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 "Sell your idea? What made you think that I need your idea?"
 Crane looked at the kid that just stated something absurd. Even though he had been facing nothing but failure lately, he wasn't desperate enough to require the help of a boy that didn't look to be older than 15 years old. Although he was slightly curious about how he knew his name.
 "Well, someone close to me mentioned you once before. I believe you should have an idea of who would that be if you thought about what we have in common."
 Leo didn't remove his smile as he talked calmly, as this novel's reader, he naturally didn't find it hard to deal with most of the characters. He was confident in getting what he wanted.
 'I didn't read a dozen books about communication for nothing.'
 Furthermore, he was using his connection with the person who this world revolved around. This was practically a piece of cake since Crane was one of the characters that were placed close to the protagonist out of convenience.
 "You… You know that sword lover brat?"
 Looking at the young but confident kid sitting before him, Crane quickly remembered another brat who had a similar temperament. Perhaps this could also…
 "Yeah, he is more or less my brother. He is no longer around, but he told me to come to you in case I met a troublesome situation."
 "That brat! Does he think I'm running a charity here?"
 Crane started remembering that time when that brat that was even younger came into his shop. He asked to 'inspect' his swords because he felt 'lonely', making him appear like a weirdo. However, after they exchanged words, Crane felt like he obtained a lot of insights.
 He was a person who clearly knew how to repay favors, so he ended up giving him the most treasured sword in the smithy. Wasn't it a bit overboard for the brat to send his 'brother' to freeload on him?
 Naturally, Crane wasn't completely sure that the kid was actually that brat's relative, he could just be a scammer.
 "No need to get angry Mr. Crane, like I said, I don't want to get help for free. I plan to sell you my idea, you are free to decide its price yourself after hearing me out."
 "You trust me enough to tell me without worrying that I won't pay you anything?"
 Crane started feeling confused. Was this a new scam that the kid wanted to try out? Or was it really that he trusted that his work was worth it?
 "I can't say I trust you having only met you today, but I trust my brother who trusts you."
 Leo played the protagonist card once again, but what he said was nothing but nonsense. In the novel, there was no case where the protagonist mentioned the 'Blackbird' to Arthur.
 However, while Leo didn't trust either Crane or the protagonist, he trusted the words he read, and in the few chapters that Crane appeared in, he was as honest as one could be. The last thing he could do would be to steal someone's 'precious ideas'.
 "Well, have it your way. While I find it nearly impossible that you would be abnormal as your 'brother', I will hear you out, but don't expect me to accept a repetition of what he told me back then."
 Crane shrugged as he rested his head on his palm. He was quite bored and unmotivated now that his 1111th try failed today, he might as well listen to the kid's words. It would at least be better than doing nothing.
 "Alright, let me start with a question then. You are still trying to find a way to improve steel, aren't you?"
 "Huh?"
 As soon as Leo asked his question, Crane raised his head as he looked at the kid in slight shock. Asking that question wasn't hard if that brat from before shared what he told him with his brother, but was he seriously proposing that his idea was related to this?
 "I can see you are already starting to doubt me, but let me continue first. Aside from when you try to make the standard steel swords, you find it hard to control the temperature well enough to produce a tougher version of steel that isn't brittle, correct?"
 "How do… know that?"
 Crane stopped having doubts about this being a scam as he continued to listen to Leo. He only started to wonder whether he genuinely wanted to sell his idea or a spy that came to check on his progress.
 "Well, the reason is obvious, isn't it? I'm also someone who is interested in smithing, so it isn't hard to notice your current situation looking at the scrap metal and the sword from earlier."
 Leo smiled even brighter. The man should have already caught the bait. It was about time to use the knowledge he had obtained from reading the Science University course about iron and steel.
 "You mean to say that you have a way to solve this problem?"
 In 'The Sword Master's Second Life', the level of cold weapon production was drastically low. Before the Sword of Epoch changed the world, the only ones who could produce steel were the few kingdoms and empires that ruled the world. Unless you were part of an army, the best you could get your hand on was a normal iron or bronze sword.
 The reason behind that was simple, the principle of sword forging was restricted so that commoners wouldn't pose threats. Furthermore, even if one knew the main gist of it, controlling temperature over 1000 degrees celsius couldn't be done easily.
 However, all of that changed just like the rest of the world did, after sword breath filled the world and the long war that lasted a decade, steel sword forging methods became widespread.
 The smithing industry flourished, especially thanks to the discovery of a certain volcanic rock that mutated under the effect of sword breath. This rock was capable of producing the fire required for steel production!
 Unfortunately, as several types of mutated metals emerged as well, steel forging stood in its tracks. All the smiths that researched making better swords focused on these new metals, which surpassed the usefulness of steel in no time.
