As William had suspected, his uncle was trying to contact him. It was already late at night. William woke after the heavy rain finally stopped. He reached for his smartphone and saw that it was three in the morning. Since he had only just turned his phone back on, all the notifications appeared at once. Among them were several missed calls from an unknown number. At first, William had no interest in finding out who had called him. Then another message arrived from the same number. The sender claimed to be his uncle. Just as William had expected, his uncle was trying to act friendly first. Even the words in the message were overly sweet, almost sickeningly polite. William didn’t bother reading much more. His fingers moved across the screen, and he blocked the number immediately. He didn’t want anyone from his uncle’s family contacting him again. He also had no interest in hearing from his father’s relatives, who had never treated him well from the beginning. The only relatives

William immediately raised his index finger to his lips and quietly signaled Evan to stay silent and observe what happened next. “Tell me, why do you want to kill me? How dare you! Damn you!” the woman shouted as she continued kicking and hitting the man’s legs. “Because I’m sick of you, Aileen! I know you have a lot of money, coming from a family that has everything. But you always act like you’re better than me. You embarrass me in front of my friends, and you…” “You’re only saying this because your father is bankrupt now, right? You owed me a million dollars yesterday and you spent it all on gambling, right? You want to kill me so you don’t have to pay your debt, right? Bastard! I accepted you for who you are and never questioned your financial situation. I even forgave you for getting close to other women. But this is how you repay me? How pathetic you are!” shouted the woman named Aileen. The argument suddenly became dangerous when the man picked up his knife again. Aileen scr

“William, stop embarrassing us. Don’t you feel sorry for us, your uncle and aunt?” William snorted at his aunt’s words. They had always used the same tactic on him, making him feel guilty whenever he refused to obey them. They would twist the situation until William started believing that he was the selfish one, then use that guilt to get whatever they wanted. “So, I’m the one who’s wrong now? Am I wrong for stating a fact? Besides, why would you come all the way here if you weren’t asking me for money? I already know what happened to you. You went bankrupt because you couldn’t manage the business. That company was built by my father through years of hard work. He gave everything to that company and devoted himself to making it successful. But you came along and complained that it wasn’t fair that my father could succeed while you couldn’t. My father was kind enough to take you in and even give Uncle a position in the company. But what did Uncle do in return? He worked with my father

William finally caught his breath as he found himself back in his bedroom. His heart was still pounding, and he could hardly believe what had just happened to him. He lowered his gaze to the sword in his hand. The flames that had surrounded the blade in Etheria were gone, leaving the weapon looking completely ordinary. “Can you keep this sword?” William muttered. [Sword stored] William immediately felt relieved when the sword disappeared from his hand. He ran his fingers through his messy hair, still struggling to accept the fact that he had just fought and killed a real monster. He had thought it was a game. Just a game. Nothing more. But everything in that strange world had actually been real. [You yourself thought it was a game] “Oh, that’s right.” William ruffled his hair again. He had genuinely encountered a real monster and killed it with his own hands. “That was… fun,” he muttered, a smile slowly appearing on his face before he chuckled. The bedroom door suddenly op

Celine was only around twenty-three, but she already had enormous ambitions for her career, and those ambitions were what had pushed her to the position she held today. Even so, she didn’t consider herself successful yet. She believed she was still young and had plenty of time to achieve something much greater, so she continued working toward her goals instead of becoming satisfied with what she had already accomplished. Celine was ambitious, but she was also a serious young woman who had no interest in using dirty methods to get ahead. She wanted to succeed because of her own abilities, not because she was willing to compromise herself for someone else’s approval. Unfortunately, just the previous day, an influential man had approached her with an offer that made her disgusted. He promised Celine a successful career if she agreed to sleep with him. He said he would give her expensive gifts, plenty of money, and even invest millions of dollars into Hayper Entertainment if she became