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Ryan Carter has always been ordinary—weak, overlooked, and struggling to find his place. But when a near-fatal attack awakens the strange pendant his late mother left behind, Ryan unlocks a hidden power that shatters his ordinary life forever. In a world where mystic energy is returning after centuries of silence, ancient clans and secret families are waging war in the shadows. To them, Ryan is no longer invisible—he’s a threat, and his pendant is the prize they all seek. As Ryan learns to harness his abilities, he uncovers dangerous truths: his mother once belonged to a powerful mystic bloodline, his sister Olivia carries a rare gift that could reshape the future, and betrayal waits even among those who claim to guide him. From a bullied student to a rising mystic, Ryan must fight, grow, and endure. But with every battle, the line between friend and enemy blurs, and one question haunts him— Is he destined to save this world… or destroy it?

In the first apocalypse timeline, he trusted the wrong people, gave away what little he had, and was betrayed when food became more valuable than human life. Death came quietly—without heroism, without meaning. Then time rewound. Kyle wakes minutes before the world collapses, reborn with all his memories intact—and a system no one else possesses: the Infinite Supplies System. Food. Water. Weapons. A private Paradise Space untouched by ruin. But abundance comes with a rule carved in cold logic: nothing is free. Supplies can only be unlocked through Emotional Function Points. As cities fall and boys’ survivor zones are wiped out, a sealed girls’ campus becomes an island of desperation. Kyle alone can move freely through the apocalypse. He doesn’t force obedience. He waits. Hunger does the work. Cleaning earns meals. Labor earns water. Emotion—fear, shame, gratitude, desire—determines how much. Six girls stand at the center of this fragile balance: a campus beauty hiding terror behind smiles, an ice-cold strategist who refuses to beg, a fallen heiress desperate to reclaim control, an arrogant provocateur who thrives on chaos, a kind healer who sacrifices herself too easily, and a hardened survivor who refuses to be owned. Between them, alliances form and fracture. Submission becomes strategy. Strategy becomes betrayal. Kyle’s relationships with them are never simple. He is their provider, their ruler, their shield—and, increasingly, their moral problem. As the system rewards cruelty more efficiently than kindness, Kyle begins to realize a terrifying truth: the system doesn’t care about survival. It cares about consumption. When outside survivor factions finally make contact and the system escalates beyond Kyle’s control, he is forced to choose—declare himself sovereign over a starving world, or challenge the very system that keeps everyone alive. And the system is already watching how he decides.

Ethan Cole vanished from the city eight years ago, leaving only the stories of a man who had run the streets from the shadows. Now thirty-two, he lives in a lonely street, keeping his younger brother Noah safe from a world he no longer trusted. But when Noah is kidnapped by thesame people he once trusted his life with, Ethan is dragged back into the underworld he swore he’d left behind. Every betrayal is a test of his lethal precision and to save his brother, Ethan must outwit syndicates, assassins, and old allies who had now turned into enemies.

Kang Min-joon's life is measured in debt. Forty-two million won inherited from a dead father, growing larger every day despite his endless work. When a strange app appears on his phone, it offers an impossible deal: complete deadly tasks in a nightmare dimension, or watch his younger brother suffer the same fate. But the app comes with a twisted gift that makes every conversation a minefield. His lies reshape reality itself, while speaking truth tears him apart from the inside. In a world where honesty can kill and deception becomes law, Min-joon must learn to weaponize his words, survive creatures that shouldn't exist, and discover why he was chosen before the next task claims his life.

In a world devoured by monstrous hordes every fifty years, Zhilak Marston, heir to Eryndor’s ruling family, is brutally betrayed when his system test fails, stripped of everything by his wicked kin and lover. From the brink of death, the unstable Omnixir awakens—a chaotic power lost for centuries, starting weak and demanding perilous trials to unlock its godlike might. Hunted by sadistic antagonists like the cult leader Veyra and treacherous Riven, Zhilak, allied with the fierce Elysia, battles invaders and wraiths while antagonists steal his victories. Each level's strength comes at a cost—will Zhilak overcome his frailty to claim vengeance, or will wicked foes shatter him forever? A gripping saga of dark betrayal, sensual peril, and a weak hero's desperate rise.

