Novels by GRACE

In the war-scarred realm of Valecross, every sixteen-year-old awakens a Spirit Gift, except Liam Cross. Branded The Powerless, mocked, and hunted in Ravenhold Academy, he’s destined for failure. Until one night, a black crystal pendant, the last relic of his mother, shatters awake. Inside it stirs a forbidden System unlike any ever seen. It tracks his strength, speed, and quests like a living game. As Liam secretly grows stronger, dark forces begin to move, rivals who fear him, and a prophecy that calls him the Echo Chosen, the one who will either save Valecross... or destroy it. When monsters from the Rift return to devour the academy, Liam must decide: Embrace the Shadow System, or let the same monsters that took his family make him lose everything.

Beaten, branded, and left to die in the ruins of a fallen city, Kael Thorn should have been forgotten, another nameless slave buried under dust and debt. But when lightning strikes the ground beside him, a strange voice awakens in his mind: “System of Judgment Activated. Sin Level: 0. Begin the Trial.” Every injustice he exposes gives him strength. Every corrupt soul he judges feeds the power within. From the gutters of the empire to the throne of its ruin, Kael must choose, become the hand of justice or the monster the world made him. Because in a land where sins are currency, even redemption demands blood.

In the Empire of Solara, magic is biology. You are either born with a "Core," or you are "Dross"—worthless commoners used as disposable labor. But Drogo Vance is worse than Dross; he is a "Null." His body acts as a magical void, a condition that makes him a pariah, useful only as a living sponge to absorb toxic magical waste for the highborn. Drogo endures the agonizing poison of the nobility’s excess magic for one reason: to buy medicine for his dying mother and shield his gifted younger sister, Elara, from the Academy’s predatory recruitment. But when an arrogant Duke’s son uses Drogo for target practice and pushes him into the Chasm of Forgotten Gods—a pit where raw magic goes to die—Drogo does not perish. In the crushing dark, his Null physiology resonates with an ancient, sealed entity. [System Initialization: The Abyssal Archive Awakened.] [Host Attribute 'Null' detected. Conversion: Infinite Capacity.] [Legacy Unlocked: The God of Entropy.] Drogo returns not as a mage who borrows power, but as a predator who devours it. He can strip a Grand Wizard of their magic with a touch and turn their own spells into dust. The "Good Commoner" died in the pit. The "God-Slayer" has risen, and he is very, very hungry.

In the history books, General Silas Kapito was known as the "God of War"—a man who unified a fractured continent through sheer tactical brilliance and unmatched hand-to-hand combat mastery. He didn't use magic; he used physics, anatomy, and absolute ruthlessness. He died of old age, undefeated. He awakens three centuries later in the body of Kian, a "Dreg" (lowest caste) at the prestigious Valhalla Military Academy. Kian is a malnourished, debt-ridden cadet known as the Academy’s punching bag, kept alive only to serve as a sparring dummy for the elite "Augmented" nobility who rely on steroids and cybernetic implants to fight. Trapped in a frail body that can barely throw a punch, Silas realizes the world has grown weak, relying on technology and drugs rather than true skill. Now, he must rebuild Kian’s body using the lost "breathing arts" of the ancients (extreme oxygenation and adrenaline control). He will not just survive the bullying; he will dismantle the Academy’s hierarchy bone by bone, proving that a true God of War needs no augmentation to rule.