Modern

In the modern world, everything has value. Bodies. Time. Love. Shame. Trauma. Information. Even human morality itself. Gavin Valerio finally realizes that truth after his life is destroyed in public. As the poorest student at Riverton University, Gavin loses everything in a single night. His girlfriend sleeps with another man, the video spreads across the university’s social platform, and his humiliation becomes entertainment for thousands of people. In a city where money defines status and status defines reality, someone like Gavin was never supposed to matter. Then, at the absolute lowest point of his life, something awakens inside him. Devil Capital System. A mysterious system that grants him access to unlimited capital assets. Money. Liquidity. Institutional networks. Influence. For the first time in his life, the world’s doors begin opening for him. But the System comes with rules far more terrifying than simply spending money. Because to the Devil Capital System, everything must generate value. Wasteful spending is punished. Emotional decisions are considered weakness. Even love itself can become a threat to system stability. As Gavin descends deeper into Riverton’s hidden world of business mafias, elite banking circles, luxury prostitution, viral media manipulation, and institutional power games, he begins to understand something horrifying: Capitalism was never just about money. It is the mechanism humanity uses to assign value to one another. The richer he becomes, the more Gavin is dragged into a brutal ecosystem built on influence, desire, social manipulation, transactional relationships, information control, and people willing to sell pieces of themselves just to survive. And as Gavin rises higher through a world where everything has a price, he begins to face a far more dangerous question: If value is what controls civilization itself... then who truly has the right to decide what something is worth?

The world ended once. Then it came back wrong. Seven years after the Aura Revival, Earth is no longer safe. New York City has become a war zone. Giant monsters surge through the streets in Beast Tides. Powerful bloodline families rule from fortified towers, using ancient cultivation powers that feel closer to gods than humans. Ronan Burke is nobody. He’s an orphan with no family, no backing, and no talent for cultivation. He survives by running dangerous courier jobs and staying out of sight. Every day is about not getting killed, by beasts, gangs, or the families who control everything. Then one escape goes wrong. Cornered during a Beast Tide, Ronan comes into contact with a relic that should not exist. It doesn’t just give him power. It locks him into a contract. A system awakens in his mind. It gives him one command: Reach Level 16 in every cultivation realm. Achieve perfection. Fail and die. In a world where even the greatest geniuses can barely reach Level 14, Ronan is forced to chase a level everyone believes is impossible. Every breakthrough makes him stronger, and more dangerous to discover. If the families find out what he is, they won’t recruit him. They’ll cut him open to steal his secret. To survive, Ronan must grow in silence. He scavenges the ruins, hunts monsters far above his level, outplays arrogant heirs, and hides his strength at every turn. His only ally is the cold, relentless system guiding him toward a kind of power the modern world insists no longer exists. The Beast Tides are getting worse. The bloodline families are making their moves. And Ronan Burke, the weakest man in the city, may be its last unseen hope… if he can stay hidden long enough.

Marcus Chen, the youngest five-star general in modern history, dies in disgrace—poisoned in a military prison after being framed for a war crime that killed 1,400 civilians. He wakes up ten years in the past, on his first day at the National Defense Academy, with a mysterious Warden System bonded to his soul. The system gives him a mission: prevent seven catastrophic disasters over the next ten years or detonate, taking half a continent with him. Armed with future knowledge and system-enhanced abilities, Marcus begins saving lives while hunting the conspiracy that destroyed him. Each mission he completes reveals a darker truth—he wasn't framed by accident. He was chosen. As Marcus dominates academy training with the tactical genius of his former life, he draws the attention of people who will shape his destiny. Instructor Kane, who seems trustworthy but harbors dangerous secrets. Aria Volkov, the intelligence operative who died in his original timeline but now investigates his impossible knowledge. Leon Cross, the congressman's son who starts as an enemy but becomes an unlikely ally when he discovers his father's role in the conspiracy. And Dr. Sophia Reeves, the psychologist who unknowingly created the weapon slowly killing Marcus. With each prevented disaster, the conspiracy tightens its grip. Firebase Theta—the atrocity that destroyed Marcus's life—isn't just coming. It's accelerating. Marcus realizes he can't stop it. He can only expose it. He forms a team of outcasts and traitors, sacrifices his career and identity, and wages a shadow war against an enemy embedded in the highest levels of government. But prevention comes with a price. The Warden System is burning through Marcus's lifespan, the line between hero and weapon blurs with every mission, and the conspiracy's true goal is more terrifying than revenge: they're not trying to destroy him. They're trying to recruit him.