Faking It With Damien Black

When death suddenly claims you, what do you feel? Regrets? Longing? Fear of the unknown? What if you are given another chance to live? But the world you will be born with is far different from where you came from. This world is full of swords and magic! Join William as he embarks on a journey in a new world after his death. A second chance. A new world. A brand new adventure. A brand new sys... Dreams... all he wants is dreams come true... ... Editing of the first thirty chapters is finished. I will try to edit the second thirty chapters this month. Our story is long, our actions should not be rushed, if you are someone who follows the book, I guarantee that the mistakes you encountered at the beginning have been corrected. Thanks, everyone. AN: I'm sorry to keep you waiting, but I have some good news. I found a new job in one of the best private hospitals in my country, and I had to start working immediately. That's why I've been working overtime for the last two weeks. We fixed it this week and now I'm free on weekends. From now on I will publish 2 chapters a week. Saturday and Sunday. (Because I'm only free on those two days.) Thank you for your understanding. Happy New Year! Good or bad, be sure to leave a review. This will increase your reading pleasure and my writing level. Publish schedule: 7 CH/WEEK Tags: #EasternFantasy, #WestFantasy, #Magic, #System, #Adventure, #Explore, #Cultivation, #Comedy, #weaktostrong, #pet, #creatures, #antihero, #villain, #dark, #reincarnation, #Bloodline, #Romance,

“I. WANT. A. DIVORCE.” Kael thought love meant sacrifice. He gave up his status, his inheritance, his entire world—only to watch his wife hand her heart to someone else. When their daughter falls into a coma, Riley chooses another man’s home over her own child. Broken, Kael vanishes with his daughter, promising never to return… until fate forces him home six months later. This time, he isn’t the Kael people remember. This time, he’s here to reclaim everything they took—NOVEX, his research, his power, his future. What he didn’t count on was meeting a green-eyed, fearless vixen. A stranger who sees the wounds he never speaks of… and stays anyway. But she is Riley's twin sister and she holds a secret in her heart that could destroy the fragile trust their relationship stands on.

In his first life, Maximilian lost everything after falling prey to a cruel plot by those he thought were allies before ultimately dying at the hands of the woman he loved the most. That was supposed to be the end for him, however, fate seemed to have other plans as he awoke three years in the past, three years before he lost everything. Given a second chance to make everything right, Maximilian makes a solemn promise; to those that wronged him, he would surely get his pound of flesh and this time, there would be no losses.

For years, Mikael Winston let the world believe he was nothing. He played the fool so his family would have one less person to fight over the inheritance. He buried his name, his pride, and everything he was capable of becoming just to keep the peace. Then, when fire tore through a burning building, he risked his life to save a woman— and paid for it with his face. The woman he saved married him anyway. At least, that was what he believed. One week was all it took for her to reveal the truth. She had gotten what she wanted: a fifty-million-dollar contract signed by his hands, her fortune secured, and no intention of staying married to the scarred man she'd once pretended to love. There had never been a real marriage. No vows that counted. No future together. Just humiliation. And somehow, through a cruel twist of fate, Mikael was legally bound to another woman instead—a young maid with nothing but a scholarship, a kind heart, and nowhere else to go. Like him, she had been discarded by the people who were supposed to value her. They laughed at them both. They should have been more careful about who they were laughing at. Because Mikael Winston was never the useless man they thought he was. The heir they buried had finally come home. He built Vivienne's fortune with his own two hands. Now, he'll tear it down the same way. Piece by piece. Deal by deal. Until her empire is nothing but ruins—and the only name anyone remembers is Mikael Winston.

Jayden Smith was a hardworking man, a devoted husband, and a loving father. He built his life on love, loyalty, and determination, only to watch it all crumble right before his eyes. Betrayed by the love of his life and cast out by her powerful family, Jayden is left with nothing, stripped of his dignity and everything he holds dear, including his son. But just as he loses all hope, framed for a murder he didn’t commit, the long-buried secret about his true heritage is revealed. In a twist of fate, Jayden rises from ruin to power as the unexpected heir of a billion-dollar empire. Yet wealth and influence cannot heal the wounds inflicted on him. He wanted one thing. Revenge. Jayden was determined to silence the enemies who wanted him destroyed. Will he claim the empire he was born to lead? Or will he be consumed by the world ruled by greed and lies?

