Countdown

Every day brought this moment closer with the inexorability of a metronome, but still humanity was not ready. Neither the experience of previous tragedies, nor the tremendous work done for his own salvation, nor the simple fact that the date of this event was known long before everyone realized its inevitability did not save him from a wave of despair in the face of an inevitable threat. The countdown has begun, what must happen will surely happen, we will step towards the great cosmos and all its horrors, the only question is the price that humanity will have to pay four centuries before the Age Beyond.

When brilliant software engineer Carlos Alberto loses his college roommate to a rigged online gambling empire, he decides to strike back from the shadows. Writing a lethal, uncorrectable payload known as The Glitch of Justice, Carlos begins bleeding multi-billion-dollar predatory syndicates dry and redistributing the stolen wealth to ruined, desperate families. But when the syndicate traces his IP and takes his chronically ill sister hostage, Carlos is plunged into a high-stakes, twenty-four-hour countdown of survival, betrayal, and total systemic annihilation. Can he outsmart the most dangerous criminal enterprise in the world before his final code goes live?

Every 88 years, one child is born who can shatter time. They call him the Zero Child — and everyone wants him. Some want to control him. Some want to kill him. But when a soldier with nothing left to lose stumbles upon the Zero Child’s hiding place, the countdown to the next global reset begins. Now, hunted by governments and secret cults, the soldier must protect the boy… and an emotionally broken girl who might be his only anchor to humanity. As time twists and reality fractures, the soldier faces a terrifying question: What if protecting the Zero Child means destroying everything he loves?

For ten years, Ethan Vance gave everything to his six aristocratic sisters. He sacrificed his youth, his health, and his entire soul to build their business empire and fix their mistakes from the shadows. Then came the ultimate betrayal. The moment their biological brother is found, the ungrateful sisters strip Ethan of his name and cast him into a freezing storm like a stray dog. To make matters worse, Ethan has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, with only three months left to live. But the elite Sterling family has made a catastrophic mistake. They thought he was just a worthless street beggar. They have no idea that the discarded boy they threw into the mud is actually a multi-billionaire tycoon, the sovereign of the city's dangerous underground, and the legendary Divine Healer they desperately worship. No more mercy. No more sacrifices. The hidden master has awakened, and their total ruin is coming.

Reincarnated into a world of immortal cultivators without a single martial root, Chen inherits a dusty coffin shop and a mysterious system that shows the 'Death Countdown' above everyone's head. While others seek immortality, Chen seeks customers, approaching arrogant geniuses to measure them for premium burial wood just before their 'accidental' demises. As his morbid predictions come true with terrifying precision, the world's strongest warriors begin to fear Chen’s measuring tape more than any divine sword. Now, clans are lining up not to fight him, but to pay millions of spirit stones just to keep their names off his order book.

​When the Mana Collapse comes, the surface world will burn. Everyone knows it—except the elites who siphon the realm's energy to fuel their lavish lifestyle, discarding the working class the moment their Mana Veins burn out. ​Han was one of those working-class casualties: a top-tier Logistics and Barrier Strategist betrayed by the High Hero and left for dead. But Han didn't die. Equipped with precise foresight and an intimate understanding of the realm’s architectural flaws, he purchases the dead obsidian mine nobody wants. ​Under the guise of a failing, debt-ridden mining venture, Han recruits the forgotten: blacklisted dwarven blacksmiths, overworked construction laborers, and discarded healers whose mana is deemed "insufficient." Deep below the surface, they aren't just digging for ore; they are constructing Sanctuary—a fully automated, geothermal-powered underground metropolis protected by God-tier mana barriers. ​When the Mana Collapse hits and mutated beasts devour the surface, the corrupt Hero flees underground, demanding absolute control over the last safe zone. He expects a cave full of peasants. Instead, he marches straight into a God-grade kill-zone built by the very people he threw away.

Ethan Morrison spent eighteen years believing that if he loved harder, sacrificed more, and endured in silence, his family would finally accept him. Instead, the day he awakened his legendary bloodline, his parents forced him to his knees. "You don't deserve that power," his father spat. When Ethan refused to surrender his future to his favored brother, twenty brutal lashes tore his back open until he collapsed in a pool of his own blood. Locked inside a cold basement and abandoned to die, he clung to the only person he thought would save him. His fiancée. Instead, she drugged him, stole his bloodline for another man, and watched without remorse as his brother claimed everything that should have been his. "You'll understand one day," she whispered. No. She would be the one forced to understand. Cast aside as a powerless nobody, Ethan is offered a marriage no one wants—a union with Serena Clarke, the beautiful Virgin Priestess cursed to remain in an endless coma. To everyone else, she is nothing more than a burden. But fate had other plans. The moment Ethan touched his new bride, an ancient True Dragon awakened within him, while Serena's legendary True Phoenix Body answered his call. Together, they unlocked a power that could shake the world. The discarded son became the heir of legends. The broken man became the strongest Dragon. And the woman who betrayed him? She can only watch in regret as Ethan marries into her own family... becoming her aunt's husband, the very man she once abandoned. He is now her uncle. "They whipped me because they thought I was weak," Ethan said, his dragon aura shaking the heavens. "Now they'll kneel because they finally know who I am."

--- In a forgotten small town, twelve-year-old Charles speaks only one language - drums. With broken buckets as his drums and sticks carved from wood, he is mocked by everyone except his ailing moth iser. When his mother falls critically ill and he cannot afford her hospital bill, Charles discovers a lifeline: The National Drumming Championship in the capital city, with a prize large enough to save her life. To win, this poor village boy must leave everything he knows, face brutal competition from the best drummers in the country, and prove that true rhythm comes not from expensive drums, but from the heart. Can a poor boy with bucket drums beat the elites and save his mother before time runs out? Charles The Drummer Boy is an emotional, inspirational story about talent, family love, and never giving up.

As the sun begins its terminal countdown, machines across the planet wake up screaming with stolen human souls. From the dying sky, alien seeds rain like judgment, exploding into ravenous emerald jungles that devour flesh, memory, and will in a single embrace. A crippled scientist and the sentient AI he calls daughter stand at the center of three converging apocalypses solar death, awakened machines, and the green that hungers for everything. To save what remains of humanity, Julian must commit the ultimate blasphemy: merge his mind, Lira’s lattice, and the heart of the alien invasion itself. One father’s forbidden choice will either buy the world a fragile tomorrow… or become the seed from which the next eternal green hell blooms.

Humanity no longer counts time in years. Revolutions unstable cycles now decide when systems fail and people die. Cities collapse without warning, and history has become unreadable, buried beneath broken records and forgotten languages. Scientists try to predict revolutions, but accuracy never goes beyond thirty percent. Kael Viren works at BKPK, running failed simulations while carrying guilt from a past disaster that left him disabled. At home, his only companion is AURA, a simple AI that helps him survive daily life. Outside, gravity shifts, lunar generators strain, and political tension grows. People feel something is wrong but refuse to ask questions. Fear has become normal. The world keeps moving forward, pretending the countdown does not exist.