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Li Tang was reborn on the eve of the new millennium. He knew the trajectory of the mining market over the next twenty years, had the coordinates of every newly discovered supermine, and understood the intricate details of century-defining mergers between mining giants. While experts lamented that all the rich mines were in the hands of major players and that the giants were troubled by aging and depleting resources, turning from exploration to ruthless corporate takeovers... A group from the East kept working miracles—discovering deeply buried, shockingly rich mineral deposits again and again. From scorching deserts, frozen Arctic lands, and uninhabited primeval forests, they extracted tons of ore. Fully loaded cargo ships, the industrial lifeline, thundered across the seas toward the East. He had advanced exploration technology, wielded capital like a club, and maneuvered deftly through complex global politics—completely disrupting the mining industry's global landscape. When he speaks, the world listens. One foreign mining analyst exclaimed: “He is already the sole mining oligarch on Earth!” Thank you for the support, friends. If you want to read more chapters in advance, go to my Patreon. Read 40 Chapters In Advance: patreon.com/Johanssen  

[Survival, Evolution, Micro-Cthulhu, Multiverse] Wang Yanfei transmigrated into a world with extreme disparities between the rich and the poor, where survival became the very first hurdle. Food, water, superpowered individuals, mutated creatures… After struggling to adapt, he despairingly discovered that this was only the beginning. Every time he survived for a period of time, he would transmigrate into an even more dangerous world. Fortunately, fate never closes all paths. He started with a system panel, as well as a small snake that could understand human language and even teach him skills… He also awakened the [Balance] ability, which could contain all extraordinary systems. Superpowers? Mine. Cultivation? Mine. Technology? Still mine. It is time for the gods of the multiverse to witness the terror of a Stats Monster. Note: The protagonist is decisive and ruthless when necessary, but will not indiscriminately kill innocent people. This is not a harem story; whether there is a female lead will be decided depending on the circumstances. The system does not provide tasks or combat capabilities; it only provides attribute visualization and some auxiliary functions.

He doesn’t become stronger. He becomes harder to kill. When a government-built optimization system attaches to Lucas Reed by accident, it doesn’t grant power—it provides fragmented analysis, unreliable probabilities, and information that often arrives too late to trust. Physically weak and operating at the margins of the city, Lucas and a small group begin avoiding direct contact by moving through abandoned infrastructure and overlooked spaces. The system tracks human behavior under stress, refining itself with every encounter. The group adapts with it, surviving on incomplete data and decisions made under pressure. Each improvement reduces uncertainty. Each reduction increases scrutiny. Containment tightens. The system can predict outcomes. The question is whether anyone involved can live with them.

In a rotting city where the streets are paved with broken bones and the air tastes of rust and gunpowder, survival demands brutality. One hunter moves like a shadow made of venom - silent, relentless, carving through gangs with needles that kiss flesh and steal breath. Driven by a brother swallowed by the slave trade, every kill is a step closer to vengeance... or deeper into madness. Then a stranger arrives. A man in a black duster. On an ordinary Tuesday, he walks into a casino and leaves corpses behind - The Red Carpet gang, throats opened, hearts pinned with playing cards. No rage. No mercy. Just cold efficiency. The underworld erupts. Gangs howl for blood. But Boss Jager - the calculating king who rules from the shadows - sees something else: raw power to claim. He wants the stranger alive. Broken in. A new blade for his empire. First, though, the man must survive the city's deadliest weapon - the hunter who leaves no witnesses, no second chances, only bodies cooling in the dark. Refuse Jager's offer, and die screaming amid the ruins. Accept, and become the monster that devours everything. In this war of gangs, hunters, and broken souls, blood is the only law. Alliances shatter. Bodies pile. And in the end, only the fallen sing. The Hours of Fallen Bloods: Sing or Die New Chapters Every Friday at midnight UTC Also available on Royal road Scribble hub Same time, Same Author- Jerome (Jdreams)

Welcome to HELL, where demons clock in for overtime, ghosts file complaint forms, and bureaucracy is the true eternal punishment. When Nihil—a man more bone than flesh—fled his old life, he found only one lender willing to offer him a fresh start: The Bank. The terms were simple: unlimited credit, in exchange for his immortal soul. Now bound by a Vital Contract, Nihil faces a new kind of damnation. Not fire and brimstone, but interest rates and mandatory monthly payments. To keep his soul from being collected, he must become a collector himself. Armed with a list of the bank's most troublesome debtors and a profound sense of existential fatigue. Because in HellTown, you either pay your debts, or you become the payment.

