Nurturing the Hero to Avoid Death - Chapter 20.3

CONTENT WARNING:/This novel contains mature themes, explicit sexual content, strong language, and adult situations. Reader discretion is advised./---She ran from the devil who raised her…And married the one who wore a crown.After her parents’ tragic death, Lydia Andreyevna’s life became a nightmare. Stripped of her name, inheritance, and freedom by her uncle—Lord Alexander—she was treated like property and promised to a Count four times her age.Desperate to escape, she fled into the cold night… and straight into blood.A stranger. Wounded. Beautiful. Terrifying.She should’ve left him.But she didn’t.She touched him once—and fate branded her forever.Her uncle caught her the next morning. Her escape failed. But when she begged Queen Olga for protection, the Queen offered her a deadly bargain:Marry the masked Grand Duke of Zolotaria.The king’s hunting dog. The butcher of the East. The devil in a crown.The man feared by kings.The heir to the throne.The same man she once saved.Ivan Romanov.They say he bathes in blood. That he kills without blinking. That he conquered kingdoms with a smile behind a mask. That no one sees his face—and lives.Some call him the devil. Others call him Death’s favorite son.But behind the mask is the same man she found dying in the dark.The same voice that haunted her dreams.The same hands she once held.Now, he’s her husband.Her jailer.Her obsession.She doesn’t know if she’s his prisoner, or his weakness.Cold and untouchable, Ivan doesn’t share his bed. Doesn’t share his secrets. But she sees it—the hunger in his eyes. The pain in his silence. The way he looks at her like she’s the only thing keeping his demons at bay.She should fear him.She should hate him.But the moment she dares to take off his mask… it’s already too late.Because Ivan wants her—her fire, her body, her heart.And in his world, what he wants, he keeps.Even if it means burning down the kingdom.She thought she was running from hell.She ended up in his bed.And the most dangerous thing of all?She doesn’t want to leave.

[Warning! Contains Strong Violent, Gory & Explicit Scenes!]Dravin died to escape a miserable life, only to be reincarnated into the body of a talentless trash in a world filed by dimensional gates leading to other worlds and dimensional monsters.During the University’s public awakening ceremony, he awakened the lowest possible talent registered in the Astral Soul Talent Codex: an F-rank Astra Soul talent, becoming the laughingstock of the entire academy.As despair, humiliation and shame threatened to consume him, a mechanical voice suddenly rang through his mind:[Ding! 10,000x Cultivation Multiplier System Activated!][You practiced (Basic Void Breath Meditation Technique) and have absorbed Void Energy][Ding! 10,000x Multiplier has been triggered!]Instantly, his cultivation speed increased by 10,000 times surpassing the speed of those even with S-rank Astra Soul Talent!————————[You practiced the [Basic Cleaver Technique][10,000x Multiplier Activated!Congratulations on mastering and advancing it to [God Slaughter Cleaving Art!]]While others spend decades in grueling meditation, Dravin achieves breakthroughs in a single breath.While geniuses grind and practice take years to improve their mastery of techniques, Dravin masters them with a single swing![You absorbed a drop of genetic serum.][10,000x Multiplier Activated!]Congratulations on advancing your [F-Rank Talent] to the [SSS-rank!]Armed with a system that defies all logic, Dravin's path to power was easily paved!Mocked for his trash talent? He evolves it into a divine entity that can resurrect the dead and drown gods.Laughed at for his slow cultivation? He reaches the pinnacle of power before his peers even finish their first year.Challenged by arrogant geniuses? He crushes them with techniques they can't even comprehend.But the system's greatest gift is its most unpredictable: the Lottery.With each spin, Dravin has a chance to win treasures that could alter the fate of the universe.From winning the egg of a forgotten [Legendary Void Dragon] to a fragment of a lost god's divine core.Follow Dravin as he transforms from being a joke into to a Cosmic Fiendgod!He will hunt down dimensional behemoths, explore ancient ruins that hold the secrets of the gods, and build a legend that will echo across countless dimensions!

After being fired from his job due to a baseless accusation and dying while trying to save a girl from a robber, Maximilian is reincarnated into a world where caped heroes and superpowered villains clash in the streets.Disillusioned by a life of injustice and unrewarded good deeds, he vows to live for his own satisfaction. Armed with the Greatest Villain System—a golden finger that promises to make him the most feared villain in history—Maximilian sets out to embrace his dark side.First Mission: Beat up innocents.An old, retired hero thanks him for preventing a terrorist attack.Second Mission: Destroy a hero monument.Maximilian ruined an unlucky villain career.Third Mission: Beat up a famous hero.A detective hero praises him for exposing a criminal’s crimes.System: “Maximilian, are you messing with me?”Maximilian: “I’m innocent!”Several heroes who think they’re privy to the truth: “Maximilian, you are the most selfless hero we’ve ever met!”Maximilian: “I’m a villain, you idiots!”As Maximilian struggles with his new life as a villain and tries to prove his villainy, he uncovers numerous conspiracies within the new world’s government.Will Maximilian be able to prove his villainy? Or will he be remembered as the greatest hero of all time!?

The story begins with the last day of Yggdrasil, a popular online game which is being quietly shut down. Our protagonist Momonga decides to stay in his beloved game until the last moment, so waits for the forced logout. Unexpectedly, the server does not shut down and Momonga is stuck in a skeleton avatar in another world. “The powerful Overlord” needs now to discover the new world and face the continuous challenges that arise.