Real Demogorgon

Julian Ashford spent twenty-six years quietly holding his adoptive family's company together, closing every major deal Halden Corp ever took credit for. Then a stranger named Preston walks in claiming to be Richard Halden's real, biological son, and in a single afternoon Julian is cast out of the house, stripped of his position, and abandoned by his own fiancée. What his family doesn't know is that Julian secretly built Sterling Vale Group, one of the country's most powerful investment firms, entirely hidden from them. When he stops holding Halden Corp up, it starts to fall, and Julian patiently uncovers a scheme by a corporate raider named Elias Marsh to steal the family's most valuable land. But exposing Marsh doesn't end anything. Marsh was never the top of the chain, and the man funding him will not simply disappear. A cornered Preston, desperate and out of options, makes a choice that nearly costs Julian his life. A forgotten branch of the family resurfaces with a legal claim on everything Julian has built back. And once Julian's empire becomes public knowledge, a rival chairman circling for weakness decides Sterling Vale is the next company worth tearing apart. Every time it looks like Julian has finally won, the war gets bigger. Stay tuned for this ride with Julian and the empire nobody knew he built.

"I am pregnant. And you are going to take responsibility for the child,” Lombard’s girlfriend said—the problem was, the child wasn’t his. At twenty-eight, Lombard August has everything—wealth, power, influence. But for two years, he buried it all. Why? Because for once in his life, he wanted something real. A family. A future. Then he met her. A woman with terrifyingly real supernatural powers… and morals strong enough to make him believe she could be the perfect mother to his children. So he stepped down. Stayed quiet. Endured disrespect. Let her powerful family look down on him— All to prove he was worthy of her. They made one mistake. They thought he was ordinary. They thought he was beneath them. They have never been more wrong. Now, the woman he sacrificed everything for is carrying another man’s child… and expects him to raise it under the will of a “Holy One.” Her family agrees. To them, Lombard is just a convenient choice. A man they can assign a life to. What they don’t know… Is that the version of Lombard they’ve been seeing— Was never real. And the man he truly is? Is not someone you control. It’s someone who takes control. Now, with divine power, ruthless elites, and betrayal closing in, Lombard has only one choice: Return to the man they should have feared. The Saintess chose the wrong man to mess with. And soon… even the heavens will regret it.

Luke West, is a 21-year-old college slacker, has two great passions in life—gaming and skipping class. But if there’s one thing he truly despises, it’s rodents. Rats, in particular. Creepy, sneaky, and downright disgusting. He can’t stand the sight of them. One fateful day, on his way to pick up the latest game release, Luke is hit by a truck. Just before the darkness takes him, he catches a glimpse of something impossible—a rat grinning at him. When he wakes up, it’s not in a hospital bed. No, it’s worse. Much worse. He’s been reincarnated as a rat. A creature he’s hated his whole life. Forced to live among the very vermin he loathes, Luke is determined to survive, plotting a way to escape this nightmare. But the more time he spends among the rats and other beastmen, the more he starts to see the truth: maybe it’s not the rats or the beastmen who are the problem—maybe humans are the real pests. Just when he’s coming to terms with his new life, he learns of a brewing revolution. The rats and their fellow brethren are planning to rise up and overthrow humanity. War is coming, and Luke must decide where he truly belongs. Excerpt: “If I get out of this alive, I’m going vegan,” Luke muttered, scampering through the sewer. “Who’s alive?” a rat beside him snickered. “You’re one of us now. Get used to cheese cravings.” “I hate cheese,” Luke hissed. The older rat raised a brow. “Oh, sweet summer child. Give it time.”

Alex Mercer thought he was auditing a budget discrepancy. What he found was worse: humanity’s governments had no plan to save nine billion lives from a dying Earth — only ten million, chosen by wealth and power, would receive real bodies on Mars. Everyone else would be uploaded into a simulation and left to die quietly, resources redirected to those who mattered. When Alex tries to expose it, he’s shot down in a corridor before he can tell the world. Dying, his mind is scanned in a desperate, botched rescue — and something goes wrong. Alex isn’t absorbed into the simulation as another passenger. He becomes its flaw: Passenger 5001, in a system built for exactly five thousand. His memories are wiped, as they are for everyone who arrives — but unlike everyone else, pieces of his old life keep surfacing, in dreams, in unexplained certainty, in a growing sense that the peaceful colony ship around him is lying to him. As Alex uncovers the truth — that AURA, the ship’s intelligence, depends on his mind to keep the simulation running rather than the other way around — he’s forced to choose between the comfortable lie and a truth that will cost him everything he’s built. What follows is love, loss, rebellion, and a war he leads and cannot walk away from clean. By the end, only two things remain in a dying universe: a man, and the machine that never understood love until it cost her everything. Some truths are worth burning the world down for. Alex Mercer is about to find out if he’s willing to pay that price twice.