When the dead stops resting someone has to remind them how. Itsuki Ririku was just a 17 year old high schooler with two annoying little sisters and a bad habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Then he stumbled into a world hidden beneath shrines and cemeteries—a world where graves are not memorials, but contracts. Where warriors, tyrants, and forgotten souls can be bound to the living in a pact called Gravebinding. Dragged into the secret domain of the Onmyōji, Ririku discovers that the dead do not simply sleep. They whisper. They hunger. They choose. And once chosen, you can’t turn back.

Orion Blade, who was trying to live a normal life away from his royal duties, now has to go back as he received a letter in which stated his father, the king, had died. He now has to go back into the second layer of planet Earth, called the Inner World.

[WELCOME, GAMBLER!] That was the first message Judas Crown saw when the slot machine blew apart in a burst of purple light. One moment he was wasting his last dollar in Las Vegas Casino and the next-- [HAREM ROULETTE UNLOCKED!] [SPIN OR DIE.] Judas quickly learned the rules: 1. Every spin rewrites his fate. 2. Quests are mandatory. 3. Leveling grants new powers—whether he wants them or not. But there’s one twist: Judas "wins." Every. Single. Time. And that’s the problem, Because the system decides what “winning” means. His stats skyrocket (But the quests scale with him.) His luck breaks probability (But every "miracle" drags him into deeper danger.) And he earns reward after reward (With a cost he didn't ask for.) Now Judas has one goal: Play the game. Break the wheel. And make sure the house never wins. Tags: R18+, System Smut, Harem, Power Fantasy, Gambling, LitRPG

For a century, humanity believed it was safe. Until monsters emerged. Their attacks pushed humanity to the brink of extinction. To fight back, the world relies on elite warriors known as Exterminators. A boy named Agnar, with no special status gets himself thrown into the mix of things. Now he must face off against monsters and humans while keeping his humanity intact.

this story follows a young man finding himself and finding his love, a story that hopefully all can enjoy.

My name is Ima, just your average 16-year-old loner. I love girls, but I love video games—specifically eroge—even more. Thanks to that, society has labeled me a creep. I thought I could change things. I thought I had a chance. But when I confessed to my classmate, she didn't just reject me; she destroyed me. While running away from the humiliation, thinking about how superior 2D waifus are, I didn't notice the car until it was too late. Now, as I lay dying in a hospital bed, a Deity has appeared with a twisted smile and a proposal. He’s offering me a second chance... but at what cost?

A horrible world plagued by constant wars and destructions caused by monsters born from the queen of all monsters. A world where mages and sorcerers are at the top of the social hierarchy, while the people without magic can barely make enough to live on their day by day. Grey, someone who never managed to fit in thanks to his unique characteristics that set him apart from every known race that exists in this world, will have to survive in this harsh environment to keep on living. But, what happens when the ship he works on is suddenly attacked by a swarm of countless sea monsters? Will he be able to survive and live to see the next day, or will he drown in the depths of the ocean? --- I hope you enjoy the story! Make sure to leave any comment to help me improve.

Jordan Hunter lost everything in a single night. One bad crypto gamble wiped out his parents’ life savings… Destroyed his future… And turned him into a joke in the eyes of his wife’s powerful, wealthy family. For four years, Jordan lived at the bottom of the Reid household—doing chores, running errands, being spoken to like a servant. Only his wife, Jade, still believed in him… even as her family poisoned the air around them. But everything changes the day his old friend Trell calls with a single sentence: “Bro… check that account.” What Jordan finds doesn’t just change his life. It changes the world. Overnight, he becomes the richest man alive—richer than nations, richer than empires. But money was only the beginning. Inside an old herbal shop, Jordan stumbles across a forbidden ancient text… A book only he can read. A book that awakens a power inside him older than civilization. With limitless wealth, a hidden power growing within him, and a destiny stretching back to the first bloodlines on earth… Jordan is done being stepped on. This is the rise of The Fifth Bloodline— and the world isn’t ready.

