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At the age of eighteen, every human is forced into a Trial World where their fate is decided. Rise above destiny, and you become an elite revered by all. Fail, and you are reduced to nothing more than a servant in a world ruled by power. Li Chang’an was given a doomed life from the very beginning. Reincarnated into a weak and dying body, surrounded by enemies and destined for failure, he should have been forgotten like countless others. But everything changes the moment he awakens the Limitless Ascension System. Every skill he learns evolves. Every technique he touches transcends its limits. Every battle pushes him beyond what should be possible. While others climb step by step, he breaks through boundaries endlessly. From a powerless nobody to a being that stands above worlds, Li Chang’an begins a path of endless ascension. Yet, the higher he rises, the more he realizes— The Trials are not meant to create heroes. They are meant to control them. And this time, someone has appeared who refuses to be controlled.

Lord of Mysteries fanfiction. The unexpected intervention of a real transmigrator, Ebner, would help Klein usher in a better ending. The Lord of the Mysteries would definitely be Klein, not the Celestial Worthy. The main character takes the Sequence pathway of a Reader. note: I'm only editing from MTL and post here so when I don't have a connection I can read it offline. the real author of this book is "Quick Return of the Named Fire"

Kai, Rion, and Lira are three siblings bound by love, loss, and a promise to honor their late parents. A long-delayed trip to visit their parents’ graves turns into a nightmare when their plane is ripped apart by a violent storm. Miraculously, the siblings survive but they awaken not in a hospital or familiar world, but in a mysterious, vibrant forest teeming with life that defies every law of nature they know. As they struggle to understand this strange new world, they discover that their injuries heal faster than expected, plants and animals respond to their presence, and strange, magical creatures seem both curious and intelligent. The siblings must learn the rules of this alive and unpredictable environment while relying on one another more than ever. Guided by hints of unseen powers and the first appearances of friendly magical beings, Kai, Rion, and Lira explore, survive, and uncover the secrets of a world far beyond Earth. But danger lurks in every shadow, and the siblings realize that their journey is not just about survival it’s about growth, discovery, and confronting challenges that will test the limits of their courage, intelligence, and bond as a family. In a world where the familiar rules no longer apply, the siblings must face unknown creatures, environmental hazards, and the silent watch of a powerful being who brought them here… and decide what it truly means to survive.

It's a psychological twisting novel based on Detective Waller returning to New York after a mysterious absence to investigate a series of murders linked to the enigmatic organization "Eclipse", backed by wealthy and powerful individuals. As Waller digs deeper, they uncover a web of corruption and deceit that goes all the way to the top, involving dirty cops, rogue agents, and high-stakes players. With the help of colleagues like Tina and some of his trusted colleagues, Waller must navigate the treacherous landscape to take down Eclipse and uncover the truth, even though what the truth once looked like was all out of his reality.

In the continent of Verdan, power is not chaos—it is structure. Magic, known as Mana, flows through all living things, but in civilized society it is carefully classified, inherited, and controlled. Noble houses refine it into disciplined systems passed through bloodlines: reinforcement, binding, manifestation, perception, and dominion. Above them, the Solyrian Throne governs through a rare authority said to impose order upon mana itself, shaping the laws that govern both war and peace. Faith is no less divided. The dominant Luminara Creed teaches that mana must be controlled and purified through structure, while other sects interpret it as flow, mystery, or destruction waiting to be understood or unleashed. Across kingdoms, belief and magic are inseparable, each reinforcing the systems of power that define civilization. Yet beneath these established orders, something unsettled persists. In regions where mana behaves unpredictably—known as Distortions—reality itself becomes unreliable. Time, perception, and flow of energy shift in ways even the most disciplined mages cannot fully comprehend. Most who enter these zones do not return unchanged… if they return at all. As political tensions rise between noble houses, religious factions, and the influence of the Solyrian Throne, unseen fractures begin to spread through the world’s carefully maintained order. Alliances shift. Old doctrines are questioned. And in the background, something begins to draw attention—subtle, inconsistent, and difficult to define. A presence that does not fully align with any known system of mana. Something that does not behave like it should. And in a world built on classification, control, and inheritance… anything that cannot be categorized becomes a threat to everything that can.

In the town of Inastro, a supernatural force is bubbling beneath the surface, leading to various incidents across town. It all comes to a head when one young student by the name of Gael Driskoll happens upon one of these supernatural forces personally, leading the young student down an ever-present rabbit hole of conspiracies.

