Adler Cold War

In a world where magic is everything and bloodline is destiny, one boy was born with nothing. Aethoria is a continent fractured by war five rival kingdoms each anchored to a unique form of elemental magic drawn from the Aeths, crystallized veins of life force buried deep in the earth. For a thousand years, the kingdoms coexisted in uneasy balance. Then the Solmere Empire began to burn. Karl Dun is seventeen years old when his village is set alight. He is a commoner, an orphan, and worst of all in Aethoria Aethless: tested twice and found hollow, incapable of bonding with any elemental magic. In a society where your Aeth-bond determines your value, your rank, and your right to dream, Karl has been told since childhood that he is nothing. But when a Solmere fire-officer seizes his wrist during the burning of Durnholt, something impossible happens. Karl absorbs the man's fire-Aeth. Not copies it. Not borrows it. Takes it and the fire burns in his veins as though it has always been there. Forced to flee into the cursed Grey wood forest, Karl encounters Sera ..a disgraced Deaven shadow mage wanted in four kingdoms who recognizes what he is before he does. She calls his ability Mirroring: the rarest, most feared power in Aethoria's history, last recorded three hundred years ago in the mage who ended the First Kingdom War. The empire hunts Mirrors above all else because a Mirror cannot be defeated by magic. A Mirror becomes magic. As the Solmere Arbiters close in and the other kingdoms begin to mobilize, Karl must learn to control a power he does not understand, survive an alliance with a woman whose loyalties are her own, and decide whether the prophecy that named him the Hollow King, the Aethless

Vance was born to bleed. In the neon lit gutters of Veridian City, he survives by taking brutal beatings as a sparring partner for elite underground martial artists. He has zero power, no money, and a massive syndicate debt hanging over his head. When a rigged deathmatch goes wrong, Vance is tossed into a wet alley with a shattered spine and a punctured lung. As his vision fades and the cold rain washes his blood away, a cold mechanical voice echoes in his mind. System Initialized. Lethal Damage Detected. Activating Extraction Protocol. Vance does not just heal. He awakens with the terrifying ability to extract the stats, combat skills, and hidden memories of anyone he defeats. The weak, pathetic punching bag is gone forever. In his place stands a predator. His first target is the fight club boss who left him for dead. His next target is the entire corrupt underworld of Veridian City. They thought they buried a nobody. They actually unleashed a system bound monster. Now, every single enemy he crushes only makes him stronger, faster, and deadlier. The entire city will soon learn to fear his new name. He will consume all their stolen power without mercy.

Five years ago, Ethan Hayes was celebrated as the nation's youngest Supreme Commander. Then, during a classified mission, he and his eleven commanders vanished without a trace. The government declared them heroes who died in service. History moved on. Only one man knows the truth. They were betrayed. Living under a false identity, Ethan abandons his glorious past to protect the woman he loves. But on the day she publicly divorces him, calling him a worthless husband, the fragile life he built finally shatters. The world believes Ethan is a failure. His enemies believe he is dead. Both are about to discover the truth. When a routine identity check triggers an alert buried for five years, powerful generals, billionaire tycoons, intelligence agencies, and criminal syndicates realize that the man they erased from history has returned. Now, the commander who lost everything must uncover the conspiracy that murdered his brothers, exposed the corruption at the highest levels of power, and recover the legendary Sovereign Ledger—a secret capable of bringing nations to their knees. But every answer comes with a new betrayal, and the greatest enemy waiting in the shadows is the man Ethan once respected more than anyone else. Because some wars never truly end. And history has a way of reclaiming the heroes it tried to erase.

Twenty years after returning to his city to find those responsible for the death of his mother, find the girl that saved his life years back, and settle scores, Hudderson is ridiculed by everyone for his ordinary looks. Spat upon and threatened like trash. Unknown to everyone, he was actually the Supreme Ruler, under his feet, even the seven War Gods of Mog trembled. The reason why anyone in Mog was still alive.

Betrayed by his half-brother, Zhao Long is killed in the Great Celestial War and his throne is usurped by his immortal enemy, Shen Yorn. After a hundred years, Zhao Long is reborn in the mortal world as Zi Han, an ordinary college student with no memories of his previous life. The orphan Zi Han is ridiculed and humiliated by everyone around him until one fateful night he runs into the notorious Black Dragon gang and discovers his true legacy. After learning about his past, Zi Han sets out on a path of revenge, swearing to crush his enemies and become the wealthiest and most powerful man in the country of Tenzing. His ultimate goal is to ascend to the rank of a Jade Immortal and return to the Celestial Realm to rescue his imprisoned wife and reclaim his throne. "I am the Supreme Dragon who soars above all. Even the heavens shall tremble before my might, and those who betrayed me will pay a thousandfold for their sins!"

Three years ago, Daniel Cooper sacrificed everything for the woman he loved, taking the blame for a crime committed by her brother. But when he finally walked out of prison, all he received was a divorce agreement, humiliation, and betrayal. Everyone thought he was a disgraced ex-convict with nothing left. They never knew that during those three years, Daniel had become a a man powerful enough to shake the world. Now, the family that abandoned him will learn the truth too late: Daniel Cooper is no longer someone they can trample on.

Elias Cross was only nineteen when his life was stolen. Recruited for a robbery rigged to fail, he was abandoned at the scene as police swarmed, left to take the fall for a crime he didn’t plan. He was served thirty years but Elias refused to settle. Outside, Marcus the man who destroyed his life thrived, convinced his control was absolute but Elias escaped after five years and he returned not as a pawn, but as a storm waiting to strike. A high-stakes hijacking presents the perfect opportunity for the reckoning he’s been planning for years. What Marcus never realized is that the loyalty he demanded could be turned into a weapon. And this time, the one he thought he controlled holds all the cards.

Jack Hardy, a legendary ex-mercenary runs into the beautiful heiress Juliet Forbes on a blind date. Unaware of Jack's background, she offers him a marriage contract for a substitute husband. The Forbes family and their enemies think the son-in-law is a loser who can be bullied or beaten down. They have no idea Jack Hardy is the apex predator of the world... Do read my other novels: -The Peerless Man With A Thousand Gifts -The Gilded Man With A Thousand Lives -Leo Gambino A Thousand Foes -Eve Of A Thousand Wakes

“I always collect my debts. But starting today, I also collect lives here in the Imperial City." Six years ago, a terrified busboy fled the Imperial City with a target on his back after a one night stand with a wealthy heiress. Today, Rowan Lachlan returns not as a fugitive, but as the Iron Lord—the supreme commander of the Ashen Spine. He only came back to the city to honor a promise to the heiress. But when he discovers that the city's corrupt aristocrats are brutally abusing her and the twin sons he never knew he had, his mission changes from repayment to absolute annihilation. The billionaires and elite families of the Imperial City think they still rule the world. With a flick of his finger, the Underestimated War God is about to show them what true, untouchable power looks like.

“You're so weak, it's disgusting…pathetic, loser…you're a disgrace to the gods.” Stigma, rejection, scorn…he wears it like a cloak. Neglected and ostracized for being weak and cursed, he becomes the Outcast. Boom!!! Tragedy struck! His weakness makes him only thing he had left. On the verge of death, he undergoes a transformation. He revives, with the one thing he's longed for the most. POWER!! How does this cannon event spur him? Does he take back what's rightfully his? How would this revenge story play out?!