Death Countdown

🔥 The System awakened when the world ended. When a lightning strike nearly kills him, Marsel unlocks the Aethel Protocol System—a mysterious power that drags him into a deadly, game-like reality. With monsters rising and the undead swarming the city, he must follow the System’s commands, level up fast, and uncover the truth behind its real purpose. Because somewhere in the shadows, a powerful being is coming… the Shadow Queen, destroyer of worlds. Now Marsel must decide: Will he become humanity’s savior, or just another pawn in a cosmic war?

Xiao Chen was born with an extraordinary talent and physique to become a peak martial artist. At the age of eight, Xiao Chen could memorize and remember all the martial arts techniques his parents taught him. At the age of nine, Xiao Chen could grasp the essence of certain techniques just by glancing at the fights of martial artists. However, that talent and intelligence met a tragic fate. His family was completely wiped out overnight. The Xiao Family's magnificent manor was reduced to rubble. Xiao Chen managed to survive after the Old Servant of the Xiao Family took him away. Although he survived and was able to live, Xiao Chen had been declared a useless piece of trash. The bandits who attacked the Xiao Family residence earlier had destroyed Xiao Chen's martial spirit. However, will Xiao Chen surrender to fate?! “No, I will avenge all this blood debt, even if it means my body is destroyed. If the river blocks me, I will cut the river. If the sky blocks me, I will tear down the sky!!!” ——— Self-Defense Level. 1. Body Forging Realm. 2. Martial Arts Student 3. Master level fighter 4. Grandmaster-level fighter 5. Earth Warrior 6. Sky Warrior/Heaven 7. Holy Warrior Only at the body forging level is it divided into nine levels. For the next level, each level is divided into three: beginning, middle, and peak/final.

Raihan's love confession to his dream girl ends with a deafening rejection, followed by soul-crushing laughter in the middle of campus. At his lowest point, the Deathly Cringe System activates, demanding he accumulate "cringe points" by performing a series of the most awkward public acts. From stuttering to strangers to becoming a living campus meme, Raihan is forced to face his greatest fears for these absurd missions. Each "embarrassing mission" gradually dulls his shyness, builds courage, and even uncovers unexpected potential within him. But what is the true purpose of this cruel system? And is Raihan ready to confront the greatest trauma that has bound him in the past, to complete all this madness? An absurd journey towards self-acceptance, proving that sometimes, shame can be the key to true strength... and perhaps, unexpected love.

At 11:57 p.m., every adult in Meridian City receives a countdown. When it reaches zero, the implanted System will stop their heart. Completing assigned missions earns time. Failing them costs it. A privileged few seem to have centuries. Everyone else has hours. Elias Venn has spent years hauling injured people out of the city’s condemned districts. He knows how to save lives without asking whether the patient deserves it. Then someone empties his time account while he is carrying a stranger to safety. With barely three minutes left to live, Elias accepts a hunter contract and learns a terrifying rule: the System pays more for a confirmed kill than a living capture. His first target holds evidence that time can be stolen from registered citizens. Worse, the theft is tied to Mara, Elias’s younger sister, whose own countdown has begun to collapse. Each level Elias gains opens a new route through a city divided into lethal missions, restricted districts, hunter rankings, and hidden administrative permissions. But greater strength brings greater temptation: he can buy time for Mara only by risking his own life—or taking it from someone else. An ex-System auditor named Tessa Rook offers him access to the records everyone wants destroyed. She distrusts hunters, and Elias has every reason to distrust the institution she once served. Their uneasy partnership deepens as they uncover a chain of contracts leading toward the people who designed the countdown. When a new mission appears offering Elias the hours he desperately needs, its target is not a criminal. The name on the execution order is someone he swore he would protect. And the System has already started the timer.

After years of war, legendary commander discovers that he has a young daughter, and she has been kidnapped for an illegal heart transplant. Racing against time, he returns to his hometown, determined to destroy everyone standing between him and his child.

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.

They thought the past was dead. They were wrong. When Dr. Adrian Cole discovers an extinct plant growing in the forest outside Evergreen City, he knows something impossible is happening. But the plant is only the beginning. Soon, creatures that vanished thousands of years ago begin returning, and a terrifying warning left behind by his father reveals that the danger will grow worse under the full moon. Nobody believes Adrian. Not the authorities, not the scientists, and certainly not the people who think his father's experiments were nothing but madness. With time running out, Adrian joins forces with four teenagers who share his passion for science. Their search for answers leads them to a restricted scientific archive, missing research pages, and a secret powerful enough to change everything they know about the past. Their only hope lies in an unfinished time machine and the truth behind his father's mysterious disappearance. But as the creatures grow more aggressive and Evergreen City edges toward destruction, Adrian discovers that the past has secrets no one was meant to uncover. To save humanity, he must finish what his father started before the world he knows becomes extinct.

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.

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.

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.