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At 11:57 p.m., every adult in Meridian City receives a countdown. When it reaches zero, the implanted System will stop their heart. Completing assigned missions earns time. Failing them costs it. A privileged few seem to have centuries. Everyone else has hours. Elias Venn has spent years hauling injured people out of the city’s condemned districts. He knows how to save lives without asking whether the patient deserves it. Then someone empties his time account while he is carrying a stranger to safety. With barely three minutes left to live, Elias accepts a hunter contract and learns a terrifying rule: the System pays more for a confirmed kill than a living capture. His first target holds evidence that time can be stolen from registered citizens. Worse, the theft is tied to Mara, Elias’s younger sister, whose own countdown has begun to collapse. Each level Elias gains opens a new route through a city divided into lethal missions, restricted districts, hunter rankings, and hidden administrative permissions. But greater strength brings greater temptation: he can buy time for Mara only by risking his own life—or taking it from someone else. An ex-System auditor named Tessa Rook offers him access to the records everyone wants destroyed. She distrusts hunters, and Elias has every reason to distrust the institution she once served. Their uneasy partnership deepens as they uncover a chain of contracts leading toward the people who designed the countdown. When a new mission appears offering Elias the hours he desperately needs, its target is not a criminal. The name on the execution order is someone he swore he would protect. And the System has already started the timer.

🔥 The System awakened when the world ended. When a lightning strike nearly kills him, Marsel unlocks the Aethel Protocol System—a mysterious power that drags him into a deadly, game-like reality. With monsters rising and the undead swarming the city, he must follow the System’s commands, level up fast, and uncover the truth behind its real purpose. Because somewhere in the shadows, a powerful being is coming… the Shadow Queen, destroyer of worlds. Now Marsel must decide: Will he become humanity’s savior, or just another pawn in a cosmic war?

Adrian Kaine was once the deadliest operative in Shadow Unit, a black-ops division buried so deep in the government that most agents never lived long enough to speak of it. But when a mission in Kargath Province turned into a massacre, Adrian became the sole survivor, then the government’s most wanted traitor. His squad was slaughtered. Evidence was planted. His name was erased. And those who orchestrated the betrayal made sure he was declared dead. They miscalculated. Eighteen months later, Adrian resurfaces as a ghost in the ruins of his old headquarters, hunting for the truth buried beneath the ashes. But he is not the only one searching. Marcus Hale, his former teammate and supposed friend, now leads a covert kill team tasked with eliminating him. Above Marcus sits Colonel Mason Kade, the official who signed the order that condemned Adrian’s entire squad. And watching all of them from the shadows is a faceless mastermind known only by a single encrypted codename: Cipher. As Adrian follows a trail of classified leaks, dead operatives, and impossible coincidences, he uncovers a horrifying secret: a covert plan known as the Ashen Protocol, designed to rewrite the balance of global power—using bodies like his as the foundation stones. But the deeper he digs, the more the truth twists around him. Old allies hide new agendas. Enemies speak with familiar voices. And the real traitor may be closer than he has ever imagined. Hunted by governments, mercenaries, and a ghost from his past, Adrian must become something colder than a soldier and deadlier than a weapon. He must become the nightmare they tried to bury. And this time… he’s not the one running.

APOCALYPSE REBORN: THE DOOMSDAY ARCHIVE Seven days. That was all Ethan Cole had left before the world descended into hell. In his first life, he trusted the wrong people. His wife betrayed him and traded him and their son for supplies . His best friend stabbed him in the back. And when the apocalypse turned humanity into desperate monsters, the people he risked everything to protect abandoned him to die. But death wasn’t the end. Ethan wakes up seven days before the apocalypse, carrying the memories of a future drenched in blood and something new has awaken : The Doomsday Archive. A mysterious system containing knowledge of the coming catastrophe, hidden supplies in a hidden city,evolutionary secrets, and threats humanity hasn’t even begun to understand. This time, Ethan won’t be the helpless fool who begs for mercy. He will stockpile supplies, claim resources before the world discovers their value and save himself and his son from dying again As civilization collapses, Ethan plans on using the Archive for his own benefits and carry out his revenge But the Archive has secrets of its own. Why does it contain records of apocalypses that happened before humanity existed? Why are some of its predictions changing? And why does it seem to know things about Ethan that even he doesn’t remember? The apocalypse is coming but this time….Ethan has a plan .

