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Apocalypse Online: Regression of SSS-Class Summoner

Apocalypse Online, a VMMORPG, that took the gaming industry by storm. When it was launched, every virtual reality game was deleted. Not even the pentagon could track down the perpetrator. However, due to its immersive style and expansive, realistic world, every player fell in love with it. They were unaware that the game prepared them for the apocalypse that would occur during the earth’s evolution five years after. Every player’s character from Apocalypse Online would merge on their real body, enabling them to defend themselves from the appearance of space rifts where demons and monsters manifested. Two years after the apocalypse descended, Maximus Grant obtained a hidden legacy-class quest in one of his recent solo dungeon raids. The hidden legacy-class quest required a Summoner Class to complete it, but he had already chosen Elementalist Class in his second class advancement, leaving him no choice but to sell it to the Lewis Auction Firm. However, he was betrayed and killed—worst, they included his younger brother to prevent any secrets from being revealed. Before his death, he swore to take down the Lewis Guild and surprisingly, fate has a plan for him. He regressed a day before the Apocalypse Online was launched and the hidden legacy class actually accompanied him. This time, Felix wouldn’t make the same mistake as losing his younger brother again. This time, Felix would complete the hidden legacy class quest and became a summoner that summoned knights with light–attributes that caused the demons and monsters to fear him. A summoner that every guild has to acknowledge as a one-man army that any super guild feared of. ==== Release chs per day: 5 Milestones: 50 PS: 2 extra chs 100 PS: 3 extra chs
CloverNine · 3.2k Views

ONE YEAR, FIVE MILLION, AND YOU

What's the price of one year of your life? For Lara Whitfield, the math is simple. A hospital bill she can't pay. Twin sisters whose tuition gap financial aid won't touch. A mother fighting her way back from illness. And a dream — a catering business called Whitfield's, mapped out in a green notebook she keeps under her mattress — that waitressing wages will never reach. She's been holding her family together since she was nineteen. She knows how to survive. What she doesn't know is how to say yes to something this reckless. Then Callum Mercer walks into her diner. He's thirty-three, the CEO of Mercer Holdings, and the kind of man who has never once been late to anything — including, apparently, the moment he decides to propose a business arrangement to a woman he's never met. His father's will carries a condition: marry before his thirty-fourth birthday, or lose the inheritance. The woman named in that will — recommended, not required — is Lara. The offer is five million dollars. One year. A contract that protects them both. She has twenty-four hours to decide. She says yes. But here's what neither of them planned for. They planned for logistics. For public events and shared spaces and the careful choreography of two private people learning not to collide. They planned for performance — the practiced ease of a couple that has something to prove. They didn't plan for 6 AM coffee already made when she gets to the kitchen. They didn't plan for sticky notes multiplying on a refrigerator that's never had anything on it before. They didn't plan for the way she'd talk about her dream and he'd listen — really listen — and quietly dog-ear the page. They didn't plan for the farmer's market at dawn, or cardamom cake that tastes like a memory he'd buried, or the specific way she laughs in the kitchen — unguarded, real — that he's started protecting without meaning to. And Lara didn't plan to understand him. To see, underneath the precision and the walls, a man who learned to provide for people because he never learned to be present for them. A man who was built by a father who loved a company more than a son, and who has spent thirty years quietly, methodically, making sure he never needed anyone enough to be abandoned. She didn't plan to become the exception. The contract has one rule she can't break. Don't fall in love. He said it on day one, flat and informational, the way you'd put a warning label on something dangerous. She laughed. She meant it, at the time. There was a reason she took this deal, and the reason was practical, and she was not the kind of woman who lost herself in circumstances she walked into with open eyes. But seven months in, she writes in the back of her green notebook — the one she only ever uses for business plans — I didn't plan to love him. It happened in the Tuesday mornings. And somewhere across the penthouse, Callum is on the phone with his oldest friend, saying the only honest thing he has left: "I don't want the contract to end." One Year, Five Million, and You is a slow-burn contemporary romance about two people who chose each other for the wrong reasons and stayed for the right ones. It's about what happens when survival and love arrive at the same door. When the most controlled man in the room meets the one woman who sees him without needing anything back. When a deal meant to stay clean becomes the most real thing either of them has ever been part of. It's about holding things together and learning — finally, reluctantly, beautifully — to be held. The contract was for one year. What they built was permanent. Perfect for readers who love: Slow-burn billionaire romance · Enemies-to-lovers tension · Emotionally complex leads who earn every inch of their happy ending · Stories where love isn't a lightning bolt but a slow, quiet fire that takes everything you have to walk toward
2game · 6.5k Views

