Under The Oak Tree 2

Tom Burro was born with one eye clouded gray, the mark that cursed his life. His father called it an omen. His stepmother called him a monster. His only friend was Snowly, a mysterious white dog that seemed to understand everything he said. When Tom’s mother died under strange circumstances, he was abandoned and left to rot in a crumbling orphanage. His half-brother, Gabby Miles Burro, inherited everything, wealth, reputation, and the Burro name, and used it to make Tom’s life a private hell. But on the night Gabby nearly beat him to death, something awoke inside the “bad eye.” The world slowed. The air shimmered. And a voice whispered inside his mind: “The Spirit System of the Matriarchal Line has found its heir.” Suddenly, Tom could see opportunities: glowing threads that led to fortune, danger, or salvation. Every decision revealed invisible paths, the Spiritual Economy of reality itself. From scavenging junkyards to hacking fate, Tom begins climbing from the ashes. But with every gain, he feels someone watching him. The system’s power is evolving, and with it, ancient forces long buried are stirring. Gabby’s greed isn’t just human anymore. Something ancient has chosen him too… By the time Tom learns the truth, that his cursed eye isn’t just a gift but a key to a divine inheritance, he’ll already be trapped in a web of bloodlines, betrayal, and fate. And Snowly, his loyal companion, might not be a dog at all

In the fourth year of the apocalypse, humanity was on the brink of extinction. I did not perish under natural disasters or fall victims to zombies, but tragically met my end at the hands of betrayal and greed from my companions. When I opened my eyes again, I found myself five years past! In that year, apocalypse had yet to arrive, and my loved ones and friends who had truly cared for me were still alive, untouched by various reasons and my indiscriminate kindness… I am determined to correct the mistakes of my previous life in this new one. There’s still time to change everything! Reborn like a phoenix, I swear that, in this life, I will rather be a leader than a follower. I will do everything in my power to ensure that I and those I care about live well. Those plutocrats who squeezed the last drop of blood from us, those corrupt leaders who treated the lives of ordinary people as worthless, those complex and greedy groups, those awakened individuals who activated their talents but remained timid and cowardly, pushing ordinary people and responsible awakeners as scapegoat—This time, I’m coming for you. I swear, I will make you crawl at my feet! In this ruined world, I will rebuild the human habitat and restore an era of peace and prosperity! I will be the creator of this new world! I will be the king of the new era! I will be the new Legend!

Five great continents. Endless wars. In this world, Mana is destiny. It decides who rises as a hero, a king, or a monster. But Tyda never got his chance. Before he could even attend the Guild Selection, his home—Lerin Village on the Eastern Continent—was destroyed by Legion Commander Zed. With no awakened power, he stood alone and sacrificed everything to save his people. To the world, he was forgotten. To Gaiden Minamoto, he became a legend. Born in the same village and blessed with the rarest power—Divine Mana—Gaiden grows up determined to honor Tyda’s will. He leaves the Eastern Continent to join a Guild in the South, while his mentors stay behind to build their own strength. Yet not everyone moved on. Tyda’s closest friends—Maya, Bigolo, Bren, Bram, Glendo, Judy, and Rona—were also trained under Teacher Long. But grief turned into blame, and they became bitter enemies consumed by anger. When Gaiden meets these seniors, still full of pain and rage… what will they do? Will he bring them back from the darkness, or be forced to fight them to the death? And the biggest question of all: If Tyda returns one day… what will Gaiden do? Will he welcome back the hero he admired? Or stand against him if he has become the greatest threat the world has ever known? But one thing is certain: Aurora Guild—once empty, forgotten, and the weakest of all—will rise.

For three years, Adrian Cole endured humiliation as a live-in husband…mocked, belittled, and treated like a servant by his wife Victoria and her venomous mother. But the night Victoria’s company goes public, everything changes. When Victoria betrays him with another man and demands a divorce, she has no idea who Adrian really is: the mysterious Mr. X, the invisible billionaire who controls Meridian Industries…one of the world’s largest conglomerates. The penthouse she thinks belongs to her new lover? Adrian owns it. The IPO approval that launched her career? Adrian gave it to her. Every success she’s claimed as her own was built on his hidden power. But Adrian doesn’t want revenge. He just wants to disappear. Then he meets Sophia Laurent…a brilliant CEO whose company was destroyed in the chaos of Victoria’s rise. When Adrian saves Sophia from a brutal attack and helps resurrect her ruined business, something unexpected happens: he starts to feel again. As Victoria’s new relationship crumbles under the weight of lies and gambling debts, and as Sophia’s toxic family tries to control her future, Adrian must decide: Will he remain in the shadows, or step into the light for the woman who sees him as more than his wealth? A story of hidden power, second chances, and the difference between being valued for what you have versus who you are.

In the shadowed kingdom of Valthorne, King Aric fell deeply in love with Seraphine, a half-demon woman of infernal beauty and fire. Their son, Prince Kane, was born heir to the throne. But weeks later, Aric was found murdered,throat slashed. His ruthless sister, Lady Morgana, accused Seraphine of using demonic sorcery to kill him. The queen was burned alive in the public square, her screams lost to black flames. The infant Kane was spared, raised as the "cursed prince" under Morgana's cold rule. Twenty-two years later, on the eve of his coronation, a terrified maid enters his chambers with a dagger. In the struggle, she stabs herself and dies. Guards find Kane standing over her body, blood on his hands. His fiancée, Princess Valerie of Eldrath, rejects him with disgust: "Just like your mother. A demon wearing a crown." The court condemns him without trial. Dragged to Dead Hill Valley,a bottomless abyss for the damned,Kane swears vengeance: "I will return. And every soul who betrayed my parents will burn." They hurl him into the void. He falls. Until darkness catches him. At the valley floor, demons with storm-gray skin and glowing amber eyes surround him. A fierce silver-haired female sees the blazing Emperor's mark on his shoulder. She commands: "Kneel. This is the one." They bow. She steps closer, smiling. "You are home, my king." The abandoned prince is no bastard. He is the last heir to an empire of demons. And vengeance is only the beginning.

