Blood Assimilation

Three years ago, Mathew Stone lost everything. Once feared on the battlefield as the legendary War King, he chose to bury his identity and live as nothing more than a powerless live-in son-in-law. Mocked by everyone and abandoned by the woman he loved, Mathew appeared to be a man with no ambition, no influence, and no future. But appearances can be deceiving. Behind his quiet life lies a secret buried beneath blood and betrayal. Years ago, the Stone family was wiped out in a single night. The massacre erased one of the most powerful families in existence, leaving no survivors—or so the world believed. Now, after years of hiding in plain sight, Mathew discovers a trail leading back to the people responsible. His search begins with a mysterious poison, a comatose old man who holds the truth, and nine rare medicinal treasures scattered across a world controlled by unseen forces. The deeper Mathew digs, the more he realizes that the enemies who destroyed his family are far more powerful than he imagined. Hidden behind wealth, influence, and respectability is an ancient network that has manipulated nations, businesses, and powerful families from the shadows for decades. As forgotten secrets begin to surface, powerful figures start to fall. Criminal empires collapse overnight. Elite families panic. Assassins emerge from the darkness. And for the first time in years, whispers begin to spread. The War King has returned.

Thrown out of the palace as a helpless child, Kayan knew nothing of his bloodline, nothing of the kingdom he was meant to inherit. Marked with the royal sign on his body an unmistakable birthright he lived nineteen years in obscurity, raised by a stranger who showed him kindness when his own family turned away. But fate does not forget. When Kayan returns to the palace, not as a prince but as a lowly cleaner, destiny begins to stir. A chance encounter with his grieving father reveals the truth: the boy once lost is the heir long sought after. The kingdom rejoices at his return, and his father’s heart finally heals. But beneath the celebration lies a darkness waiting to strike. The Queen his stepmother, who cast him out years ago wears her smile like a mask while plotting his death. His mother, haunted by guilt for nearly two decades, vows to protect him at all costs. And amid the shadows of revenge, Kayan finds love in the most unlikely of places a fellow cleaner girl with a secret of her own. Together, they must navigate the treacherous palace walls where betrayal hides behind silk curtains and loyalty is a dangerous gamble. As power shifts, old wounds reopen, and blood ties are tested, one question remains: Can the forgotten heir survive the crown that was always his?

Cole Bennett was fired in the rain for the crime of being poor, trusting, and exactly who they needed him to be. They stole his work, his status, and his wife, believing they had finally disposed of him. They were mistaken. Cole Bennett was never real. He was Cassian Ferrer, the last blood of a dynasty that had been watching the city from behind a mask for a generation—and the marriage that ended him was never his life; it was a long-term assignment. Until it became something else. He froze their engagement with a single legal move and dismantled a boardroom coward, turning him into a man with nothing left to lose—the most dangerous thing in Cavendish. The Ledger, which had controlled the city's secrets for three generations, failed to survive Cassian’s patience, his grandmother’s final letter, or the woman who had trained beside him since childhood and never required him to choose which version of himself was the truth. Cavendish now belongs to him. He does not negotiate, and he does not forgive; he waits, he watches, and then he brings things to an end so quietly the city barely notices the change until it is already finished. When the dust finally settles, only two figures remain in the dark: The ruler of the empty throne, and the woman who was never his handler—only ever his equal.

In the dark heart of Havencroft, where shadows rule and blood stains every deal, trust is hard to come by, and betrayal is always around. Enzo "Ghost" Dalca was never meant to be more than a faceless enforcer for the city's most ruthless crime families. Enzo was quiet, untouchable, and deadly. His only loyalty was to his mentor, the old kingpin who taught him everything he knows. But when that mentor is killed in a ruthless power grab, Enzo is set up for the crime and left to rot. Now, all the groups in Havencroft want to kill him. Enzo finds a web of corruption that is much bigger than he thought it would be, with only revenge and a desire for justice left. A secret group of powerful people, the real leaders of the city's criminal empire, has the keys to his mentor's death and the chaos that is about to destroy them all. Enzo starts to make his way to power with the help of a deadly ex-assassin looking for redemption, a brilliant hacker with her own secrets, and his loyal crew, who are ready for war. But with every betrayal, Enzo knows one thing for sure: in Havencroft, when you rise, the city burns. Every ally turns out to be a possible enemy. He wasn't born to follow orders. He was WARBOUND. As the Ghost of Havencroft, he is ready to take the throne at any cost.

"Welcome to CosmoMart. We are technically closed, but for you, we’ll make a painful exception." Elian just wanted a quiet shift, a meager paycheck, and some sleep. But the universe had other plans: dropping a Zombie Apocalypse right when he clocked in four minutes late. Trapped inside a Jakarta convenience store with a micromanaging boss and a wise-cracking parking attendant, Elian accidentally triggers a mysterious System after a freak lightning accident. Now, he is a living generator, and his store is the only lit beacon in a city of darkness. But surviving the end of the world is complicated when your teammates fear a Stock Audit more than the flesh-eating monsters outside. Mr. Hendra (The Manager): "Don't kill the zombie in Aisle 3! You’ll get blood on the premium diapers! Think of the inventory value!" Rico (The Parking Guy): "Boss, do I charge these zombies an hourly rate or a flat fee for parking their carcasses on the asphalt?" *The System: [WARNING: Instant Noodle Stock Critical. Riot Probability: 99%.] This isn't a story about a hero saving the world. This is the story of a night-shift clerk forced into "mandatory overtime" to slaughter monsters, manage logistics, and climb the corporate ladder from Intern Cashier to the CEO of the Apocalypse. Read now before the stock runs out!

