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Hi. I'm Alex Walker. Ten years old, all elbows, and the strongest thing about me used to be my smell. No parents. They left me a box and disappeared. Inside the box was a ring. The ring shook. I told myself I was tired. I was not tired. Now there's a girl living in my head who won't tell me her real name, a screen in front of my eyes with numbers that go up when I eat things I really shouldn't be eating, and a lot of monsters who'd like a word. Is it gross? Yes. Does it work? Also yes. Go from walking lollipop to something the Hunters can't explain, one bad meal at a time. ...What do you mean, "what's the catch"?

Cool breeze… Smell… Warm… Smoke… Hot. “Gasp!” My eyes shoot open and dart around the room. Left - table, right - chart, left - machine, right - small tube. It doesn’t take me long, I know I am in a hospital. My throat is dry, my hands are close to numb, and my voice doesn’t seem to work. “Heh… Heelllpah…”

They call him Ghost. A name whispered across battlefields, criminal syndicates, intelligence networks, and the darkest corners of the underworld. For seventeen years, war was the only home he knew. Then, after another flawless mission, his commander gives him an order more terrifying than any battlefield ever could. Retire. Go home. Live a normal life. At twenty-two, Ghost disappears. And Miles Sterling returns. Armed with an old letter and fragments of childhood memories, Miles travels to Star Harbor searching for the family he lost seventeen years ago. He expects answers. Instead, he finds a mother who never stopped mourning him, younger siblings who don't know they have an older brother, and a world where guns, knives, and killing intent are considerably less useful than figuring out how to be someone's son again. But Miles didn't survive seventeen years in the shadows by being ordinary. Behind the quiet young man covered in scars lies Ghost, one of the world's deadliest mercenaries. Behind Ghost lies something even fewer people know. A billionaire who built his fortune from the shadows. And behind even that... There are identities Miles buried long ago. As he tries to build the peaceful life stolen from him, the past begins finding its way back. Old enemies emerge. Forgotten names return. Powerful families recognize him. Governments know more than they should. And secrets surrounding his father's death and his own disappearance slowly begin to surface. The problem is, Miles no longer has only himself to protect. He has a mother. Two Cute little siblings. A small family. And eventually, people he would burn the world down to keep safe. Miles Sterling retired because he was tired of war. Unfortunately for everyone standing in his way... Ghost never forgot how to fight.

(Marvel fanfiction) After joining the Traveler in defeating the Abyss and saving Nata, Mavka witnessed and participated in the immense changes the Traveler brought to the continent of Teyvat. After everything settled down, Mavica relinquished her position as the Goddess of Fire, returned to human form, and lived a peaceful and happy life. However, just after Mavka closed her eyes without regret, she opened them again as an infant, born into a world called Asgard... (Based primarily on the Marvel Cinematic Universe) [Mavuika is reborn in the Marvel universe.] ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Read Ahead & Support Access up to 269 chapters ahead with daily updates on Patreon: patreon.com/laktozlu [COMPLETED] Discover more novels: 02radnovel.com Connect & Updates: Twitter • x.com/02IsmetHQ Instagram • instagram.com/02novelofficial 150 POWER STONE = BONUS CHAPTER ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯

"A girl destined to free her species from the cruelty of the power hungry rival nations, will she rise against the chains that bind them? With perilous journeys ahead and loyal friends at her side, her fight for freedom begins. But as shadows deepen and danger grows, one question remains: will she triumph-or will the world drown her hope before she makes it out alive?" book cover art isnt mine! please feel free to share your opinions and questions in the comments so i improve! I'm a young author so i don't post as much.

October 1984. At a London memorial for Detective Deven Smith—an American investigator found dead in Poland—Mayhew Brown meets the widow, who doesn't believe the official story of suicide. She hires him to find the truth. January 1985. Mayhew and his partner, Margret Rose, arrive in Pustków, a decaying mountain city in Communist Poland, where ten people have vanished over a period of ten years. The investigation begins, but quickly goes into total chaos as the two detectives realize that the murderer is not like the rest they had caught in the past.

In the forgotten mountain kingdom of Shailantara, peace has endured for generations; guarded by tradition, rituals, and stories long dismissed as myth. As Prince Chandra prepares for his coming-of-age blessing, a simple journey with friends begins to stir something far older than the kingdom itself. Beneath forgotten wars, forbidden books, and erased names lies a past the world chose to bury—the age of heroes, demons, and a Demon King betrayed by humanity. Reborn into a new era, the Shadow of that ancient being begins to awaken once more, its fate entwining with the children of Shailantara. As truths long sealed threaten to surface, the line between hero and villain blurs. And the question remains: Can fate be broken… or does it claim everything, every time? https://discord.gg/NKhCvTvH https://linktr.ee/gautam_ryusel

