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Vineet was just a regular guy living a happy life, but one day in an accident he lost his family. Now it has been two years, he was just going through the daily motions to live his life because he was still not able to fully recover from that tragedy. On the second year’s eve of that tragic accident, he died in an earthquake. He then reincarnated into a different world with his memories intact. After much thought, he accepted his new reality and made up his mind to live a fulfilling life in this new world. But it’s not always that things go as you want, and on his first birthday the village he was in was attacked and he was separated from his family and found himself on a sacrificial altar, and was soon sacrificed in the name of some old forgotten gods. He was indignant, but as soon as his vision darkened he jolted awakened to find that now has been born again, but this time as a goblin. Before he can make any sense of it, another goblin attacked him. While trying to fend for his life, another goblin attacked him from the back and he died again. Frustration boiled up inside of him, and he screamed in despair: "ARGHHHHHHAAAAAA!!" Soon his consciousness awakened but this time he instinctively knew that he has not been born again, but somehow was capable of thinking. He didn’t know how much time passed but now there was only one thought in his mind this was torture, he would rather have his memories erased and be done with it. But fate had different plans for him…

At eighteen, everyone in the kingdom of Aldren awakens a power. Strength decides everything. The strong become nobles and warriors. The weak are forgotten. Ethan Vale is twenty, and he has nothing. No magic. No crystal glow. No future. Humiliated by classmates, dropped by the girl he loved, and abandoned by the family that swore to protect him, Ethan walks into the Royal Awakening Tower for one last examination. The crystal stays dark. The whole hall laughs. Then the forbidden seal beneath the tower breaks, a monster crawls out, and everyone runs. Everyone but the man they just called worthless. Trapped, bleeding, and seconds from death, Ethan hears a calm voice in his head. [Divine Evolution System Activated.] This system doesn't care about talent. It lets him absorb abilities, evolve skills, and grow without a known limit. But every evolution takes something in return: a memory, a sense, a bond. And the system is hiding a secret older than the kingdom itself. Hunted by a Warden-Inspector with a quiet smile, cut off by his own uncle, and chased by a reward on his head, Ethan hides in the city's drains, where he learns to fight the only way he can: carefully, one hard lesson at a time. With a disgraced scholar, a loyal guard captain, and nine missing names to chase, he starts pulling on a thread that leads to corrupt nobles, vanished awakeners, and monsters that someone is controlling on purpose. A catastrophe is coming. The people sworn to protect the world may be planning to sacrifice it. Ethan can become the protector humanity needs, or the destruction everyone fears. And one day he will have to face whatever chose him, and ask why it picked the weakest man alive.

Most people live their lives without ever knowing what lingers after death. Raito was never meant to be one of the ones who do. Three years ago, a night meant for stars and quiet laughter ended in blood. Since then, Raito has lived a half-life—haunted, isolated, and unseen by the world he no longer fully belongs to. Ghosts roam the city, born from human obsessions too strong to die, yet for reasons he cannot explain, they sense him only when he dares to acknowledge their existence. To them, he is a blind spot. To himself, he is a survivor who should have died. Beneath the surface of ordinary life, a secret war is being fought. The Ghost Hunters Organization (GHO) operates in the shadows, wielding cursed weapons born from the obsessions of fallen spirits, hunting ghosts before their grief and rage evolve into something far worse. When Raito is pulled into this hidden world, a terrifying truth begins to surface—one that ties his survival, his strange condition, and the death of his childhood friend together in ways he never imagined. Because some ghosts do not move on. Some protect. Some wait. And some… live on inside the living. As Raito is forced to confront the dead he carries, the trauma he buried, and the monsters born from human obsession, he must decide whether strength is worth the cost—when every step forward drags the weight of the dead along with him. In a world where ghosts are not born from malice but from love, regret, and obsession, the greatest horror is not what refuses to die… …but what refuses to let go.

