MTL - Start with a Mechanical Hunter - Chapter 9 give you a dog's life

The year is 2025. A devout Christian named Arthur Bennett wins a lottery to participate in a revolutionary virtual reality experience at a high-tech company called Elysium. The program utilizes a unique VR pod to immerse users in a world based on a popular anime.As the other participants—a mix of personalities with varying degrees of anime knowledge—prepare to enter the simulation, Arthur remains the only one who has never indulged in anime. Upon entering this new world, he discovers an unsettling truth: pain is excruciatingly real, despite the creators' claims of a dampened pain response.He eventually finds himself trapped in prison, unable to log out, and demanding to be released from the program. Calls go unanswered, and the world of ninjas becomes a nightmare where hunger, thirst, hygiene, and even death are all real.Angered that he was deceived, he abandons all sense of logic and vows to become a villain no one would have ever anticipated.

He became a teacher at the best magic academy in the empire.
….For being mistaken for someone else.

Li Chang'an is reincarnated into a Cultivation Immortality World, becoming a Loose Cultivator in a Marketplace after failing to be selected by an Immortal Sect.His talent is mediocre and his status is low. Just when he thought longevity was a hopeless dream, he awakens the [Daily Divination] system.[Today's Divination · Auspicious]: You go into the mountains to chop wood and unexpectedly discover a fox den. Inside the den, you find a Jade Scroll containing a “Talismanic Inheritance.”[Today's Divination · Inauspicious]: You are targeted by a Tribulation Cultivator who is trying to lure you out of the Marketplace.[Today's Divination · Greatly Auspicious]: In the Marketplace's trading area, you discover a “Profound Water Turtle” egg with a mutated bloodline. Its actual bloodline strength is comparable to an Earth Grade Spirit Beast, yet it is being sold as an ordinary Beast Egg.[Today's Divination · Greatly Inauspicious]: The Marketplace's Array Master colludes with the enemy, causing the Marketplace's Array to be broken. A Foundation Establishment Great Cultivator is about to slaughter his way into the Marketplace, and your life is in danger.

Humanity’s first 8th Class Mage.

Betrayed, he traveled back 30 years into the past.

The story follows Ian Page, archmage and the first man to break through the 6th class, then through the 7th and become the most powerful mage, an 8th class mage.

After a lifetime of war and killing, the continent was finally unified thanks to his efforts. Now, old, his wish is to live the rest of his life in peace and try to find salvation for all the blood he spilled. However, his old friend, maddened by paranoia, couldn’t tolerate someone so powerful, so he betrayed Ian and killed him.

In his last breath, he cast a time magic that allowed him to travel back to when he was a young boy. With all the knowledge he previously had, he decided to do things better so he could end with less regrets.