Fifteen years. That’s how long Dex Williams survived in the world’s most brutal high-security prison, a place where hope goes to die and only the ruthless prevail. He thought his story ended with a cold blade between his ribs during a prison riot. He was wrong. Dex wakes up not in hell, but in a world of sprawling magic and soaring dragons, inhabiting the body of a young noble who has just been assassinated. But this isn't just any world, it’s the setting of a fantasy novel he once read to kill time in his prison cell. Now, Dex is no longer a scarred convict; he is a noble in a powerful family. There’s just one problem: in the original story, the character he now inhabits was a minor "extra" destined to be murdered in the first arc. And so, Dex Williams begins his journey within the Falus Forest, one of the most dangerous and bloodiest places in this world. Armed only with his sharp intelligence and his prior knowledge of this world’s secrets and his experience of living inside the world's most dangerous prison for fifteen years. "I am also publishing this story on Royal Road under the name: Just_mE10

In a world running rampant with evil spirits and demonic entities, the imperial court established the “Xuanqing Guards” to oversee the realm, eradicate treachery, and slay evil to uphold the righteous path. Shen Hao transmigrated into this world. It took him four years to climb from an ordinary foot soldier in the Xuanqing Guards to the rank of Small Banner Commander. However, given his complete lack of background and connections, taking another step up the ranks was virtually impossible. One day, he suddenly discovered a dragon residing within his body—the Ancestor of All Dragons, an entity that fed on the souls of the living and the spirits of immortals! Whenever he slew an enemy, this dragon would emerge, tempting him to devour the opponent’s soul, demonic core, or evil nucleus. Consequently, his cultivation base began to skyrocket at an insane pace. …… Shen Hao: “I was just solving cases… how did I become invincible?”

#VillainDad #CuteProtagonist #Ghosts #Misunderstanding #Transmigration #SmartMC Mira realized two things the moment she woke up in the body of a nameless orphan in a fantasy novel: 1. She is a disposable "shrimp" destined to die in the crossfire of the main characters. 2. She is the only person in this world who can see the screaming, terrifying ghosts that haunt every corner of the empire. Tortured by the wails of the dead, Mira finds only one source of silence: Duke Kaelus von Nacht. Known as the "Dark Lord" and the "Emperor's Sword," Kaelus is a man so ruthless and soaked in bloodlust that even the ghosts are terrified to go near him. To the world, he is a monster. But to Mira, he is a walking, talking pair of noise-canceling headphones. Desperate for a good night's sleep, Mira clings to him, acting like a naive, affectionate child to secure her place by his side. She succeeds, but she miscalculated. Kaelus didn't adopt her out of kindness. He needed a disposable child to act as 'live bait' for the assassins targeting him. Now named Seraphina, she must navigate a deadly game of survival. She thinks she is using him as a ghost shield. He thinks she is a fearless prodigy who loves him. As Seraphina munches on poison berries and naps through ambushes to avoid seeing spirits, the cold-blooded Duke starts to ask the wrong questions. "Why does she only sleep when I am holding her?" "Why does she stare into space with such disdain?" "Is it possible... that I am a good father?" Spoiler: He is not. But he’s about to destroy an entire kingdom because someone woke her up. --- ### Excerpt "Your Highness, the Archduke," the aide whispered, trembling hard to cover his laughter from bursting out. "The child... she is clinging to your leg again." Kaelus looked down. The tiny creature known as Seraphina was attached to his calf like a barnacle, drooling on his pristine military trousers. "She is fearless," Kaelus murmured, misinterpreting her desperate need for his ghost-repelling aura as familial affection. "The assassins are approaching, yet she seeks comfort only in the eye of the storm. She is the perfect bait." Seraphina, currently trying to avoid eye contact with a headless ghost hovering three feet away, squeezed her eyes shut. 'Just don't move. If I let go, the headless guy will ask me where his nose is again.' "Sir," the aide hesitated. "She's... eating your cloak." "Let her eat," Kaelus commanded, drawing his sword. "Whatever she wants, she gets. Except for freedom."

Zhang Fan, a university graduate, is on a sightseeing tour the day the Jade Scroll Transmission is conducted at the Zhenwu Mountain. The Ancestral Master once prophesized: 'The Zhenwu lineage will be passed for seventy-three generations, and due to Ordinary Tribulation, descendants will emerge.' "Neither absolute nor extinct, there will be a pause at the seventy-third generation..." "The lineage of True Martial Mountain has reached the seventy-third generation today, is the heavenly mandate coming to an end?"

Betrayed. Heartbroken. Cursed. "I know you like me. But I have already given my heart to someone else, and that's her" Hearing those heartbreaking words, Lillianna was devastated. Watching the man she trusted the most hugging her friend, she was enraged. But her feelings mattered nothing before a bunch of evil people and their schemes. Her parents were imprisoned. She was cursed right on her deathbed. "Even if you were to be reborn, no human would ever love you" Fortunately, heaven had other plans. ... Lucien Kingsley was abandoned by his family as a kid, and for years, he lived in a castle in the middle of the woods. One day, a girl knocked on Lucien's door, begging him to save her. Reluctantly, he helped her but somehow got attracted to her as they spent time together. And from there began his journey to capture the prey that jumped a step away from him every time he stepped forward. Would Lucien succeed in winning the girl's heart? Or would he fall victim to her curse? Read more to know how Lilian and Lucien take on a journey of love and mystery.

