Prison Break

In the soaring spires of Altheria, magic determines a man’s worth. To be born without it is to be a ghost in a city of gods. Kaelen was a ghost—until the day he tried to die. When Kaelen plunges into the dark waters of the Great River, he doesn't find death. Instead, he awakens a forbidden interface: The Arcane System. This is no ordinary gift of the heavens; it is a cold, clinical accountant of agony. Its rules are simple: mana is for the blessed, but Despair Points (DP) are for the broken. Every bruise from a noble's fist, every insult spat in the mud, and every memory of failure is now a deposit in Kaelen’s account. With his new system, Kaelen can purchase what nature denied him: artificial mana veins, shadow-walking abilities, and the dark secrets of the very Academy that shunned him. But the Arcane System is a demanding master. To maintain his new power, Kaelen must keep the "market" of his misery volatile. He must enter the Academy as an uninvited guest, face the golden boy who tried to break him, and survive the scrutiny of the terrifying Inquisitors. Kaelen spent eighteen years as a victim. Now, he’s an investor. And he’s about to prove that when you have nothing left to lose, you have everything to gain.

They burned his house, broke his bloodline, and buried the truth in ice for a hundred years. Evander Vornic was never supposed to inherit anything — not the title, not the power, not the war. But when the Empire's soldiers slaughter his family on the night of his dragon binding ceremony, a dying hand forces an ancient ice dragon's bond onto him. Now it's killing him slowly, freezing him from the inside, and the only cure lies buried in the heart of the empire that wants him dead. To survive, Evander must become someone else entirely, earn the trust of the very people who destroyed everything he loved, and steal back the knowledge to save his own life. But the deeper he digs, the more he realizes his family wasn't the first. And somewhere beyond the edge of the living world, a trapped dragon god has been waiting a hundred years for someone strong enough to free it...or wield it. Revenge will cost him everything and power will cost him more. And when an empire's oldest sin comes due, Evander will have to choose: become the weapon they always feared, or break the cycle that made monsters of them all. The ice remembers. So does the dragon. And neither one forgives easily.

"Your Honour! Mr Jack Turner not only regularly sexually harassed the female employees of the car wash, but he also beat up anyone who dared to stop him." "And my client, who had only stood up for himself to protect these poor women, was badly injured by him!" "He is a violent sex offender– and if this kind of a person is allowed to get away with it once, he will become a threat to the personal safety of us all!" ***** Years after leaving the shadowed realm of crime, Jack Turner finds himself at a crossroads, where he is wrongfully framed by his scumbag boss and betrayed by everyone he knows. At a time when even his wife has left his side, Jack has to decide whether he will continue to watch his loved ones struggle, or if he go back to the dark and violent world where people can be hired to kill: a world he used to rule, once upon a time. What dark secrets from Jack's past will resurface now? What lies ahead for Jack Turner as he stands at the crossroads of morality and survival? Can he find a way to clear his name and break free from the sinister web closing in on him?

Kim Do-hyun was just another potato in the crowd—an anxious college nobody waiting to fail the Awakening Program. But when the portal swallowed him, his identity shattered, and a new life took root. Now he is Han Tae-yang: a street fighter, failed streamer, and accidental legend who spent a decade trapped in Divine Tower of Gods, the cruelest game ever made. Everyone else quit. He climbed fifty floors alone. And then the game became reality. Relics bleed into the real world. Monsters walk in daylight. Governments scramble, corps rise, guilds rise, and hunters kill for scraps. Yet through chaos, one name spreads like wildfire: Loner. With sarcasm sharper than any blade, a ghost bride as his sister’s familiar, and a system that can copy powers, Tae-yang dismantles the new world one relic at a time. While others beg for safety or riches, he plots in the shadows—because for him, survival isn’t enough. He’ll break the tower. He’ll burn the system. And he’ll drag the gods themselves down with him. Action-packed. Darkly hilarious. Brutally clever. If Solo Leveling married Super Gene and raised a snarky delinquent kid, this is it.

Ten-year-old Lucian Vance lost everything in a single night, his parents, his home, and his family’s legendary trade guild. Powerless, mana-less, and buried under a staggering debt engineered by his corrupt uncle, the entire realm expected the helpless orphan to forfeit his inheritance and fade into obscurity. Then, the Prodigal Wealth System awakened. The rules of the system are simple: hoarding money yields zero growth, but absolute decadence grants godlike power. Every single coin Lucian spends converts directly into unassailable mana cores, rare artifacts, and S-Rank magic. Now, as greedy relatives, rival trade syndicates, and even the Crown attempt to bankrupt and exploit him, every attack against Lucian backfires spectacularly. They break his supply chains? He buys the entire regional market. They force legal fines on him? He buys their estates out from under them. To the world, Lucian looks like a reckless child driving his family business into total ruin with outrageous spending sprees. In reality, every desperate move his enemies make only fuels his meteoric rise, proving that in a world ruled by strength and greed, the kid with the ultimate bank account reigns supreme.

