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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.

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.

When the sky over London cracks open and the moon begins to bleed light, four friends find themselves trapped in a city that’s no longer human. The world has been reclassified — not as Earth, but as a Dungeon Territory, and every living thing inside it has been registered for survival or extinction. Riley, a quiet historian with a talent for seeing patterns, becomes the first Lunamancer, his power waxing and waning with the moon. Miko, sharp-tongued and fearless, manifests the instincts of a Swordswoman whose blade remembers every kill. Amber, calm and analytical, turns healer and protector through the conviction of a Paladin. And Arianna, whose empathy once made her fragile, bonds with her mutated dog and becomes a Beast Master — her strength now tied to the creatures she commands. Together they navigate a city collapsing into nightmare: streets carpeted with dead birds, rivers running red, and monsters evolving faster than reason. Every fight earns experience. Every kill rewrites the rules. Every sunrise weakens Riley’s power — and every moonrise brings something new from the fracture above. But survival isn’t enough. The System is watching, counting, and adapting. And somewhere beyond the broken skyline, the first dungeon floor is waiting.

desolate, radioactive planet of Rinjani, he discovers it's not a graveyard—it's a high-stakes tutorial zone. With an AI in his head that feeds on his misery and a dying planet that treats his life like an efficiency rating, Bima must lead his crew to survive. But when he uncovers a five-billion-year-old secret buried in the core, he realizes his 'crash' wasn't an accident—it was a setup. Now, he must choose: follow the System's ruthless logic or break the cycle and face the true architects of the galaxy.

Saddam was just a struggling courier in snowy Munich until the fabric of reality tore open. Trapped between shadow wolves and certain death, a mysterious System awakens within him—but it is not the warrior path he expected. To survive the extra-dimensional Rifts, he must synchronize with the city coldest protector: Captain Felisa von Schwarzwald. The catch? Synchronization requires physical touch and emotional resonance. Now, a lowly courier must navigate deadly monsters and the even deadlier gaze of an Ice Queen who could freeze his heart—or melt it. In a world of chaos, their shared heartbeat is the only weapon that matters.