Limitless Evolution With My Character Merge System

The sun shone brightly over Megan City, its warm light reaching every corner as people busily went about their daily lives.

Megan City, located to the north of Starlight Nation, was a tier-3 city with a population of over ten thousand.

Across the land, cities were classified into three categories: tier-1, tier-2, and tier-3.

Naturally, tier-1 cities were large, rich in resources, and well-protected, while tier-3 cities like Megan were smaller and not as safe compared to the higher-tier cities.

Tall towering buildings, flying cars, big companies, and factories could be seen in tier-1 cities.

These cities were far more advanced in technology, making them difficult to live in due to high expenses.

This often caused people to move to tier-2 or tier-3 cities where living was more affordable.

Although Megan City wasn't considered extremely dangerous, it wasn't the safest either.

The main reason for this was the threat of dungeons containing dangerous monsters.

These great threats sometimes appeared in tier-3 cities, and—

—without enough awakened individuals or powerful guilds to protect the city, many areas and buildings had been completely decimated by these monsters.

People living in such a dangerous city were extremely careful, even the children understood the way of survival.

But tier-2 and especially tier-1 cities had plenty of powerful guilds and strong defenses, protecting them from danger.

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Meanwhile, within a dark alleyway that the sun barely reached.

A figure lay motionless on the ground beside a trash can filled with filth.

No doubt, anyone who looked at it would think it was just a lifeless body.

But if one came closer and looked carefully, they could see the chest slowly rising and falling with each breath, indicating the figure was still alive.

"Bro, look there on the ground, someone's totally wasted.. what a fool."

"Yeah, looks like he poured himself into a corner and then passed out there."

"..."

"See how young he is, already ruining his life."

"Hehe, leave the young drunkstar to enjoy his great time."

People passing by shook their heads at the scene, making jokes and throwing insults at the person.

This figure was none other than Alden.

To everyone who saw him lying there, they thought he had passed out from getting himself too drunk, unaware that he was actually in danger.

Inside the strange, dream-like world he had been dragged into by the heart demon.

On the floor, Alden could be seen trembling on the cold-hard ground, broken and in deep pain, with his eyes completely red and veined. His fists were tightly clenched.

There was no one who could understand the feelings Alden was going through.

Sorrow, agony, hatred, struggle—his heart was completely taken over by these feelings.

He, Alden, was unwilling to be affected by the words of an ordinary entity, but his heart was somehow aiding the voices, accepting them all.

The bitterness in his heart that Alden was undergoing was unbearable as the painful scenes he experienced in his original life unfolded.

Bringing back the ugly experiences in his past life, which were his only weakness, they weighed him down no matter how hard he tried to ignore them.

Somehow, they were still effective on him.

"Sammy, or no, should I call you Alden?" the corner of the heart demon's lips curled into a wicked smile.

"Heh heh, despite your huge success. Your family didn't come to beg for your forgiveness as you predicted,"

It paused, looking down on its prey with a crazy laugh on its face.

Then it continued, slowly saying each word to make it sink deeper.

"Do you know why? Because your junior brother is still more better, even his achievements are yet to be accomplished by you."

Each and every word spoken were filled with coldness.

Alden, on the other hand was trying his best to clear his head off these bitter words.

His heart couldn't help but agree with what the demon said.

He was still seen as a failure by his family even after all his accomplishments.

Compared to his younger brother, who became the youngest CEO of numerous companies, who was he with his small wealth?

"Noooooo!!"

Suddenly, Alden let out a loud, piercing cry.

He slowly raised his head, pain clearly visible in his eyes as he gritted his teeth uncomfortably.

Slowly, he pulled himself to his feet, silently staring daggers at the demon, who had an icy smile on its face.

"How laughable."

The demon let out as it took a step forward like a king before halting once again.

"Even in this life —"

"And so? What about it?" Alden directly cut him off with a weird expression on his face.

One of the things he hated the most was when he was compared to another person, especially to his junior brother.

The heart demon stood there, its eyes fixed on him without interrupting, waiting for him to complete his statement.

"Now, I see." A short laugh left Alden's mouth.

Why was it called the heart demon in the first place?

Because it could see through its victim's memories and use the most painful ones of them all to torment the victim.

Causing havoc in their heart, making them live in pain and regret for the rest of their lives.

Now, knowing this fully well, Alden luckily was able to calm his heart filled with agony, though he wasn't able to completely get rid of the emotions in his heart.

Nevertheless, for now, he wanted to deal with the problem in front of him.

He would worry about other things later.

"Funny enough, you exist because the previous owner allowed it. But you see, now I'm the one in charge."

"You're nothing than a prisoner in the depth of my mind."

"Humbly stay in your cage, heart demon. Well, too bad that you will never know what it's like to experience the outside world."

Locking eyes with his demon, he returned the favor by bombarding it back with harsh words without hesitation.

Unexpectedly, instead of hearing the heart demon roar or speak back to him, what happened next took him by surprise.

A dark smile was plastered on the demon, standing motionless.

"Good good good. Not a weakling."

That was the only word he heard before the heart demon disappeared from his view and darkness covered the whole place.