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James Donatello, a 26-year-old broke nobody who lived quietly and died even quieter, gets a second chance in the worst body imaginable. Not young. Not rich. Not powerful. A fifty-nine-year-old television judge in New Orleans. Waking up as Malakai Obafemi Ellington-Nobel. A scarred, ruined man with a dying courtroom show, a reputation already in the gutter, and over twenty million dollars in debt he never made. James quickly realizes this new life is less a blessing and more a public execution with makeup and studio lights. Now trapped in the body of a massive older man and a world built on spectacle, performance, and carefully manufactured truth, Malakai must survive a courtroom empire where inheritance wars, paternity scandals, greed, and humiliation are sold as entertainment. But beneath the cameras and applause, something is wrong. The records do not match. The timelines do not match. Money is still moving under dead names. Properties are being maintained for people who should be buried. And messages are being sent by the dead. With his show collapsing, his debt tightening, and the truth growing uglier by the day, Malakai does not rise into greatness. He adapts downward. Into a world where attention is power, dignity is currency, and morality means nothing unless it can be turned into leverage. Because in his first life, James Donatello was invisible. In this one, as Malakai Obafemi Ellington-Nobel, he may become something far worse. A man who understands people, understands systems, and is willing to erase every line standing between survival and power. ------------------------------------------ Author Note: This is a spin-off of my other story (I Became Beyonce’s Half Sister) and is apart of the I.C.T.M.H.E.T universe. WARNING WARNING ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ ⚠️ Content Warning: Throughout this story, there are scenes involving strong language, physical and emotional abuse, sexual situations, violence, and other mature or disturbing themes. Please read with discretion.

Terra II, a world split into vast planes, where deserts stretch ceaselessly and horrors—roamed without rest. It is a land scarred by self made nightmares that never fade. The Common Era, where the concept of happiness has been abandoned. No story begins with joy, and none end with peace. One mistake—a misplaced word, a fleeting gesture—is all that it took. Strength was never the problem. You survived long enough to know that looking strong, feeling strong, and being strong are three different lies people tell themselves to keep moving. Terra is heavy. The roads are long and boundless like the deserts. And family...family—that has been stripped away. Once? Twice? no, Thrice? You’ve walked. You’ve run. You’ve shot at everything. You've seen your friends perish away, your self-made family rotting away, and how do you cover it? By carrying a carload of supplies through every kind of conceivable catastrophe. ———————— I'm pretty nervous how this version will be received and since i went for both magic and a modern setting. I'm not really good as creating things so i took inspiration from some well known media, so if it seems familiar, i tried as best i could to make it my own. but idk. Lets see, it starts to pick up the pace slowly. It's a slow born sort of thing. short ass rant, lol. Kristen out, peace.

Ezra wakes up in a strange world with pointy-eared people, glowing castles, and a family he doesn’t recognize. Before he can figure out where he is, everyone keeps calling him “young master” and insisting he’s a harmless beta. But at a royal event, his body betrays him and he suddenly “awakens,” releasing pheromones he can’t smell and can’t control. The entire hall of powerful Alphas turns toward him like wolves scenting blood. The four royal brothers, dangerous, famous, and stupidly attractive, claim he’s an omega who belongs to them. Ezra has no idea what an omega even is. Then a weird system appears. [SYSTEM ERROR: Omega awakening detected. First task: avoid every Alpha in this room.] While trying to figure out what happened to him, Ezra learns the truth: the original body he now lives in was murdered, and the man who killed him is still out there. Worse, he’s tied to the royal family. Forced into a world where omegas are treated like property, Ezra must survive: Four Alpha brothers who want him both romantically and sexually and would do anything to have him in their bed every night. A system that only appears when he’s seconds from disaster. A disgustingly handsome and obsessive killer watching him from the shadows. And his growing deep feelings for one particular brother. He only has three days before the brothers drag him into the royal house for good. And the worst part? His body reacts to them… way too easily.

