Cardan The Cruel Prince

Under the tyrannical reign of Eternity Corp, time is no longer an abstract concept, it is a physical commodity known as liquefied Time Core that can be bought, stolen, and siphoned directly from the human body via digital timers embedded in the wrist. The city is fractured into two extreme worlds: the Upper District, inhabited by elites possessing boundless immortality, and the squalid Lower District, where the impoverished suffocate in the gutters simply because they ran out of seconds to breathe. Axel is a former Liquidator, the number-one tactical enforcer and crown prince of Eternity Corp, engineered to be the ultimate cybernetic weapon. However, after witnessing his own father, Adrian , callously let his mother perish to preserve corporate profits, Axel chose rebellion. The price for his defection was devastating: Axel was framed by his half-brother, Valen, injected with Chronos Decay, a terminal cyber-virus that systematically ravages his heart, and cast out into the Lower District with a remaining lifespan of merely 29 days. Clinging to life and shrouded in his rigid black tactical frock coat, Axel is salvaged by Rhea, a skilled cyber-mechanic and operator of an emergency logistics clinic in the slums. Cold, ruthless, and efficient, Axel refuses to remain a victim. Instead of crawling back to beg for a lifespan quota, he weaponizes his dwindling days into a literal countdown for a radical, suicidal infiltration mission. The stakes skyrocket when Adrian deploys a wireless Vampire Drain protocol from above, siphoning the lifespans of the Lower District's citizens, including Rhea, to bait Axel out of the shadows. For Axel, this is no longer a battle for survival. This is his final logistical calculation to ensure that the exact moment the digital timer on his wrist strikes absolute zero, his father's tyrannical empire collapses alongside him into ash.

Arthur Pendelton and Lyra Vance are troubled teens who escape their strict boarding school through a giant wardrobe, only to fall into Eldoria. This is no fairy tale. It is a brutal, racist world where Arthur is immediately attacked by a shadow monster. On the brink of death, a sarcastic LitRPG system awakens in his vision to keep him alive. Saved by a foul-mouthed, drunk weasel named Bramble, they are dragged to Ignis Academy. There, they befriend a cowardly boy named Finn and a cynical elf prince named Kaelen. However, corrupt academy elites betray them, opening the gates for the dark entity Malakor. During the slaughter, Finn dies a brutal death to save Lyra. The tragedy completely shatters Arthur's innocence. His system disables his moral limits, turning him into a cold-blooded predator out for revenge. The group sets out to hunt the Shards of Dawn, ancient crystals meant to summon a savior god. Their bloody journey forces them to fight dwarf cartels, survive mind-bending swamps, and orchestrate political assassinations. But after barely surviving a massive war, they uncover a sickening truth. The savior god is actually a psychopathic tyrant who loves committing mass genocide. Refusing to choose between two evil gods, the group launches a suicide assault on Malakor's fortress. While Kaelen and Bramble hold off millions of shadow troops, Arthur and Lyra climb Mount Zenith. Facing Malakor, Arthur makes an insane choice. He shatters the Shard with his bare hands, absorbs its raw energy, and sacrifices his own sanity to brutally tear the dark god apart from the inside. With Eldoria finally at peace, Arthur and Lyra step back through the portal. They return to Earth at the exact second they left, looking like ordinary students but hiding the dark souls of ruthless predators.

In the kingdom of Valthera, power belongs to the crown, magic belongs to the nobility, and the truth belongs to those ruthless enough to bury it. Nineteen-year-old Prince Elian Vaelthorne has spent his life seeking the approval of a father who has never shown him love. Raised within the glittering walls of the royal palace, Elian believes loyalty and honor are enough to protect him. But when his trusted mentor accuses him of treason, everything he knows collapses. Stripped of his authority, imprisoned, and abandoned by the king, Elian discovers a hidden message suggesting that his mother, Queen Seraphine, did not die as the kingdom was told. Before he can uncover its meaning, an assassination attempt forces him to flee into the dangerous streets of Luminis. There, Elian witnesses the suffering concealed beneath Valthera's magnificent towers. While powerful nobles flourish through corruption, ordinary citizens struggle beneath the brutal rule of the Silver Circle. But Elian carries a secret more dangerous than his royal blood: a forbidden violet magic that awakens whenever he approaches the mysteries surrounding his mother. Its power could save his life—or destroy him before he understands it. With a conflicted royal captain and a mysterious young woman as his unlikely allies, Elian begins searching for records the crown has desperately tried to erase. Every discovery brings him closer to a conspiracy stretching far beyond his imprisonment. Hunted as a traitor, feared for his growing power, and betrayed by those he once trusted, Elian must decide whether to reclaim the throne that rejected him or challenge the kingdom that created him. Because the greatest threat to Valthera may not be the rebellion rising beyond its walls. It may be the truth buried beneath its crown.

