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Chapter 8 in Naver\'s 2023 Rookie Short Story Collection (2023 루키 단편선).
In the aftermath of the war, the world\'s hierarchy had been shaken up and enforced with an iron fist. Once a high-ranking officer among the beastkin, Qing Ti ends up at very bottom—reduced to a mere plaything—and falls into the hands of her nemesis, Chen Xilan. Just when people thought Qing Ti would be tormented to the point of wishing for her own death, the game of taming and being tamed had only started to begin.
Read manhua Mythical Invasion: I Slay Gods on Earth / Shenhua Ruqin: Wo Zai Diqiu Zhan Shenming The gods descended, invading Earth, and human civilization was driven to the brink of extinction! Guardian Lin Fan returns three months before the gods’ arrival. This time, he is determined to lead humanity to unite the entire nation’s power to stand against the gods! Shénhuà Rùqīn: Wǒ Zài Dìqiú Zhǎn Shénmíng 神话入侵：我在地球斩神明
Raised to kill like a pack of loyal hounds, the Baskerville children took countless lives as a band of fearsome assassins. Despite being the shunned illegitimate son of the brood, Vikir served his family faithfully, only to meet his untimely demise at his father’s hands. But when he is inexplicably reborn with a second chance at life, Vikir, armed with the memories and knowledge of his past, swears to rise above the pack and take his revenge. This time, he\'s ready to bite the hand that feeds.
In the mysterious, RPG dungeon-like Tower, Gongja Kim lives a mundane existence, envying all the star hunters. One day, his wish for more is granted with a legendary skill to copy others’ abilities… at the cost of his life. Before he can make sense of it, he’s killed by the #1 hunter, the Flame Emperor! But this activates his skill and now he’s copied a new one, the ability to travel back in time upon death. How will Gongja use these skills to outplay the competition and rise to the top?
The Primordial Core’s an unconquerable dungeon, the lair of the most powerful monster ever to exist, the Original Monster, the incarnation of evil — Swallow... who happens to be a lazy boss monster who just wants to sleep. Taking care of this lazy bum is Renee, a homunculus maid whose obsession with Swallow knows no bounds. At this point, the only one keeping the dungeon running is Patrick, the last brain cell of the bunch — and he’s a skeleton! Will Mr. Swallow get any rest amid all this chaos?
Called a failure by his adoptive parents, bullied at school, ignored by teachers, high school boy Kurogane Rikuto has nowhere to belong neither at home nor at school. \"Life is shit. I guess I\'ll die.\" After saying this, he was about to commit suicide by jumping off the school’s roof when suddenly all sorts of monsters started appearing from students\' smartphones, transforming the school into a hellscape of screaming agony. Goblins, orcs, slimes… Everybody has seen them in games: \"small fry monsters\". However, humans in the real world, where there is no magic, no special abilities, and no leveling up, are devoured by those \"small fries\" without any means to retaliate. Rikuto, spared from the incident due to his bullies destroying his phone, seeing the students who bullied him and the teachers dying unsightly deaths and the collapse of order, realizes he does have a desire to survive. Just then, a goblin wielding a club attacks him from behind—Thus begins the survival action tale of one insignificant human driven into extreme circumstances.
You three kids, I’ll teach you. Recently, there have been several changes in my life. The first is that I became the governess of Lord Bertha’s siblings, and the second is that I remembered my past life. Why did I recall my past life now? Could this be inside the novel I read in my past life? If I remember correctly, I, “Estella,” the governess, will soon die. All to protect the half-siblings from that immoral man, “Diego”! “You seem like a more capable person than I thought.” “You’d better look for a job at another estate because you’ll go crazy if you stay here.” But “Diego,” the man who I thought was a heartless psychopath, turns out to be surprisingly kind…? Alright, I’m going to organize a dramatic reconciliation between Diego and his half-siblings!! How could you possibly kill these adorable kids when they’re hugging you?!
The story of a high school girl, Han Go Woon, who has turned into a zombie, looking for posthuman, a test subject that transcends humans in order to live as a human.
The question remains: Why should rapists and murderers be locked up in prison? Just as my wife suffered, shouldn’t they feel the same pain?\" Former soldier turned assassin, Kim Taepil, brutally kills thugs responsible for raping women, transforming from a heroic figure to a ruthless killer overnight. Taepil, overwhelmed by helplessness, is visited by Representative Shin Jin-su, who offers him an unexpected proposal: ‘Become the punisher yourself.’\" With the justice system corrupted, a group of ten government-sanctioned avengers seek to establish a new order by exacting vengeance outside the law.
Specialized in excessive suppression, police officer Shin Hae-soo gains the ability to go back 60 minutes in time. On the day his father passed away, he instinctively knew. This was a murder disguised as a suicide. Determined to catch his father\'s killer, Hae-soo becomes a detective. Then, one day, following a mysterious accident, he suddenly gains a supernatural ability! As he solves criminal cases and tracks down the organization, a massive shadow begins to emerge bit by bit!
Since the old days, mystical creatures have existed to help humans. However, now that the times have changed, they suddenly receive a warning from their god: \"Prove that you are still needed\". While grappling with how they can assist humans in the modern era, these creatures decide to send their younglings to the human world to seek answers. Meanwhile, university student Park Geuru, who lives his miserable days commuting for five hours to school due to a sudden move, accidentally ends up making a bet with the goblin Sihan... This is a story about the daily life of these young mystical creatures, exploring the human world in order to avoid their own extinction.
