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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- 101 “One learns more from defeat than victory. Therefore, fear the general that has never won a battle.”
- 102 “Ah, but being defeated was always part of my plan! Yet another glorious victory for the Empire.” –
- 103 “It is a shallow soul who fights to the cry of ‘might makes right’. The truth is more concise: might
- 104 “One hundred and twelve: always be kind to any monster held in a cage by your nemesis. When it inevi
- 105 “Invading? Good Gods, of course not. We’re merely manoeuvring.” -Dread Empress Sinistra II “the Coy”
- 106 “Gentlemen, there is no need to worry: our plan is flawless. The Emperor will never see it coming.”
- 107 “No one ever won a war by being shy.” – Queen Elizabeth Alban of CallowThe door didn’t make a sound
- 108 “Only if it’s ‘being executed’.” – Dread Emperor Terribilis I, upon being asked for a last request b
- 109 “It admittedly took me a few years to make my peace with the fact that Lady Foundling’s take on dipl
- 110 “The heart of warfare is deception. Therefore, the generals who can deceive even themselves are invi
- 111 “I can’t beat your band of heroes, true, but what if there were another eight bands also out for my
- 112 “Most live out their days on an isle of vapid ignorance, shying away from the dark and hungry waters
- 113 “We should never forget that for a great evil to be defeated, a lesser evil must first become great.
- 114 “The covenant of the hungry lasts as long as the meal.” – Taghreb sayingAnaxares was having a tea pa
- 115 “See, this is exactly the kind of trouble I’d be avoiding by mind controlling the entire world. You
- 116 “There’s a natural hierarchy to the world, Chancellor: there’s me, then my boot, then all of Creatio
- 117 “Kingdoms don’t die on battlefields. They die in dark, quiet rooms where deals are made between thos
- 118 “In the aftermath of a rebellion do not execute merely those who rebelled. Remove those that remaine
- 119 “An alliance of victors is like a hearth in summer.” – Julienne Merovins, tenth First Princess of Pr
- 120 “To conquer until all of Creation is desert or province: that is the ideal of Praes. Mock their fail
- 121 “We do not forget.” – Official motto of the House of IarsmaiI hadn’t set foot in a House of Light si
- 122 “From small slights, long prices.” – Deoraithe proverbFor all that the marshal’s envoy had impressed
- 123 “The source of wonder and horror is the same, and the boundary between them thinner than you would t
- 124 “If Creation is not mine, what need is there to be a Creation at all?” – Dread Empress Triumphant, F
- 125 “Morality is a force, not a law. Deviating from it has costs and benefits both – a ruler should weig
- 126 “Forty-nine: if any wizard over the age of fifty suddenly becomes evasive when asked about your pare
- 127 “My dear Chancellor, I didn’t murder my entire family and use their blood to turn myself into an und
- 128 “Trust the Heavens but tie your horse.” – Callowan proverbIt was past dawn when the last soldier cro
- 129 “You’d be surprised at the breadth of things that can be powered by the souls of the innocent. Fortr
- 130 “No matter how hallowed the crown, it fits only one head.” – Proceran sayingThere were no maps. That
- 131 “When historians try to pin down Foundling’s methods they point to the Battle of the Camps or the Pr
- 132 “I’ve yet to encounter a situation that couldn’t be improved by a copious amount of lies and body do
- 133 “Ah, mortal wounds. My only weakness.” – Dread Empress Sanguinia IIThis wasn’t like fighting devils.
- 134 “The classic Callowan blunder. Sending an army into the Wasteland you can’t handle if it comes march
- 135 “My dear friends, I have a confession to make. Some creative reframing of the truth may have taken p
- 136 “Oh, on most days we lose. But once in a while, just once, it works. And those moments of perfect cl
- 137 “Taxes. Taxes and triplicate forms.” – Dread Emperor Terribilis I, upon being asked what powerful so
- 138 “We have grown to mock Tyrants for they are mad but that is a very dangerous thing. A madman thinks
- 139 “That’s the thing with invincibility. You have it until you don’t.” – Dread Empress Prudence the Fir
- 140 “Who should really be afraid, between the dragon and the peasant with a sword?” – Dread Emperor Repr
- 141 “The truth of monsters is that, in the end, they die. If they didn’t we would have to call them gods
- 142 “No matter how good the horse, it can only bear one saddle.” -Callowan proverbOur march through Summ
- 143 “Tonight we must speak of Callow, that stubborn graveyard of empires. Princes and princesses of Proc
- 144 “To bargain with devils is to paint with your own blood: the greater the work, the harsher the price
- 145 “It is impossible for the Empire to make an appreciable gain so long as this gain is a loss to every
- 146 “Truth and silence lie better than the silvermost tongue.” – Soninke sayingIt was a little odd to be
- 147 “It is said that the founding First Prince spoke of Procer as a great tower, every principality a st
- 148 “It’s hard for people to understand what it means to have been part of the Fifteenth. We were farmbo
- 149 “When approaching a siege, a general must draw distinction between tactical and strategic importance
