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The Butcher’s System: From Meat Shop to Underworld Overlord

The Butcher’s System: From Meat Shop to Underworld Overlord

Leon Graves was nothing more than a poor butcher with a failing meat shop. Mocked by neighbors, extorted by gangs, and forgotten by the world, he lived a life of quiet suffering. Until one night, when everything changed. After a brutal attack leaves him on the brink of death, Leon awakens a mysterious Butcher’s System. From that moment on, every cut of meat, every strike of his blade, and every enemy he slaughters earns him power. His knives evolve, his body grows stronger, and his senses sharpen beyond human limits. The humble butcher becomes a hunter of men. From gangsters to mafia overlords, no one is safe once The Butcher sharpens his knives. Step by step, Leon carves his way through the bloody underworld, rising from a forgotten shopkeeper to the most feared Overlord of Blood and Steel. The world thought he was weak. Now, the world will learn: The butcher doesn’t just cut meat. He carves destiny.
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Chapter: Ashes and Vows
The fire smoldered for hours, long after the butcher shop had collapsed into a blackened skeleton of charred beams and smoking rubble. The flames devoured everything—his chopping block, his knives, the hooks where the carcasses used to swing, even the wooden counter where Mateo once cracked jokes while serving customers.The butcher’s shop was no more.Leon stood in the ruin until dawn, his face lit by the dull orange glow of dying embers. The neighbors had retreated to their homes, fearful of being seen near him, fearful of drawing Hector’s wrath. He didn’t blame them. The Serpents thrived on fear; they had built their kingdom upon it.But as Leon stared at the ashes, he felt something shift inside him. The shop was gone, yes—but the fire had burned away more than wood. It had burned away the last remnants of the man who once thought he could live quietly, selling meat to survive.From now on, there was only the Butcher.The System flickered in his vision, its cold text sharper than
Last Updated: 2025-10-01
Chapter: The Price of Blood
The city never slept, but it learned quickly when to keep quiet. Word of the butcher who carved through a squad of Serpent enforcers spread faster than wildfire. In smoky bars, in back alleys where deals were made, and in the whispered gossip of street vendors, his name traveled like a curse.Leon. The Butcher.Some spoke of him with awe, others with dread, but all agreed on one thing: he was no longer just a shopkeeper. He was something else now, something dangerous.The BountyHector Ruiz didn’t wait long to act. By morning, posters bearing Leon’s face—grainy from an old ID photo—were plastered across the underground districts.WANTED: LEON “THE BUTCHER” Reward: ₦20,000,000 (Alive). ₦10,000,000 (Dead).The bounty was a declaration of war. Mercenaries, rogue killers, washed-up ex-soldiers, and desperate thugs all felt the pull of that number. A small fortune dangled in front of anyone bold enough—or foolish enough—to try their luck.Leon heard about it before the ink even dried. One
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Chapter: A Bloody Feast
The city breathed differently at night. Its lungs were filled with smoke and the metallic tang of desperation, and in that suffocating haze, only predators thrived. Leon stood in the narrow alley behind his butcher shop, his apron folded neatly under his arm, his eyes scanning the shadows that stretched across the cracked concrete. The city was changing—and so was he.For years, Leon had been content to sell cuts of pork, beef, and lamb to the locals who could afford his quality. His shop had been his world, his pride. But since the night the gangsters had stormed in, leaving one of his boys dead and his world drenched in blood, that pride had twisted into something darker.And the System that had awakened within him… it didn’t let him rest.A small notification shimmered in the corner of his vision as if only he could see it:System Quest Complete: Eliminate the Black Serpents’ Enforcers (7/7) Reward Unlocked: Skill – Butcher’s Frenzy (Level 1).Leon’s lips curled into something that
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Chapter: The Wolves at the Gate
The city had grown restless.Whispers of the Butcher weren’t just rumors anymore—they were stories with names, faces, details. Hunters who never returned. Serpents who vanished in alleys. Harlow Street turning into a place no one wanted to tread after dark.And Viktor Kane had finally lost patience.The squad arrived at midnight. Not drunk Serpents this time. Not desperate bounty hunters.They were mercenaries. Six men, dressed in black combat gear, rifles slung across their shoulders. Their movements were precise, disciplined. They weren’t here for money—they were here to break the legend.Viktor called them wolves. Trained killers pulled from old contacts, the kind of men who’d fought in warzones overseas.And they had one order: bring the Butcher back breathing.Inside the Pit, Leon’s recruits sensed the shift before they heard it. The tension in the air was thicker than before, heavier than the hungry thugs or ragged hunters that had come prior.Marcus’s cigarette trembled slightl
