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One hour vanished from Detective Marcus Kane's life. He remembers kicking down the warehouse door, then nothing but blood on his knuckles and a corpse at his feet. No witnesses. No weapon. No memory. Now he's the department's most wanted, hunted by the brothers in blue who once had his back and tormented by jagged fragments of that stolen hour; fragments showing hands that move like his but aren't under his control. Then the second body drops. Same execution. Exactly one hour after the first. Marcus isn't just a suspect. He's a loaded gun in someone else's hand, and they're pulling the trigger on a schedule. Each victim ties back to a military black site that promised to erase his war trauma, not weaponize him into something unrecognizable. They didn't just take his memories, they programmed a killer into the void. His ex-partner Sarah believes him. Barely. She's risking everything to keep him one step ahead of the manhunt, but her faith cracks with every crime scene photo proving Marcus was there. And the killer inside him is waking up more with each passing hour. The facility's files are sealed. The doctors are dead. And Marcus has seventy-three minutes until the programming kicks in again. To stop the murders, he'll have to willingly step into the blackout and hope he comes back with answers instead of more blood. But his handler isn't some faceless bureaucrat, they're someone who knows exactly how to break him, because they built him. Marcus Kane has one hour to catch a killer. The killer is him. And the puppet master has been watching from inside his own department all along. *****

He reached the top and achieved what no one else could. Alone, without a guild or support. The system did not reward him. It reset him. Everything he built vanished in an instant. His level, his gear, even the name that stood at the peak of the leaderboard disappeared as if it had never existed. He was forced back to the beginning, reborn as a new player named Nox, carrying nothing but his memories and a class no one had ever seen before, the Shadow Master. There were no guides to follow, no system assistance, and no clear path forward. He awakened in a place that did not exist on any map, where even basic system functions failed to respond. It was a world that felt disconnected from the rules every other player relied on. Yet something remained from his past. The final boss he defeated did not disappear. It changed. Now reborn as a shadow-bound entity, it stands at his side, no longer an enemy but something far more uncertain. A fragment of his victory that should not exist. With knowledge of everything he once mastered and a power that defies the system itself, Nox begins again from nothing. Every step forward is slower, harsher, and more dangerous, but this time he is no longer bound by the same limits. Far beyond his isolated beginning, the world is already in chaos. The strongest player in history has vanished without a trace, leaving behind questions no one can answer. As Nox moves forward, one realization begins to take shape. This is not a punishment. The system did not erase him out of error. It chose to start him over. And whatever lies behind that decision is far greater than the game he once thought he had conquered.

"No one cares whether I live or die," Christian thought as he felt himself losing consciousness, his body weak and broken after being abused to the brink of death by his own father. When he woke, however, he found himself surrounded by a group of unfamiliar faces. These strangers, claiming to be his mother's relatives, looked at him with a mix of fury and compassion, grandfather, uncles, and aunts, people he never knew existed, stood before him. "Who dared to hurt the heir of the Sargent family?" His uncles roared, their voices trembling with rage. "The one who dares to lay a finger on my precious grandson will meet their end!" His grandfather declared with cold determination. "Here, Christian," one of his aunts smiled, handing him a sparkling black card. "This is your diamond card, one of a kind. It’s all yours, you could even buy a country with it if that’s what you want." They treated him like the most precious treasure in the world. The once-abandoned and ridiculed son of the Adam's family turned out to be the long-lost heir of the prestigious Sargent family. The same Adam family that had humiliated and tormented him was brought to their knees. Broken and desperate, they begged for his forgiveness. "Christian, we’re sorry," they pleaded. "Please, have mercy on us! After all, we’re still family!" A tale of vengeance and redemption. The Rise of Christian Sargent chronicles, a journey of an abandoned son reclaiming his identity and power as a true heir of Sargent family. As Christian unravels the mysteries of his bloodline, he forges unexpected connections, faces his enemies, and discovers the truth behind his mother’s legacy in this magical and exhilarating saga.

Kai Wang died a loser–beaten to death in an underground fight while he watched his girlfriend kiss his killer. Kai gets a second chance at life–but it comes with a price written in blood. Granted by a mysterious system run by seven faceless beings. Now reborn with power he must fight his way back to the top while completing missions for his faceless masters. He must save his dying mother, destroy those who betray him, and become the unstoppable figure no one expected. But every mission pulls him deeper into darkness and one question remains–will he save his soul or lose it chasing power?