Aarav Sen is a Core AI specialist doing brilliant work for a manager who takes the credit, staying at AstraNova out of obligation to a father now gone. When a week's leave arrives, he joins his two friends — Rajan, a pragmatic gym owner, and Veer, an overeager medical graduate — on a road trip into the Jharkhand hills. The detour that changes everything is Aarav's idea: the ruins of a research facility where, twenty years ago, fifty-two scientists and most of a concrete complex vanished without explanation. Among the disappeared was his grandfather. At the crater's edge, they find a fragment of the Vergy Stone — the mysterious crystal at the heart of the original catastrophe. Aarav picks it up. The world tears open. They wake beneath a sky holding two moons, in a world where the forests feel alive with intent and four-winged creatures cross a violet horizon. There is no road home. There is only the decision to survive.

To the world, he is a fallen Alpha. To his enemies, he is a target. To himself, he is a monster. In a world ruled by S-tier Alphas, Zhou Qixian is a masterpiece of deception. He has convinced the city—and his powerful family—that he is an A-tier Alpha. But beneath the expensive suits and the scent of power lies a toxic secret: he is an S-tier Omega. Zhou Qixian was the "disappointing" son, an S-tier Omega masquerading as an Alpha in a family that only values one. Disowned by his family and hunted by a past he can't escape, S-tier Omega Qixian must hide his lethal pheromones to survive because an omega will always be an omega. But when he finds the twin brother he never knew existed. Qixian entangles himself in Haoran’s world of warmth and healing, the secrets of the Zhou family begin to unravel. But Gu Yichen, the cold-blooded CEO of the city’s strongest empire, is already suspicious. He’s determined to unmask the "Song Qixian" who cries out for mercy in his sleep and reeks of death and spider lilies. Qixian must decide how much of his humanity he’s willing to sacrifice to protect his brother. When the masks finally fall, will the truth set the twins free, or will it destroy the only family Qixian has left?

Neva and Rhett—two young souls—find their heartstrings woven in love. But just as passion and peace begin to bloom, fate intervenes. Bleak, haunting circumstances scatter blades across their romance, threatening to tear them apart. Ishmael—a man with a heart of thorns—yearns to mend the wound of losing Neva. And in the end, rays of love and joy filter through the clouds of horror that darken his world—as Neva appears before him once more. Twisted fate entangles them all, revealing the Game of Sphere, as misery scorches their souls. A concealed life beyond turns its pages—one after another—gathering sin and virtue, tragedy and fortune, strength and frailty, creation, love... and hate. Illusion is where we live—in the garden of Eden before the fall of man. Illusion is serenity—an evermore sanguine of love. The vision of paradise in the New Earth sows hope deep in the soul. The delusory pleasures of this world ignite the flames that burn in oceans of fire. Illusive Eden is rapture. Illusive Eden is tragedy. The fall of man—even now bleeds red. The whisper whirls the dawn of a man—he who pretends to be the hero. --- The girl who once vowed to be his forever Now forbids him to ever appear. She refuses to recognize him, Disregarding all he ever was. He vows to protect her. Yet he is the terrifying truth she prays is a lie. He trips her, rips her apart— He's the living tragedy looming over her life. He once was her Elayne, now her hiraeth. He is the villain—pretending to be the hero. --- The Lord is the way— Steady through the wilderness. The King is the truth— Burning through the lies. The Father is the life— Breathing spirit into dust. She kneels before the Ruler, The God who shaped galaxies— He has called her a poet. Her tongue shall be anointed. Her poetry shall be the rivers of His word. She will scatter seeds in broken fields, And He will send the sun. He will send the rain. He will draw the roots down deep. He yields to the Ruler, The God of blazing holiness— He has called him a soldier. His fists shall be unclenched. The sword of the Spirit rests in his grip. He will shield the sower of the seeds, As storms rise against the harvest. His strength will be not his own, But drawn from the marrow of grace. This faith shall shake the mountains, For He has conquered the filth of the flesh. This flame will cleanse the shadows. For He has defeated the darkness. This love shall live on for eternity, For He has overcome the mortal world.

