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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- 301 “My son, I offer you the greatest gift a ruler can give another: a widely reviled predecessor.” – Ex
- 302 “I see how it is. We agree to single combat and of course you can still use your enchanted sword, bu
- 303 “I inherited not an empire but a house on fire: fall in line, lest we all burn.” – First Princess Él
- 304 “The words of one sage are wisdom, the words of a hundred a riot.” – Atalantian sayingWhat was it wi
- 305 “Fool me once and it’d best be fatal, for my reply certainly will be.” – Dread Emperor Vindictive II
- 306 “A pleasant lie finds more ears than a sharp truth.” – Proceran saying“Seriously?” I said. “I mean,
- 307 “No man is an island, Chancellor. We’ve tried the ritual, the result is mostly screams.” – Dread Emp
- 308 “The key to popular reign is to blame the previous ruler for your every blunder and claim ownership
- 309 “A hundred battles, even victories, will always lose you the war.” – Theodosius the Unconquered, Tyr
- 310 “After Isabella the Mad was appointed to the command of the hosts of Procer to turn back the forces
- 311 “Necessity’s children are sometimes clever but always bloody.” – Queen Yolanda of Callow, the Wicked
- 312 “A good sword will find a use, or make one.” – Levantine sayingThis was to be an iron day, Captain E
- 313 “It is fortunate that virtue is its own reward, as it does not tend to accrue others.” – Theodore La
- 314 “The art of negotiation is, in essence, convincing the other side of the table that you are very rel
- 315 “To two deaths we are born: the first in the flesh, the second in the memories of those left behind.
- 316 “Let neither queen nor prince rule over our dominion: for while crowns may devour honour, one’s bloo
- 317 “Trust in yourself and no other is violence upon all the world. Trust in others and not yourself is
- 318 “Eighty-four: the only sensible solution to a maze is to not enter the maze.” – “Two Hundred Heroic
- 319 “What do you mean, they ‘went around the maze’? Do you have any idea how much it cost us to build th
- 320 “We sowers of ruin, straight-backed and proud, Told them arrant, and arrantly kept our vow: ‘No barg
- 321 “Some acts only have to be committed once to afterwards echo a threat in your every silence.” – Drea
- 322 “The evening before a battle is like an entire nation breathing in. Only morning will tell if what c
- 323 “It is best to count one’s fingers after shaking hands with Praesi.” – Queen Rowena Alban of CallowI
- 324 “Even madmen can win at dice.” – Callowan sayingGeneral Abigail rode poorly, though that was hardly
- 325 “One hundred sixty nine: any companion volunteering to stay behind and hold off a superior enemy wil
- 326 “The price of dominion is the halving of one’s grasp, for a ruler may hold a crown or hand but never
- 327 “Wisdom is a tower built of failure and rue.” – Ashuran sayingIt wasn’t even an hour before the Thir
- 328 “And so the First Under the Night came across a portal where great danger might lurk, and upon witne
- 329 “No plan is beyond dreading the sound of a match being struck.” – Dread Emperor Reprobate the First
- 330 “You should listen to the devil on your shoulder, my friend. I had it nailed onto there for a reason
- 331 “Despise not the treacherous but instead the weak, for while both serve the same purpose where treac
- 332 “My son, the Helikeans insist it is better to live a day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep b
- 333 “Just as planned.” -Inscription on the front gates of the mausoleum of Dread Emperor TraitorousThe l
- 334 “In boldness find salvation, for stillness is the herald of death.” – Princess Beatriz of Salamans,
- 335 “Note: investigation in why sharing a problem is said to halve it remain inconclusive. Perhaps more
- 336 “The middle years of the Uncivil Wars can roughly be described as a series of conflicts fought to de
- 337 “War itself has no worth, as it is a temporary state. War ends, and therefore its fundamental purpos
- 338 “Ah, the classic imperial dilemma: which caused the other, the rebellion or the tiger pit?” – Dread
- 339 “Oh no, please stop wrecking everything! Like that urn in the corner, with the djinn bound inside. N
- 340 “What poison is to medicine, war is to empire: apportionment is the balance of life and death.” – Ex
- 341 “One hundred and twenty one: it can be wise to make a truce with a villain to deal with greater thre
- 342 “And so Triumphant laughed, saying: ‘You spellsingers, wisdom of stars and weavers of fate, know now
- 343 “Ambition without principle is greed, principle without ambition is mediocrity.” – Clodomir Merovins
- 344 “Never once have I betrayed, for such an act first requires the extension of trust.” – Dread Empress
- 345 “Forty-three: if your band is split during a harrowing test set by a villain or ambiguous entity, yo
- 346 “Peace is the killer of empire, for when strength is not spent outwards it is instead spent within.”