When a city forged in dragon fire turns against it's own heir, a power long erased from history awakens. Evans Draker, a brilliant researcher, reluctant noble, and bearer of the rare Celestro Dragon Force, loses everything in a single night. Falsified evidence brands him as a traitor. His brother frames him. The council condemns him. And his own father, the Grand Lord of Drakarion casts him out. But betrayal doesn’t kill him. It awakens something else. In a secret chamber, moments before Ronan’s assassins can rip the Celestro force from his body, the impossible happens. The dormant blood within Evans erupts, shattering the extraction bindings. The Primordius Dragon—the first and supreme dragon force believed extinct for thousands of years—stirs awake inside him. Its roar becomes his heartbeat. Its power becomes his rebirth. Now marked as a criminal, hunted by the city he once swore to protect, Evans rises from exile carrying a force capable of overturning nations. And as he uncovers the conspiracy that destroyed him, he finds that Drakarion’s downfall began long before his disgrace. Clans scheme. Warlords gather. Enemies hide in the shadows. But none of them are prepared for the return of the one thing they thought time had buried forever— The Almighty War Dragon.

In Sanctum, luck isn't random; it’s engineered. The elite pay for probability enhancers, while the poor rot in the "Zero District," slaves to statistical irrelevance. Joseph Vance is a "Null." A data-analyst who crunches numbers for the underworld but refuses to gamble. He believes in cold, hard math, not the rigged games of the House. But when his sister, Elara, is seized by the "Debt Collectors" for "organ collateral" on their father's unpaid loans, Joseph is forced into the glitzy, neon-soaked arenas he despises. Out of options, he challenges a Sector Boss to a game of high-stakes probability. He loses. Badly. Beaten and thrown into the city's disposal chutes, Joseph lands in a graveyard of discarded tech. Broken and dying, his blood mixes with a prototype military chip rumored to be a myth: The Chaos Engine. [System Booting... Neural Interface Linked.] [Protocol: Entropy Exchange Active.] Joseph doesn’t get magic. He gets a processor capable of hacking the probability of the physical world—but the fuel source is his own biological decay. He can force a lock to open, a bullet to miss, or a card to turn, but every manipulation accelerates his cellular aging. To save his sister, Joseph must bankrupt the House. But in a game where he trades his youth for luck, the question isn’t if he’ll win—it’s if he’ll die of old age before he can cash out.

Behind the opulence of the Mediterranean coast, Matthew Valdes is a dangerous anomaly. Born with prosopagnosia, face blindness, he does not perceive people as individuals, but as patterns of geometric data, centers of gravity, and breathing rhythms that he calls the "Ares System." Yet his brilliance comes at a devastating cost. Every time he pushes the system to its limits, his brain suffers a neurological overload that could leave him permanently paralyzed or irreversibly blind. The brutal murder of his mother at the hands of a professional assassination unit forces Matthew back into the wolf's den that cast him out, the Valdes Dynasty. There, he is not welcomed as the rightful heir, but as a legal instrument meant to salvage the clan's dying empire. Standing in his way is Rodrigo, his strategically brilliant sociopathic uncle, who has prepared a trap behind every legal move Matthew makes. This is not merely a physical war. It is lawfare, a battlefield where every signature is a bullet and every contract is a noose. Matthew will lose the people who remain loyal to him. He will be forced to crawl across the ground with blood in his mouth. Until he realizes one undeniable truth. To defeat a monster, he must become the faceless ruler of the shadows, a man without a face, yet with the world beneath his feet.

Ten years ago, John Hardwick was the golden boy of the nation. The youngest billionaire in history. The face of every magazine. The pride of the powerful Hardwick dynasty; worth trillions. He was rich, brilliant, devastatingly handsome, and born to inherit an empire. But then… he made one mistake. A scandal so massive it rocked the country. His grandfather; the terrifying patriarch of the Hardwick family, was furious. Disgraced, John vanished overnight. His name was wiped clean from the internet. No news, no photos, no trace. As if he never existed. People said he was dead. Some whispered he ran away. But soon, the world forgot him entirely. What no one knew was that he didn’t disappear… he was exiled. His grandfather didn’t just cut him off—he threw him into the harshest military unit in the world. No mercy. No privileges. Just blood, fire, and war. For ten brutal years, John was forged like steel in the furnace of hell. He rose through the ranks, unstoppable. Fearless. Lethal. Eventually, he earned a title that sent shivers through the enemy ranks: GOD OF WAR. Now, he’s back. Not as a spoiled billionaire—but as a weapon. A king in exile returned. And this time, he’s taking back everything that was his. The name. The throne. The trillion-dollar empire. And anyone who stands in his way… will fall.

"Every time I kill, a memory of my mother is erased. Every time I use this power, my own name becomes foreign to my ears." Five years after the Red Rose plague transformed Chicago into a vegetative hell, Nico Moretti survives as a monster wearing human skin. Known as Subject 01, Nico is the Patient Zero who successfully adapted to the alien seeds from Aegis Pharma. However, that power comes with a horrific price: every 1% increase in Mutation permanently strips away 1% of his memories. In the midst of the Great Bloom Cycle that has begun to destroy the remnants of civilization, Nico rescues Elena Vance, a scientist who holds the secret key to Project Catalyst. Nico is now hunted not only by the Apostles—humans who worship the plague—but also by Sovereign, the collective consciousness of the roses that seeks to take over his body completely. With the arrival of The Reapers from space and a military ready to incinerate the city, Nico must fight through thousands of Bloomers toward the Greenhouse. He must choose: lose all his memories to become a God who destroys his enemies, or die as a human who doesn't remember who he is. Blood must be spilled, mutations must bloom. Because in this world, power isn't free—it is paid for with the soul.