Squid Game Deok Su

The Mana Apocalypse shattered civilization overnight. Portals ripped open across Earth, unleashing monsters, dungeons, and magical energy into the world. Fifteen percent of humanity awakened extraordinary abilities, becoming Hunters the new celebrities of mankind. They conquered dungeons, signed billion-dollar sponsorships, amassed millions of followers, and lived like gods. The remaining eighty-five percent? They were left behind. Among them was Johnny , a broke college student struggling to survive while watching the awakened dominate every aspect of society. Everything changed after a ridiculous accident triggered an ancient unstable System unlike anything the world had ever seen. The Celebrity Hunter System. Unlike every other Hunter, Johnny doesn't grow stronger simply by killing monsters, his true source of power is fame. Every follower increases his attributes. Every viral moment grants experience. Every headline unlocks new abilities. Every fan strengthens his mana. He must conquer the world of adult content.The larger his influence becomes, the more terrifying his power grows. As Johnny rises from an unknown nobody to the most recognizable face on Earth, he uncovers a secret the Hunter Association has buried for decades. The strongest Hunters were never famous because they were powerful... They became powerful because they controlled the world's attention. Now, with rival celebrities, corrupt guilds, dungeon monarchs, and beings from beyond the portals standing in his way, Johnny must dominate not only the battlefield but the entire entertainment industry. Because in the new world... Fame is the strongest magic of all.

BLURB Alex had everything. A father’s name, a company built with his blood, and a home that was supposed to be his forever. Until Victoria came. In 48 hours, his entire world collapsed. His father died. The will left him with nothing. His name was dragged through the news for a fraud he never committed. And the only house left in his name became a trap with cops waiting at the door. He ran hrough empty streets, through the night, through a forest where no one could hear him scream. But running didn’t save him. A group of masked men found him first. When he woke up, he wasn’t dead. He was in a strange room with white walls, bandages on his arms, and two nurses who couldn’t be more different. One was kind, the other, Karina who turned out to be his first harem, looked at him like he was trouble waiting to happen. He was alive because of a man he’d never met. Mr. Giffs. The owner of this place. A man who rescues people “in need.” But nothing in this place is free. “You’re on the run, right?” Karina asks him on the third day, her red hair falling over her face as she sits on the edge of his bed. “Yes.” “Then Mr. Giffs thinks you’ll be fit for the circuit.” “Circuit?” . “The question is… are you willing to draw blood for blood?” Now Alex has a choice. Stay broken and let Victoria win. Or fight back in a world where the only way to survive is to become the very thing that tried to destroy him. A story of betrayal, survival, and revenge. When they take everything from you… how far will you go to take it back?

In Backgated City, the undocumented don’t exist, until they become useful. Thrown into the streets as a child with no birth record, no family, and no protection, Kairo Vale survives by listening more than he speaks and learning faster than the city expects. Crime syndicates, corrupt officials, and underground networks all circle him, each seeing something different: a pawn, a weapon, a mistake.

Ryan Calloway died betrayed by the woman he loved, abandoned to a world overrun by the dead. But death wasn't the end. He woke up thirty days before the zombie apocalypse, with his memories intact and his grandfather's mysterious pocket watch granting him access to an enormous storage dimension. This time, he won't make the same mistakes. With the world blissfully unaware of its impending doom, Ryan begins stockpiling food, weapons, medicine, and fuel while turning his home into an impenetrable fortress. He'll save his father, protect those who deserve it, and make sure the people who betrayed him never get a second chance to hurt him. Thirty days later, civilization collapses. The dead are coming. The living are worse. And Ryan Calloway is ready to make them all regret underestimating him.

The battle for the kingdom's leadership begins when King Edward decides to abdicate. Whoever is the toughest and survives to the end, is the one who deserves to be the successor of the kingdom. For the title of leader, all clans elbow each other to achieve victory. Who is lucky in the game and escapes great danger? Who is willing to sacrifice blood and life to join the game? And the question that bothered everyone, which clan would win the game? Will the ice clan retain its title as the leader of the Crimson country? None of the clans guessed who would be the winner.