A Shotgun Wedding with the Mafia Don

“You need a wife.” She said. “What makes you think that you are cut out to be my wife?” Oliver asked. The smug smile on his lips was the only indication that he didn’t find her suggestion offensive. “I am not like any of the other women you’ve been with before, Mr. Morton.” Seductively, she let her fingers draw patterns across his chest. “Ms. Sophia, are you aware that you’re playing a dangerous game?” He asked, capturing her fingers that were busily tickling the five o’clock shadow along his jawline. “I am.” But really, was she? But this was not the time to back out now. To second-guess herself. “But are you brave enough to play my game?” She dared, looking him directly in the eyes. Without giving him time to react, she kissed him. Damn! She knew she should stop. This man was her enemy, but her body wouldn’t let her. She missed this. Being wanted. Being desired. Being... No! Not love. This was not love. Oliver saw her as an object. A beautiful woman to conquer, nothing more. And she should feel the same way. No! She could not fall back into his charms. Armed with this realization, she busily let her other hand wander off until she felt it. The hard, metallic weapon that he put aside. Grabbing it, she immediately placed it on his temple, mimicking his action earlier. Then, she gradually pulled her lips away. “Are you gonna kill me now?” The great Mafia Don asked, but she could not see any trace of fear in his eyes as he stared at her. Only curiosity. “No, as I said, I’m not like the woman you’re used to. I know what I want, and I get it.” She said confidently, while slightly pushing her body harder against his. Damn! Her body still responded the same way to him, just as she remembered it. “And what do you want, Ms. Sophia?” He asked, lifting his hand to cradle her chin gently against his fingers. But he never attempted to remove the gun she had placed threateningly against his temple. The most feared man in the city just sat quietly, watching her. “As I said, marry me?” *** Amelia Clarke might have been the curvy, nerdy girl who was constantly bullied and mocked by everyone, but she still won the heart of the Quarterback King. Oliver Lambert. But her happily ever after came to an end too soon. After four years of keeping their love affair a secret, she finally discovered that Oliver was not the man she thought he was. It turned out that he was the heir of the Morton Group and the next Mafia Don. Moreover, he was already engaged to a famous heiress. Now, Oliver’s father, the current Mafia Don, wanted her out of the picture. And he would do anything to finish the job. Leave Oliver, or he would make her and her family’s lives miserable. Give up the custody of her child, or the child would not see the light of day. Amelia tried to seek Oliver’s help, but the misunderstanding between them, plus Maximus manipulations, had already caused irreparable damage to their relationship. Left desperate and with no other option, she tried to run away with her family so she could protect her child. But the accident happened, taking the lives of her parents and unborn child. But was it really an accident? Left with nothing but a broken heart, she moved away. What started with love eventually turned to hate. What was once a promise of forever became a hunger for revenge. For six years, she lived with only one thing on her mind. To make her ex and his family pay. Motivated by vengeance, she returned as a completely different person. Amelia Clarke was dead. The chubby nerd was no more. In her place, Sophia Maddison was born. A supermodel and a promising entrepreneur. Her first agenda. Infiltrate the Morton’s business. Seduce the new Mafia Don. Oliver Morton. Marry him. Then, take everything that mattered to him. His business, his family, and even his child. *** [Warning: Mature steamy content, moderate violence, and some inappropriate language] COVER PHOTO - Credit to the owner.
bishop1275 · 19.2k Views

