Body Tempering

They said he was broken. Born without magic. Chained at sixteen. Thrown from the sky like trash. But Kael Veyrin didn’t lack power. He had too much. In a world where floating cities rule the heavens and magic belongs only to “pure” bloodlines, Kael is a Hollowborn, someone society calls defective. During the Ascension Rite, his touch doesn’t awaken magic. It shatters it. And in doing so, he exposes a truth the world was never meant to remember. Magic was stolen. The system is a lie. And Kael is proof. Marked as a Reverter, hunted by the ruling Council, Kael discovers a forbidden ability: he can copy any spell, any power, and see magic as it was before bloodlines controlled it. But every spell costs him something far worse than pain. His identity. With every stolen ability, his mind fractures. чуж Voices bleed into his thoughts. His body changes. His humanity slips away, percentage by percentage. Now the city above wants him erased. The world below wants him dead. And the only person anchoring him to who he was is about to be executed as bait. He has one hour. A 0.03% chance of success. And a choice that will decide the fate of magic itself. Climb back to the sky… or lose himself becoming strong enough to burn it all down. Power can free the world. Or erase the boy who wields it.

[Currently under heavy edit.] Death. What is death actually? Athan, a twenty-one year old genius, died in an accident. He got hit by a truck and was thrown few meters on the ground. "I couldn't even finish reading the novel..." He regrettably thought, holding onto his phone tightly not wanting to let go. In the screen, there were letters written in a sentence waiting to be read. However, he couldn't. In his last moment, he could only think of one thing. It was his wish to finish the remaining three chapters of the novel. "I guess I'll never find out the ending..." He closed his eyes and let his mind get drowned in darkness. [ Timer left : 00Y : 00H : 00M : 03S ] [ Timer left : 00Y : 00H : 00M : 02S ] [ Timer left : 00Y : 00H : 00M : 01S ] [ Timer left : 00Y : 00H : 00M : 00S ] As the loud ticking sound rang in his ear, his mind finally gave out as he fell unconscious. He was dead. He was sure of it, but... "Eh...?" The moment he opened his eyes, he found himself in someone else's body. He stared at his hands in surprise and noticed that he was in a body of a newborn child that came out just a few moments ago. And worse, "So... Am I gonna die again?" He was reincarnated as a villain.

In the Nine-Fold Abyss-Heaven, destiny is a game rigged by the powerful. Ten years ago, a ruthless transmigrator named Victor claimed the "Sovereign System," ascending to godhood by consuming the luck and souls of everyone in his path. To the cosmos, he is a righteous savior. To those beneath his boot, he is an inescapable nightmare. When Julian transmigrates into the body of a discarded, talentless mining slave, Victor instantly flags him as a cosmic threat. Instead of granting a quick death, Victor inflicts absolute suppression—slashing Julian’s experience gains by 90%, shackling his soul, and publicly subjecting him to suffocating humiliation. To the world, Julian is a broken, unranked insect destined to crawl in the toxic spirit-ash. But Victor’s arrogance blinds him to the true nature of Julian’s interface: The Ashen Balance. Unlike standard systems, Julian cannot level up through easy victories or safe cultivation. His cheat triggers only at death’s door, converting raw agony, suffocating despair, and cold fury into irreversible Defiance Attributes. Forced to cultivate backward by strengthening his mortal flesh against the very laws of heaven, Julian turns his suffering into an unyielding weapon. From the suffocating depths of the slave mines to the grand, mocking colosseums of the higher realms, Julian undergoes a grueling, weak-to-strong ascension. He will bleed for every single attribute point, rally the broken outcasts of the realms, and systematically dismantle the False Hero’s empire. Victor stole the heavens, but Julian will burn them down to pay the debt.

