Hero/Heroin

On the forty-first floor of Arcturus Group's Manhattan headquarters, 29-year-old financial analyst Nathan Cole operates as an invisible ghost. Meticulous, brilliant, and deliberately underestimated, he quietly corrects multimillion-dollar errors made by senior colleagues and watches without malice as the firm’s celebrated golden boy, Preston Mercer, takes credit for his strategic frameworks. But Nathan isn't passive; he is patient. For ten years, since the manufactured compliance scandal that destroyed his mother Diane’s firm and led to her death, Nathan has engineered a calculated, covert campaign for retribution against Arcturus and its predatory founder, Richard Mercer. To execute a plan built on institutional leverage rather than mere financial ruin, Nathan exits the shadows to launch Cole Strategic Group. He aligns with Simone Vega, a razor-sharp forensic accountant weaponizing an explosive case file detailing how Arcturus systematically crushed independent firms. To manage the high-stakes operational chaos, Nathan hires Marco Reyes, an intuitive strategist who brings unexpected warmth and humanity to Nathan’s isolated existence. As Nathan covertly acquires a commanding position in Arcturus’s debt structure and flips overlooked internal whistleblowers, Marco becomes his most trusted confidant. Yet, invisible fault lines threaten the foundation. Richard Mercer, sensing a ghostly architecture shifting within his walls, initiates a tense psychological chess match with Nathan to unmask his hidden adversary. Simultaneously, quiet betrayals stir in the background, tied to long-held family secrets and a second, unidentified photograph locked in Nathan’s box. As the trap closes around Arcturus, Nathan realizes his meticulous machine is no longer just a blueprint—it is a weapon. Standing on the precipice of total exposure, he must face the ultimate cost of institutional warfare: dangerous weapons can choose their direction, but they can rarely choose what they damage.

Stollen and Lyra were never meant to survive. After their ship is destroyed in deep space, the two astronauts crash onto a mysterious world called Hearth — a planet that is not what it seems. The inhabitants are tiny, the land is wrong, the sky is artificial, and giants like them have arrived here before… only to vanish without a trace. As they struggle to rebuild a ship and escape, they uncover a civilization divided by fear, faith, and hidden power. Seven continents. Seven elders. Ancient lies. Vanishing giants. And a secret buried deep inside the very structure of the world. Trapped between hostile empires, false gods, and a planet that behaves like a machine, Stollen and Lyra must choose: escape Hearth — or uncover the truth behind it. Because this world is not a planet. It is a system. And someone is controlling it.

During his five years on the battlefield, he thought that his wife was the one who saved him. But when he came home to meet her, she was betrayed by the truth. Carson learned that it was another woman who saved him. Much to his surprise, she even had a child. Carson was furious about this. He would make them all pay for their atrocities.

Zhang Wei was betrayed in his past life and forced to blow himself up. He was reborn into the body of a youth with no spiritual root and no hope. But Zhang Wei would never give in - with knowledge and powers of his past life etched in his mind, he would rise to the top of the Martial world!

Cody Wolfe survived the apocalypse, but must struggle hard to stay alive. He spends his days running from zombies and scavenging for food. Then, in a life-or-death situation, his destiny took an unexpected turn. He got a system to control those walking corpses. With each level up, he gained a new skill, ranging from enhancing the zombies’ speed to granting them earth-shattering abilities. Would he use that power only for survival? Or could he utilize it for more?

Gary, a young fellow who doesn't even have a job, gets suddenly tasked with fighting for the world! Witness the riveting tale of Gary as he journeys the world and tears all opposition apart!

Kai Gibson has always been ordinary—too ordinary for a city like Harborview, where power, influence, and fear rule every street corner. After losing his father under mysterious circumstances and struggling under crushing debt, Kai is pushed to the edge of survival. But everything changes the night he’s ambushed behind an abandoned mall and a strange surge of energy awakens inside him. With the rare ability known as Tactical Insight, Kai begins to see the world differently—patterns, threats, weaknesses, pathways to victory even when the odds are against him. Suddenly, the once-weak young man becomes a rising force in Harborview’s underworld. But Kai’s evolution comes with a price. Every step forward drags him deeper into a web of enemies: street gangs, corrupt elites, hidden organizations, and people he once trusted. Betrayals strike from unexpected places, and Kai learns that the attack that awakened his power wasn’t random at all—it was planned. Now trapped between shadowy forces that want to control him and others who want him dead, Kai must level up faster than his enemies expect. Each chapter pushes him through higher stakes: • deadly ambushes • shocking betrayals • growing supernatural abilities • strategic face-slapping comebacks • climbing from the lowest rung of society to a position of unstoppable strength As Kai climbs, he uncovers the truth behind his father’s death, the origins of his new power, and a hidden war brewing beneath the city’s neon lights. To survive, he must rise. To win, he must become more than human. And to uncover the truth, he must be willing to face the darkness inside—and the monsters hiding in plain sight. Harborview will remember the name Kai Gibson… whether it wants to or not.

In a world dominated by cultivation power, a young man named Ren Tian, born into an ordinary lineage, discovers he possesses the legendary Divine Blood. This Divine Blood grants unimaginable power, but it also attracts the attention of evil forces who desire its strength for their own nefarious purposes. Ren Tian must embark on a perilous journey to master his power, unravel the secrets of the Divine Blood, and protect the world from the encroaching darkness.

Having arrived at the Order of the Malefic Viper, Jake is eager to improve his alchemy… However, reality can often be cruel. Because while trying to do just that, Jake will be dealing with the political landscape of the Order. Between hiding his identity as the Chosen of the Big Boss, being forced to attend get-togethers, visiting vampires to sell ancient memorabilia, and trying to actually learn some alchemy, Jake's busier than ever. Earth also still calls. There, he helps friends deal with family issues by going on a nice road trip with Carmen and Sylphie. On the way, he can hopefully find time to hunt down the final Primas he needs – powerful monsters with unique key fragments – to participate in the upcoming system event dubbed the Seat of the Exalted Prima. An event that hopefully – no, certainly – won’t have any unforeseen Bloodline-induced shenanigans. Definitely not.

“I’m major Kaelen, I live in this forest before you, this is my kingdom, and I will take you all down one after the other. Look closely at the ground beneath your boots, soldiers. That soil is already hungry. You arrived here thinking you were an army. You are just meat walking into a larder. You do not command this space; the shadows command you, and I am the hand that guides them. I will not fight your formations. I will bleed you drop by drop. Your patrols will disappear without a whisper. Your sentries will wake up finding the razor edge of my knife where their breath used to be. Go ahead, try to advance. You will find that retreat is impossible, surrender is irrelevant, and the only mercy you will receive is the speed of my strike. You will die lost, you will die afraid, and you will die remembering the sound of my name echoing through the impenetrable darkness. This is not a war you are fighting. This is an execution you insisted upon.”