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For three years, Zion Blade was nothing more than a despised son-in-law, sacrificing his own company to build his wife's company while someone else took the credit. Then he caught his wife cheating. She divorced him without a second thought, convinced she had finally gotten rid of the useless man who was now beneath her. But the moment Zion walked away, an overseas call changed everything. **“Young Master Blade, your grandfather is waiting for you.”**

Year 4027. The world is a rusted graveyard. Ten thousand years ago, the Celestial Forge shattered, raining down living metal seeds called Cores. These Cores grew into Beasts, giant robots that fought and fought until they destroyed civilization. Now the world is covered in rust, dead machines, and desperate survivors. Nova Miles-7 is a seventeen year old scavenger. He spends his days digging through the Bone Yard, a massive war zone now filled with scraps and Cores, searching for valuable Cores to sell. His only possession is a tattered watch from his best friend, who was taken by the government. They call them the District. Then he finds a dying Core that speaks. Nyx-0 is a Null-Type Beast, a legendary creature thought to be a myth. It can evolve by consuming other Cores. But every evolution costs Nova a memory. In this world, memories are wealth. The government would kill you for them. The Core Directive, the oppressive government that controls all Beasts and Pilots, wants Nyx-0 destroyed. They are the only ones who know it exists. The people think it is just a mythical Core. General Zero-One, a charismatic villain who lost his family to Beasts, wants to dissect Nyx-0 to end all Beasts forever. And Sera-404, a noble-born Pilot with a dying Beast of her own, will do anything to save what she loves. Nova faces an impossible choice. Stay bonded to Nyx-0 and become the most powerful Pilot alive, but slowly forget himself. Sever the bond and return to poverty, but keep his soul. Find a third path that no one believes exists. In a world where memory is power, Nova must decide. What is he willing to lose?

SYNOPSIS In a realm where magic and martial arts reign supreme, Kaden's nights are haunted by shadows of his past, driving him to seek power in the ancient arts. Years slip away, and his soul remains locked, a prisoner of his own potential. Desperate, he retreats to a forgotten corner of the world, where hope seems lost. But fate has other plans. A chance encounter ignites a spark, and Kaden's ascent begins, hurtling him toward a truth that will shatter the very fabric of his reality. The Wheel of Time turns, and Kaden's destiny awaits – will he unlock the secrets of his soul, or be consumed by the darkness that haunts him?

Twenty years of service, twenty years of secrets, and one night of blood. Caevrik Dorneth was the perfect butler for the Krossel family, but when they are butchered in their sleep, he becomes their final ghost. Armed with a 'Black Ledger' filled with two decades of blackmail, corruption, and vice, Caevrik initiates a masterclass in psychological warfare. He doesn't need bullets to destroy the powerful elite; he only needs the truth. As he systematically dismantle the conspirators who ordered the massacre, he must stay one step ahead of the relentless detective closing in on his trail, knowing that for him, justice is served cold and at the cost of his own soul.

Congratulations, Karion Kross, you have fully acquired the Billionaire System. Host: Karion Kross. Balance: Half a trillion dollars. Task: Spend thirty million dollars in seventy-two hours, or suffer the system’s punishment! ~*~ On the day I was supposed to propose to my girlfriend, I, Karion Kross, a financially struggling entrepreneur, caught her in bed with my childhood best friend. Betrayed and heartbroken by the two people I trusted most in this cruel world on the day I thought would be special, I believed things couldn't get any worse until my so-called best friend ordered his guards to beat me up and leave me for dead so he can steal my company’s idea and girlfriend. However, on the brink of death, something extraordinary happened. A blue screen appeared out of thin air—a system promising wealth, power, and the chance to rewrite everything under one condition—I got revenge on those who have wronged me, slap faces them, spend like a trillionaire and… build a harem along the way?! The Rise Of Karion Kross starts now, and all who have wronged him, their ultimate downfall begins—now!

