Tower Ascension

In the city of Halcyon Bay, ancient powers stir, and dark forces threaten to unleash chaos upon the land. When Ryan discovers the hidden powers of the Celestial Reliquary, he is left to decide the fate of the city. With his stepmother Isabella leading an organization of dark magic users known as the Ascension, Ryan must unlock his abilities and forge unlikely alliances to protect the relic and stop the Ascension's evil plans. As the forces of light and darkness collide, Ryan is faced with impossible choices and unimaginable challenges, testing the limits of his courage and resolve as he discovers his archnemesis is none other than his confidant and friend, a reincarnation from his previous life. In this tale of magic and mystery, Ryan must embrace his destiny and confront the shadows that lurk within and without, lest Halcyon Bay fall into darkness forever. So, dear reader, are you ready to embark on a journey into the unknown? Open the pages of "Mystic Retribution" and prepare to be transported to a world where anything is possible and where the truest magic of all lies within the pages of a captivating story.

After being killed at the last level, Lucius suddenly woke up and found the recovery system in his body. Lucius restarts the game from the lowest level, then becomes the 'chosen one' who is taken to the Central Control Tower. Ever since arriving at the Central Control Tower, one fact was known: all players were guinea pigs of virtual game worlds created by the elite. Lucius must find a way to escape the virtual game world and destroy the system that will make the virtual game world a reality. How to free himself and all the players from the virtual game world that trapped them? How did Lucius' way and journey destroy the 'main' system in the real world? Under the rule of Dominic, the general manager—the virtual game character controller, their lives are at stake. *** [SYSTEM HAS OFFICIALLY ACTIVE] [WELCOME TO THE CENTER OF THE TOWER, PLAYERS 018! YOU ARE CHOSEN TO BE PART OF THE GAME!] [YOU NEED TO COMPLETE GAME CASES AND COLLECT POINTS LEVELS, STAT, AND SKILLS] [5%... 15%... 35%.... 47%... 67%... 77%... 89%... 100%] [SYNCHRONIZATION COMPLETED!] [YOU HAVE ENTERED A NEW CHAPTER OF THE GAME]

Every January 11th the Skeleton Tower waits. A photographer steps inside chasing whispers. A candle burns. A city holds its breath. Behind the glass is something older than the Thames, patient, hungry, and smiling with too many mouths. One flame stands between London and the drowning. One choice stands between mercy and eternity. And once you light it… you never truly leave.

In a world ruled by the Ascension System, survival is permission-based. At eighteen, every citizen is evaluated, awakened, and assigned a path. Those who fail are erased—cleanly, legally, without regret. Kael Ashborne fails. Declared unawakened, Kael is sentenced to execution inside a system-controlled dungeon. No skills. No stats. No divine interface to save him. His death is calculated, approved, and inevitable. Except it doesn’t happen. Through instinct, defiance, and choices the system cannot predict, Kael survives becoming a contradiction the Ascension System cannot classify or correct. Instead of granting him power, the system begins to observe him. Study him. Adapt. Hunted by system-enforcers and shadowed by a hidden group known as the Erased—people who exist outside recorded outcomes—Kael learns a terrifying truth: the system does not rule by strength, but by certainty. It closes futures, locks outcomes, and sacrifices possibility to maintain order. Kael can break those futures. Not by overpowering the system but by invalidating its decisions. As the system escalates from observation to rollback, rewriting time and reality to erase him, Kael’s existence begins to destabilize the world itself. Cities fracture. Laws glitch. People suffer under the cost of wasted authority. Forced to choose between survival and responsibility, Kael steps into a role no one was meant to fill: a living anomaly capable of reopening closed destinies. The system calls him a catastrophic variable. The world may call him something else.

🏆["Silver Medal" in Sci-fi Category of "Meganovel Annual Writing Contest 2022"]🏆 After the death of his father, Arthur gets blacklisted from good-paying companies forcing him into a life of misery and depression. He remembers that his father left him something before he died. "My son...when you are ready...break this" After he breaks the glass a hologram suddenly appeared in front of him. [EARLY ACCESS TOWER OF DEOS UNLOCKED!] Donation Link: PayPal.me/ChadGuy45 (The link is case sensitive) There will be a sequel to this novel.

