Wrong Target

Kumah is a young boy living in Africa, unaware of the rare and powerful gift he possesses - the Beast Vessel. The vessel grants him extraordinary abilities and makes him a target for the European colonizers, who seek to take the vessel for themselves and harness its power. As Kumah flees from the Europeans, he meets other Africans who offer to help him. However, he soon realizes that not all of them are on his side. Some of the Africans are involved in the same schemes as the Europeans, and will betray Kumah if given the opportunity. Kumah must use his wits and the powers of the Beast Vessel to outmaneuver his enemies and protect himself from those who seek to use him for their own gain. Along the way, he encounters various obstacles and enemies, including fierce wild animals and treacherous individuals. Despite the dangers he faces, Kumah remains determined to protect the Beast Vessel and keep it out of the hands of those who would use it for evil. As he struggles to survive and stay one step ahead of his enemies, Kumah learns the true value of friendship and loyalty, and the importance of standing up for what is right. Will Kumah be able to outmaneuver those who seek to use him for their own gain, or will the Beast Vessel fall into the hands of those who would use its power for evil?

Dylan Grenville, once the head of the world’s most powerful alliance, gave up his empire to protect his wife, Jane, and their daughter, Molly. Hiding his true identity, he chose a quiet life, only to be ridiculed by Jane and everyone around him for being a "nobody." Labeled a failure, Dylan faces constant scorn as Jane basks in the success he secretly ensured for her. But when their marriage collapses and Dylan decides to step away, the truth begins to surface—revealing the man everyone underestimated as the mastermind behind the city's most influential forces. Now, Dylan is ready to reclaim his power, and those who belittled him will come to realize they were mocking the wrong man.

For twenty years, Raka Adhikara was the family's best-kept secret — the adopted son who ran the empire from the shadows while getting none of the credit and less of the love. Then a stranger walked in with a DNA test and a claim: he was the real son, missing for twenty-five years. The family believed him instantly. His fiancée stopped looking Raka in the eye. And the only thing more painful than being replaced was watching how easily he'd always been replaceable. So Raka did the one thing no one expected. He left — quietly, completely, without asking anyone to stop him. What the family doesn't know is that the DNA was never wrong. It just belonged to the wrong son.

Three years ago, Adrian Cross vanished rather than stand trial for a double murder on Ashford Street, a crime he swears he never committed. He has spent every year since running, until a four-word anonymous letter, He knows you're alive, pulls him back before dawn, straight into a second crime scene staged with details from Ashford Street that were never made public. Journalist Elena Marlowe catches the connection first and starts digging, aided by her forensic-science friend Maya Bennett, uncovering a pattern of buried, near-identical crimes stretching back years. Detective Marcus Hale, who built the original case against Adrian, finds his own certainty cracking, even as his chief demands the case close fast and stay closed. Adrian's brother Noah guards a secret bought at a terrible price, one tied to a name absent from every file: Elias Voss. Businessman Victor Raines, long suspected, may actually be the next target, not the mastermind. As Elena and Adrian's paths collide and betrayals surface among those meant to protect him, they must expose a killer always one move ahead, before the next body falls, and before dawn reveals a truth that could destroy them all.

Ren Kestrel is a "Zero". With a mocking 0.00% gene rank, he is the lowest outcast at the Vanguard Military Academy, used as a human pack mule and bait for the elite students. In a world run by military mega-corporations and cosmic abilities, your genetic aptitude is everything. But during a dungeon disaster, Ren is left behind and locked in the dark to die. Pinned to the floor by a terrifying Abyssal Stalker, Ren refuses to go out quietly. In a final act of pure rage, he jams a pulsing, corrupted monster core straight into his own bleeding chest wound. Instead of dying, a cold, mechanical chime echoes inside his skull: [99.9% Gene-Void Match Found. Welcome to the Devourer System, Host.] [Current Hunger: 100%. Target locked. Begin feeding?] Now, Ren holds a terrifying secret: a system that lets him permanently steal the strength, reflexes, and unique elemental skills of anything — or anyone — he consumes. To survive the high council's execution squads, Ren must play the part of a weak, clumsy F-rank cadet. But as the academy's top noble heirs try to use him as a pawn in their family proxy wars, they quickly realize a dark truth. They haven't caught a dog on a leash. They have locked themselves in a cage with an apex predator. [The universe abhors a vacuum. You are the Void. Begin the harvest.]

