I Am A Lion

Damon Cross was supposed to awaken a Combat Path capable of changing his life. Instead, he received Archivist—an F-Rank support class with no combat skills and no future worth mentioning. Then, that same night, his class opened a door to a world where humanity had already gone extinct. [Dead Timeline detected.] [APOCALYPSE ARCHIVE activated.] Inside the Archives are civilizations that have already fallen, monsters that no longer exist, weapons lost to history, and evolutionary paths no living human has ever seen. And Damon can take them back with him. Kill an extinct monster. Loot its Remnant. Discover its evolution. Grow stronger. Then enter another dead world and do it again. While everyone else is trapped within a single Combat Path, Damon begins collecting powers that should never coexist. Monster Hunter. Mana Warrior. Psionic Evolution. Dragonblood. And those are only the beginning. But after exploring several destroyed timelines, Damon notices something impossible. Different worlds. Different civilizations. Different apocalypses. Yet the same symbol appears in every ruin. Those worlds did not die by accident. Something is destroying them. And sooner or later... Damon's world will be next.

Three years ago, Daniel Cooper sacrificed everything for the woman he loved, taking the blame for a crime committed by her brother. But when he finally walked out of prison, all he received was a divorce agreement, humiliation, and betrayal. Everyone thought he was a disgraced ex-convict with nothing left. They never knew that during those three years, Daniel had become a a man powerful enough to shake the world. Now, the family that abandoned him will learn the truth too late: Daniel Cooper is no longer someone they can trample on.

For ten years, Morgan lived in a world where tomorrow was never guaranteed. As an ordinary soldier without a single supernatural ability, he survived the apocalypse through nothing but training, blood, and sheer determination. He fought zombies, watched comrades die, and did everything necessary to stay alive. Until one day, he was sacrificed as bait for a horde of zombies. He thought that was the end. Instead, he woke up in the body of a college student in a peaceful modern world—a chance to enjoy the life he never had. Then a mysterious System appeared. [Welcome to your second life.] [Complete missions to unlock extraordinary abilities.] Morgan wasn't interested in becoming a hero. He just wanted to eat good food, attend classes when he felt like it, and live independently. Unfortunately, his first major mission dragged him straight into the city's dangerous underworld. Morgan wanted nothing to do with it, but System had other plans. Now, between college life, impossible missions, underground battles, and a mafia princess who keeps pulling him deeper into trouble, Morgan has only one goal: Survive his second life without turning it into another apocalypse.

In the shimmering metropolis of Oakhaven, the elite live in glass towers while the "trash" survives in the soot below. Lucian Veyne is the king of that trash. To the world, he is a nameless scavenger, a beggar who collects aluminum cans and fixes broken phones in rain-slicked alleys. But Lucian has a secret: He owns the city’s darkness. Ten years ago, the Vale Family—owners of the city’s largest pharmaceutical empire—let his mother die on the hospital steps because she was "worthless." Since that day, Lucian hasn’t been looking for a job; he’s been building a system. Through the "Debt Web" (micro-loans to the desperate) and the "Whisper Network" (an army of invisible homeless spies), Lucian has quietly tethered every corrupt politician, crooked cop, and greedy CEO to his thumb. When Seraphina Vale, the arrogant heiress of the empire that killed his mother, publicly humiliates him, she triggers the final phase of his plan. She thinks she’s crushing a beggar. She doesn’t realize she’s just declared war on the man who already holds the keys to her father’s vault.

Andrew, a poor college student from Wilson Bridge College, starts off as a nobody. His mother was cast out of the Everest family as a result of his father's death. After enduring immense hardship, Andrew's mother eventually died, leading him to vow to ruin the Everest family. However, his life takes an unexpected turn when he inherits a fortune from his late father through an ancient amulet. Along with his wealth, Andrew acquires extraordinary martial arts skills. Now, he must confront numerous individuals who pose a threat to his life.