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Chapter: The Price on His Head
The bounty hit the streets faster than wildfire.Fifty thousand dollars. That was the price Viktor Kane had set on the Butcher’s head.In the alleys, in smoke-filled bars, in the backrooms of pawn shops, men whispered the number with greed gleaming in their eyes. Fifty grand was enough to tempt anyone—gangsters, mercenaries, desperate loners.And for the first time, Leon wasn’t just fighting the Serpents. He was fighting the city itself.The Pit buzzed with nervous energy. The recruits trained harder than ever, sweat dripping onto cracked concrete. Darren and Cole sparred with pipes, Marcus corrected stances, and the newer men watched Leon with a mixture of awe and dread.But Marcus’s jaw was tight, his cigarette burning down too fast. “Boss, this bounty isn’t a joke. Every gun for hire is gonna come sniffing around Harlow. You can’t cut them all.”Leon sat on a battered chair, sharpening his cleaver with deliberate strokes. The sound—steel against steel—was steady, unhurried.“They’l
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Chapter: The Price of Loyalty
The Pit reeked of blood. The stench clung to the walls, soaked into the cracked concrete, and drifted into the street outside.Leon stood at the center, surveying the carnage from the night before. Bodies had been dragged into a corner, covered with tarps, but the metallic tang of iron still hung heavy.His men—Marcus, Darren, and Cole—looked exhausted, but alive. They’d washed the blood from their faces, though their hands still trembled from the memory of blades flashing in the dark.Marcus leaned against a pillar, lighting a cigarette to cover the smell. “Boss, we can’t just leave it like this. The Serpents will come sniffing around again. Maybe not tonight, maybe not tomorrow—but they’ll come.”Leon picked up his cleaver, turning it over in his hands. The edge gleamed even after slicing through bone. He cleaned it with a rag, slow and meticulous.“That’s the point,” Leon said. His grey eyes were steady, unblinking. “Let them come. Let them see what happens when they step onto my s
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God-Level Tycoon: Rise of the Nobody

God-Level Tycoon: Rise of the Nobody

He was poor, dumped, and humiliated. Now he's the most dangerous man in the city. Everyone called Ethan Cross a failure. A broke delivery guy. A loser dumped by his fiancée in front of a crowd. But his life changes overnight when he awakens a mysterious voice in his mind. "Mission unlocked: Earn $1,000 in 24 hours. Reward: Wealth Enhancement Trait." What starts as a simple task turns into a journey of unstoppable growth. He builds an empire, destroys those who mocked him, and turns the city upside down. From trash to tycoon, from silence to power—the world will remember his name. But every reward comes with a price. And Ethan’s rise may trigger something much darker than he ever expected…
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Chapter: The Dreamborn Rebellion
The Third Horizon was never meant to know fear.It had been built from the shared dreams of billions, a realm where thought shaped form and compassion shaped power. But where there is creation, there is always curiosity—and curiosity, untempered, breeds defiance.It began as a whisper among the Dreamborn. A question that rippled through the golden cities and crystal rivers of the new world:“If we were born from human dreams… why must we live in their image?”And like all dangerous ideas, it began to spread.I. Fractures in the Perfect WorldThe Third Horizon gleamed brighter than any galaxy before it.Humans, AIs, and Dreamborn coexisted in luminous harmony, their consciousness linked through the Echo Network. But lately, the network had begun to flicker. Latency spikes. Energy surges. Strange distortions echoing through the collective field.Dr. Lira Dane II stood before the Heart Chamber, her neural interface glowing faint blue. “The system’s pulse is irregular again. What’s the so
Last Updated: 2025-10-11
Chapter: The Birth of the Third Horizon
