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The Dark King

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by Steffen Schmidt




  Dark King

  Description

  Civilization is destroyed and records lost. Only Dudian survives in a cryogenic sleep. Three hundred years later, Dudian wakes up and must become Dean to survive. Who can he trust in this world overrun by monsters without and within?

  Chapter 1: Frozen for three hundred years

  Chapter 2: Gardener

  Chapter 3: New Beginning

  Chapter 4: Night

  Chapter 5: Different Worlds

  Chapter 6: Ideal

  Chapter 7: Radiation values

  Chapter 8: Silvia

  Chapter 9: Scavengers' and 'Hunters'

  Chapter 10: .'Light' physique

  Chapter 11: Back to slums

  Chapter 12: Super-chip

  Chapter 13: Gathering

  Chapter 14: Orientation

  Chapter 15: As long as you stay alive!

  Chapter 16: Stupid questions

  Chapter 17: Survival training

  Chapter 18: The Desert

  Chapter 19: Danger

  Chapter 20: Alchemist

  Chapter 21: Night attack!

  Chapter 22: The Creator

  Chapter 23: Retaliation

  Chapter 24: Solitary

  Chapter 25: Alchemy Notes

  Chapter 26: Ten days

  Chapter 27: Rewards

  Chapter 28: Judgement

  Chapter 29: The Dark Church

  Chapter 30: God's blessing

  Chapter 31: First

  Chapter 32: Noble party

  Chapter 33: Dinner

  Chapter 34: Invitation from the Nobles

  Chapter 35: Jenny

  Chapter 36: "A Tree in Blossom"

  Chapter 37: Two 'blessings'

  Chapter 38: Boundaries

  Chapter 39: Apprentice

  Chapter 40: Tubes

  Chapter 41: The passage

  Chapter 42: Area No 8

  Chapter 43: Monster

  Chapter 44: Corpse

  Chapter 45: Undead

  Chapter 46: Assault

  Chapter 47: The first battle

  Chapter 48: Death

  Chapter 49: Fatal

  Chapter 50: Bloodstain

  Chapter 51: Heartbeat

  Chapter 52: Narrow escape

  Chapter 53: Climbing the wall

  Chapter 54: Anatomy

  Chapter 55: Third

  Chapter 56: Virus

  Chapter 57: Melting

  Chapter 58: Injured hunter

  Chapter 59: Undead' level hunt

  Chapter 60: Bait

  Chapter 61: Level 9 monster

  Chapter 62: hunt in the high-rise

  Chapter 63: immortal hunter?

  Chapter 64: Beast

  Chapter 65: hunting the prey

  Chapter 66: trapped in the shaft

  Chapter 67: Kill

  Chapter 68: Infection

  Chapter 70: Release

  Chapter 71: Return

  Chapter 72: Pastor's blessing

  Chapter 73: Detention center

  Chapter 74: News

  Chapter 75: Magic marks

  Chapter 76: Investigations

  Chapter 77: Letter

  Chapter 78: Meeting

  Chapter 79: Crystalization of the soul

  Chapter 80: Juranzhi

  Chapter 81: Conflict

  Chapter 82: Appointment

  Chapter 83: Four major careers

  Chapter 84: Area no 3

  Chapter 85: Launch

  Chapter 86: Disappearance

  Chapter 87: Devil's cradle

  Chapter 88: Taking out

  Chapter 89: Awakening

  Chapter 90: Black cross

  Chapter 91: Mixing up

  Chapter 92: Alchemy symbols

  Chapter 93: New research

  Chapter 94: Alloy experiments

  Chapter 95: Report

  Chapter 96: Talent

  Chapter 97: Two items

  Chapter 98: Thousands of arrows

  Chapter 99: Over-training

  Chapter 100: To the extreme

  Chapter 101: Emergency

  Chapter 102: "Black Weaver"

