The Luna Trials

The world didn't end with a nuclear explosion or an alien attack, but with the "Great Silence." Blind monsters called The Sleepers emerged from the bowels of the earth, slaughtering anything that made a sound louder than a breath. Raka, a paranoid night-shift barista, is trapped in his cafe as a massacre unfolds. On the verge of death, a blue hologram appears on his retina. It's not a guardian angel, but the [Doomsday Streaming System]. This system has the personality of a "Toxic Netizen" who craves drama and is sarcastic, and uses Raka as an Avatar for the entertainment of an entity from another dimension. To survive, Raka discovers that caffeine is his power source. The stronger the coffee he drinks, the faster his heart beats, and the slower time passes in his eyes (Bullet Time). Raka becomes the fastest man on earth, but at a fatal risk: if his heart rate reaches 450 beats per minute, his heart will explode. Accompanied by Baginda (the fierce Mutant Swan and System's golden boy), Luna (the mute archer), and Dr. Vanya (the mad surgeon), Raka must run through this silent hell. He fights not only to survive, but to satisfy the "Audience" in exchange for points to upgrade his dying heart. This is a story about a man running against time, fighting monsters, and arguing with a supernatural admin in his head, towards a bitter but relieving finish line.

Ethan Cole is a broke accountant crushed by inherited debt, a stolen career, and a fiancée who leaves him for a billionaire heir. Framed for embezzlement by his own CEO, publicly beaten by loan sharks, and stripped of his home, Ethan reaches his lowest point and attempts suicide. Instead of dying, he awakens the Infinite Cashback System ... an entity that converts every loss, humiliation, and injury into wealth, skill, or power, the magnitude of the reward matching the depth of the loss. What starts as quiet survival becomes empire-building, as Ethan anonymously buys out the people who destroyed him. As his fortune grows, so does the scale of his enemies: corporate rivals, hidden martial clans, ancient cultivators, and secret rulers who have controlled Earth from the shadows for centuries. Guided by Luna, the System's evolving AI, Ethan discovers his suffering was never random ... his parents' deaths, his humiliations, even the System itself were engineered as part of a cosmic selection process to produce the next Universal Administrator. As Earth is revealed to be a mere "beginner planet" in a vast interstellar hierarchy, Ethan must decide whether to become a tool of that system or dismantle it entirely ... using the very power his losses created to free countless worlds from the cycle of exploitation that shaped him.