Third-Person POV

Adrian Kaine was once the deadliest operative in Shadow Unit, a black-ops division buried so deep in the government that most agents never lived long enough to speak of it. But when a mission in Kargath Province turned into a massacre, Adrian became the sole survivor, then the government’s most wanted traitor. His squad was slaughtered. Evidence was planted. His name was erased. And those who orchestrated the betrayal made sure he was declared dead. They miscalculated. Eighteen months later, Adrian resurfaces as a ghost in the ruins of his old headquarters, hunting for the truth buried beneath the ashes. But he is not the only one searching. Marcus Hale, his former teammate and supposed friend, now leads a covert kill team tasked with eliminating him. Above Marcus sits Colonel Mason Kade, the official who signed the order that condemned Adrian’s entire squad. And watching all of them from the shadows is a faceless mastermind known only by a single encrypted codename: Cipher. As Adrian follows a trail of classified leaks, dead operatives, and impossible coincidences, he uncovers a horrifying secret: a covert plan known as the Ashen Protocol, designed to rewrite the balance of global power—using bodies like his as the foundation stones. But the deeper he digs, the more the truth twists around him. Old allies hide new agendas. Enemies speak with familiar voices. And the real traitor may be closer than he has ever imagined. Hunted by governments, mercenaries, and a ghost from his past, Adrian must become something colder than a soldier and deadlier than a weapon. He must become the nightmare they tried to bury. And this time… he’s not the one running.

🔥 The System awakened when the world ended. When a lightning strike nearly kills him, Marsel unlocks the Aethel Protocol System—a mysterious power that drags him into a deadly, game-like reality. With monsters rising and the undead swarming the city, he must follow the System’s commands, level up fast, and uncover the truth behind its real purpose. Because somewhere in the shadows, a powerful being is coming… the Shadow Queen, destroyer of worlds. Now Marsel must decide: Will he become humanity’s savior, or just another pawn in a cosmic war?

Eighteen-year-old Tama had just set off from the market, buying the goods that his older brother usually did in the morning. But something struck him on that ordinary morning: his motorbike crashed, he almost die alone. No human passed by to offer help. Instead, a green-eyed owl came and said cryptic, weird messages before Tama returned to the actual world. At first, Tama thought it was a dream. The unemployment status he had caused him to follow the vague messages, only to realized that all he experienced may not be a dream. The myth of supernatural tied green eyes is so strong that it even extends to the social negativity of green-colored contacts in this subrub. Telling everyone what he experienced in the suburb when people frowned upon those with supernatural ties? It would be harder to navigate after Tama discovered that it was real. Now, how is he going to use it? Considering Tama's unemployment status and nosy neighbors plus friends that could be heard from half a mile, well....

Ethan Valor was once humiliated, mocked, and discarded by those closest to him—his wife, Victoria, and her powerful family, the Lornes. Branded weak and incompetent, he was fired from the family conglomerate and replaced by Victoria’s ex-boyfriend, billionaire Damian Cross. Everyone thought they had stripped him of his potential… but they had only awakened a relentless fire within him. Retreating into obscurity, Ethan quietly rebuilt his empire, investing in technologies, acquiring strategic assets, and amassing wealth at a pace no one could anticipate. While Victoria and her family celebrated his absence, their empire slowly became unknowingly dependent on the very man they had scorned. When Ethan returns, he is no longer the meek man they knew—he is a trillionaire, untouchable, and commanding power that stretches across industries and nations. The Lornes and Victoria come begging, but Ethan’s revenge is precise: he buys out their companies, ruins his enemies, and demonstrates that humiliation is the catalyst for unstoppable greatness. From Ashes to Empire is a story of patience, vengeance, and ultimate triumph—a testament to intelligence, strategy, and unyielding ambition.

Four years ago, Manuel Rodriguez was forcibly disowned by his family leaving him with no choice but to marry into the Sullivan family as a live-in son-in-law. His wife and in-laws treated him like trash due to his poverty. Framing him, they used the opportunity to divorce and discard him that night into the cold. He received a phone call that night that completely changes his life. He's determined to make everyone that ever looked down on him dance to the tune of their own music while investigating the truth of what happened four years ago.