Elias Cross was only nineteen when his life was stolen. Recruited for a robbery rigged to fail, he was abandoned at the scene as police swarmed, left to take the fall for a crime he didn’t plan. He was served thirty years but Elias refused to settle. Outside, Marcus the man who destroyed his life thrived, convinced his control was absolute but Elias escaped after five years and he returned not as a pawn, but as a storm waiting to strike. A high-stakes hijacking presents the perfect opportunity for the reckoning he’s been planning for years. What Marcus never realized is that the loyalty he demanded could be turned into a weapon. And this time, the one he thought he controlled holds all the cards.

Noah Vale was framed, erased, and killed by the people he loved and trusted the most. He wakes up ten years earlier with his memories intact and a system that exposes future betrayals. Every trap he avoids creates new enemies, and every choice tightens the net. This time, survival is not enough. The system that killed him is watching, and the next betrayal will be fatal.

The Formidable System: Alex Cole secret heir. SYNOPSIS Ethan Cole, once a nobody ridiculed by his fiancée Lily, discovers through a mysterious System that he is in fact the secret heir of Alexander Cole, CEO of the global tech empire Cole Consortium. Humiliated publicly at a banquet and abandoned by those he thought loved him, Ethan becomes determined to rise above his broken past. The System begins training him in discipline, self-worth, and confidence, first through physical conditioning with Grayson, an old-school boxing coach, and later in the penthouse gym under Jonathan’s guidance. This training doesn’t turn Ethan into a soldier but prepares him mentally and physically to stand tall as the man destined to inherit an empire. Meanwhile, shadows move in the background. Ethan is stalked by men loyal to Wilson Flake, CEO of rival tech giant Orbitway and longtime enemy of Alexander Cole. Unknown to Ethan at first, Wilson is also Daniel’s father — Daniel being Lily’s new fiancé. Wilson, who has long tried and failed to take over Cole Consortium, sees Ethan’s sudden rise as a new threat. As Ethan grows in confidence, he begins making waves in the industry. Deals once meant for Orbitway are redirected to Cole Consortium, with whispers that Ethan’s involvement is the reason. Wilson, furious, summons Daniel and begins plotting ways to assess Ethan’s intelligence personally. During a lavish dinner party organized by Daniel under Wilson’s orders, Ethan attends — warned by Jonathan to be careful. There, he runs into Lisa Roman, his ex-girlfriend from school who is now a successful fashion CEO. Old flames reignite, much to Lily’s shock. Lily mocks Ethan at first, only to be devastated when she discovers he is Alexander Cole’s heir.

Once, he was a god, the God of Excess. Now, stripped of his divinity and thrown into the mortal world, he woke up in a dump with broken memories and loose change in his pocket. Pennies. A nickel. One ten-dollar bill. He thought he was poor, until a single penny made a grown man kneel and offer up everything he owned. The System was broken. In this world, money meant power. A penny bought a mansion. A dollar bought a city. And he had ten. He wanted food. The world chose war.

Adira was denied in most of the schools because of her long list record of reasons to be kicked out. Because of that, she stopped going to school and started to build the game station of her brother who disappeared years ago. The modern world evolved so fast that technologies have outdated in a short period of time. And that includes the virtual technology that her genius brother built. Not to mention, her brother’s game brought almost all the users of the said game in their country in a coma. That lead the government to shut it down. She studied everything that her brother wrote in his journal and succeeded in building it again. Just when she started playing, her eyes opened at the amazing virtual world. There she met a few friends of her brother and found out that they were stuck at the game for many years. And unfortunately, it was not a fun game to play. It was not just a virtual reality game. It was a game to kill or be killed.