In a kingdom of witches, and a kingdom of vampires, there was peace and coexistence until Fang Ling, the vampire King's brother discovered that the blood of humans granted a vampire immense powers. He led a coup and took over the throne, killing his brother, the vampire king who had maintained peace all these years. The son of the overthrown vampire king, Tian Yu was rescued by the witch queen and taken to the witch kingdom. There, he met the witch Queen's daughter Yuyan, a beautiful princess that he couldn't resist. What started as a young sibling love soon transformed into a steamy forbidden romance. They weren't supposed to fall in love, but they did anyways. He marked her, leaving a permanent scar that claimed her as his. The witch queen decided to support their union and let them wed. But on their wedding day, the witch kingdom was attacked by the tyrant vampire king, and Tian Yu was stabbed in the heart with the cursed blade. But due to the prophecy the witch kingdom had forseen, about Tian Yu being the one who will bring back peace to all kingdoms, the witch queen couldn't let him die. Yuyan decided to sacrifice herself to save him, promising to reunite with him in the future. 500 years later, they were reunited in a forced marriage, but this time she had no memory of him. And this was the beginning of another love tale.

Born the daughter of royalty, Candace Sinclair was once the noble daughter of the formidable Alpha of GraceSpring Pack until her perfect life became a nightmare in one single night. Labeled the offspring of a traitor, she was plunged into a miserable life of shame, scars and utter disgrace and condemned to serve as an omega slave among those who had once bowed to her. However the Moon Goddess wasn’t done with this queen. On the night of the full moon, Candace was rebonded to the beastly triplet Alphas—Alpha Ragnor, Alpha Reign and Alpha Ryker Pendragon, her sworn enemies. The triplets planned to reject her. They would have succeeded… if this wasn’t Candace’s last shot at being mated. Having survived three brutal, excruciating rejections, Candace seized control of her fate at the last minute, forcing them into a bond they never expected with her. That night, the triplets who once loathed her swore to make her life a living hell. But Candace doesn’t care—she will endure every torment if it means uncovering the conspiracy that destroyed her father and plundered her happy family into misery. But Fate is a bastard. Soon, this queen becomes the one obsession they can't escape. The one they crave so desperately they’ll lose their minds just to be buried inside her, until they lose themselves completely.  As cruel truths claw their way to light in this twisted game of love, betrayal, danger and passion, the Pendragon triplets start to see her for who she is—their queen. But Candace is done begging for scraps of their love. She is done being a weak toy in their twisted games. This queen wants them where they belong— groveling on their knees…forever? ~ “Get on your knees." My voice sliced through the room like a serrated knife. Ragnor didn’t hesitate. He sank to the cold stone floor, his knees hitting the ground with a heavy thud that synchronized perfectly with my beating heart. Ryker and Reign followed, their heads bowed, their Alpha pride crumbling at my feet. "We didn’t have a choice, Candace," Ryker groaned, his head bowed so low his forehead nearly touched the tops of my boots.  "Everything we do is a choice, Ryker," I whispered, leaning down. "Since you believed a lie over me, now show me,” I commanded, my voice dropping a lower octave. "Show me exactly how much you're willing to crawl to keep the mate you discarded." "Anything, Daisy," Ragnor choked out, his large, calloused hand reaching for my ankle. His touch sent a traitorous bolt of sparks through my skin, but I didn't budge. He pulled my foot closer, his heat seeping through the silk of my dress. He didn't just kiss it; he buried his face against my boot, breathing in my scent with a hot desperation. I looked down at the three most powerful men in the pack, all of them reduced to rubble before me, and I felt the tears burn behind my eyes. "It's a pity that’ll never be enough,” I said, my voice turning to ice.  "Then break us. Do whatever you have to do, just don't walk out that door. Don’t give up on us," Reign growled, looking up, his brown eyes burning with lust. “We will burn in hell before we let that happen,” I forced a brittle, empty laugh. “Say hello to the devil, he’s no different than the beasts you’ve become after what you put me through,” I pushed Ragnor’s hands away, my touch merciless as I used my knee to shove the other two back.  "I’m done with you all. Go fuck your sweet Didi. I will get my release elsewhere,” I snapped, my voice coming out stronger than I expected especially with their bodies pressed against mine, and their lips sending tingles across my body.  I felt their eyes drilling holes into my back, hotter than a thousand lasers all at once as I strode out. I knew they were watching my retreat, but I didn't turn around to let them see the single, traitorous tear that had finally escaped my guard. I couldn't let them know how much their choices had truly cost me. I was the devil they’d made with each torment. And devils didn't cry.