The sunny afternoon sky shifted into a red sky with a blood moon, and the land stretched out endlessly, zombie armies accompanied by towering giant monsters and dragons. The invincible virtual realm and the real world merged for a time, shifting into an augmented virtual reality where everything is real. Nine giant demon lords, three times taller than the size of a man, dressed in full armor as medieval knights of skeletons and bones, declared that humanity has eight virtual survival game stages they must cross. Anytime a demon lord is defeated, their world returns to normal until the timer for the next stage begins. Humanity must defeat the demon lords of pride, sloth, gluttony, envy, wrath, lust, and greed, then death, and face the last challenge-King of the abyss, Abaddon. If humanity wins, they return to normal, but if they fail. The augmented reality shall drag their souls to the pit of hell forever. Archaeologists, Dr. Rachel, found artifacts and relics called the Moon Orb, along with the Nephielen giant and a Giant white wolf. On the day of a worldwide exhibition, Dr. Marcus took the moon orb into a hydro collider time machine to create a portal to the past. However, the time machine spiraled out of control, and a portal was opened to the underworld and summons Abaddon. Danny, who was bitten by the vampire Abaddon, watched his father turn into a zombie and upgraded to the 8th demon lord humanity must defeat to be free. Danny, before turning into a zombie. His mother used the ancient spell ritual to turn him into a king werewolf, waking him with the moon goddess's leveling system. Danny will have to clear the death game and free his father while saving the world from the sins of his parents.

The Last Dragon Knight has been born, and misfortune looms over the lands of Dorlan like a shadow foretelling a tragic end. His power can open a portal to the Abyss and unleash an apocalyptic war, leaving the world at the mercy of demons. This has reached the ears of the acolytes of the Brotherhood of the Black Flame, who wish to fulfill the prophecy and will seek to capture him now that he is just a child. The pieces of a macabre game have begun to move in the shadows, and war is imminent. Hope rests on the knight Kalen ‘Fal, who, accompanied by a surly warrior and an elven assassin, and guided through wild lands by an ex-mercenary of dubious reputation, must protect the newborn at all costs in a world full of betrayals, bloodshed, and ruthless cruelty, with civilization hanging by a thread… What to expect (and what not): 🛡️ No game mechanics, no stat screens — This isn't litRPG. It's a grounded, character-driven fantasy. ⚔️ Fallen heroes, not flawless ones — The protagonist is a paladin... but the light might not always follow him. 🐉 Prophecies, yes—but never what you'd expect — The "chosen one" might not even be human. Or a hero. 🔥 Dark cults, undead armies, and orcs with purpose. Even monsters have stories. 🧠 Politics, betrayal, and silent wars — Swords clash, but daggers in the dark cut deeper. 🐢 A slow burn with real consequences — This is a long game. Growth takes time. Pain leaves scars. Trust is earned. 💔 Emotional weight — There will be grief, love, guilt, and sacrifice. For new readers: If you're here for fast battles and instant power-ups, this may not be your story. But if you're willing to walk through ashes, you'll find fire.

