Brutal

Alex was reborn into Blue Star, a world of advanced technology and modern comforts, yet ruled by the ancient, unchanging power of royal families. As a prince of the mighty Roshar Kingdom, he was born into luxury but cursed with minimal talent for the martial arts that defined this world's elite. Seeing the brutal intrigue within his own family, his sole ambition became a simple one: to avoid the throne's bloody games and survive a long, quiet life of privileged obscurity. That plan shattered when he was framed for a rebellion he knew nothing about. Cast out by the king without a trial or explanation and abandoned by a mother who refused to even say goodbye, Alex was exiled to the Wall—the world's most feared military penal colony. As a low-ranking, seemingly untalented warrior, everyone believed he was being sent to a silent death. But the Wall was not a prison. It was the grim, hidden truth from the normal people. Here, Alex witnessed the real war: a daily, desperate struggle against nightmarish monsters, a crisis kept secret from the peaceful, modern world behind a veil of royal and Council lies. Facing the terror for the first time, he realized the world's cruel hypocrisy and his own terrifying fragility. Yet, in the carnage, he discovered a latent, macabre gift: the ability to harvest strength from the fallen. This power could change everything, offering a path to survival and vengeance. But even as he grasps this chance, burning questions haunt him: Why was he, the deliberately passive prince, chosen as the pawn? Why did his father condemn him without a word? Why is the true horror of their world buried beneath a facade of normalcy? Armed with a secret that could elevate him or mark him for death.

Everyone believed Arashi Ren was just another street fighter. An orphan. A nobody. A boy who survived by fighting. The night he turned eighteen—after winning the biggest fight of his life—he was shot in an alley and left for dead. But death is a door. Death was only the beginning. When Arashi wakes up, his name and his have been erased. And his captors claim it was done to save his life. They tell him the impossible truth: The most powerful man in the world was his father. And now he’s dead. With no heir, except the son who was hidden, sealed, forgotten. As Arashi is forced through brutal tests of memory and instinct, a truth is unveiled. His strength was never accidental. His survival was never just luck. And the fortune missing from his father’s empire may be buried not in vaults, but inside his own body. Yet wealth is the least of what awakens. Because as Arashi steps back into Chicago as a ghost reborn, the supernatural world begins to notice him. Werewolf packs stir. Old Alpha blood recognizes its own. And the man assigned to protect him may be bound to him by something far more dangerous than loyalty. Love becomes a weakness. Power demands blood. And the past refuses to stay buried. From the streets to the throne, Arashi Ren will rise from nothing… And claim what was always his. GENRE: Urban Fantasy / Mafia Power Fantasy / Paranormal Drama / Action SETTING: Modern-Chicago. Crime-syndicates, billionaires, and supernatural-packs overlap beneath the surface of the human world. At the top of both worlds stands the Giodanzo Dynasty, a bloodline with ties to an extinct Alpha lineage. Every year, pack leaders gather in secret-conclaves to maintain balance. For fifteen years, one bloodline has been missing its heir. Until now.

“Your family’s blood runs thick with treason.” The words seared into young Thorne Valtor’s mind as he watched his world crumble. His uncle’s guards dragged his father away in chains, accused of murdering the grandfather Thorne barely knew. His mother lunged forward, desperate to stop them, only to be cut down in a spray of blood right before his eyes. “Mother!” Thorne’s scream echoed uselessly as blades flashed again. His father broke free for a heartbeat, grabbing Thorne in a frantic escape attempt, but arrows felled him mid-stride. Thorne crumpled beside his father’s body, the warmth of life fading under his small hands. The uncle’s shadow loomed over him. “You’re no longer needed here, boy.” Sold into slavery to the neighboring kingdom of Eldoria, Thorne toiled in the brutal depths of their mining pits, his body scarred by whips and his spirit hardened by years of endless labor. Freedom came not from mercy, but from chaos: Eldoria fell under siege by a nameless horde wielding forbidden dark mage powers, their shadows twisting reality itself. Thorne fled through the carnage, crossing borders back to his homeland of Valeria, where he sought refuge in his father’s hidden sanctuary,a forgotten cavern etched with ancient runes. There, a sealed door his father had once whispered about beckoned. “It will open when the time is right.” The time was now. The door yielded, revealing five ethereal thrones occupied by spectral ancient mages. “He has returned, the chosen one.” They descended, pressing a glowing tome into his hands. “Within lies powers, Use it wisely, heir of the clovers. “Do the right thing.” Read on to unravel a tale where betrayal forges heroes, magic awakens legacies, and one boy’s choice could shatter empires or mend them.

