Tower Ascension

They left him to burn in the ashes of his birthright, but they forgot that true power is forged in the fire. Arthur Sterling was born to inherit the most powerful martial legacy in the Aurora Empire, a family destined to guard the golden gates of the realm. But on the night of his ascension ritual, absolute betrayal strikes from within. His own uncle, Victor Sterling, allies with rival clans to slaughter the entire Sterling lineage, leaving Arthur broken and left for dead. The world believes the Sterling bloodline is fully wiped out, but unexpectedly, a reclusive master saves him.

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.

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.

Naji's heart beats once every twenty seconds. The clan called it proof that he was defective. Too heavy to cultivate. Too slow to ascend. Too worthless to inherit their name. But when his younger brother throws him into the bottomless Great Ravine during the sacred Ascension Race, Naji discovers a truth that changes everything: his curse was never a weakness—it was a shield. Now hunted by gods, betrayed by blood, and carrying a power capable of bending gravity itself, Naji must uncover the lie at the heart of heaven. Because while the world worships those who rise, he was born with the power to drag the heavens down.

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!"

When the Divine Tower appeared, everyone gained legendary classes while Zyren Adikara got a glitch: [Previous Life: Deceased God]. Lacking standard skills, Zyren must navigate a lethal system where monsters worship him, gorgeous allies mistake his utter confusion for supreme wisdom, and a cosmic conspiracy looms above. He soon learns that the gods did not create this world they are being harvested.

🏆["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.