Only The Villainous Lord Wields The Power To Level Up Volume 5

Having destroyed the Luaranz Kingdom and South Runan Kingdom, Erhin has finally laid the foundation for the New Eintorian Kingdom. However, as king of a fledgling nation, he faces a mountain of new problems. With the kingdom’s coffers low and a food shortage on the horizon, Erhin decides to focus on stabilizing domestic issues while keeping the other nations in check. Unfortunately, the neighboring countries now see the New Eintorian Kingdom as a threat, and they suddenly declare war! What’s more, Medelian seems to show up on every battlefield Erhin heads to. Can Erhin fend off both internal and external crises, or will the New Eintorian Kingdom fall before it has the chance to rise?

Having driven off the Royal Naruyan Army, Erhin brings his troops and people with him as he sets up a new base of operations in the Bertaquin Domain of the former Brijit Kingdom. As he takes this first step towards declaring independence, he turns his eyes toward the vast sea around Brijit. Erhin hopes to build a fleet and establish maritime trade, but the neighboring Luaranz Kingdom has him massively outgunned at sea—and if history goes like it did in the game, then a coup d’état is about to turn them into a military dictatorship. What will happen when Erhin tries to stop it?

Erhin has succeeded in saving Euracia and her people from the war with the Brijit Kingdom. Having won a secret iron mine for himself in the process, he begins making his move toward world domination in earnest. Meanwhile, Frann Valdesca, the Naruyan commander he defeated during the previous invasion, is preparing for a revenge match in the form of the Grand Subjugation. With his prior knowledge of the event, Erhin comes up with a clever plan to take over Runan in the chaos. Will it work, or will Erhin’s efforts go up in flames?!

Ryuichi Hasegawa, the top player in a strategic medieval RPG, is granted a special “bonus” by the developer and reincarnated into the game world—not as the protagonist, but as the villainous lord Erhin Eintorian who dies in the prologue! This means Erhin’s survival is a race against time, for his domain is set to be invaded by a hostile foreign power in just one day. In order to save himself, Erhin must use the leveling system that only he can access and his knowledge of the game to prepare his forces. The only hitch, of course, is that there’s no way a villainous lord left a functioning military at his disposal! Can Erhin forestall the tragic fate scripted for him, or is he doomed to play out his own demise?

Euracia’s motherland, the Rozern Kingdom, is facing destruction at the hands of the tyrant who rules the neighboring Brijit Kingdom. The Royal Rozernan Army suffers defeat after defeat in the face of their opponent’s massive army and inhumane tactics. In the history Erhin is familiar with, Euracia dies and her homeland is laid to ruin. In order to save her, he advises the Runan Kingdom to send reinforcements, but the stingy king only gives him a force half the size of the enemy’s?!

As the arrival of winter brings the date of Yumiella and Patrick’s wedding ever closer, Yumiella ends up being tricked into visiting the Royal Capital in order to prepare for the big day. While accompanying Yumiella, Eleanora visits a friend from the Royal Academy and discovers that her family is on the verge of being run out of the city due to court politics. As much as Yumiella hates getting involved in these sorts of machinations—especially when they concern politics—how could she say no to her dearest friend Eleanora when she asks for help? Though Yumiella, now well past level 99, can usually use her strength to deal with most problems, it turns out that the minister of finance is pulling all the strings behind the scenes, and he’s taken Yumiella’s interference into account as part of his plans. She might not be able to brute force her way out of this one, but Yumiella’s not one to back down from a fight, especially when it’s for Eleanora’s sake!

Shun is the new kid in school, but he's already managed to attract the attention of the school bully, who's now making his life a living hell. It doesn't seem like things could get any worse, until the night he finds himself and a group of his classmates inside a creepy, abandoned mansion known as the Jailhouse. They quickly start to hear strange sounds and see weird things, but everything escalates when they realize they can't get out. Once they're trapped inside, a blue, unnaturally large figure chases after them. Is it a new species? Or is it the ghost of their old classmate who died in an accident? Nobody knows, but one thing is for certain... If it catches them, they're dead! The scariest game of tag in history begins!

ARISE! Once dubbed the Weakest Hunter of All Mankind, Jinwoo is now…well, something else entirely. Armed with his mysterious system, he’s currently powerful enough to single-handedly clear dungeons that once would have proven life-threatening. He just has to ready himself to take on the Demon’s Castle—and what better way to do so than finishing a quest? Exclusive new weapons and skills from an assassin-class job may be just what Jinwoo needs… but the system seems to have other plans for him!