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Ariful Haque is trapped in a dying, submerged Dhaka, caught in a time loop controlled by a parasitic System. With every death, he grows stronger, but the bio-mechanical monsters he fights grow smarter, using his own memories to hunt him. To survive, he must betray the woman he loves—or risk becoming the monster that ends humanity.

Lindsey Zero was once a rising brilliant lawyer. Until he crossed the wrong man... a ruthless underworld kingpin. In a single stroke, he lost everything... his wife, his career, and nearly his life. Left for dead, Zero stumbles upon 'The Karma System'. A secret experiment that judges sins and virtues... punishing or rewarding... without mercy. A power that could destroy him as easily as it could make him a god. Now, the man who was broken has become something more than human. He has become stronger, smarter, and dangerous. But who say God doesn't have enemies? Zero has plenty... corrupt officials, mafia bosses, rivals who despise how the new 'God' does things, and the very creators of the system itself. They want their weapon back. Zero doesn't like that... Not one bit. "This system made me more than a Zero. So if you think I will ever give it back, you must be out of your minds. And to everyone who betrayed, and stepped on me... count your sins. Because karma is coming... and it has my f*cking name."

After been killed by his cheating girlfriend's heartthrob, Donald finds himself reincarnated within the body of a weak hunter in another universe. He somehow is bestowed with a system upon his death and got transmigrated by its powers. In this apocalyptic world where monsters and demons thrive, Donald must complete every mission the system asks him to do in order to become more powerful and have his revenge on those who scorned him—even if he has to destroy the world to achieve this. And even if he has to become a villain to become more powerful, he is willing to walk that path. After all, humanity is already sunken beyond redemption. This is the purpose of the system—the Renegade System with which he awakened!

Robbin Vance, a disgraced, jaded Frontier Guard Captain, just wants to quietly get through his exile. When a lonely, remote mining colony falls silent, he and the keen-eyed young scout Elaine see what their eyes couldn't believe, a creature filled with bodies, rooted standing where they fell; their bodies welded, flesh to flesh and bone to flesh, with a weeping, black iron that glows with a pale, alien light in their eyes. General Alistair Thorne and his legendary lost legions have reemerged after one thousand years dormant in the earth below. No longer entirely human, they have become living dead soldiers fighting a thousand year old war to reconquer a continent, to destroy their long-time enemy, an empire the current modern world has unwittingly reconstructed itself around. To do so, Robbin Vance will have to work with Juliana, a natural philosopher with all the keys to the past, to mount a desperate colonial resistance against the brutal, snow-stained winter, and against these ruthless champions when the old world wakes up and finishes its war. To win the war, the living must learn to strike and defend what belongs to them.

Kael Varyn was four when the Cult of Akary slaughtered his family. Twelve years of brutal training later, he has become something unprecedented: a Contractor with an Infinite Soul, able to carry more than one contract. Every enemy he kills makes him stronger — but each stolen entity leaves behind whispers of borrowed memories, threatening to drown who he is. As he hunts the cult across a world where humans bargain with Fifth-Dimensional beings for power, Kael discovers the slaughter of his family was only the first move in a centuries-long plan to tear the barrier between worlds wide open. To stop it, he'll have to unlock a Soul-Bound contract with Liciferous, an entity so dangerous the gods themselves fear him. But the cost of that power might be the last piece of himself. The Contractors is a dark fantasy about whether a person is defined by the power they wield — or the choices they make when it matters most.

In the underworld of ruthless power and unforgiving loyalty, I made an oath that would bind me for life—a blood oath sealed by vengeance, desire, and a woman who became my most dangerous weakness. They call me a monster, a king in a kingdom built on violence and fear. But I never asked for this life. I only wanted to survive. Then she walked into my world—fiery, untamed, and brimming with secrets. Our bond was meant to be temporary. A flash marriage. A simple alliance in a world where trust is a currency no one dares to spend. But with her, everything changed. The Mafia doesn’t forgive, and neither do I. She’ll learn that soon enough as I drag her through a storm of betrayal, bloodshed, and passion she never expected. Our marriage may have been a lie, but my hunger for her is very real. Now, we’re both trapped by an oath we can't escape, each step we take pulling us deeper into a world that only one of us will survive. And in the end, the savage honor I live by might just be the death of us both.

His blind brother was murdered, yet the Anderson family called it an accident. Soren Anderson knew they were lying. Two years ago, Charles Anderson was found dead in the sea. His body had been so badly damaged that almost nothing remained that could be used to identify him. The Anderson family quickly buried him and declared his death an unfortunate accident. But before Charles died, he sent Soren one final letter. “Soren, they are going to kill me.” Then he disappeared. Soren never got the chance to save him. For the next two years, Soren secretly searched for the truth while serving on the battlefield. He fought wars, commanded fleets, and rose through the military ranks until he became the youngest four-star admiral in Westland. Then he returned to Nucus—not as the powerless orphan the Anderson family once looked down on.

Ten years ago, Jayd Valen watched a god slaughter his mother. Powerless to save her, he was taken to Valhalla, where the Valkyrie forged him into the greatest warrior Midgard had ever known. After surviving impossible trials and defeating the legendary Ten Godly War Souls, he earned a title coveted even by the gods: The Guardian of Midgard. But instead of accepting glory, Jayd returned home with only one goal. Find his sister, and kill the god who destroyed his family. But on arrival, what awaited him was a kingdom in ruins, monsters that should no longer exist, and grander schemes amongst villains.

After general Jack died in disgrace, betrayed general Jack wakes up ten years in the past—before his kingdom fell and before his enemies destroyed his family. This time, he’s ruthless. He keeps his past-life memories, gains a mysterious divine system, and starts eliminating threats one by one. The world thinks he’s weak, but he’s already planning their downfall.

'I didn't kill him' I whispered my camera shaking in my hands while I looked at the blood on the marble floor. 'I know' the man in shadows whispered, his voice like velvet on rough ground. 'But the world believes that I did and you are the only one to attest to my innocence'. Elara Vance is a forensic photographer of the wealthy; a woman who sees the truth through a camera lens, and Silas Vane is the heir to a bankrupt empire who lives off the carrion of his enemies (known as the 'Vulture'), but when Elara catches him in the act of a murder she isn't supposed to witness he proposes a deal: either become his bride and his 'Glass Alibi' or she is the next body he will require her to photograph. In a world of predators can the man keeping her prisoner actually be her executioner...or her salvation.