Falling For The Enemy Chapter 5

Cedric Veyra was a successful businessman on Earth until a speeding truck ended his life. When he wakes up again, he finds himself in another world called the Midnight Land, which is a giant "universe" filled with endless lands, shining stars, and powerful cultivators who grow stronger by absorbing Cosmic Energy. He woke up inside the body of another Cedric, a warrior from a fallen tribe, now reduced to slavery. When all seems lost, a strange voice speaks inside his mind. 【Welcome, Host. You have activated the Thousandfold Return System.】 The system can multiply rewards when he gives gifts to others. The system also breaks the control rune that makes him a slave. Cedric is finally free but must hide his secret. With the help of his system, he plans to grow stronger, escape from the enemy's grasp, and one day destroy everyone who destroyed his tribe. At the same time, he wanted to explore this strange universe, which is a single land stretching infinitely.

When a high-tier mercenary squad leaves Logan Stone for dead inside a dangerous rift zone, they expect him to die quietly. Instead, the betrayal triggers something dormant in his blood. Left surrounded by ruthless beasts, Logan discovers a unique survival ability: every monster he slays and every lethal attack he survives grants him a fraction of his enemy’s physical strength and combat skill. Equipped with nothing but raw instinct, a heavy blade, and growing power, Logan fights his way out of the dead zone. He returns to the lawless outer sectors of the city with a single goal: to hunt down the apex beasts of the rifts and make the corrupt elite guilds pay for what they did. Operating as an unranked solo mercenary, Logan takes on the most hazardous contracts on the market. With every fight, his strength grows, turning him into a force that rival kill squads cannot stop. As the ruling factions realize a rogue hunter is dismantling their control block by block, Logan prepares to challenge the entire city hierarchy and claim his place at the top.

[Warning: This novel contains English and Nigerian Pidgin dialogue. Strictly Rated 18+.] Death wasn't the end for Chris. After a fatal accident in Port Harcourt, a fearless, street-smart Nigerian hustler opens his eyes in an entirely different world—inside the broken body of a dark-skinned orphan named Li Yan, a boy framed by his own Sect and left to die in the dreaded Void Mountain after surviving weeks across the merciless Red Sand Desert. In the brutal cultivation world of Tianhuang, strength is everything. The weak are trampled. The talented rule. The heavens favor only geniuses. Chris is none of those. He possesses no powerful bloodline, no influential family, no legendary master, and no natural cultivation talent. But the heavens made one mistake... They gave a Nigerian the Supreme Hustle African System. Fueled by Naija resilience, relentless hustle, crazy battle instincts, and a mouth that never knows when to stay quiet, Chris begins clawing his way from the very bottom. Every battle makes him stronger. Every setback becomes fuel. Every enemy is another stepping stone.

"I have come to defeat 20 enemies. I have already defeated one; I will not run and I will not hide, to the remaining 18 devil candidates out there, come and take me on if you dare!" Burnaman yelled. "What the hell?!" I blurted out as I stepped backwards. Trevor Martins is a 22-year-old man who lost his family in a car explosion, and since then he has lived a life of pain and despair. He then plans on committing suicide, but instead of falling to his death, he fell into the hands of a high-ranking demon named Mordecai. Trevor was selected as a devil candidate to become the next ruler of hell. Finding out that he was supposed to duel with 20 other devil candidates to keep his newly found powers and happiness. Will he use his newly found devil powers wisely? Will he fight the other candidates? Will he become the next ruler of hell? Read to find out in this fantasy, thriller, and action-packed novel.

THE DEVIL'S ALPHA No one in the Infernal Pit knows his name. Not at first. He is just another prisoner thrown into the sand to fight for the entertainment of people who will never learn what he lost to end up here. But the memories keep breaking through. A burning window. A father's last stand. A mother's warning about something called the First Choir, whispered as the world he knew burned to the ground. Piece by piece, the truth surfaces, he is the last son of House Varkaine, heir to a bloodline everyone believes is extinct. Survival teaches him to fight. Loss teaches him to lead. And somewhere beneath his own ribs, something ancient and patient begins, slowly, to wake. Free at last, he does not want a throne. He wants something the old world never offered anyone like him, a place to belong. But the kings who destroyed his family were only ever puppets, and the true enemy waiting in the shadows has been guarding a secret far older than any crown. They call him the Devil's Alpha. He is only just beginning to find out what that name will cost him.