In our era, where science and technology dominate, magic and the like are always dismissed as myths and legends, elements of folklore. However, a boy named Tom crops up from the rural areas of Detroit. Tom, was a lover of books, a science freak, and an ardent admirer of magic. During his high school days, Tom found a book from one of the world’s most secret occult groups; The Order of the Chalice. This book led him to an unprecedented adventure into the depths of the most hidden places in the world. Meanwhile, Tom’s unrequited lover, Heidi, was worried about Tom and insisted on pursuing him. Tom left home after hijacking his father’s pension funds in search of the Stone of Heka which the occult book told him of. Heidi, on the other hand, cut a frustrated figure as Tom eluded her. Sometime in the future, decades after he left his family, Tom resurfaced. But now, as the ‘vulle guze cha’; the magic Overlord of the Order of the Chalice. Many catastrophic events heralded his ascension and emergence. This caused the States, politicians, and the Order of the Chalice surviving members to become alert. The state thought that a major terrorist group had attacked, while politicians confused, concocted many conspiracy theories in pursuit of the culprit. However, the Order of the Chalice was frenziedly preparing for the homecoming and true ascension of the legendary ‘vulle guze cha’ who will lead them to the limelight, and bring back the golden era of magic. Heidi, who was done with her college education, has been in pursuit of Tom and is the only one who knows his whereabouts. Tom, however, seeks supremacy. He wants to rule the world. An inevitable war will ensue but only Heidi can save the day.

A cursed inheritance. A fractured soul. A demon unleashed. Jiho thought he’d woken from a dream, but destiny had other plans. After stumbling through a portal of light and gaining strange powers, he discovers forgotten bloodlines, mythic secrets, and a sibling born of death. A single touch reveals his true nature—holder of the black dragon soul, wielder of divine tree energy, and bearer of a corrupted fate. When a mysterious killer shatters his world, Jiho sacrifices a severed arm to summon a nameless demon. What follows is pure carnage: time reversal, holy knight ascension, and soul-slaying fury as darkness clashes with righteousness inside a sealed domain. Jiho survives the storm—but the abyss has awakened.

Barned and rejected from entering into the king's palace, he became a live-in son-in-law of Lord Marcus. He was maltreated by his mother in-law, grandmother-in-law and wife's cousins. Fortunately, Charles had just received a letter of apology from the palace with a compensation of $900,000,000,000 for all damages caused to him and request for his ascension into the throne of The British Kingdom. Now, it's payback time to all who maltreated him as a live-in son-in-law and those who masterminded his banishment plots from the Palace which also led to his mother's death. "As long as I live, I must avenge Queen Ava's death!"

He risked everything for the gods. They took everything from him. Avalon was promised peace—a safe life for his family—if he completed one final mission. So he crossed into a forbidden realm, fought monsters beyond imagination, and stole the legendary Ascension Box. But when he returned home... his world was gone. His wife. His children. All murdered. Betrayed by the very gods he served, Avalon was stripped of his power and left to die like a dog. But death was only the beginning. Now, cursed and reborn in the place where gods are forgotten, Kael awakens with a new purpose. He won't beg for mercy. He won’t seek justice. He will bring vengeance. One god at a time.

Married into the rich Griffin family through a binding contract, Bruce lived three years as a useless son-in-law and a worthless husband. While his CEO wife ruled boardrooms, he cooked, cleaned, and endured endless insults from her family. When financial ruin threatened the Griffins, Caro didn’t hesitate to sell her marriage to millionaire executive Willis Stone. Betrayed and humiliated on his wedding anniversary, Bruce was pressured into a divorce. Moments after the ink dried, Bruce inherited the Shepherd Conglomerate, a global empire worth $100 trillion. Stripped of love, and filled with revenge, Bruce began his ascension to power while face slapping and crushing everyone who wronged him under his feet.