The Place You Called From - Volume 1, Chapter 2: Fleeting Summer

Marcus was a rising star in finance, until his boss's petty revenge left him fired, and near broke. The woman he loved was gone. His future was a joke, his life adrift, and with nothing left to loseHis only way out was Dominion, the world's first true VRMMO, a game that promises to become humanity's second world, where in-game gold translates to real-world wealth. For Marcus, it wasn't a game; it was a desperate last chance to rebuild his life and support his sister.But on the day of character creation, the system glitched.While other players were assigned random stats, Marcus was given the impossible: Maxed-Out Base Attributes and a legendary, unchangeable Luck stat of 20.The system tried to fix him. It failed.Now, Marcus doesn't play the game. He exploits it. Armed with a broken skill that reveals every secret and a drop rate that makes him instantly rich, he is the statistical anomaly the developers never accounted for.

In one moment, he was walking down the street with his little sister—In the next, he had traveled to the world of One Piece, carrying a system that could extract, record, and fuse genes to cultivate powerful lifeforms.Thus began a leisurely and carefree life in the most chaotic world imaginable.When bored, he’d snatch a bit of heavenly tribute meant for the Celestial Dragons.When curious, he’d raise a few cute kittens and bunnies just for fun.When restless, he’d wander through the territories of the most fearsome powers in the New World.Life is beautiful—so why bother taking anything seriously?

Tanya Sinclair was devotedly in love with Vincent Hawthorne for fifteen years, only to be in vegetative state on the day of giving birth.Meanwhile, Vincent Hawthorne whispered softly in her ear: “Tanya, never wake up again, you have no value to me anymore.”She thought her caring and loving husband had nothing but endless aversion and exploitation for her.And the pair of children Tanya Sinclair fought to give birth to sweetly call his beloved 'mother' at her bedside.Tanya Sinclair's heart was utterly broken. The first thing she did upon waking up was resolutely demand a divorce!However, after the divorce, Vincent Hawthorne realized too late that his life was already filled with the shadow of Tanya Sinclair, and this woman had become his habit.When they met again, Tanya Sinclair appeared at a meeting as a leading pharmaceutical expert, her brilliance drawing all eyes to her.This woman, who once was so utterly devoted to him, now wouldn't even spare him a glance!Vincent Hawthorne thought she was just still angry, convinced that as long as he spoke, Tanya Sinclair would certainly come back, after all, her love for him was ingrained.But later, at the engagement banquet of the new Family Head of The Pierce Clan, he saw Tanya Sinclair in a luxurious wedding dress, joyfully throwing herself into Declan Pierce's arms, her eyes overflowing with love.Vincent Hawthorne was driven mad by jealousy, his eyes red as he crushed his glass, blood spilling everywhere…

BLURB> He was reborn by mistake. Raised with purpose. Loved by a god. Worshipped by monsters. And the galaxy doesn’t stand a fucking chance.Irvine’s soul took one wrong turn through the wheel of karma and woke up in a body grown by an intergalactic hivemind goddess with boundary issues and galaxy-sized ambition. Now he’s the golden child of a psychic swarm that feeds on control and burns whole worlds for affection.With Crystal at the helm, warriors like Kimchi, relic-weapons like Kiya, and a council of psionic horrors eager to call him king, Irvine must choose what kind of god he wants to be.Because when a hivemind learns to love......it doesn’t know when to stop.The universe will kneel—or get devoured trying.SYNOPSISIrvine didn’t ask to be reincarnated, but the cosmos had other plans. And it didn’t hand him a cheat code or a clean slate—just one random boon, selected by an uncaring divine roulette wheel.Good karma? Bad karma? Balanced as all fuck.Now he's reborn in the body of a psionically tuned alien hybrid, raised from psychic infancy by Crystal, the hivemind queen of a race so advanced they’ve abandoned individuality for shared omniscience. All except her baby boy.Irvine is the singularity inside the swarm, the first soul allowed to think, dream, and desire independently. Trained by warriors like Kimchi, advised by bio-symbiotes like Kiya, loved ferociously by hive sisters like Diane, and shadowed by powers ancient and unnamed, Irvine is both weapon and wielder, saint and sacrifice.But empires don’t run on hugs and handjobs. As Crystal expands her dominion—across star systems and sentient nebulae—Irvine must lead the charge through blood, fire, and psionic flame.His soul is still human. His body? Engineered for extinction. His heart? Not entirely his anymore.