Tragédie

"Give your mask to Mike. He's important. You're just a firefighter." Derek removed his mask. Carried them both down three floors. A beam crushed his leg. His wife walked away without looking back. He limped home. Found Mike in his pajamas. Erin cooking steaks she never once made for him. "Do you love me?" "You gave me credibility. I gave you a life you couldn't afford. A fair exchange." She slapped him when he asked for divorce. Not because she loved him. Because his timing ruined her keynote speech. A wildfire swallowed an entire county. Derek walked into the deadliest sector. Nobody expected him to survive. Erin ordered sushi with Mike. But Derek didn't die. He pulled a stranger from a burning house and shielded him with his own body. That stranger was Jerry Black. The DNA test confirmed the impossible. The firefighter she left to die was the missing heir to a quadrillion-dollar empire.

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.

In a kingdom where dragons were exterminated a hundred years ago, magic is controlled by the noble Mage Houses, and knights are treated as expendable soldiers. The male lead, Leon Valcrest, is a seventeen-year-old orphan serving as the weakest knight apprentice in the Royal knight Academy. He has no mana, no family crest, and no future. Despised by nobles and mocked by fellow trainees, he survives by doing dirty work for the Royal Knight Order while dreaming of becoming a Royal Knight. During a catastrophic attack on the capital by abyssal creatures, Leon is betrayed and left to die beneath the ruins of an underground basement. There, he discovers a chained black dragon buried beneath the earth. As he lies dying, he accidentally awakens the sealed bloodline of the legendary Dragon God. A crimson dragon spirit enters his body, granting him overwhelming strength, dragon fire, and the ability to command dragons. Now hunted by the Mage Houses and pursued by demons from the Abyss, Leon must uncover why the dragons disappeared and why the world fears their return. But the deeper he digs, the darker the truth becomes: The royal family itself was built on dragon genocide. And Leon may be the last heir to the throne they stole.

In the shimmering metropolis of Oakhaven, the elite live in glass towers while the "trash" survives in the soot below. Lucian Veyne is the king of that trash. To the world, he is a nameless scavenger, a beggar who collects aluminum cans and fixes broken phones in rain-slicked alleys. But Lucian has a secret: He owns the city’s darkness. Ten years ago, the Vale Family—owners of the city’s largest pharmaceutical empire—let his mother die on the hospital steps because she was "worthless." Since that day, Lucian hasn’t been looking for a job; he’s been building a system. Through the "Debt Web" (micro-loans to the desperate) and the "Whisper Network" (an army of invisible homeless spies), Lucian has quietly tethered every corrupt politician, crooked cop, and greedy CEO to his thumb. When Seraphina Vale, the arrogant heiress of the empire that killed his mother, publicly humiliates him, she triggers the final phase of his plan. She thinks she’s crushing a beggar. She doesn’t realize she’s just declared war on the man who already holds the keys to her father’s vault.

For ten years, Morgan lived in a world where tomorrow was never guaranteed. As an ordinary soldier without a single supernatural ability, he survived the apocalypse through nothing but training, blood, and sheer determination. He fought zombies, watched comrades die, and did everything necessary to stay alive. Until one day, he was sacrificed as bait for a horde of zombies. He thought that was the end. Instead, he woke up in the body of a college student in a peaceful modern world—a chance to enjoy the life he never had. Then a mysterious System appeared. [Welcome to your second life.] [Complete missions to unlock extraordinary abilities.] Morgan wasn't interested in becoming a hero. He just wanted to eat good food, attend classes when he felt like it, and live independently. Unfortunately, his first major mission dragged him straight into the city's dangerous underworld. Morgan wanted nothing to do with it, but System had other plans. Now, between college life, impossible missions, underground battles, and a mafia princess who keeps pulling him deeper into trouble, Morgan has only one goal: Survive his second life without turning it into another apocalypse.

