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Silence. Like a nice bucket of shhhhhhhhh. Everyone shut the effing fudge UP! That's all I've ever wanted. *Sigh.* But silence comes in different flavors. There's mint - the peaceful kind that wraps around you like a blanket. The kind I chase at 2 AM. I've cried once. Just once. With a bucket beside me, watching heroes with super suits and impossible strength tear each other apart. Somehow that feels less broken than my reality. Then there's the suffocating silence at school. Not an ice cream flavor. This one tastes like metal and shame. High school is my personal hell. Empty wallet, empty lunch tray, empty seat beside me like I'm radioactive. Empty soul on Wednesdays because middles are always the worst. *The usual.* But Emily made the silence bearable. Mint-flavored again. Until she broke something between us. *Snap.* One moment she's whispering secrets with me, the next she's weaponizing them. She scattered my private thoughts, added her own twisted lies. The betrayal burns hotter than the stares drilling into my back. I went from invisible to spectacle. Being a ghost feels like luxury when you're dodging spit balls and "accidental" lunch trays. But somewhere between my third panic attack and contemplating switching schools... *Something shifted.* Like in those games you play, when your character suddenly glows and the screen flashes: "New Skill Unlocked" And it wasn't just in my head. I tested it. Small things at first – a pencil moving across my desk when I focused hard enough. Then books. Then someone's lunch tray right as they walked past Emily. *tap tap tap* I used to think rock bottom was the end. *Well ladies and gentlemen,* it's just a really messed up spawn point. And now? I don't stumble from cliffs anymore. I swim in gravity, and dive head first.

Suddenly, at the stroke of midnight, magic happen and hundreds of notifications started popping up on the screen. Barry's trades took off in a way that defied all logic with profits soaring on a larger scale. He was earning billions of dollars per second. After the first second, he earned $10.42 billion. After a minute, he made $625 billion. After an hour, Barry made over $37.5 Trillion. Barry continued to sleep, unaware his laptop was blowing up with unimaginable wealth....

‎Abandoned by the world itself, Marfin survived in a deadly forest with his younger sister as his only reason to live. ‎ ‎ ‎High above the ground, he built a fragile home atop a colossal tree. Their days were spent hunting monsters—goblin flesh for every meal, and on rare, fortunate occasions, the meat of a wolf. ‎Hunger was their constant companion. ‎ ‎ ‎One day, fate smiled upon them. Marfin discovered an abandoned carriage, and from it, he stole leftover bread. For the first time in years, joy surged through his heart as he rushed back to his sister—his only family. ‎ ‎But fate is never kind for long. ‎On his way home, Marfin fell into a mysterious trap and encountered an unknown being. The entity flaunted its overwhelming power, humiliating him without mercy. Yet, despite its cruelty, it left him with a final “gift”—a mysterious cube. ‎ ‎+----------------------------------------------------------+ ‎[The Conqueror’s System is forcefully merging with the host’s soul.] ‎ ‎[Progression rate: 1%… 10%… 25%… 75%… 100%] ‎ ‎[Congratulations, Host. You have been chosen by the Ancient Dominators.] ‎ ‎[Would you like to review the missions?] ‎ ‎ Yes ‎ ‎ No ‎ ‎Selected: Yes ‎ ‎Main Mission: Conquer this fantasy world. ‎ ‎Difficulty: Impossible. ‎ ‎+----------------------------------------------------------+ ‎ ‎Disclaimer: ‎ ‎#A villainous Mc. ‎ ‎#He gets strong Fast. ‎ ‎#High stakes battles. ‎ ‎#Manipulations. ‎ ‎#Not your run in the meal Mc of regression or reincarnation. ‎ ‎#Tragedy ‎ ‎#Cruelty. ‎ ‎#each chapter takes me a while. ‎

