Protective

Nathaniel "Nate" Cole once designed skylines. Now he guards one at night, a security badge instead of a license, after his partner Preston Vale framed him for a bribe he never took and stole both his practice and his name. Working nights in the Meridian, the Atlanta tower Vale built from Nate's own blueprints, Nate discovers a floor that officially doesn't exist: a concrete corridor carved with binding runes, sealed behind a steel door that knows his name. Vale finally confesses the truth. The tower isn't just a building. It's a cage, built over a century-old tomb, designed with ancient containment architecture to hold something that has been quietly waking for eighteen months, feeding on the fear of every tenant who has died, vanished, or fled since the day it opened. The entity behind the door, the Hollow Word, has been shaping Nate's life far longer than eighteen months. It orchestrated the bribery charge that ruined him, steered him back to the one building only he can unlock, and now holds his younger brother Eli as leverage, offering Nate power, vindication, and revenge against everyone who ever wronged him, in exchange for one thing: help it walk free. With his brother's life on the line, a retired professor's fragments of the closure ritual, and a partner who refuses to let him go in alone, Nate must descend through the tower's hidden maze toward the tomb beneath its foundation. What waits there rewrites everything he believed about his own bloodline and why the Meridian chose him from the very beginning. Closing the door will cost him something he can never get back. Refusing costs everyone else absolutely everything he has left.

Asher Booker is that poor orphan with a not so smart brother. His wife's family deserted her because she married him. But he still had his fragile heart broken by his wife and was betrayed by his best friend. Everything came with consequences and lessons. No one would have thought so but he became the heir of an empire he knew nothing about but at a condition. No matter what, he's determined to repay what they did to him and make them go down on their knees.

For three years, Damien Royce rotted in Oak wood Penitentiary for 'stealing' food from his employers. While in prison, due to the persuasion of his beloved wife, he took the fall for his inlaws crime; the perfect way to gain their love and trust, or so he thought. Enduring, surviving and learning along the way, Damien comes out of prison, with one goal in mind, to reunite with his wife and build a new life for himself. Instead, upon his release, Damien realizes that life as he thought he knew, was nothing but humiliation and betrayal in waiting. This singular act of betrayal awakens the wrath of Damien, now his sole mission is to burn down everyone who wronged him, as he unleashes doom upon all of those who had hurt him, including the one he had loved the most. It was time they learned that the live in son-in-law that they scorned and mocked was Untouchable; the one to destroy them and decide their fate.

Betty Thomas's unexplainable rise to influence and power in Blue Haven City led her to publicly humiliate and divorce her husband Jack Adams who worked as a janitor in her office on the same day that he was mourning his mom's 15th death anniversary. What she didn't know was that all she ever got and had was put in play by the man she just kicked out of her life. What no one knows is that he secretly ran the whole city and was the most influential man on the continent. Now everyone who had ever despised him will lick the dust off his feet, especially his evil uncle Lord Steven who masterminded his family's death some years ago.

In a world where the 'Mist of Void' erases those without deep emotional bonds, Ethan, a man with a 1% Love Level, must navigate a lethal survival game where falling in love is his only shield—and his biggest death sentence.

Thiago Valério discovers a mysterious interface after the apocalypse begins, showing him exactly who is blessed with invincibility each night. He attempts to navigate the dangerous new world by avoiding the 'lucky' targets, only to encounter Marina, whose luck is so low it distorts the system. Thiago and Marina team up to uncover why certain individuals are recycled by the system, suspecting a grand design by the entity Fortuna. As they gather intelligence, they find that the system isn't just picking survivors but harvesting energy, forcing them to turn against the very mechanism that dictates life and death.

Five years ago, Max went to the military in his brother in-law's place and was declared dead. They took his wife, beat his child and they sold his family like livestock. Now he’s back. In uniform still stained by war, Max walks into a city that thought it buried him and says one thing, “Touch what’s mine again, and I’ll erase your bloodline.” They laugh at him, call him poor and useless. Until elites bow, trillion-dollar companies answer his call and men who once spat on his name start kneeling. His wife stands between fear and pride. His enemies stand between arrogance and extinction. And Max stood at the very top, looking down on his enemies, “You had five years to breathe,” he says calmly. “Now start counting backwards.” Power isn’t loud. Power doesn’t explain. Power comes home… and collects.

