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Alexander Curry, born and raised to be the ideal servant for the Dove family, faces punishment when he defies his master's orders. Forced to donate his eyes for his master's daughter's transplant, as atonement for his disobedience, he vows revenge. [CONGRATULATIONS, MR. ALEXANDER CURRY. THE GODS OF VENGEANCE AND POSSESSIONS HAVE HEARD YOUR CRIES OF DESPAIR AND HAVE GRANTED YOU THE POSSESSION SYSTEM. RICHES, TALENTS, SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, AND ANYTHING ELSE YOU CAN EVER DREAM OF ARE YOURS FOR THE TAKING.] Empowered by a mysterious system, Alexander sets out to take vengeance by seizing wealth, talent, and everything else from those who wronged him.

For ninety years, two empires have waged a war that never ends. Soldiers die and return, orders are signed by the long-dead, and history is a lie. Aderic Vaun, a logistics officer, discovers he is officially dead—and has been for ninety years. In a world where the war is a ritual and the combatants are ghosts, truth is the most dangerous weapon of all.

Everyone believes Elias Kane is the son of a murderer. After his father is killed and blamed for a crime he didn’t commit, nineteen-year-old Elias loses his home, his family, and the life he once knew. Hunted by mysterious men and carrying a pendant his father died protecting, he soon discovers a secret powerful enough to bring an entire empire to its knees. The Black Archive holds the truth. The Circle of Thirteen will kill to keep it buried. But Elias doesn’t know whom to trust—not even the people who claim to have known his father. Because the deeper he digs, the more he realizes one terrifying truth: His father didn’t die trying to save the world. He died preparing Elias to destroy it.

His family cast him out of the city gates because, as the head of the city, his father couldn't bear the shame that one of his sons hadn't developed an A-tier talent. He was forced to survive by collecting scraps in the mines, which made him sick. When it became critical, he collapsed, coughing blood that splattered on a jade pendant on his neck. The pendant, left behind by his late mother, was activated, and with it came great power. Now Lior Croft is back in the city which once shut him out, not as a beggar, but as the storm they never saw coming.

Lucas Suryanto is trapped in a city that resets at the stroke of midnight. Armed with a glitchy inventory system and an unexpected ally, he must race against time to uncover why the apocalypse is expanding, one 24-hour cycle at a time.

Kian Adiyatma wakes up in a world of System-driven heroes after his death, but his System only allows him to gain power by absorbing the skills of defeated villains. As he battles for survival, he realizes that every power he steals comes with the villain's memories and a fragment of their darker nature, all while discovering that his death was no accident and his 'cursed' system is a deliberately crafted weapon.

In a cultivation world where talent decides fate, 28-year-old Alexander Kane has spent ten long years as the Azure Cloud Sect’s biggest joke — stuck at Qi Refining First Layer despite endless effort. Mocked daily as worthless trash and robbed of his hard-earned opportunities by arrogant rivals like Victor Lang, Alexander’s final humiliation comes when he is publicly expelled and violently shoved into the forbidden abyss to die. Instead of death, he finds awakening. On the brink of being devoured by a guardian beast, Alexander triggers the Supreme Late Bloomer System — a mysterious power that allows him to absorb any spiritual energy, technique, or heavenly treasure at maximum efficiency and evolve them instantly. What once took others decades now takes him moments. With his new power, Alexander begins a relentless rise. He delivers his first satisfying face-slaps against those who betrayed him, rapidly climbs through realms, and uncovers the terrifying truth: an ancient hidden realm war between long-forgotten sovereigns is stirring once again, threatening to erase the entire continent. Now labeled a demonic anomaly by the very sect that discarded him, Alexander must survive deadly fragment zones, forge uneasy alliances, and grow stronger than anyone imagined — all while the war fragments pull him deeper into a destiny he was never meant to claim. From the weakest outer sect disciple to the one who defies heaven itself… How far will the Late Awakener go when the entire cultivation world wants him dead, and an ancient war demands he rise? The Late Awakener: Never Meant to Rise — a fast-paced cultivation story of revenge, explosive growth, and ancient secrets where one man’s late awakening threatens to rewrite the fate of the world.

Someone screamed as the dogs outside the hall began to bark just as the young boy was about to speak.Together with the others at the table, he quickly got up, and they all looked out the hall's open door.The boy turned to face his father as several yelps and the dogs' abrupt barking stopped.With his hand on the hilt of the long knife at his waist, the village chief was slowly making his way toward the door.The boy thought Jane, his sister, had screamed, but he had no time to think any further because three Asabya, the terrifying, murderous barbarians of the plains, stormed into the room with a ferocious battle cry at the same time.The boy watched in horror as the tall men, their long, dark hair pulled back by leather thongs around their foreheads, painted black with white around their mouths and dark eyes, swung their swords, and killed everyone in his immediate vicinity.Before the chief could draw his knife, the first person in the room severed his father's head from his body. But they didn't stop there.Everyone was killed, from the tiniest infants in their mothers' arms to the elderly with gray heads who had just given the boy their blessing.The pain and blood as a sword was buried to the hilt in his chest were all he could remember when another person appeared in front of him.

Lucas, a former Top Secret Special Forces commander, retires with one simple goal: to live a peaceful life in the big city. However, he unexpectedly activates the Peaceful Life System, which rewards him with extraordinary abilities and assets—including cooking skills, medical expertise, investment knowledge, and real estate—whenever he successfully resolves everyday problems without shedding blood or revealing his former identity.

For twenty-four years, Ethan Cole believed the Whitfield family was his family — not by blood, but by everything that should have mattered more. He ran numbers his father couldn't read, raised the sister his parents were too busy to raise, and built himself into the son the Whitfield name could be proud of. Then the real Whitfield son came home. Overnight, the family Ethan spent his life earning turns him into a stranger in his own house. His father hesitates. His mother says nothing. And the sisters who once called him their anchor are torn between the brother they love and the family that raised them to obey. Ethan walks out with nothing but a cracked pocket watch he's never been able to explain — and a memory of a woman's voice that doesn't belong to anyone he's ever known. He doesn't chase revenge. He builds. Piece by piece, deal by deal, he becomes a man the Whitfields can no longer pretend they never lost. But the deeper he digs into his own forgotten past, the more he uncovers a secret buried decades before he was born — one that proves he was never the outsider they made him believe he was. When the truth surfaces, Ethan won't just have to decide whether to forgive the family that threw him away. He'll have to decide what's left to save — and who still deserves saving.