Warhammer: My Primarch Is Remi

Elias was never a chosen one. He was a broke, exhausted young man from the modern world, quietly rotting under debt and shame while trying to keep his sick mother alive. When legal work stops being enough, he slips into something illegal, gets caught, and is beaten to death with one thought burning in him: he failed to save her. Then he wakes in another world. A world where suffering is not just common—it is organized. Here, hunger, humiliation, fear, separation, and pain are turned into political power. The higher the authority, the more cleanly it has learned to profit from the misery of others. Elias arrives at the bottom, treated as nothing more than a reserve of suffering. But this world has one terrible rule he can use: every precise wound he survives can be forged into a precise form of strength. Every scar can become an ascent. So Elias climbs. He turns punishment into endurance, humiliation into cold fury, and pain into the means to strike back. He will crush the people who built their power on the broken. He will claw his way upward to the silent throne at the center of it all. And he will find a way home before his mother dies. But the strongest awakenings demand a price that is crueler than blood: pieces of his mother herself. Her voice. Her scent. The memory of her hand on his forehead. To save her, Elias may have to pay with everything that still makes her real inside him. And if he opens the path back too late—or too empty—he may not return alone.

"Forgive me, my soul," he said, knowing it was probably the last time he would see the love of his life. *** Simply put, King Agust is the devil in plain clothes. A raging Lycan with an unwavering desire to wipe out werewolves, he is the ultimate danger to a race whose only mistake is bearing the same blood as that of his father— a werewolf alpha who ruined him and left him consumed by hatred. Like a mad king, Agust has waged relentless wars to drive them into hiding. Until he meets Park. Ruler of Kiyoto, the last standing werewolf pack, Alpha Park is everything Agust despises yet cannot ignore. Fearless, defiant, powerful, and unforgiving, Park rejects Agust when he discovers they are mates. Agust takes it as a challenge. But when his Lycan army attacks Kiyoto without his approval, Agust burns them all, triggering a revolution. Even then, the only thing Agust cares for is the one man who makes him weak in the knees. Alpha Park. In the middle of the revolution, an enemy with a familiar face arises. Hidden in plain sight as Agust’s ‘twin,’ Alpha Ming Chang Zhu has only ever wanted one thing: to be Agust’s only choice. For years he’s stayed devoted to his ‘brother’s’ salvation. When he hears of Agust's mate, Chang Zhu sets course for Kiyoto to eliminate the obstacle standing between him and his greatest obsession. When the three lives collide in love, obsession, and vengeance, the mad Lycan king has to choose between the alpha who despises him and the one who would burn the world to have him. But is there truly a choice, when the king has always had his eyes on only one?

Dublin, 2130. 18-year-old James Ganner has nothing—no money, no future, no escape from the slums that killed his father and broke his mother. Then the System activates. [You have been selected. Choose your designation: Challenger or Civilian. Selection is permanent.] James chooses Challenger. He enters the 72-hour Tutorial where 80% die. Against all odds, he survives and receives the rarest class in existence: Necromancer. But survival was just the beginning. [FLOOR 1] [Mission Type: Kill 15 Hobgoblins] [Failure Condition: Death] James raised his hand, black energy coiling around his fingers. [Skill Activated: Soul Drain ] The dying hobgoblin convulsed as dark tendrils ripped the life from its body, feeding his mana pool. [You have killed Hobgoblin Warrior] [Progress: 1/15] The tower doesn’t care about heroes or villains. 300 floors. No backtracking. No second chances. Death is permanent. Every floor demands blood, and James’s necromancy feeds on corpses—the more he kills, the stronger he becomes. His goals are simple: escape poverty, punish the uncles who stole his inheritance, clear the tower, and uncover the truth behind why the towers appeared. In a world where only the ruthless survive, can a slum kid with nothing but cold determination and an army of the dead climb higher than anyone before him? The tower rewards only one thing: those who refuse to stay down.