In his past life, Leonidas Vance was the Supreme Marshal of the Northern Front—a commoner who fought his way to the pinnacle of military command, only to be betrayed and executed by the corrupt Solar Emperor during the Great Demon Siege. Opening his eyes 10 years in the past, Leonidas finds himself back in his 18-year-old body: a disgraced, mana-less cadet exiled to the bleak Frostpeak Fortress. But this time, he didn't return alone. Bound to his soul is the Interstellar Sovereign Arsenal—a military system connecting him to the automated weaponry, orbital drop pods, and ballistic technology of an advanced sci-fi civilization. While arrogant noble mages rely on slow incantations and sword saints boast of bladed aura, Leonidas arms his starving garrison with armor-piercing assault rifles, anti-materiel sniper rifles, and heavy artillery. In a world where magic reigns supreme, the Reborn General is about to teach the empire that nothing breaks a spell barrier faster than a high-caliber round.

Centuries after the old world fell, humanity survives inside massive fortress-cities ruled by the awakened. In Arkenfall, power determines status, and the weak are forgotten. Darius Veyne was born into one of the city's twelve great bloodlines. He was expected to become a powerful warrior, but everything changed when his parents were mysteriously murdered and Darius failed to awaken. Stripped of his inheritance and rejected by his family, Darius was treated as a broken heir, a disgrace unworthy of the Veyne name. Forced into the city's lowest districts, he learned to survive among criminals, scavengers, and forgotten outcasts. Then, beneath the ruins of the old world, he discovers a sealed power known as the Devouring Core an evolution ability that allows him to absorb the essence of awakened beings, analyze their abilities, and evolve beyond them. For the first time, Darius has the power to change his fate. But his parents' deaths were no accident. The truth leads directly to the powerful bloodlines ruling Arkenfall, families who have controlled the city for generations through fear, secrets, and bloodshed. They buried his past. They destroyed his family. Now the broken heir has returned. And this time, he is coming for everything they took from him.

Thrown into a savage world with nothing but a tattered tunic, a rusty sword, and a mysterious RPG-like Character Sheet, Rob must fight, bleed, and survive to uncover the secrets of Ixatan. Every step brings death, disease, and monsters that defy imagination—and each victory comes at a painful cost. With his strength, wits, and will tested to the breaking point, Rob must learn fast: in a land where life is measured in Levels, only the relentless survive… and even then, the true battle may be within.

In his past life, Maximus Cobain was the world’s foremost actuarial statistician and a pathological completionist gamer. He didn’t read people; he read numbers, probabilities, and patterns. When a fatal accident transmigrates his consciousness into the brutally battered body of a debt-slave in the martial-ruled Sun-Forged Empire, Maximus wakes up in a world where physical strength is the only law. There is no magic here. No gods. No mystical energy. Only Somatic Mastery—the grueling, scientific peak of human biomechanics, breath control, and lethal martial arts. With his brain struggling to process the trauma of transmigration, Maximus’s mind fractures and rebuilds reality into the only framework he understands: a video game. He possesses no magical AI and no supernatural cheat. Instead, his savant-like intellect constructs a mental "Heads-Up Display"—gamifying his reality, calculating the physics of a punch, charting the biochemistry of herbs, and breaking down elite martial arts into grindable "Skill Trees." He will survive the fighting pits. He will climb the ranks of the martial nobility. He will exploit the physics of this brutal world to the absolute limit. Maximus Cobain is going to reach the apex of human evolution, and he is going to do it exactly as he pleases.

Betrayed by his wife, framed for plagiarism, and blacklisted from the culinary world he loved, Killian Quin hits rock bottom—until a deadly ancient system resurrects him with one unbreakable rule: Spend or die.

Damon Sterling died knowing exactly who betrayed him. His parents were murdered. His family was destroyed. His brothers were slaughtered. And when humanity finally faced extinction, Damon died alone after watching the world he failed to protect collapse around him. Then he opened his eyes. Three days before the apocalypse. His enemies are still alive. His brothers are still breathing. His parents' killers haven't made their move yet. And Damon remembers everything. This time, he won't waste a second grieving. He'll gather the men who once died for him, drain every resource he can get his hands on, build an impregnable sanctuary, awaken an army of Divine Tattoo Envoys, and destroy every traitor before they can betray him. But Damon has returned with something more terrifying than his memories. A mysterious mark between his brows. A mark capable of copying the powers of other Divine Tattoo Envoys, controlling objects with telekinesis, and absorbing the energy of the world itself. Unfortunately, his nine forbidden tattoos are too powerful for his body to awaken safely. So Damon has two days to prepare. Two days to build an army. Two days to settle his debts. Two days to become something the coming apocalypse cannot kill. The world thinks it has three days before the end. Damon Sterling knows it has three days before his empire begins.