MTL - The Poor Monk Cultivates a Way - Chapter 380 Koan

The sky was painted gray forever. The light of the sun was restrained. The darkness of the night was deeper than ever. At such a time, he belonged to a class people didn’t even recognize as ’human’. He was at the bottom of the social stratum, a slave. And when his only family was taken away from him... he no longer had a purpose in life. Yet, he clung to life because of his promise. And he set an impossible goal for himself, just so he’d have an excuse to live. When he finally reached a place he never expected to be, in pursuit of a purpose he expected to fail and die miserably trying to fulfill... he awoke to a night that would change his entire life. He was an insignificant fly, a mere speck in the destruction of the Empire. But he... survived. And, despite being a slave, he gained the blessing of a king. Or rather, the curse...

“I have to squander; otherwise, won’t it be a waste of my parent’s talent at earning money?” Hong Dali answers a reporter’s question matter-of-factly.

Just after the interview ends, Hong Dali opens the Great Prodigal System’s interface and looks at the various good stuff displayed in it. Stroking his chin, he mumbles to himself, “I just need to squander 200 billion yuan more to exchange for the blueprint of the core technology, Engine Destruction, found in the strongest humanoid mecha weapon, Neo Granzon. Looks like I’ll have to work harder!”

“I want to splurge! I want to squander!”

Peter Orion lived for books, until the day he died clutching one. But death wasn’t the end. When he opened his eyes again, he was no longer an ordinary reader. He was reborn into his favorite light novel, Darkness of a Hero.Not as the destined hero.Not as the fearsome villain.But as an extra, the youngest son of a ruined Baron family, a side character fated to die early and be forgotten.But Peter isn’t willing to die a second time.Gifted with the mysterious Dimensional Library, a boundless archive of lost knowledge and forbidden tomes, Peter gains the power to reclaim what his family has lost and carve out his own destiny.[The Dimensional Library is active]A new volume appears on the First Shelf.Title: “Basic Mana Flow”Condition: [Unread]But the Library wasn't just a tool he could use to get stronger, it was a dangerous structure, and the deeper he gets, the more changes he sees inside the library and in the world.follow as he uses knowledge and skill to deal with issues in his world and beyond. will he master the library, or will his search for knowledge end up consuming him.Discord: https://discord.gg/hMVtZ3da

A part-time job contract. He became the cold CEO’s imitation boyfriend. He merely wanted to earn a few small bucks and live a comfortable life, but a pity, he was in constant turmoil since then. Well, life had something else for him despite his wishes.“That… beauty, will there be an increase in wages for conversion from ‘boyfriend’ to ‘husband’?”

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