In the shadowed kingdom of Valthorne, King Aric fell deeply in love with Seraphine, a half-demon woman of infernal beauty and fire. Their son, Prince Kane, was born heir to the throne. But weeks later, Aric was found murdered,throat slashed. His ruthless sister, Lady Morgana, accused Seraphine of using demonic sorcery to kill him. The queen was burned alive in the public square, her screams lost to black flames. The infant Kane was spared, raised as the "cursed prince" under Morgana's cold rule. Twenty-two years later, on the eve of his coronation, a terrified maid enters his chambers with a dagger. In the struggle, she stabs herself and dies. Guards find Kane standing over her body, blood on his hands. His fiancée, Princess Valerie of Eldrath, rejects him with disgust: "Just like your mother. A demon wearing a crown." The court condemns him without trial. Dragged to Dead Hill Valley,a bottomless abyss for the damned,Kane swears vengeance: "I will return. And every soul who betrayed my parents will burn." They hurl him into the void. He falls. Until darkness catches him. At the valley floor, demons with storm-gray skin and glowing amber eyes surround him. A fierce silver-haired female sees the blazing Emperor's mark on his shoulder. She commands: "Kneel. This is the one." They bow. She steps closer, smiling. "You are home, my king." The abandoned prince is no bastard. He is the last heir to an empire of demons. And vengeance is only the beginning.

In the Astrala Continent, spiritual talent is everything, and Ravian Arkana is a cursed anomaly. Born without Spirit Meridians and suffering from a physical disability in his legs, Ravian lived as trash in the eyes of the noble Arkana Family. The breaking point came on the night of his engagement, which was meant to ensure his protection; instead, he was betrayed. His fiancée, Lin Xuelan, along with his half-brother, shattered his bones and cast him into the Soul Annihilation Abyss a place where gravity crushes the soul and darkness swallows existence. However, death became the gateway to a taboo ancient power. At the nadir of his consciousness, Ravian awakened the Forbidden God System. This system did not grant miracles of light, but rather power from the deepest darkness: the Hell Meridians. With a body reconstructed by hellfire and legs now capable of moving beyond the speed of sound, Ravian crawled out of the abyss no longer a weakling, but an entity destined to exact vengeance against fate. Ravian’s journey is a symphony of blood and tears. From a mocked, disabled servant, he transforms into a mysterious figure who topples great sects and exposes the hypocrisy of the gods who rule the world. Every step he takes carries a message of death for those who once trampled him. The world that once discarded him must now tremble, knowing that the survivor of the Soul Annihilation Abyss has returned to claim the throne foretold in forbidden prophecy.

Ethan Gray was considered the luckiest man in Portland, married to Vivian Ashford, the powerful CEO of the Ashford Group. Their marriage was hailed as a modern fairy tale. But the illusion shattered on their fifth anniversary. When thugs disrupted their celebration, Ethan shielded Vivian with his body, receiving a near-fatal stab wound. Waking up in his hospital bed, he overheard Vivian speaking sharply in German over the phone: "I hired those people to break up the anniversary. Jack is back, and I couldn't celebrate with Ethan. I only married Ethan because he looks like Jack. He’s just a shadow." She had no idea that Ethan had secretly mastered German over the last three months just to understand her world. Heartbroken and fully awakened to the truth, Ethan quietly gets a divorce. He packs his single suitcase, turns his back on her wealth, and rejoins Doctors Without Borders. He heads straight to a perilous, signal-free war zone, reclaiming his identity as a brilliant, life-saving surgeon. Meanwhile, Vivian believes his departure is just a childish game to seek attention. But when she finds his raw, devastating farewell letter in a hotel guestbook, realizing he understood every word of her betrayal, her world crumbles. The cold CEO is plunged into a frantic, desperate search—only to realize she may have lost him to the line of fire forever.

Xin, a poor orphan who has been Imprisoned inside a witch prison, only to be freed on the chaos day when he turns into a deadly Vampiric Creature and later turn back to his human form, as a boy back into the witch's prison. Actually, he wasn't a boy anymore because the witch had finally turned Xin into a Vampire, it seems like whatever she was experimenting had been Successful. Now I present to you, Xin, the last and most powerful vampire left roaming the world causing chaos and destruction across the human land. But, instead of the witch to be happy with her creation, she was rather sad. Humans were dying in seconds by Vampire Xin, and they all were weak against him. When all hope is lost the human race call upon their last hope by offering sacrifices to the witch to take down the Vampire. Unable to destroy the vampire she created, the witch uses the last and least of her power to cast a powerful spell on Xin. Xin has not been defeated but has now been reborn as a normal human. How will Xin live his life now as a human who he had during his experience as a vampire, despised and saw as weak? He saw his past human body as a piece of paper and never wished to be human again. His anger was furrowed on humans anytime he saw any of them. But how will he start again as a human?