Eli Turner was the invisible kid at Crestwood High. Skinny, quiet, and always buried in books, he was the prime target for bullies. Every day, he was shoved into lockers, laughed at in the cafeteria, and humiliated in the classroom. No one cared that he was a genius. No one cared that he had dreams. Least of all, Amelia Rhodes—the girl he once dared to admire from afar. The queen bee of Crestwood. She smiled at him once, and he thought maybe, just maybe, she was different. But that hope was shattered when she dumped a milkshake on his head during prom night, laughing with the rest of the crowd. "You're just a loser, Eli. Always have been, always will be," she spat, heels clicking away as the crowd jeered. Broken and humiliated, Eli almost gave up. Until the email arrived. "Welcome, Elijah Turner. You have unlocked your inheritance. The Turner Foundation and all its holdings are now yours." In disbelief, he opened the account. $250 million. Access to top private mentors, global influence, and a tech empire under his control. Now, Eli is returning—but not as the bullied nerd. This time, he’s the prodigy they never saw coming. With a new name, a sharpened edge, and the power to bring his enemies to their knees. Amelia will choke on her laughter. The bullies will bow. And Crestwood will never forget the day Eli Turner rewrote his story. Will Eli seek vengeance, or redemption?

Six Gods rule six towers, allowing the mortal races to earn power, prosperity, and prestige. One day a seventh god appears in the world in the form of a 12-year-old boy. " My name Is Dawn, you can also call me the god of death." The Boy introduced himself. " Become my follower and I will grant you the privilege of using my power. The Power that is the beginning and the end of everything, The power of Death." ------ This is the story of a man bestowed with the power of death and once renowned as the god of death by everyone. He sacrificed himself to save the kind humans of the world but that wasn't the end of him. He reincarnates and starts his journey once again in the same world which has drastically changed. He wields a power that allows him to become stronger by killing. A being with no limits, he will shake the world and will once again become the 7th God who has been forgotten by the World. Follow his journey filled with adventures, action, and wars. ----- The story takes place in a fantasy world known as Sabaspire, there are seven towers in seven different parts of the world. Six out of the seven towers are ruled by gods and the seventh tower is known as the demon tower. Outside the towers, the world is ruled by the BraveHeart Empire and BrenSol kingdom, They are under the protection of Fake Gods. Dawn and his followers will find out the truth about the change in the world and will fight against whatever they consider wrong. ----- Follow me on:- Instagram: @zayir_dm discord: https://discord.gg/6fRCrhVZ

Hunter Miller, is a bright young man with a humble background. Having grown up with only his mother in the picture, Hunter strives to succeed in life and give his mother the comfort she deserves. This seems possible when he is suddenly approached by Ava Paige, the daughter of a prominent businessman in the country. Hunter falls for Ava easily, and is thrilled when she tells him that she wishes to marry him. What he doesn't know is that Ava just wants to use him to get her shares and property from her late grandfather. After their marriage, things take a turn for the worse. Hunter is looked down on by the members of the Paige family, and his wife doesn't seem to stand up for him. Eventually, Hunter finds out that Ava has played him and is cheating on him. When he confronts her, she produces divorce papers and tells him to leave her. Hunter pleads with her to stay with him, but she refuses. Dejected, Hunter signs the divorce papers and leaves the Paige mansion. He manages to get a job as the secretary to the CEO of Lee Corps, the biggest business chain in the country. The CEO, takes a liking to Hunter and takes him under his wing, but there's just something about Hunter, that the CEO cannot fully grasp. What could it be? How does Hunter get past his divorce with Ava and does he strike back at the Paige family?

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.

When Victor Lazarus, the world's most powerful art broker, dies suddenly, the international art scene holds its breath. For decades, Lazarus built an empire not by owning the world's rarest masterpieces, but by exhibiting them—Monet, Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Da Vinci, Hokusai, and more. These works, entrusted to him by the world's wealthiest collectors, turned his gallery into their stage: where masterpieces drew crowds, prestige, and profit, until the moment the owners chose to sell. Now, with Lazarus gone, the curtain is rising on the greatest auction of the century. Twelve priceless works, each carrying centuries of history, are set to leave his gallery forever. For the elite, it is a chance to claim cultural immortality. For the press, it is a spectacle without equal. For one crew of six, it is something else entirely. They see more than paintings under glass. They see a once-in-a-lifetime fortune, one last performance of Lazarus's legacy, only rewritten in their favor. With few months to prepare, outthink security systems, staff rotations, and every eye that will be watching. Few months to pull off a heist that would shatter records and rewrite history. But art has a way of ensnaring those who covet it. In the chase for fortune, the question is not only whether the heist can succeed, but whether Lazarus's legacy will be honored, betrayed, or reborn in the shadows. The Lazarus Job is a razor-sharp thriller of art, ambition, power, and the dangerous game played where beauty and power collide.