- 150 “Better behind a Tyrant than before them.” – Praesi sayingThe right to lead the vanguard, as always,
- 151 “Ah, but every palace you destroy has to be rebuilt! You’ve single-handedly pulled the Empire out of
- 152 “Of course not, did you see the height of that drop? That is the last we’ve seen of the Shining Prin
- 153 “The only thing more dangerous than being hated by a villain is to be loved by them.” – Dread Empres
- 154 “And so Maleficent said: ‘Though you be god I am Empress, crowned of dread, and by my hand comes you
- 155 “Never wound a man you do not intend to kill.” – Extract from the personal journals of Dread Emperor
- 156 “Here is the truth of our dreadful crown: to claim it a declaration of war on banality, on mediocrit
- 157 “I was once told that character is what you are in the dark. I found, my dear Chancellor, that I was
- 158 “Truth is a lie grown old and beloved.” – Soninke sayingThe woman sitting in my tent I had fully exp
- 159 “Doubt is the mother of failure.” – Dread Emperor Terribilis I, the LawgiverIn the end, it took me t
- 160 “It is ever the temptation of chroniclers to ascribe great failures to a single turning point, a fla
- 161 “What cannot bend is fated to break.” – Taghreb sayingI wouldn’t say aragh had grown on me, but it w
- 162 “War is a breed of conflict decided by the allocation of resources. Through better apportionment a l
- 163 “If I had an aurelius for every assassination attempt, I wouldn’t have to keep raising taxes.” – Dre
- 164 “Mark my words, the Imperial banner will be flying above Summerholm by midsummer.” – Dread Empress R
- 165 “I imagine the High Lords would be inclined to protest the mind control, if I hadn’t seized control
- 166 “The heart of succession is always murder. The new cannot grow where the old remains.” – Theodore La
- 167 “And on your grave we shall have inscribed: he was witty all the way into the tiger pit.” – Dread Em
- 168 “Men make swords, Heavens the sheath.” – Callowan sayingThe moon was out in full, and though part of
- 169 “And so Subira of the Sahelians slew Maleficent and said: ‘Emperor am I now, Sinister of name and de
- 170 “Peace is a fine thing, but war is the crucible of crowns.” – Queen Elizabeth Alban of CallowThere w
- 171 “Then let us be wicked, Let us be reddest ruin Rent, broken, crooked Black hearted and cruelThen
- 172 “Victory is transient. To seek it is to remain so. I have seen the face of that which is eternal, an
- 173 “It is true, Chancellor, that a house divided cannot stand. Why do you think mine is the only one I
- 174 “One hundred and eighty-seven: should one of your trusted companions be taken hostage at knife-point
- 175 “Do not ever speak of victory before the last foe is dead.” – Queen Elizabeth Alban of CallowJuniper
- 176 “There’s not a lot of difference between court and a swamp. Colourful things are poisonous, lots of
- 177 “Oh, woe is me, you’ve destroyed my army… Hahaha, you fell for it again! I haven’t paid them in a ye
- 178 “Rulers must exercise restraint. Every action ripples across Creation, bringing three unintended con
- 179 “A dilemma is no such thing if it is flammable.” – Dread Empress Sulphurous, the ‘Technically Correc
- 180 “Food riots, is it? Well, I do enjoy when a problem is its own solution.” – Dread Empress Sanguinia
- 181 “A hero should not confuse striking at Evil and doing Good, lest their Good become the act of striki
- 182 “On the third month of the year I found myself on the outskirts of the city of Okoro, and stumbled u
- 183 “Change, my friend, is the admission that one falls short of perfection. A plebeian sort of doubt, b
- 184 “Here, have a butter knife. Let it not be said I do not tend to the needs of my beloved subjects.” –
- 185 “Thus the Gods granted us the first boon: as we live we will die, and in dying be granted our just d
- 186 “Six wars I fought since my coronation, so hear me when I say this: war may be fought for righteous
- 187 “It is easiest to win a game when no one else knows you’re playing.” – Dread Empress Maleficent III
- 188 “Tall your tower may be, but what was raised by the hands of men can by those same hands be torn dow
- 189 “You who pass this gate, know yourself beyond hope.” – Written above the gates of Keter, earthly se
- 190 “If my allies were half as reliable as my enemies, I would have a different moniker.” – King Henry F
- 191 “Though official records state that the Principate fought a mere score civil wars, it should be note
- 192 “Those who withstood the sword, I laid low with ink.” – Words carved into the tomb of Dread Emperor
- 193 “In conclusion, the court recognizes the desertion of the sentient tiger army raised by Dread Empero
- 194 “I must say, Chancellor, you’ve become quite the conversationalist.” – Dread Empress Maledicta IIThe
- 195 “I’m not saying all your closest friends are shapeshifting devils I sent to spy on you after having
- 196 “Ruling is not unlike gardening, if all the weeds were heavily armed and plotting your demise.” – Dr
- 197 “Irritant’s Law: inevitable doom is a finite resource, and becomes mere doom when split between mult
- 198 “Petty thieves hang, the great wear crowns.” – Proceran saying“We’re being baited,” Juniper announce
- 199 “That is the secret to a peaceful court, Chancellor. Regularly having the High Lords for dinner.” –
- 200 “There is no absolute virtue to peace. To avoid war out of petty fear is the exact same moral failur