Reclusive Master

Bran Ferrow forges one forbidden blade — and wakes something that was never supposed to open its eyes again. He's seventeen. Orphaned. Bonded into a dead man's debt with nothing to his name but a hammer and a master who resents feeding him. He has no reason to think he's anything but ordinary — until the metal in his hands glows the color of a bruise, and something ancient answers. The blade he forges can wound the Wardens — beings that shouldn't be able to bleed at all. Within days, Bran becomes the most hunted person alive, and every faction wants control of what his hands can create. An order that's spent centuries burying a war. A faction that insists it never ended. Something older than both, watching from the dark. Worse than any of them: his own parents. His father hid the truth about that ore for nine years. His mother's name is buried in a sealed file beneath a word even the people who wrote it no longer understand. Ashkindred. Every blade Bran forges costs him something. A memory. A piece of himself. Gone the moment the metal takes what it needs. Everyone wants to own what he can make. But Bran has spent his entire life belonging to someone else. The only thing left to decide is what he'll let the iron take — and whether there'll be enough of him left to choose.

Ji Xuanyuan once stood at the pinnacle of the cultivation world. Revered as the greatest sword cultivator in history and a peerless Heavenly Sovereign, he possessed unmatched strength, unrivaled talent, and the respect of countless cultivators. Yet in the end, he was betrayed by the only two people he had ever trusted—his sworn brother and the woman he loved. Their reason? The Nameless Scripture. With a dagger through his heart, Ji Xuanyuan believed everything had come to an end. Instead... He opened his eyes in the body of Lin Wuchen, a notorious silk-pants young master whose name was synonymous with disgrace. His cultivation was mediocre, his reputation was in ruins, and his future had already been written off by the world. But fate had one final surprise. The Nameless Scripture had never been stolen. It had followed him through death itself. Within its endless pages lay the Nihility Dao Scripture, a cultivation art unlike any other—one that demanded the cultivator return everything to nothingness before walking a path beyond all known Daos. Armed with the sword mastery accumulated over a lifetime and a Dao capable of erasing all things, Ji Xuanyuan begins forging a power the world has never witnessed. A path where destruction gives birth to transcendence, and nothingness becomes the foundation of everything. This time, he will not merely reclaim the peak he once stood upon. He will surpass it. And those who betrayed him will learn that some debts can only be repaid... in blood.

I'm thankful that you freed me from that f**kin' mountain, but..." Axl finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly conflict between the protagonist and the villain. Due to his past, Axl finds himself entrenched in the villain's camp where he is assigned as a double agent to spy on the protagonist. The problem is that the protagonist is his older brother who had lived with him in the mountains for seven years! "What a wretched plot," Axl sighed as the realization of the dangerous game he had been pulled into. According to the plot in his memory, he only has a few chapters left as his identity will be revealed because of a certain moron, which will invite the wrath of the protagonist. Thinking of this, Axl couldn't help but feel a heart attack. There is no way to escape; he is trapped here. The villain camp background is simply too much for him to handle, and as for joining the protagonist camp, looking at how his master and senior brother treat him like a servant, he would rather die again rather than become someone's servant. "Never mind," he tells himself. let's take this one step at a time. I know the plot already, so I should be able to make it through. He resolves focus on surviving the conflict between the two opposing factions. Despite the odds, Axl believes in his abilities and feels confident that he can navigate the dangerous landscape.

Xiao Chen was born with an extraordinary talent and physique to become a peak martial artist. At the age of eight, Xiao Chen could memorize and remember all the martial arts techniques his parents taught him. At the age of nine, Xiao Chen could grasp the essence of certain techniques just by glancing at the fights of martial artists. However, that talent and intelligence met a tragic fate. His family was completely wiped out overnight. The Xiao Family's magnificent manor was reduced to rubble. Xiao Chen managed to survive after the Old Servant of the Xiao Family took him away. Although he survived and was able to live, Xiao Chen had been declared a useless piece of trash. The bandits who attacked the Xiao Family residence earlier had destroyed Xiao Chen's martial spirit. However, will Xiao Chen surrender to fate?! “No, I will avenge all this blood debt, even if it means my body is destroyed. If the river blocks me, I will cut the river. If the sky blocks me, I will tear down the sky!!!” ——— Self-Defense Level. 1. Body Forging Realm. 2. Martial Arts Student 3. Master level fighter 4. Grandmaster-level fighter 5. Earth Warrior 6. Sky Warrior/Heaven 7. Holy Warrior Only at the body forging level is it divided into nine levels. For the next level, each level is divided into three: beginning, middle, and peak/final.

