Alternate Universe

The world looks ordinary cities, schools, streets filled with noise and neon but behind the veil lurks a truth few can see. Mystics walk among us, monsters stir in shadows, and ancient powers wait to be claimed. Mordaine Carrowell is a nobody. Overlooked, mocked, forgotten. Until a forgotten pendant in his parents’ abandoned home awakens the impossible inside him: the Aetherflame, a forbidden magic that fuses fire, wind, and spirit. Now hunted by Inquisitors and feared by mystics alike, Mordaine is thrust into a hidden war of relics, betrayal, and monsters. Guided by a scarred mentor and joined by a stubborn ally, he must master the fire that could save the world or burn it to ash. In a world of swords, sorcery, and secrets, even a forgotten boy can rise with mystic power.

Rhys died on Terra Prime, only to wake in a room, face to face with the Arbiter of the Trial System. Chosen. Marked. Offered power beyond anything mortals should touch. Before he can question it, the Arbiter’s smile shifts. His class is forced. His future is locked. And an alert flashes: 《Warning: Your Terra Prime body is dead. Chosen safety life spent. One life remaining.》 Thrown into the Trials with a dying body, a predatory System, and a class built for assassination over glory, Rhys quickly learns the truth: The Arbiter doesn’t pick heroes. He picks weapons. In a cosmic game where the System lies, the Trials kill, and every “Chosen” is a disposable pawn, Rhys has only two choices: Obey the Arbiter… or become powerful enough to break him. Rhys’s Mark begins stacking hidden bonuses—letting him steal power meant for the Overlords themselves. In a world where mortals are cattle, he becomes the glitch the system can’t predict. To escape the Trials, he must outplay the Dominion, topple the Overlords, and rewrite the contract that enslaved Terra Prime. But to break the game, he has to become exactly what they fear: The ninth Overlord. The one who answers to no one. A dark progression fantasy filled with deadly Trials, evolving skills, hidden conspiracies, and a protagonist who refuses to stay a pawn. Because some Chosen rise to greatness But only one becomes the Overlord.

“Attention, everyone,” The reporter's voice cut through the air on the television and radio. “A severe thunderstorm with extreme lightning will hit the city tonight. The metrological department predicts that this lightning is likely to produce a high-power outage. Please, everyone, stay indoors and avoid unnecessary travel. Be safe.”  Within a few minutes, the warning became a reality. A massive lightning strike split the sky with a loud noise lasting for 5 minutes. Everyone in the house squeezed their eyes shut, clamping their hands over their ears in primal fear.   Then, just as suddenly, everything went blank--- Not just the lights, but all sensation, leaving only a profound darkness and death silence.  When their eyes opened, everything seemed dark, no buildings, no vehicles, no familiar faces--- only the towering trees of a dense forest surrounded them.    Before the confusion could completely overwhelm them.  The beam of light flashed in the dark, and an AI automatic voice announced: “Welcome to Game of Earth Signs”. "Earth Signs Game" story based on psychological thriller and survival. 250+ people are trapped in a deadly arena, forced to survive terrifying challenges based on Water, Air, Fire, Sky, and Land, including puzzles, riddles, memory tests, and brutal physical trials.

Alvin woke up from his sleep in the middle of an arena in another world without knowing the reason. After gathering information, Alvin found out that he now has a new name, Arthfael, and he must defeat an SSSSS-class monster named Krakensaur to return to his own world. At first, he didn't believe it, but when he tried to commit suicide, he woke up again in that world and felt pain all over his body. Finally, he was determined to reach the highest level in order to fight Krakensaur and return to his world.Will Arthfael be able to defeat Krakensaur and return to his world?

Aaron is a mechanic who fixes cars, he doesn't have a house to sleep in, so he slept in the cars he couldn't fix. Then he help a bleeding old man out of a wrecked bus. The man wasn't human. He was a forgotten god of hearth and home, hunted by the Landlords — a secret cabal of slumlords who got rich by feeding on tenant misery. For saving him, the god rewards Aaron with the Landlord System. Rule one: Kill a landlord. Rule two: Take his deed. Rule three: Inherit his building, his money, his enemies, and his sins. First kill gets him a roach-filled tenement and fists that can punch through brick. Kill fifty gets him a skyline. Kill them all and he becomes the Landlord God. The city has 1,000 landlords on the list. Aaron starts with a wrench and an eviction notice. He plans to own it all.

David Pakati is a college freshman looking to find love and peace on the social scene. When he is rejected by the girl he loves, he spirals not only into depression but into another world!

Dumped by his girlfriend, Ares Jones went to an ancient artifact excavation site with his uncle, a famous archaeologist, to distract his mind. Unexpectedly, an accident made Ares fall into the abyss. When he woke up, Ares was in a very different world, and he was in the body of a ten-year-old boy named Rex Hito. Over time, Ares realized that he was in a world where everyone had magical powers. Rex Hito was an orphan from the Flaming Totem tribe who continually failed to awaken his powers. Rex's father was considered a traitor and never returned after finding an heirloom called the Grand Flaming Core. Ares tried to return to his own world, but he was forced to face many dangers and conflicts, and fight many enemies. The mystery of Rex's father, the gods that invaded the Totem world, and the beasts that eroded the strength of the Totem Warriors will confront Ares on his journey to become the strongest Totem Warrior. However, can he return to his own world?

In the broken continent of Averis, glory is currency—and humiliation is a death sentence. Max Partey was born in chains. Beaten in the alleys of Freeport, sold between masters, and forgotten by the world, he is nothing more than another slave waiting to die. Until the night the System awakens within him. It offers power. Not for heroism. Not for mercy. But for revenge. Every injustice he endures fuels his strength. Every humiliation becomes Glory Points, and the chains that once bound him become his deadliest weapon. As Max rises from the slums to the grand arenas of Auravale and the war-torn kingdoms beyond, he gathers unlikely allies—an exiled strategist, a silver-tongued diplomat, and a warrior who fights like a storm in chains. But power always attracts monsters. A ruthless noble named Veylan Corvaris is climbing toward godhood, feeding on the same System that fuels Max. Kingdoms crumble, Rift Beasts pour into the world, and the truth behind the System threatens to shatter everything. Because the voice guiding Max…might not be a god. It might be himself. And to save the world, the man who rose through glory may have to destroy the very power that made him unstoppable.

He woke up in a city that doesn’t forget—but he remembers nothing. With a name that isn’t his, hunted by ghosts that wear familiar faces, and a past stitched into someone else’s war, Ethan Vale must navigate Echelon City’s labyrinth of lies to reclaim who he is. But the truth may be the deadliest weapon in a world built on deception. In the game of Lazarus, the first one to remember dies.

He failed magic school. Now he's repeating it... for eternity. Trapped in a time loop at a prestigious academy, Elian has centuries to master every spell, solve every secret, and become the perfect mage. But the headmaster guards this eternal prison. The girl he loves forgets him every reset. And the academy's greatest secret is about to break free. To escape the loop, he must graduate. But passing his finals might doom the world.