Marriage First, Love Second

[BOOK 1 OF HOLY STAR] Set in a world where the most powerful continent is ruled by the most powerful nation, and the most prominent symbol of grand power there is the Temple of Wisdom. Etanai Bazu, a nobody from the slums of Stell City, received a gift from the most powerful celestial, The God of Scriptures, through a life-altering experience that left him with an unstable mind. Along with four A-list military trainees: Chad Bravo, Cassandra Rayer, Bava Edward, and Garu Chanti, Etanai became a Holy Warrior to the priestess of the Temple of Wisdom. While dealing with a deranged mind and an uncontrollable power, Etanai is dragged into a journey entailing friendship, alliances, and enemies; dealing with trauma and healing them; trust and betrayal in relationships; the pros and cons of fame; dirty politics in the sacred temple…… then there’s love. The newborn warrior couldn’t fight against the pull of Forbidden Love, not if Priestess Eshya was involved. (Note: bXb and gXg characters.)

Brian Dhariftan never thought his life would change drastically after a bank employee saw someone sending money to his account. Brian also found out who sent him the money. However, Brian has to do several things as a mission and take revenge on his girlfriend who survived. Fact after fact is revealed about who the billionaire really is who changed his life, including revealing Brian's true identity, it turns out he is the missing heir. There is a story behind Brian's initially unlucky life, about his relationship with a mysterious billionaire and his parents. What really happened? Follow the story and guide Brian to complete his mission.

Synopsis: Edward was adopted when he was five years old—a dream come true for orphans. However, his life was anything but happy. His adoptive father was a scoundrel, always cheating, drinking, gambling, and abusing his spouse and Edward. After years of gambling and drinking, there was nothing left but countless debts and four pale walls in the house. Though weak and sometimes neurotic because of her husband, his adoptive mother always showed great love and affection to Edward. However, good things could never last long. Unfortunately, his adoptive mother soon fell ill when Edward was seventeen. His scoundrel father shunned the responsibility by deserting them and ran away. Edward had no other choice but to drop out of school and toil himself day and night in restaurants, gas stations, and convenience stores. Yet, he could merely earn a little money that could not even support him to keep his head above water, not to mention pay his mother’s expensive medical expenses. One day, a chance came. One of his boss’s good friends offered him a better job as a salesman. Things seemed to go well for Edward. He got a girlfriend named Rebecca in his new company. He also had made a good friend, James, there. And above all, he got a better salary. However, something went wrong on the day he demonstrated the slide before his customers. Would he lose his job and come into the same plight again? Would his girlfriend be nice to him like before? Would Edward stay at the bottom rung of the social ladder forever? Read on to unravel Edward’s journey in this mundane world to become the extremely wealthy Supreme Trader with the help of his Super Trading System.

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....

Shinra Kazan, a disgraced, masked knight who once walked the darkest paths of the martial world, survives a brutal last stand that costs him everything, including the woman who loved him. But her last gift works a miracle no one expected: Shinra wakes in the body of a five-year-old, his power gone, his identity a secret, and his sins wiped clean by a second chance he never deserved. Taken in by the very man he once tried to kill, Shinra must hide an elder's cunning behind a child's face — navigating court politics, ancient sects, and knights who would kill just to claim a boy with blood like his. Because word is spreading, something extraordinary sleeps inside him, and every faction in the Kingdom wants it. *** Powerless! Hunted! Reborn! “This time, I'll do it right!”

Lance, a 15 year old boy who lost his mum, the only parent left, and then his job, is devastated and believes his life had come to an end and would only spiral downwards from then on. And it almost does, because he meets his end in a car accident , when he is transported to another world and reincarnated by fate and the forces at work. He is given a new life, a goal and purpose, to hold the torch of a mage, a wizard and fight the dark forces that are risen to destroy Golredot.

A fantasy novel where a young depressed man decides to part away from the world. Unfortunately fate played a joke and instead of death, his soul was transferred to another world. He rejoiced thinking that his family will not be burdened by him but one day a voice said "Reach the peak of the world to return back to your real world." Then an image of his family members who were in hospital was shown. Again a voice was heard "The Catastrophe will soon befall Earth. Remaining days 24. Seeing that he gritted his teeth and decided to return back to his world. After countless years of struggle he finally succeeded in returning back to his world. It had been 9999 years for him but only an year has passed in the real world. Now his adventure begins. His lover who never responded to him was living with his family taking care of him. He knew most of the things as he got to view the real world once every thousand years.

After experiencing the ultimate betrayal from the person he trusted as his brother, Heath's death left behind echoes of misery, terror, and deep regret that had plagued him during his second chance at life. Heath, who had abandoned his duty as the true heir of the Veridiania Kingdom, carried a burden of guilt for the countless lives lost under the rule of the Tyrant King, Nyxen. It was all because he had forsaken the crown, unknowingly leaving behind a trail of bloodshed in his attempt to keep his hands clean. Upon discovering that Nyxen, in this new life, continued to wreak havoc upon countless lives in the underworld, Heath knew he had to take action before chaos ensued with Nyxen's latest project. Heath vowed to redeem himself this time. Although... It seems like teaching a group of teenagers while attempting to overthrow the deeply-rooted syndicate in the underworld might be more than he can chew.

“What is right and what is wrong in a world where survival is all that matters?” Stuck in an unusual game of survival, Mikaila has these words keep repeating in her mind. Out of necessity, Mikaila was forced to participate in a massively multiplayer role-playing game that features a very unique gameplay; players have to use their real physical bodies to enter the fantasy world. Due to the harrowing nature of the game, Mikaila’s morals are continuously challenged as she progresses in this brutal world. Can she hold on to her principles? Or will the infectious cruelty of this world tarnish her soul? Note: This is the second book of the story Utopian Fantasy: "A Fair Game". It's better to read the preceding story first to better understand the context of some events. You can read the first book on the same platform. Art Cover by @kuma_chan28 Contact him for commissions: kumac215@gmail.com

After the first evolution occurred, some humans gained unique skills that ordinary people could only dream of, some people could turn to creatures, some could turn invisible, while others could light a cigarette, the government discovered that the normal police and secret forces couldn't combat some individuals and organizations again so they put together a team of highly trained personnel with special abilities to take care of such threats, they called them 'Taskforce SpongeBob'.