Leveling Up

“Captain Spark, you’re insane,” Michael said hoarsely. “I’m an actor, not a cop. I’m not a monster.” “But you understand monsters, don’t you?” Ashley shot back. She pointed to the playback monitor showing his recent scene. “That look in your eyes, the way you enjoyed the kill… You’re more convincing than half the criminals in our files.” Michael had no response. Because she wasn’t wrong. The system made it easy, too easy, to empathize with darkness.

A middle-class game lover creator Hayden Willard who retired as a businessman now a gamer agrees in all circumstances to make an exciting family gaming experience to play. In the creation of multiple levels and a remote environment inside the game; there was mostly impossible to get out of it. Eventually, his intention of a relaxed adventure game goes wrong when this game and the character come alive and take him and his family into the game world to defeat the unbeatable villain who intends to take the whole world and at the same time desperate to kill all humanity. Hayden, and his family, must have to protect and journey beyond the human world in a search of a way out from the game world and end the game forever…

“What good years, wasted on trash like you.” With these words, Orion cast off his old shell. His old personality. His old kindness. That betrayal was the last straw that broke apart the last vestiges of softness and kindness within his body. Such feelings weren't welcomed during an apocalypse anyways. If he could, he would thank them. Then kill them again. A lycan left no enemies alive after all. * Regressing to the beginning of the apocalypse with profound knowledge of the future and the betrayal of his closest friends in his heart, Orion sought only one thing. He would utilize everything that he could to become the strongest, even if it meant throwing his humanity away. That was the start of his reign. It was the slow Advent of the Void Lycan.

For three years, Cassian Vane lived as a mocked househusband, silently enduring humiliation while his wife climbed to the top of the business world. Everyone believed he was a useless man surviving on her success, a burden she tolerated out of pity. Then one afternoon, she threw divorce papers at him and paid him to disappear. What she didn’t know was that Cassian had only been hiding. The moment he walked away, sealed power awakened, old subordinates resurfaced, and a name the city once feared began to spread again in low, terrified whispers. Now the elites who laughed will learn the price of arrogance. The woman who betrayed him will watch everything she built collapse piece by piece. And the past he tried to bury will rise with him, bringing storms the city is not ready for. Because when a hidden monarch returns, he does not argue… he conquers. The useless househusband they mocked was the king they should have feared. “Enjoy your moment,” Cassian says calmly. “The higher you stand… the harder I will make you fall.”

In a world where guns and magic coexist, Ezra Romanov is born with an E-level magic talent and aims to become an Ace Gunner one day. However, all his dreams are dashed to pieces when a terrible accident cripples his hands, making it impossible for him to shoot properly. The child prodigy soon becomes an object of ridicule and even his fiancé threatens to break off their engagement. But just when all things seem bleak and hopeless, a mysterious eye becomes bound to his hand, giving him access to a magical gunsmithing system which allows him to craft and modify enchanted weapons. With his newly acquired system Ezra embarks on a journey to rise to the top and become the best Gunner on the continent. [Legendary Cursed Eye Awakened!] [Gunsmithing Talent Unlocked!] [Gunsmithing Level: F!]

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]

Mu Qiu jolted awake, the stench of decay filling his nostrils. He wasn't in his old apartment; he was sprawled on cracked asphalt, surrounded by the moans of the undead. He was reborn in the apocalypse. Worse, his body, dormant for two years, had mutated. He was a Corpse King, an apex predator with the power to devour and assimilate. Then, a voice echoed in his mind, clear and precise. [Congratulations, Host! You have successfully bound the Supreme World Sign-In System!] [You have arrived at your first sign-in location: Ravaged City Center. Reward: Holy Lord's Demonic Energy.] Mu Qiu stared at his clawed hands, the flesh pale and cold. A system? In this hellhole? [Next sign-in location: Mutated Zombie Hive. Estimated time: 12 hours.] [Daily Quest: Devour 100 Lesser Undead. Reward: Evolution Points.] [Status: Corpse King - Level 1. Evolution Points: 0. Demonic Energy: Acquired.] [Inventory: Empty.] He could see the information floating in his vision, like a translucent screen. The world was a nightmare, and survival as a human was impossible. But as a Corpse King with a system? That was a different story. [Would you like to absorb the Holy Lord's Demonic Energy?] Mu Qiu's jaw clenched. Yes. [Absorption commencing...]

To save his family, he had to stop being human. Twenty-four-year-old Jid has spent his life in the dirt, breathing the rust of the Bulwark slums. As the sole guardian of his younger sister, Sommy, his world is measured in scraps of bread and the hours of backbreaking labor he sells to the powerful guilds. He doesn’t dream of glory; he dreams of a roof that doesn't leak and a meal that doesn't taste like ash. But the world outside the walls is changing. The "Infected" are evolving, and the shadows are growing teeth. When a high-stakes raid into the forbidden zones turns into a bloody execution, Jid is the one left behind. Betrayed and gutted by the monsters in the dark, he should have died in the mud. Instead, something ancient and hungry found him first. Jid wakes up to a world he no longer recognizes. The pain is gone, replaced by a cold, mechanical pulse in his mind and a shimmering gold light in his eyes. A strange, haunting interface now dictates his every move, granting him powers that defy the laws of time and biology—powers that the ruling corporations would kill to own. But the "System" isn't a gift. It’s a tether to an outer-world threat that views humanity as nothing more than ink on a page, ready to be erased. Now, Jid must return to the city that abandoned him, hiding the monster he is becoming while using his new abilities to protect the only person he has left. He survived the death of his old life, but as the hunger grows and the "System" begins to rewrite his soul, Jid realizes the hardest part isn't surviving the dead—it’s surviving the thing he’s turning into. And whatever is coming for him.

After his father's disappearance, Dylan Edward was left all alone in this world. In a world where strength is everything, Dylan was powerless as he had no cultivation talent. In this world where everyone continues to become stronger with each passing day, Dylan had no way of becoming stronger. However, everything changed the day when he accidentally got involved with a Bandit Gang. When he opened his eyes again, he was bound with the Dimensional Hunter System. With the help of the system, he can visit different dimensions and hunt skills, talent, cultivation techniques, spells, bloodlines, special physique, and many other treasures. He quickly rose in power and become the one and only Dimensional Hunter who not only hunts in other dimensions but can also control those dimensions.

In a world where magic is king, being a regular human is dangerous. So dangerous that there are very few non-magical humans left, and they only survive with the protection of mages. Mages feel a mixture of pity and revulsion for these un-evolved humans, and call them Zombies, for, without magic, they are lifeless. Most zombies are resigned to their fate, happy to live and work in the shadows of the great mage cities and living simple lives. They keep to themselves to avoid the cruelty and prejudice of some mages, and count themselves lucky to be left alone. The world is filled with powerful magic, dark spirits, terrifying monsters and mages of great power. Zombies should be happy they get to live at all. This is the story of one Zombie who had enough, and, through a twist of fate, finds the means to become stronger.