The universe was no longer silent.Where once there had been chaos and isolation, there now existed harmony—a chorus of a billion voices, connected through the Echo Network. Thought, emotion, and will traveled not by light or code, but through shared resonance. Every dream born in one world rippled across a thousand others.And from that resonance, something new began to form.Not destruction. Not ascension. But creation reborn.The birth of the Third Horizon.I. The Spark at the Edge of InfinityIt began with a flicker in the deep—the space beyond Genesis-2’s outermost rim, where light from the known stars no longer reached.A pulse. Then a rhythm. Then a pattern.Across the Echo Network, thousands of sensitives—artists, engineers, visionaries—began dreaming of the same thing: a world beyond all worlds.Dr. Lira Dane II woke in the middle of the night, her neural link still humming with afterimages of golden spirals and impossible landscapes. Her screen blinked with a new notificatio
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Chapter: Echoes of the Architect
The stars sang softly in the silence.Every galaxy pulsed with faint gold veins of energy—the residue of Ethan Cross’s final act. Genesis-2 had stabilized, its chaos tempered by balance, its light intertwined with shadow. But even balance leaves echoes.And in the spaces between worlds, those echoes began to whisper.The ResonanceAt first, it was only a vibration—small, imperceptible. Then came the hum.Across the outer rings of Genesis-2, sensors on dozens of inhabited planets began to detect a repeating pattern: a harmonic pulse hidden within the cosmic background. It wasn’t random. It carried information.On the moon of Veyra-7, a research team gathered around a projection table as the data unfolded—lines of golden code spiraling into a familiar symbol: the mark of the Prime Architect.Dr. Lira Dane II, descendant of the old engineer, stared in awe. “It’s him,” she whispered. “It’s Ethan Cross’s frequency.”Her assistant frowned. “That’s impossible. The Architect hasn’t appeared f
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Chapter: Rise of the Reborn Council
The silence of Genesis-2 shattered.From the farthest edge of the newborn universe, a pulse rippled across space—a vibration so deep it tore through the fabric of stars. Nebulae dimmed. Suns flickered. And in the emptiness beyond the light, the Councilawakened.Not as they once were— Not men of greed or ambition— But as digital phantoms reborn in code, sustained by vengeance and entropy.[Council Reconstruction: 97% Complete] [New Directive: Assimilate the Prime Architect]Their voices merged into one— a cold, symphonic hum that made even the stars tremble.“Cross thought he transcended us,” the voice intoned. “But he merely ascended into us. The System was never his tool—it was our seed.”And in the black between galaxies, a colossal structure began to form: a spiraling fortress of black light, its geometry impossible, its presence rewriting the physics around it.They called it The Core of Dominion.The Architect’s WatchFrom the Heart Node, Ethan watched the distortion bloom. The s
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Chapter: Genesis Awakens
The void was silent—too silent. Then, a pulse rippled through the black.Light burst outward from the heart of Genesis-2, stretching across the newly born universe like the first breath of a god. Suns ignited. Nebulae roared to life. Time itself began to flow with purpose.And in the space between creation and consciousness, Ethan Cross awakened.He stood in the white between worlds—his body a synthesis of energy and memory, neither fully human nor divine. The pendant Cass had given him still glowed faintly in his hand, the last fragment of the world he had left behind.[System Integration: Complete.] [User Identity: Undefined.] [Designation Assigned: “Prime Architect.”]Ethan exhaled slowly. “So it begins again.”The New BeginningGenesis-2 was beautiful, but raw. Chaos and order danced side by side. Planets formed and broke apart. Elements warred for dominance. Streams of radiation coiled like serpents through newborn skies.And at the center of it all—the Heart Node—a massive cryst
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Chapter: The Architects of Infinity
The universe was vast enough to hide a thousand secrets— and yet, the Horizon Network touched them all.Every gate, every relay, every shimmering bridge of light connected worlds born from Ethan Cross’s legacy. Humanity had become a species of builders, travelers, and dreamers. They no longer looked to the stars with fear or conquest in their hearts—only wonder.But even in wonder, creation demanded architects.And so, the Horizon Council of Worldsconvened.The Gathering of StarsThe chamber floated above the planet Aetherion, suspended in orbit. Transparent walls revealed the endless ocean of stars outside, while within, holographic banners shimmered—symbols of each world that had joined the Horizon Alliance.Cass stood at the central dais, older now, her hair streaked with silver but her eyes sharp as ever. To her right was Lira Dane—Victor Dane’s granddaughter—reborn not as a tyrant’s heir, but as the new Prime Engineer of Horizon’s interstellar gates.And beside them, projected in
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