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His name was Zyren Drakos—a name whispered like a curse and remembered like a legend. Once left to die on the blood-soaked battlefield of the fallen Aetherion Kingdom, Zyren’s fate should have ended there. But death had other plans. Rescued by a notorious poison master shunned by the martial world, Zyren was reborn—not as a soldier, but as a living weapon. Trained in silence and shadows, he mastered forbidden arts. Every breath he took, every enemy he struck down, carved his path in poison and vengeance. But everything changed the night he saved her—a courtesan cloaked in mystery and beauty, with secrets deeper than her smile. She gave him his first taste of love... and cursed him forever. Now, hunted by assassins, betrayed by allies, and chased by the ghosts of a war not yet over, Zyren fights not just to survive—but to uncover the truth. Because somewhere in the chaos, the courtesan vanished... and left behind a single message: “They were never after me… They were after you.”

Death was supposed to be the end. Instead, it was only the beginning. When the arrogant son of a billionaire opens his eyes, he finds himself reborn in Aetherion, a ruthless world ruled by cultivation sects, elemental powers, and blood-soaked hierarchies. He awakens in the shattered body of an eighteen-year-old orphan—broken, discarded, and left to die after failing a cultivation test. In this world, the weak are resources, and mercy is a myth. Marked as talentless, hunted by fate, and surrounded by cruelty, he survives on nothing but willpower and a terrifying secret buried deep within his damaged core: Void—a forbidden power that does not create, but erases. As he struggles through hunger, violence, and human betrayal, his path collides with Selene Veyth, the cold and formidable daughter of a powerful cultivation sect leader, whose Blood-bound power is as deadly as the chains that bind her. Void and Blood should never coexist. Yet in a realm where strength is law and humanity is optional, survival demands impossible choices. This is not a tale of destiny. This is a story of endurance. In a world of magic and blood, how long can one remain human?

For years, Leon Jensen fought hard to regain his rights as heir to the Jensen family. He lives separately from his family and lives a life far from luxurious. One day the butler of the Jensen family told Leon that he had passed the trial from his family and got his rights back as the heir. Leon thought that day would be the end of his suffering. He also planned a special dinner with his wife, Claire. Something unexpected happened, Claire asked Leon to sign the divorce agreement. Leon was very surprised, but agreed. "Leon, I just want a real man, I don't want a gigolo! Being a man who has no ambitions and life achievements is the same as living like a gigolo!" Claire always looked down on Leon because her ex-husband was just a poor and useless man. Until Leon's true identity was exposed and everyone who insulted him regretted it.

Oliver James Smith gave his all to Lily. Over the years, he sacrificed his hard work for Lily's family to avoid being looked down upon. Until finally Oliver got divorce papers right when Lily officially became CEO. Lily got engaged to another conglomerate man, and Oliver was unceremoniously kicked out. His life hit rock bottom when Jane, his mother, died because she did not receive the treatment promised by Lily's family. Oliver is entangled in debts for medical expenses, funeral expenses, and debts to loan sharks that are suffocating. Then a stranger came to pay all his debts, saying, "Greetings, Mr. Oliver, it is time for you to return to your real richest family." With the power of unlimited wealth, Oliver rise up and reappeared to broke the Lily Family. He will show how excruciating revenge can be—until they tremble to mention his name.

Alex is killed when he tries to protect his wife, who unknown to him, is in league with the gangsters attacking them, and even in love with their leader. The gangster forces her to have sex with him with Alex watching before they kill him and burn his body, and when his soul goes to the Underworld, he asks for his life back. Hades grants it to him because Zeus and Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, have also pleaded as he is the last of the latter's line and heir to the ancient throne, but on his own terms. That he will be half human, will be unable to die, and would need to fight in wars before he can find the Seal that will give him a body again. Alex accepts all this without thinking twice, only to see that he's been tricked. With his system and his guide, Maia, set in another world, will Alex become human again and get his revenge, or will he remain in his half metal body and be punished with the condition of having to live forever in it?