To save his family, he had to stop being human. Twenty-four-year-old Jid has spent his life in the dirt, breathing the rust of the Bulwark slums. As the sole guardian of his younger sister, Sommy, his world is measured in scraps of bread and the hours of backbreaking labor he sells to the powerful guilds. He doesn’t dream of glory; he dreams of a roof that doesn't leak and a meal that doesn't taste like ash. But the world outside the walls is changing. The "Infected" are evolving, and the shadows are growing teeth. When a high-stakes raid into the forbidden zones turns into a bloody execution, Jid is the one left behind. Betrayed and gutted by the monsters in the dark, he should have died in the mud. Instead, something ancient and hungry found him first. Jid wakes up to a world he no longer recognizes. The pain is gone, replaced by a cold, mechanical pulse in his mind and a shimmering gold light in his eyes. A strange, haunting interface now dictates his every move, granting him powers that defy the laws of time and biology—powers that the ruling corporations would kill to own. But the "System" isn't a gift. It’s a tether to an outer-world threat that views humanity as nothing more than ink on a page, ready to be erased. Now, Jid must return to the city that abandoned him, hiding the monster he is becoming while using his new abilities to protect the only person he has left. He survived the death of his old life, but as the hunger grows and the "System" begins to rewrite his soul, Jid realizes the hardest part isn't surviving the dead—it’s surviving the thing he’s turning into. And whatever is coming for him.

Karma is a currency, and the universe is coming to collect. For Vik, life has been a relentless cycle of exhaustion and debt. But when a ruthless gang corners him in a dark alley to break his bones, the world suddenly freezes. A translucent interface flickers to life with a chilling warning: His Karma balance is -150, and he has exactly 24 hours before liquidation erases his soul. To survive, Vik must balance the ledger. He discovers a cosmic loophole: by defeating the city's worst predators, he can extract their negative points and convert them into Pure Karma. This currency can be spent in a hidden shop to unlock superhuman strength, heightened reflexes, and deadly metaphysical skills. From rain-slicked alleys to the heights of corporate shadow-wars, Vik goes from prey to the ultimate debt collector. But as he climbs the ladder of power, he learns he isn't the only Contractor in the game. In a world where corrupt elites hoard fortune and rivals hunt for dominance, Vik must adapt, upgrade, and exploit the system. The ledger is open. It’s time to collect.

[Ding!!!] [Hacking System Activated!] Adrian Miles has spent his entire life knowing what it feels like to be poor. He works a miserable low-paying job, struggles to pay his rent, and sends whatever money he can spare back home to help his sick mother. But on the worst day of his life, everything changes. A mysterious Hacking System awakens inside him, granting Adrian hacking knowledge that should have taken years to acquire. This is a journey from powerless to powerful, from struggling to wealthy, from ordinary to extraordinary. This is the journey of Adrian Miles. From a broke nobody... To a Hacking God. Disclaimer: 'My Hacking System' is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either products of the author's imagination or are used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual individuals, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

After general Jack died in disgrace, betrayed general Jack wakes up ten years in the past—before his kingdom fell and before his enemies destroyed his family. This time, he’s ruthless. He keeps his past-life memories, gains a mysterious divine system, and starts eliminating threats one by one. The world thinks he’s weak, but he’s already planning their downfall.

Robbin Vance, a disgraced, jaded Frontier Guard Captain, just wants to quietly get through his exile. When a lonely, remote mining colony falls silent, he and the keen-eyed young scout Elaine see what their eyes couldn't believe, a creature filled with bodies, rooted standing where they fell; their bodies welded, flesh to flesh and bone to flesh, with a weeping, black iron that glows with a pale, alien light in their eyes. General Alistair Thorne and his legendary lost legions have reemerged after one thousand years dormant in the earth below. No longer entirely human, they have become living dead soldiers fighting a thousand year old war to reconquer a continent, to destroy their long-time enemy, an empire the current modern world has unwittingly reconstructed itself around. To do so, Robbin Vance will have to work with Juliana, a natural philosopher with all the keys to the past, to mount a desperate colonial resistance against the brutal, snow-stained winter, and against these ruthless champions when the old world wakes up and finishes its war. To win the war, the living must learn to strike and defend what belongs to them.