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A mad man has torn down the gates of the underworld. The malicious abyss is alive, and it stares back...

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Zero, a crippled and one handed teenager with a drastically grim outlook on life, has been granted a deadly second chance.

Attacked and killed by a mysterious power, Zero wakes up again to find himself in his body that was close to becoming a corpse. Beside him, he finds a scroll with a hefty task and the eyeball of a dead god once known as the Yanluo of hell.

"Consume the eye, find the Core of Naraka and begin your odyssey," said the scroll. "You are living on borrowed time. With every full moon that passes, a taste of the horrors of hell shall eat at a bit of your mortal soul. Till you are a slave to your own flesh." 

Seeing these words, Zero wished to be dead once more.

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Cultivatiors are gods in this world corrupted by darkness, looked upon by the common people as figures of holiness. Yet they are far from that.

Tainted by their desire to touch the realm of immortals and break from the cycle of Samsara, cultivators are worse than the demon kind.

When word gets out that the god of hell has passed, killed by an unknown power, the cultivation world goes into chaos. Finding the power source of hell, the Core of Naraka, would mean becoming a deity.

Now who wouldn't want to become a god?

The immortals in the realms above and below have chosen their pawns; hell's power is far too grand to pass on. 

A dangerous game is about to unfold.

Follow Zero, an ordinary mortal. A pawn piece picked by the realm of hell itself to walk the tumultuous path of the dead, face crazed cultivators and immortals, challenge gods and bring down monstrosities of hell.

Son of Naraka, choose your class and break the cycle of Samsara!


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NEW CHAPTERS EVERY DAY! (Only school stuff and emergencies will delay updates.)

TRIGGER WARNING: THIS BOOK CONTAINS EXTREMELY DETAILED SCENES OF VIOLENCE, GORE AND THE LIKE. READERS' DISCRETION IS HIGHLY ADVICED.

Ps. MC doesn't start out a villain immediately. That's a character development that'd take time.

This story is slow paced for optimum development. No, the MC isn't going to start breathing fire or flying instantly. There are no filler chapters. Everything is connected. 

Happy reading!

The Game Of Realms

Disclaimer: This novel is more fantastical and adventure focused than it is on the power system. I tagged it "system" because it has some features in relation to the genre. If you're expecting stats windows and full chapters covered in descriptions of the system and what not, I'm sorry, you won't find it here. For better understanding of the pseudo system in place, I have written this auxiliary chapter.

Yang Power System

Centuries after the Great Nascent wars between cultivators and demons, yang was favoured over yin. The power system of yang cultivators go as follows;

Qi novice stage/Qi master stage/ Qi Expert. Collectively called Qi condensation stage.

Golden core stage. Here, breakthrough occurs, the first tribulation strikes the cultivator and core is formed. There are ten levels in this stage. Golden core 1 to 10.

Foundation establishment stage. Second tribulation occurs. Not many people get to this stage. It is hard enough to pass the first tribulation. The second is extremely hard.

Divine, Heavenly and Immortal. Very rare to be seen on the mortal plane. Immortals reside in seclusion. Tribulation progressively increases as the ranks go up.

The yin power system is basically the same but practiced as dark arts. The ranking has equivalent names.

Main character power system. (Naraka system)

Yin spirit: Constantly needs to feed on yin sources or dark mana sources. Must complete 7 quests to rank up. Quests appear on the full moon. Easily controlled by the Echo, an immature form of the Alter Ego.

Hellguard: Visible muscular prowess occurs in this stage. MC will have to focus on body practitioner methods. Requires hefty doses of food and training. Extremely prone to anger in this stage.

Soul Reaper: More affiliated to Dark Qi. MC will be required to actively hunt souls and use them for refining of his Qi sea.

Hell Core: Equivalent to golden core.

Nascent Soul: equivalent to foundation establishment

The ranks preceding this, Yellow Spirit, Nirvana Beast, Yama immortal.

Beyond the immortal and Yama immortal ranks, is the realm of the celestials.

I apologize if the power system is not eyecatching enough. This is not a system novel. I just want to help you, my dear readers, understand who is more powerful than who.

If it doesn't make sense yet, don't worry, as you read, you'll understand the power system more.

I'm open for ideas and improvements. Tell me what you want to see more in the book as you go and please leave constructive criticism. Be nice everyone. Thanks for choosing The Game Of Realms.

System Breakdown