A Practical Guide to Sorcery - Chapter 22: Sympathy & Defense

A surgeon accidentally got the blessings of a system, shocked the medical industry, and rejuvenated countless people.

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Follow Benjamin Joyce, an elderly man with a passion for blacksmithing who spent his life travelling the world and learning new things. Now, after helping out the developers of the first ever real VRMMO game, he gets the chance to play said game earlier than the majority of other people.

Noah Carter wasn't special. A broke programmer working from his cluttered studio apartment, he spent his days applying for jobs, getting rejected, and scraping by with low-paying freelance gigs.One ordinary Tuesday, while debugging code at 3 AM surrounded by energy drink cans and ramen cups, Noah accidentally broke reality.He didn't mean to... it just sort of... happened.A system message appeared, floating in his vision. The Idle Tycoon System had chosen him. His first shop: a small bakery in a Magical Medieval world where demons, dragons and half-humans exist.Every sale generated automatic income, day after day. Every new world unlocked new opportunities.Noah brought it all back to Earth, selling what he could, keeping what he couldn't. One shop became two. Two became a hundred. A network spanning dimensions, time periods, and realities—all generating income while he slept.Countless years later, Noah raised his head from his pillow and realized something unexpected. The broke programmer who couldn't land an interview had become the richest man in the universe!

Born different than his kinds, he was shunned by his own tribe, regarded as an ill-omen that would bring a disaster to the tribe.Humiliated, shunned, and some even tried to kill him.Even the world outside didn't welcome him. The human out there wanted him dead because of his tribe's nature to plunder and kill.The beasts regarded him as a prey to fill their belly, and the other monster races regarded him as a pest they must get rid of.To survive in a place where he was rejected, he must carve his own place with his hand.Follow his journey in the world where everything was measured in levels and skills to find his place, a place where he belonged in this vast world.