 "Unfortunately, I don't have the means nor the ideas to solve your current problem…"
 As Crane heard Leo's answer, the slight hope he had was almost instantly extinguished, what was he expecting to come out from a kid's mouth anyway?
 Unlike his fellow smiths, he refused the idea of making people reliant on the rare metals; several small wars started just over the control of one mine or two. He sincerely wanted to make steel, which could be made from the abundant iron, capable of contesting with the swords made from these metals.
 "But… What if I tell you that I can guide you to another method that can produce instant success?"
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 Doesn't every reader dream of traveling to the worlds of their favorite novels at least once, even if it's just a passing thought?
 Unfortunately, no matter how much they wish for it, their dreams ultimately remain as figments of their imagination…
 However, for one particularly special leader, Leo Lock, that was no longer the case!
 Suddenly hearing a strange voice in his head, Leo fainted only to find out that he took over the body of a character from a fantasy novel he once read upon waking up, realizing readers' number one dream! But…
 [ Target: Reach the epilogue. ]
 The only lead he had to going back to his reality was an impossible task! The character he took over already had its death date confirmed!
 Facing this inconceivable situation, Leo couldn’t help but question everything, including his own reality…
 Would he manage to go back to his normal life? Or was that simply the beginning of a much bigger change beyond Leo's expectations?
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 The world’s shared, open interactive communication game ‘Forces of Temptation’ went online and quickly took the world by storm.
 There was a perfect ecosystem, a physics engine that was completely close to reality and game instances that opened up dimensions that could be chosen. In particular, the supernatural instances received rave reviews.
 Almost everyone thought they were playing a normal game until one day, millions of people saw a dialog box that appeared in the sky.
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 Eight years ago, Thunderclap Ancient City changed overnight. Young City Lord Qin Ming was sold off to Azure Cloud Sect as a servant and 200,000 common people were driven into Great Azure Mountain as slaves.
 Eight years later, after tempering his spirit and becoming a martial artist, the Asura awakens, an unyielding youth that defies heaven rises.
 Provide me a blade and I will be able to break the blue dome of heaven. Provide me a sword and I can show the heavens. A Golden Unicorn is an animal with no particular talent, but when encountered with an unstable situation, it will change into a dragon[1].
 Acting Asura’s Child, Undying Monarch, Thunderclap Battle Senior, Ancient Ocean Barbarian Emperor and so on. Each and every title fell onto Qin Ming’s body. This lofty and unyielding youth stepped on heaven yet was fine. He guided numerous close friends and young beauties, proudly fought everywhere, swept across the world, and composed deeply moving hot-blooded battle songs.
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 When Viscount Ascham’s House’s eldest daughter, Adele von Ascham, became 10 years old, she remembered everything with an intense headache.
 Her previous self, Kurihara Misato, 18 years old Japanese, lost her life when trying to help a young girl, and then she met God…
 A somewhat capable person burdened by the many expectations of the surrounding people, Misato, who couldn’t live as she wanted, pleaded to God.
 “In the next life, please make my abilities average!”
 Yet, somehow the story is wrong!
 The girl with 3 names, being careful to not accidentally become a S-rank hunter, lives normally.
 I mean, I’m just an average, common girl. No, seriously.
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 Thirty-six [sequences] rule the world, and the creatures who hold the [sequences] can move mountains, cut rivers, cover the sun with one eye, and enter dreams for thousands of years. 
 There are heroic wine immortals who master the [Wine Sequence] and walk freely, there are court princes who understand the [Law Sequence] to formulate laws, there are [Tao Sequence] Taoist priests in the mountains, there are [Gu Sequence] wild Gu masters, there are [Gu Sequence] Love Sequence] the stunner and beauty. 
 Waking up from a dream, for Chen Yuyan, the rivers and lakes are no longer the rivers and lakes in the game “Strange Rivers and Lakes”, but the real world that is vividly presented before him. 
 In order to survive, in order to get rid of the gaze of the “fairy god”, Chen Yuyan had to step into the rivers and lakes, facing conspiracy, swords, swords and shadows, and ulterior motives.
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 A young boy genius, Suo Jia, is a water mage who dreams of being a warrior travelling the great and dangerous trade routes to find his lost father that set off on them before Suo Jia was born. Having to look after his sick mother, Suo Jia manages to find a way to solve all their problems, as well as make a name for himself. He gathers nobility, vast wealth, items of great power, knowledge lost to the ages, and exceptionally talented females around him as he plots and plans – preparing to set off on an epic journey that will go down in history as a new legend. However, will others that depend on his powers so much be willing to let him go on such a dangerous journey so easily?
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 A skilled but unfortunate modern-day assassin was killed in a freak accident. However, he soon found himself summoned to another world by an evil wizard, who had him possess the body of a boy as an experiment. After successfully planning the evil wizard’s downfall, he used the wizard’s body as a springboard to gain influence and power in his new world.
