Wasteland

One moment, Alex Lopez was a brilliant 28-year-old urban planner and infrastructure specialist in Berlin, Germany a city renowned for its cutting-edge engineering, sustainable urban development, and layers of complex history spanning from the Holy Roman Empire to the modern European powerhouse. Buried under relentless projects blending historical preservation with futuristic city planning, he pushed himself to exhaustion. The next, he awakens in the frail body of Prince Alexander Valthor a forgotten son of the king, framed by his ruthless step-siblings and exiled to the barren wasteland of Valthoria. Sentenced to a slow death under the mocking order to “rule the state,” Alexander should have perished like so many before him. Dragged along with him is Annalise, his betrothed wife, who was completely abandoned by her own father after her mother died giving birth to her. But Alex came prepared with something this regressive Bronze Age world has never seen: a powerful World Saviour System, deep expertise in advanced infrastructure, resource optimization, historical regeneration, and large-scale project management, plus an unbreakable determination to build something extraordinary. Every victory earns points. Every failure raises the stakes. With milestones measured in hundreds of billions and trillions, Alex will ascend through multiple worlds, uncover the ancient truth behind the world’s long stagnation, and climb toward godhood itself. In a land where hope has long been forgotten, one exiled prince will rewrite destiny one irrigation canal, one loyal heart, one innovative breakthrough, and one hard-won discovery at a time.

> In the Holy Domains, your worth is measured by what you kill and what you eat. Zack Tennyson was worth nothing—until he killed the wrong bug and hacked the system. Now the boy mocked as “Stab-Ass Fatso” is evolving faster than anyone expected. But power brings attention. And in a world where the strong eat the weak, Zack’s about to find out what it really means to survive. --- 📖 Synopsis The story opens with a sky-splitting aerial battle—Zack, older and blazing with crimson wings, going head-to-head against a Dragon-Type Guardian. As they clash, he breaks the fourth wall, taunting the reader with, “Let me tell you how it all began…” Flashback to the desert wasteland of the Holy Domains, where Zack is just another hungry nobody. Spirit Points rule all, and Zack has none. His days are spent scavenging trash and devouring mutant bugs like Carbee for even the tiniest point—only to be met with failure after failure. Until one day, he kills a glowing blue Carbee, something far beyond his level. It changes everything. His system begins a hidden “mod installation,” and Zack finally feels power stir inside him. But power doesn't erase pain. At school, he's hated for a past accident involving his crush, Samantha McPherson—a betrayal that still haunts him. Home isn’t any better. Rent is overdue. Food is gone. His sister is out hunting deep in the Domains. And the system starts demanding brutal daily quests that threaten to break him if he refuses. And yet... something is changing. The mod is installing. The boy they laughed at is becoming something else. Not a hero. Not a monster. Something in between.

In a world that demands perfection, only the broken can cut through fate. On the eve of his historic ascension, Li Xuan was the undisputed crown jewel of the Azure Sky Sect. A peerless genius destined to rule the firmament. But supreme talent breeds venomous jealousy. Hours before he could condense his legendary Pristine Jade Core, he was brutally drugged and betrayed. His sworn brother wielded the blade, his beautiful fiancé orchestrated the trap, and together, they systematically smashed his jade dantian into ten thousand glittering, useless pieces. Stabbed through his spiritual foundation, stripped of his core, and left to die in the bone-chilling mud of the Abyssal Wasteland, Li Xuan was labeled a "cripple." A broken mirror forever unfit for the Dao. But his enemies made one fatal mistake: they left the shards inside his soul. Driven by an absolute, terrifying will for vengeance, Li Xuan refuses to heal. Instead, he does the unthinkable he awakens the jagged, razor-sharp fragments floating in his ruined body. Where others see absolute destruction, Li Xuan forges a forbidden new path: Fractured Ascension. A perfect mirror can only reflect the world, but a shattered mirror cuts it to pieces. Each jagged fragment of his broken soul becomes a lethal weapon hungry to devour heaven’s Qi, twist natural laws, and reflect every past humiliation back tenfold. Armed with a hurricane of broken glass tearing through his veins and an unbreakable will, the boy they discarded rises from the pits. No mercy. No negotiation. Those who broke his foundation to keep him on his knees will watch him ascend using the very shards they left in the dirt. “You thought you destroyed my future? You merely unleashed my edge.”