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Let me begin by telling you how much I hate cliches and Happy ever after's.

Cinderella, getting the prince with love at first sight, snow-white, and her Prince with love’s first kiss…who’s gonna tell these fools that real life doesn’t work like that and don't even get me started with the so-called heroes.

It's almost like the world is blind, and my four-eyed self(making sure to clean my pair of glasses before putting them back on) is the only human that can see that:

Villains are the true masterminds, the ones with the goals, the only people who see the world as it is- an apple for the taking.
That's why my motto is: Life is short and I, Ray, should always come FIRST.


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Unlike the cute facade Ray puts up in front of his mother: the only person he cares about, Ray is anything but cute. He sees the world he lives in a little differently and he intends to change it. Unlike others vying to become heroes, he embraces the villain he knows himself to be and the absolute ruler he hopes to become.

In a high-tension world where superhumans exist alongside mutated beasts with powers of their own , there is a huge gap between heroes and villains.
Apart from the different grades(F-A) powers are divided into, they are also classified into two main groups. Propensity for good( Hero-like) and Propensity for bad(Villain-like). This means that the power each person can awaken directly affects how they are treated and which organizations and groups they can join.

At fifteen, Ray’s life doesn’t go according to how he planned it.
Not only is he unable to awaken his powers but caught in the crossfire of a huge battle between a hero and a villain, his life lingers at the brink of death.
Just before his soul escapes his body, he gains a death-related system that not only changes his looks and body but also the way people view him.

Regardless, Ray doesn’t care. His sole purpose is *world domination* even if he has to bring the world to its knees first.

At first, he tries to join hands with a villain organization his father belonged to when he was alive, to take down as many heroes as he can as his powers slowly grow to balance the gap between the two groups. But when he discovers how shallow-minded other villains were to each other and themselves. 

Almost at the cost of his life, he finds a way to upgrade his system and ventures out on his own, building his army from scratch, using the very souls of the mutated beasts the human race is daily battling to defeat.

Art by B3RKZN
*This art doesn’t belong to me*

A Villain's Guide to World Domination

They continued to walk mostly in silence through what Ray assumed to be paths that led underneath the arena, and finally, Ray could no longer keep silent.

"Where exactly are we headed? Shouldn't we have gotten to the entrance by now?" He asked in a clearly annoyed and greatly impatient tone, even as he continued walking doing his best to show just how confident he felt, regardless of the nudging wariness he felt towards the attendant.

"Just a little more and we'll be outside," was the instant reply he got, but from the slight sharpness of the attendant's voice, it was obvious that he was lying and a terrible liar at that.

The next moment, Ray came to a sudden stop, showing his unwillingness to go any further, going as far as to turn to the side to show that he was prepared to turn back, only to watch as multiple people dressed in black suddenly darted out from the shadows to block his way back.

"Mister Ray, it would be best if you followed me,"

Best Served Cold