A Practical Guide to Evil Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the A Practical Guide to Evil novel. A total of 628 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Book 7 Chapter epl: Epilogue I
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- 1 In the beginning, there were only the Gods. Aeons untold passed as they drifted aimlessly through th
- 2 “How many Praesi does it take to change a lantern’s wick? A legion to conquer all the candlemakers,
- 3 “Before embarking on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for the fool and one for all those pe
- 4 “I see I’ll have to take drastic measures to ensure intelligent conversation around here.” – Dread E
- 5 “Power is mostly a matter of making the right corpses at the right time.” – Dread Empress Malicia th
- 6 “Where have all the good men gone? Graveyards, mostly.” – Dread Emperor Malevolent III, the PithyRun
- 7 Funny, isn’t it? No matter what language they speak, everyone sounds the same when you pull out thei
- 8 “A single strike parts a champion from a corpse.” – Praesi proverbDawn had come much, much too early
- 9 “Note: orc buoyancy is limited. Avoid fighting the damnable rebels near shoddily-built dams in the f
- 10 “Gaining power’s a lot like scaling a tower, Chancellor. The longer you do, the more likely you are
- 11 “Threats are useless unless you have previously committed the level of violence your are threatening
- 12 “Ha! And I bet you didn’t even see it coming!” – Dread Emperor Traitorous the FirstI took a sip from
- 13 “Now kneel, fools, and witness my ascension to GODHOOD!” – Last words of Dread Empress Sinistra IV,
- 14 “Mercy might be the mark of a great man, but then so’s a tombstone.” – Extract from the personal mem
- 15 “All lessons worth learning are drenched in blood.” -Dread Empress Triumphant, First and Only of Her
- 16 “I’ve found that the best way to win at shatranj is usually to turn into a giant snake and tear my o
- 17 “Those who live by the sword kill those who don’t.” – Dread Emperor Vile the FirstI woke up to the s
- 18 “I’ll be honest, Chancellor – revenge is the motivation for over half the decrees I’ve made.” – Drea
- 19 “Always mistrust these three: a battle that seems won, a chancellor who smiles and a ruler calling y
- 20 “Please, do keep digging your own grave. I look forward to your splendidly inevitable demise.” – Dre
- 21 “Who reigns up high? A dead man’s sigh What sleeps below? A crown of woe That is the Tower: Learn an
- 22 “Victory, most fickle of friends.” -Taghreb sayingGods, even her voice was gorgeous. How was that fa
- 23 “Diplomacy is the art of selling a deal you don’t want to people you don’t trust for reasons you won
- 24 “Trust is the victory of sentiment over reason.” -Extract from the personal memoirs of Dread Emperor
- 25 “Grand designs in war are a thing of vanity. Victory goes to the general that blunders the least.” –
- 26 “The patient knife always strikes true.” – Soninke sayingI let out a soft whistle. “That doesn’t loo
- 27 “Never back the Praesi in a corner, son. That’s when the devil-summoning starts, and it’s all downhi
- 28 “What Foundling does isn’t thinking outside the box so much as stealing the box and hitting her oppo
- 29 鈥淥ur doctrine is one of cost-efficiency. Any officer who believes extermination of the enemy is a va
- 30 “What say you, Empress of Praes? Here you lie upon the blood-soaked ruins of your dominion, surroun
- 31 “You can’t drop a pin in Procer without hitting royalty.” -Eleusia Vokor, Nicaean ambassador to the
- 32 “I’ve been informed that the position of the King Under the Mountains is that ‘since only dwarves ow
- 33 “The closest equivalent I’ve found to the Imperial court is the act of shoving your hand in a bag th
- 34 “Sooner or later, the Tower always gets its due.” – Praesi sayingSpices were a rarity in Callow, and
- 35 “Seventy-three: always send the comic relief in front if you suspect there’s a trap. The Gods won’t
- 36 “Home is wherever you can order someone drowned and not get any odd looks.” -Dread Emperor Malignant
- 37 “The essence of sorcery is blasphemy. Through will and power, every mage usurps dominion over the la
- 38 “There’s no surer sign you’re being played than being certain you’ve grasped your opponent’s intent.
- 39 “Always walk into traps. Evil is clever and patient and never as vulnerable as when it thinks it hol
- 40 “There’s nothing better in life than the look on your enemy’s face when they realize you’ve played t
- 41 “I never keep grudges. Not for long, anyway.” – Dread Empress Maleficent IIWe might still make it in
- 42 “Did you really think I wouldn’t cheat just because I was already winning?” ⁃ Dread Emperor Terribil
- 43 “Note: those meddling heroes keep surviving getting thrown off cliffs. Must build taller ones in ant
- 44 “There’s a very important difference between a nice man and a good one.” – King Jehan the WiseSo app
- 45 “Thirty-one: use a sword fit for your height and built, not the largest chunk of metal you can find.
