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For ten long years, Ethan lived in the shadows as the outcast of the Sterling family. To Robert and Martha Sterling, he was nothing more than a tool, a disposable cog in the company’s dirty machinery, someone who could be cast aside at any moment to make way for the return of their beloved heir, Liam. When Ethan was thrown out into a stormy night without a single cent to his name, the Sterling family celebrated as if they had won a great victory. They had no idea that the young man they had so easily discarded was the sole owner of Apex Capital, the unseen god of the city’s economy, the one who controlled the very pulse of the world’s financial system. One by one, the fortress of the Sterling family’s wealth began to collapse from within. As Robert and Martha knelt on the marble floor of Apex Tower, tears of regret streaming down their faces, they finally realized a truth far more devastating, the monster destroying their empire was the very blood they had once so cruelly cast aside. But forgiveness was never part of Ethan’s vocabulary. When the secrets of the past came to light and the conspiracy of a global mafia syndicate was exposed, Ethan stood at the top of the pyramid, demanding retribution without mercy.

Damon Sterling died knowing exactly who betrayed him. His parents were murdered. His family was destroyed. His brothers were slaughtered. And when humanity finally faced extinction, Damon died alone after watching the world he failed to protect collapse around him. Then he opened his eyes. Three days before the apocalypse. His enemies are still alive. His brothers are still breathing. His parents' killers haven't made their move yet. And Damon remembers everything. This time, he won't waste a second grieving. He'll gather the men who once died for him, drain every resource he can get his hands on, build an impregnable sanctuary, awaken an army of Divine Tattoo Envoys, and destroy every traitor before they can betray him. But Damon has returned with something more terrifying than his memories. A mysterious mark between his brows. A mark capable of copying the powers of other Divine Tattoo Envoys, controlling objects with telekinesis, and absorbing the energy of the world itself. Unfortunately, his nine forbidden tattoos are too powerful for his body to awaken safely. So Damon has two days to prepare. Two days to build an army. Two days to settle his debts. Two days to become something the coming apocalypse cannot kill. The world thinks it has three days before the end. Damon Sterling knows it has three days before his empire begins.

Congratulations, Karion Kross, you have fully acquired the Billionaire System. Host: Karion Kross. Balance: Half a trillion dollars. Task: Spend thirty million dollars in seventy-two hours, or suffer the system’s punishment! ~*~ On the day I was supposed to propose to my girlfriend, I, Karion Kross, a financially struggling entrepreneur, caught her in bed with my childhood best friend. Betrayed and heartbroken by the two people I trusted most in this cruel world on the day I thought would be special, I believed things couldn't get any worse until my so-called best friend ordered his guards to beat me up and leave me for dead so he can steal my company’s idea and girlfriend. However, on the brink of death, something extraordinary happened. A blue screen appeared out of thin air—a system promising wealth, power, and the chance to rewrite everything under one condition—I got revenge on those who have wronged me, slap faces them, spend like a trillionaire and… build a harem along the way?! The Rise Of Karion Kross starts now, and all who have wronged him, their ultimate downfall begins—now!

Twenty years of service, twenty years of secrets, and one night of blood. Caevrik Dorneth was the perfect butler for the Krossel family, but when they are butchered in their sleep, he becomes their final ghost. Armed with a 'Black Ledger' filled with two decades of blackmail, corruption, and vice, Caevrik initiates a masterclass in psychological warfare. He doesn't need bullets to destroy the powerful elite; he only needs the truth. As he systematically dismantle the conspirators who ordered the massacre, he must stay one step ahead of the relentless detective closing in on his trail, knowing that for him, justice is served cold and at the cost of his own soul.

For three long years, Ethan Vance was the invisible, abused househusband of the arrogant Miller family. He drove a cheap delivery scooter, took their harsh slaps, and cleaned their toilets without a single word. Why? Because of a secret vow made to his grandfather. The Millers treated him worse than a stray dog, and on Chloe Miller's grand birthday party, they finally threw him away like trash. They forced him to sign a twenty million dollar debt waiver and even threatened to turn off his dying sister's hospital life support just so Chloe could marry a wealthy corporate prince. But tonight, the three-year vow is officially over. The moment Ethan steps out into the pouring rain, a fleet of ten black luxury sedans blocks the entire street, and hundreds of elite bodyguards drop to their knees to welcome back the supreme heir of the nation's largest empire. With a solid gold card in his hand, Ethan is no longer the family dog. He is the ultimate tyrant who owns the banks, the land, and the very air his enemies breathe. Now, the Millers and their wealthy allies are begging in the dirt for a single drop of water. They wanted a war, but they have no idea that Ethan Vance now owns their very souls. How far will they crawl when they realize the beggar they trampled is the king of the world?