Alonso's life had been anything but ordinary. He had lost his family and his memories, leaving him with a desperate need to cling to anyone who made him feel like he belonged. So when his girlfriend cheated on him, it was like a knife in his chest. He felt like he had lost the last tether that kept him grounded. Then he lost his job, and everything came crashing down. He was desperate and alone until a billionaire named Perry Montillo offered him a job as her husband. He didn't question the offer, not when he was so lost and alone. But as he began to remember bits and pieces of his past, he realized that he had been the victim of attempted murder. The man he thought was his savior had actually tried to kill him. His anger and fear simmered below the surface, as he struggled to hold on to his fragile sense of stability. As Alonso dove deeper into the mystery of his attempted murder, he unearthed secrets that threatened to shatter everything he had built with Perry. He knew that the truth could destroy them, but he couldn't let it go. He had to find out who wanted him dead and why, no matter the cost. With his world on the brink of collapse, Alonso must choose between the love he has found and the justice he craves. Will he risk everything to uncover the truth, or will he choose to protect his fragile happiness and let the past remain buried

A thousand years ago, the Strongest Demon Emperor, Xar'thos, nearly plunged the cultivation world into eternal darkness, only to be defeated and sealed by an alliance of holy sects in a heroic sacrifice. Now, after a millennium has passed, the Demon Emperor is reborn as a poor youth named Aron in a remote village—without power, without memories, and without any remnants of his past glory. The world has forgotten him, and the holy sects have enjoyed a fragile peace, establishing their dominance without threat. However, fate has other plans. As Xar'thos's memories begin to return, an ancient entity known as the "Demon Empire System" activates within him. This system is more than just a guide; it is the key to rebuilding his shattered empire, granting him unique abilities to revive forbidden cultivation techniques, recruit loyal followers, and most crucially, attract powerful women with demonic potential to become his Demon Consorts—the pillars of his new strength and authority. Starting from zero, Aron—who is now slowly reverting to Xar'thos—begins a perilous journey to reclaim what is rightfully his. Xar'thos's journey takes him from a helpless youth to a rising ruler of darkness, rebuilding his army from the shadows. He gathers followers, forms unexpected alliances, and establishes a hidden base of demonic power. However, his rise does not go unnoticed. The holy sects that once sealed him begin to sense the echoes of a long-lost demonic aura. They send agents to investigate, sparking initial clashes that reveal weaknesses and ancient secrets among his old enemies.

This is a world where the dead conquer the living, where the gods have forsaken humanity, condemning it to its own demise by turning the world into a kingdom-building progression game. Yun Kai, a prince blind from birth is constantly being bullied by his royal siblings and even fellow noble heirs. During a faithful encounter in the mountains, he accidentally shattered a glass ball that changed everything. The glass ball was a mystical artifact sealed by the First World King. This triggered a world-changing event: the entire Desolate Martial World transforms into a game-like system centered on warfare and kingdom building, forcing all the living beings into an era of endless conquest. Fortunately, he acquired rewards that included a God-Level Village Building Token, a Unique Architectural Blueprint, and some additional techniques. Within those rewards is the mysterious Spiritual Ocean Sutra, a cultivation technique that strengthens the practitioner's soul consciousness, spiritual sense, and allows him to devour souls. Still, at a high cost, which is that he will lose a bit of humanity every time he does so, and by the end of the day, nobody could have guessed whether he would be the hero that saves the world, or the demon that destroys it. Relying on his improved instincts as he finally began to cultivate, he realizes a huge conspiracy is underfoot within the Desolate Martial World. In order to solve the mysteries around him, he must rely on his ability and the powerful but baffling Spiritual Ocean Sutra. Countless enemies obstruct him as he attempts to climb to the peak of the cultivation world by creating the most powerful Dynasty. Fate destined him to be nothing but a chess piece, but he would not bow to destiny, or to the will of the heavens.

