THE REAL PROTEGE - Chapter 29: HOLD TO SLEEP

Lin Qian once thought the man she wanted would be handsome and formidable, able to “create clouds with one turn of the hand and rain with another turn” in the business world, causing her to look up to him in admiration. There would be nothing he could not accomplish.

'Divinity Online'. The new breakthrough in the Full-Immersion Virtual Reality technology. After decades of work, Divinity Corp had achieved the impossible. Creating a massive video game world that people can enter and live in as if it were Earth. Their goal was clear, to create a world other than Earth that we can call home.A place where the laws of reality vanish, and the true ceiling of power shifts completely.Naturally, the shockwave Divinity Online created across the entire globe was unlike anything else. Every single person has heard of it, even those who have had no interest in video games before.Giant corporations and even governments immediately rushed to start planning to invest in this new world and just like that, billions of people had their eyes on one single date: the 19th of July.***Arthur, like everyone else, had heard of the game and was as excited as everyone else to try it, if not even more. With how much he grew bored of his life on earth, this fantasy world was like the divine call he had been searching for. However, there was a very small problem.He had no money to buy the machine required to access Divinity Online. His wretched life had turned him into a broke teenager with no parents, and no relatives. But, by some kind of luck, he got his hands on one of those machines.Not knowing what was awaiting him in that world, Arthur was simply seeking one thing... A new opportunity in life and to find a purpose he could work for when he had none so far.[Welcome to 'Divinity Online'.][Assimilation Started...]

Peter Orion lived for books, until the day he died clutching one. But death wasn’t the end. When he opened his eyes again, he was no longer an ordinary reader. He was reborn into his favorite light novel, Darkness of a Hero.Not as the destined hero.Not as the fearsome villain.But as an extra, the youngest son of a ruined Baron family, a side character fated to die early and be forgotten.But Peter isn’t willing to die a second time.Gifted with the mysterious Dimensional Library, a boundless archive of lost knowledge and forbidden tomes, Peter gains the power to reclaim what his family has lost and carve out his own destiny.[The Dimensional Library is active]A new volume appears on the First Shelf.Title: “Basic Mana Flow”Condition: [Unread]But the Library wasn't just a tool he could use to get stronger, it was a dangerous structure, and the deeper he gets, the more changes he sees inside the library and in the world.follow as he uses knowledge and skill to deal with issues in his world and beyond. will he master the library, or will his search for knowledge end up consuming him.Discord: https://discord.gg/hMVtZ3da

It was the turn of the 20th century, and in the Philippine Islands, the fledgling Philippine Republic waited to be crushed by the overwhelming superiority of the American colonial forces.But John McClain, a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean and Vietnam Wars, dies and finds himself in the body of the governor of a remote Philippine province in the year 1898. Initially reluctant to take up arms against his former country and skeptical of the chances of success, he eventually decides to fight for the Republic.Now living his second life as Martín Lardizábal, politico-military governor of Marinduque and armed with modern military knowledge, he will change the course of the Philippine-American War.