[Transmigration|Dark Fantasy|Alchemy|Taking from the Wicked|A Walking Pig Playing Tiger|Careful Planning]
Adam transmigrates and finds himself from the start in a pile of corpses, with a dead body pinning down his chest and a skinner squatting beside him, cutting up flesh. The skinner even slits the throats of survivors.
In his previous life, he was a low-level salesman whose coworkers stole his clients and who took the blame for his bosses. In this life, he follows one rule: the living take from the dead. Move fast and live; move slow and die.
With a robe that knows how to flatter the living, a skin-bound journal riddled with corruption and infighting, and a silver tongue that can praise the dead as living saints, he makes his way from a corpse pit into a city of power and wealth that belches white smoke.
The nobles look down on his low birth. He smiles as he hands them a contract, then turns around and seizes their lifeline. Alchemists want to use him as a sacrifice in their election, so he turns the altar into his own business. The whole city thinks he's a beggar come to their door, a refugee. No one realizes that the city has already changed hands.
But every bit of power the journal feeds him brings the alchemy genius known as the “Earl,” dead for three hundred years, one step closer to moving back into his body.