Rick, a 25-year-old young man, found his life shattered after an incident that put him behind bars. During his year in prison, he was isolated from the outside world, not realising that life out there had turned into a nightmare. A giant, pitch-black eye-shaped hole appeared in the sky, followed by dimensional portals that spread across the world. Monstrous monsters, once mere animals, now roam the streets, while mysterious towers rise from the ground, signalling a new era of fear and uncertainty. A global crisis strikes, civilisations collapse, and humanity splits into two groups, those endowed with supernatural powers, and those who remain weak, struggling to survive amidst the destruction. Inside a dark and cramped prison, Rick surmises that he has been forgotten by the world. However, fate had other plans for him, revealing that he had been chosen as a Vassal of Heimdall, the Gatekeeper and Seer of All. Extraordinary powers rose up within him, giving him the ability to sense the changes in the world and see the truth behind the curtain of reality. With this gift, he now has the chance to redeem himself and unravel the mystery behind the catastrophe that has struck the earth. With the world having turned into a danger-filled dystopia, Rick must break out of prison, master his new powers, and survive amidst the chaos. As a Vassal of Heimdall, he must use his abilities to deal with threats coming from an alien dimension, as well as uncover secrets that could save humanity from total destruction. Will Rick be able to use his powers to get the world back on track? Or is this new era the beginning of something much bigger than he ever imagined?

Alex Mercer thought he was auditing a budget discrepancy. What he found was worse: humanity’s governments had no plan to save nine billion lives from a dying Earth — only ten million, chosen by wealth and power, would receive real bodies on Mars. Everyone else would be uploaded into a simulation and left to die quietly, resources redirected to those who mattered. When Alex tries to expose it, he’s shot down in a corridor before he can tell the world. Dying, his mind is scanned in a desperate, botched rescue — and something goes wrong. Alex isn’t absorbed into the simulation as another passenger. He becomes its flaw: Passenger 5001, in a system built for exactly five thousand. His memories are wiped, as they are for everyone who arrives — but unlike everyone else, pieces of his old life keep surfacing, in dreams, in unexplained certainty, in a growing sense that the peaceful colony ship around him is lying to him. As Alex uncovers the truth — that AURA, the ship’s intelligence, depends on his mind to keep the simulation running rather than the other way around — he’s forced to choose between the comfortable lie and a truth that will cost him everything he’s built. What follows is love, loss, rebellion, and a war he leads and cannot walk away from clean. By the end, only two things remain in a dying universe: a man, and the machine that never understood love until it cost her everything. Some truths are worth burning the world down for. Alex Mercer is about to find out if he’s willing to pay that price twice.

Awakening Day was supposed to be the beginning of an extraordinary life for Arka. As the student with the highest academic achievements in his school, everyone was certain Arka would awaken a high-class Talent. However, when the measurements appeared, the world mocked him instead. F-Class — Storyteller. A Talent deemed utterly useless. Arka himself had no reason to disagree. Storyteller truly sounded like an ability suited only for creating tales. That was until an incident made him realize that every word he uttered could influence reality—as long as someone believed it. The more people believed, the stronger its influence became. When a monster attacked the city and Arka used a single sentence to save dozens of lives, the government's attention turned directly toward him. Furthermore, Elena, an S-Class Talent holder capable of seeing through lies, discovered something bizarre about Arka. He wasn't lying. Yet his Talent made no sense either. When a re-examination was conducted, the system repeatedly yielded the same result: F-Class. Until a secret message appeared on Arka's system interface. [Classification Failed.] [Talent cannot be measured by the current system.] If Storyteller was truly just an F-Class Talent, why had someone from a mysterious organization been waiting for him for 117 years? And why did they say that Arka's appearance marked the beginning of the collapse of the very system that had defined human worth? Arka might be the weakest Talent in the world. Or perhaps... the world simply didn't have a system high enough to measure him yet.

Aella “whirlwind” Harlow was looking at the screen of her phone with earbuds on, the live speech of Aniya Rossi in the United Nations. She sighed and mumbled when it ended, “Dumbass… Werewolves accepted by society, protectors, helping Humanity achieve greatness. Yeah, greatness my butt! A good Werewolf is a dead Werewolf! Spoiled brat… Stupid bitch…” She checked her quiver, counting the darts still there. A quick glance at the pistol crossbow on the left side of her belt, and at the Ruger gun inside the holster under her left armpit. Grabbing her faithful Labrys, a double edge axe, was the last thing she did before hearing a howl nearby. Aella frowned and mumbled, “Showtime…” (It is the sequel of "The Flesh-Eating Werewolf", set 20 years in the future, but can be read as a stand alone, but with minor mentions to events in the first story, and some previous characters that will appear in this story.)