Under The Oak Tree Manta

Kael Ardyn was the most powerful mage in the Nine Realms. Kings feared him, ancient clans praised him, and countless enemies wanted his secrets. When those enemies joined forces to kill him, Kael used a forbidden spell to escape. He expected to wake in another magical world. Instead, he opened his eyes inside Ethan Cole, a powerless young man on modern Earth. Ethan was mocked as a loser, buried under a brutal debt, and hated by the criminals who controlled his family. Kael planned to abandon the dying body and search for a better vessel. Then Ethan's parents and younger sister stood between him and the men who came to beat him to death. They were terrified, but none of them stepped aside. For the first time in either life, Kael chose a family over power. With only a small part of his magic left, he crushed the attackers and promised that his new family would never live in fear again. Now he must rebuild his strength, hide his true identity, and uncover why Earth's most powerful people know the magic of the world that murdered him.

Seven years prior, Anderson Campbell was the son of a thriving businessman, wielding a significant part of Lightharbor city’s economic lifeline. Every woman aspired to marry him, and Lauren Harris was no exception. But disaster struck. Anderson was sabotaged, and his company went bankrupt, burying him under massive debts. He became destitute, without a home, forced to live at his wife’s family residence as a son-in-law. From that point, he was known as the “useless” son-in-law of the Harris family, enduring their scorn and disdain. His constant engagement with his computer only further distanced him from them. Then one day, while enduring scorn at a café for using free Wi-Fi, his computer screen suddenly lit up: “Greetings, Host Anderson. I am the All-Powerful Reform System, here to assist. Please accept your first reward, a black card with a total asset of xxxxxx million dollars!” Now with money in his grasp, everything seemed possible. Anderson began his quest to uncover those who had wronged him, to exact revenge on those who had looked down upon him. They would soon regret!

In a world where magic is measured, controlled, and bound to the very essence of life, Lucas awakens in a body that is not his own. Transplanted into the life of a prodigious mage, he must navigate the elite halls of Eldoria Academy, where every spell is a test, and every friend may conceal a secret. Under the watchful guidance of Elera, his childhood friend and a prodigy in her own right, Lucas begins to unravel the mysteries of Aether, the lifeblood of magic itself. Yet the deeper he delves into its secrets the tiers, the cores, and the forces that shape reality the heavier the responsibility grows. Beyond the academy, threads of intrigue tighten. Mira, a brilliant researcher, has crossed the line between discovery and danger, and the shadowy figures who orchestrated her disappearance are watching. Among them, the truth of Lucas’s existence is known, and their plans threaten to upend everything he believes about himself. As allies clash, secrets unravel, and the weight of Aether presses down, Lucas must confront a question no mage has ever faced: can a soul borrowed from another world wield power without losing itself? This is a tale of magic, identity, and the fragile line between destiny and choice.

At Zenith Integration Academy, power determines everything. The gifted are worshipped. The talented become heroes. The weak are forgotten. Noah Vale belongs to the lowest rank of all — F-Class. Mocked by his classmates, dismissed by his teachers, and kept at careful arm's length by the girl he's loved since childhood, Noah is treated as proof that some people just aren't worth the effort. No one knows that the ranking system calling him worthless was never built to measure what he actually is. Earth already lost. The Korrathi Dominion conquered the planet in three days, and humanity now lives under alien rule, sorted, ranked, and kept exactly where it's told to stay. While the Dominion believes its occupation is settled and permanent, an ancient power buried inside Noah is starting to wake up. The Korrathi believe they've already won. The scientists hunting for Earth's last great secret believe they already know what they're looking for. They're both wrong. Because the lowest-ranked student in the academy was never a charity case. He was built to decide whether Earth deserves to keep existing at all.

For years, Kellan swallowed his pride to live under his wife's family roof, mocked and dismissed, treated like nothing. He told himself it was worth it because he loved Vivian. Then she proved him wrong in the cruelest way possible. She kisses another man right in front of him. Insults him in front of everyone who ever looked down on him. Stands by laughing as her lover throws money in his face like he's a beggar. Kellan says nothing. He simply walks away. What none of them know is that the "worthless son-in-law" they've spent years humiliating is actually the missing heir to a fortune that could swallow their family whole, and he's done hiding. One by one, everything Vivian's family built starts to crumble. And when a woman who wants nothing from him but the truth walks into his life, Vivian realizes the husband she destroyed might be the one man she'll never get back. He was never as weak as they thought. Now they're about to find out just how strong he really is.

