A Tale of Blades & Blood - Prologue

On the night before graduating from university, Wu Xiaoyin’s children’s shoes lost consciousness amidst the sound of big sales from his classmates, accompanied by the expectation of a new life.
Unexpectedly, what I saw when I woke up the next day was a colorful giant tiger.
What’s more, this beautiful giant tiger has a scene of turning a living person into a living person.
Frightened Wu Xiaoyin’s children’s shoes, who had just woken up gorgeously, fainted, so the big tiger dragged the little female Wu Xiaoyin’s children’s shoes back to the tiger’s den, and went to give birth, haha!

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Search keywords: Protagonist: Wu Xiaoyin, Lei Lu ┃ Supporting roles: Kos, Feng, Bin, Xiao Kai ┃ Others: Beastmen, Farming, Tianwen

- Description from novelbuddy

Balthazar was just a random giant crab enjoying his life in a fantasy world full of bothersome human adventurers, but then he had to go and accidentally discover the secret of attributes and levels. And also pie. With baked goods and coin as his new life goals, he turns to the competitive business of trading the random junk adventurers loot every day.Follow Balthazar as he does everything to find a baker... except leave his pond, because exploring the dangerous world out there is for suckers. Witness how adventurers just can't seem to stop dying around his home. And cheer for a crab who makes great new friends by simply buying them.Book 2 is out now, with new chapters every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, fresh off the bakery!What to expect from this story:- No harems, not unless they're a harem of gold coins.- Silliness, lots of it. The story doesn't take itself too seriously, so you shouldn't either.- The only kind of OP here is how “overpriced” the crab's deals are.- A system simple enough for a crab to use, but still conveniently complex when necessary, for some odd reason.- Proper realistic adventurers: they're not very bright, and they make very poor decisions.- Did I mention there will be pastries?

Bestselling author Elias Vayne has spent years writing stories to escape the horrors of his past. As a child, he was the sole survivor of a massacre that wiped out his entire orphanage. He doesn’t remember how he survived—only that when the slaughter ended, he was the only one left standing.His latest work, The Arcane Academy Chronicles, takes place in Veylin Academy, a prestigious school of magic and combat. But one night, after finishing the final chapter, Elias wakes up inside his own book—not as the hero, not as the villain, but as an extra. Worse, he’s been reborn as Kael, the very same orphan who survived a similar massacre in the story.But something is wrong. The academy isn’t as he wrote it. Characters are acting off-script, unknown forces are rewriting events, and the mystery surrounding Kael’s survival mirrors the one in Elias’s real life. The more he tries to regain control of the narrative, the more he realizes this world may not be his creation at all.

Left out during the elementary school picnic.