Humans had always been a threat to the celestials. The potential a single human possesses is one that the celestials feared because there was a chance one of them could evolve beyond what they could handle, hence, they brought down the green rain catastrophe. With the intention of wiping out the entire humanity, the seven celestials of Realm X halted the ability for humans and their planet to produce new life, thereby diminishing their population through starvation, and worse, transforming some of the unfortunate into human hunters known as: infected. Erwin was faced with an infected that drove him to the brink of death, before he could meet his end... He unlocked his potential, and a potential the gods feared. He unlocked the dimensional system.

After being sentenced to death on a suicide mission to the Moon, Danny has two choices: die in vain or save everyone. One way or another, legends... Never die.

Many planets exist in the universe, and each one had strong individuals of various races, some of these strong individuals rose above the masses and became a god. However above all gods was the mysterious Creater, no one knew if he was like the other gods but much stronger, or if he was there for the creation of the universe. Perhaps he created it himself but despite the many theories, nobody knew for sure. However everyone knew of his strength and wisdom And it was because of his strength that the realm was mostly peaceful. Creator: “Everyone, I’m bored. I’m ready to face the next thing in life! But if I leave, chaos will reign due to your petty power struggles, therefore I will create a challenge called the tower. You must either give up your power completely or challenge the tower having your memories wiped and your strength reset. The one to reach the very top will gain my strength, good luck young ones.” And so a race began! Although everyone immediately forgot what he said when they entered the tower… but who knows, maybe they can gain back some memory and learn why they are there? Why did they decide to join the tower? Cover thanks to freepik.com

For five years, Liam lived as a nobody. A quiet janitor at Elysian Tower, he kept his head down, pushed his mop, and made sure no one ever noticed him. Until he witnessed his boss being murdered And the killer was the last man Liam ever wanted to see again. Julian Croft. The new CEO of Elysian Tower. The man who adopted Liam as a child, raised him, and later abandoned him like he was worthless. Now Julian is hunting Liam for one reason: a secret code Liam created years ago—one powerful enough to make Julian the richest man alive. But Julian isn’t the only secret Liam is about to uncover…… His ex-girlfriend, who supposedly died five years ago, is alive. His only friend was a spy sent to betray him and his father has been manipulating him from the shadows all along. Everyone thinks Liam is weak, everyone thinks he’s just a janitor. they’re about to learn the truth. Because Liam isn’t hiding anymore and this time, he’s not running. He’s coming for everything Julian Croft stole from him.

Twelve months ago, the world fractured. Rifts opened in the sky and spewed monsters into the streets. The old governments collapsed within weeks as the world burned. Soon, certain people awakened to magical abilities. The awakened took control of the ruins. They conquered the rifts and claimed the beast cores to level up their own power. Kai was a lowly porter, hired to carry loot for elite hunters inside deadly rifts. When his team encountered a powerful boss monster, they didn’t fight, they sacrificed him. Betrayed and thrown to his death, Kai was meant to be nothing more than another forgotten casualty of a broken world. But instead of dying, he awakens at the heart of the very rift that killed him. Reborn as its master. Now, the monsters obey his will. The dungeon bends to his command. Every hunter who enters becomes prey and every death fuels his growing power. The same elites who once looked down on him are returning, greedy for easy rewards. They still think this is just another dungeon. They have no idea what’s waiting for them. Because this time, Kai isn’t the one being hunted. He’s the one setting the traps. And when the doors close, no one is getting out alive

Twenty-four years ago, a convoy was ambushed on a mountain road and every passenger was left for dead...except one crying infant with no name and no past. Raised by the wealthy Carter family, Ethan grew up tolerated, never loved, and endlessly reminded he wasn't blood. What the Carters never knew: their "burden" was secretly Evan Black, the anonymous founder of Aether Technologies... and their own company had survived for years only because he was quietly protecting it. The day their real son is found, they disown Ethan without a second thought. Strip his name. Empty his room. Throw him out with a suitcase. The next morning, from the top floor of Aether's headquarters, Ethan gives one order: cut the Carters off completely. As their empire collapses and the mysterious Evan Black finally steps into the light, Ethan discovers the ambush that orphaned him was no accident, it was an execution carried out by an organization still hunting the one survivor of a stolen dynasty. Every company he conquers, every enemy he exposes, and every truth he uncovers brings him closer to the people who spent twenty-four years making sure he'd never remember who he really is.