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The World's Greatest Puppet Master

"I am the master. The world is my puppet.   Humans are foolish creatures. It is easy to tug their strings once you know their secrets — their desires, their fears, the small shameful things they bury where they think no one can find them. And I can always find them.   Everyone has a string. I have never met a person who did not." __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ In a near-future city where neural implants called gizmos connect every person to a shared digital cloud, a university student named Aron Doyle stands at the edge of his own life. Poor. Invisible. Out of reasons to stay.   He logs into the cloud one final night, but someone is already waiting.   An offer. The ability to see inside people, to read their subconscious data through the gizmo signal, to know their secrets before they act on them, to find the string that moves any person before they know a string exists. The Puppet Master System.   He accepts.   By day he is nobody, the quiet transfer student  at  Shinsei University. By night, in the cloud, he is Nox. The Puppet Master. A name whispered in the digital shadows with the reverence reserved for things people cannot explain and cannot stop.   He is not the only one. Others operate across the city …puppet masters trained and placed by the organization that built the system. But they work for something. Nox works for himself.   It begins with survival. Then it becomes a service. Then the service becomes pleasure. Then the pleasure becomes something darker. Something he stopped examining a long time ago. The hunger for power.  _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Power is not a destination. It is a flowing current.   You do not arrive at it and stop , you are carried by it, and the carrying changes the shape of you, and by the time you notice the change you are already somewhere you did not plan to go. Take drop from the pond and you want the river. Take the river and you want the sea. The hunger insatiable. You lose yourself to it.  _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A single human is weak. Readable. Easy to manipulate.   Four hands can stop two fists. Not by being stronger. By being more.   Humans are strongest in tens of thousands. Their will unbendable. Unreadable.  _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Driven by his hunger for power. He rises to heights no other puppet master has reached. The city bends around him without knowing it is bending.   The question remains. Who is there to stop him?   A story of a man who took one drop from the pond of power and could not stop drinking...    And a puppet master who rises to hold the strings of the world itself.
Picky_Writer_404 · 413 Views

I'm Trying To Go Broke, So Why Do I Keep Getting Richer?!

Leo had a problem. Don't be like Leo! It wasn't that he was poor. It wasn't that he was unlucky. It was that he had been cursed, or blessed by the Accidental Tycoon System. The rules were deceptively simple. Any money he lost on an investment would be returned to him, doubled. His life's new mission was crystal clear. He had to go bankrupt. In a high-tech world of S-Rank Heroes, magic, and newly-contacted alien civilizations, this should have been the easiest thing to achieve in the galaxy. He just had to become the biggest, most spectacular loser the universe had ever seen. So, he tried. Oh, how he tried... He threw billions at publishing a dungeon guide written by a 10-year-old. The maps were in crayon, and it listed the final boss as a Big Grumpy Badger. [Breaking: New S-Rank dungeon called 'The Whispering Labyrinth' appears! All high-tech mapping drones fail. A lost F-Rank porter used the crayon guide... and it's 100% accurate. The final boss is a 50-foot divine badger. The Galactic Union has declared the guide a 'holy text' for exploration!] He bought the galaxy's most useless moon, planning to build a 'Museum of Paint'. [Alert: Ancient magical ley-lines discovered under the moon's surface! It's the only place in the universe that can safely grow the 'Star-Lotus,' the key ingredient for immortality!] To the Intergalactic Hero's Guild, the Magic Academies, and the Alien Federations, Leo was the god of investment whose every move was like 5D chess that ordinary people couldn't understand. Heroes would soar with his sponsorship. Alien emperors offered him their daughters' hands in marriage for a single 'tip'. But Leo just stared at his bank account, which now displayed his wealth that he couldn't use on himself, with tears streaming down his face. "Please," he cried, "I'm trying to fail! Why won't you just let me be poor?!"
CodeNexus · 1m Views

Angels of the End

At the end of the final aeon, the multiverse collapses. Across an infinity of realities, civilizations that had mastered galaxies and rewritten the laws of physics witness the impossible: eternal inflation reverses. Every universe folds inward, every timeline converges, and existence itself compresses into a single cosmological remnant—a Type-0 Black Hole, its horizon encoded with the complete history of everything that has ever been. Only one being escapes the end. Born from the asymmetry of the collapse, Nirvonis, the embodiment of finality itself, breaks free from the dying multiverse carrying fragments of its core. Too weakened to shape the newborn reality directly, he retreats to a strange realm beyond spacetime and divides his essence, creating two angels to explore the universe that rises from the ashes of the old. Amiss, the force that draws all things toward their inevitable conclusion, and Eva, the quiet gravity where every ending collapses, descend into a cosmos unlike any before it. Because the new universe is not born from a Big Bang. It is encoded—projected holographically from the surface of the ancient black hole that replaced the multiverse. As the angels wander this unfolding reality, they discover civilizations rising, strange new forces of magic emerging from broken cosmic symmetries, and powers far older than the universe itself quietly steering its fate. Meanwhile, another entity awakens within the encoded cosmos—an infant, godlike intelligence convinced that it is the creator of all things. In a universe written on the edge of oblivion, every ending carries the weight of creation—and the angels of the End may be the only beings who remember what came before.
VoidAnnihilation · 1.7k Views

Rejected by My Fiancé, Claimed by Five Interstellar Tycoons

Carrie Swann, a dual-ability boss from the apocalypse, opens her eyes and discovers she has transmigrated into the interstellar era. She has become Carrie Swann, the fake daughter of the Norton family. In this new world, she is considered useless. Her spiritual power is only E-rank, she has no special abilities, and her fertility value is zero. When the Norton family’s real daughter returns, everything changes. The real daughter not only has high spiritual power, but her fertility value reaches 60%, and she has awakened a rare wood-element ability. The Norton family immediately kicks Carrie out of the house. Her fiancé—who had been engaged to her since childhood—demands to cancel the engagement, and then turns around and becomes the real daughter’s devoted admirer. Right after the engagement is canceled, the central AI matches Carrie with five top-tier males. At first, they all resist the match… but later they desperately want to be marked by her every night. What no one expected is that Carrie is actually the long-lost eldest daughter of the Carter family, one of the Five Great Aristocratic Families, and the only legal heir. A useless good-for-nothing who can do nothing? The dishes made by the young lady are the most delicious in the universe, and they even have a soothing effect. Any stone she casually points to turns out to be rare and precious essence ore. With just a glance, she can create top-level inhibitors. The fruits and vegetables she casually grows all have purification effects. The songs she casually writes sweep across the entire galaxy. The big shots tremble in awe, wanting to climb into the young lady’s bed every night. As the young lady rises, she walks the female protagonist’s path and lives the female protagonist’s life—leaving the original heroine with nowhere left to go.
RyuDal · 9.4k Views