My name is Zane, and I am just a poor boy from the Mainland slums. To keep my little sister, Kemi, alive, I trusted the richest magic guild in the city. I thought they were going to cure her sickness. Instead, they used me. They strapped my sister to a machine to tear a legendary power source called the Calamity Core straight out of her chest. When I tried to save her, they broke my bones and left me to die on a freezing hospital floor. But I didn't die. A blue digital screen popped up in front of my eyes, granting me a forbidden power: sovereign necromancy. Now, every monster I kill and every corrupt billionaire I crush must stand up and join my shadow army. The rich think they own this city behind their high concrete walls. But I am coming for them with an army of the dead, and I will make every single elite bleed for what they did to my family.

In a rain soaked cyberpunk archipelago ruled by mega corporations, Ryker Hale is a rejected “ghost” a failed vessel surviving as a shadow-hacker. When his ex-lover Lira lures him into a trap for Helix Dynamics, Ryker is injected with the forbidden Beast Code. What should have killed him instead shatters him. Glowing code veins spread beneath his skin. Claws rip from his hands. Worst of all, the Code multiplies, spawning monstrous echoes that wear his face and commit atrocities in his name. Framed, hunted by corporate kill teams, and slowly losing his humanity, Ryker is forced to ally with the woman who betrayed him. As the echoes grow stronger and more savage, he must descend into the forbidden Deep Wild to confront the Code’s source. In a brutal fight for his soul, Ryker faces a terrible choice: purge the beast and die powerless, or embrace the fracture and become the monster the system always wanted. A dark cyberpunk thriller of body horror, doppelganger terror, and second-chance betrayal.

Adams’ life took a dramatic turn for the worse when his fiancée, whom he had been engaged to for five years, cheated on him days before he could announce the surprise wedding that he had planned for her. If that was not bad enough, his ex-fiancee's current boyfriend is hell-bent on ruining his life and the career he has worked so hard to build but has yet to see progress in. Adams had no chance of fighting back because he was the sole heir to one of the country's richest billionaires. At that point, a system appeared, and his life changed drastically for the better. Not only did he become eye candy for mere mortals, but he also made history as the first person to unlock the three magical systems without causing any backlash. Join Adams on his crazy journey through the system. An urban system saga novel with supernatural elements. Cast your vote for your favorite character. (Warning: This is a slow-burn urban level-up novel.)

Ethan Ashford has spent his entire life believing he was just another abandoned orphan struggling to survive. Raised by relatives who treat him as nothing more than a burden, he balances university, a part-time café job, and constant financial hardship, hoping that hard work alone can change his future. Everything changes after he rescues a mysterious old man on a rainy night. A strange symbol, anonymous warnings, and relentless pursuers drag Ethan into a hidden world that has existed alongside humanity for thousands of years. Powerful organizations begin searching for him, while fragments of his forgotten past slowly resurface. The deeper Ethan digs, the more impossible the truth becomes. His parents were never ordinary humans, and the blood flowing through his veins may be the key to an ancient power that many are willing to kill for. In a war between Immortals and those who hunt them, Ethan must uncover who he truly is before his enemies find him first.

The world has changed, because of money, resources are now slowly decreasing, to decrease the population and because of this, leaders all over the world decided to make a survival game. They called it "In Game." Experimenting people is now legal to make people become stronger and powerful to fight in what they called the national and international game. To reach the top and become as the most powerful person and to make their country the strongest. Animals that they made into monsters are now waiting outside the walls, forest, desserts, and even inside of the city to capture and eat their prey. Time where you know when you will die or how will you die. No freedom, undeveloped life, children can't go play outside anymore and forced murder. Do you still want to live in this situation? After so many years, one person with her group will come to change the course of time, will they be able to bring it back to normal? In the past where they could do whaterver they want, to do not include killing or torturing people by force. Where everyone will be happy and no longer have to suffer, where everyone have freedom to do what they want.