The world thought it was just conspiracy theories. Whispers about them. Rumors about shadows in the sky. Stories buried in the late-night news. Until this night—when their existence was confirmed. Now, fear spreads like wildfire. The U.S. President prepares to address the nation in a broadcast that will change history forever. For veteran Air Force pilot Mike Hamilton, it was supposed to be just another exhausting day—one failed mission, one narrow escape, one night of rest before returning to the skies. He had no interest in fairy tales, no patience for paranoia. Skepticism was in his blood. But when the base catastrophe alarm blares for the first time in his career, when tempers flare and trust shatters within his own squadron, Mike realizes something has shifted. Something is coming—something far greater than military protocol, false alarms, or even war. He doesn’t know it yet, but humanity is standing at the edge of its final chapter. And when the transmission goes live, there will be no turning back.

In the Profound Amber Particle World, martial cultivators look to the Nine Heavenly Astral Rivers, condensing Astral Souls to command the cosmos. Those born with broken dantians are branded as sword slaves—livestock used to test blade formations and discarded in mass graves. Chu Yuan awoke in the battered body of an outer sword slave at the Azure Cloud Sect. His original constellation core was gouged out by his ambitious fiancée, Ji Luoxue, his dantian shattered by corrupt elders, and his chest branded with the lethal Nine-Nether Slave Seal, set to detonate in three days. Yet in the darkest hour of death, his soul awakens the memories of an ancient Pill Sovereign alongside the legendary Primordial Chaotic Sword Core sleeping within his sea of consciousness. Unable to cultivate standard Qi, Chu Yuan unlocks the supreme forbidden art: the Desolate Star Tyrant Body Art. By communicating directly with the forbidden 9th Heavenly Astral River, he bypasses the shattered dantian completely, igniting the nine primal stellar nodes—beginning with the indomitable Desolate Yuan Star beneath his foot! With the Chaotic Twin Sword Spirits guiding his blade, ancient alchemy allowing him to refine divine pills that defy heaven, and Divine Inscriptions etched into his very skeleton, Chu Yuan rises from the slaughterhouse of the outer court. He does not beg the heavens for mercy; he draws his chaotic blade and crushes the heavens beneath his heel. Every hypocrite who stepped on him shall bleed; every god that stands in his path shall fall. With nine stars blazing and chaotic sword qi sweeping the heavens, Chu Yuan shall reign as the sole Sovereign of the Nine Astral Heavens!

‎Abandoned by the world itself, Marfin survived in a deadly forest with his younger sister as his only reason to live. ‎ ‎ ‎High above the ground, he built a fragile home atop a colossal tree. Their days were spent hunting monsters—goblin flesh for every meal, and on rare, fortunate occasions, the meat of a wolf. ‎Hunger was their constant companion. ‎ ‎ ‎One day, fate smiled upon them. Marfin discovered an abandoned carriage, and from it, he stole leftover bread. For the first time in years, joy surged through his heart as he rushed back to his sister—his only family. ‎ ‎But fate is never kind for long. ‎On his way home, Marfin fell into a mysterious trap and encountered an unknown being. The entity flaunted its overwhelming power, humiliating him without mercy. Yet, despite its cruelty, it left him with a final “gift”—a mysterious cube. ‎ ‎+----------------------------------------------------------+ ‎[The Conqueror’s System is forcefully merging with the host’s soul.] ‎ ‎[Progression rate: 1%… 10%… 25%… 75%… 100%] ‎ ‎[Congratulations, Host. You have been chosen by the Ancient Dominators.] ‎ ‎[Would you like to review the missions?] ‎ ‎ Yes ‎ ‎ No ‎ ‎Selected: Yes ‎ ‎Main Mission: Conquer this fantasy world. ‎ ‎Difficulty: Impossible. ‎ ‎+----------------------------------------------------------+ ‎ ‎Disclaimer: ‎ ‎#A villainous Mc. ‎ ‎#He gets strong Fast. ‎ ‎#High stakes battles. ‎ ‎#Manipulations. ‎ ‎#Not your run in the meal Mc of regression or reincarnation. ‎ ‎#Tragedy ‎ ‎#Cruelty. ‎ ‎#each chapter takes me a while. ‎