"Argh! Why do my bones hurt so much?! Since when does an Unrivaled God Emperor like me feel pain? Wa-wait, what is this? No cultivation? Scant natural Qi energy? I AM A GOD EMPEROR—HOW CAN I ACCEPT THAT I'VE TRANSMIGRATED INTO A TRASH BODY LIKE THIS?!" Raged the figure who had finally come to terms with reality. He was no longer Long Bai, the Supreme God Emperor. He was now Lucas, a loser of a youth discarded even by his own family! Lucas had always been relentlessly bullied by his childhood friends under the pretense that he was a bastard child of the Wine family. To make matters worse, even the Wine family themselves constantly looked down upon him, heaping endless insults and verbal abuse on both him and his deceased mother. Yet, unexpectedly, in the midst of the suffering that ultimately claimed his life, the divine soul of an unrivaled God-tier cultivator from another realm took over his consciousness. And now, he had only one mission: to rewrite his fate, rise as the absolute strongest, and reclaim his former glory as the God Emperor once more.

Wednesday, March 10, 2021, put the entire city of Indianapolis in an alteration. Loss of lives and properties were involved because it was believed aliens invaded earth, although the government strongly rebuked this. However, Fifty percent of kids around the age of sixteen gained infection-induced powers through the freak ambush. Parts of the government outside the law, known as the 'Shadow Government, did their best to confiscate and put most of these teens under control. Some were ambushed by politicians and crazed scientists, as they were contained and imprisoned. Experiments were carried out to figure out what ticks them  to be used for selfish purposes. November Calhoun finds himself in the categorized teens with infection-induced powers. While these teens have one quirk to themselves, he has numerous of them which he seems to be discovering when challenges are set up for him. He does his best to not fall into the traps set by these scientists after discovering he can use his quirks to help people and fight crime. And his friends customize him a super-suit with the nametag 'N' to hide his identity. However, the flip-side gets shoved in his face when trained supervillains start attacking him.

Julian Drayton signed off on the Meridian's final blueprint two days before it's grand opening. He did not sign off the deaths of fourteen people, including his own mother, when the atrium floor gave way under three hundred gala guests. The family needed a name for the headlines. They gave them his. Six years later, Julian walks out of prison into a city that still calls him the architect who forged the safety report that killed Vivian Drayton. His fiancee has spent those years standing beside Weston, the cousin the family took in as a boy, now celebrated as the golden heir rebuilding the Meridian over its own rubble. Julian's father is waiting for him, not with an apology, but with a hard heart and an order: work the site, keep his head down, and stay invisible until Weston's coronation gala in nine days. Julian has one thing the family does not know he found, his mother's private ledger, hidden the week she died. Someone silenced the only auditor who read it before he could. This time, Julian decides what comes down next, and it will not be him

In this world, strength is not merely power. It is identity, wealth, political influence, and the right to live without fear. Every human being is born with martial veins, supernatural channels that determine how much martial energy their body can absorb, circulate, and convert into strength. A child with superior veins receives the finest education, the best resources, and the respect of powerful families. A child with damaged veins is considered a wasted life. Theo Vale is born with broken martial veins. His father disappears under mysterious circumstances. His mother spends everything she has to secure him a place at the prestigious Celestial Martial Academy, believing that education might give her son a chance at a decent life. Instead, Theo becomes the academy’s favourite punching bag. He is humiliated by students, dismissed by instructors, and deliberately excluded from assessments. The academy’s most celebrated student, a young man from one of the empire’s most powerful families, makes a public spectacle of degrading him. Theo endures it because his mother has sacrificed too much for him to abandon the academy. Then, one night, a brutal beating leaves him dying on the training grounds. Something awakens.

They say children who have never known peace and children who have never known war have completely different values. Without a doubt, most kids fell under the category of the latter, but what happens when an unforseen circumstance takes away that life of bliss and pulls one into a more perilous life? Nox, a hybrid between two accursed races grew up with all the love and care his parents could muster, although criticized for being an abomination who shouldn't have existed, he didn't pay heed to the whispers and malicious words directed at him, as long as his parents were with him, nothing else mattered. However that peaceful life was short-lived. On a dreadful day, an organization known as the cult of d'rauh, massacred his pack and parents in cold blood, in pursuit of something within the pack's possession. He barely managed to escape death, following the last wish of his dying mother and his father. But was it truly that simple? Was there a hidden agenda behind the veil of the senseless slaughter of his kin? Well it didn't matter, whatever the reason was, Nox had no desire to know, only the desire for revenge lingered.