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In the world of Aethelgard, fate is not written in the stars—it is decided by the cards you hold. While the nobles of the Spire are born with legendary Golden Decks filled with dragons, holy magic, and divine relics, the poor are left with broken scraps barely worth surviving with. Kai is nothing more than a nameless mine slave with no Deck, no status, and no future. But when a deadly cave-in uncovers a hidden flaw in the world’s perfect system, his destiny changes forever. Buried beneath the ruins, Kai discovers [The Wildcard]—a corrupted card capable of becoming anything. A god-slaying sword. A forbidden spell. A monstrous beast. Or… a useless wooden spoon. Unstable, unpredictable, and feared by the system itself, the Wildcard turns Kai into a threat to the very order of Aethelgard. Armed with a chaotic deck forged from literal trash, stolen relics, and impossible combinations, Kai enters the brutal climb of the Spire where every duel is a gamble and every defeat means death. To survive, he must outplay nobles, crush legendary card wielders, and uncover the truth behind the Deck system that controls the world. Because in Aethelgard, power belongs to those lucky enough to draw it. But Kai was never lucky. He cheats fate itself. A dark fantasy progression novel packed with ruthless battles, evolving cards, deadly tower climbs, and a zero-to-overpowered journey where the weakest slave may become the greatest wildcard the world has ever seen.

Johnathan Cross, an average university student gets treated worse than trash by his rich peers and teachers. On the day everyone is getting the greatest news of their lives, Johnathan gets informed that he only has 3 months to live. Johnathan’s life is over and everyone celebrates. Johnathan prays for his death to come sooner so he can escape from his life of misery. In the darkness of the night, Johnathan has one last hope left and he wishes for his life to change for the better. The next time Johnathan wakes up, he couldn’t believe what his life has become overnight.

Wrongfully accused and locked in prison for murder and theft! Dante struggled to build his life back, due to his criminal past, even no company trusted him for a job, everyone despised him. The humiliations, Dante’s house burnt down to ashes by someone he trusted, the divorce paper, another child from his broken marriage-had his wife been cheating on him while he was still in prison? Dante the poor orphan got a phone call in prison that changed his life! Dante Willomandra, son of the Don of a powerful mafia empire-the Chess Mob. With his new found wealth, medical and martial art skills, watch out how Dante strikes back, rising to the peak from the humiliated Ex-convict to Executive!

“I had a knife I would stab you more than a million times” A wife who loathed his husband to the point of wanting him dead, A mother-in-law, and father-in-law who only care when money is invoked. Joshua Miller, a man in a cruel world where the Poor are overshadowed by the rich. He was mocked and berated by the people he called family, but they had no Idea who he truly was. He was Joshua Miller, The Heir To A Multi Trillion Company. He swore that everyone who hurt him would pay the price and beg for his mercy. What happens when he raises from Grass to Grace? What will he do when he realizes that he was wanted dead by his family? Join Joshua’s world as he leaps to the top.

Jack was a subject of humiliation and embarrassment by the rich college students. He was always seen as a poor boy who had to endure pain and hardship just to get what he wanted. After being expelled from college, the same rich students attack him unknowing to them that event would change his life forever. That day was a day of turnaround for Jack. What will be his fate when he finds out about his new identity? How will he succeed and achieve his dream? Join me in grasping how he was able to navigate from a poor student to being soaked in wealth

Caleb thought loyalty was enough. He worked day and night, scraping together every coin, giving everything to a woman who never saw him as more than a stepping stone. When she told him she was going to a birthday party, he believed her. But hours later, Caleb walks into a luxury wedding as the hired electrician— And sees his girlfriend in a white dress, marrying another man. She doesn’t just deny him. She laughs at him. And her billionaire husband forces him to kneel in front of the crowd. They thought Caleb was nothing. Just a delivery boy. But fate has other plans. Caleb is the true heir to the Callahan empire. The bloodline everyone forgot. The name written into a trillion-dollar legacy. Now, he’s back. Not as a servant. Not as a victim. As the man they’ll all kneel to.

Elias' life takes a huge turn after he was betrayed by the ones he loved, dumped and framed to die for a crime he knew nothing about. But fate played a dirty game blowing off his once worthless and lowly life into something so powerful that even the rich and those that once laughed at him during his days of shame bow.

*Inter-universal time dilation* Shouldn't be in a stingray story, right? Follow Tim the stingray, and his journey as he ascends to power, with the aid of his inbuilt, power-promising system! The world he, Tim Lake had reincarnated in, was full of wonder! There were countless universes, the ghost world, several types of mana, multiple realms of magic, and other promises too, such as shapeshifting, summoning, alchemy, creation of magical abilities and endless ways to manipulate mana itself! Will Tim be able to regain his humanity, or will he end up as a dead lizard in some Arch Mage's weird collections? The journey ahead of him was bound to be fascinating, and everything that was to happen in-between, was an exciting mystery!

In CALEB'S ASCENSION TO POWER, nobody can be trusted because the more you look, the less you see. Caleb was a Billionaire from the richest family in the city but in his quest for true love, he decided to live in disguise as a poor man working in another city. He met Jenny who he married thinking she was the right one for him until he caught her sleeping with his boss who did it to humiliate him. She divorced him and in anger, he decided to go back to his real identity but unknown to Jenny, he had been the one secretly helping her to grow her business but she discovered it too late but she was ready to do anything to win him back. The night before Caleb returned to his family, he received a cryptic text from an unknown person warning him not to trust anyone in his family. Caleb returned home to discover there was a conspiracy against his life within his family and also a power tussle for the family company. On his first return, he was shot in an unsuccessful assassination attempt. Caleb returned from the hospital a changed person who refused to be fooled by the sweetness of the people around him including his father. Journey with us in CALEB'S ASCENSION TO POWER as he uncovers the conspiracies behind him and the people who want him dead.

In a world where the gods are corrupt and the continent bleeds under endless war, famine, and divine whims, there exist the Seven Calamities — living cataclysms given human form. They are the rejected weapons of a tyrannical pantheon, each one an apocalyptic force capable of ending civilisations. Prophecy and forbidden lore state that the man who successfully marries all Seven and survives their touch will inherit their combined power, becoming a new god-emperor who can reshape the world. No man in recorded history has ever survived even one. Until Kyros Nekros.