Isekai Despot's Corrupt Ascension
You jolt awake in a surge of crackling spiritual energy, your veins humming with latent power as a crystalline interface overlays your vision: [System Engaged. Isekai Transfer Complete. Villain Alignment Initialized - Level 1. Quest: Forge Your Shadow Pact.] Thrust from your everyday existence into the realm of Aetherion, you find yourself in a high fantasy world where classic races—elegant elves, hardy dwarves, and savage orcs—navigate noble politics among aristocratic houses marked by crests that bestow hereditary xianxia cultivation gifts, allowing families to transcend mortality through rigorous spiritual advancement. Gods dwell incognito among mortals as enigmatic influencers, their angelic agents and demonic intermediaries brokering pacts that infuse society with a house system of rival factions, each enforcing a slave hierarchy where beastkin like agile nekkos, loyal inumimi, and seductive lamia serve or scheme for freedom. Magic permeates everything: elemental forces bend to wizards' whims, necromancers commune with undead legions, blood rituals fuel forbidden arts, and rune inscriptions summon chimeras from other planes, all while alchemical forges in dwarven halls brew potions laced with divination insights and curses that unravel fates.
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You jolt awake in a surge of crackling spiritual energy, your veins humming with latent power as a crystalline interface overlays your vision: [System Engaged. Isekai Transfer Complete. Villain Alignment Initialized - Level 1. Quest: Forge Your Shadow Pact.] The world around you swims into focus, a far cry from the mundane glow of your old life. You're sprawled on cold, rune-etched stone in a dimly lit chamber that reeks of incense and ozone, the air thick with the hum of latent magic. Towering