Under The Oak Tree Manta

PREMISE Damang, a former special forces operative (Military Scholar) who returns to his village in the interior of Kalimantan, finds his homeland beginning to "sicken." A multinational corporation called The Andalusian Order has arrived under the guise of a green energy project. However, Damang smells blood. Led by Elias Thorne, a charismatic occultist who possesses telekinetic powers and the ability to manipulate blood, the sect is actually searching for the "Heart of the Earth"—the largest spiritual energy point in Kalimantan—to awaken a dark entity from the ancient Andalusian era that they worship. The sect did not come empty-handed. They brought The Paladins, a mercenary force modified with dark magic, making them bulletproof and granting them abnormal speed. When his father (the Tribal Chief) is brutally slaughtered before his eyes using a magical ritual, Damang realizes that his assault rifle is not enough. Guided by the spirit of the Panglima Burung through blood-soaked dreams, Damang must undergo a forbidden ritual to awaken the Flying Mandau and master high-level invulnerability. A great war erupts: Machine guns vs. poison blowdarts that hunt their targets. European blood magic vs. the ancestral spirit powers of the Dayak. Damang must hunt down the sect members one by one within a jungle that can transform into a deadly labyrinth, before Elias Thorne completes the eclipse ritual that will plunge Kalimantan into eternal darkness.

The night Selene Carter slid divorce papers across the table, she thought she was freeing herself from a useless husband. Adrian Kane had spent years under her family’s scorn, mocked as a failure, branded a convict after a humiliating arrest, and too silent to defend himself. To Selene, their marriage had become a prison of shame, and she believed she was finally walking away from dead weight. But the very next morning, the man she discarded was saluted by the nation, as a Five-Star General. Every insult Adrian bore, every moment of silence, every disgrace he endured had been the camouflage of a mission too classified to confess. He let Selene believe the worst, even when it cost him the woman he loved. Now, with freedom comes war. A shattered heirloom ties him to secrets buried with his mother. Damon Locke, a ruthless playboy, stalks Selene’s every move. And Vivienne Hale, the fiery heiress who has loved Adrian in shadows, steps boldly into the light, determined to claim him at last. As Selene begins to question everything she thought she knew about the man she abandoned, she uncovers the most devastating truth of all: Adrian’s greatest secret has yet to be revealed. And the most dangerous enemy isn’t the one waiting in the shadows, but the one sitting right beside her.

Leon Blackwood lives a quiet, unremarkable life, or so the world believes. Once a name whispered in the shadows of power, he’s now just a man in an apron, cooking dinner for a wife who barely looks at him and enduring the scorn of her wealthy family. To them, he’s a failure, a burden chained to their crumbling empire. But when the Quinn family’s company begins to collapse under mysterious attacks, and a ruthless heir sets his sights on Leon’s wife, something inside him shifts. The man who turned down kings, queens, and empires suddenly stops pretending to be ordinary. With a single phone call, fortunes vanish. Corporations crumble. And those who mocked him discover too late that Leon Blackwood doesn’t negotiate... he decides. As his quiet vengeance unfolds, Leon’s double life begins to unravel before the people who dismissed him. Enemies whisper his name in fear. Old powers stir. And Mia, the wife who thought she’d married a nobody, starts to realize that the man standing in her kitchen might be far more dangerous than anyone she’s ever known. But every secret comes with a price. And Leon’s past isn’t done with him yet.

Earth has been chosen for the Universal Trial. Overnight, every human awakens with a System and is forced to participate in a deadly game where worlds compete for the right to ascend to the Higher Realm. But something goes terribly wrong. The Systems become corrupted, turning countless humans into bloodthirsty zombies. Monstrous Rifts tear open across the planet, while terrifying creatures emerge from deadly Dungeons. For Owen, survival isn't his only concern. His sick mother and younger sister are still out there, and he'll do anything to reach them. Then he discovers something impossible. While everyone else receives the Universal Trial System, Owen receives something completely different. The Origin System. A mysterious System with 100% compatibility—one that can defy the rules of the Trial. But power comes with a price. As humanity struggles to survive, powerful factions rise, secrets surrounding the Systems begin to surface, and Owen realizes that Earth is only one of countless worlds participating in the Trial. There are civilizations that have been evolving under the System for thousands of years. And some of them are far stronger than humanity. To protect the people he loves, Owen must grow stronger, uncover the truth behind the corrupted Systems, and discover why the Origin System chose him. Because the Universal Trial has only just begun.

"You're nothing but a dog chasing after women who would rather spit on you than look at you." That was the last thing Maxver Cole heard before his five beast wives walked out the door, laughing, rushing into the arms of another man without a single glance back. They expected him to crawl. To beg. To break. Instead, he signed the divorce papers with a smile. Because the Maxver they married was dead. The man who woke up in his body came from another world, and he had zero interest in keeping women who treated him like garbage under their shoes. But freedom came with a price. A system counting down his final hours. A contamination level eating him alive from the inside. And a single brutal truth: without beast wives willing to purify him, he would be dead before the week was over. Then the Matching Center notification hit. Five new wives. All of them powerful. All of them stunning. All matched at one hundred percent compatibility, a number the staff had never seen in nineteen years. The women who threw him away stopped laughing real quick. "You divorced a monster," the world told his new wives. They walked through his door anyway.