He walks the palace halls wearing a prince’s face and speaks a hero’s words but every night, another body falls but behind his smile lies a blood-drenched secret. They say he came back from a coma. The truth is, he came back from the dead. When Prince Kairo returns from a decade-long coma, the kingdom of Caelwyn rejoices. But their hope is misplaced. Because the man behind the youthful eyes is not the prince. It is his uncle Malrick Vale, a disgraced noble once thought dead who has carved himself into his nephew’s likeness through years of planning and surgical reconstruction. He claims to avenge the friend the crown betrayed. But his true desire is darker. He craves what only power can give him: the freedom to kill whomever he chooses, whenever he desires. The mask of royalty offers protection. The crown offers complete control. Only one woman knows the truth. Sheila Ren, a former maid who narrowly escaped his blade years ago, becomes obsessed with exposing the monster beneath the mask. Alongside Tate Wyvern, a disgraced royal guard tormented by guilt and bound to justice, she risks everything to stop a man who has fooled a kingdom and who will never stop hunting his prey. And they must stop him before he turns the entire kingdom into his hunting ground. Because once he sets his sights on you… you’re already dead. But in a world where mirrors lie and monsters wear crowns, who will the people believe?

“Please… don’t kill me!” My voice trembles as I stare at the two people standing in front of me, my own brother and my wife, the woman I love more than my life. “Why…?” I whisper, my throat dry. My brother smirks and she avoids looking at me, as if I mean nothing to her. That silence… it breaks me more than anything. I step back slowly, but my foot slips near the edge. Panic rises in my chest as I realize where I am the cliff behind me, the darkness waiting below. “No…” I murmur, but it’s too late. A sudden push and I fall. The wind roars in my ears as my body drops into the abyss. Fear grips me, but stronger than fear is the burning betrayal inside me. My eyes shut as darkness swallows everything. They think I die that night But I don’t, I survive and I change. Years pass, and Now I return to the same world but I am no longer that weak man. I am something else… something darker. The city fears my name. The underworld bows before me. Power runs through my veins. Money, influence, control everything is mine now. And I don’t return alone. With a mysterious princess, beautiful yet dangerous, her secrets as dark as my past. She understands me in ways no one ever could. This time, I don’t beg. This time, I don’t fall. Because I am no longer the man they betrayed… I am the nightmare that has returned for revenge.

Arthur Vance was a titan of modern industry—a ruthless corporate strategist who mastered the art of the hostile takeover. But when a betrayal ends his life in the 21st century, he wakes up in the body of Julian Valerius, the disgraced, "waste" illegitimate son of a dying Emperor. ​In a world governed by ancient steel and noble bloodlines, Julian is a man with a target on his back. His six half-brothers, each a powerful warlord or cunning politician, have already signed his death warrant to secure their path to the throne. He has no army, no wealth, and a reputation as a drunken fool. ​But he has a mind the medieval world isn't prepared for. ​Using his knowledge of modern economics, chemical engineering, and psychological warfare, Julian begins his ascent from the mud of the slums. ​He turns sour grain into Liquid Gold, a distilled spirit that corrupts the empire’s elite and funds his private shadow army. ​He recruits Elena Vance, a legendary but betrayed General, turning her into the sword that will carve his path to glory. ​He builds a network of "Rats"—the beggars and outcasts—creating the first global intelligence agency in history. ​As the Empire spirals into a bloody civil war, Julian doesn't just fight for survival; he executes a takeover. From the smoke of the slums to the gold of the high court, the "Waste Prince" will prove that in the face of modern logic, even the strongest crown is nothing more than gilded lead. ​Witness the birth of an Empire where gold speaks louder than swords, and a bastard's shadow looms over the world.