King Ant

Ethan Caldwell has spent years enduring the Harrison family's scorn, labeled a worthless son-in-law unworthy of their daughter, Emily. But behind the facade of a humble life lies a secret: Ethan is the heir to Kingsley Mountain, a shadowy empire of unimaginable power and wealth.   When the Harrisons push him too far—forcing him to take the fall for their crimes and scheming to tear him away from Emily—Ethan finally breaks. The man they humiliated will now become their worst nightmare.   As hidden enemies rise and old family secrets unravel, Ethan steps into his true role, ready to reclaim his destiny and destroy anyone who stands in his way.  

James struggled to sit up, his body throbbing with pain. How much more of this can I take? Everywhere I turn, it’s nothing but mockery and betrayal. For years, I’ve been nothing but a pawn in someone else’s game. His mind drifted to his sister in the hospital, clinging to life because he couldn’t afford better care. Maybe they’re right. Maybe I am worthless.

Seven long years in the shadow world of crime, Ethan finally returns home, hoping to leave his past buried and live a peaceful life. But trouble refuses to let him breathe. His brother’s disappearance pulls him back into the world of crime he swore to abandon. And now things got worse when his past begins hunting him down.   With his hidden identity exposed and his heart growing vulnerable to feelings he never saw coming, he is forced to return to his old ways to protect the people he loves. But betrayal cuts deeper than any blade when the very ones he tries to save turn against him. His own blood brother vows to end him.   In Kingscity, the only rule is kill or be killed. And love comes with a deadly price to pay.  

Laura Conti was forced into a marriage with Enzo, a mysterious stranger she had a one night stand with. After seeing his simple clothes and quiet demeanor, she immediately dismissed him as worthless and far beneath her aristocratic world. Determined to escape the marriage, Laura does everything in her power to force a divorce, treating him with nothing but cold disdain. What she doesn’t know is that Enzo is actually Marchese Enzo De Luca — the sole heir to the most powerful and feared dynasty in all of Italy. And while Laura fights desperately to get rid of him, Enzo seems far too calm for a man with everything to lose.

When two civilizations clash with each other, a college student who was at the very front among his peers in his study experienced something he would never have thought of in his wildest dreams. After his second death, he returned to the place where he should have been but everything was unfamiliar to him. Not to mention, his way of using his new power makes him caught up in war he would never have expected. Would he be able to adapt in the new world or shall he be swallowed by it? And would he be able to uncover the truth of the invasion to his planet and deal with those who wished him harm from the underworld organization?

There are eight celestial realms of power with celestial civilization living peacefully until the Athearians stole the celestial stone of power ushering a great war. Seven outstanding heroes reign from the war. Thus, the god murdock made these warriors god guardians to protect a thousand worlds, giving them seven different colored celestial Mana stones, each filled with unlimited powerful Mana of magic known as the philosopher’s stones according to their rank, and task. The first guardian was known as NEPHILEN EBUBE, the green armored God guardian of giant forest. AMADEUS AMADURA, the red-armored God of war. Elemental, the white armored guardian Goddess of all elements. DESTINY, the blue-armored guardian of fear, fate, and destiny. GATE KEEPER the brown armored keeper of time and space. LIFE, the Golden God guardian of science, technology, and knowledge. The seventh guardian was called CHAOS he black armored God guardian of chaos, evil and terror. Vondor the Dark Lord of the Netherworld had only one wish, to unite all parallel thousand worlds which includes earth as his centre command with the seven stones into one army, invade the god system realm, and rule as absolute power. To fulfill his grand wish, he summoned his eight prince-sons and chose one named Deus and his son Soren who send thousands dungeons of monsters to invade the earth. The rise of human hunters with abilities to wage war against the monsters Eren has the ability- king of monsters because within his veins the blood of lineage of netherians Netherworld. The bloodline of a god and a human will undertake a journey to gather six heroes from six worlds known as the guardian Inheritors to honor the guardian's final quest from the thousands of worlds and save the seven god guardians to fight a final war against vondor.

In a world ruled by the Ascension System, survival is permission-based. At eighteen, every citizen is evaluated, awakened, and assigned a path. Those who fail are erased—cleanly, legally, without regret. Kael Ashborne fails. Declared unawakened, Kael is sentenced to execution inside a system-controlled dungeon. No skills. No stats. No divine interface to save him. His death is calculated, approved, and inevitable. Except it doesn’t happen. Through instinct, defiance, and choices the system cannot predict, Kael survives becoming a contradiction the Ascension System cannot classify or correct. Instead of granting him power, the system begins to observe him. Study him. Adapt. Hunted by system-enforcers and shadowed by a hidden group known as the Erased—people who exist outside recorded outcomes—Kael learns a terrifying truth: the system does not rule by strength, but by certainty. It closes futures, locks outcomes, and sacrifices possibility to maintain order. Kael can break those futures. Not by overpowering the system but by invalidating its decisions. As the system escalates from observation to rollback, rewriting time and reality to erase him, Kael’s existence begins to destabilize the world itself. Cities fracture. Laws glitch. People suffer under the cost of wasted authority. Forced to choose between survival and responsibility, Kael steps into a role no one was meant to fill: a living anomaly capable of reopening closed destinies. The system calls him a catastrophic variable. The world may call him something else.

What is the role of those third-rate villains in games or novels? I asked this question to myself quite a number of times. They don't have major screen time, but some of them have a huge effect on the storyline. And, if one of them hadn't played their role correctly, what would happen to the storyline? It seems like I am going to answer those questions since I became the third-rate villain in an RPG game. ------------------------------0----------------------------------- Chapter length 1000-2000 words.

When Salvatore Moretti, a powerful mafia boss, discovers that his right-hand man has been murdered, he embarks on a ruthless mission to uncover the truth. In his quest to find out who was behind the betrayal, Sal delves into the underworld of the mafia and uncovers a web of corruption and deceit. With enemies closing in, Sal must use all of his power and cunning to stay one step ahead. As he fights for survival, he is forced to confront his own demons, including his tumultuous relationship with his daughter and his troubled past. Sal realizes that the true cost of power is much greater than he ever imagined. His son, Luca Alessandro, is the one who he wants to continue the title of being the next Kingpin mafia that will make the rivals and enemy back off from getting in his way. Will Luca conquer his desires to get stronger and build a good reputation for himself and those people around him? Or will he suffer the consequences for risking it all despite the possibility of getting his own life in the mud of danger?

Anger, hatred, sorrow, grief, despair. Who would have thought that my happy-go-lucky life would turn out like this within a day? My parents, dead. My family abandoned me. The world ostracized and treaded over me. The Goddess- cold, strong, and against me. And finally, my weak self, the only potential-less in the world of overwhelming Potential-bearers. Just one step and everything would be over... or so I thought. My Discord ID- Elixer_Yuu#5328 The credit for the cover goes to... I don't know who it is. Anyway, if you are the artist, contact me and I will give you the credit.