Thirteen years ago, twelve-year-old Zale Alden walked into his family’s limestone estate to find a slaughterhouse. His parents and older brother lay cold on a blood-soaked Persian rug, brutally executed days after a major corporate expansion. Only his six-year-old sister, Lyra, survived—hidden in a floorboard hollow, catatonic with fear. Taken out of the country by a ruthless family ally, Zale was forged into an elite weapon in the freezing concrete training camps of Montenegro. He learned four languages, mastered corporate law, and trained his body to be a silent, precise executioner. Now, he is back. To his unsuspecting Aunt Vivienne and her powerful husband, Gerald—the corporate snake who secretly signed the execution order—Zale is just a spoiled, clumsy playboy heir returning from an elite Alpine boarding school. He plays the fool flawlessly, offering weak handshakes and empty smiles while counting the security guards in the room. But behind the mask, Zale carries a folded list of names written in his own steady hand. The corporate empire his father built has been stolen, and Zale isn’t here to reclaim it. He is here to eliminate every single soul responsible for the blood on his childhood floor. The countdown has begun, and the first target has no idea he's already dead.

Dante Moretti's world shatters in a single night. Fired from his job, he arrives at his wife's birthday party only to witness the ultimate betrayal—Giulia kissing Leonardo Greco, his former boss, in front of everyone. "This was never going to work. We're from different worlds," Giulia says coldly, flaunting the emerald ring that replaced Dante's wedding band. Her mother delivers the final blow: "Giulia is pregnant. With Leonardo's child, of course." Homeless and broken, Dante is kidnapped by a mysterious woman who drops an impossible truth: "You're my brother. The long-lost heir to Apex Crown Holdings." His real name is Ryan Ricci. The "worthless" husband is actually a billionaire heir. "I don't want handouts," Dante tells his dying sister Selena and bedridden father Pietro. "I want to earn it." Going undercover as a lowly employee in his own company, Dante begins his transformation. But Leonardo and Giulia are plotting to manipulate the "naive" new heir, unaware their target is the man they destroyed. "Naive people are easy to manipulate, don't you think?" Leonardo smirks. He has no idea who's really playing whom. When the scorned rises from the ashes, everyone pays.

"Just leave him. He’s a scavenger—his life is worth less than the loot he carries." Those were the last words Lucian heard before his teammates slammed the dungeon’s iron doors, leaving him broken and bleeding in the dark. To the world’s elite Hunters, Lucian was just a "human trash bag," a Rank-F nobody meant to clean up their messes. But as the monsters closed in to feast on his flesh, a cold, mechanical voice echoed in his mind: [Ding! Life Force at 1%. Survival Instinct Detected.] [The God-Level Scavenger System is initializing...] [Target Detected: Corpse of a High-Rank Demon.] [Would you like to 'Recycle' it? (Y/N)] With nothing left to lose, Lucian reached out. [Recycle Successful! You have gained: 1,000+ Strength and the SSS-Rank Skill: Abyssal Devourer!] While others fight for glory, Lucian grows stronger by picking up what they throw away. Broken legendary swords? Recycle into Divine Artifacts. Trash-tier mana stones? Synthesize into Origin Cores. The corpses of gods? Extract their immortality. Now, Lucian is returning from the abyss. He isn't just coming back to survive—he's coming back to recycle every Hunter who ever looked down on him. "You called me trash? Fine. Let me show you how a scavenger cleans up the world."

Mathias is not a clown. He just doesn't want to be away from Alicia, his weak sister. Unfortunately, Cindy being his girlfriend was a point to make him a mockery. It was like the Beast loving the Princess. And Ryvel is the one who dislikes Mathias' closeness to the noble Cindy the most. Everything changed in the blink of an eye when the Demon Army invaded the Land of Purbha. Mathias loses Alicia, discovers that Cindy is having an affair with Ryvel, and becomes the target of the monsters. But the heavens had not destined Mathias to die. In great pain, he found a unique crystal in a cave. The crystal not only healed him miraculously but also gave him unlimited great power, provided, he had to kill every alpha of the monsters and absorb their souls. He returned as a different person to everyone's amazement, also discovering that his sister had been made into a prostitute by Ryvel. Alicia eventually died in Mathias' arms, and Mathias became enraged, becoming everyone's enemy. He killed every single one of them who had ever hurt Alicia. His pursuit of Ryvel leads him to many parts of the world until he ends up in Svarnabhumi. Getting revenge isn't as easy as it seems. Here, Mathias must face trials, temptations, and death.

Ten thousand years ago, the God of War was murdered by the people he trusted most. Now he's back. He woke up in the wrong body ...weak, mocked, disposable. Kai Ashborn is the servant everyone ignores, the disciple everyone forgets. But something is cracking open inside him. Ancient power. Ancient rage. Ancient memories of a throne that was stolen and a war that never truly ended. He won't announce himself. He won't beg for respect. He'll simply rise. And when the heavens finally realize what's walking among them again, it will already be too late to run. The God of War doesn't ask for his crown back. He takes it.