, hunt for time! Anti-kill alien creatures, kill no less than ten martial saint-level alien leaders, you will get “Supreme Bloodline: Desolate Holy Body”]!

[Option 2: Go with the flow and hold on to the waves! In the face of aliens, if you choose to survive, you will get the “Innate Fortune Pill”]!

[Choose 3: A small amount is not a gentleman, no drug is not a husband! In the face of the fierce alien race, capture the human race and sacrifice the alien race to survive, and you will get “Xianshu: Steal the Heaven and Change the Sun”]!

Chen Luo: “I choose one!”

Wake up, hunt time!

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Through the world of Gaowu, Chen Luo started a new journey from the choice!

- Description from novelbuddy

My grandfather is very eccentric, performing daily rituals of offering incense to himself, standing in front of his own spirit tablet and eating candles.Villagers are fearful of my grandfather.I am fearful of him too.Later, I discovered that what they were afraid of was not my grandfather, but me.Even grandfather is afraid of me....My name is Chen Shi.The Chen of honesty, the Shi of sincerity.