Dungeon Of Pride Laplace

[!]: SYSTEM START: Ancestral Resonance Cultivation Ascension Nexus (ARCAN) [!]: Genre: [Hunter System] x [Weak-to-Strong] x [Cultivation] [!]: Objective: Survive the Gate. Sow the Seeds. Build the Empire. --- Rome D'Angelo is a One-Star Hunter with twenty-one essence points, thirty thousand dollars in debt, and a survival instinct that borders on suicidal. His life is a simple, three-step cycle: 1. Fight monsters far above his pay grade to keep the lights on. 2. Nearly die in the process. 3. Get patched up by Kiona Tsukimori, a Three-Star healer way too talented to be wasting her mana on him. She thinks he’s an idiot with a death wish. He thinks she’s the most beautiful woman who’s ever yelled at him. It’s a match made in whatever circle of hell spits out One-Star dungeons. But when a routine raid turns into a Double Dungeon slaughter, Rome makes the ultimate gamble: he sacrifices his arm to ensure Kiona’s escape. He expected death. Instead, he got a voice in his head. [ SYSTEM INITIALIZED. CLASS: SOWER ] Rome has awakened a power that defies the laws of the Hunter world. He doesn’t just level up by hoarding strength; he ascends by cultivating it in others. The catch? His growth is tied to forging deep bonds with "S.E.E.D.S"— people with latent, world-shattering potential. And his first compatible target is the very healer who just watched him die. Now, every date is a quest, every touch is cultivation, and every shared heartbeat brings them closer to godhood. Rome just wanted to pay his sister’s tuition. Now he has to survive monsters, guild politics, and a harem of dangerous women who might just be the death—or the making—of him.

Three years ago, Qing Zilong was the genius hawk, the pride of the clan, whose wings were cunningly broken by Wang Li's poison. Living a life scourged by suffering with completely ruined meridians, Zilong was humiliated by many young members of other clans. However, an accident became a blessing for him. In the deepest darkness of the Black Mist Forest, Zilong's death blood instead destroyed a one-million-year-old ancient jade seal. A seal imprisoning the soul of Su Qian, the legendary former Sword God from the Immortal Realm who chanced to be betrayed by the alliance of the Gods. Qing Zilong was dead. Yet from the remaining ashes of his life, Su Qian took over the body. With a Dantian reforged by ancient purple Qi and bones formed into a perfect sword vessel, the Sword God was ready to restart his steps from the mortal world. "A blood debt must be repaid with blood... Touching Zilong... Is the same as touching me, SU QIAN, the Peerless Sword God!"

Good things come to those who wait. For Matt and Emmy Millar, the adage could not have come true at a better time. They’ve waited long enough. Snagging a deal on a property, the couple set out to build the house of their dreams. Designing it from the ground up, the couple sacrificed their time, savings, and most of their income for the foreseeable future to see the plan through. When the day finally came, the Millars, together with their two daughters – Gina and Jean, eagerly moved in to their brand-new house. All’s well that ends well. For the Millars, this was not the end. It was only the beginning. After holding a housewarming party, Matt and Emmy swelled with pride, with a sense of accomplishment. The house was a testament to how good they were together. A validation of all the hard choices they had to make to provide a better life for their children. This was the first, significant step. A true beginning. It was only the beginning of something else too. Warning: The book contains foul language, graphic sexual depictions, sexual innuendos, and graphic depictions of violence. Not for the faint of heart.

They laughed when Ethan Cole fell. They filmed his humiliation like it was an entertainment. They called him nothing. Worthless. Finished, and Forgotten. Even the woman he loved stood beside another man and watched him break without a word. But Ethan Cole was never what they believed. Behind the silence. Beneath the betrayal. Something had always been waiting. Not just a man. A system. A reckoning. A king who was never meant to stay hidden. Now he’s back. Not to plead. Not to explain. Not to forgive. But to take everything back. Piece by piece. Name by name. Empire by empire. They will lose their power without ever seeing the hand that takes it. Their pride will collapse before they understand the rules have changed. Because Ethan doesn’t fight battles. He ends them before they begin. And by the time they realize who he truly is… He has already rewritten their entire world. The forgotten heir is rising. And this time, no one will survive the truth.

"You’re just a house husband, Riley. Harry needs me more than you do." For three years, Riley swallowed his pride and hid his unmatched brilliance in biochemistry to turn his wife, Sophia, into a corporate powerhouse. He managed her home, sacrificed his own health, and quietly supplied the patents that made BeeBio Pharmacy a billion-dollar empire. But when a terminal brain tumor threatens his life and a catastrophic earthquake brings the city crumbling down around them, Sophia abandons him in the rubble to save her manipulative Vice President. Miraculously surviving, Riley’s eyes are finally opened. He's done playing the devoted, submissive husband. He signs the divorce papers and walks away, taking his genius with him. Now, as Riley steps back into the light to reclaim his rightful place at the top, Sophia is about to discover a devastating truth: her glittering empire was built entirely on his back. And without him, she is nothing.

