Shadow Slave

Lin Jiang, a young man stripped of talent after the inner pathways of his body were shattered by the blast of a nearby battle. From that day forward, scorn and humiliation became the only road left to him. His life was steeped in suffering—cast out by his family, branded as worthless, treated as nothing more than refuse. Endless torment defined his existence. But one fateful day, Lin Jiang fell into the abyss of death. That descent marked the beginning of a new life. Within the depths of that deadly chasm, what awaited him? The Sword of the Dark Emperor—an artifact of shadow and ruin. Yet for a mortal child, it was also the first step toward the path of light.

When a great warrior Marcus Steele was summoned from an ancient training ground to fulfill a centuries-old pact, he was thrust into the heart of Manhattan’s supernatural underworld, and into some sort of an arranged union witha beautiful and great Diana Sterling, heir to a powerful dynasty. But fate has other plans. A great chance to encounter with the Moon family dragged Marcus into such a deadly clash of bloodlines, many secrets, and a shadow of demons. All armed with the legendary blade of some Shadowbane and a mysterious amulet burning with forgotten power, Marcus must uncover the truth about his own origin before the city consumes him. For a buried past of lies, a force that could either unite or definitely destroy the supernatural.

The silence of death was the last thing Kaelen remembers. He opens his eyes in a realm of jagged iron and suffocating magic, trapped inside a body that belongs to a dead man. A voice in his head, cold and precise, tells him he is chosen for greatness. It promises him the power to conquer gods, provided he is willing to pay the price. The system is a lie. Every monster he kills and every skill he unlocks requires him to trade a memory for power. He starts as a nameless slave, climbing the ranks in a world that thrives on cruelty. With each level, he feels his conscience dissolving, turning him into the very thing he despises. The terrifying truth hits him when he realizes his predecessor was murdered by the same civilization he is currently fighting to save. He is the ultimate weapon for a world that deserves to burn. Now, Kaelen faces a final, impossible choice. He can become the hero the system demands, or he can destroy the game, even if it means dying a second time.

Arthur Pendelton and Lyra Vance are troubled teens who escape their strict boarding school through a giant wardrobe, only to fall into Eldoria. This is no fairy tale. It is a brutal, racist world where Arthur is immediately attacked by a shadow monster. On the brink of death, a sarcastic LitRPG system awakens in his vision to keep him alive. Saved by a foul-mouthed, drunk weasel named Bramble, they are dragged to Ignis Academy. There, they befriend a cowardly boy named Finn and a cynical elf prince named Kaelen. However, corrupt academy elites betray them, opening the gates for the dark entity Malakor. During the slaughter, Finn dies a brutal death to save Lyra. The tragedy completely shatters Arthur's innocence. His system disables his moral limits, turning him into a cold-blooded predator out for revenge. The group sets out to hunt the Shards of Dawn, ancient crystals meant to summon a savior god. Their bloody journey forces them to fight dwarf cartels, survive mind-bending swamps, and orchestrate political assassinations. But after barely surviving a massive war, they uncover a sickening truth. The savior god is actually a psychopathic tyrant who loves committing mass genocide. Refusing to choose between two evil gods, the group launches a suicide assault on Malakor's fortress. While Kaelen and Bramble hold off millions of shadow troops, Arthur and Lyra climb Mount Zenith. Facing Malakor, Arthur makes an insane choice. He shatters the Shard with his bare hands, absorbs its raw energy, and sacrifices his own sanity to brutally tear the dark god apart from the inside. With Eldoria finally at peace, Arthur and Lyra step back through the portal. They return to Earth at the exact second they left, looking like ordinary students but hiding the dark souls of ruthless predators.

Behind Rayendra Wardiana's ordinary life, there is a dark secret about the inheritance of blood and grudge. Since childhood, Rayendra lived in the shadow of the death of his father, Widyo, the legendary cartel leader who was tragically killed before his eyes. The trauma of that night gave birth to Andrean, another personality who existed to protect Rayendra from a violent world. Slowly secret after secret revealed. About the betrayal of Wandi, his own uncle; about Madam, his father's ex-wife who is thirsty for power; to the great war that shook the domestic cartel world. In a world full of blood, intrigue, and power, the Wardiana family is forced to face the bitter truth that tests their bond.

A desperate old man called to Dylan Carter that he has a job for him and that he should portray as his son. The man left him to either amass great wealth as the leader of the Dorogon consortium and be buried under the weight of his gold as a Dorogon or stay a nobody taunted by the Bowen family that he's married into. In the bidding game, a new empire mysterious to everyone turned the table, unknown to everyone, Dylan in the Bowen family where he means nothing but an eyesore is the anonymous head of the consortium and with such wealth inherited he acts behind the shadow taking revenge on those that underrated him while executing his contract to the Dorogon. Dylan Carter is on a path of survival, revenge and leaving no chances untaken.

For sixteen years, Dr. Ethan Reynolds was the devoted husband living in the shadow of his superstar wife, Chloe Jenner. He gave up his own career ambitions to support her rise to fame and help raise their teenage daughter. Then three words on a laboratory report shatter his world: No biological relationship. After sixteen years of betrayal, Ethan demands a divorce. But Chloe refuses to let her carefully built image crumble. She resorts to threats, manipulation, and desperate cover-ups to keep the truth from coming out. As powerful people scramble to protect her multimillion-dollar empire, Ethan realizes the truth runs far deeper than a secret affair—and that almost everyone around him is lying.

For three years, Ethan Cole let the Whitfield family believe he was nothing a jobless, spineless live-in son-in-law good only for chores and silence. What they never learned: Ethan quietly ran Cole Dynamics, a global tech empire, from a laptop in their guest room. When Gerald Whitfield forces a humiliating divorce to seal a merger, Ethan signs without a fight and disappears. He doesn't come back to beg. He comes back to collect. One by one, the people who spent three years underestimating him the father-in-law who discarded him, the brother-in-law who sabotaged him, the rivals who laughed at him learn exactly whose empire they've been standing in the shadow of.

For two years, Adrian Reid played the role of Elysia Harris's replacement boyfriend. He thought that, with time, Elysia would change and finally see him as Adrian, not as a shadow of her dead ex. Sincerely, quietly, he helped Elysia build her dreams from behind the scenes. But on graduation day, she cast him aside. They all laughed at him as an orphan and a poor florist. Also, they accused Adrian of being a liar who dared to reach above his station. They mocked him without knowing that behind his simple flower shop, Adrian held a secret that would make international elites kneel and beg for his help. Now, it's their turn to beg and regret.

Gabriel is the world’s biggest fan of DEMON BATTLE and not just the sport itself but a specific DEMON BATTLE fighter called KILLER JOE. What he dreams for is to become the best DEMON BATTLE fighter like his idol KILLER JOE. Unfortunately, what is he expected to accomplish in a sport only meant for people known as Powered Humans who possess unnatural superpowers as a regular human himself who writes under the shadow of his very powerful elder sister, Leah, who is a Powered Human. The internal conflict is one he has to live with for the rest of his life but one fateful day is forced to answer when he comes home. But Demons Battle called him not in the way he wanted.