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They left him to burn in the ashes of his birthright, but they forgot that true power is forged in the fire. Arthur Sterling was born to inherit the most powerful martial legacy in the Aurora Empire, a family destined to guard the golden gates of the realm. But on the night of his ascension ritual, absolute betrayal strikes from within. His own uncle, Victor Sterling, allies with rival clans to slaughter the entire Sterling lineage, leaving Arthur broken and left for dead. The world believes the Sterling bloodline is fully wiped out, but unexpectedly, a reclusive master saves him.

"Please, let me be poor! Why are you guys making me a business king instead?!" Julian Vance signed a contract with the Financial Reversal System: If his company goes bankrupt, all the remaining cash will be converted into his personal money. To speed up his path to poverty, Julian deliberately recruited the most disastrous team in Riverdale City—ranging from a lazy manager whose hobby was taking naps, to a head of procurement who always got scammed into buying junk. However, fate had other plans. The junk computers they bought turned out to be secret military quantum prototypes, and Julian's decision to raise workers' salaries instead triggered a national labor strike that destroyed all of his competitors! The chaos peaked when four of the most powerful women—a tyrannical CFO, a logistics dynasty princess, a legal activist, and an ice-cold auditor—ended up falling in love and forming a guerrilla warfare alliance to protect him from bankruptcy. As the company's cash drastically soared to 52 million dollars and his "Duck in Running Shoes" logo was deemed a revolutionary work of art, Julian could only weep blood. Cursed to always be filthy rich and besieged by god-level misunderstandings, can Julian find a way to fail?

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.

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 a world where everyone tames powerful beasts, Lucien Drax is humiliated with a cracked, dying egg and labeled a failure. But when it hatches, everything changes. What he bonds with isn’t a beast… but a sealed Nightmare God. As Lucien rises from the lowest rank, fear follows in his wake, and those who once mocked him begin to disappear. Yet the more power he gains, the more dangerous his bond becomes. Because the creature at his side isn’t loyal only interested… and increasingly possessive. While others tame beasts… Lucien tamed a god.

After surviving a deadly betrayal during a classified mission, elite Night Agent Ethan Vale becomes the most wanted man in the country. Hunted by his own agency and mysterious black-ops soldiers, Ethan uncovers Blackout Protocol, a secret operation capable of destroying governments and silencing anyone who learns the truth. With a dangerous hacker as his only ally and enemies hiding inside the system he once trusted, Ethan must stay alive long enough to expose the conspiracy before the country falls into darkness.

Arcana High is known as the greatest magic academy in the Bluestar World. It is prestigious, disciplined, and supposedly safe. But when a group of ordinary teens accidentally breaks into the academy’s restricted library, they uncover something no student was ever meant to see: A living, ancient map that chooses them as its “Special Players.” From that moment on, their lives changed into a strange, game-like reality where hidden, forbidden regions appeared all around the Bluestar World. Monsters, Mutated Beasts, Zombies, and unknown monstrosities roam the world. Every basic spell evolves like a skill tree. And the map keeps issuing quests with one warning: “Level up… or die.” Forced to team up despite their clashing personalities, the teens must explore the world's hidden regions, unlock ancient magic, and complete trials that push them far beyond their limits. But the deeper they go, the more they realize: The map is just a trial ground for divine beings called the Naphil. Entities powerful enough to rewrite the structure of the Bluestar World. And now, they want to filter out the strong players from the weak. If humans can't level up fast enough, Arcana High won’t be the only thing that falls…The entire realm will.

Three children. One fire. A lifetime of scars. Jay and Chase Hamilton grew up side by side, brothers bound by laughter and games in the courtyard of their crumbling apartment complex. Anna Rivera, their neighbor, was the sparrow who trailed them everywhere — small, stubborn, determined never to be left behind. But one careless spark changed everything. The fire tore through their home, leaving ash and silence in its wake. Their mother never returned, and with her absence came unspoken blame. Chase carried the weight of believing she died for him. Jay took the guilt of failing to protect them both. Anna disappeared under whispers and shadows, her name cursed by neighbors who swore the fire had been her fault. Twenty-five years later, the past is still burning. Chase is now CEO of the family’s printing press, driven, distant, and ruthless. Jay is a photographer abroad, still chasing moments he can never hold onto. And Anna — under another name, rebuilt and unrecognizable — has risen quietly, her fate intertwined with theirs once more. But ash does not stay buried forever. When the truth resurfaces, it will test the fragile bonds of family, loyalty, and forgiveness. Ashes of Yesterday is a sweeping story of childhood lost, of wounds carried into adulthood, and of whether broken lives can ever be pieced back together when the fire never really died.

Kael Ardent was betrayed, framed as a traitor, and executed while the empire burned. Then he woke up years before it all began. Now he remembers everything — the secret alliances, the smiling enemies, and the man who orchestrated his fall. Armed with future knowledge and a mysterious power called the Echo, Kael is determined to rewrite history. But the more he interferes, the more the timeline shifts. Allies begin to doubt him. Enemies move sooner than they should. And someone else seems to remember pieces of the future. The war he died in wasn’t what he thought. To stop the empire’s collapse, Kael must outplay conspirators, expose the Council’s corruption, and confront the truth behind his rebirth. Because this time, if he fails… There won’t be another second chance.

Ethan Reid was Earth's last defender when the Voidborne came. Now he's the last human male alive—and the most valuable prize in the galaxy. His DNA is universally compatible with alien species, making him the target of empresses, warriors, and matriarchs willing to start wars for breeding rights. But when an ancient cultivation system bonds with him, Ethan becomes more dangerous than rare genetics. He's a Reality Anchor, capable of wielding techniques that could stop the Voidborne from devouring existence itself. Bonded to four powerful alien women and hunted by every major faction, he's racing to master abilities that most cultivators spend lifetimes learning. The galaxy's plan was to cage him but they failed and now they wish they had killed him when they had the chance.