Damon Cross was supposed to awaken a Combat Path capable of changing his life. Instead, he received Archivist—an F-Rank support class with no combat skills and no future worth mentioning. Then, that same night, his class opened a door to a world where humanity had already gone extinct. [Dead Timeline detected.] [APOCALYPSE ARCHIVE activated.] Inside the Archives are civilizations that have already fallen, monsters that no longer exist, weapons lost to history, and evolutionary paths no living human has ever seen. And Damon can take them back with him. Kill an extinct monster. Loot its Remnant. Discover its evolution. Grow stronger. Then enter another dead world and do it again. While everyone else is trapped within a single Combat Path, Damon begins collecting powers that should never coexist. Monster Hunter. Mana Warrior. Psionic Evolution. Dragonblood. And those are only the beginning. But after exploring several destroyed timelines, Damon notices something impossible. Different worlds. Different civilizations. Different apocalypses. Yet the same symbol appears in every ruin. Those worlds did not die by accident. Something is destroying them. And sooner or later... Damon's world will be next.

Daniel only wanted an ordinary day. Classes, a bit of hanging out, then home before the rain grew heavier. But that humid afternoon became the beginning of the apocalypse. Humans began attacking humans, and the transformation happened right before his eyes. “Monsters don’t need a screen to be real.” Daniel said quietly. “And now they’re here. Everything Xavier talked about has come true.” This was not an ordinary outbreak. The colder the air, the faster they evolved. An air conditioner left running could become a death sentence. Rain was no longer a relief, but a trigger for slaughter. Trapped on the upper floors of the campus building, Daniel survives with Chania, Bianca, Xavier, and Kimberly. Five people with different fears, ways of thinking, and moral limits. Outside, the monsters grow faster. Inside, human decisions become even more dangerous. Chania said, “He almost bit us.” Daniel replied, “Not almost. He stopped being human a while ago.” This is not a story about heroes trying to save the world. This is a story about survival as the temperature continues to drop. And about one rule that cannot be negotiated. In Degrees of Death, the ones who die first are not the weak, but the hesitant.

Once, he was Alaric, the Golden Alpha every pack feared. On his wedding night, a silver dagger pierced his heart, and the hand holding it belonged to Selene, the vampire princess he loved. One hundred and twenty years later, Ethan is just a broke human living among werewolves. Mocked by the wolves his family serves, rejected everywhere, and beaten half to death in a dark alley, he is about to die when a cold voice speaks inside his head. [SYSTEM ACTIVATED. Welcome back, Golden Alpha.] Every memory he recovers awakens his power. Every power he regains brings him closer to the truth: the woman who killed him is now the right hand of Victoria Hale, an ageless CEO who rules business, media, and the hidden supernatural world. The same woman whose mansion Ethan has served in since he was a child. Ethan swears he will destroy them both. But when his family is kidnapped and Selene offers to help him, one question begins to haunt him: if Selene really betrayed him, why does the System in his head sound just like her?

My peaceful short life had been quickly cut off by a band of bandits that had raided my village, killing my father and capturing my mother. The bandit leader took a fancy to me and decided to make me one of them because of my face, for reasons unknown to me, but this was only the start of my journey. The more I grew up the more I realized that I had no talent, I was as ordinary as I could be, with no inherited memories, no old masters to help me improve my talent, no legacies left behind, no locked bloodlines that would burst into activity when I was in danger. But I still had something that most people didn't have. A stubbornness that many wouldn't possess, the stubbornness and sense of danger that I got for life after I saw my father die in front of me. And with that, I shall predate upon those that are more talented than me. I shall walk forward and reach the apex of the world, not because I want to protect anyone, but because that's simply what I want to do! Regardless of the methods that I have to use or the people that I have to push out of my way!

Zene Lach is a former veteran soldier who worked for a mysterious organisation known as the 9 Rings. A group that was dedicated to find 9 substances that they named fragments. Zene left the organisation as a spy and infiltrated an enemy country in which he became the bodyguard of a man named Natsuki Mikoyama. Zene who had never known what emotions were or felt like, was introduced to these strange feelings. Natsuki a man who felt older than his age described him as was Zene's ray of hope to die as a human at least. Zene in the end loses him, he loses the people that cared for him, his decision leads to a sole survivor and he takes an oath to protect that survivor. A man who had never learnt what feelings felt like was now living for her sake, hence His metamorphosis. [The planet named earth, It was destined to meet its end. The fates intertwined, for they had finally reached the beginning of the story. The world at its finest was now set to reach the starting point of the CODIFICATION. The world has three ways to overcome the scenarios. The Rebirth, The Reincarnation and finally the last way to overcome the CODIFICATION is Regression.], said the Greatest fragment.