I Am A Lion

In a world overrun by savage beasts and ruled by elemental powers, strength is everything—and Kieran Vale had none. Labeled a failure with near-zero elemental talent, Kieran was a joke at No. 1 Middle School. While his classmates awakened extraordinary abilities, he couldn't even sense the fire flickering in the air. His crippled father was humiliated by the powerful Ashcroft family. His mother worked herself to exhaustion. And Kieran? He was just... ordinary. Until he wasn't. One ordinary afternoon, Kieran's soul was thrust back in time—one week before his death. But this time, he didn't return alone. [Ding! SSS-Rank Devourer System Activated] [Ability Unlocked: Devouring Transformation—Consume any energy and make it your own]

His mother was abandoned, left to rot in a storage room. His blind sister had been sold as a gift to powerful men. And the woman he sacrificed everything for stood laughing beside her new lover. "My future is worth more than your entire family," Olivia sneered. Something inside Kevin died that day. But what Olivia didn't know was that prison hadn't broken him—it had transformed him. The desperate prisoner she mocked was secretly the last disciple of a legendary master. The same man now held the favor of billionaires, business empires, and the most powerful figures in the country. Holding his dying mother in his arms, Kevin made a vow. "You took everything from me." His eyes turned cold. "Now I'll take everything from you." They betrayed a son. They sold a sister. They created the billionaire who would become their downfall.

Humanity's final winter arrived without warning. The sun faded. Civilization collapsed. Food vanished. Hope died. As survivors fought over scraps and murdered each other for a mouthful of stale bread, Jack Harper—a man mocked his entire life as a useless loser—awakened a mysterious power. The 100x Rebate System.

The heavens once trembled beneath the authority of the Third Celestial Sovereign, Mo Tianyu—a god who governed fate itself. Yet envy breeds betrayal. Coveting his unparalleled power and the legendary Origin Divine Blood, the other Celestial Sovereigns shattered his soul and cast him into an endless cycle of mortal reincarnations. Across eleven lifetimes, he endured poverty, loss, humiliation, and death, unaware that every tragedy was part of an ancient curse meant to erase him forever. In his eleventh life, while wandering the world as a starving beggar, Mo Tianyu stumbles upon the Primordial Spirit Crystal. The instant his blood touches its surface, the seals on his soul are destroyed. Memories of immortal wars, heavenly palaces, forbidden techniques, and the conspiracy that stole his throne come rushing back. Hunted by the Heavenly Court before he can regain his former strength, Mo Tianyu begins a perilous journey across mortal and immortal realms. Each impossible trial awakens new powers within his evolving divine bloodline, bringing him one step closer to reclaiming the Celestial Throne. But the deeper he uncovers the truth, the more he realizes the betrayal was only the beginning of a far greater threat. To reclaim Heaven, he must first survive it.

When a reality-shattering tear swallows a Chicago subway platform, Raymond Vance awakens in Sector 404, a desolate, starless wasteland dominated by nightly monster waves. Every transmigrated human receives a basic Lord System to construct defensive outposts, but cosmic radiation corrupts Raymond’s system firmware. He gains the unique ability to build reality-bending fortifications and Eldritch weaponry without material resources—but at the direct cost of his own sanity. ​Forced into an active survival loop, Raymond must harvest resources and fresh water during the hostile daylight hours while defending his crumbling shelter against lethal mutant packs at night. Every territory upgrade drains his mental stability, triggering physical hallucinations, auditory torment, and manifestation of cosmic horrors in his peripheral vision. ​The stakes escalate rapidly when an organized army of level-five Ironclad Brutes blocks him into his sector. Rather than rushing his defenses, the brilliant Skull King initiates a strategic siege to starve him out. Trapped between a tightening military perimeter outside and his fraying mind within, Raymond is forced to adapt his system mechanics by sacrificing his own physical vitality and blood to reinforce his defenses. Dropping into critical sanity levels, Raymond must outsmart the giant army, conquer the shifting local terrain, and survive a forced arena teleportation to claim dominion over the entire valley.

After eight years of living under the cruelty of his in-laws, Bradley Turner rough-handles his brother-in-law in self-defence which leads to his arrest and the discovery of his wife's betrayal for the promise of a better marriage. Full of resolve to take get back at them and reunite with his loving daughter, the only person that truly mattered, the Urban Ascendancy System activates in him after a failed assassination attempts, with the promise to help him rise to the pinnacles and see that his desired revenge is full enacted on all those that had a hand in his humiliation and the sufferings of his daughter.

His father was murdered. The woman he loved betrayed him for money. His mother is enslaved in a cold cellar, and his twin sisters are trapped in a secret fortress with only forty-eight hours before their bone marrow is harvested by his worst enemy. The whole city thinks Gideon Knox is just a penniless beggar with nowhere to run. Little do they know, he returned as the supreme God of War, an untouchable commander leading global armies. They provoked a god. Now, they will drown in his wrath.

Three years behind bars. Three years taking the blame for a crime he never committed, all to protect the woman he loved and her family. Now, Eddard is finally free. But the moment he walks out of Hell Prison, his wife, Arya, hands him divorce papers. Her reason? He is no longer useful. With her company's IPO approaching, Arya refuses to let a disgraced ex-convict ruin her future. Her family humiliates Eddard, calls him a worthless parasite, and throws him out like trash. Then they come for his late parents' villa. They think Eddard has nothing left. They couldn't be more wrong. Because those three years in prison weren't the end of Eddard's story. They were the beginning. While the world believed he was rotting behind bars, Eddard inherited an unimaginable legacy. He is Zeus, the supreme ruler of the Apex of the Stars, a hidden empire whose wealth and influence stretches across six continents. He is also the legendary Medical Saint, possessing healing techniques powerful enough to make the world's richest tycoons beg for an audience. The man Arya abandoned? The man her family called a worthless nobody? He's the man the entire world will soon kneel before. As billionaires, magnates, and the city's most powerful figures line up for his favor, Arya's family is still celebrating their little corporate empire. Until Eddard reveals who he really is. Their arrogance will crumble. Their fortunes will collapse. And the people who once kicked him into the dirt will come crawling back, begging for mercy. But they made one fatal mistake. They betrayed the man who now stands at the apex. And the Apex of the Stars... doesn't forgive.

"Look at yourself, Caleb. You smell like grease and poverty. You are an absolute disgrace. We are over." "You were the perfect stepping stone. You paid her bills, fed her, and polished her up just enough so she could catch a billionaire's eye. Good job, peasant." For four long years, Caleb starved himself and worked three exhausting factory jobs to pay for his girlfriend's college tuition. But on her graduation day, she ruthlessly dumped him for a billionaire heir, leaving Caleb beaten and bleeding in a rainy alleyway. But as he lay in the dirt, a cold, robotic voice echoed inside his mind, bringing an absurd, terrifying power: [Negative Emotion Spending System Activated. Initial Funds: $100,000,000.] The rules are simple: He gets a hundred million dollars every single day—but he can only spend it to drive his enemies into absolute ruin. High society thought they could step on anybody... but they are about to find out what happens when a slum rat gets limitless wealth and a desire for revenge.

"Making girls fall for me like this... who the hell would want that?!" - Tenko Sawaru Inspired by the Parallel Paradise manga series by Lynn Okamoto.