Under The Oak Tree Riftan Pov

“Finally...I’m here.” Tyler murmurs as he stares up at the skyscraper, his hand on the locket hidden under his shirt. “I will pull this place down, every brick of it. No one among them will escape.” Tyler Esteil was once a humble servant to the Kramer family, until they let his mother die and threw him into Ashrone's most brutal prison for daring to fight back. They sent him to die, but he came back a weapon. Five years later, he's out. Transformed and hidden behind the mask of a nervous mine inspector. But the real Tyler Esteil is the Master of the nation's most powerful black-market empire. With alchemical magic no one knows he possesses and a network of allies in the shadows, Tyler has spent years preparing to dismantle everything the Kramers have built. Their fortune. Their reputation. Their family. One betrayal at a time. What happens when a sheep becomes a wolf? What happens when the rejected stone strikes back? A gripping tale of epic comeback, payback, and the Emperor’s return.

Lucas Johnson was nothing more than a poor, overlooked student. He was mocked, humiliated, and used as a pawn by the wealthy elite. But everything changed the day he inherited his family’s vast empire. Overnight, the bullied became untouchable, armed with wealth, power, and a burning desire for vindication. Yet, freedom and fortune came at a cost. Lucas quickly discovers that his university rivals aren’t the only enemies plotting against him. Betrayal lurks in the most unexpected places. Amongst his friends, lovers, and even his own family harbor secrets that could destroy him. To survive, Lucas must scale through a treacherous world of corporate warfare, social power plays, and family conspiracies. He’ll need brains, strategy, and a ruthless streak he never knew he had to outwit those who underestimated him—and reclaim what was always rightfully his. In a world where status defines survival, Lucas must rise—or be crushed under the weight of his inheritance.

Caelan Ashborne was once destined for greatness until his mother’s mysterious death erased his name, his future, and his place among the elites. Forced to live under a false identity, he endured humiliation in silence, believing love and family were his final refuge. Then his daughter was diagnosed with a terminal illness. Before Caelan could fight for her life, his wife betrayed him. She demanded a divorce, publicly abandoned him, and returned to the powerful man she had always loved , declaring Caelan and his dying child a burden no longer worth carrying. Cut off from medical access, mocked by society, and crushed by a world ruled by power and privilege, Caelan reaches the edge of despair. That is when the system awakens. Cold , Ruthless and deadly. It does not save the innocent, it rewards the decisive. To protect his daughter, Caelan must rise through blood, judgment, and sacrifice… and become something the world never intended him to be. The system chose him. Now the world will pay.

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.

In 2081, five-year-old twins Aaron and Anya Lockwood are forced to flee as their parents’ secret neuroscience lab goes up in flames. Moments before the end, their parents inject them with the final fragment of a groundbreaking invention, Neuroid, a neural implant capable of recording not just memory, communication through mind link but the very essence of consciousness. Separated to survive, the twins grow up in different worlds. Aaron becomes Kael Vale, a hardened ex-Marine buried under years of trauma and silence. Anya becomes Lyra Thompson, a rising neuroscientist unknowingly working to resurrect the very technology that tore their family apart. Twenty-five years later, Kael hears a voice no one should know: his real name. As echoes of their past resurface through dream bleeds and shared memories, the twins are drawn back into a corporate war for control over human minds. But Neuroid is more than tech, it’s legacy. And somewhere inside the system, their parents are still alive… in pieces. To survive, Kael must find Lyra and reunite to resist the ghosts inside them, and decide whether to weaponize memory or heal from it. In a world where minds can be mapped, sold, and rewritten, what does it mean to remember who you really are?

He trusted his brother. He believed in love. He swore an oath. But what happens when all three turn into lies? Kabri was once a silent force in the shadows—an elite operative loyal to a cause, to his blood, and to the woman who said she carried his child. But loyalty means nothing when betrayal runs deeper than bullets. When Jamil—his own brother—fakes his death and pulls the strings from behind the curtain, Kabri’s world fractures. Then comes Evelyn. The woman who wasn’t who she claimed to be. The pregnancy? A lie—twice over. The love? A weapon. The truth? Buried under years of deception. Now hunted across continents, with a child’s life on the line and hallucinations of Evelyn whispering from the grave, Kabri is trapped in a brutal mind game. The lines blur between justice and revenge, love and obsession, reality and delusion. Why did Jamil destroy everything? Was Evelyn ever real? And in the end… who is Kabri, really? The Blood Oath is an urban psychological thriller packed with fire-fights, betrayals, shifting identities, and one impossible question: If your past was a lie, can you ever escape it? Or are some oaths written in blood… meant to end in blood?

