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The Blood Predator’s Ascent

Draven Ashmore has one thing the Sentinel Academy never wanted — his last name. Son of Cedric Ashmore, the only S+ ranked Sentinel in all of Eryndal and the most powerful man alive, Draven should have been born with everything. Instead, he was born without the one thing that matters — the ability to use magic. His ring never connected. His rank was never recorded. In a world measured from S+ to F, Draven doesn't even reach F. Unranked. Powerless. A disgrace to the Ashmore name. He remains in the academy on borrowed time, tolerated only because of his father's name — and ignored by that same father entirely. His professors resent his presence. His classmates don't bother learning his name. And the director has quietly made a decision: Draven Ashmore needs to go. When his professor arranges a surprise exam inside a gray rift — the simplest, safest kind there is — it isn't an opportunity. It's an execution. A chance to fail publicly and get expelled without anyone asking questions. But nothing inside that rift goes as planned. Trapped within an ancient ritual alongside something old and endlessly hungry, Draven watches his entire group die one by one. And when nothing is left — no allies, no magic, no way out — something finds him in the dark and offers a deal. "Survive. Feed me. Or become the meal yourself." Now Draven carries a mark burned into his skin that pulses with every heartbeat, a system that demands blood quotas he can barely meet, and a secret that would destroy what little he has left if anyone ever found out. He can't use magic. He has no allies. His own family has already written him off. But he's still breathing. And he'll make sure every person who ever looked through him lives to regret it.
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I'm the Absolute Buff Master

—WEBNOVEL SPIRITY AWARDS 2026 ENTRY— Gareth Mourne is 16 years old with a sick obsession: Endless Tower. An RPG where a colossal 50-floor tower appeared out of nowhere. Each floor houses a gate — the only way to face the corresponding boss and push toward the world's salvation. Because if all fifty floors aren't conquered… the tower itself will come crashing down from the sky, obliterating everything beneath it. But the Tower doesn't wait patiently. Far from its shadow, Portals appear: cracks spawned by the Tower itself that vomit monsters without rest. If they aren't wiped out, progress slows to a crawl. Gareth knows this. He knows it because he's beaten the game more times than he can count. He doesn't play for fun. He plays for glory. He plays to shatter his own records. Every run faster. Every route more optimized. Every buff stacked to an absurd limit. The community gave him a name: Mourgare, the BuffMaster. The night he finally breaks his best time… he falls asleep. And wakes up in a world he recognizes. A world he's convinced can't be real. Believing it's all a lucid dream, Gareth acts without fear of consequences — sabotaging himself in the process and completely destroying his reputation. Until he realizes it's all real. And then he decides something simple: if this world is Endless Tower… he'll conquer it the way he always has. Alone. And when he defeats the first boss solo, the name Mourgare will be etched into the sky — and as his reward, he'll receive his System. With a Special Class that fits him like a glove. [Buff Master] This time, it isn't about breaking a record. It's about leaving his alter ego at the very top.
Qu1llM4ster · 2k Views