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The year is 3040, The place is Temple City, a sprawling metropolis in the heart of a vast valley surrounded by sea on one side and desert on another with a mountain range smack on the far end making traveling to the place on whim a difficult venture. Despite being a former vacation spot for the wealthy and powerful, Temple City is not at all a place for the faint of heart. With every step one can find dirty dealings with extensive consequences from seedy night joins, numerous rackets, drug pushing, sextrafficking, and any kind of illicit act one could think of in a place of sin and vice. Like most places, Temple City is home to sinner and saints alike and the saints composed of the working class and the downtrodden always seem to find their way to Det. Ian Baddwulf's front door when the police conveniently forget to search the nooks and crannies of the forgotten places for the missing and the dead, the people call on Ian Baddwulf to do a bit of snooping now and again. His tendency to sniff out trouble and to stick his nose where it didn't belong have made him an invaluable asset in his profession not including his skills pertaining to his inherited infliction with Lycanthropy.

Due to his crippled magicule vein, the defected body of Allastor Frauzz needed to consume more magicules compared to the normal rankers. Because of this disability, he also performs almost three times the usual training of a typical ranker. Having said that, despite his fatigue from the intense training, he didn't expect that his progress to level up would remain slow. He had already made up his mind that night. He would just accept that he wasn't meant to be one of those rankers sitting on top of the food chain. he was not hoping to travel all the continents in Illunor anymore. However, on the same night when he wasn't home, an unknown notorious criminal murders his family. His dream to become strong has been crushed because of his defected body, and now, his family has been taken away from him. On how many tiers can his bad luck reach? His heart has been shattered and turned into ice-cold that night. Finally snapping from the nightmare, he is now walking for merciless revenge. ---- Black Sword and Fragments[Vol. 1: Unforeseen Conspiracy] Book cover--Illustrated by: MarxMade

The world after a huge nuclear disaster, what remains is a civilization that has fallen back for a hundred years, the world is slowly dying. The story follows Seimei Saguis, a young man passionate about the knowledge of an old civilization, on his way to change this struggling world.

In an underground breeding center, a dog becomes infected with a mutated strain of rabies. The virus turns its victims into mindless, flesh-eating savages known as zombies, triggering a catastrophic global apocalypse. Amidst this chaos, our focus turns to Finn, a 23-year-old male who miraculously survives a vicious attack and manages to hang on to his humanity. Professor Franklin, together with his siblings, discovers him in the midst of his transformation and recognizes his potential for their research. They bring him to the camp and succeed in halting his transition, making him the world's first Incomplete Zombie, or what some call an In-Betweener. He retains human instincts but still craves flesh. Join Finn on an extraordinary journey as he takes on the daunting task of saving the world from its imminent demise. Armed with his unique hybrid nature, he becomes humanity’s last hope in the face of an apocalyptic nightmare.

Jake was the last son of Robinson Osborne, the popular billionaire in Luckham. Despised and hated by everyone, even his father, he was forced to flee from his family after the shocking demise of his mother, the only person who cared about him. He met Georgina, a beautiful college girl and fell in love with her. Out of his love for her, he sacrificed his life savings to ensure that she completes her education. A few years later, they got married, but his true identity remained a secret known to him and him alone. He submitted everything he had left home with, just to make sure that Georgina succeeded in her dreams. After all his sacrifices for her, on the 3rd marriage anniversary, he came home and caught his beloved wife cheating with Jackson, a wealthy gold merchant. Worse came to worse when she shoved a shocking divorce letter to his face, ignoring the heartbreak she had caused him. Just when he thought all hope was lost, here comes his father, apologizing for his mistakes and offering him the position of the ONE-TRUE HEIR of his empire.

After the apocalypse took place in real life, the only person left in the world was Alva James. But facing too many zombies makes him exhausted, and then he dies. He then came back to life when he was five years old. He spent more than nine years training to fight zombies later. When Alva was 14, zombie games appeared again. He's logged into the game, gathering resources to be powerful. This time Alva was determined to fight the zombies with all her might. He's looking forward to the day when the zombie game synchronizes with the real world. That day is when the world ends, and he will fight again!

A few reporters gathered at the carnival of a newly formed kingdom. They started asking the citizens a few questions about their new King. Reporter: What do you think about your new King? Person A: He is a crazy man. Person B: He is a... maniac. Person C: He is a family man. At once everyone around them looked at the Person C as if he had gone crazy. Person C cleared his throat: Well, what I heard is that he wouldn't go crazy until no one speaks a word against his babies. He loves them so much. Everyone thought for a whole two seconds and nodded their heads. Reporter: So, your King has babies? Can you tell us about them? What about your Queen? Person A: They are weird. She is too. Person B: They are... monsters. She is a... Tree. Person C: They are cute and adorable. She is too. Once again everyone around looked at the Person C as if he had gone crazy. He once again cleared his throat: Well, if you want to survive in this kingdom, even if you know what they are, you have to say that they are cute and adorable. Once again everyone nodded their heads after thinking for two seconds. The reporters are confused by their answers. A human and a tree gave birth to monsters? What are they talking about? After asking around for a while, they got the answer: The hate in their King's heart makes the Monster tree grow. At the end of the Carnival the reporters got another news. Person A and B were killed by their King while Person C got a reward from him. Reporters: He really is a Manic tyrant.

The battle for the kingdom's leadership begins when King Edward decides to abdicate. Whoever is the toughest and survives to the end, is the one who deserves to be the successor of the kingdom. For the title of leader, all clans elbow each other to achieve victory. Who is lucky in the game and escapes great danger? Who is willing to sacrifice blood and life to join the game? And the question that bothered everyone, which clan would win the game? Will the ice clan retain its title as the leader of the Crimson country? None of the clans guessed who would be the winner.

In a world filled with abilities and superpowers, Zak Farrell , a 16-year-old boy, is an orphan who is living his life with a little too much optimism, trying his best to get by. Due to him having no ability, he had been bullied and tortured every day. However, for some odd reason, he never complained and always stayed happy no matter what. It was almost unnatural. On one cruel day of immense pain, he realized that the world is a brutal, unforgiving place, making him regain his lost senses. In his moment of desperation, a miracle happened. [ You have unlocked the Demon System ] Now that Zak has the power to change his cruel destiny, how will he use it to get back at the world that wronged him on the road to becoming the demon lord...

Fang Yun, a boy who was once branded by one of the sects as someone who would never be able to possess martial arts abilities, suddenly received a miraculous blessing of immense power when he was hiding among the ruins of an ancient temple. However, behind this blessing lay a great mission he had to face. A man known as the Dark King, who had formed an alliance with the Demon King, was plotting to conquer the earth and turn it into the center of rebellion against the Celestial Beings. Fang Yun’s master then entrusted him with a mission to search for four sacred relics that would later be forged into a single sword of unimaginable power. With this sword, Fang Yun would one day face the Dark King and the Demon King.