Tvtropes Last Man Standing

Andrew Smith, a pro player in the virtual reality game curia online, a game that models a magical world called curia. Andrew Smith and several thousand other players fought the last boss the demon sovereign and lost. No one on earth knew exactly what happened, but those several other thousand players who died in the game, fighting the demon sovereign, never woke up from their virtual capsules. Azraf Skythunder, a young man from an ancient World called Valens, hailing from the Ancient Skythunder clan, an ancient clan that has a glorious history and an age-long mission of protecting all worlds was sent on a mission to prove himself a worthy man who is worth upholding his Ancestors mission. Andrew Smith's and Azraf Skythunder, faith, crossed paths when Andrew smith died in the virtual reality game and when Azraf Skyrhunder died on the mission after slaying the mighty lightning blue dragon. Their souls intertwined and Azraf Skythunder reincarnated into Andrew Smith's modern world. A world that was bizarre in his eyes, was filled with wonders to him but at the same time, a disaster lurked behind the curtains. he could not understand the reason why he was sent into this foreign world, his father had once told him that nothing in this world is a coincidence, so coupled with Andrew Smith's memories, he tries to find out his place and mission in this endangered world.

Ares Anderson, an orphan who had no idea about his origin was a hard-working young man who lived his life solely on providing everything for his girlfriend, even sacrificing his own needs and meals. The day he wanted to surprise her with the gift she wouldn't stop asking about in days, however, was the day Ares caught her accepting another man’s wedding proposal. As though she wasn't the one who had once loved and cared about him, she ordered for him to be beaten up, and if not for his secret treasure, the only thing he knew that linked him to his origin other than his name, coming up to his rescue, he would have become a waste. Unknown to Ares, however, this mysterious gem, which had always healed him anytime he was injured or sick was a seal to a mysterious organization whose power goes beyond the mortal realm, and he is the master of this organization. What will he do the day he comes to know this secret? That he was the master of an organization that has all the wealth and power of this world at its disposal? Wait, forgot to mention, what will he also do the day he triggered the last mechanism in his seal and finally gained one of his countless inheritances, which would directly skyrocket him from a weakling to a full-fledged cultivator, giving him the strength to destroy nations and topple world? Find out in this book.

Nathan Cole gave everything to his marriage. He turned down promotions. He emptied his savings. He woke up every morning and chose his family even when his family stopped choosing him back. For six years he told himself that love was a decision, not a feeling, and he kept making it long after Vivienne had quietly stopped. Then came the diagnosis. Progressive Myelin Decay Syndrome. Rare. Degenerative. Expensive to treat. And the optimal window for treatment had almost completely passed, because every time Nathan had tried to get Lily seen, Vivienne had told him he was overreacting. Lily was seven years old. She wanted one thing for her birthday. Not gifts. Not a party. Just her mother standing in the same room long enough to watch her blow out the candles. It should have been effortless. Instead Nathan watched his wife choose a man's son over her own daughter. Watched her dismiss a dying child's collapse as manipulation. Watched her drive away and leave them on the side of a road while Lily fought to breathe in his arms. He buried his daughter alone on a quiet morning while Vivienne celebrated someone else's birthday at home. ~.~ When a mother chooses the wrong child to save. And a father is left with nothing but a drawing and a promise he made while running. How do you rebuild a life from the wreckage of everything you gave away?

Kevin Hart never knew what it felt like to be truly loved. His father abandoned him. His mother raised him alone, sacrificing everything until the day she died, leaving him an orphan before he was old enough to understand what home meant. With her final breath, she held his trembling hand. "I'm sorry, Kevin... Mom can't stay with you anymore." He was still too young to bury the only person who had ever loved him. Standing before her grave, tears streaming down his face, he whispered, "Mom... I'll make you proud." With nothing left, he was sent into the military, where pain became his teacher and the battlefield became his family. Years later, the broken boy rose to become GODsFALL—the most feared War God alive. Kingdoms trembled at his name. Enemies prayed they would never meet him. Then he met Sarah. For the first time, Kevin laid down his sword. He walked away from power, glory, and bloodshed to become nothing more than an ordinary husband. He believed love was worth every sacrifice. But on their wedding night, Sarah walked out to be with another man. Alone in a room filled with untouched champagne and shattered promises, Kevin finally understood a cruel truth: The world had never chosen him. Not as a son. Not as a child. Not even as a husband. The man who gave up everything was left with nothing. This time, he would never beg for love again. The War God had returned.

THE DEVIL'S ALPHA No one in the Infernal Pit knows his name. Not at first. He is just another prisoner thrown into the sand to fight for the entertainment of people who will never learn what he lost to end up here. But the memories keep breaking through. A burning window. A father's last stand. A mother's warning about something called the First Choir, whispered as the world he knew burned to the ground. Piece by piece, the truth surfaces, he is the last son of House Varkaine, heir to a bloodline everyone believes is extinct. Survival teaches him to fight. Loss teaches him to lead. And somewhere beneath his own ribs, something ancient and patient begins, slowly, to wake. Free at last, he does not want a throne. He wants something the old world never offered anyone like him, a place to belong. But the kings who destroyed his family were only ever puppets, and the true enemy waiting in the shadows has been guarding a secret far older than any crown. They call him the Devil's Alpha. He is only just beginning to find out what that name will cost him.

