MTL - Painting of the Nine Immortals - Chapter 111 Encounter a strong enemy

They say Knowledge is power. This was the truest fact; something Adam built his empire around.

He wasn’t always this rich. He wasn’t always this powerful. There was a time he too struggled to earn enough for the treatment of his sick and dying mother.

Yes, he still remembered that day, that Halloween Night. The starry sky under where his life turned anew, changing for eternity.

Follow Adam’s Gospel; a young man juggling between different duties with only two goals.

Becoming rich, growing powerful.

At level 2, most people unlocked their first talent; those who didn’t were considered fortunate, as they had the potential to unlock rarer talents requiring higher levels. The world’s most rare and powerful talents were revealed at level 5. But what if someone didn’t obtain a talent? Luck quickly turned to misfortune as they were labeled talentless, with no hope of gaining a talent. Sol was one such person who was unable to unlock his talent, but he refused to give up. He persistently fought and trained every day, slowly increasing his level despite the disadvantage in skills. He held onto the hope that, one day, he would be bestowed with a talent like everyone else. As years passed, his determination began to wane until one fateful day. You have leveled up! +5 Free stats. Talent Unlocked - [Siphoner]! This event marked the beginning of his story.

The world that nurtured the civilization which reached the pinnacle of magic was on the verge of destruction.
The last survivor transmigrated to the past, when the magic civilization started growing, as countless mages were still fumbling their ways through the thorny paths of magic knowledge.
He, who came from the end of the magic era, aim to reach the pinnacle of magic.

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In 2120, a massive gateway that connects Earth with the Otherworld replaced the Aels boulder in central Australia. The Earth, representative of science, and the Otherworld, representative of magic, subsequently made contact and two wars broke out. Both wars inflicted enormous damage on both sides, eventually leading them to choose peace negotiations, and thereby marking a thirty-year era of peaceful exchanges between Earth and the Otherworld.Even though both sides chose to coexist peacefully, they each coveted the other's benefits. With the impending arrival of the third inter-world war, Earth's Otherworld combat General Staff Headquarters decided to secretly dispatch an advance team to the Otherworld to conduct pre-war reconnaissance.As a hybrid of Earthlings and Otherworld elves, Luoer, after secretly studying and training for over twenty years in Haiya Academy, which specializes in cultivating hybrids of Earthlings and Otherworld inhabitants, will soon lead his squad into an exciting adventure in the unknown Otherworld.Swords and magic? No, this is a world of guns and magic!