greed: all for what?

🏆["Silver Medal" in System Category of "Meganovel Annual Writing Contest 2022"]🏆 Goldearth--A bizarre planet! Goldearth boasts numerous lofty ranges and towering mountains, where precious stone, exotic flowers, and rare herbs are secretly hidden. Human beings there, living in the midst of air, all want to discover and use them as ingredients to refine pills that can enhance their cultivation. Their greatest dream is to become the strongest alchemists, able to lift themselves out of the revolving wheel of rebirth and finally ride on the ship of immortality. It is not an easy task, however, for those precious ingredients are usually guarded by a wide variety of powerful magical beasts, from bears that can fly in the sky and escape through the ground, turtles of absorbing natural energy, to lions of swallowing heaven and earth. Struggles, fights and battles are inevitable. Tolly McCoy , a gold miner who lost his life in the collapse of a cave, where lost treasures were deeply buried by Medieval pirates or kings , reincarnates to this world, a world where everyone works hard to be an alchemist. Can he fit in and rise to be a successful one? Follow him along his journey, from zero to hero, from child to Supreme Alchemist. Come witness the legend of Tolly McCoy in the making!

"Congratulations, my Heir," a mysterious figure declared, "you have proven your worth, and you're now the Heir to the God of Healing and Medicine, Elandor!" Suddenly, I found myself in excruciating pain, hanging on the edge of a hill. The figure's words barely registered, and I felt like I was forgetting something crucial. Before I could make sense of it all, I blinked, and the pain was gone. My wounds had vanished, replaced by a newfound strength. There, around my neck, hung a gemstone amulet. I gasped as the amulet shone, flooding my mind with knowledge. "In the realm of healing, I'm the ultimate arbiter of life and death. As Elandor's heir, I command over ailments and the frailty of life. I am the embodiment of healing's power and authority." As memories flooded back, I realized why I was here. Darius Blackthorn, that treacherous scoundrel, had thrown me down this hill. "I won't let you get away with this. I'll have my revenge for all the pain you caused me. I'll show those Rossi family snobs who mocked me for being poor and treated me like a live-in servant. You'll regret ever looking down on me. I'm a god's heir, and you will pay for every bit of suffering you put me through." Fueled by rage, I stood there, determined to make them all pay.

Being a mere pauper has always been thought to have disadvantages. Lucian Wood is an orphan who grew up in an orphanage home.He is a mocking tool for everyone, especially his girlfriend, Laura, who never misses an opportunity to disparage him and, at one point, forced him to consider suicide.However, at his lowest point in life, on the same day he planned to commit suicide, he discovers that he is the long-lost heir of the richest family in the world and is given the opportunity to take over as CEO of a company after being fired from one he labored so tirelessly to get.Will he let his bullies live without a fight? Who will be paying for their deeds? And what does life have for Lucian Wood?Find out this and more in this billionaire suspense-filled novel!

Marvin was living a fulfilled life being recognized as the rightful heir to his father's vast tech business empire and living happily with his beautiful wife and kids, not until he lost it all in an instant. His father had denounced him as heir to his business empire and later on, Marvin got to find out that he was not the actual father of his kids as his wife proudly revealed her infidelity to his face. This all happened because the Synapticore force which was a necessary element needed to run the family business was not discovered in his body and as such he was considered worthless and too mundane even when he had helped his father generate tens of millions of dollars. He was believed incapable of running the family business and competing with other business rivals that possessed other powerful and efficient mechanisms and supernatural elements that helped them to not only maintain the family pedigree but to keep up with the intense rivalry in the business sector. In all the rejection he faced for being too mundane, little did they know that he had a much greater and overwhelming supernatural force within him. It was nothing like they could have conceived or ever imagined. It was the Ultra Mega Synapticore Force.

Born into a world of poverty, life dealt a terrible blow at Levi Strauss. He was bullied, disgraced, ignored, and embarrassed everywhere he went. After his girlfriend of two years broke his heart because he was penniless and left him shattered, luck finally smiled on him. His uncle, who Levi had no idea existed, found him and his mother and his life changed over night. After the uncle transferred all his wealth to him, Levi Strauss became the most richest bachelor in the state but he kept his identity hidden and watched as people continued maltreating him in the hopes that he will be able to find people who truly care about him. Will Levi succeed in his quest or will he be drowned by hatred and revenge?

Oliver Lane, went through a lot to save the life of a woman he holds dear. And for that he fell into debts and even made deals with one of the most dangerous men in the entire city, just to make sure her life was retained. He went out of his way for her but in the end of it all, she betrayed him and left him to face the outcome alone, by breaking up with him and getting acquainted with a financially buoyant man, in other words she left him for dead. Feeling betrayed his entire world came crumbling down, his heart broken, the debts too much for him to shoulder. Will he survive the deadly threats from the most dangerous Mafia in the city?

Andrew found out in the most shocking way that the woman he had loved all these years was cheating on him and the child he had cared for, for three years was not his. His wife was indifferent about it, and even flung a divorce paper to his face, believing that she had risen to the top and Andrew was a disgrace who didn't deserve to be seen around her. But little did she know that, Andrew was the one who made her who she was, and without him, she was nothing!

Imagine on your anniversary with your girlfriend. A spoilt rich brat walked in and swooned her over with ridiculous gifts that made her walk out on you. Left you stranded. Heartbroken. A few minutes later, you acquired the most powerful system... A system where money is the least of your problem. You are not only outrageously rich but have acquired several other UNPRECEDENTED skills... Impossibility is not a word in your dictionary. What do you do first?

The beautiful and charismatic, Hestia Taylor, the loved 7th daughter of the strongest awakened man on Earth, falls in love with a seamless nobody, Roger. Convincing her father after many difficulties, Hestia marries him with a condition that Roger had to inherit their family name and live with them. Roger, who didn't have any idea about the harsh world, enters the Taylor household, not knowing the sufferings he had to face there. There he finds that the children of the Taylors were nothing short of monsters! Being a matrilocal son-in-law, Roger was constantly humiliated! He was humiliated for being powerless and of common origin. But Roger endured it! From verbal abuse to physical beating! He endured everything all for the sake of his Love! As such three years passed by, along with Roger becoming famous as the Useless son-in-law of the Taylors. He was tired of it! He was fed up with all this humiliation and disgrace! that's when he decided! "No more!!" He took the weapon and jumped into the dungeon thinking, "It's better to die in a dungeon than living this useless life!", not knowing that he would awaken the 'Vengeance system'!! All who humiliated him, be prepared, The raise of the Useless son-in-law of the Taylor family was about to start!! --------- Join discord for updates, link: https://discord.gg/rQWSBzCPjy ---***---

Herbert Halloway was a political and high-profile criminal (mafia boss) whose malevolent acts were with zero traces. He was wanted by the Nigerian government - five Supernumerary (SPY) female Police disguised as cocotte at the Oriental Hotel. Herbert Halloway fell head over the heels forthwith he caught sight of them. The five Supernumerary female police executed the duty. Herbert Halloway’s Achilles heel had been gripped. Amidst the police plan to apprehend him, one of the Supernumerary police discovered that Herbert Halloway was her father who saved her mother, Ma’am Akwete from being murdered years ago. She was coerced to disclose the police plan to Herbert Halloway and he was on the run with his daughter.