Crossing into a wasteland ravaged by Infected Bodies and constant natural disasters, Cheng Ye becomes an Inspector at the border of Happiness City. Every survivor wanting to join Happiness City must be thoroughly questioned and inspected to prevent Infected Bodies from infiltrating. But soon, Cheng Ye realizes these Infected Bodies are nothing like he imagined! Here, there are Death Language Tentacles that can bring people back to life, surviving through sheer will. There are Death Dandelions that can instantly cover a two-kilometer radius, infecting everything in its range. There is a Fiery Sunflower that releases biological deconstructive rays, melting everything. And also, the Laughing Mandrake that becomes stronger by making creatures laugh... What? You want me to inspect these monsters? With a special Civilization Collector. Chen can search and replicate their information, items, skills, attributes, abilities, facilities...

Su Qing, who has just graduated and works as a video blogger, mistakenly consumes poisonous mushrooms sent by a fan and awakens an unusual ability: Her life is full of continuous prompts from a narration. Morning: [Morning has arrived, all things are reviving, and it is the season for animals to mate again.] Eating: [High-quality ingredients only need the simplest cooking methods. The meal before you has gone bad after fermenting overnight, and consuming it will allow you to experience hospital internet speed in thirty minutes.] Driving: [Of the millions of roads, safety is the first. If driving is not standardized, relatives will weep.] [Continue driving, the vehicle will be subjected to a severe impact in three seconds, good luck.]

Traveling through American Comics, Su Ming changes from an ordinary person to a world-famous mercenary and assassin. Just when he tries to get some information of this world, he encounters another Deathstroke.

Luo Qiu became the boss of a ‘club’ by chance. It was a weird club that sold strange items, assisted by a servant girl with 300 years of work experience. Countless people with dreams, hopes and ambitions came to the club, exchanging everything precious they owned just to fulfill their desires. They would offer their lifespan, items, and even their soul. Each successful trade would increase Luo Qiu’s lifespan by a little. “Tribute successful, your lifespan has increased by 99 years.” Thus, Luo Qiu began his endless life as the club’s boss.

After reincarnating multiple times over several centuries, Klaus has finally returned 50 years into the apocalypse that descended on Earth, bringing with it the infamous spiritual Qi. He is a paragon, a being so powerful that the heavens want nothing more than to kill him. He doesn’t play by the rules, and he most certainly doesn’t care what the heavens think. He just wanted to live his life, make money, and keep a smile on his mother’s face. However, when memories of his past incarnations began to resurface, he was forced to resume the life of a paragon once more. Maybe for the last time. Read along as we explore the amazing and twisted lives he has lived and how they will shape his current incarnation as Klaus Hanson, the Last Paragon. ==================== 50 Power Stones = 1 Bonus Chapters 100 Power Stones = 2 Bonus Chapters 200 Power Stones = 3 Bonus Chapters 500 Power Stones = 4 Bonus Chapters ==================== Join The Discord Server: https://discord.gg/wFptfB9Sgv

Lorenzo Holmes, who arrived in Old Dunling six years ago, now mingles in this city of steel and steam as a private detective. Here he has encountered a strange case. "So, there's something wrong with Wol's body?" "I pierced through his cervical vertebrae... His carotid artery ruptured, massive internal bleeding ensued, and he quickly died, but the bizarre thing happened then." "He should have died... he definitely died, but his heart was still beating, beating wildly. You could say his brain was dead, but the body was still alive, extracting fresh blood from the bullet holes."

“CLICK-CLACK. A message notification sound broke the dormitory's silence. The message contained only four characters. Ban Feng, save me!" In order to save a friend's life, Li Banfeng had gone to Platform 96, boarded the 1160 Steam Train, and arrived in Puluo State, which lingered in the steam era. After getting off the train, Li Banfeng felt like he was the most eye-catching man on the platform—truly radiant. He even had the distinct illusion that his body was emitting light. "Mommy, that man has light on him!" said a child behind him. He stood there, frozen. "Sir, what's wrong? Sir? Sir… You haven't been touched by the Heavenly Light, have you?!"

Lin Bei has transmigrated, and into the world of a game. Looking at the panel before him, he realizes his 'cheat' has arrived. Name: Lance Hamlet Occupation: Otherworldly Retainer [Ancient Bloodline]: The blood flowing through your veins grants you inspiration far beyond that of ordinary people. ... "So, my name is Lance now, huh?" In a story with a Cthulhu Mythos backdrop, having too high a level of inspiration is not a good thing. However, this has to be set aside for now. His top priority is to figure out how to survive in this world...