They call him half-caste, and a mistake. For nineteen years, Kael has been beaten, starved, and forced to clean the twenty-foot stone statue in the royal courtyard; the cursed body of the last Blue Lycan King, murdered twenty years ago with the Magical Alpha Dagger still beating in his stone heart. His crime? His eyes were unusually blue in a kingdom of Black Wolves where pure blood means black eyes, which made him an abomination. What they don't know is that those eyes are royal. Twenty years ago, Alpha Moros Black slaughtered the Blue Lycans; the true rulers blessed by the Moon Goddess, and tried to wipe out their bloodline but he failed. One baby was shielded by his mother and smuggled out by the High Seer, whose family swore an oath to always protect the Blue Lycans. That baby is Kael. The last male Blue Lycan. The only one whose blood can pull the real dagger from his grandfather's stone heart. The Alpha on the throne holds a fake. The only light in his hell is Elara, the present Seer's daughter. Since they were children she has had a crush on him, secretly healing his wounds behind the statue with a forbidden gold touch that burns her every time. But Elara is hiding something too. She is half Seer, half Blue Lycan; the illegitimate bloodline of a Blue Lycan Prince who fell in love with a High Seer. The last female. She doesn't know. When the false Alpha sets a contest as a trap; whoever pulls the dagger from the Stone King will be the next Alpha, every warrior in the kingdom tries and fails while laughing at the half-caste. Until Kael steps up...

Kael died once. That should’ve been the end of his story. Instead, the universe spat him back into a body far too young, armed with a power too gentle for a world too cruel — healing. Now reincarnated in a realm of blood, sigils, and fucked-up prophecy, Kael is tethered to a system that refuses to let him die quietly. With every wound he mends, every soul he saves, something in the world grows obsessed with him — and it doesn't know how to love gently. This isn’t a tale of a soft-hearted healer. This is war in reverse. --- Synopsis Kael was a broken mercenary, trained to end lives cleanly and silently. When a mission went sideways, his death was supposed to be a mercy. But instead of peace, he wakes up eight years old in a world where magic is real, monsters are philosophical, and the System — an AI-like force of impossible will — has made him its chosen Healer. But healing in this world isn’t passive. To mend flesh, he must feel the pain. To revive the dead, he must stare into death. And to survive, he must master the language of combat through restoration. Thrown into an orphanage that smells like trauma and burnt bread, surrounded by allies with secrets and enemies with smiles, Kael starts building power the only way the System allows — by saving people who are definitely not worth saving. Along the way, Kael must contend with psychic cultists, violent guild politics, experimental arcane theory, and the uncomfortable truth that whatever rules this universe? It fucking loves him. Maybe too much.

On a hellish night, a secluded village is annihilated by a brutal Beast Man massacre. From the ruins, Roy Jecoriah (20), once a cheerful youth, is forced to dig up the corpses of his own family. On the brink of death, his despair awakens an ancient power called Martyr’s Blood Art, an ability to weaponize blood into deadly anti-magic. But every use comes at a cruel cost, his happy memories are erased piece by piece. With his remaining companions, Ivan, a cynical swordsman, Henry, a steadfast knight, and Faried, a cold sharpshooter, Roy wages a desperate guerrilla war. What begins as revenge soon grows into something far greater, as they build a sanctuary for humanity and uncover the truth behind their near extinction. The massacre was no accident. The Elves, beautiful and manipulative rulers of global power, are secretly orchestrating the genocide, using Beast Men as pawns. As Roy fights back, he ventures to the Dark Continent and uncovers a shocking truth. The feared Demons are humanity’s last allies, bound by an ancient pact forged through sacrifice. But victory demands everything. One by one, Roy loses his friends. Henry and Faried fall, and with each battle, his memories fade. Grief and power twist him into something far darker than the monsters he fights. In the end, humanity rises again with the Demons’ help, but at a devastating cost. Roy claims the throne, not as a hero, but as a tyrant. His kingdom stands on blood and sacrifice, and the boy he once was is long gone, erased by the very power that saved his people.