Scott was born a slave. For seventeen years he had suffered hunger, beatings and humiliation at the hands of the Kingdom of Azra. The only thing that kept him alive was his sick mother. Then came the Beast Summoning… A ceremony meant for nobles only. But when a God-Tier Beast appeared before the entire kingdom, something impossible happened. The creature everyone feared looked at Scott... and begged him not to contract it. In a single moment, the weakest slave in Azra became the most wanted person in the kingdom. Kings want him dead. Powerful summoners want his beast. And something ancient has awakened inside his body. A mysterious Dragon Mark. A mark that should not exist. A mark feared even by God-Tier Beasts. Scott's search for the truth behind his mysterious power leads him to discover that his existence may be related to an ancient bloodline that can change the fate of the whole world. But before he can uncover the truth, Scott must survive the people who want him dead and take revenge on everyone who destroyed his life. Why was the God-Tier Beast afraid of him? And what is Scott's true identity? Read to Discover more….

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.

"From powerless dropout to god-slayer—power demands sacrifice." Kael Thorne has spent his life as nothing in a world where magic is everything. Expelled from Argentum Academy, mocked by those born with power, invisible in a society that measures worth by magical ability alone. When his estranged grandmother dies, she leaves him a tarnished locket, he remembers her wearing obsessively, whispering to it like a confidante or a curse. Everything changes the night Kael opens the Locket. The locket grants him the impossible, the power to devour others' magical abilities and make them his own. For the first time, Kael tastes what he's been denied. But every theft leaves a trail, every stolen power whispers in his mind, and black veins crawl across his skin like corruption taking root. As the Mage Council hunts him and his victims demand vengeance, Kael uncovers a horrifying truth: his grandmother was the legendary Phantom Thief who massacred seventeen mages decades ago. The locket imprisons an ancient entity called the Devourer—and Kael was born powerless because it drained his magic in the womb, making him the perfect vessel. The entity is waking, fed by every ability Kael steals. He faces an impossible choice: destroy himself to stop it, or embrace what he's becoming. Kael chooses power. He absorbs the Devourer completely, transforming into something beyond human—a dark god who hunts the magical elite and reshapes the world in his image. The Council's gods had their reign. Now Kael will devour them all. In a world built on stolen power, he'll take everything.

One hour vanished from Detective Marcus Kane's life. He remembers kicking down the warehouse door, then nothing but blood on his knuckles and a corpse at his feet. No witnesses. No weapon. No memory. Now he's the department's most wanted, hunted by the brothers in blue who once had his back and tormented by jagged fragments of that stolen hour; fragments showing hands that move like his but aren't under his control. Then the second body drops. Same execution. Exactly one hour after the first. Marcus isn't just a suspect. He's a loaded gun in someone else's hand, and they're pulling the trigger on a schedule. Each victim ties back to a military black site that promised to erase his war trauma, not weaponize him into something unrecognizable. They didn't just take his memories, they programmed a killer into the void. His ex-partner Sarah believes him. Barely. She's risking everything to keep him one step ahead of the manhunt, but her faith cracks with every crime scene photo proving Marcus was there. And the killer inside him is waking up more with each passing hour. The facility's files are sealed. The doctors are dead. And Marcus has seventy-three minutes until the programming kicks in again. To stop the murders, he'll have to willingly step into the blackout and hope he comes back with answers instead of more blood. But his handler isn't some faceless bureaucrat, they're someone who knows exactly how to break him, because they built him. Marcus Kane has one hour to catch a killer. The killer is him. And the puppet master has been watching from inside his own department all along. *****

When Detective Alex Mercer is called to a gruesome murder scene, he finds a single clue beside the body: an envelope marked ECLIPSE. At first, it looks like the return of a long-dead serial killer. But as more bodies appear, Alex uncovers a hidden network built on secrets, blackmail, and power—one that reaches deep into Ravenswood's police department. Then comes the impossible: a message from Daniel Cross, Alex's former partner who supposedly died five years ago. As the city spirals toward chaos and a mysterious operation known as Phase Two begins, Alex is forced to question everyone he trusts—including the people closest to him. But the deeper he digs, the more terrifying the truth becomes. Because Eclipse isn't just hunting victims. It's preparing to expose a secret powerful enough to bring an entire city to its knees. And someone Alex thought was dead has been waiting in the shadows all along.