On an infinitely chaotic, dimensional battlefield… Uchiha Madara, his gaze filled with contempt, activates his Susanoo. "You wish to dance, too?" Ryomen Sukuna stands with his hands in his pockets. "You're the challenger here." Aizen Sōsuke slicks back his hair with a single motion. "From this moment forward, I will stand at the top." The bald Saitama just scratches his head, completely lost on what is happening. Having lost her signature ahoge, Saber Alter frantically swings Excalibur Morgan in a chaotic frenzy. Amidst the pandemonium, an immense and powerful chakra erupts from within Kaito Shirogane. His eyes lower slightly as a smile plays on his lips. "My apologies, everyone," he says. "It seems... I'm the real monster here." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Genre Tags: [Anime Multiverse + Overpowered MC + Game-like System] (The story focuses on anime-based worlds, but also includes worlds from film and other novels.)

Who says a Lord Ravager can’t be an Emperor? Wei Qing transmigrated into the universe of Honkai: Star Rail. Good news: he’s Nanook’s secret kid—a Lord Ravager, the incarnation of Destruction meant to annihilate Abundance. Bad news: the moment he thinks about the divine war looming in the future, his head starts pounding. All he wants is to lie flat and coast through life. So what’s the play? Well… don’t the Xianzhou specialize in hunting down Abundance? Perfect. Wei Qing disguises himself and slips into the Xianzhou as a sleeper agent, living a glorious three-hundred-year career of shameless slacking and low-effort survival. Until one day, a long-overdue Traitor System finally starts binding to him. And that’s when the real comedy begins— “I, the General of the Luofu, hereby defect from the Xianzhou!”

An actor with a system that allows him to don on infinite number of identities. --- Carter Hayes, a method actor of the 21st century died while saving a kidnapped girl from a gang of criminals. Instead of heaven or hell, his soul was snatched to the Prime World, a realm that governs over countless smaller dimensions. He became an expendable for a minor faction called Cyber Runner. This multiverse, however, had another plan for him. At the moment of arrival, he had awakened the Infinite Skin System. [HOST FOUND] [INFINITE SKIN SYSTEM ACTIVATED] [ELDRITCH KNIGHT ACQUIRED] [ELDRITCH KNIGHT: THE KILLER OF TERROR] Carter was thrown into a world full of monsters. But he had no worries, with Eldritch Knight, he leveled the entire horror world. Then he jumped dimensions. There was an endless amount of dimensions in Prime World. Dimension of the Mystic Arts. Dimension of Medieval Adventurers. Dimension of Futuristic Dystopian. Dimemsion of Magical Fairy Tales. And many more. Carter stood on top of them all with his smooth face with no characteristic. He smiled and picked a dimesion he liked. His hand casted over his face, changing his appearance and powers. "The world is my stage. The people are characters on a script. The skins are my roles. I have more names than there are stars. I have more titles than there are worlds. I am the Blank Space, Lord of Destiny, the Wandering Sage. I am Insidius, the Third Wind, and Devourer of Flesh. My sword is the Prisoner. My wand is the Light-Bearer. My knife is the Dark-Chaser. I am the First Man, the Tragic One, and Truth-Seeker. I am Carter Hayes."

Ather is tired of this world, tired of its answers, but then he's given an opportunity to enter into a new world. Ather will lose everything, but his will remains unbroken, because if it doesn't kill you, it'll only make you stronger. Will Ather lose everything, or will he defy his fate?