Leo was typical, overlooked and completely unprepared when a forbidden tome chose him and gave him the mark of a Warden and placed him under the Mage Academy. This school is an intermediary between worlds, a training ground where recipients of a gift of a System Interface, called a Codex, are trained. However, the file of Leo himself is empty, his Codex whispers that they are “unfinished,” and the elite at the Academy are watching him with suspicion and fear. Dropped into a realm of magical rank and fatal challenges, Leo is an exception. His magic is not dead, but a forbidden energy, which develops by consuming the magic and memories of others. In a maimed mentor who has an overabundance of knowledge, a genius competitor with a cursed lineage, and an ally with a talent to outwit the street, Leo discovers a rot inside the Academy. It is not merely teaching magic, it is harvesting it, it is tapping its students with the souls of its former students to feed its immortality, all managed by an enigmatic, manipulative Headmaster. As the boundary between the magical and the mortal realms collapses, Leo gets to know the horrifying reality of his destiny. He is a “Fractured Soul,” a descendant in an intergenerational cycle, who will either redeem the world or ruin it. In order to escape the cycle, he should learn how to overcome the same force that is eliminating his human nature and face the most outrageous truth of all: the man who has tortured him is his own father. The world has become the teacher, but Leo now has to rewrite the final lesson. Tags: Progression Fantasy, Academy Fantasy, Gaslamp Fantasy. Underdog Protagonist, Magical School, Forbidden Magic, System Interface, Conspiracy, Found Family, Cyclical Destiny, Tragic Romance.

A Murder Mystery Set in a Cape Town Hospital Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, known for its world-class medical care, becomes the scene of a chilling murder. Dr. Alex van Wyk, a respected but controversial surgeon, is found dead in his office, his body carefully arranged as if he were still at work. The only clue? A cryptic message scrawled in blood on his desk: "Do no harm." Detective Siya Ndlovu, a sharp-witted investigator with a troubled past, is assigned to the case. As she delves into the hospital’s inner workings, she uncovers dark secrets, rivalries, malpractice cover-ups, and a black-market organ trade operating beneath the surface. The suspects range from ambitious doctors to desperate patients and even the hospital's board members. Tensions rise when a second body turns up, a nurse found in the morgue, her lips stitched shut. The message is clear: someone is silencing those who know too much. With the clock ticking and another potential victim in the killer’s sights, Siya must navigate a web of deception, greed, and medical ethics. Can she unravel the mystery before the hospital turns into a hunting ground? Or is the killer always one step ahead?

🏆 NO. 1 Leading Novel In The {"Almighty Dominance"} contest {Gold} "You're just a worthless piece of trash, Elijah! You've always been nothing but a pawn in my game. Now get out of my house!" she spat, pushing him out into the downpour. That rainy night, Elijah's world shattered before his eyes. The woman he loved most lay in bed with another man. Just as he stumbled into the rain, his phone buzzed. "Elijah, it's me—your father, General Marcus Steel. The richest General in the country." Boom!" General Marcus Steel? Elijah’s body shook heavily. At that moment, he realized his life was about to change forever. How could he be the son of such a well-known figure?

Doran died a meaningless death, a weak-halo soldier impaled on a demon's blade. He died protecting his commander during the fall of Wall Iros. His last thought: Did my life matter? Then he woke up. Reincarnated as Soren Vail, the useless third son of a wealthy merchant, he's been thrown seven years into the past. The wall still stands. Commander Varris is alive. The demon hasn't attacked. And Soren's halo—still as stone when he was tested as a child is starting to grow. It shouldn't be possible. Now he has seven years. Seven years to train. Seven years to build a body that can fight. Would he fall a second time—or change the future?

After one of his father's enemies kidnapped him to get back at his father when he was 9 years old, he ran away to save himself and was raised by a widow who has a boy(10 years old) and a girl(8 years old). After his family searched for him and didn't find him, he was believed dead. fifteen years later, he returns to reclaim his father's property - walking into a contract marriage, a stolen identity, and a brother who was never really his

The modern world only seeks to shackle the strong binding them with chain like rules, all so the weak can have a chance to survive. Drake Brand is a normal seventeen year old studying hard for his university entrance exam. One day his entire life is thrown into chaos when an encounter with a mysterious shadow ended with him being transported to a different dimension. With getting home as his prime goal he sets out to explore the world of Hunters, Magical Beasts and Souls. However the temptation to let go only grew as his mind is liberated from the confines of the modern world.

Kael Draven, a young man with a rare ability has always had a dream of belonging to one of the most elite groups responsible for protecting the royal family in the Kingdom of Veridale. A biannual test is held to determine who gets to enter the King's Academy and become one of the elite, would Kael Draven survive through the odds and what awaits him when he does gain entry and is exposed to a Web of lies, betrayal, and murder?