The Ghost Mentors - The Curse Awakening

*Mature Content Warning (18+)* This book contains dark themes, violence, psychological horror, and adult situations. Reader discretion is advised. Claire Allen is obsessed with the supernatural, driven by one desperate goal: to solve the mystery of her father’s death, which she believes was caused by a vengeful spirit. By day, Claire is a regular high school senior. By night, she and her friends, Lily and Stephnie (the medium), run Ghost Mentors—an online channel dedicated to helping lost spirits find peace and cross into the afterlife. Their work is a sacred mission. But their mission shatters when they investigate an abandoned New York house haunted by a cruel, dark witch. The encounter goes horribly wrong. A witch's curse rips Claire's spirit from her body, plunging her into a coma. Now invisible to the world, Claire is only seen by Michael, a dangerously handsome Demon Slayer from Hell, sent by Lucifer himself. Michael believes all ghosts are monsters that must be eliminated. Claire believes they deserve peace. She fights for the lost souls; he hunts them. Yet, when the only person who can see you is the one you despise the most, survival depends on a tense, forbidden alliance that blurs the line between enemies and lovers. A terrifying countdown begins: Thirteen powerful vengeful spirits have started a ritual to tear open the gates of Hell and unleash chaos upon Earth. With only 5 hours left to stop the apocalypse, Claire must do the unimaginable: Journey into the Underworld alone and ring the ancient emergency bell to summon the Devil back to his throne. As battles rage across two worlds, the true darkness unfolds: a powerful jealous friend (Lily) turns to black magic, a hidden bloodline is exposed, and a deadly betrayal threatens to hand Earth over to the demons. The Ghost Mentors: The Cursed Awakening A dark, high-stakes Urban Fantasy Romance where a high school girl must summon the Devil to save the world, only to fall for the demon hunter sent to stop her. Perfect for fans of powerful heroines, demonic anti-heroes, intense enemies-to-lovers arcs, and powerful heroines.
karensam25 · 61.4k Views

THE DEVIL I CALLED HUSBAND:Bound in Blood and Vows

She didn't plan to summon a demon. She planned to survive the night. When Lyra Voss watches her own fiancé marry her sister at an altar she was supposed to stand at — then gets arrested for a crime her uncle spent months building against her — survival stops being a figure of speech. Framed, abandoned, and locked out of everything she ever called home, she finds the only thing left in her possession: her grandmother's journal, a summoning ritual, and the desperate kind of courage that doesn't feel like courage at all. What answers her blood isn't what she expected. Kael is ancient, impossibly still, and bound to her side for one year by a contract written in her own blood. He speaks like a lawyer and moves like something that has never needed to hurry because it has always been the most dangerous thing in the room. He promises her two things: her name cleared, and everyone who touched her life made to regret it. In exchange, he wants only one thing from her. The truth. Always. What neither of them anticipates is what a year under the same roof does to indifference. How pretending becomes practicing. How practicing becomes real. How a woman who stopped trusting her own heart learns to read his — and discovers that a creature who has lived three thousand years in perfect, ruthless control has never once in all that time felt anything like this. The contract has an expiration date. Their feelings don't. The Devil I Called Husband is a slow-burn paranormal romance about the bargains we make when we're broken, the people who stay even when nothing requires them to, and what happens when the fine print of a blood contract turns out to be the least binding thing between two people who were never supposed to fall in love. Some deals change everything. This one changes both of them.
2game · 2.3k Views

HIDE OR SEEK

Yvessirae thought she had won the academic lottery when she was accepted into the prestigious St. Jude’s University. Known for its elite education and world-class quality, the campus is a dream of ivory towers and golden opportunities. But as the sun sets on her very first day, Rae discovers the horrifying truth behind the school’s high graduation rate: at 8:00 PM, the university stops being a school and becomes a deadly playground. The Rules of the Game When the "Midnight Bell" tolls, the school plunges into an unnatural darkness. The doors lock from the inside, and a monstrous entity known as The Seeker begins its hunt. The students are forced into a high-stakes game of Hide-and-Seek. There is only one way to survive the night: find a hidden, cursed artifact—like the Gold Whistle—before the timer hits zero. The Loop If a student is caught or killed by the Seeker, they don't stay dead. Instead, they experience the agonizing "Reset." They wake up in their dorm beds at 7:05 AM, feeling every ounce of the pain from the night before, forced to relive the same day over and over again. Most students have given up, hiding under their beds in a cycle of eternal terror. The Conflict Rae is taken under the wing of two seasoned "players," Maia and Dvora. They reveal that once you enter the gates of St. Jude’s, you can never leave; the school’s curse follows you wherever you go. While Maia and Dvora have grown cynical after countless "deaths," Rae is determined to break the cycle. But as the items become harder to find and the Seeker grows more aggressive, Rae begins to realize that the "Game" isn't just about survival—it’s a puzzle designed to consume their souls. To escape, she must find the one item that actually ended the loop once before... and discover why the person who found it vanished forever.
twinklebooks · 756 Views