Shadow Author

After surviving the massacre of his family as a child, Michael Walter vanishes from the city and is secretly taken into a brutal underground military organization known as “Black Vanguard,” where abandoned children are trained into living weapons. Michael rises beyond every expectation. He conquers criminal empires. Ends wars. Destroys syndicates. Builds unimaginable wealth. Gains followers who worship him like a god. But revenge never leaves his heart. Years later, Michael returns to the city where his family was betrayed and murdered. Beneath the calm mask of an ordinary man, he begins dismantling powerful families one by one.

Kael Veyron was never destined to become a legend. In a world where supernatural abilities decide strength and status, Kael is a D-rank hunter whose Shadow Manipulation lasts only twelve seconds. Nobody expects greatness from him except Elara Whitmore, his childhood friend and the woman he secretly loves. During a dangerous gate mission, a monster far beyond its rank overwhelms his team and leaves Elara unconscious. Kael sacrifices himself to buy his teammates time to escape. As death closes in, he whispers two final words: "Second Chance." Hours later, he wakes in a hospital, remembering his death but unable to explain his survival. Then a voice speaks inside his mind: [SHADOW ASCENSION SYSTEM ACTIVATED.] The system gives him missions, rewards, and a separate training world where his powers can grow. Alongside his evolving Shadow Manipulation, Kael discovers Lightning Manipulation, an ability tied to the legendary Heavenly Sovereigns who vanished centuries ago. After defeating a monster, he turns it into his first elite shadow soldier. The ancient knight kneels before him and says, "My king, I have finally found you." Kael has never met him before. As gates spread across the world, Kael uncovers traces of forgotten civilizations, missing system hosts, and an ancient ruler called the Shadow King. Elara awakens a hidden Memory Restoration ability that recovers secrets erased by supernatural forces. One forbidden memory reveals that Kael's resurrection was never supposed to happen. Behind the apocalypse waits the Void Monarch, an ancient ruler whose power threatens worlds. The system insists Kael must grow strong enough to defeat it, but its secrets hint at another purpose. With enemies closing in and his shadow army growing, Kael must uncover the truth behind his second chance before humanity falls. Was he chosen to save the world, or awaken something far more dangerous?

Arthur thought he was just a regular guy until his own uncle tried to stab him in a high-rise office building. Suddenly, Arthur wakes up with strange shadow powers and a target on his back. Hunted by a magical police officer with lightning in her hands and trapped inside a glowing purple dome that covers all of New York City, Arthur has to figure out who he really is. But every secret he uncovers changes everything, and the biggest shock of all is that his entire life might just be a trick.

In a world governed by the Beast Pact, your worth is determined by the glow of a testing sphere. For Kaelen, the sphere remained dim, marking him as an E-rank "scumbag." While others bonded with majestic dragons, Kaelen was chosen by a "defective" shadow-beast that the world deemed a death sentence. Mocked by his family and betrayed by his fiancé, Kaelen is left to rot in a sabotaged dungeon. But deep in the darkness, the "defect" speaks. It isn't a beast—it is the Void Sovereign, and it doesn't want to fight beside Kaelen; it wants to become him. After years of agonizing training in the world’s most hellish dungeons, Kaelen returns. He is no longer the weakling they trampled. He is tattered, scarred, and hiding a power that could devour the world. When the elite try to kneel him again, they will realize they aren't facing a mage—they are facing the end of their era.

The Guardian and the Archon: The Cursed Shadow In the city of Tenebrous, where magic converge, a young apprentice named Kael Darkhaven discovers he's the chosen one, destined to unravel the mysteries of the elusive shadow. The dark entity known only as Umbra or the devourer has haunted the city for years, leaving chaos and destruction in its wake. As Kael delves deeper into the mysteries of Umbra, he uncovers a web of secrets and lies that threaten his very existence. Guided by his enigmatic mentor, Caleb Thorne, Kael must navigate the treacherous world of Tenebrous, where powerful corporations and organizations wield control. With stakes escalating, Kael faces a maelstrom of forces vying for control of Umbra's power. The Archon, a mysterious figure shrouded in shadow, seems to manipulate the strings from behind the scenes, but their true intentions remain unknown. At every turn, Kael edges closer to the truth, yet the shadows deepen, and the line between reality and illusion blurs. Can he triumph over the darkness within and without, or will the shadow consume him, forever trapping Tenebrous in eternal darkness? I attest that "The Guardian and the Archon: The Cursed Shadow" is an original work, and any similarities to existing works are unintentional.