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 It’s a trend to take your grandfather along with you when passing through to another world, but we have kind of been cheated—have you ever experienced buy one get eight free?
 Hong Xiaobao: “This opponent is a bit formidable. All you old-timers, hurry up and save me please! If you don’t appear, then this prince is going to get angry!”
 Demon Emperor Meng Xianji: “Mockers, kill! Those who defy me, kill! Strong people, eat! Valuable treasures and materials, eat! Good equipment, steal!”
 Wine God Xiao Sanshao: “Why must you be so brutal? If there’s something wrong, can we not just all sit down and have a nice chat? I’ll teach you how to taste wine, youngster!”
 Medicine Immortal Tian Can: “You guys chat first. My condition today isn’t very good, so I’ll go rest first…. If you want to concoct some medicine, tell me after I wake up….”
 Godly Craftsman Xi Hong: “Didn’t I just upgrade your equipment yesterday? What are you afraid of? Attack, youngster! Isn’t that right, Chen Nan?”
 Formation Spirit Chen Nan: “En…. How about you go ask Mao Yue.”
 Beast Emperor Mao Yue: “Today’s sunshine is too bright. I’m recalling that cat of mine who died because of menstrual pain….”
 Hong Xiaobao: “Can you guys not be so misleading?”
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 Bracelet of Immortality, the mysterious sealed item that needed 26 fragments to completely unseal. Every unsealing giving an incredible power to the user.
 First Fragment, the power of Time. Second Fragment, the Power of healing. Third Fragment, the power of…
 What happens when Ryder Flynn finds the item inside the first Fully Immersive VRMMO. Why did the item follow him to the real world? Why is the Virtual World so real?
 A human-like System that knows too much? Why does it feel like my family member? Is it related to my strange memories?
 The System used to annoy me so much with its threatening quests but why is it that now I feel each of his quest saved me and my loved one indirectly?
 The memories of the past? Why do I remember being a god that created this bracelet? Why did I want to destroy everything. What did the other gods do?
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 [Across the Stunning Beast Princess: Phoenix Against the World]
 She, First Princess residence’s only legal daughter, yet known as a waste throughout the whole country!
 When her cold eyes opened, she is the 21st Century’s most dangerous genius assassin!
 When the sickly young miss exposes an edge, she is absolutely brilliant, and countless men and women in the world greatly admire her……
 He is the absolute king of the night, cold blooded and ruthless. In troubled times, he by chance meets her, a zither and flute ensemble, since then in heaven and earth, life and death go hand in hand.
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 Jiang Xunyi had transmigrated into a book many years ago, and always tirelessly maintained the requisite accomplishments for a villain.
 After finally completing the ultra-difficult task to allow the male protagonist to kill him, an OOC warning had appeared out of the blue——
 Error in the actor’s lines, the character role has collapsed, the assigned task has not yet been completed, opening the Rebirth System!
 So, he gloriously became… a second idiot son about to be sent to his death.
 Lazily idling away the days after changing his identity, he noticed a world-changing difference.
 His best friend, the male protagonist, Yun Xie was actually secretly in love with him? Are you kidding me?!
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 Xu Beijin is an extra in the game ‘Escape.’ His usual role is to lie on the floor to be the corpse, while observing how the Missiontakers scratch their heads to figure out a way to survive. 
 All the other extras work extremely hard as if trying to win the next Oscar’s in order to leave this cruel, despairing world; while Xu Beijin has a simple, monotonous, tedious life. 
 Until one day, he picked up a streaming system… 
 Xu Beijin’s life has been entirely upended. 
 While lying on the floor as a corpse, the audience goes “AAAAAAAH Host what’s that behind you uwuwu…” 
 While he’s reading the script out loud, the audience goes “Hehehe Beibei’s so cute acting all serious! I want to lick!” 
 While he’s working hard to figure out the truth about this world, the audience goes “Today our Bei is also the hardworking Bei!” 
 While he’s… he’s working hard dating Lin Qin, the audience goes “?!?! This isn’t the horror game stream I signed up for!” 
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 This novel is also known as Extraordinary Voyage 
 The indifferent god stood high in the clouds and looked towards the world with cold eyes. Tailless reptiles hid in the gap between winter and spring and whispered. The eight-clawed demon god wearing a high hat played a flute in the cold water. 
 The steam engine has just ignited the light of civilization, swordsmanship and witchcraft are in a duel, alchemy guns and sailing warships are played to death, secret associations and the Orthodox Church are chasing and hiding, the great era has begun, and the great sailing! Great development! Geographic discovery! 
 There are magnificent epics, but also evil and treacherous schemes, civilization conquering barbarism? No, only savage and more savage! 
 Aiwen wakes up from the small seaside town, rises as a descendant of a declining nobleman, walks into the center of the whirlpool step by step, and takes off the miraculous crown located on the extraordinary peak.
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