Lin Yue has never been afraid of being alone. At twenty-four, he has already lived through more than most people ever will—not in grand, tragic ways, but in quiet, suffocating ones. Growing up as an orphan passed between cold institutions and indifferent guardians, he learned early that attachment leads to pain. By adulthood, he lives a detached, monotonous life, working night shifts and avoiding unnecessary human connections. To him, living is simply continuing. Everything changes on a rain-soaked night when he returns to his apartment. The hallway feels wrong—too long, too silent. Then, a voice calls his name from behind. Calmly, without hesitation, Lin Yue ignores it and keeps walking. That single decision triggers something unseen. When he reaches his door, the number has changed to “404.” The moment he steps inside, reality fractures. Lin Yue is pulled into a game called the Flow, a system of endless horror instances where players must survive deadly scenarios governed by obscure and shifting rules. Failure means erasure. Survival means being dragged into the next nightmare. Unlike other players, Lin Yue adapts quickly, relying on observation, emotional detachment, and his ability to remain calm under pressure. But something is wrong. Despite breaking rules and defying logic, Lin Yue is never punished by the System. Instead, he is marked—singled out by an unknown force. His actions begin to distort the behavior of instances, as if the world itself cannot fully process him. That is when he notices him. Gu Yanchen, known as the Arbiter, is a being feared by all players—an enforcer of the System who exists to maintain order and eliminate anomalies. Cold, precise, and seemingly inhuman, he should have killed Lin Yue the moment he deviated from the rules. Yet he doesn’t. Instead, Gu Yanchen watches. As their paths intertwine, Lin Yue is forced to confront something more terrifying than death—connection. Gu Yanchen, who should be nothing more than a mechanism of judgment, begins to act with intention, even obsession. Faced with this impossible choice, the Arbiter hesitates—for the first time. That hesitation fractures the system itself. Rules collapse, instances distort, and the Flow begins to unravel. In a world where everything is designed to erase humanity… What happens when two people refuse to let go? “The System wants me dead. But its Arbiter won’t allow it.”

The year is 761. The Tang Dynasty has fallen. Hazhui burns. In the wreckage of a collapsed empire, a boy with white hair and empty eyes stands in a field of corpses — none of them his doing, all of them his fault. He does not remember his name. He does not remember his mother's face. He remembers only how to kill, and the words of a poem that keeps something worse at bay. His name is Wu Nanming. He is ten years old. He is the Demonic Sect's newest prince, the Demon King's adopted son, and something the world does not yet have a word for. Proto-Heaven is a story about Humanity and the cost it takes to discard those Humanity for Power. *This story tackles heavy theme such as depicted Child Abuse, Suicide and implied Sexual Content. Viewer Discretion is Advised. -Published in Sribble Hub and Royal Road, Author Retains All Right.

A thousand years ago, he was the Emperor who ordered her death. Today, he is the CEO who controls her future. Su Yilin, a top historical restorer obsessed with the Great Yan Dynasty, begins suffering vivid nightmares of a princess's brutal downfall-memories so real they feel like a life she once lived. When she joins the Lu Group Museum, she comes face-to-face with its cold and powerful CEO... a man with the same face as the Emperor who killed her. Now trapped between her research and terrifying visions of the past, Yilin must uncover the truth: is she truly the reincarnation of a fallen princess bound by blood debt, or is her mind collapsing under the weight of obsession? Because inside the Lu Group Museum, the most dangerous artifact isn't the jade... it's the memory.

She arrives in the city hoping to disappear. After her older brother's sudden death, Katherine leaves behind the only home she has ever known, carrying nothing but grief and the belief that distance might quiet the past. In a place where no one knows her name, she builds a life in silence-working mornings in a small café on the edge of a busy financial district, learning how to exist without being seen. Before she leaves, she finds a hidden box in her brother's room. Inside are letters she was never meant to see. Most of them are simple at first-ordinary words, familiar handwriting, fragments of care she doesn't fully let herself read. She only opens a few before closing the box again, leaving the rest untouched as if keeping them sealed might keep something else from unraveling. In the city, life settles into routine. Early mornings. Familiar faces. The comfort of being unknown. It should be enough. But it isn't. A man begins to pass through her world each day-always at the same time, always just out of reach of notice. He does not speak to her. He does not look at her like she is anything more than part of the background. And she does not recognize him. Not once. And yet, something about his presence begins to linger where memory should be clear. As fragments of her brother's past begin to surface in small, unsettling ways, Katherine starts to understand that distance does not always mean escape-and some things follow you quietly, long after you think you've left them behind.

