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“In a world ruled by monsters, the weak don’t die, they’re forgotten.” I was invisible unless they needed someone to humiliate. They broke my bones. The tyrants of Aegis killed my only friend. But that day, when my blood touched the floor, something inside me awakened. A voice. A system. A power that whispered: “Adapt. Survive. Ascend.” Now I’m not the prey anymore. I’m the beginning of something they can’t control. The government thinks they own the monsters. The hunters think they own the city. Worse, the bullies at Aegis Academy think they have all the power. Big fishes in little ponds.  They are wrong. I will rise to the top, I'll overturn the hierarchy, failures will become alphas. I’ll bring anarchy upon them because I can. Because the real monster… is learning to hunt back. Watch them learn what Apex truly means.

After being thrown out by his noble wife and humiliated by her powerful family, Jake Foreman is sentenced to the cursed borderlands, a place where death plagues devour healers faster than they can scream. But the borderlands awaken something ancient inside him. Jake begins seeing life threads, disease spirits, and emotional scars with inhuman clarity. He thinks he’s losing his mind. Everyone else thinks he’s a monster. Yet every time he’s pushed, mocked, bullied, or cornered, something primal in his blood takes control, letting him perform supernatural feats of healing that should be impossible. Rumors spread. Soldiers whisper. Commanders tremble. Jake’s ex-wife’s family realizes too late: Jake is the last Shadowborn, the heir to a godlike line of healers who were wiped out for being too powerful.

When someone who has lost everything home, friends and family, even their own humanity, reborn a creature that must live in the shadows calling it a new home and gaining a desirely hunger for blood. What a person like that has to do with no longer life inside no blood to keep the heart beating. there is only one thing to keep such one like that to stay alive and move one. That is the power of Vengeance. It can cause any living being with no hope to live again with burning purpores to destroy the one who did this. Follow Marcus on this dark journey with blood and pain where he must do anything to calm power to make him stronger as it will help complete killing the one that has cursed him to what he has become. Clear note: the art cover is not mine just using it until I can get my own in the future.

Griffin was a powerful figure who ruled the streets with fear. He was cold, ruthless, and untouchable. He built a powerful empire, but was betrayed by someone he trusted. Enemies strike, and Griffin's world falls apart. His son Lucien is left to survive the wreckage. On the day his life should have changed for the better, Lucien is betrayed by the people he trusted most. Framed, Broken. Thrown behind bars for a crime he did not commit. In one night, the world takes everything from him his freedom, his future, and the woman who gave him life. Prison does not make Lucien weak. It kills the boy inside him. When he finally walks free, he leaves his name behind. Lucien is dead. Only Alonzo remains. He did not choose this life. This life chose him. When the past returns, blood will tell.

years after the world was nearly destroyed by the Last Plague, humanity clings to survival under the fragile illusion of order. The “Cure” has stopped the infection but not the guilt, madness, or memories left behind. Dr. Nella Rider, a court-appointed psychiatrist, is assigned to the most infamous trial in human history: the Plague Tribunal. Her task is to determine whether Dr. Adrian Pazzo, the brilliant scientist accused of unleashing the virus, is mentally competent to stand trial and whether his remorse is genuine. Inside the frozen halls of the world’s most secure prison, Nella meets Pazzo for the first time, a gaunt, hollow-eyed man who radiates both intellect and menace. His words are measured, his humor unsettling, and his sanity fragile. Yet as Nella digs deeper, she begins to suspect that the truth behind the Plague and the mysterious “Last Cure” that saved humanity is far more complicated than the world wants to hear

Jace Riven, a man living in the Velmora slums, has been abandoned, mocked, mistreated, and left with nothing. Then he loses his job, his home, and, finally, his will to survive. When he walks into the ocean to end it all, he expects silence. Instead, he wakes up in a void where he found a strange System that grants him power, purpose, and a second chance. As Jace begins to emerge from the shadows, he discovers that true corruption exists not only in the streets, but also in Velmora, the capital city where his beloved ex-wife, Vira, now lives. Behind its gleaming walls, dark experiments are carried out on living humans. But the city that broke Jace has spawned something unstoppable. Now, he is fighting not only for vengeance, but also to put an end to an evil that threatens to corrupt the entire world.

In the year 20XX, the First Magical Academy crash landed into [REDACTED], Japan, gifting the world with knowledge of magic. However, upon receiving this blessing, humanity quickly fell into a third world war, a brutal conflict that would decide who would control this new, poorly understood weapon. In the end, the denizens of the First Magical Academy destroyed it from the inside out, stopping the war. Eventually, what little humans knew about magic became common knowledge. Unprecedentedly, the remnants of the original Magical Academy have resurfaced. The perceived atrocities committed by a specific group humans in their quest for knowledge too much to simply abide by. Their reappearance has thoroughly shocked the globe, and perhaps even surprised the remnants themselves. In theory, this suggests the presence of a Neo Magical Academy. The whereabouts, goings on, and internal world of the Neo Magical Academy are known only to the people within it. But it is only a matter of time before such a fragile mystery is broken…

For years, Anthony Jodah was nothing but a joke. Mocked by classmates, insulted by professors, and looked down upon as the “poor scholarship boy” in a school ruled by wealth and pride. He was kicked, laughed at, and humiliated even by the girl he secretly loved. To them, he was just a loser struggling to survive. But behind that quiet smile lay something no one could imagine… The heir to the Jodah Empire a trillion-dollar dynasty feared by governments and kings alike. When one night of public humiliation pushes Anthony to the edge, fate flips the script. The same students who mocked him, the same families who crushed his name, are about to kneel before the very man they once called trash. Inside the campus, he’s the invisible outcast. Outside, he’s the ruthless Lord of an empire that controls the world. This time, there will be no mercy. They wanted to destroy him but he will make them bow. The age of the Masked King has begun.

Years ago, gods descended from their realm down to earth. One of the god's goals was to bless mankind, while the other was to rule Earth. The evil god known as Lord Zodiac wasted no time in wreaking havoc, creating dark armies to fight against humanity and make them kneel before him. When all hopes were lost, the human race cried onto the second good to help them. Their cries were heard and Lord Zodiac was vanquished. His body was burnt to a crisp and locked in a jar. After the whole chaos, the last remaining god blessed some selected humans with different abilities and techniques to protect themselves from the creatures Lord Zodiac created. A boy named Kakashi who lost his family in a car accident, accidentally inhaled a strange dust on a mountain, and his life took a dark turn when Lord Zodiac was awakened inside of him.

Kade Reyes thought he’d left war behind. Once a soldier in humanity’s brutal fight against the alien Vaelith, he now survives in the neon-lit streets of New Ardent, hiding from both his past and the world. But when the sky cracks open and the Vaelith return, the city becomes a battlefield—and Kade is their target. Inside him lies Ish’Rael, a sentient relic capable of predicting and shaping war itself. As alien forces descend and human factions betray, Kade must navigate a city in chaos, protect those he cares about, and confront the very part of himself that could save or destroy—humanity. In a war that refuses to stay in the past, Kade faces a choice: cling to his humanity or embrace the weapon he was always meant to be. Neon Ashes is a fast-paced, heart-pounding urban sci-fi saga of survival, power, and the cost of destiny.