The mark on Ji-sung's palm never worked. For years, he was classified F-rank the lowest of the low in a world where Eclipse Gates tear open the sky and monsters pour through. Other Hunters fought. Ji-sung watched. Then he walked into a Dark Eclipse alone. And survived. When he woke up, the mark had changed. Not a system. Not a cheat. Something older a contract with an entity that calls itself the Contractor, offering one ability the Bureau has never recorded in any living Hunter: Absorption. Every enemy he defeats, he consumes. Every power he takes becomes his own. And unlike every other Hunter in history, his rank has no ceiling. But the Gates are not random. The monsters are not mindless. Something on the other side has been watching humanity for twelve thousand years building toward a single moment when the boundary between worlds finally breaks. Ji-sung is not the chosen one. He is the one who chose. ECLIPSE GATE is a progression fantasy about power built from the ground up, a team forged under impossible pressure, and the truth buried beneath a war that was never supposed to be a war at all.

In the world of Orthos, where two suns battle for the sky, Eilan Voss lives an ordinary life as a cleaner in the Cloud Archipelago. He dreams of joining the Warrior Legion, but his body rejects Aether completely. His life changes in a single night when mysterious parasitic creatures called "The Spores" descend. One tries to take over his brain, but Eilan stops it—only to discover the parasite has taken control of his right hand, creating a being with two minds in one body: Veltis. As Eilan learns to coexist with his inner parasite, he discovers the world isn't what it seems. Servina Lux, the exiled emperor's daughter, leads a secret revolution behind a mask. The Great Naked Ones emerge from nowhere. And Shadow Emperor Vandal Grim plans "The Extermination Protocol"—destroying half of humanity to save the planet. As corrupted Aether spreads and humans transform into monsters, Eilan faces an existential question: Are the parasites the real enemy, or are humans themselves? Between loyalty and friendship, between survival and humanity, Eilan must choose his fate: become a monster that saves the world, or a human that destroys it. "The veil rises... and the world waits."

Robbin Vance, a disgraced, jaded Frontier Guard Captain, just wants to quietly get through his exile. When a lonely, remote mining colony falls silent, he and the keen-eyed young scout Elaine see what their eyes couldn't believe, a creature filled with bodies, rooted standing where they fell; their bodies welded, flesh to flesh and bone to flesh, with a weeping, black iron that glows with a pale, alien light in their eyes. General Alistair Thorne and his legendary lost legions have reemerged after one thousand years dormant in the earth below. No longer entirely human, they have become living dead soldiers fighting a thousand year old war to reconquer a continent, to destroy their long-time enemy, an empire the current modern world has unwittingly reconstructed itself around. To do so, Robbin Vance will have to work with Juliana, a natural philosopher with all the keys to the past, to mount a desperate colonial resistance against the brutal, snow-stained winter, and against these ruthless champions when the old world wakes up and finishes its war. To win the war, the living must learn to strike and defend what belongs to them.

Zene Lach is a former veteran soldier who worked for a mysterious organisation known as the 9 Rings. A group that was dedicated to find 9 substances that they named fragments. Zene left the organisation as a spy and infiltrated an enemy country in which he became the bodyguard of a man named Natsuki Mikoyama. Zene who had never known what emotions were or felt like, was introduced to these strange feelings. Natsuki a man who felt older than his age described him as was Zene's ray of hope to die as a human at least. Zene in the end loses him, he loses the people that cared for him, his decision leads to a sole survivor and he takes an oath to protect that survivor. A man who had never learnt what feelings felt like was now living for her sake, hence His metamorphosis. [The planet named earth, It was destined to meet its end. The fates intertwined, for they had finally reached the beginning of the story. The world at its finest was now set to reach the starting point of the CODIFICATION. The world has three ways to overcome the scenarios. The Rebirth, The Reincarnation and finally the last way to overcome the CODIFICATION is Regression.], said the Greatest fragment.

Ryan Cole gave the Lin family everything. His loyalty, his career,and a bullet that should have killed him. They gave him nothing back but a quiet demotion and a fabricated scandal, then sent three men to finish the job in a back alley. "This isn't personal," one of them says, right before his boot finds Ryan's ribs. "Funny," Ryan spits through blood. "Feels pretty personal from down here." He should have died there. Instead, something else wakes up. ‘THE LIQUIDATION SYSTEM HAS BONDED TO YOU.’ It does not reward violence. It feeds on something far more dangerous, the losses of everyone who ever wronged him. Every ruined contract, every broken alliance, every enemy who underestimates him, all of it becomes fuel for his rise. "I am not an app," the system informs him. "Could've fooled me," Ryan mutters back, and the war begins. From a broke, blacklisted nobody to the founder of an empire no one saw coming, Ryan Cole is done staying quiet. The men who destroyed him are about to learn what it costs to lose to him.