The Decaying World - Chapter 36 - 31: Change (Part 1)

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Reborn in the world of One Piece, I, Karl, was granted a unique “Gacha” System. Every five years, I get to smash a golden egg and pull a legendary prize.At age 5, I pulled the [Infinitely Evolving Monster Body]. As long as I keep eating, I keep getting stronger. The seas would soon fear another monster like Big Mom.At age 10, I pulled the [Sealed Mystical Spear]. A weapon capable of converting my stamina into a beam of pure light, capable of annihilating anything in its path.At age 15, I pulled my greatest prize yet. A card from another world... the legendary [Blue-Eyes White Dragon]!At age 20... the world was no longer ready for what I would become.My legend begins in the East Blue, but my destination is the heavens. They call me a pirate, a monster, a king.But my true title is... The Dragon Knight.

Rejected at birth for lacking Ka, the divine essence that flows through all living beings, Alioth seemed cursed from the very beginning of his new life.When the heavenly kingdom of the gods collapsed, the world was consumed by Azoth: an abyssal fog that mutates every living thing it touches.Humanity's last refuge became Caelestia, a colossal floating citadel built amid the ruins of the gods' former home.Here, lineage is everything. Those who possess superior Ka can demand absolute obedience from the weak. Without it, one becomes fragile and unable to wield magic.But Alioth harbors a hidden gift, born from his past life: the power to bestow names drawn from the myths of his old world.Zeus, Odin, Excalibur, Gáe Bolg. Everything he names acquires the legendary traits of its mythical counterpart.But will this power be enough to survive and decipher the mysteries of this world?Alioth doesn't know yet, but he's determined not to waste his second chance.

Kai of the Sorcerer’s Tower is one of the last mages left, barely surviving in a world ruled by creatures of the dark — where the era of mages ended, and most of the lands got contaminated with dead mana. To save his world and fulfil his master’s last wish, he put himself through a forbidden ritual, risking his soul being ripped into pieces to make his way into the past. In an era with abundant mana — an era yet to enter the Golden Era of Magic. Things go wrong, of course, as they always do, and he finds himself thousands of years before the world fell to mana contamination — in the body of a young lord, Arzan. All is not well, though, as the young lord was murdered by someone right at the cusp of a beast wave threatening the territory, while larger threats loom on the horizon. There was a lot to do for Kai to regain his former strength in this time of primitive technology, but then again, he might just be able to change that.