Alternate Universe

Elias Cross wanted nothing more than to disappear. Once the city’s most brilliant forensic architect, he vanished after a scandal that destroyed his career. But when an old friend turns up dead — and the body is staged inside one of Elias’s abandoned designs — he’s pulled back into a world he swore he’d left behind. Each crime scene is a building. Each building is a clue. Each clue points to an impossible blueprint for the city’s destruction. With only a reckless journalist and a washed-up detective by his side, Elias must outwit a ghostly mastermind known only as The Mason. But as the city becomes a maze of deadly puzzles, Elias discovers the final design isn’t about buildings. It’s about him.

Silence. Like a nice bucket of shhhhhhhhh. Everyone shut the effing fudge UP! That's all I've ever wanted. *Sigh.* But silence comes in different flavors. There's mint - the peaceful kind that wraps around you like a blanket. The kind I chase at 2 AM. I've cried once. Just once. With a bucket beside me, watching heroes with super suits and impossible strength tear each other apart. Somehow that feels less broken than my reality. Then there's the suffocating silence at school. Not an ice cream flavor. This one tastes like metal and shame. High school is my personal hell. Empty wallet, empty lunch tray, empty seat beside me like I'm radioactive. Empty soul on Wednesdays because middles are always the worst. *The usual.* But Emily made the silence bearable. Mint-flavored again. Until she broke something between us. *Snap.* One moment she's whispering secrets with me, the next she's weaponizing them. She scattered my private thoughts, added her own twisted lies. The betrayal burns hotter than the stares drilling into my back. I went from invisible to spectacle. Being a ghost feels like luxury when you're dodging spit balls and "accidental" lunch trays. But somewhere between my third panic attack and contemplating switching schools... *Something shifted.* Like in those games you play, when your character suddenly glows and the screen flashes: "New Skill Unlocked" And it wasn't just in my head. I tested it. Small things at first – a pencil moving across my desk when I focused hard enough. Then books. Then someone's lunch tray right as they walked past Emily. *tap tap tap* I used to think rock bottom was the end. *Well ladies and gentlemen,* it's just a really messed up spawn point. And now? I don't stumble from cliffs anymore. I swim in gravity, and dive head first.

In Halcyon, every crime hides a code. Adrian Cross, a disgraced cryptanalyst, wanted nothing more than to fade into obscurity. But when a string of murders leaves cryptic puzzles etched into the city’s walls, he’s pulled into a deadly game only he can solve. Partnered with Detective Iris Navarro, Adrian unravels a web of secrets spanning law enforcement, corporate power, and his own past. Each cipher cracked saves a life—but also reveals another victim. As the bodies pile up and the codes point closer to Adrian’s family, he realizes the truth: The city itself is a message. And decoding it may cost him everything. In Halcyon, knowledge isn’t just power—it’s survival.

In the current world, all that Hakim wished to achieve was survival, for everything had changed one day, and monsters began to roam the Earth, causing havoc left and right. Setting out on his own, he was unaware of what he would face in the outside world. It all happened before he could react, and from an abandoned neighborhood, he had stumbled across something that wasn't from Earth to begin with. Whether it was an alien or something else, he had no idea, but from that encounter, something about him changed. He could no longer come out during the day time. He could no longer eat normal food. And now, all he had was the desire to consume human flesh to survive. [Quest Received] [You have three days left till you die!] [Consume human flesh to replenish your body!] The Demon must do whatever it takes to survive in the new world.

The gods and deities could do nothing about it as they too prepared themselves for the future armageddon. Knowing it will be tougher than this, they too sent messengers to earth in the hope of acquiring an earthly army too. ***** The world is doomed as Iblis believes that leading humans into immortality will lead to freedom for both ethereal and mortals but an unknown existence, one feared by gods comes into existence to wipe out the earth. Read Exiled from the Heavens to know what will happen when a savior so similar to Christ yet so different in the ways of Godliness leads an army against a supreme being believed to be the creator!

Konoha lost her memories due to some mysterious accident. Waking up only remembering a few of her memories, Konoha decided to travel, hoping to discover her lost memories. However, fate has a different plan for her as she uncovers the truth that no one would expect.

A young man, broke because of his ex-wife's betrayal, is given a system that will give him unimaginable wealth after he completes a series of trivial tasks. Jack Eldrone must endure immense heartache and shame when his ex-wife is crowned Businesswoman of the Year with the fortune she secretly took from him. Desperate, Jack contemplates giving up on a life of futility, when one day a mysterious man arrives with an offer he finds absurd... Travel to another world and become a special bodyguard! "If you complete the mission successfully, not only your ex-wife, but even the richest man in the country will bow down before you!" Will Jack refuse the offer? But if he does accept, will he be able to complete his mission?

Hans Ronald is the only son of Mr Ronald, the multi trillionaire, who's the richest man in the city. Hans is known by everyone to be the pampered and beloved heir of the Ronalds family and he's always been protected all his life. He's good looking, smart and every girls' dream guy. One day, his parents are taken down by men in black, leaving Hans with trillions of dollars, but since his parents' protection are gone, he's vulnerable and weak…he realizes that someone is after him, certainly the same person that killed his parents. He stumbles upon immeasurable power when he finds a secret book and unlocks a system, he swears to get revenge on the enemy, but what if the enemy is someone he loves?.

Jared, who was plugged in and had just entered the Virtual Reality (VR) game, was sucked into another world一 assumingly, the game world that held a strong resemblance to his original world aside from several differences. Similar to the original world, there was a deadly flu-like virus that was being spread. The pandemic resulted in many deaths and after months, several types of vaccines were finally cultivated. However, in the new world, one of those vaccines was corrupted which led to the creation of a mutation in the human body一 a zombie virus. Fighting to survive against many odds, Jared who is an average college student that loves playing games, will need to also find a way back to his world or he may just not survive for long.

Wild Taiga, a land of barbarians and legendary monsters that people can only believe in. A great place for those who want to get lost, and Cres would really like to be forgotten about forever. At the other end of the boundless Taiga, the mysterious Alchemist is hiding, the only one who can return the lost mind and future to Kres' beloved. But on their heels are hordes of drovers, thirsting for revenge for what the fugitives dared to do. And take away the key that can open the long-awaited hunt for those who for many centuries have been confident in their immortality.