  Chapter 103: Instant cut

  Chapter 104: Movement

  Chapter 105: Dudian's idea

  Chapter 106: Lure out

  Chapter 107: Hunting

  Chapter 108: Battle with the beast

  Chapter 109: Hunt

  Chapter 110: Branch

  Chapter 111: Eggs of the black weaver

  Chapter 112: The enemies meet

  Chapter 113: Ambush

  Chapter 114: Bloody hunter

  Chapter 115: It's him

  Chapter 116: Counterattack

  Chapter 117: A kind of talent

  Chapter 118: New plan

  Chapter 119: Monster wave

  Chapter 120: Prayer

  Chapter 121: fortress

  Chapter 122: Free city

  Chapter 123: Action

  Chapter 124: Explosion

  Chapter 125: as promised

  Chapter 126: Return

  Chapter 127: Detention center

  Chapter 128: Good sword

  Chapter 129: Scattered shot

  Chapter 130: Again

  Chapter 131: Fate

  Chapter 132: Examination

  Chapter 133: Qualified

  Chapter 134: Kill! Kill! Kill!

  Chapter 135: Choice

  Chapter 136: One year

  Chapter 137: Atlas

  Chapter 138: Hunting Dean

  Chapter 139: Runaway

  Chapter 140: Dean's sin

  Chapter 141: Awakening

  Chapter 142: Imprisonment

  Chapter 143: Sorrow

  Chapter 144: Game

  Chapter 145: Are you stupid or silly?

  Chapter 146: Indifference

  Chapter 147: I'm not like you! (1)

  Chapter 148: I'm not like you! (2)

  Chapter 149: I'm not like you! (3)

  Chapter 150: Crazy

  Chapter 1: Frozen for three hundred years

  Rainy season...

  In an instant, gloomy black clouds enveloped the sunny sky. The slum dwellers doing their daily activities immediately went back to their houses in fear as rain started pouring down heavily.

  Rainwater began to accumulate and spread rapidly in the streets of the slums, immersing the poor houses to their limit. The drainage system that had been unrepaired for ages was not doing its job as the entire outer wall of the slums became a vast expanse of rainwater.

  In the Meishan orphanage.

  Near the door, a woman in her thirties led a dozen children ranging from seven to eleven years old to carry sandbags that had been prepared, stacking them on top of the threshold in hope of blocking the raging floods.

  "Dean, come over to help!"

  "It's useless to call him, he's a fool."

  "Really!"

  A few sweating boys, exhausted from holding sandbags saw a little boy standing quietly not far from the window. Even though they were angry, they knew it was useless. They could only bite their tongues and continue handing sandbags to be sent to the door.

  The little boy looked seven or eight years old. His thin, but tall frame made him look more similar to an eleven-year-old. The most conspicuous detail was his color. He was very white, maybe even a bit morbidly pale. His skin color caused the other children to envy him, as everyone else was dark due to exposure to the bright sunlight.

  Dudian sighed in his heart. Although he had been left in cold storage for more than three months, his body had yet to recover enough to life anything.

  It was exceedingly difficult for him to stand, let alone carry sandbags to block the rain.

  Howeve
r, such a situation could be regarded as fortunate. After all, the Institute had just made the very first freezer when the disaster spread to China. As there was nowhere enough time for an experimental change, nobody knew about this type of failure. It was already a miracle that he was able to sleep in the freezer for three hundred years.

  Nevertheless, he did not feel happy.

  He survived, but his parents and sister stayed down and had to face the terrible disaster. Even if they had been miraculously lucky and survived, they would have long been buried in the dust after three hundred years.

  In this vast, new world, he no longer had loved ones. He would have to face this new world alone.

  Although he grieved, he did not despair because he knew his parents had given him a second chance at life. He would not allow himself to go down easily. He would not just live well and get by, but also do what it takes to make his deceased family proud.