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.

David Myles is known throughout Asterion as a powerless doctor—the forsaken heir of a fallen family whose Dragon bloodline supposedly died a century ago. Even the influential Sterling family considers him unworthy of Janet Sterling, his fiancée and the celebrated Emerald Saintess. They have no idea that David’s weakness is a carefully guarded secret. Within him lives the Primordius Dragon, the legendary golden Dragon connected to the origin of all Dragon Energy. Revealing it would expose David to the same hidden forces that destroyed his ancestors and erased House Myles from history. But when David is publicly humiliated, betrayed by those he trusted, and framed for the death of a Sterling elder, remaining hidden is no longer possible. His enemies want him imprisoned, his family disgraced, and the last Myles heir eliminated. As the Black Templars begin their conquest across the realms and the Five Azarian Rings resurface, David must reclaim his family’s stolen legacy, uncover the truth behind the missing Primordius Heart, and master a power capable of uniting—or destroying—the Seven Dragon Houses. The man Asterion rejected is about to become the Dragon Lord every realm will fear.

Raphael Laurent, a handsome military engineer who lived in New York, died of overwork, and got reincarnated as a trashy third prince of Thaloria Kingdom, Third Prince Cain Vailtair Thaloria, in a mediavel world filled with knights and witches. However, he finds out he has a System that lets him access all modern blueprints from his previous life. He finds himself exiled by his father Alexander Cain Thaloria to the distant Frostmark Province, neglected by corrupt, negligent officials, and often overrun by wild shadow beasts and raiders from neighboring kingdoms. Will he take advantage of his System and turn the situation around?

In the Profound Amber Particle World, martial cultivators look to the Nine Heavenly Astral Rivers, condensing Astral Souls to command the cosmos. Those born with broken dantians are branded as sword slaves—livestock used to test blade formations and discarded in mass graves. Chu Yuan awoke in the battered body of an outer sword slave at the Azure Cloud Sect. His original constellation core was gouged out by his ambitious fiancée, Ji Luoxue, his dantian shattered by corrupt elders, and his chest branded with the lethal Nine-Nether Slave Seal, set to detonate in three days. Yet in the darkest hour of death, his soul awakens the memories of an ancient Pill Sovereign alongside the legendary Primordial Chaotic Sword Core sleeping within his sea of consciousness. Unable to cultivate standard Qi, Chu Yuan unlocks the supreme forbidden art: the Desolate Star Tyrant Body Art. By communicating directly with the forbidden 9th Heavenly Astral River, he bypasses the shattered dantian completely, igniting the nine primal stellar nodes—beginning with the indomitable Desolate Yuan Star beneath his foot! With the Chaotic Twin Sword Spirits guiding his blade, ancient alchemy allowing him to refine divine pills that defy heaven, and Divine Inscriptions etched into his very skeleton, Chu Yuan rises from the slaughterhouse of the outer court. He does not beg the heavens for mercy; he draws his chaotic blade and crushes the heavens beneath his heel. Every hypocrite who stepped on him shall bleed; every god that stands in his path shall fall. With nine stars blazing and chaotic sword qi sweeping the heavens, Chu Yuan shall reign as the sole Sovereign of the Nine Astral Heavens!

.... "Master?".... “Of course. It's because you haven't activated your powers yet. I've been waiting for you! You are the reason I am in jail and now, it's fulfilled” He almost screamed in excitement and brought out a dragon-like ring which almost frightened the fragile Reed because it seemed rusty, dirty and old. “It's all yours. Master of the 365th province of the imperial world!” ***** In a world where the rich oppressed the poor, he was tormented! Humiliated! Confined! Now, he is set free! He is back! Those who opposed and oppressed him would be repaid one million times worse! It starts from now!