Lord Tharn Zon original World is long dead, and he is the sole survivor. His World died after five years under the influence of the Hooded Mage, because he sucked the Magic of the World to increase his Magic. On his quest for revenge, Tharn visited several Worlds, always trying to stop the Hooded Mage from destroying them, but failing to catch him every single time. Then, Tharn Zon opens a portal to a Magical World, only two years after the Hooded Mage's arrival. A young girl, a Mage student, is summoning a Magical Being to be her Familiar, and she mistakenly thinks that Lord Tharn Zon will be hers. In this Magical World, he must find allies to help him track the Hooded Mage and stop him once and for all. If he succeeds this time or not, will only depend on him and his friends. *Note: In the side stories of one or two chapters, I will be visiting the Worlds I created in my previous stories, and some new ones, that I intend to use in future stories.*

Arthur Moore inherited nothing from his father except debt. At twelve years old, his life was destroyed when his father died after taking a $35 million loan using the family company as collateral. While the rest of the Moore family abandoned him to escape responsibility, Arthur and his sick mother were left behind to drown beneath crushing interest rates, endless labor, and humiliating poverty. For years, Arthur worked like a slave under the bank that owned his debt, enduring abuse, insults, and endless suffering just to keep his dying mother alive. Then one terrible night changes everything. Arthur discovers the truth his mother kept hidden from him for years: He is the sole heir to a hidden trillion dollar empire that controls world banks, corporations, luxury brands, and the global economy from the shadows. Overnight, Arthur's life changes completely. The poor delivery boy who was once treated like dirt is suddenly enrolled in Royal Elite Academy—the most prestigious and ruthless institution in the world, where students are ranked by wealth, bloodline, and influence.

In 2061, humanity falls under the rule of the Eclipse System, a divine game controlled by celestial tyrants called Judicators. Humans are reduced to either privileged servants or disposable gladiators forced to fight for entertainment. Kael Draven was once one of the enslaved. After enduring endless bloodshed, he rose to become the Eternal Reaper—the first human to slaughter the gods themselves. But upon reaching the heavens, he uncovered the truth: the System was created by the Architects to endlessly harvest human suffering across repeating timelines. To destroy the cycle, Kael shattered reality itself. Kael awakens ten years in the past, once again trapped inside the brutal Obsidian Bastion with a slave collar around his neck and his powers gone. Yet hidden within his soul lies the Void Reliquary, a forbidden vault containing stolen divine powers from his previous life. While the world follows the System’s rules, Kael gains strength through Sin Echoes earned by defying fate itself. Pretending to be a weak gladiator, he secretly prepares for vengeance. This time, he won’t merely survive the gods’ game—he will erase the heavens before they can rule humanity again.

Leo was typical, overlooked and completely unprepared when a forbidden tome chose him and gave him the mark of a Warden and placed him under the Mage Academy. This school is an intermediary between worlds, a training ground where recipients of a gift of a System Interface, called a Codex, are trained. However, the file of Leo himself is empty, his Codex whispers that they are “unfinished,” and the elite at the Academy are watching him with suspicion and fear. Dropped into a realm of magical rank and fatal challenges, Leo is an exception. His magic is not dead, but a forbidden energy, which develops by consuming the magic and memories of others. In a maimed mentor who has an overabundance of knowledge, a genius competitor with a cursed lineage, and an ally with a talent to outwit the street, Leo discovers a rot inside the Academy. It is not merely teaching magic, it is harvesting it, it is tapping its students with the souls of its former students to feed its immortality, all managed by an enigmatic, manipulative Headmaster. As the boundary between the magical and the mortal realms collapses, Leo gets to know the horrifying reality of his destiny. He is a “Fractured Soul,” a descendant in an intergenerational cycle, who will either redeem the world or ruin it. In order to escape the cycle, he should learn how to overcome the same force that is eliminating his human nature and face the most outrageous truth of all: the man who has tortured him is his own father. The world has become the teacher, but Leo now has to rewrite the final lesson. Tags: Progression Fantasy, Academy Fantasy, Gaslamp Fantasy. Underdog Protagonist, Magical School, Forbidden Magic, System Interface, Conspiracy, Found Family, Cyclical Destiny, Tragic Romance.