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Seven years ago, a dark giant shadow visited my house and killed my mother. It changed me, forever. Four years later, after the Mega Human experiment 2.0 went wrong, I became a mutant. I became.... "Shadow Man!" "The boy behind the shadow has been identified as..." "Jude Rutherford! Seventeen year old high school boy..." "Is he Shadow Man?" When the mutant who killed my mother appeared again to destroy me, I knew being Shadow Man was not just my hobby. It was my destiny. Now I must protect everyone I love. And I must find out why my mother died. Who was the dark shadow? And why did he come for her? I must find out all these while hiding my second identity.

The year is 2100. Earth is no longer ours. Fifty years ago, an alien race brought humanity to its knees. What remains of us now hides in The Edge, a mirrored illusion of Earth, controlled by fear, lies, and silence. I was born in hiding. Raised to obey. Taught to fear the truth. But when I cross over into the real world and meet a mysterious hybrid girl who shouldn’t exist, everything I thought I knew begins to unravel. The aliens aren’t the mindless monsters we were told. The real enemy… might be leading us from within. Now I’m caught between two worlds: one built on secrets, the other built on blood. And the fate of both may rest on the shoulders of a boy who was never meant to survive. They call me Voidborn. I call this… a reckoning.

In a world where the strong rule and the weak are forgotten, Mo Qian is reborn at the very bottom with nothing to his name. But he carries a secret ability no one has ever seen. When he touches a weapon he can see its soul. The battles it has fought. The warriors who wielded it. The martial arts secrets buried deep within the steel. All of it waiting to be devoured and made his own. One touch. One command. A lifetime of another warrior's experience becomes his. But knowledge without strength is worthless. And Mo Qian is still just a skinny boy at the bottom of the world with everything against him. He will rise though. One blade at a time. One soul at a time. All under heaven will kneel. I Alone Devour All Under Heaven.

They gave him a broken fiefdom and a death sentence. He'll give them an empire in return. When Kaito Tanaka, a military strategist deemed too ruthless for the modern world, wakes up as Kaelan von Greyrat, he knows he's been handed the worst deal imaginable. His new family despises him, his soldiers mock him, and a barbarian horde is weeks away from slaughtering them all. But Kaelan has a secret weapon: a System that rewards brilliant tactics with unimaginable power. While knights prepare for a glorious last stand, Kaelan plays a different game. He fights with blackmail instead of blades, with economics instead of armies. Every humiliation becomes a strategic advantage. Every "coward's move" makes him stronger. Soon, the nobles who laughed at him will beg for mercy, the barbarians who sought to crush him will flee in terror, and the kingdom that abandoned him will kneel at his feet. But Kaelan's rise attracts attention from powerful forces beyond his understanding. Other players in this deadly game have been transported to his world, each with their own terrifying abilities. To survive, Kaelan must uncover the truth behind his transmigration and face an enemy who knows all his tricks, because they play the same game. He was given nothing. He'll take everything.

Damian, a royal prince who is famous for being cruel and sadistic, accidentally meets a small child after slaying a clan of demons. The meeting made him decide to take care of the innocent little boy in secret, who without forgetting had a secret power. "Prince Damian, how long will you continue to take care of Ethan in secret? Would it be better if you took care of him openly? Only he can come in handy and become your strongest weapon!" said the assistant. "He's just an innocent kid, not a weapon! I'll take care of him until he's big even though he'll never recognize my figure," Damian said coldly. What's the next story? Will fate bring Damian and Ethan face to face?

For a millennium, Cyprian Vane served as the Warden of the Hollow Gast, the silent protector who kept the Three Realms from dissolving into the void. He was the greatest strategist of the age, yet on the eve of his final victory, he was impaled by a Sun-Spike—a pillar of solidified light driven into his heart by the very immortal Lords he defended. They didn't want the world saved; they wanted it harvested. Cyprian wakes up nineteen years old, kneeling on the Stone of Penitence. It is the day of his Great Scourging, where his half-brother, Thalric, is set to brand him an outcast and seize his inheritance. But this is not the weak boy they remember. Cyprian has returned with the memories of a thousand wars and a hunger for the Ascension of the Marrow. He will not just reclaim his house; he will hunt the Lords of the Empyrean and shatter the throne that treats the world as a slaughterhouse.

Ravenswood Boarding High School was a place where Axel Vega never felt safe. At seventeen, he was always the target, mocked and pushed aside by those around him. Every day felt like a battle he could never win. But one night, something strange happened. A sickness spread through the halls, and the once familiar faces of classmates and teachers turned into something terrifying. The school that had always been cruel to him became even darker, and Axel found himself in the middle of it. Now, trapped inside with no way out, everyone was desperate. Whispers of hope pointed at Axel, the boy no one ever cared about before. For the first time, the same people who once hated him now looked to him for help. But why him? And when the moment comes, will Axel help them… or let them suffer?

After being brutally slain by a vampire during an apocalyptic cataclysm, Nux Steel finds himself reincarnated into the body of a deceased boy in a realm where magical abilities reign supreme. This new world is inhabited by individuals possessing Soul Books, ancient tomes that unlock Beast Souls, granting mastery over reality. With abilities ranging from terraforming landscapes to ripping apart space and time, these magical beings wield unimaginable power. Nux, however, soon discovers his host body holds the dormant soul of the legendary Beast God, a being of untold might. As Nux awakens the Beast God's soul, he unlocks the secrets of this mystical realm and forges an unyielding determination to conquer this world. Will Nux's unrelenting ambition and newfound powers be enough to reshape destiny, or will the weight of his past life's tragedies define his future?

In Neo-Veridia, time isn’t money. It’s life. Nineteen-year-old Evan is an anomaly. In a city addicted to the dopamine rush of The Exchange—where a roll of the dice can win you a decade or kill you instantly—Evan never gambles. He works. He saves. He survives. He is the only person in the slums with a serious face and a "clean" wrist. But the House always finds a way to break you. When his father is struck down by a rare, fatal glitch in his Life-Clock, Evan is handed a death sentence in the form of a bill: 50 Years. Due in twelve hours. With no collateral and time ticking down, Evan is forced to break his one rule. He enters the neon-soaked underworld of high-stakes gambling. But as he sits at the table, surrounded by desperation and sharks, Evan realizes something terrifying. He isn't just lucky. When he looks at the spinning wheels and shifting cards, he doesn't see chance. He sees math. He sees trajectories. He sees the future. Evan is about to play the most dangerous game in history. He isn't just playing for his father’s life anymore; he’s playing to bankrupt the system that enslaved humanity. The odds are one in a million. Evan likes those odds.

"Name's Andrew Lapis, bud. Just your run-of-the-mill guy coasting through a mundane existence. My family? As average as they come, all huddled under the drab roof of a cookie-cutter house. University? Yep, I'm there too, pulling down grades that'd make any 'ordinary' student proud. Except for Logic Reasoning. Turns out, I've got a knack for that—extraordinarily good, if you ask me. My nightly routine? Well, it's a real nail-biter. Me and my buddy, we hit up the same old coffee shop, play the same old card games. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm no slouch when it comes to those cards. You could say I've got some pretty extraordinary skills up my sleeve. But here's the kicker—life was as dull as dishwater, or at least it used to be. That was until I stumbled upon certain people that turned my world from yawn-inducing ordinary to a whirlwind of the extraordinary. My reality? It flipped like a pancake on a hot griddle. Gone were the days of ordinary, replaced by a high-stakes world of dirty dealings and opulent casinos. So yeah, you could say my life went from poker nights to playing dirty, but in the swankiest casinos you ever did see."