What happens when a supernatural being escape from the hell prison into the mortal world? Will our main protagonist be able to capture it again? Will he be able to do it? One of the angelic beings and leaders to supervise all being in the universe, had the task of imprisoning the criminal and returning it to hell. But, it was impossible for a powerful angelic being to appear in the world due to the restrictions of power. So, he can only be reborn as a mortal. Following him was his twin and their pets but in the mortal world, the twins were separated with no memory as formal angels nor power. As for their pets, they can go and return between dimensions. Yet, as if the universe itself pity the mortal world, it gives birth to a powerful group of abilities with a medium to help the twins fight the hell criminal. But, to balance the world, under the hell criminal control, a human with dark abilities also appear. After 500 years... "Remember, Kairi. You're my brother. Although we're not blood-related, I have every right to protect you." - Rafiz "WE WELCOME OUR MASTER OF STELLARS!" - Pegasus Spirit. "I thought I have killed all the Knight Seeyer but... Clearly, I left one more..." - Dark Ries. "We have to take him to Syarantonia." - Agi "Oh star who is my slave... Destroy all obstacles that obscure my path! - Kairi "Searched for that boy. Do not let him live!" - Dark Revier "I think... I might have fallen in love with him. But, he is not an ordinary man." - Aries

In the Holy Oakhaven Empire, power is dictated by one's alignment with Aether the pristine celestial mana wielded by highborn mages and noble knights. Tristan Vance possesses an Aether alignment score of absolute zero. An orphan raised by a disgraced, disabled vanguard soldier, Tristan is tolerated at the Imperial Knight Academy only as a "Shield Bearer" A glorified cannon fodder meant to absorb spells for noble squires. For three years, Tristan endures systematic humiliation, culminating in a brutal betrayal when his aristocratic rival, Julian Vanguard, leaves him for dead during a staged scouting mission in the monster-infested Ashen Ravine. Bleeding out in the depths of the earth, Tristan’s mortal blood seeps into a buried, primordial ruin, awakening the Primordial Dragon God Bloodline. Instead of drawing from the sky's Aether, Tristan can now absorb the raw, chaotic energy of the earth and command the extinct terrors of the sky. To survive, Tristan must live a double life. By day, he returns to the empire, climbing the ranks of the Royal Knights as a seemingly "ordinary" martial fighter who defies magical logic. By night, he masterminds the liberation of forgotten territories, uncovers the corrupt rot of the Holy See, and raises a hidden legion of dragons. From a humiliated slave-soldier to the master of the skies, Tristan’s path is paved with the shattered reputations of those who looked down on him, ultimately forcing him to unite humans, elves, and dwarves against an oncoming Abyssal Invasion.

Dying is just data. Revenge is a 10-second delay. In a world ruled by powerful Hunter Guilds and the strict laws of the Hunter Association, Jaxen Vane was nothing more than an E-Rank laborer—disposable bait for corporate meat-grinders. Born with zero combat skills and a comatose sister to support, his only goal was survival. Until the day a routine dungeon raid turned into a deadly corporate cover-up. Trapped by mutated monsters and betrayed by his own vanguard, Jaxen accidentally triggers a late awakening. But his system isn't like the standard blue interfaces everyone else possesses. His is an anomaly—a glitched golden system that loads exactly ten seconds late. Whenever Jaxen suffers a fatal blow, his unique skill, Hindsight Bias, snaps his consciousness back exactly ten seconds into the past. He cannot outrun an A-Rank hunter, and he cannot overpower a C-Rank beast on raw stats alone. But with an endless loop of ten-second do-overs, he can memorize every strike, predict every trap, and turn his own brutal deaths into a flawless strategy board. Forced to hide his world-breaking ability from corrupt guilds, ruthless executives, and a high-ranking investigator who blackmails him into a shadow contract, Jaxen takes up a silver invitation to the National Hunter Academy. Hidden right under everyone's noses, the ultimate underdog begins to silently hoard stat points, master his broken system, and climb the ranks. They think he's just an unpolished gem with a Read button.