From Demon Slayer to Grand Ass

[System Alert: You have refused to kneel.] [The Heavenly Court rejects you.] [The Abyssal Court welcomes you.] In the era of After Dark, the world is ruled by the Awakened—warriors who follow the "Angelic Sequences" to protect humanity from the Mirror Dimensions. For Lucian, a starving orphan in the slums of London, "Angels" are nothing but tyrants with good PR. He has no desire to be a hero. But the System is absolute. On his nineteenth birthday, Lucian is dragged into the Crucible—a mandatory death trial. While others prayed to the Gods for salvation, Lucian looked the impossible odds in the eye and sneered. His defiance triggered a System Error. He didn't awaken as a Soldier or a Mage. He awakened the long-lost Forbidden Sequence. Class: Lightseeker Patron: The Dead Prince of Pride Now, Lucian possesses a power that breaks the rules of reality. He does not level up by training. He does not level up by praying. He levels up by Dominating. In a world where thousands fight for scraps, Lucian follows a different path: 1. Never Bow. (Penalty: Death). 2. Never Beg. (Penalty: Weakness). 3. Crush those standing above you. (Reward: Ascension). "The world doesn't need saving. It needs to be corrected." Watch as the street rat becomes the King of Terror. Tags:#AntiHero #System #WeakToStrong #RuthlessMC #Evolution #DarkFantasy #Villain #FaceSlapping #NoHarem also available on Royal Road

(Non-scheduled posts) The earth has been shrouded in darkness for centuries now. Beings of obscure origin have caused humanity to cower and cluster together. Multiple "hills," as they call them, have been constructed around the globe. Since this one-sided war started, it sent humanity back ages, guns are irregular, and good medicine is even rarer. It's challenging to lead a fulfilling life in this era; it no longer matters whether you are rich or poor. Everyone is the same now; all they want to do is survive.

Ethan Crowe walked out of prison after seven years with nothing to his name and nowhere to belong. The world he returned to was unrecognisable. Gates had torn open across the globe, monsters roamed beyond human control, and society now revolved around the Titled - people chosen by mysterious voices and granted supernatural powers that made them heroes, weapons, and rulers all at once. Ethan wasn’t one of them. Not at first. Lost, angry, and with no future worth chasing, Ethan was barely surviving when a voice finally spoke to him. "Your Title is… Lord Of Beasts." But something about his awakening was wrong. Instead of gaining power in the real world like every other Titled, Ethan awakened a System tied to the Tower Of Beasts - a brutal, game-like world he can only enter while asleep. Inside the Tower, Ethan must fight for survival against monstrous creatures, earning power through a system of skills, evolution, and beasts. As for the beasts he acquires there? They persist beyond his dreams... Registered as an E Rank Titled with only D Rank potential, Ethan should have been insignificant. Yet the Lord of Beasts cannot be measured by ordinary standards. As Ethan grows stronger at an impossible rate, his existence begins to ripple outward - drawing the attention of elite Titled, criminal syndicates, and forces lurking behind the Gates themselves. His past refuses to stay buried, his beasts grow more dangerous, and the truth behind his Title hints at something far more terrifying than anyone realises. In a world ruled by power, Ethan Crowe starts at the bottom. But as the Lord of Beasts, it’s only a matter of time before he climbs to the top! P.S. This is my WSA 2026 Entry - all support with powerstones and reviews is appreciated :) Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Any similarities to real events, locations, or people are purely coincidental and not intended to portray anything.