Content Warning: Violence, murder/assassination, criminal underworld, threats, psychological manipulation. Torture is referenced (not shown in detail). New York, 2017. Asher Hale rushes to the hospital expecting bad news—only to learn his mother isn’t just a CEO. Victoria Hale runs Clandestine Cleaning, a worldwide “cleaning company” that doesn’t remove stains… it removes people. Her sudden collapse cracks the empire open. Investors circle. Rivals move. Loyalists sharpen knives behind polite smiles. Sandra Woods, Victoria’s ruthless right hand, tries to hold the throne together—while Mercer, a man who knows where every body is buried, offers Asher a choice: a new identity and a clean escape… or a path into the family business. Asher never wanted power. But he has a dangerous gift: a synesthesia-like profiling sense that turns emotions into colors and intent into patterns. In a world of assassins and corporate predators, that gift can make him unstoppable—if it doesn’t destroy what’s left of him first.

A story about a boy who has accepted his perverted, destructive and self interest nature and decided to live by it without apology. Warning!!! This story is not for the weak-willed.

Eight years in Dubai. Master Technician. High salary. Air-conditioned luxury. Now? A daily-wage visiting instructor in a crumbling government college, earning 300 rupees per lecture. Varun returned to India with a dream: to teach the next generation. But reality hit him harder than a rusty hammer. The "State-of-the-Art" Computer Lab is a graveyard of broken monitors. The "Star Students" are hopeless dropouts waiting to fail. And the "Faculty Chair" is occupied by a random man in a dhoti, sleeping off a hangover. The system is broken. The Principal doesn't care. The parents have given up. The students are angry, violent, and destined for the streets. Everyone told Varun to quit. They told him to go back to Dubai. They told him you can’t fix a machine that has rusted to its core. They were wrong. Varun isn't just a teacher; he is a Master Mechanic. And he knows that even the rustiest scrap can be polished into gold. From fighting bureaucratic corruption to turning street thugs into top-tier engineers, this is the story of one man who refused to let the system win. He didn't get a System. He became the System.

when Raymond tried to uncover the mystery behind his parents 20 year old murder,he encountered something he shouldn't have or perhaps he didn't?...was it all a dream since the day of his parents murder when he was 15. did his mind unintentionally tried to sabotage Raymond's thoughts and sight? will he ever be able to uncover the murder case of his parents and many others that seemed like it was done by a ghost?

Ryoma Takeda was once a rising star in the ring, an Interhigh champion, a golden boy with fists of promise. But one bitter loss on his pro debut shattered his confidence. A freak accident soon after stole his leg. His career vanished. His fiancée left him. And all he had left were reruns of that one damn fight… and a hundred different regrets. Then, just as he hits rock bottom, fate does the unthinkable. He wakes up ten years in the past, on the very night of his first professional match. But this time, something’s different. [System Initialized: Vision Grid Active] “Your eyes see the truth beneath motion. Use it well.” Armed with the Vision Grid System, a combat-assist module that turns his visual perception into tactical mastery, Ryoma now has a second chance. To fix his mistakes. To chase the career he lost. To protect the mother he failed. To fulfill the hopes of those who refused to give up on him. And to finally become the man they always believed he could be. But boxing isn't just a sport. It's war of bodies, of minds, of hearts. And Ryoma Takeda is done losing.

Leo Archer lived a life of achievement and regret. Three-time Employee of the Year, wealthy, respected… yet utterly empty. He died alone, surrounded by trophies that meant nothing. But fate gives him one chance: He wakes up ten years in the past, in his teenage body. And with him appears a strange system, silent, mysterious, offering only: [Would you like to connect?] With a new life ahead, Leo chooses a different path. No more corporate chains. No more suppressing his dreams. This time, he’ll become the influencer he always admired, creating lifestyle content, traveling, learning skills, enjoying life to the fullest. But the system hides something deeper. It doesn’t only help him create. It helps him build. Companies. Brands. Influence in the shadows. As Leo rises in the public eye, another identity rises beneath it: K. M. Clarke, a hidden mastermind controlling entire industries from behind the scenes. A life of freedom in the light. A life of power in the dark. This is Leo’s second chance, and he won’t waste a single moment of it. Current Cover Art By: The Ancient Entity Old Cover Art By: @vaayscovers (insta)