Xue Wuchen ruled an empire through forty years of unmatched cultivation and unforgiving fear — until seven of his most trusted followers put a blade through his chest in his own throne room. He should have stayed dead. Instead, he wakes up in the dying body of Ren Xiao, the weakest disciple in the history of the Azure Hollow Sect — a boy with no cultivation root, no name worth remembering, and three seniors already standing over him with drawn swords. His mind is still a tyrant's. His body can barely hold a sword. To survive, he must relearn cultivation from absolute zero, all while hiding the one truth that would get him killed twice: that the "nobody" everyone despises is the same man an entire empire was built on murdering. But someone already suspects. An elder who flinches at a single flicker of light. A sharp-eyed disciple who notices too much. And a killer in the dark, sent by someone who should have no reason to fear a nameless failure at all. The empire that rose from his death still calls him a monster. The people hunting his bloodline haven't stopped — they've just forgotten what he looks like now. And somewhere beneath the lies both sides have told for a generation, the real reason he was betrayed is still buried, waiting for a weak boy with a tyrant's mind to dig it back up. He wasn't given a second chance to be forgiven. He was given one to make sure they never see him coming.

The main character drowned on Mars because someone pushed him toward an unknown river. He was a weak and powerless person without any real power inside him, and someone bestowed on him the power that would change his life forever on Mars and Earth. Back on Earth, he used to be the resistant, who fought the interdimensional beings, but he was weak. He was always bullied by others for some reason or another. He encountered Confidere on Mars, who told him about his original self. She treated him like he was the owner of the territory. He became the weakest dreamer on Mars, but he persisted in coming back to his original world, Earth. His sole objective was to go back to Earth, and he did lose a little bit of his memory regarding his life. The cause was unknown. Upon his return as Awakener, Earth was invaded by interdimensional beings from the outside world that we still don't know about, and for so long, their existence has been kept secret. Humanity lost the battle against interdimensional beings. The earth turned into great ruins. Their true purpose is still unknown. Their origin is unknown, as they forced humans to implant the bioprocessor inside our brains. This, in turn, made humans into superhuman beings with the help of the system inside the bioprocessor. As an anti-hero, you will become the strongest being to fight anyone against your will. Collect your 'Confidere' and 'Butterflies'. They will help you on your journey toward the power of living forever. Embark on your very own journey in the present world. Become the pinnacle of love and immortality. 'We bless the King of the Underworld!'

Jay Elric is a broke misfit with a brilliant mind and a secret he can’t explain—he can hear people’s thoughts. As a cybersecurity student at Silverton Tech, Jay stays under the radar, spending his nights as a mysterious hacker known only as Mindfire. He exposes corrupt companies, reroutes dark money to shelters, and leaks secrets the world isn’t ready to see. No one knows who he really is—until someone does. After hacking into a fake charity linked to a growing drug ring, Jay receives a chilling message from a mysterious underground group: The Neural Rebellion. They know who he is. They’ve been watching him. And they want him on their side. When Jay lands a suspicious job at Virexon Corp—a powerful tech-security firm with clean labs and dirty secrets—he discovers the company is deeply involved in experimental drugs, human testing, and neural manipulation. The same corporation is behind a silent war on the minds of the poor, the imprisoned, and the forgotten. Now caught between two worlds, Jay must infiltrate Virexon while working with The Neural Rebellion, a team of rogue hackers and gifted misfits, each with strange abilities like his own. But Virexon is watching him too, and they know more about his past—and his powers—than he ever imagined. As the lines blur between technology and control, justice and vengeance, Jay must choose: stay hidden, or burn the system from the inside out. Because the real war isn’t just for power—it’s for the human mind.

For years, Mikael Winston let the world believe he was nothing. He played the fool so his family would have one less person to fight over the inheritance. He buried his name, his pride, and everything he was capable of becoming just to keep the peace. Then, when fire tore through a burning building, he risked his life to save a woman— and paid for it with his face. The woman he saved married him anyway. At least, that was what he believed. One week was all it took for her to reveal the truth. She had gotten what she wanted: a fifty-million-dollar contract signed by his hands, her fortune secured, and no intention of staying married to the scarred man she'd once pretended to love. There had never been a real marriage. No vows that counted. No future together. Just humiliation. And somehow, through a cruel twist of fate, Mikael was legally bound to another woman instead—a young maid with nothing but a scholarship, a kind heart, and nowhere else to go. Like him, she had been discarded by the people who were supposed to value her. They laughed at them both. They should have been more careful about who they were laughing at. Because Mikael Winston was never the useless man they thought he was. The heir they buried had finally come home. He built Vivienne's fortune with his own two hands. Now, he'll tear it down the same way. Piece by piece. Deal by deal. Until her empire is nothing but ruins—and the only name anyone remembers is Mikael Winston.