You're Still Mine

“I buried you,” the traitor whispered. “Then dig deeper,” Kaelen replied, voice like sand on steel, “because I’m not done rising.” Zaria stood behind him, the wind pulling strands of her hair like fire-dancers in the dusk. “Let them come,” she said. “We burn hotter together.” The masked woman landed beside them, blades humming with heat. “You still don’t get it,” Kaelen muttered, watching the desert pulse like a living thing. “Get what?” “This isn’t a fight for gold.” “Then what is it?” Kaelen smirked, cracked lips bloodied. “It’s the reckoning.” Kaelen was left for dead in the scorching sands of Sutekh; stripped of his name, his wife, and the child he never met. But the desert doesn’t forget. It carves vengeance into bone. Now, Kaelen rises from the ruins of betrayal as something more than a man: marked by ancient fire, hunted by his half-brother, and haunted by what he can’t remember. As he claws his way back through a kingdom built on secrets, one thing drives him: Zaria. His wife. Missing, maybe dead; or worse, weaponized by those who want to claim a legacy soaked in blood. But Zaria is no victim. Imprisoned and pregnant, she holds the key to an empire long thought dead. And when her twin sister emerges from the shadows to seize that power for herself, love becomes war — and the price of legacy is life itself. In a world where loyalty is a lie and prophecy demands sacrifice, Kaelen must decide: will he reclaim what was stolen; or burn it all to the ground? OF FLAME, SAND, AND GOLD is an epic fantasy of fire-forged vengeance, unbroken love, and the rebirth of a forgotten kingdom.

"Kill them all...Burn it down..." Those are the words I heard echoing in my head ever since the day I woke up in Lorelei. The voice sounds familiar. I've heard it before. But would it be crazy if I said it sounded like me? Would it be crazy...if I said i remembered dying? Utterly rediculous. To repeat the same thing over and over, expecting a different result while changing absolutely nothing. I was the son of a Duke and a commoner in a foreign land. Through pain and suffering, I somehow managed to marry a beautiful Princess of that land. You know...after my father got eaten by a dragon. And after being locked in a dungeon and tortured by her insane sister... But none of that matters now. Because my world lies in ruins. Everyone I've ever known is dead. All except my beloved, who stands to protect me with her shield. But I don't mean to say that things have been destroyed... What I mean, is much simpler. Avernia is gone. Gone forever. Lost to the plague I called 'The Black Ooze'. But I'll avenge it. I'll kill the one responsibke for massacring my family and destroying my world. They'll regret having made an enemy out of me. Because the sword I wield is called Vengeance. The Overseer sword. The Omni-Weapon. No matter the cost...I will have vengeance. I'll kill them all. I'll burn everything down. Author's note: I sincerely hope you enjoy my work, but keep in mind that I am my own editor and I don't see everything. there might still be a few errors. Sorry! This is an original work.

His humiliation was their favorite entertainment. His revenge will be their worst nightmare. Alexander Rivera was used to being laughed at for his old clothes and empty wallet. He thought the ultimate betrayal was watching his girlfriend, Elena, choose a billionaire's son over him right in front of many crowd that broke him completely. But that was before a dying kingmaker pulled him from the gutter. Before Lorenzo Benedetti bestowed upon him a new name and a staggering inheritance: a multi-billion empire. Now, Alexander is back. To them, he’s still the same penniless waiter, the easy target for their cruelty. They still think he’s poor. They still mock him, set him up, and treat him like dirt. They have no idea he’s rich. They don’t realize he’s recording every cruel word. With the limitless resources of the Benedetti fortune at his fingertips, Alexander is no longer fighting for respect. He's waging a war. And for the spoiled elite of Saint George University, the lesson is about to begin: Never underestimate the man who has nothing left to lose... and everything to burn. Step into Alexander’s world where revenge is a luxury he can finally afford.

He died a failure. Betrayed, broke, and bleeding out in a Brooklyn alley. Ethan Hayes had nothing—no money, no respect, no future. His fiancée cheated with his best friend. His boss fired him for refusing to break the law. His family called him worthless. At 34, a bullet ended his miserable existence. Then he woke up at 22. Senior year at NYU. Same betrayals looming. But this time, he's not alone. [REGRET REVERSAL SYSTEM ACTIVATED] "Host, you died like a side character. Want to rewrite the script and make them the punchline?" With a sarcastic AI system that rewards him for reversing past humiliations, Ethan gets a second chance—and he's taking everything. The startup his roommate stole? He'll build it first and crush him. The ex who cheated? She'll beg on her knees. The corrupt elites who stepped on him? They'll kneel before the king they created. From NYU dorms to Wall Street towers. From broke student to untouchable billionaire. Face-slaps. Revenge. Power. And the women who once rejected him? They're about to learn what they missed. New York won't know what hit it.