- 347 “To keep a friend, avoid sharing these three: coin, cup and crown.” – Nicaean sayingThree times now
- 348 “For the left hand is strife and the right hand is ruin, and only one may be clasped. The worthy tak
- 349 “Thirty-four: it is not graverobbing if it was your destiny to have that artefact, just proactive in
- 350 “The priests lie, my friend. A bargain with a devil does not pervert your meanings, or seek to twist
- 351 “It is the nature of gambling that the scope of one’s victory is proportionate to the scope of all o
- 352 “The Lycaonese are a grim people though not without a dark sort of humour, as became evident when I
- 353 “Habitually treacherous enemies are accomplices to their own destruction.” – King Henry Fairfax, the
- 354 “Forgiveness is a scale balanced, nothing more and nothing less.” – King Edward Fairfax the Fifth, t
- 355 “Grudge is born of blood, carried by it and redressed through it. As they who came before me swore,
- 356 “It is written that the Hidden Horror sent envoy to the Iron King Tancred, threatening that should h
- 357 “We fight not only our own wars but those of our forebears and our children, for we inherit the woun
- 358 “Mastery is meekness, for it is the observation of what we are intended to hold. It is the art of th
- 359 “Fate is not a bridle; it is an arrow in flight. No hand but your own can loose it, yet once loosed
- 360 “At which point Lord Bujune and Lady Rania both accused the other of being the Emperor in disguise,
- 361 “One hundred and two: defeat is inevitable, yet it can be just as useful as a victory. Fate assures
- 362 “You who would be mighty, seek excellence in all things, for the conquest of eternity must be earned
- 363 “Beware of deep passions, for great love may turn in hatred just as great.” – Hesperos the Tepid, At
- 364 “They who first look at the sun will never see aught else.” – Helikean sayingIt was just steel. The
- 365 “Blood freely spilled always offers greater power, for it carries the worth of both the blood and th
- 366 “Of all Praesi I trust least those who come bearing gifts.” – Queen Yolanda of Callow, the Wicked (k
- 367 “Thus the Gods granted us the third boon: no longer would scales close our eyes, obscuring knowledge
- 368 “All law is upheld through violence, but when violence itself becomes the law then only disorder can
- 369 “A victor has a hundred friends, every last born yesterday.” – Helikean sayingAbigail of Summerholm
- 370 “Diplomacy is war without all the clumsiness.” – First Princess Eugénie of LangeIf it came to a figh
- 371 “Negotiation with your ruler, my lord, is like treading the edge of a hidden pit filled with man-eat
- 372 “Count them all, in the snow Red and gold and black as night Count them all, high and low Seven crow
- 373 鈥淎 house can be destroyed by a fortune spent and twenty years of exquisite scheming; or in less than
- 374 “It is said that when his Chancellor told him the scheme to release a culling plague would cause reb
- 375 “In winning a game one may only grasp lesser victory; only in setting the rules may greater victory
- 376 “It was written in faraway Mieza that law is what separates men and beasts. We know better, in Praes
- 377 “All are free, or none. Ye of this land, suffer no compromise in this.” – Inscription on the foundin
- 378 “To repudiate what lies at the heart of Praes – ambition, skill, learning – would be a mistake, yet
- 379 “And after Okoro was taken its King Berengar Rohanon was dragged before the people in the place of F
- 380 “Zarei, of short stride saw the long’s pride and carved, laughing found them wanting: chased into sh
- 381 “Power is as wealth; that which is yours has always been snatched from another.” – Dread Emperor Ve
- 382 “Rebel prisoners, Black Knight? Ah, you must mean the fresh orc rations.” – Dread Emperor Foul I, th
- 383 “Fifty-three: a trusted companion who, after a string of personal disappointments, begins to dress i
- 384 “Note: while the assertion that one’s friends ‘are an anchor’ held up to examination, said individua
- 385 “Trust given is a gift, costing only the giver. Trust earned is in balance, worth as much to earner
- 386 “Without enemy, without backbone.” – Callowan sayingI didn’t even have to say anything.Black had bee
- 387 “A good liar finds every lie a fetter.” – Arlesite sayingIt shouldn’t be possible, I thought. How di
- 388 “Assertion that the end justifies the means in in truth embrace of the Heavens, for it is they who w
- 389 “For light blinds just as surely as the dark, and hatred binds just as surely as love.” – Sherehazad
- 390 “I am told awe is made half of reverence and half of fear. Let us find out, knights of the Callow, i
- 391 “There are only two sorts of freedom to be found in Praes: the tyrant’s freedom, and the freedom to
- 392 “First, gifted: Iron to bind And rope to kill.” -First of the three so-called ‘Mavian Entreaties’, f
- 393 “Fear not faith in the unworthy, for to be fooled is shame only on the undeserving.” – Extract from
- 394 “Second, beholden: Candle to blind And harp to still.” – Second of the three so-called ‘Mavian Entre
- 395 “Here’s the only justice I care to bring across the Vales: a sword in a just hand.” – Queen Elizabet
- 396 “Third, taking: Bone to wind And mirror to fill.” -Third of the three so-called ‘Mavian Entreaties’L
- 397 “There are some who will, for what was writ in this volume, call me traitor. Name me a hater of all
- 398 “Reputation is as a wild horse; gone at a gallop and returned at a trot.” – Arlesite saying“Tell me
- 399 “Poison is the weapon of the trade, knife the weapon of the intimate and sorcery the weapon of war.
- 400 “Trust not oaths: from a liar they are wind, from the true they are needless.” – Penthesian sayingGo