"A coffin?" Alex mocked, his laughter echoing through the hall. "For me? You should’ve brought one for yourself, lunatic."Alex Carter’s cruel smirk wiped clean with a blade to Charles Carter’s screams as he loses more than just his pride, Jack is a man on a mission."You laughed at me when I was down," Jack says, his voice calm but cold. "But now, you’ll remember my name—for the rest of your short lives."Once, Jack Sullivan was a name whispered with respect and fear—the legendary commander of the Iron Wolf Battalion. But a devastating betrayal left him broken, his memories shattered, and his enemies triumphant. Reduced to a mentally impaired shell of himself, Jack became a laughingstock, mocked by his in-laws and dismissed by the powerful elites of Havenwood. "They called him a fool, a servant, a man broken beyond repair. Now, they’ll call him their worst nightmare." But Jack isn’t a fool anymore. His memories have returned, and so has his unrelenting thirst for justice.

For three years, Adrian Hale endured every humiliation as the Sterling family's worthless live-in son-in-law. He cleaned hospital floors, suffered insults from doctors and patients, and watched his wife treat him like a stranger. Yet Adrian swallowed his pride for one reason, his younger sister, Lily, the only family he had left. When Lily's leukemia worsens, Adrian desperately needs $500,000 for her life-saving surgery. But the Sterling family refuses to help, his wife ignores his calls, and the hospital director deliberately makes his situation worse. Then, unable to pay her medical bills, the hospital throws Lily out. Moments later, Adrian finds her dying outside the hospital. As Lily takes her final breath in his arms, Adrian's tears turn to blood—and awaken the jade pendant his family has guarded for generations. An ancient physician's legacy enters his mind. The Divine Physician System has awakened.

For years, Kellan swallowed his pride to live under his wife's family roof, mocked and dismissed, treated like nothing. He told himself it was worth it because he loved Vivian. Then she proved him wrong in the cruelest way possible. She kisses another man right in front of him. Insults him in front of everyone who ever looked down on him. Stands by laughing as her lover throws money in his face like he's a beggar. Kellan says nothing. He simply walks away. What none of them know is that the "worthless son-in-law" they've spent years humiliating is actually the missing heir to a fortune that could swallow their family whole, and he's done hiding. One by one, everything Vivian's family built starts to crumble. And when a woman who wants nothing from him but the truth walks into his life, Vivian realizes the husband she destroyed might be the one man she'll never get back. He was never as weak as they thought. Now they're about to find out just how strong he really is.

Bryan, a reckless youth in modern-day Chicago, hates werewolves for taking his mother and brother. Raised a man called Pa. Clever, he survives as a hired hunter, unaware that he carries the blood of the most feared Alpha — Lord Amark, his father. When captured by Owen, his mother’s brother and ruthless hunter leader, Bryan is forced to work under Mayer, Owen’s sharp and disciplined second. Their reluctant partnership grows as Bryan’s hidden power begins to surface. Meanwhile, Amark’s brother, Pheles, reveals that Bryan’s twin, Bruno, is alive. The brothers reunite with rivalry and pride, but are bound by blood as Amark returns. After Pa. Clever’s death, Bryan’s grief triggers his first full transformation, terrifying friend and foe alike. The climax comes when Amark confronts his sons. Bryan and Bruno fight him, but in his final moments Amark reveals mercy, not rage. With Mayer’s shot, he falls, blessing his children before dying at peace. Pheles becomes Alpha, with Bruno and Bryan as Betas, and Chicago finds fragile calm. But as the wolves mourn, a mysterious howl pierces the night — warning that the story is far from over.

Ten years ago, Kael Draven was the pride of his family and the brightest genius in Emberfall Town. At just eight years old, he had already climbed to heights other cultivators only dreamed of. Everyone said he was destined for greatness. But one failed breakthrough shattered his future. His cultivation collapsed, his talent vanished, and the boy once hailed as a prodigy became the family’s greatest disgrace. Branded a waste, mocked and beaten by his own kin, Kael endured a decade of humiliation with nothing to show for it. Everything changes the night he discovers a strange black seal hidden in the Elderstone Hall. When his blood awakens the Dragon Seal, a shadow of a dragon roars to life, and the truth is revealed—Kael carries the Desolate Sacred Body, a physique both feared and revered. Cursed to demand endless energy yet blessed with limitless potential, it is both his greatest weakness and his greatest weapon. With the Nine Cycles of Samsara carved into his soul and the Dragon Seal at his side, Kael’s path begins anew. The family that scorned him will learn fear. The rivals who mocked him will kneel. And the world will remember the name they once spat on. He is no longer trash. He is the War Dragon.