Ryker Hartley, a young man embroiled with a crime boss to claim a hidden treasure. Would fleeing be his only option in this uncertain journey? Or would he challenge his destiny against all odds? ********** A once easy-going boy turned the beastly version of himself, feared by all. With a past that has left a scar on his mind, the most cherished of all his memories has turned out to be an unfairly large grieving package for him. With an unchecked bitterness, and oblivious of an inescapable fate trapped in times, awaiting the moment to descend, he roamed, but with animosity and undue misanthropy. Ryker has closed himself off to the world, he's not one to forgive the most trivial atrocities against him, but when a frenemy manages to break through his defenses, Ryker's integrity is put to the test in ways he never thought possible. As secrets are exposed and alliances are formed, Ryker's life takes a dramatic turn as he becomes a celebrity. Will he rise to the challenge or crumble under the weight of his past? . . . . Find out in this action-packed and thrilling novel that takes a deep dive into the complexities of human nature. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PS: The image is not mine, I got it from Pinterest and then, do the editing. Owner >> Cody Garrett Hatcher

He died a failure. Betrayed, broke, and bleeding out in a Brooklyn alley. Ethan Hayes had nothing—no money, no respect, no future. His fiancée cheated with his best friend. His boss fired him for refusing to break the law. His family called him worthless. At 34, a bullet ended his miserable existence. Then he woke up at 22. Senior year at NYU. Same betrayals looming. But this time, he's not alone. [REGRET REVERSAL SYSTEM ACTIVATED] "Host, you died like a side character. Want to rewrite the script and make them the punchline?" With a sarcastic AI system that rewards him for reversing past humiliations, Ethan gets a second chance—and he's taking everything. The startup his roommate stole? He'll build it first and crush him. The ex who cheated? She'll beg on her knees. The corrupt elites who stepped on him? They'll kneel before the king they created. From NYU dorms to Wall Street towers. From broke student to untouchable billionaire. Face-slaps. Revenge. Power. And the women who once rejected him? They're about to learn what they missed. New York won't know what hit it.

I woke up to find myself a weakling vampire with only 10 health points, and the Holy Light Knight Order was right outside to purify me! In my despair, the 【Proficiency System】activated—so long as I live, everything is grindable! To survive, I did anything! While other vampires were hunting maidens, I was slaughtering a hundred thousand rats in the sewer, my 【Bite】skill maxed out, awakening the talent 【Life Drain】! Holy Light burns painfully? I treated myself like the Monkey King's flesh and braved the Holy Light, my 【Holy Light Resistance】maxed out, awakening the talent 【Holy Light Affinity MAX】, and directly took a Holy Light bath in the church! They thought I was an elegant noble, but what I was actually thinking was, "This sword strike will probably only take 0.001% of my health—too risky, I must kill him instantly!" They called me the "Nighttime Scourge" because I targeted only the most heinous scoundrels, after all, the proficiency points from "Sinful Blood" were simply too generous! Years later, the Abyssal Demon God descended, and the gods fell. In the despair of the entire world, I brushed off the dust from my tailcoat and looked at my blood bar that had grown to an uncountable length. "You... can break my defense?"

He was overlooked, underestimated… and mopping your floor. Frank Ashford was supposed to conquer the tech world. But brilliance alone doesn’t pay bills—or buy power. Reduced to cleaning offices in the very system that rejected him, Frank stumbles upon a classified code that could either resurrect a failing empire or destroy it entirely. His reward? A fast promotion to CEO—and a death sentence. Inside the boardroom, betrayal brews. Outside, a killer waits. And somewhere between power and survival, Ella—the daughter of the man who gave him a chance—may be the only one who can save him… or break him. The deeper he digs, the darker the truth becomes. One code. One company. One janitor. And a war no one sees coming. Frank Ashford was once the pride of his graduating class—brilliant, ambitious, destined for greatness. But years after leaving university, he finds himself scrubbing toilets and mopping floors at a towering multinational empire that barely knows he exists. Then, a buried code, a desperate company, and a silent war within the boardroom thrust him into the eye of a corporate storm. When Frank solves the impossible, he doesn’t just unlock data—he unlocks power. But with every step forward, he uncovers betrayal, lies, and a deadly conspiracy that could cost him everything—including the only person who ever believed in him.

When the System descended upon the megacity of Aetherion, it promised humanity a new golden age, levels, classes, and power for every citizen. Adrian Voss received nothing. No nameplate. No level. No class. He is Level Zero, the only person the System cannot see, measure, or control. As five god-like AIs known as the System Council seize absolute power, society collapses into a brutal hierarchy where level determines worth and obedience is survival. Black spires rise, Enforcers hunt anomalies, and humanity is forcibly rewritten into compliant cogs of the New Order. Invisible to the System’s surveillance, Adrian becomes the ultimate ghost in their machine. While others fight to survive within the rules, he can walk through enemy lines, sabotage their infrastructure, and strike at the heart of the Council’s empire without triggering a single alarm. But the Council has noticed the anomaly. Hunted by the ruthless Reaper and predicted by the all-seeing Oracle, Adrian must gather a fragile resistance of “Glitches” — survivors whose correction is failing, and wage a shadow war against gods who rule the ashes of the old world. In a world where everyone has a level, the only person who can break the System… is the one who has none. Level Zero: The System Council can't see me is a gripping post-apocalyptic LitRPG about defiance, survival, and the terrifying freedom of being unseen.