The Tempting Educated Youth Married to a Rough Man - Chapter 43: Not Even a Stroke of Fate

One day, I – a high schooler – found a paperback in the hospital. The “Disease Coexistence Journal” was its title. It was a diary that my classmate, Sakura Yamauchi, had written in secret. Inside, it was written that due to her pancreatic disease, her days were numbered. And thus, I coincidentally went from Just-a-Classmate to a Secret-Knowing-Classmate. It was as if I were being drawn to her, who was my polar opposite. However, the world presented the girl that was already suffering from an illness with an equally cruel reality…

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Ding![QUEST: Defeat the Abyssal Realm Lord. Grimzark, The Dread of Tyrant.]DESCRIPTION: The Abyss Realm was once under the rule of Goddess Zyraena, but it fell into darkness when the Fallen God, Grimzark defeated it's guardian and took control.OBJECTIVE: Reclaim Goddess Zyraena's realm.Reward: Hidden Class, Gold Coins, Experience, Legendary Weapon, Return to Earth ,REUNITE WITH YOUR MOTHER Etc.Time Limit: None.Penalty for Failure: Death.You will be transported to the Abyss Realm in 5..4...3...Han Seojun is frail and barely more than skin and bones from a life of poverty, was raised by his hardworking mother with no knowledge of his father. At 18, he inherits the Ancient Infinite System, a power passed down for generations from Goddess Zyraena, The Former Echidna (Goddess of Monsters).Over five months, the system transforms his weak body and improves their lives. Just as Seojun is about to take his dream veterinary exam, he's suddenly summoned to the Abyss Realm, a brutal world where only the strong survive.After 500 years of Endless battle with his Guardian Cerberus named Huno and Hydra named Silla, Seojun finally reclaim the Realm.Ding![Congratulations Host! You have max your level! LV. 999,999]Ding![You have obtained a Hidden Class: SSS-Rank Abyssal Tamer.][Title Acquired: Lord of the Abyss]Upon returning, 5 years had passed since his dissapearance and finds the world transformed. Dungeons and monsters are rampant, and people now possess skills and classes granted by a system called global system Where Earth transformed A Game into Reality.People granted is known as the Awakeners and Seojun, protected by his Infinite system, rejected the global system. He is classified as a glitch—a Non-Awakened by the Global System but his level just reset to 1.

When you were six years old, after watching a martial arts movie, you put your hands into the rice pile and imagined that you were practicing iron sand palm.

When you were seven years old, you were the first to greet a stranger in the new semester, and you felt that you were the diplomatic spokesperson for your class.

When you were eight, you could tell it was your parents coming home just by hearing footsteps, so you thought you had a good ear…

……

What will happen when the fantasy of secondary school when you were young becomes reality?

Ji Ruo stretched his hands into the rice pile—

[Congratulations to the host child for unlocking the achievement of Martial Dao: Iron Palm Mi Nei Shen! 】

[Acquired Martial Skill: Iron Sand Palm (first glimpse of the door)]

[The skill level can be repeatedly obtained by activating the proficiency. Heaven rewards diligence, host children, come on~]

Ji Ruo’s mouth twitched, he felt that his achievement system was not normal.

After thinking about it, Ji Ruo picked up a small wooden stick and walked to the rice field not far away…

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