Jasper had already died once. In his previous life, he was a rising actor whose career was destroyed after he was falsely accused of murder. Betrayed by the people closest to him, he eventually died with nothing left behind. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself inside a cultivation novel he had read from beginning to end. Worse, he had become Jasper Stoneheart, a useless young master destined to die during the early stages of the original story. But Jasper knew the plot. He knew which families would rise and fall, which characters would become legends, and which places would eventually turn into killing grounds. With that knowledge, he decided that his second life would be different. He didn't care about becoming the strongest cultivator in existence. After everything he had experienced, all Jasper wanted was a peaceful life where nobody knew his name. With the help of a mysterious system and a strange blindfold containing the Eye of the Void, Jasper began changing his fate. Six years later, he finally believed he had succeeded. Living as a blind man in a quiet village, Jasper had a loving wife, a daughter, and the peaceful home he had always wanted. His cultivation remained hidden, and the world had forgotten he existed. Unfortunately, Jasper had made one mistake. He never realized that the village he escaped to wasn't outside the story. It was at the very heart of it. His gentle wife hides a terrifying identity, the original protagonist is still following his destined path, and the empire Jasper unknowingly lives within is destined to become the greatest battlefield in the novel. Jasper thought he had escaped his fate. Instead, he became the Emperor standing at its center.

The world of Nokstrella operates on two rules: Magic belongs to the highborn, and peasants exist to bleed. When Earth-born physicist Arthur Flores transmigrates into the body of a starving sixteen-year-old boy, he is faced with a terrifying reality—his sister is being dragged to a sacrificial altar, his mother is coughing up black blood, and heavily armored knights are preparing to slaughter his village for tax evasion. But Arthur soon discovers a world-breaking secret: "Magic" is just a volatile energy state. It obeys the laws of thermodynamics, physics, and chemistry. Armed with a mind of modern science and an artificial Aetheric Core, Arthur will not run. He will weaponize the arcane, build an ironclad industrial fortress from the dirt, and wage a brutal war against a corrupt kingdom, the Holy Inquisition, and the eldritch horrors of the Abyss. They wanted a blood tithe. Arthur will give them an industrial revolution.

Reborn in a world overrun by monsters, Leo Shaw gets a system that rewards him for winning hearts and flirting happens to be what he does best. Every rise in affection brings him closer to divine weapons, rare skills, and power his rivals can only dream of. They’re still waiting for their awakening; he’s already armed with SSS-tier lightning.

Three years after civilization collapsed, Ethan Carter has learned one brutal truth: The apocalypse didn't destroy humanity. Humanity destroyed itself. While escaping a ruined city, Ethan discovers an underground facility containing a strange device capable of transmitting fragments of future events. Before he can understand it, the facility is attacked. Ethan dies. But instead of darkness, he opens his eyes in his own apartment. His phone shows the date. Seventy-two hours before the world ends. At first, Ethan thinks he's been given a second chance. Then he discovers something impossible. He remembers the people who survived the apocalypse. Not hundreds. Not thousands. Exactly 37 people. And every one of them played a role in shaping the new world. Some became heroes. Some became monsters. Some became rulers. And some betrayed everyone who trusted them. Ethan knows their names. He knows where they will be when the disaster begins. He knows which ones must be saved... And which ones must never be allowed to survive. But there is one problem. In his memories, Ethan Carter was not one of the 37 survivors. He died on the first night. Now he has only 72 hours to change his fate. As the countdown begins, Ethan races across the city, gathering the people he believes can survive. But on the second day, he encounters a woman who should not exist in his memories. She looks at him and whispers: "You came back too." Ethan freezes. Someone else remembers the future. And she knows something he doesn't. The apocalypse isn't supposed to happen in 72 hours. It's supposed to happen tonight.

In a world filled with war, the only place you can take refuge is where war merges with sanctity. Altair did exactly that. Leaving his past behind, he entered the tower, the heart of Aculon. What will happen now, what he will experience, whom he will save and whom he will kill, is up to him, but one thing is certain: he will reach the top of the tower and take his rightful place on the throne.