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Alejandro Serrano lives a mundane life with a useless ability to detect lies, until a dead wizard's contract grants him a System that rewards him for completing supernatural tasks. As he trades favors for power, he discovers that his past lives are not just memories—they are death warrants. With a mysterious woman hunting him and a countdown to his own demise, Alejandro must navigate a magical Madrid where every deal carries a deadly price.

On Monday, October 19, 2026, the System descends and eighty percent of humanity is lost within hours. Ethan Cole, a 24-year-old New York barista, is the one person who saw it coming. He died ten years into the apocalypse, impaled on the final frontline, and woke up two minutes before Day One with a decade of combat instinct and perfect knowledge of the future. He claims the First Blood chest and its Mythic passive skill before the tyrant of the Eastern Wastes can. But every move Ethan makes ripples outward. People he saved in his past life now die, and new threats appear that he never faced. His "perfect" knowledge starts to fail, and he realizes the System itself may have been watching him all along.

Betrayed, butchered, and left to die in a minus fifty-degree apocalypse by his unfaithful wife and her lover, Bagas Wirawan is given a second chance at life. Waking up ninety days before the cataclysmic disaster with a mysterious pendant and his memories intact, Bagas refuses to be a sacrificial lamb again. With the countdown to the end of the world ticking, he starts carving a path of ruthless revenge, tearing up fraudulent contracts, cutting off the parasitic family, and exposing the bitter truth. This time, the frozen wasteland will be their tomb.

She is Nine. Blade IX of the Nine Abysses. Three hundred years ago Hell erased her name, burned its sigils into her arms, and installed a recitation under her ribs that counts her target's sins until the day she ends him. Her target: Xiao Jin, crown prince of Dalang. Wolf-blooded. Disrespectful. Weighed and found owing. The Moon's blessing makes a wolf prince untouchable to enemy blades. Only his bride can take him: the one who shares his bed and speaks the condemnation in the bridal rite. So Hell sends brides. Two burned before her. Seven was collared and sang for three days. Now Nine walks into the Looking Room wearing a drowned girl's face, meaning to be chosen. He chooses her. Then he laughs at her, a real laugh, the first true thing anyone has given her in three hundred years, and the recitation under her ribs goes silent mid-word. Now she is his chosen bride, one locked door from his bed, with a priest who already knows what she is, a kingdom that believes he murders brides, a Hell that does not forgive failure, and a mission she can no longer remember how to speak. Every chapter ends with something snapping. The only question that matters: which of them breaks first, and into what.

Ethan Moore spent ten years being the perfect husband. He worked sixteen hour shifts so his wife Claire could carry designer bags. He paid off his mother in law's credit card debt four times. He covered his brother in law's DUI lawyers, his daughter's private school tuition, and every vacation, every spa trip, every brunch bill that his family racked up without ever once saying thank you. And when he lay dying in a hospital bed with three cracked ribs and a punctured lung, not one of them held his hand. "I called the insurance company this morning. The payout is $750,000, but with the accidental clause, it bumps to 1.2 million." His wife crossed her legs and scrolled through her phone without looking at him once. "What about the stock options from his company? Those vest on death, don't they?" His mother in law leaned against the doorframe with her arms folded. And then his daughter, the girl he carried on his shoulders at county fairs, the girl he stayed up with during thunderstorms, looked up from her phone and said the words that stopped his heart. "You know he's not even my real dad, right? I just want to know if I still get stuff. I really need a new phone." He woke up three years in the past with every memory of his deathbed burned into his brain and a system that returned every dollar he spent tenfold. The man who once apologized to a waiter for sending back cold soup now buys $400,000 suits without blinking. The man who skipped his own father's funeral because his wife said they couldn't afford the flight now carries $20 million in his back pocket. The pushover is dead. And the people who killed him don't even know he's coming.

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.

Three weeks after his death, Adrian awakens inside a digital simulation with only the memories of a life he knows was his own. He remembers his apartment, his job, his best friend and the night everything went dark. What he doesn’t remember is dying. He expects answers. Instead, he discovers the impossible. His biological body is dead, his funeral has already taken place, and the person standing before the scientists is not the original Adrian Vale. He is a digital reconstruction. Created by Veyron Continuum, Adrian was never meant to exist beyond the company’s experiment. He was supposed to hand over the research stored within his consciousness and then be reset. Now Adrian has only three hours before Veyron deletes him. He escapes into a restricted network and contacts Daniel Reed, his best friend, who struggles to accept that the voice on the other end of the connection belongs to Adrian. Then Veyron offers Daniel five million dollars to help them track him down. Daniel has no idea that the device they give him is more than just a tracking tool. It’s a trap. When Adrian fights his way through the trap, he gains control of a physical device connected to Veyron’s network. But his escape creates a new problem. Deep within Veyron’s facility, another consciousness awakens. Another Adrian, another set of memories and this one believes he is the original. Now Adrian must uncover the truth behind his death, expose the company that claims to own his mind, and prove that he is more than a copy before Veyron finds a way to erase him forever.

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?

Ethan Hayes was set to inherit everything — until his own family buried him alive to take it. Framed for his grandfather's murder and left for dead at a construction site, he's rescued by a reclusive billionaire and rebuilt over five years into one of the most powerful men in the world. Now Ethan is back in New York under a new identity, dismantling the empire that destroyed him with the help of Isabella Carter, the lawyer who never stopped believing him. But the closer he gets to the truth, the more it unravels: his brother, not his stepmother, has been running the conspiracy all along — and the mentor who saved his life had his own reasons for choosing him. Ethan finally has the power to destroy everyone who wronged him. The only question is what kind of man he'll be when he does.

Only I remember the erased timelines. One day, an ordinary archive clerk named Noël Voss finds himself thrust into the deadly Cataclysm Trials. What does he do to survive a world hijacked by the corrupt Tetrad Gods? His edge? He already knows how to break the impossible rules. Because his latent Void-Weaver bloodline makes him the sole survivor who lived through the erased histories. Read his story to see how he survives the system before his mind shatters at 60 Fractures!