Squid Game Square

When the world goes silent, survival begins. A global blackout ends everything — power, communication, and control. In one terrifying instant, cities burn and the modern world disappears. High in the River-mouth Mountains, Caleb Cross, a quiet hydroplant engineer, becomes the unwilling leader of strangers trapped in the dark. As panic turns to hunger and trust turns to fear, Caleb must keep them alive while the outside world collapses into violence. Every night brings new threats: desperate survivors, freezing storms, and the crushing silence of a planet gone dead. In the darkness, leadership costs blood. In the quiet, humanity is tested. And when the last light fades, Caleb will learn what kind of man survives after the quiet.

Beaten and left for dead on a rainy Frankfurt street, Ethan Veyra has nothing, no money, no allies, no future. Until a cold, mechanical voice whispers in his mind: “Outstanding Debt Cleared. Assets Granted: $500,000,000.” With a fortune at his fingertips and a mysterious system bending reality itself, Ethan enters a world where debts can buy souls, and power comes at a cost. But the men who destroyed him, led by the untouchable tycoon Markus Kessler, wield the same supernatural forces. To survive, Ethan must outwit assassins, seduce empires, and risk everything on a game rigged against him.

Kaelen is a traveling illusionist who wants nothing more than freedom: laughter, open roads, and a stage beneath the stars. But when his path collides with the political machinations of Eldralith, he finds himself pulled into a deadly game of empire. The Veyran envoys have come to claim Eldralith’s princess as a hostage-bride, a chain to bind the kingdom. But beneath the weight of diplomacy and steel, Kaelen discovers that the shadows hide something older and more dangerous than politics and that his tricks are fragments of a power the empires fear above all. He has no crown, no army, and no desire for war. But when illusions turn to weapons and laughter becomes defiance, Kaelen must decide: run as he always has, or stand and become the spark of rebellion.