“Please… don’t kill me!” My voice trembles as I stare at the two people standing in front of me, my own brother and my wife, the woman I love more than my life. “Why…?” I whisper, my throat dry. My brother smirks and she avoids looking at me, as if I mean nothing to her. That silence… it breaks me more than anything. I step back slowly, but my foot slips near the edge. Panic rises in my chest as I realize where I am the cliff behind me, the darkness waiting below. “No…” I murmur, but it’s too late. A sudden push and I fall. The wind roars in my ears as my body drops into the abyss. Fear grips me, but stronger than fear is the burning betrayal inside me. My eyes shut as darkness swallows everything. They think I die that night But I don’t, I survive and I change. Years pass, and Now I return to the same world but I am no longer that weak man. I am something else… something darker. The city fears my name. The underworld bows before me. Power runs through my veins. Money, influence, control everything is mine now. And I don’t return alone. With a mysterious princess, beautiful yet dangerous, her secrets as dark as my past. She understands me in ways no one ever could. This time, I don’t beg. This time, I don’t fall. Because I am no longer the man they betrayed… I am the nightmare that has returned for revenge.

MATURE, dark psychological thriller, slow burn. Alex Dane was a broken prisoner, a man betrayed by his own blood and left to rot in the shadows of Indore. His life was supposed to end on a desolate shore, a victim of his uncle Vikram's sadistic greed. But death was only the beginning. When Alex's blood touched the ancient sands, it awakened "The Driva"—a sentient, cold-blooded bio-system that doesn't just guide him; it craves his Royal Plasma. Now, Alex is the last hope of a dying aquatic civilization, but power comes with a price that is as intimate as it is terrifying. As he vanishes into a 365-day survival hell in the impenetrable rainforests, he realizes he is the Eighth Descendant, and his DNA is the only key to restarting a forbidden species. The Game of Two Obsessions Alex is no longer the hunter; he is the most coveted prize in two worlds. He must descend into the deepest trench to perform a forbidden ritual with the Lurking Empress—the frozen, "dead" Queen of the Mermaids. Can he survive the deadly obsession of two rival princesses? Or will he lose his humanity to become the cold-hearted father of a species that will reclaim the Earth?

“Hector! Hector!” Christen screamed. “Hector! Please help me! They have our daughter!” His wife's scream was the last thing Hector expected to hear on his return home after years in the military. The house was in shambles, blood everywhere and his family was no where to be found. Little did Hector know that one phone call was going to change his life for the utmost worst and destroy everything he had built for almost a decade. With nothing left to his name, Hector is at the brink of despair, betrayed by the country he had served with his life until he is approached by a strange man. A dead man for that matter who offers Hector not just a chance for revenge against his enemies, but an opportunity to have everything he's ever wanted. In this twisting tale of revenge, death and bloodthirst, Hector finds himself entangled in a dangerous quest. This is slightly altered when he struggles as he finds love yet again with a mysterious journalist. Will this new face in the picture cool Hector's burning, vengeful heart? Or will the Chance to Play God consume him completely?

I died as the Nine Realms’ strongest Sovereign. Or so they thought. I woke up 5 years ago in a broken body — no memories, no cultivation, no name. The Carter family took me in as their live-in son-in-law, a dog they kicked for three years straight. The day my cheating wife threw divorce papers at me, I signed without looking back. At the crossroads, a girl in white was waiting. She called me “Your Majesty”... and returned something I’d buried: a shattered soul bead. With it came whispers. Fragments of a past life. And a truth: my death wasn’t an accident. It was betrayal. Now I have no power, but I have time. Nine soul fragments scattered across the realms. Nine betrayers who took my throne. Nine steps from trash son-in-law to the man who rewrites the heavens. They think I’m crippled. They think I’m done. Let them laugh. Every slap, every insult, every “worthless”... it’s all fuel. Because when the last fragment awakens, the Sovereign returns. And this time, I won’t die alone.

Noah Stone has spent the last three years living a simple life. He works long hours as a mechanic, keeps his head down, and tries to be a good husband. He doesn’t remember who he was before an accident erased his past, but he’s made peace with it. Some things, he tells himself, are better left unknown. Then, in a single day, everything changes. His marriage ends. Strangers show up calling him “Chairman.” And the world he thought he understood starts to crack open. Suddenly, Noah finds himself pulled into a reality that doesn’t match the man he believes he is one filled with power, wealth, and expectations he never asked for. People who once overlooked him begin watching closely. Others seem threatened by his very existence. The problem is, Noah still doesn’t know the full truth about his own past. All he knows is this: If he really was someone powerful before he lost his memory, there must be a reason he disappeared. And not everyone is ready for him to remember.