Park Jae Sung a prodigy of effort and care for the people he loved the most. But, he still lost everything. After 10 years of hard work, he manage to rise up from he ashes. With his self created companion by his side anything can be accomplished. Still, fate is not always as it seems. "Huh? A gift? Armory of Legends?" [Yes. Master will be able to summon legendary weapons from earth to Etterra, enhance by the world energy.] [Excalibur, Ruyi Jingu Bang, Mjolnir, Poseidon's trident and many more. Master can equip them.] Join in the journey through the world of Etterra and see what happens when a prodigy and his companion crushes through it all.

The age of harmony is long dead. In the current era, cultivators have turned the natural world into a slaughterhouse, harvesting the essence of beasts to fuel their own immortality. Beast taming is not just forbidden, it is a capital crime punishable by public execution. Asher is a nameless slave working in the high altitude meat processing plants, where the rarest creatures are butchered daily. He has spent his life in silence, until he unearths a rusted, pulsating relic deep within a forbidden mine shaft. The moment his skin touches the artifact, the world stops. He hears them. Every caged creature, every dying spirit in the facility, is screaming. But they are not screaming in agony. They are waiting for him. Asher discovers that he is the last of an extinct lineage capable of forming soul bonds. As he begins to unite the broken remnants of beastkind, he realizes that the hunters are not the only ones with a thirst for power. An ancient darkness is stirring, and if Asher cannot stop the cycle of hate between men and monsters, the entire world will be silenced forever.

As the world went on as usual, with people working tirelessly to make ends meet, studying sleeplessly to be complimented, and partying endlessly like nothing could stop anyone, suddenly there was a strange explosion in the sky. It only took one day for this explosion to completely change and disrupt the normal balance of everyone's lives in the world. What some once dreamed of has already happened. Modern war broke out, there was discrimination that never ended, and new continents and countries emerged. Amidst the rapid evolution of mankind, there is one thing that still remains a mystery to everyone. Where exactly did the strange explosion begin? What is the reason for all this? Is it really God who is doing the work, or is everything just being played on purpose to destroy the world forever? Despite so many unanswered questions, there is a woman sitting quietly on the steps of a huge mansion. Little by little, every strand of her long, black hair is turning white. Suddenly, her eyes, which were once black, turned a bright golden color. She grinned mischievously and slumped as she rested her elbow on her knee. "Find me if you can. After all, no one really knows that I am number Ten. Come, I have all the answers."

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?

Silence. Like a nice bucket of shhhhhhhhh. Everyone shut the effing fudge UP! That's all I've ever wanted. *Sigh.* But silence comes in different flavors. There's mint - the peaceful kind that wraps around you like a blanket. The kind I chase at 2 AM. I've cried once. Just once. With a bucket beside me, watching heroes with super suits and impossible strength tear each other apart. Somehow that feels less broken than my reality. Then there's the suffocating silence at school. Not an ice cream flavor. This one tastes like metal and shame. High school is my personal hell. Empty wallet, empty lunch tray, empty seat beside me like I'm radioactive. Empty soul on Wednesdays because middles are always the worst. *The usual.* But Emily made the silence bearable. Mint-flavored again. Until she broke something between us. *Snap.* One moment she's whispering secrets with me, the next she's weaponizing them. She scattered my private thoughts, added her own twisted lies. The betrayal burns hotter than the stares drilling into my back. I went from invisible to spectacle. Being a ghost feels like luxury when you're dodging spit balls and "accidental" lunch trays. But somewhere between my third panic attack and contemplating switching schools... *Something shifted.* Like in those games you play, when your character suddenly glows and the screen flashes: "New Skill Unlocked" And it wasn't just in my head. I tested it. Small things at first – a pencil moving across my desk when I focused hard enough. Then books. Then someone's lunch tray right as they walked past Emily. *tap tap tap* I used to think rock bottom was the end. *Well ladies and gentlemen,* it's just a really messed up spawn point. And now? I don't stumble from cliffs anymore. I swim in gravity, and dive head first.

Three years ago, Adrian Cross vanished rather than stand trial for a double murder on Ashford Street, a crime he swears he never committed. He has spent every year since running, until a four-word anonymous letter, He knows you're alive, pulls him back before dawn, straight into a second crime scene staged with details from Ashford Street that were never made public. Journalist Elena Marlowe catches the connection first and starts digging, aided by her forensic-science friend Maya Bennett, uncovering a pattern of buried, near-identical crimes stretching back years. Detective Marcus Hale, who built the original case against Adrian, finds his own certainty cracking, even as his chief demands the case close fast and stay closed. Adrian's brother Noah guards a secret bought at a terrible price, one tied to a name absent from every file: Elias Voss. Businessman Victor Raines, long suspected, may actually be the next target, not the mastermind. As Elena and Adrian's paths collide and betrayals surface among those meant to protect him, they must expose a killer always one move ahead, before the next body falls, and before dawn reveals a truth that could destroy them all.