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A bookstore owner forced to marry her family's enemy discovers that the cold-hearted mafia heir is capable of a devotion so fierce it will either heal her deepest wounds or destroy them both when his world of violence crashes into hers. --- MAIN CHARACTERS Sofia Bianchi — 26 years old · Owner of The Last Page bookstore in Greenwich Village · Has spent eight years building a life separate from her family's criminal ties · English literature degree, dreams of expanding her store · Fiercely independent, sharp-witted, emotionally guarded · Carries guilt over being unable to save her brother from himself · Internal conflict: Terrified of being owned, controlled, or used; must learn that love and possession can coexist without erasing her Antonio Matteo — 31 years old · Underboss of the Matteo family, heir to the empire · Known for cold precision, absolute loyalty, and controlled violence · Has never questioned the family, never wanted anything for himself · Carries trauma: Mother died when he was young, father raised him with iron discipline · Secretly reads poetry (Neruda, in broken Spanish) and has never told anyone · Internal conflict: His world demands ownership of everything, including his wife; but he wants her to choose him, which terrifies him more than any enemy SECONDARY CHARACTERS THE BIANCHI FAMILY Frank Bianchi — Sofia's father, aging Don of the declining Bianchi family, sick with guilt Rose Bianchi — Sofia's mother, gentle, wants peace above all Carlo Bianchi — Sofia's younger brother (22), reckless, addicted to gambling, deeply in debt, becomes a liability and eventual traitor THE MATTEO FAMILY Vincent Matteo — Antonio's father, old-school Don, believes in tradition and blood loyalty, arranged the marriage Marco Ricci — Antonio's underboss and closest friend, fierce warrior, utterly loyal Dominic — Antonio's most trusted soldier, quiet, observant Elena Matteo — Antonio's younger sister (24), married into another family, becomes Sofia's ally THE INNER CIRCLE Sasha — Marco's wife, becomes Sofia's closest friend and mentor in mafia wife life Marnie — Elderly woman who runs the Matteo household, wise, sees everything Old Vito — Antonio's driver, former soldier, grandfather figure THE ENEMIES Viktor Petrov — Head of the Russian mob moving into Matteo territory, ruthless, ambitious Derek Black — Sofia's abusive ex-boyfriend (human antagonist), resurfaces to cause trouble Garrick Volkov — Viktor's second, brutal enforcer ALLIES Torin Callahan — Head of the Irish mob, initially antagonistic, becomes uneasy ally Sera Callahan — Torin's wife, fierce, bonds with Sofia

Mature Contact... 1996, the world was still analog, disconnected, and blissfully unaware of the digital storm on the horizon. For Marvin Meyers, soon to be eleven-year-old prodigy with the souls of an ancient, -hungry Incubus, and a modern man it is the ultimate hunting ground. ​Armed with the memories of a future where tech giants rule and entertainment is the new religion, Marvin doesn't just want to be a star—he wants to own the sky. From the "plagiarism" of legendary works to the strategic acquisition of the world's most undervalued IPs, Marvin begins a cold, calculated climb to the top. ​While his classmates at his elite L.A. school worry about grades, Marvin is busy recruiting a young Mark Zuckerberg, filing predatory tech patents, and building a multi-national empire that spans the US, Japan, South Korea, and China. In a world fueled by human desire, there is no greater predator than an Incubus who knows exactly what the future wants before it even exists. Marvin Meyers died a lazy brat, but he woke up as something much more dangerous. With the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis looming and the Dot-com bubble about to hiss, Marvin has a four-year window to become rich enough to get his hands on one of the big seven. Joy, anger, lust, sorrow, and happiness are all desires and emotions. As long as these emotions are directed at me, they can become nourishment for my spiritual practice. Okay, let's see what reliable ways there are in this world that can stir up a lot of people's emotions? Hmm, writer, that's good; umm, music, that's also good; wow, Hollywood movies, reaching the whole world, that's fantastic! Looks like I need to become a plagiarist... what's that word again? Right, a copyist. I'll start as a writer, and my ultimate goal is to become an international star. What? You mean acting skills? I'm a Incubus!

Two gods, one hailed for his brilliance known as Light, and the feared and hated for his malevolence, Chaos. When Everyone thinks that the God of Light is the ultimate embodiment of good, they have no idea that they praise the evil and scorn the good. Chaos, imprisoned and humiliated plots his revenge carefully as he vows to escape his prison and reclaim his lost glory. After all, who says what shines brightest is always the force of good?

It all starts with a bug in the code... An NPC that shouldn't exist... but does. Every tweak makes him stronger. Every limitation, more unpredictable... At first, nothing seems to make sense. The logic twists, the narrative unravels... but something keeps you from stopping reading. Until, suddenly, everything clicks. And that's when the story hits you. Because now, he's unstable. He's rational and emotional at the same time. He's the protagonist... And it's too late to escape. Welcome to... Omnipunk: The Unchained Code.