Lina Chen wakes from a coma with her engagement ring, her ex-boyfriend's face in her mind, and no memory of the past two years. To her shock, a ring adorns her finger—not the one her ex gave her. A pair of twins call her "mama." And a devastatingly handsome CEO, Ethan Blackwood, claims to be her husband. She doesn't recognize any of them. Terrified and disoriented, Lina rejects this strange new life and returns to her family and her ex-boyfriend, Ryan—the man she believes she was about to marry. They welcome her with open arms. But something is wrong. Ryan is unusually close to her best friend, Chloe. Her parents dodge every question about Ethan. And no one can explain why she has a scar on her wrist or why she flinches at the sight of stairs. Then the memories begin to surface in fragments. A restraining order against Ryan. Chloe's hand on her back—pushing. A letter Lina wrote before the coma: "If I forget, find me. Don't give up." Lina secretly reconnects with Ethan and the twins. He doesn't pressure her to remember. He simply shows her evidence—videos, documents, a diary—that paints a horrifying picture: her coma wasn't an accident. Her memory loss was induced. And the people she trusts most are the ones who erased her. Now Lina must pretend she's still lost while piecing together the truth. Because the closer she gets to remembering, the closer someone gets to silencing her forever. She thought she woke to a nightmare. But the real nightmare is the life she's desperate to forget.

Marcus Lopez was supposed to be a broken orphan running from a fire, but the soul that woke up under that San Francisco overpass brought something older back with it. Transmigrated into the deadliest school on earth, he discovers an "Ancestral Memory" talent that allows him to relive the lives of history's greatest killers in his sleep. While Master Lin watches for weakness, Marcus uses "Death Consumption" to grow stronger from every life he takes, turning his peers' trauma into his own fuel. He isn't just trying to pass his finals at King's Dominion; he's building a composite identity from a thousand years of blood, all while a mysterious text message proves that someone in the cartel knows he isn't the real Marcus anymore.

{69K words before locked] Fifty years ago, a shower of meteors descended from the skies. With them came a strange, colorful mist that wiped out ten percent of humanity and changed the world forever. Ten years later, the real nightmare began. From beyond the stars came the Abberants — massive, intelligent, ape-like creatures standing over nine meters tall. Stronger, faster, technologically superior, they declared themselves the rightful rulers of Earth and plunged humanity into a war it never asked for. On the brink of extinction, humanity survived only because of one miracle. Meta-Humans. Humans who awakened extraordinary abilities and pushed the Abberants back. Some shared their powers to protect mankind. Others hoarded them, turning strength into bloodline privilege. Ray Dawson was never one of them. At least, not at first. Just a boy with an ordinary life, working in secret to save enough money to buy an ability book and change his fate — without his mother ever knowing. The day his dream was supposed to come true, everything was taken from him. An Abberant attack left Ray with nothing but rage, grief, and a shattered future. Sent to a brutal survival camp meant to forge soldiers, Ray’s life should have ended quietly like countless others. Instead, an accident changed everything. ... [Searching...] [Search Complete] [Ding! Trial completed] [All forms of pained endured by specimen.] [Soul and body compatible with the system] [Congratulations Host! You have successfully awakened the Tribrid System] ... Ray awakens The Tribrid System — a system that does not grant him a single power, but awakens three sentient existences within him, each tied to a different bloodline, each with its own will… and its own strength; Trying to takeover and make him a monster. As Ray fights, grows stronger, levels up, and evolves, he begins to merge these other selves into one body — unlocking power far beyond ordinary Meta-Humans. But the Abberants are only the beginning. Hidden truths, internal human conflicts, and enemies far worse than beasts await beyond the battlefield. This is the story of a boy who lost everything — and chose to become the weapon humanity needs. Will Ray survive the external and internal war raging? Find out more in this book; Evolution. Survival. Ascension. Follow Ray Dawson as he rises through the Vanguard, forms his squad, and walks the path toward becoming something the Abberants and even the world never accounted for. __ The Discord Server for the book has been created. Here is the link: https://discord.gg/eN7em7Q38

Marcus Cole has always felt like something about him doesn’t belong. When terrifying dreams, strange visions, and a mysterious girl begin pulling him toward a past he can’t remember, Marcus discovers that his lost memories are tied to an ancient war between humans and demons. As reality begins to unravel, Marcus must uncover who he really is before the darkness hunting him finds him first. Because the life he’s living was never truly his. And the boy he used to be is running out of time.