"Name's Andrew Lapis, bud. Just your run-of-the-mill guy coasting through a mundane existence. My family? As average as they come, all huddled under the drab roof of a cookie-cutter house. University? Yep, I'm there too, pulling down grades that'd make any 'ordinary' student proud. Except for Logic Reasoning. Turns out, I've got a knack for that—extraordinarily good, if you ask me. My nightly routine? Well, it's a real nail-biter. Me and my buddy, we hit up the same old coffee shop, play the same old card games. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm no slouch when it comes to those cards. You could say I've got some pretty extraordinary skills up my sleeve. But here's the kicker—life was as dull as dishwater, or at least it used to be. That was until I stumbled upon certain people that turned my world from yawn-inducing ordinary to a whirlwind of the extraordinary. My reality? It flipped like a pancake on a hot griddle. Gone were the days of ordinary, replaced by a high-stakes world of dirty dealings and opulent casinos. So yeah, you could say my life went from poker nights to playing dirty, but in the swankiest casinos you ever did see."

Zachary Hayes is a man in his thirties who is experiencing crises in every aspect of his life. His bar business, which he built a few years ago, went bankrupt, his girlfriend left him, and he was forced to abandon his last name because he had to marry a woman under the coercion of someone claiming to be his father's arch-enemy. His father had accumulated substantial debts before he died, yet Zach knew nothing about it due to his strained relationship with his father. However, Zach had no other options because he also had significant debts to loan sharks. He was bankrupt and had nothing, including a place to live. As a poor son-in-law in a wealthy family, Zach had to endure endless humiliation. His wife, Sarah Bennett, openly cheated on him, and his in-laws constantly humiliated him in front of the extended family while mentioning the debts of Zach's father, of which he had no knowledge. The only thing that kept Zach going was having a place to sleep and free food. Zach tried to earn acceptance in the Bennett family by starting a business with the support of his acquaintances, but it was all in vain because the Bennett family didn't want to see Zach succeed on his own. He faced threats from various parties he had never imagined before. Then, he met Jeremy Brooks and Hannah Mitchel. These two came to help him uncover the mystery behind the Bennett family.

Ethan was an ordinary everyday 16-year-old high schooler. Both his parents died in a car accident when he was just 12 years old. However, they left him enough money to survive and study. He was a great gamer especially skilled in gacha games ranking as one of the top gamers in his country. One Sunday he decided to play one of his favourite games 'The Cardinal World' when suddenly a short circuit occurred in his apartment and his brain got burned by the electricity transmitted through the VR device and he lost his life at that instant. At least, the death was only the beginning of his new road to supremacy. Opening his eyes again he found himself reborn as a baby in a world similar to the game he was playing before his death. He reincarnated as the same special custom character that he created in a limited-time event with the same skills. He was also given a system namely 'The Conqueror System' which will help him in his path to conquer and grow powerful. His mission is the same as the game's protagonist acquiring all the capture targets. While making certain that the protagonist stays as a single. Failure means eternal torture inside the void. Join Ethan on his journey to rise above the cosmos and conquer all under the heavens, filled with blood and passion, mystery and uncertainty. Tags: Milfs, harem, handsome protagonist, mature woman, big sister, demons, elves, multiple wives, manipulation.

"I am pregnant. And you are going to take responsibility for the child,” Lombard’s girlfriend said—the problem was, the child wasn’t his. At twenty-eight, Lombard August has everything—wealth, power, influence. But for two years, he buried it all. Why? Because for once in his life, he wanted something real. A family. A future. Then he met her. A woman with terrifyingly real supernatural powers… and morals strong enough to make him believe she could be the perfect mother to his children. So he stepped down. Stayed quiet. Endured disrespect. Let her powerful family look down on him— All to prove he was worthy of her. They made one mistake. They thought he was ordinary. They thought he was beneath them. They have never been more wrong. Now, the woman he sacrificed everything for is carrying another man’s child… and expects him to raise it under the will of a “Holy One.” Her family agrees. To them, Lombard is just a convenient choice. A man they can assign a life to. What they don’t know… Is that the version of Lombard they’ve been seeing— Was never real. And the man he truly is? Is not someone you control. It’s someone who takes control. Now, with divine power, ruthless elites, and betrayal closing in, Lombard has only one choice: Return to the man they should have feared. The Saintess chose the wrong man to mess with. And soon… even the heavens will regret it.

With a bounty placed on her head, Serafina, an Italian immigrant with a traumatic past, flees her country to live as a fugitive in America as she gets to work as a faux prostitute and a killer under an infamous Pimp who takes her in and promises to get her a work permit in America and protect her while her presence remains illegal. She is forced, by circumstances, seduce and swindle men to survive and hide away from her killers. She meets Giovanni one fateful night in what she believed to be a coincidence and following a steamy one night stand, she tries to swindle him like she usually does but is swiftly caught and attacked after a failed attempt at drugging him. He subdues her and makes her a deal: To work for his secret organisation or to be arrested and deported back to Italy where she will finally be hunted down by her bounty killers. Serafina, having no option, agrees and they both start off hating each other after a night that would have bloomed into a beautiful relationship. The rebellious duo weave through crime, deaths, swindling and exerting revenge on corrupt government officials, having to save each other from harm's way and when their feelings, flaming desires and passion starts to surpass the hate they have for each other, they are forced to make compromises and in the end, Serafina's love for Giovanni is tested when her life is threatened by her former boss. Will she bring him to his doom or sacrifice everything for the man she loves?