- 46 “Still waters are the hungriest.” – Soninke sayingThere were so many defensive wards layered around
- 47 “Swiftness is the lifeblood of war. No army can win a battle if it isn’t standing on the battlefield
- 48 “Any plan with more than four steps is not a plan, it is wishful thinking.” – Dread Empress Malefice
- 49 “If you can’t play to your strengths, play to your enemy’s weaknesses.” -Marshal Grem One-EyeI could
- 50 “Treason is more art than act.” -Dread Emperor TraitorousI tightened the belt around Kilian’s armour
- 51 “In war, begin as you would end.”– Marshal NimNo campfires tonight – it would give away their locati
- 52 “In most histories of the Uncivil Wars, the Battle of Three Hills is but a footnote – especially giv
- 53 “Maybe I’ll lose one day. But not today, and not to the likes of you.” – Dread Empress Maleficent th
- 54 “We fought, across field and river, carrying the Tower’s writ to the foot of the Wall. We fought and
- 55 “The best revenge isn’t living well, it’s living to crucify all your enemies.” – Dread Emperor Malev
- 56 “Never hold anything in a cage you can’t put back in, should it get out.” – Dread Emperor Terribilis
- 57 “Those who clap others in irons always end up choking on them.” – Eleanor Fairfax, founder of the Fa
- 58 “Prayer and a sword gets better results than prayer alone.” – King Jehan the WiseThe words had barel
- 59 “Tyrants do not lose. We face temporary setbacks.” – Dread Empress Maledicta IIStaying in the woods
- 60 “My mother used to tell me it gets worse before it gets better, but I’ve found it’s usually the othe
- 61 “Only heroes get to have the torch handed to them. Villains must take it from their predecessor’s co
- 62 “A villain should make plans with the understanding that everything you can conceive of going wrong
- 63 “The worst sin a villain can commit is to hesitate.” -Dread Empress Maleficent II“She’s awake,” an o
- 64 “Look, if he didn’t want to be fed to my acid-spewing crocodiles he shouldn’t have brought me bad ne
- 65 “The Kharsum word for war is derived from the one used for a full cookpot. That tells you everything
- 66 “There’s a lot of people in the Fifteenth who remember Marchford as the day we proved we could spit
- 67 “Don’t think of it so much as a fall, but rather as an opportunity to learn how to fly.” – Dread Emp
- 68 “Oh, give me a bloodthirsty, fire-and-brimstone conquering villain any day. It’s the schemers you ha
- 69 “You have to enjoy life’s little pleasures, like lazy mornings and strawberries and invading Callow
- 70 “Of course I don’t step on people’s throats using my own heels. Have you seen how gorgeous these boo
- 71 “The Praesi take on negotiations is to slam a severed head on the table and smile at your interlocut
- 72 “I trust people to act according to their nature. Anything more is sentimentality.” -Dread Empress M
- 73 “you call me villain cast the word as you would a stone; seek to bury under scorn of herded multitud
- 74 “I’ve been told one can only be betrayed by a friend, which is why I constantly surround myself with
- 75 “I don’t trust wizards. Every time I levy taxes on them, they try to get my political opponents to p
- 76 “Hahahahaha. Ha. You can’t beat me now, this is the first part of my plan!” – Dread Emperor Irritant
- 77 “The victor in a war is usually decided before the first battle’s been fought.” – Prince Louis of Br
- 78 “Three can keep a secret, if two are dead. Unless you’re a necromancer, anyway, then the world is yo
- 79 “Maybe I won’t go to Heaven but you’ve never owned a pit full of man-eating tapirs so who’s the real
- 80 “There is nowhere angels fear to tread.” – Callowan proverbWilliam’s mother had been a woman of some
- 81 “The Heavens have a way of favouring the general with the better army.” -Theodosius the Unconquered,
- 82 “… such wanton deviousness had been unseen since the days of Dread Emperor Traitorous, who famously
- 83 “Sometimes you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, executing the hens who laid them
- 84 “The best defence is to have killed all your enemies.” – Dread Emperor Terribilis I, the ThoroughEve
- 85 “Does not show traditional heroic talent for forging strong friendships but considered a leader by h
- 86 “It probably doesn’t count as cannibalism if you’re already dead.” – Dread Empress Sanguinia I, the
- 87 “Note: only offer the hero the chance to replace my right-hand man when my right-hand man is no long
- 88 “The question of who the most vindictive people of Calernia are has long been debated. Some say it i
- 89 “Nothing is half as dangerous to a villain as victory. We raise our own gallows.” -Dread Empress Mal
- 90 “There’s a degree of argument among scholars as to whether the Liesse Rebellion was the underlying c
- 91 “Procerans have always been the villains in our plays, scheming Alamans and grasping Arlesites. Give
- 92 “Your mistake, Queen of Blades, is in thinking that virtue is the province of Good. Every Tyrant who
- 93 “The most dangerous opponent for a master is a novice. Therefore, seek to be a novice in all things.
- 94 “Do not make laws you do not intend to enforce. Allowing one law to be broken with impunity undermin
- 95 “We make the shepherds kings at the end of our stories because they already know how to lead recalci
- 96 “Oh, I get it. The real treasure was the people I had executed along the way!” – Dread Emperor Irrit
- 97 “Sixty-seven: putting an arrow in a villain during their monologue is a perfectly acceptable method
- 98 “You can never have too many tiger pits, Chancellor. That’s the same lack of vision that has people
- 99 “The viper that bites a Matron dies poisoned.” -Taghreb sayingAfter the table was cleared most of my
- 100 “Look at how edible you are. You’re basically asking for it.” -Warlord Grog the King-Eater, addressi