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.

My name is Zane, and I am just a poor boy from the Mainland slums. To keep my little sister, Kemi, alive, I trusted the richest magic guild in the city. I thought they were going to cure her sickness. Instead, they used me. They strapped my sister to a machine to tear a legendary power source called the Calamity Core straight out of her chest. When I tried to save her, they broke my bones and left me to die on a freezing hospital floor. But I didn't die. A blue digital screen popped up in front of my eyes, granting me a forbidden power: sovereign necromancy. Now, every monster I kill and every corrupt billionaire I crush must stand up and join my shadow army. The rich think they own this city behind their high concrete walls. But I am coming for them with an army of the dead, and I will make every single elite bleed for what they did to my family.

For seventeen years, Kael Ashryn has lived as an outcast in the Kingdom of Valenor. Branded the "Cursed Child" after his parents died under mysterious circumstances, he is blamed for every tragedy that befalls his village. Shunned, ridiculed, and denied every chance to prove himself, Kael clings to the hope that one day he will earn the acceptance he has always longed for. That hope is destroyed when a sacred relic vanishes from the royal vault. Framed by fabricated evidence and abandoned by everyone he trusted, Kael is convicted of treason and sentenced to a public execution. As he awaits death, an ancient seal buried beneath the execution platform suddenly responds to his blood, awakening the long-forgotten Shadow Monarch Core. The execution grounds erupt into chaos as living shadows slaughter the soldiers, allowing Kael to escape. Branded the greatest threat to humanity, Kael becomes the target of a continent-wide manhunt. Royals, powerful nobles, secret organizations, and mysterious cults all seek to capture him, each hiding motives tied to a forgotten past. While struggling to control his terrifying new abilities, Kael uncovers the truth behind history's greatest lie: the legendary Shadow Monarch was never a tyrant but a hero who sacrificed everything to imprison the ancient Void Sovereign. Joined by unlikely allies—warriors, scholars, mercenaries, and mages burdened with secrets of their own—Kael discovers that his parents were guardians of the ancient seal and that his entire life was orchestrated by those who feared his true heritage. Yet every new power he gains strengthens the whispers of darkness within him, threatening to consume his humanity. As kingdoms fall into war and ancient monsters awaken, Kael must master the shadows without surrendering to them. To save the continent from a returning nightmare, he must uncover the truth before history repeats itself.

(Completed!) Driven to suicide by a draconian contract, Murphy dies as a failed author in a dystopian society overtaken by AI. Luckily, he gets to redo his last seven years, accompanied by a System and uncanny dreams from the future! In a bid to avoid past's woes, he undertakes a quest to find 7 Numen Codes, the key to changing his story!

Behind the opulence of the Mediterranean coast, Matthew Valdes is a dangerous anomaly. Born with prosopagnosia, face blindness, he does not perceive people as individuals, but as patterns of geometric data, centers of gravity, and breathing rhythms that he calls the "Ares System." Yet his brilliance comes at a devastating cost. Every time he pushes the system to its limits, his brain suffers a neurological overload that could leave him permanently paralyzed or irreversibly blind. The brutal murder of his mother at the hands of a professional assassination unit forces Matthew back into the wolf's den that cast him out, the Valdes Dynasty. There, he is not welcomed as the rightful heir, but as a legal instrument meant to salvage the clan's dying empire. Standing in his way is Rodrigo, his strategically brilliant sociopathic uncle, who has prepared a trap behind every legal move Matthew makes. This is not merely a physical war. It is lawfare, a battlefield where every signature is a bullet and every contract is a noose. Matthew will lose the people who remain loyal to him. He will be forced to crawl across the ground with blood in his mouth. Until he realizes one undeniable truth. To defeat a monster, he must become the faceless ruler of the shadows, a man without a face, yet with the world beneath his feet.