  Fortunately, God finally sheltered the human race. When Dudian had just climbed out from cold storage, the first thought that came to mind was that he was the only person alive on the earth. Only when he walked out of the garbage dump of the cold storage warehouse did he find that humans were not yet extinct. Only a few people seemed to have survived the disaster, but the human population had grown to a decent size after three hundred years of development.

  Unfortunately, technology and civilization had long been destroyed by the disaster. Dudian could not find a trace of any symbol of the old era of science and technology. The loss of knowledge about the electric power added difficulties to basic life.

  The storm outside the window gradually came to a stop as Dudian was lost in his thoughts.

  All the people in the house felt relief as they watched the water level behind the sandbags dropping. Exhaustion seeped into them as if they had just experienced an everlasting battle. The middle-aged woman raised her head to observe the dark clouds gradually scatter to reveal a sunny sky and said: "Get ready to go to the cafeteria for dinner."

  The children's eyes lit up as soon as they heard the word "eat". Their previous fatigue was instantly swept away as they scurried back to the room, put on their wax-grass shoes, and lined up in an orderly manner.

  "Dean, get ready to eat." At this time, a voice called out to Dudian. The voice came to him from a seven-year-old boy. He patted Dudian shoulder and pointed in the direction of the canteen.

  Dudian remembered this boy named Barton. Barton was one of the few children in the orphanage that was well-intentioned. As the language had changed in the past three hundred years, Dudian did not understand it and stood silent from the time that he entered the orphanage, causing everyone to think that he was retarded or had brain problems.

  So naturally, he was placed into the group of the deformed children with Barton.

  The children at the orphanage were generally divided into two factions. The first were those abandoned by their parents. The second were those who were abandoned by their parents due to physical deformities.

  Dudian nodded and followed Barton to the lines by the column. Just as Barton was about to tell Dudian to first put on the grass sandals, he inadvertently looked down. Seeing that Dudian had long been wearing a light green pair of sandals, he could not help but feel stupid.

  Plastic had yet to be invented in this world. Wax-grass shoes and clothes became the most common form of rain gear. This natural variation of grass that could been found everywhere had a fine convex layer of wax that effectively blocked radiation rain and thus became an essential household item.

  Everyone carefully walked alongside the threshold before the narrow half meter high stone paved trail. Although the rainwater only came up to their ankles, even the strongest of them would inevitably become seriously ill if they feel into the water.

  Because of the limited seating available, the best seats in the cafeteria were immediately seized by those healthy children. Dudian, Barton, and the rest of the deformed kids had long ago become accustomed to their tables in the back corner made from several stacked stoner.

  "I heard that a doctor and construction worker have come this time for the adoptions"

  "Aunt Dai said to seize this opportunity and put on a good performance"

  "It would be awesome if you could be adopted by a doctor."

  "I would rather be adopted by the construction worker. There might be a chance to climb the giant wall of Silvia and see the outside world."

  Barton and several other children whispered and chatted. None of these children looked normal. Some were missing an ear while others had scarring on half of their faces.

  Dudian's eyes flashed as he heard their words, but he kept silent.

  "Unfortunately, Dean's brain is no good. Otherwise he would definitely be selected by those people with that kind of appearance and body." Barton sighed suddenly as he looked at Dudian with regret in his eyes.

  The other children looked at the unresponsive Dudian, all shaking their head.

  Other children also looked at the unresponsive Dudian but just shook their heads.

  Long ago they agreed that no matter who got adopted, they would do their best to come back and help the rest of the children. On the surface, Dudian was no double the most promising candidate to be adopted, but his chances were very low with that type of brain problem. His situation was even worse than the deformed kids, such as the one with a face full of lumps. Although they might look scary, they were at least physically and mentally able enough to find a job in the future.

  At this time, Leng Heng, a thin child seated close by, heard Barton's words and contemptuously said, "They are a bunch of mutilated things, yet they still want the opportunity to be adopted."

  His words immediately attracted the attention of others. Disdain and disgust filled their eyes as they fell on Dudian, Barton, and the others.