In 2152, Earth’s mega-cities enjoy fragile peace powered by advanced solar tech. That ends when a rogue comet swarm strikes the sun, triggering the "Eclipse Harvest". An ancient alien signal hidden in the sun’s core. It awakens massive harvest drones, shadowy machines from a forgotten invasion, which descend to harvest human minds and sustain their failing empire. The twist is merciless: the harvest creates "Echo Loops," reality fractures where death rewinds time. Survivors relive horrors repeatedly, "leveling up" only by solving deadly puzzles or winning impossible fights. Each reset mutates the body,granting enhanced strength, foresight, or reflexes— but erodes sanity. Death is not final; it’s transformation at a brutal cost. Cyrus Woods, a scarred ex-military scout, awakens in a loop after his convoy is destroyed. His rare "Anchor Gene" lets him remember resets clearly, making him a reluctant leader. From the start he builds a core team: - Carrie Thompson, brilliant engineer , drone hacker. - Riley Harlan, loyal mechanic and driver with skills - Mara Delgado, precise sniper and scout. - Tomas Murphy, young tech apprentice They soon meet Vaughn Keller, a lone scout with a pre-war dampener—until her devastating betrayal: she’s a deep-cover agent for warlord McLaren Hayes, feeding intel and setting traps that cost lives across loops before her double game is exposed. They also confront Celine Rivera, a scientist hiding hybrid origins and wavering loyalties. The story spans warped zones: phasing ruins, hidden bunkers, glowing wastelands, floating harvester ships. Factions rise—drone worshippers vs. rebels. Cyrus learns the sun is an alien farm construct. Loops reveal echo wars, betrayals (Vaughn’s, Celine’s, McLaren’s immortality pact), evolving creatures, memory storms, trapped armies. Hundreds of chapters deliver relentless action, cliffhangers, gruesome deaths followed by changed returns, and moral fractures. Twists include Cyrus as an alien rebel echo.

They should have made sure he stayed down. Seventeen-year-old Theodore Cross knows his place at the bottom. Bullied. Broke. Beaten. Working dead-end shifts to pay off his dead father's debts while his mother slowly dies from an illness he can't afford to treat. When gang enforcers corner him in an alley and beat him within an inch of his life, Theo accepts his fate. He's always been prey. This is just how his story ends. Except it doesn't. An ancient dying werewolf fleeing from hunters finds Theo bleeding out and makes a choice. With its final breath, it passes on something that hasn't been seen in five hundred years: a Royal bloodline. Theo wakes to a new reality. Enhanced strength. Supernatural senses. And a mysterious Blood Moon System that treats his life like a game with quests, levels, and abilities that grow stronger with every challenge he conquers. But this power comes with brutal rules: The Masquerade must never be broken. The Midnight Council rules with an iron fist. Born werewolves see him as an inferior mutt worthy only of death. And inside him, a beast grows stronger each day, whispering promises of violence and domination. The people who made his life hell are about to learn a hard lesson "Theodore Cross is done being prey." From underground fight clubs to pack politics, from gang warfare to supernatural hunters, Theo must navigate a hidden world where one mistake means death. He'll build his own pack from outcasts and misfits. Face enemies who've had centuries to perfect their cruelty. And somehow keep the monster inside from consuming what's left of his humanity. Because in the end, the real question isn't whether he can survive. It's what kind of monster he'll become.