All Chapters of The Squalor Bastard Becomes The Gravemarch: Chapter 21
- Chapter 30
108 chapters
The Armored Tyrant Pt 2
With a roar, the commander hurled a thunder spear into the Tyrant’s chest, the blast landing true—fracturing the glowing violet heart. Dark ichor poured like black rain.“Something’s wrong. I can’t feel it dying. We struck the heart! So why…?” Won murmured.Then he looked into its eyes, trying to sense its emotions.“It’s summoning its drones!” he realized. The beast wasn’t done—it was clinging to life, calling its scattered minions back. The drones he had scattered were now regrouping.What the hell?My command only worked on the drones. I assumed it would affect the Tyrant too. But it didn’t!If I repel the drones again to send it back to its place… it migh
God's Plan
Only three Generals had emerged in the nation over the past three decades—until now. Suddenly, three new ones had appeared within a single year. Won observed the girl he had saved earlier, trying to sense whether she was truly a General-ranked Ashen. Yet there was nothing—no aura, no force—just a faint trace of weak energy radiating from her.Far from the camp, the twins conversed quietly by a secluded beach. The rest of the group was unwinding after three intense battles against the monsters. Dinner had been a magical feast, and with Ashen magicians always around, food was never a concern.“Still feeling dazed?” Leo asked, slumping down beside Won.Won shook his head.Leo popped open a beverage can and handed it to him. “Cola—a must after a heavy meal.”
Last Updated : 2025-10-27Read more
Confusions
Even though Won didn’t let it show in front of Leo, he too was troubled by Leo’s concern. Myths and grim prophecies held great weight in their society. They had a way of giving people both hope and the fear that they might actually come true.Now, Won sat on the sand, the waves crashing behind him as he closed his eyes. He wondered if his rank would truly bring chaos into the world.But he doubted it too.I’m not strong enough to end the world… right?I need to understand what I’m capable of first.He summoned his Codex Map screen to see the upgraded results. He hadn’t checked it since he’d passed out after the second battle.
Last Updated : 2025-10-27
Read more
The Wrath of the Vesh Pt 1
The sky ruptured.A spear of lightning cleaved through the clouds above the Ashen camp, splitting the veil of night with a violet blaze. Trees howled as their branches were ripped into splinters. Wind slammed through tents and watch posts. The Vesh had arrived.It didn’t walk into the camp—it bled into it, its body oozing out of a tear in space, limb by twitching limb. Its height rivaled a siege tower, cloaked in writhing veils of shadow that peeled back to reveal bone-pale skin etched with roving sigils. Its arms were too long, ending in claws more like scythes. Its face was less face and more… void, two orbs of electric stormlight locked inside a mask of runes that shifted like puzzle pieces. Then came the drones.Tyrant Drones scuttled from the rift like ants from a dying hive—dozens at first, then hundreds. Thei
The Wrath of the Vesh Pt 2
The Vesh hadn’t moved. Not yet.But its eyes pulsed. Its runes shifted. And then it vanished—teleportation. The next second, it reappeared behind a formation of seniors. One blinked, dropped his blade, and turned on his comrades with wild, glassy eyes.“It’s in our HEADS!” someone screamed. “It’s inside—no, no—get OUT—!”The Vesh lifted one clawed hand and snapped. Lightning surged outward in a ring, blasting half the seniors off their feet. One was flung straight into a rock wall, neck twisting at the wrong angle. Blood sprayed.“Commander!” Orson shouted.“I SEE IT!” Commander Ashen hurled his radiant spear. Chains of golden light shot from the impact, ensnaring a chunk of drones, pinning them in place. “Break their line! I
The Wrath of the Vesh Pt 3
Won’s eyes were locked onto the battlefield. His Sensari was pulsing with alarm. The Vesh reappeared fifty meters north, surrounded by drones that had regrouped into a phalanx. Its core was still hidden behind layers of rotating sigils—but it was faltering. Weaker. Overexerted.“We can’t catch it,” Won replied, spinning his star-iron wire into a controlled coil. “We have to corner it. Burn its energy down.”“Then get ready to bleed,” Leo said, rejoining them. His clothes were torn, blood staining his left sleeve. “Because it’s not going down until it kills one of us.”Suddenly—Boom.A radiant figure detonated between the Vesh and the drones.Aviva.
Last Updated : 2025-10-29
Read more
The Wrath of the Vesh Pt 4
The world was collapsing. The Vesh’s self-inflicted wound had become a rift in the fabric of the Veyne—an imploding wound in reality, sucking all matter, light, time into its core. Trees bent like straws. Ashen combatants were dragged screaming toward the vortex. Some gripped rocks, others clung to one another, blood and debris spinning past them like comets.Won wasn’t flying—but he wasn’t standing either. The ground had no meaning. Gravity buckled beneath him, and he floated in a disorienting spiral. The Vesh hovered at the center of the collapse, jagged and mangled, its body deconstructing rune by rune, its voice a thousand-layered chant tearing through everyone’s heads.“Join me in the dark. Come, and forget the pain.”“NO!” Blossom shouted, stabbing her blade
Just Got Lucky?
Won was thrown backward, crashing into a twisted piece of stone. For a second, he couldn’t hear. Couldn’t move. His Sensari was static. His thoughts were gone.Then—Silence.The storm disappeared. The fold in the Veyne’s space smoothed. Gravity returned. Reality settled. And the Vesh collapsed, its colossal body hitting the scorched earth like a fallen god. Black ash drifted up from its remains. The runes across its body faded, their last glow retreating into the soil. A soft chime rang out in Won’s head.[You have slain the Vesh.][You have acquired: Vesh’s Arcane Core.] [Boons may be claimed or divided.]But he didn’t move.Bec
Heroes
“Why do you think the Vesh was here?” Blossom asked, breaking the moment. “Why now? They don’t just wander into camps, do they? Especially it’s sith ranked veyne, vesh is an even higher ranked creature.”“It wasn’t a coincidence,” Ashen replied grimly. “The Veyne is shifting. Something deeper is stirring—more Vesh-level threats, possibly worse. This… was a probe.”A cold chill passed over the group.Won looked out at the remains of the battlefield. The scorched runes. The bones of trees. The stillness.And something in him… changed. He’d survived the Vesh. So had his team. But the fear that had ruled him since the start of this journey—the fear of being weak, of being nothing more than a flintshade orphan—It cracked.Somethin
The Funeral’s Disaster
The day we were supposed to attend our first class of the academic year was delayed by three days after they cleared the Veyne. On the third day, every student sat in rows facing twenty nine coffins, the ones who had been sacrificed in all the Veynes that had appeared that night.Orson and Won arrived late; they had been summoned for the fourth time in three days to report on what they had encountered in their Veyne. Both were dressed in black. Won took the seat beside Leo, whose eyes fell upon the badge on Won’s sleeve, the emblem dedicated to the martyrs.“You are wearing it wrong,” Leo murmured, gently adjusting the badge.“Thanks,” Won muttered back.“Why do they keep calling you two?” Leo asked quietly.“Probably because