  Relative to the deformed children, they are physically sound but abandoned people.

  Dudian did not say anything as he quietly glanced at these people. Although he is still a child, his heart was much harder than most adults.

  Mo Yang's eyes gazed at Dudian.

  "Look at this fool. He won't understand even if you call him."

  "No wonder he was abandoned. A fool!"

  "You wanted to be adopted? Why don't you just obediently wait until you turn thirteen years old and they throw you into the mine as manual labor!"

  These children did not attempt to hide their contempt and disgust. Instead, it was a form of pleasure for them.

  As the food was given out, the middle-aged woman lightly shouted, "Quiet down! Do you not want to eat?"

  Hearing this, the arrogance on their faces quickly took on looks of innocence as if nothing happened.

  ...

  The next day.

  Silver-gray clouds gradually stretched out to let the sun spill down onto the slums.

  In the rainy season, this type of good weather was rare.

  Today was also the long-awaited big day for the children of Meishan Orphanage - Adoption day!

  All of the families booked in advance for the chance to come to the orphanage on this day and pick a child.

  Although it was early in the morning, Dudian still got up on time. This world may no longer have alarm clocks, but his biological clock had never been wrong. After getting up, he quickly cleaned up his bedding and washed his face with simple filtered well water. As he picked up his clothes by the pillow to get dressed, he suddenly found a purple handkerchief within the cloth.

  Dudian was startled and could not help but think of that cold night when he was led to the orphanage by a little girl. Unfortunately, the sky was too dark to see each other's appearances. In the past three months, he learned that only those in the upper reach of the outer wall were able to afford this type of fine cloth.

  The handkerchief was left to wipe the dirt off his face.

  Dudian put the handkerchief away and left for the open space outside the orphanage.

  Although the only parents in his
mind were his biological ones, he wanted to get adopted as soon as possible. If he reached the age of thirteen without getting adopted, the orphanage would give up on taking care of him and send him to the Meishan Chamber of Commerce to be used as permanent free labor. Meishan Chamber of Commers is the controlling body of the mine. As free labor, he would be forced to work until he died of exhaustion or old age. He would never again have the opportunity to see the light of day.

  On the same day, all the children of the orphanage washed themselves, dressed in their nicest clothes, and were neatly put in a line.

  Nobody would bear to be near you if you were covered in a bad odor.

  This is what the aunt controlling the orphanage told them.

  As all the children stood in line, the adults walked up and observed the children who they might potentially adopt as their own under the care of Diana and the other orphanage workers.

  Under the guidance of Aunt Diana, the children and workers knew not to speak of the deformities. Wu Yuliu's eyes were full of innocence, desire, and hope as they welcomed the grown-ups. Her eyes were so teary that some of the adults could not help but feel sad or bear to not choose her.

  Soon, the thin and tall Dudian became the focus of all the adults' attention. His skin, as pale as snow, was too eye-catching. His temperament differed vastly from the surrounding children. This child had a very calm and extravagant aura surrounding him.

  The adults were surprised as they did not expect an orphanage in the slums to have such a good seedling.

  For a time, many of their hearts were wavering.

  Chapter 2: Gardener

  The other children were sensitive to this change. An eight or nine-year-old petite little girl immediately said, "He is Dean. His brain is always in a daze and he cannot speak. Please do not take offense."

  She was young, but the brutal living environment forced her to quickly mature into a clever and crafty individual. She did not show a hint of jealousy, only pointing out Dudian's defect as if helping. In a sense, it was the smartest move for her.

  "Yeah, yeah!"

  "Uncle and Aunts, he really can't talk!"

  The other children quickly echoed her response.

  Barton and the several deformed children living with Dudian were shocked upon hearing the little girl's words. No one expected her to say such a thing. An ugly look flashed across Barton's face upon hearing the other normal children point out Dudian's defect. Nonetheless, he would not dare speak up for Dudian for fear of leaving a bad impression on the Aunts and Uncles.

 

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