I died and reincarnated into the world of a webcomic I once read. At first, my life was perfect. I was born into a wealthy family, knew the future, and possessed a mysterious ability that allowed me to collect the luck of everyone around me. Good luck. Bad luck. I could store it, use it, and even change my fate. Then everything changed. A mysterious cube fell from the sky and stole my ability. In exchange, it gave me something even stranger. A System. But unlike ordinary systems, mine never stays the same. Whenever my luck reaches a certain limit, the system evolves into a completely different one. If I accumulate enough good luck, I receive absurdly overpowered systems capable of making me rich, powerful, or untouchable. But if bad luck wins... The next system becomes a nightmare. One that gives impossible missions, cruel punishments, and turns my life upside down. Unfortunately, that's not my biggest problem. As mysterious anomalies begin appearing around the world, a secret organization known as ARC is created to investigate them. And somehow... They've mistaken me for one. Now, according to ARC's classified records, I am no longer Leo. I am Anomaly-0004. The fourth anomaly discovered by humanity. Secretly monitored by a global organization, hunted by dangerous anomalies, surrounded by troublesome girls, and trapped in a never-ending cycle of changing systems... I just wanted a peaceful life. Too bad the world has other plans.

In 2068, humans mutated to survive in the post-apocalyptic world. They got extra genes in their DNA, granting them cool abilities like super strength or shooting fire from their hands to battle the cruel monsters dominating the Earth. In New Orleans, a dystopian country, there was a special school to train young talents called Neogen High-School. All kinds of talents and abilities are there, and every Neogen graduate would become part of the New Government, joining the Elite Rangers, a special and highest-ranked force in New Orleans. However, Avery was an exception. He got into Neogen on a scholarship but got treated like an outcast 'cause he didn't have any special talents. He stuck at the bottom of the social ladder. Coming from a rough background, he was always underestimated, and even turned into a walking ashtray for his classmates. One day, he was thrown into a dark abyss by someone he thought was his only friend, and he fell into the bottom pit to meet his death. "Yeah, maybe this is the best path for someone talentless like me. Dying alone in a dark and lonely place like this." [Ding!] [All conditions for activating the 'Underdog System' have been met. Avery Blythe has been chosen as the host system.] [Underdog System will be activated.] [… 99%] [Underdog System activated. Complete all quests and climb the social ladder. Don't let the bullies win. Show that an underdog can beat them all!] "... huh?"

Born into a noble family and endowed with tremendous power, exceptional talent, and unparalleled physical attractiveness, one might assume these qualities to be blessings. However, are they truly advantageous or rather a curse? Allen Frey, a young man destined to inherit the illustrious lineage of Duke Frey in the Kingdom of Eldoria, finds himself entangled in this very predicament. Given his extraordinary social standing and the multitude of advantages at his disposal, it seems inevitable that Allen will lead a prosperous life and ascend to greatness in due course. What if this perceived fortune is merely an intricate facade, perpetually deceiving him at every twist and turn? What if it's all an elaborate lie? A hero summoned from another world with the mission to vanquish the Demon Emperor ultimately becomes the perpetrator, stripping Allen of everything he holds dear—his fiancée, sister, power, strength, and all that he possessed. Does this constitute fate? Even the figure known as the "Hero" ultimately eradicated his very existence. Can this be considered justice? In the final moments of his life, he gazed upward at the serene sky, mustering every ounce of strength to reach out his trembling hand. "Oh, God! Are you truly so merciless as to shatter my life?" "Can... Can you grant me an opportunity to alter this cruel destiny?!" He cried out, his voice strained, tears streaming down his face, and gradually he closed his weary eyes. [Ding! Fate Fighting System Successfully Bound!]

Lucas, a hardworking young man in a difficult financial situation, arrives at his girlfriend Maya's apartment only to discover she's celebrating her birthday—a surprise to him since she claimed she wouldn't be celebrating. They’ve been dating for six months, and Lucas, who has been saving to buy her a gift, feels betrayed by her lie. Maya's friends and guests openly mock Lucas, belittling him as a mere delivery man and questioning why someone like Maya, a Harvard student, would date him. The apartment, which Lucas had rented for her using his hard-earned money, now looks unrecognizable, remodeled with new furniture and decorations, which adds to his confusion and sense of betrayal. During the party, Maya shows a clear preference for Adrian, her wealthy and arrogant boss, who arrives and casually holds her hand. Adrian and Maya’s friends humiliate Lucas further, suggesting he isn’t “good enough” for her. Adrian openly challenges Lucas, offering him a degrading job as a security guard if he licks his shoe, reinforcing the insult to Lucas’s dignity. Despite his heartbreak, Lucas remains silent, painfully realizing that Maya only stayed with him out of pity. Faced with the cruel reality of his girlfriend’s disregard, Lucas’s inner resilience is tested, leaving him humiliated but determined to face the hardships life continues to throw at him.