Three years after the Great Resonance shook the world, New York City has become a war zone. Skyscrapers have turned into monster-filled dungeons. Central Park has mutated into the Green Abyss. And the ancient bloodline families hidden for centuries now rule the city like ruthless kings. Kai Vance is a nobody. A broke bike courier with no pedigree, no power, and no future. Until the day a monster horde corners him and a calm, mechanical voice speaks in his mind: << Aura Ascendancy System initializing… >> Suddenly, Kai’s life is rewritten. The System grants him quests, perfect techniques, and refinement paths the elites spend years mastering. While noble heirs struggle to reach Level 11, Kai is being pushed toward the unimaginable Level 13. His rapid rise draws attention and danger. The Astors want to control him. The Guan Yu clan wants to recruit him. The Tammany underground wants him dead. And a dormant bloodline within him marked only as is awakening, one that terrifies even the oldest families. Worse, the monster attacks are becoming organized… almost intelligent. Earth itself seems to be evolving, and the noble families are ready to sacrifice the rest of humanity to survive. Armed with a System designed for the ordinary, Kai must master every refinement stage, rally the scattered System-Blessed, and fight through dungeons, beasts, and corrupt aristocrats to claim his destiny. From a nobody courier to the Demi-King of the city, Kai will rise and rewrite the fate of a reborn world.

Gabriel Hale had nothing but clothes on his back and the girl he’d die for. Living on the merciless streets of Chicago, he became the city’s most elusive thief all to save his dying girlfriend, Vera. Every stolen wallet, every dangerous heist and every close call with death was worth it if it meant one day with her. When a shadowy organization offers him ten million dollars to steal the legendary Phoenix Heart artifact from the heavily guarded Siegel family vault, Gabriel knows it is suicide, but for Vera’s life-saving surgery, he would walk through hell itself. He never expected hell to follow him back. Betrayed, broken and left for dead after the ancient artifact fused with his soul, Gabriel awakens three days later to discover the cruelest truth. Vera was never sick. Every sacrifice, every crime and every drop of blood he had shed was all for a lie. Now, with the Phoenix Heart’s power burning through his veins, Gabriel will rise from the ashes of his former life. The streets that once crushed him will kneel. The city that forgot him will remember and the woman that shattered his heart will beg for the love she threw away. He was Gabriel, the nobody. Now, he will become Gabriel the Untouchable. The last heir of a forgotten empire and master of an ancient power that should have stayed buried.

Twenty years ago, nine heroes across the world fought the Monarch of Oblivion, a Godlike being who sought to erase humanity. Among them were Korea’s Han Seojin and Lee Mirae, one of the strongest of their generation. The Monarch fell, but his final words promised doom: “When the Monarch of Calamity returns, he will awaken the others. When peace blinds you… they will remind you of fear.” To the world, the heroes claimed victory and founded the World Hero School Competition, a global system said to train future defenders. In truth, it was a hidden plan created to find those capable of resisting the Monarchs when they ever rise again. Years later, their second child Han Jiwoo lives a quiet life in Seoul — unaware of his parents’ past or the secret buried within him. During his Awakening, his mana fractures the test crystal, revealing an impossible result: Dual-Class — Combat and Unknown. Unknown… the same signature as the Monarch of Oblivion's core but known to no one other than his parents and headmaster. Sent to Eclipse Academy, a once-glorious school now fallen from prestige, Jiwoo becomes the center of attention — admired, doubted, and watched. But when a fateful duel pushes him to the brink, his second power awakens, and within his consciousness, a forgotten voice speaks once more. Bound to the Monarch who once threatened humanity, Jiwoo must master the power that defies gods while forging his own path between light and void.