Protective

In Detroit’s neon-lit alleys, art doesn’t just exist, it exposes, manipulates, and controls. Jace Arden discovers that his graffiti manifests people’s hidden memories and fears, making him the most dangerous artist alive. When a shadowy corporation, The Lumen Group, seeks to weaponize his gift, Jace must form fragile alliances, navigate the city’s criminal underbelly, and confront truths about himself he never wanted to face. Every mural he paints risks lives, sanity, and the very soul of the city. In a place where secrets bleed from the walls, how far would you go to survive, and would you still be yourself when it’s over?

"From powerless dropout to god-slayer—power demands sacrifice." Kael Thorne has spent his life as nothing in a world where magic is everything. Expelled from Argentum Academy, mocked by those born with power, invisible in a society that measures worth by magical ability alone. When his estranged grandmother dies, she leaves him a tarnished locket, he remembers her wearing obsessively, whispering to it like a confidante or a curse. Everything changes the night Kael opens the Locket. The locket grants him the impossible, the power to devour others' magical abilities and make them his own. For the first time, Kael tastes what he's been denied. But every theft leaves a trail, every stolen power whispers in his mind, and black veins crawl across his skin like corruption taking root. As the Mage Council hunts him and his victims demand vengeance, Kael uncovers a horrifying truth: his grandmother was the legendary Phantom Thief who massacred seventeen mages decades ago. The locket imprisons an ancient entity called the Devourer—and Kael was born powerless because it drained his magic in the womb, making him the perfect vessel. The entity is waking, fed by every ability Kael steals. He faces an impossible choice: destroy himself to stop it, or embrace what he's becoming. Kael chooses power. He absorbs the Devourer completely, transforming into something beyond human—a dark god who hunts the magical elite and reshapes the world in his image. The Council's gods had their reign. Now Kael will devour them all. In a world built on stolen power, he'll take everything.

[System + Monster evolution + Weak to strong + Catastrophic class Apex progression] I hatched from an egg in a fantasy world with a system screen. I’m not a hero. I’m not even a person anymore. I’m a Helion - the hatchling form of an apex predator, cursed with a hunger that never stops screaming. In this world, if you don’t level up, you’re just meat. And right now? I’m the smallest, most tempting steak in the forest. The System doesn’t care about my morals. It wants me to kill, to evolve, and to climb the weak-to-strong ladder until I’m the one looking down. But every time I sharpen my claws, I feel the human part of me slipping away. Instinct says devour. My conscience says protect. They call me an Alpha - but they’ve never seen a predator who chooses to stand between the monster and the prey. As Helis, the forgotten energy of creation, begins to burn through my veins, the forest is starting to realize I’m not just another beast to be hunted. I’m the one who’s going to change the rules.

Derek Moss finds his wife cheating, leaves her, then runs into a wildfire as a firefighter. While saving two people from a burning building, he rescues an old man who turns out to be Jacob West, a billionaire and Derek’s real father. Derek was kidnapped as a toddler 23 years ago. Suddenly Derek has a rich family, but his coworkers try to ruin his firefighter career with fake reports. Derek fights back with proof and his new family’s help. The coworkers get suspended. Now Derek learns who kidnapped him, cuts ties with his ex-wife, and starts to meet his real dad Jacob. He’s caught between his old life and his new one. Can he ever survive this?

Maeson Monroe is drowning under the heavy weight of massive medical debt. His little sister is fighting for her life in a hospital room, and the steep bills keep piling higher every single day. To the corporate world, Maeson is just a quiet computer technician. He keeps his head down to protect his job. But in the deep shadows of the dark web, he is the most powerful anonymous hacker alive. He alone controls a secret artificial intelligence that could bring strong nations to their knees. He only breaks the law to keep his sick sister breathing. Ava Carter is billionaire royalty and the brilliant lead historian for her father and his massive tech empire. She has unlimited wealth but zero freedom. Ava also holds a fierce grudge. She is obsessed with unmasking the unknown hacker who caused a devastating financial crisis for her family years ago. She has no idea the quiet man fixing her laptop is the exact enemy she has sworn to ruin. Everything shatters when her father unearths an ancient metal cylinder holding a terrifying secret. A careless mistake wakes up a destructive power the ancients called dark magic. Maeson must use his hidden AI to read the code, risking his own life and secret identity. Now, the billionaire heiress and the secret hacker must go on the run. Their only hope is a dangerous global journey to find a magical child born to control the dark energy before the whole world burns down to ash.

Reborn in a frail body, Alaric Vale must master secret martial arts, survive deadly rivals, and rise to ultimate power—where every move decides life, death, and destiny.

On Laurent’s eighteenth birthday, he expects to be awakened to power just like every other person does when infused with their system but his system doesn’t follow the script. Not only was it defective it was also the lowest ranked system making him the weakest. Unfortunately for him, weakness in Elarion was a death sentence. The monsters beyond the borders didn’t care about rankings, and neither did the predators hiding among humans. Cast aside, mocked, and hunted, Laurent soon finds a glitch in his curse: unlike everyone else… he can level up.

Ethan Cole is a broke accountant crushed by inherited debt, a stolen career, and a fiancée who leaves him for a billionaire heir. Framed for embezzlement by his own CEO, publicly beaten by loan sharks, and stripped of his home, Ethan reaches his lowest point and attempts suicide. Instead of dying, he awakens the Infinite Cashback System ... an entity that converts every loss, humiliation, and injury into wealth, skill, or power, the magnitude of the reward matching the depth of the loss. What starts as quiet survival becomes empire-building, as Ethan anonymously buys out the people who destroyed him. As his fortune grows, so does the scale of his enemies: corporate rivals, hidden martial clans, ancient cultivators, and secret rulers who have controlled Earth from the shadows for centuries. Guided by Luna, the System's evolving AI, Ethan discovers his suffering was never random ... his parents' deaths, his humiliations, even the System itself were engineered as part of a cosmic selection process to produce the next Universal Administrator. As Earth is revealed to be a mere "beginner planet" in a vast interstellar hierarchy, Ethan must decide whether to become a tool of that system or dismantle it entirely ... using the very power his losses created to free countless worlds from the cycle of exploitation that shaped him.

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.

Maximus Aurum Zenith, the Illegitimate child of the Zenith Family.. Maximus was content with just that, but who would thought that the Zenith Family will sever ties with him on his wedding day. Now taken in by his wife's family, the Richardsons, Maximus became a live-in son-in-law. When it dawned on the Richardsons that the Zenith Family was never going to call back Maximus, their attitude towards became cold as ice, and eventually, as soon as his wife goes into labor, the Richardsons devised a scheme and got Maximus killed, and then they spread the news that Maximus ran off. But death wasn't the end. Due to the nature of his death, Maximus awakens a system, the Dovahkiin System which contains the powers of every ancient dragons that has ever lived. With a means to acquire cash and skills with every quest he completes, Maximus sets a course to recover all he had lost, especially his wife and the daughter he hadn't seen. Action packed, thriller, full of suspense, massive vulgarity and uncensored brutal killing scene. Dragonborn: Dovahkiin System.