Seven years ago, a blue screen appeared before every human on Earth and promised a new beginning. Within a day, millions were dead. Now everyone has a System: a level, a rank, a worth measured in numbers. Everyone except Kael Draven. No level. No skills. No place in a world that treats the powerless as disposable. He has survived seven years in the ruins of New York by noticing what others miss, and he is still searching for the little sister who vanished the night his parents died. Then his team abandons him inside a dungeon that was never supposed to wake up. Kael studies the monster hunting him, finds the one thing it fears, and lives. And as it falls, the System flashes a message it was never meant to show: [WARNING: DO NOT ALLOW SUBJECT TO ACCESS THE CORE.] Why would the most powerful force on Earth be afraid of a man it cannot even see? Before he can find out, he touches a black relic older than the System itself, and every awakened user for miles loses their powers for three terrifying seconds. By morning, he is the most wanted man in Ironhaven. But Kael is done being the hunted. With a disgraced commander, a runaway scientist, and a loyal giant who owes him his life, he starts pulling at a conspiracy buried in the night his family was murdered. Every lie he exposes makes him more dangerous. Every rule he breaks makes the System more afraid. Everyone else grows stronger by obeying the System. Kael grows stronger by finding where it breaks. It named him humanity's greatest threat. It has no idea what it just created.

The gods were an interesting aspect to every human's fundamental awakening. The gods had to fight themselves, for a chance to be given to every mortals. Those with exceptional talent will awaken, while those that lacks it will have to wait till the next conflict of gods. However this conflict happens to be a very special one since the five primordial gods of all existence where preying on one of their very own kind all because his soul had absorbed all of the godliness in existence and will likely be the only god strong enough to stop other gods. So... they decided to have him give up his power. Who would have expected that Azarax, the god of Chaos will be able to play the strings of fate like he owned them, controlling events like they were his own. Azarax broke his soul into three parts. One part was sent to a dying child's body... the very heir of chaos. A bullied child who had been injected with a heart seeker by the bullies just to end his life. Fortunately for Rime Havan, he fused with chaos God, awakening something very terrifying. Azarax would have simply sent the other two parts to Rime, but it would be very easy for the five other gods to recognize it because it would be too strong. So... the second part, he buried at the bottom of the sea and the third part, he erased for the time being. Now as the new Heir, Rime will have to find all fragments and inherit the true power of chaos.

The sky did not turn dark when the world ended. It turned a terrifying, glowing purple. When the purple rain fell, everyday people turned into flesh-eating monsters, and giant mutated beasts claimed the streets. Kai was just a poor, hard-working scholarship student trying to survive. He worked three part-time jobs, paid his own tuition, and sacrificed everything to give his girlfriend Sarah a good life. But when the monsters broke down the university library doors, Kai learned how cruel people could really be. His wealthy team leader Brandon and his selfish girlfriend Sarah did not care about his sacrifices. To save their own skins, they jammed the security gate shut and pushed Kai straight into the snapping jaws of a mutated hound. They laughed while he bled, leaving him to be eaten alive so they could escape to a comfortable bunker. They thought Kai was dead. They were wrong. As teeth tore into his shoulder, a cold mechanical system awakened in Kai's mind. With the power to extract stats, abilities, and beast cores from every monster he kills, Kai instantly heals his body and gains terrifying strength. He tames a deadly shadow-wolf cub, builds an army of purple-eyed zombie soldiers, and evolves his simple iron pipe into a deadly blood-bone spear. Now, Kai is no longer the soft, poor boy they stepped on. The old rules of money and rich fathers are completely dead. In this blood-soaked apocalypse, strength is the only law. Kai begins a brutal hunt through the campus, leveling up with every kill, ready to tear down Brandon's little kingdom and make everyone who betrayed him fall to their knees.

"You are nothing without this city, and this city is done with you." My uncle's voice cut through the rain as his men threw me onto the deck of a boat headed nowhere good. I was eighteen, cut out of my father's will, and left to freeze on the harbor while men like Marcus carved up everything my family had built. Aethelgard Bay used to feel like home. Now the Iron Syndicate owns the night, and nobody with a badge or a business card does anything to stop them. The night they came for our fishing fleet, I thought that was the end of it. Then three strangers in armor dropped out of the storm and tore the raid apart before it could finish us. Their leader put something in my hand before he vanished: a keycard to a vault my father built and never told me about. It's supposed to be the key to taking my city back. So far all it's done is put a target on my back and put me in a car with the one woman in Marcus's empire I can't decide whether to trust. I'm done running from my uncle. Whatever it costs, I'm getting my family's name back.

Lucas Grey died for a sack of rice. After five years of sacrificing everything for his wife's family, he thought they would stand by him when the world collapsed. Instead, they fed him one last meal, traded him to a group of survivors, and left him as bait for the infected. Then Lucas opened his eyes ninety-two days before the apocalypse. With the memories of his previous life intact and a strange ability awakening inside him, Lucas has one chance to rewrite his fate. This time, he won't waste his life trying to save people who never valued him. He will prepare. He will survive. And when the world falls apart, everyone who once looked down on Lucas Grey will discover that the man they betrayed is no longer the man they knew.