Suddenly, at the stroke of midnight, magic happen and hundreds of notifications started popping up on the screen. Barry's trades took off in a way that defied all logic with profits soaring on a larger scale. He was earning billions of dollars per second. After the first second, he earned $10.42 billion. After a minute, he made $625 billion. After an hour, Barry made over $37.5 Trillion. Barry continued to sleep, unaware his laptop was blowing up with unimaginable wealth....

He was the joke of the century. The nobody who somehow tricked a Bradford daughter into marriage. The pathetic man who couldn't even keep his wife faithful. For five years, Marcus Chen endured hell as the despised son-in-law of the powerful Bradford family. They mocked him, abused him, and treated him like worthless trash. . On the night of his divorce party, a celebration thrown specifically to humiliate him, Marcus finally signed the papers and walked away with nothing. What the Bradfords didn't know was that Marcus isn't some nobody from nowhere. He's Marcus Chen-Laurent, the hidden heir of one of the most powerful empires in the city. Now that the game is over, Marcus is done playing the victim. The forsaken heir has returned and he's bringing with him, HELL.

Marcus Chen, the youngest five-star general in modern history, dies in disgrace—poisoned in a military prison after being framed for a war crime that killed 1,400 civilians. He wakes up ten years in the past, on his first day at the National Defense Academy, with a mysterious Warden System bonded to his soul. The system gives him a mission: prevent seven catastrophic disasters over the next ten years or detonate, taking half a continent with him. Armed with future knowledge and system-enhanced abilities, Marcus begins saving lives while hunting the conspiracy that destroyed him. Each mission he completes reveals a darker truth—he wasn't framed by accident. He was chosen. As Marcus dominates academy training with the tactical genius of his former life, he draws the attention of people who will shape his destiny. Instructor Kane, who seems trustworthy but harbors dangerous secrets. Aria Volkov, the intelligence operative who died in his original timeline but now investigates his impossible knowledge. Leon Cross, the congressman's son who starts as an enemy but becomes an unlikely ally when he discovers his father's role in the conspiracy. And Dr. Sophia Reeves, the psychologist who unknowingly created the weapon slowly killing Marcus. With each prevented disaster, the conspiracy tightens its grip. Firebase Theta—the atrocity that destroyed Marcus's life—isn't just coming. It's accelerating. Marcus realizes he can't stop it. He can only expose it. He forms a team of outcasts and traitors, sacrifices his career and identity, and wages a shadow war against an enemy embedded in the highest levels of government. But prevention comes with a price. The Warden System is burning through Marcus's lifespan, the line between hero and weapon blurs with every mission, and the conspiracy's true goal is more terrifying than revenge: they're not trying to destroy him. They're trying to recruit him.

In his last breath on a blood-soaked black-ops mission, elite agent Kael Voss tasted only betrayal and regret for the innocents lost, for the life he threw away chasing shadows. But death was merely the beginning. Reborn into a savage realm on the brink of endless war, Kael awakens as the unwilling vessel of Aresion, the long-lost God of War. Gifted with devastating superpowers and a merciless "War System" that levels him up through every kill, conquest, and hard-won secret, he must navigate a world where gods play deadly games and empires rise on broken bones. Yet the God of War is no mindless destroyer. Ruthless in battle, Kael cuts down tyrants and armies without hesitation only to spare those who earn his hard-won forgiveness, haunted by the ghosts of his past. As a shadow agent for a fractured resistance, he infiltrates enemy lines, unravels the mystery of the fallen pantheon, and confronts the ultimate question: Can a man forged in regret truly break the cycle of violence… or is he destined to

Five years ago, Ron Donaldo was a brilliant but naive aerospace engineer, framed for corporate espionage and the murder of his mentor—a crime orchestrated by the love of his life, Theresa Sterling, to seize his patents. Sentenced to "The Pit," a prison notorious for housing the world’s most dangerous warlords, mercenaries, and hackers, Ron was expected to die within a week. He didn’t. Five years later, Ron is released. He appears broken, wearing an ill-fitting gray suit and carrying a duffel bag of junk. On the prison steps, Theresa’s new husband greets him not with an apology, but with a severance check and a restraining order. They think they’ve discarded a broken man. They are wrong. Inside The Pit, Ron didn’t rot; he ruled. He saved the lives of disgraced generals, financial geniuses, and master assassins, earning their eternal loyalty. He is no longer Ron the Engineer. He is "The Apex"—the silent broker of the global underworld. Now, he’s out, and he doesn’t want his company back. He wants to burn their empire to the ground, one share at a time.