Closed Beta That Only I Played

Seven years ago, a blue screen appeared before every human on Earth and promised a new beginning. Within a day, millions were dead. Now everyone has a System: a level, a rank, a worth measured in numbers. Everyone except Kael Draven. No level. No skills. No place in a world that treats the powerless as disposable. He has survived seven years in the ruins of New York by noticing what others miss, and he is still searching for the little sister who vanished the night his parents died. Then his team abandons him inside a dungeon that was never supposed to wake up. Kael studies the monster hunting him, finds the one thing it fears, and lives. And as it falls, the System flashes a message it was never meant to show: [WARNING: DO NOT ALLOW SUBJECT TO ACCESS THE CORE.] Why would the most powerful force on Earth be afraid of a man it cannot even see? Before he can find out, he touches a black relic older than the System itself, and every awakened user for miles loses their powers for three terrifying seconds. By morning, he is the most wanted man in Ironhaven. But Kael is done being the hunted. With a disgraced commander, a runaway scientist, and a loyal giant who owes him his life, he starts pulling at a conspiracy buried in the night his family was murdered. Every lie he exposes makes him more dangerous. Every rule he breaks makes the System more afraid. Everyone else grows stronger by obeying the System. Kael grows stronger by finding where it breaks. It named him humanity's greatest threat. It has no idea what it just created.

Despised by his wife she asked for a divorce after bringing another man home into their bed. The heavens seem to roar in fury and when thunder struck his phone, a new app was installed. *Infinite Wealth App: Congratulations New User, let's begin your rise to glory!* *Ding! New car has been awarded!* *Ding! User's bank account has been credited!* *Ding! Property awarded to user!* *Ding! Complete tasks and receive massive rewards!* When his ex wife sees him rise, she falls to her knees in regret. Those who put him down wish they could turn back the hands of time.

Heartbreak? Surmounting Medical Bills? & An Unexpected Proposal? Reynold is at his wits end. Working a 9-5 job for a measly pay was not how he envisioned his future to be, and worse still there’s no salary raise despite how hardworking he is. He decides to confront the wicked employer who’d been exploiting him all this while, but he is met with another shock as he finds his long term girlfriend cheating on him with the same man. Frustrated and angry, he erupts into a violent confrontation with his boss, and this results into a brutal eviction leading him to be casted out in the streets. With nowhere to go, and a battered body moping the streets, fate soon deals him a lucky card and he receives a shocking proposition. “Hello Mr, would you like to marry me?”

In the shimmering metropolis of Oakhaven, the elite live in glass towers while the "trash" survives in the soot below. Lucian Veyne is the king of that trash. To the world, he is a nameless scavenger, a beggar who collects aluminum cans and fixes broken phones in rain-slicked alleys. But Lucian has a secret: He owns the city’s darkness. Ten years ago, the Vale Family—owners of the city’s largest pharmaceutical empire—let his mother die on the hospital steps because she was "worthless." Since that day, Lucian hasn’t been looking for a job; he’s been building a system. Through the "Debt Web" (micro-loans to the desperate) and the "Whisper Network" (an army of invisible homeless spies), Lucian has quietly tethered every corrupt politician, crooked cop, and greedy CEO to his thumb. When Seraphina Vale, the arrogant heiress of the empire that killed his mother, publicly humiliates him, she triggers the final phase of his plan. She thinks she’s crushing a beggar. She doesn’t realize she’s just declared war on the man who already holds the keys to her father’s vault.

Three years ago, Daniel Cooper sacrificed everything for the woman he loved, taking the blame for a crime committed by her brother. But when he finally walked out of prison, all he received was a divorce agreement, humiliation, and betrayal. Everyone thought he was a disgraced ex-convict with nothing left. They never knew that during those three years, Daniel had become a a man powerful enough to shake the world. Now, the family that abandoned him will learn the truth too late: Daniel Cooper is no longer someone they can trample on.

Andrew, a poor college student from Wilson Bridge College, starts off as a nobody. His mother was cast out of the Everest family as a result of his father's death. After enduring immense hardship, Andrew's mother eventually died, leading him to vow to ruin the Everest family. However, his life takes an unexpected turn when he inherits a fortune from his late father through an ancient amulet. Along with his wealth, Andrew acquires extraordinary martial arts skills. Now, he must confront numerous individuals who pose a threat to his life.

Kaito Miyahara is almost done with university. Only one final project remains, one that he has been putting off for three years. If he doesn't start now, he will be stuck in university for one more year, something that will further tarnish his resume. In a future where a simple failure is enough to destroy your career, he can't let that happen, but he can't think of anything. Miraculously, he runs into Sanae and Risa, two girls whose sole goal is to become idols. For Kaito, the only way of making it work in the current world is to think outside the box. To think big. To think galactically. And so he becomes the manager of the first, galactical idol group: Blostars. — Edited by RedPandaChick Cover art by @retrosensei on Instagram Follow me @VidalSosin on Twitter for updates New chapter every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 15:00 UTC

Eighteen-year-old Chidi is the joke of the hunter community. While others blast monsters with lightning and fire, Chidi’s only job is picking up the trash they leave behind. Still, he works himself to the bone to buy expensive magic potions for his girlfriend, Amina. But during a dangerous dungeon raid, Amina and a rich bully named Tunde trap Chidi inside a crumbling boss room to save their own skins. Left to be crushed in the dark, Chidi’s heartbreak unlocks something forbidden: The Sovereign System. Suddenly, glowing blue screens fill his vision. He can see hidden stats, enemy weaknesses, and the evolutionary paths of every item on Earth. That rusty five-dollar blade in the trash? His system can upgrade it into a legendary sword of gods. The weak scavenger boy is gone. The Sovereign Overlord has awakened, and it’s time for everyone who laughed at him to pay.

Jaai was a deadbeat son-in-law who was considered a stain to the honor of the Hullervard family.... ..... Imagine you've been slaving away all your life to please your wife... Suddenly found her cheating on you. Due to the suddenness of the event and some unforseen circumstances, you lost your balance on the top of a staircase and fell to your death... death? A powerful system saves you and gives you another shot at life... First thing, you left the hospital and went running to your mother-in-law's house to report the infidelity. But boom... you were said to have lost your memory... that the impact of the fall must have made you lose your memory... How will you take your revenge? Fight with all your might to prove that you've not lost your memory? Or Accept their claim and pretend to have lost your memory? With a system on your side, how hard can it be to use pretense as a tool of revenge, as you JOB your way to UPPER ECHELON...?

Ethan Cross thought his life was good. He had a girl he loved, a good job, and a chance to run his family's business one day. Then, in one week, he lost it all. His girlfriend Vanessa left him for his best friend Victor. Victor set him up to take the blame for stolen money. His uncle took the family business. His name was trashed, and his own family turned away from him. He had nothing left. Standing in the rain, at his lowest point, Ethan was ready to give up. Then a strange screen popped up in front of his eyes: [Ultimate Compensation System activated.] [The more you suffer, the more you get back.] From then on, the System paid him back for every loss, every hurt, and every betrayal. It gave him cash, new skills, deep knowledge, and later, powers no normal man could have. With his one true friend, Liam Chen, by his side, Ethan built his life back up from zero. He cleared his name. He made his first million. He built a company of his own. But as Ethan grew rich and strong, he learned the truth. His family's fall was not bad luck. A big company called Vale Industries had planned it. Behind Vale stood a hidden group called Black Serpent, tied to the Great Families who run the world in secret. His parents did not just die. They were killed. His whole life had been part of someone else's plan.