I Keep Witches While Others Keep Dragons

​In his past life, Han Jin was a "Human Shield"—a low-level builder forced to die so the "Heroes" could live. When the Mana Collapse hit, he was left to be torn apart by Shadow Beasts. ​Instead of hell, Han Jin wakes up in his cramped apartment, 100 days before the world ends. With him comes the [Divine Architect System]. ​While others are partying, Han is buying abandoned mines. While the rich are investing in stocks, Han is stockpiling canned beef and reinforced tungsten. Everyone thinks he’s insane—until the sky turns purple and the monsters descend. Now, the billionaires are begging for a spot in his cellar, but Han Jin has a new rule: In my fortress, if you don't work, you don't eat.

##"Warning: This story contains dark themes, psychological manipulation, and R-18 content. Not for the faint of heart."## Twenty years of service. A lifetime of being the shield for those who called him "trash." Kaito Kiryu was the FF-rank "failure" of the 109 summoned heroes. While the S-rankers basked in glory, Kaito spent two decades mastering the laws of matter and science to keep them alive. He was the backbone of the Hero Party—until the moment the Demon Lord fell. At the peak of victory, the "friends" he protected turned their blades on him. But that wasn't the end, regressed back to the past, to not only destroy those who betrayed him, but to protect those who loved him. But at the face of old terror new terror shows up, constant death and rebirth... Until his 4th life, this time With the power to manipulate Space, time and matter and a System that rewards the subjection of his enemies, the Architect of Ruin has arrived, to ruin the empire that once shaped him. Follow Kaito/Yasha's descent as he dismantles the empire that never made him rest.

What if you went from having nothing to inheriting everything? Brentley Carter was just another struggling nobody—until a single contract changed his life forever. Now, he's not only the heir to the richest man's fortune but also engaged to a breathtaking fiancée! While others grind their way to success, Brentley gets it all handed to him on a silver platter. But with wealth comes power, and with power comes enemies. Is he ready for the world that comes with his new status?

Henry Daniel was the live-in-son-in-law whom everyone in Graham's family taunts. However, when his real identity was unveiled to him, Henry decided to keep it a secret, but vowed to make all those who humiliated him crawl at his feet, crying for mercy!

Rejection has a scent and Christian has basked in it too long. Exiled at the age of 18 from his family's empire and then served divorce papers over a candlelight dinner just as he passes trial, he believes his life is a tale of hurt and betrayal. With an ex-wife trying to climb the social ladder at all costs and an identity he struggles to keep secret, Christian faces disdain and contempt among his ex-in-laws, ex-wife, and her newfound associates. Accused of molestation and almost arrested, Christian learns the hard way that love doesn't always triumph. But how long can he hide his worth or keep his family and company away from the crowd who sees him as a nobody? How long until he has to let the world know him for the heir he truly is? Will he reclaim his dignity or has that ship long sailed?

Jael Monroe got betrayed by his girlfriend after he received a huge devastation. Angry and unwilling to resign to his fate, Jael looked for avenues to awaken his powers in this fierce world that dictates survival is for the fittest. When he was down in despair, he acquired the ultimate bloodline system that helps him grow stronger by absorbing others' bloodlines. With the powers granted by the system, Jael sought revenge while growing stronger enough to decide his fate and the fate of those who oppose him.

Desmond spent his whole life running on empty: two jobs, a dying woman who raised him, and a fiancée he was bleeding himself dry to keep in school. Then one tray of champagne changed everything. The woman he loved chose a stranger’s son over him, in the same breath she used to call him nothing. He walked out with his pride and not much else. He didn’t stay broke for long. Twenty years ago, a plane went down and buried a name the world was never meant to remember: his own. Now that name comes with an empire, a father who faked his own death to keep him alive, and an enemy who’s been circling since before he could talk. Desmond never asked to be an heir. But now that he is, the people who threw him away are about to learn exactly what they buried.

Keeping a promise proved to be more difficult than saying it—Ludmila Volkova reluctantly admitted this. Her attempts to keep her promise to Erel forced her to live a series of painful lives. From being banished by her family to becoming a test subject for a mad alchemist—Antonnie Xander, which nearly cost her life. Luda even rejected Anthonius Mareq's love—the youngest general of the Crimson Knights, who genuinely loved her. Everything is just for the promise ... Still reeling from the actions of the leader of the Crimson Knight, Luda unexpectedly received another love confession from the best elf archer in Terra. Luda was even more confused because the man was ... the younger brother of Anthonius Mareq, namely Xavier Mareq, who was Erel's boss. What promise does Luda want to keep for Erel? Who would Luda choose to spend the rest of her life with?

In a civilization ruled entirely by Beast Tamers, social status, political authority, wealth, and survival are all determined by the spirit beast one awakens during the sacred Day of Summoning. Weak beasts condemn people to lives of humiliation. Legendary beasts create kings. Divine beasts shape empires. Jesse Fletcher, a poor orphan from the slums of Ashveil City, dreams of escaping the misery that has suffocated his life for years. But on the Day of Summoning, his awakening becomes the greatest humiliation in the city's history. While noble heirs summon terrifying elemental dragons, celestial wolves, and ancient war beasts, Jesse awakens a dying creature rejected by the system itself—a malformed black beast covered in broken golden chains. The elite call it a defect. The priests declare it cursed. The academy brands it worthless. They force Jesse to either destroy it or live forever as the city's shame. But Jesse refuses. Unknown to the world, the creature is not a defect. It is a sealed primordial entity erased from history after the Ancient Beast Wars. A forbidden existence capable of devouring evolution itself.

Knox Aston transmigrated into a beast taming world where summoners are regarded as powerhouses and celebrities. As the heir of the prestigious Aston household, a family renowned for producing elite summoners. Knox was expected to summon something magnificent at his awakening ceremony. But instead, before hundreds of witnesses, he summoned a wingless, rough-scaled drake barely the size of a dog. The crowd laughed and his brother turned away, while his family cut their funding and wanted nothing to do with him. What no one saw and no probe could detect, was the ancient castle that appeared behind Knox's eyes: the Dragon Vault, a sealed tower holding the greatest dragon army in existence, waiting for a keeper worthy enough to free them one by one. The small drake they mocked was Ignis: Commander-class bloodline, dormant evolution path, and the only being on Blue Star Planet whose resonance could unlock Dragon Anchors, the ancient seals trapping dragons across the continent. In a world where power determines worth, Knox will prove that the smallest flame can start the largest inferno.