Freedom

The last thing Adrian Vale expected was to wake up dead. Not dead-dead. Dead in the way a stranger’s body is dead: a hole in the chest, blood drying on cold stone, and a pair of crimson eyes watching him from the other side of a dagger. The woman holding it is Nyra, a demoness with black horns and a smile that promises a second funeral. She killed the nobleman whose body Adrian now wears. She would very much like to finish the job. Then a voice only he can hear announces the Soul Covenant System. One chance to bind a demon. Fail, and he dies for good. Nyra is chained to a summoning circle, starving for freedom, and more dangerous than anything he has ever met. Adrian has no magic, no combat skill and no friends. What he does have is a talent for noticing what people want, and a system that lets him see exactly what demons want most. So he makes her an offer. Help me survive, and I’ll break your chains. She laughs. She says no. Then the dungeon doors burst open. Now Adrian is a wanted man with ten thousand gold coins on his head, a bad-tempered demoness at his side, a vampire girl who knows far too much about his system, and a hunter who has been killing demons for twenty years. Somewhere in a dark castle, a hooded figure has just learned that the boy is alive. In a world where humans are the weakest race, Adrian intends to build something no one has seen in a thousand years: an army of powerful demon women who follow him because they chose to. First, he has to survive the one who already killed him.

“Your family’s blood runs thick with treason.” The words seared into young Thorne Valtor’s mind as he watched his world crumble. His uncle’s guards dragged his father away in chains, accused of murdering the grandfather Thorne barely knew. His mother lunged forward, desperate to stop them, only to be cut down in a spray of blood right before his eyes. “Mother!” Thorne’s scream echoed uselessly as blades flashed again. His father broke free for a heartbeat, grabbing Thorne in a frantic escape attempt, but arrows felled him mid-stride. Thorne crumpled beside his father’s body, the warmth of life fading under his small hands. The uncle’s shadow loomed over him. “You’re no longer needed here, boy.” Sold into slavery to the neighboring kingdom of Eldoria, Thorne toiled in the brutal depths of their mining pits, his body scarred by whips and his spirit hardened by years of endless labor. Freedom came not from mercy, but from chaos: Eldoria fell under siege by a nameless horde wielding forbidden dark mage powers, their shadows twisting reality itself. Thorne fled through the carnage, crossing borders back to his homeland of Valeria, where he sought refuge in his father’s hidden sanctuary,a forgotten cavern etched with ancient runes. There, a sealed door his father had once whispered about beckoned. “It will open when the time is right.” The time was now. The door yielded, revealing five ethereal thrones occupied by spectral ancient mages. “He has returned, the chosen one.” They descended, pressing a glowing tome into his hands. “Within lies powers, Use it wisely, heir of the clovers. “Do the right thing.” Read on to unravel a tale where betrayal forges heroes, magic awakens legacies, and one boy’s choice could shatter empires or mend them.

Seventeen year old Kelvin Katz has never known what it feels like to belong. After the death of his biological father, his mother remarries, hoping to give her family a fresh start. Instead, Kelvin grows up under the constant emotional abuse of his stepfather, who treats him like an unwanted burden while showering love on his two younger half-siblings. Determined to protect his mother from more conflict, Kelvin endures the pain in silence, never realizing that he has been hiding something far more dangerous than his broken heart. When a terrifying supernatural power suddenly awakens inside him, Kelvin's ordinary life comes to an abrupt end. Secret government agents arrive within hours and take him to Antherion Tower, a mysterious fortress where teenagers with extraordinary abilities are confined. Believing the Tower is nothing more than a prison disguised as a school, Kelvin struggles to survive its brutal training, strict rules, dangerous rankings, and powerful students who constantly fight for dominance. Inside the Tower, he forms an unbreakable friendship with the fearless Raze Calder, the brilliant strategist Mara Sinclair, and several other gifted students who all share one dream—to escape and reclaim their freedom. As their bond grows stronger, so does Kelvin's determination to break out of the Tower, no matter the cost. But freedom comes with a devastating price. Beyond the Tower's walls waits The Dominion, a ruthless organization that hunts gifted individuals and transforms them into weapons capable of destroying nations. Kelvin uncovers the truth that changes everything: Antherion Tower was never built to imprison supernatural children—it was built to protect them from the horrors waiting outside. Now, with war approaching and loyalties tested, Kelvin must choose between escaping the place he hates or fighting to defend the only sanctuary standing between humanity and a terrifying new age of chaos.