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Phantom Legion: Rise of the Uncrowned King

The world believes Raven Team died during a classified intelligence mission in the Middle East. The official report states the squad was wiped out after a failed extraction. But the truth is far darker. Tony Fox, callsign Raven, was betrayed by the very organization that sent him. His elite six-man squad was ambushed during a covert mission to retrieve sensitive intelligence that powerful figures wanted erased from existence. Hunted across nations by a global elimination task force, Tony becomes the most wanted ghost on Earth. His team dies buying him time. The world declares him a traitor. Cornered in the Indian Ocean, wounded and bleeding, Tony dives beneath the waves to escape a helicopter gunship. And then the impossible happens. His blood activates an ancient alien teleportation gate hidden in the depths of the ocean. Tony awakens inside Aegis Citadel — a colossal alien megastructure orbiting near Jupiter, the last relic of an extinct civilization known as the Aegis. An ancient AI named Sentinel recognizes something within Tony's blood… something not entirely human. The Citadel accepts him as its commander. Now armed with alien technology far beyond Earth's understanding, Tony builds a hidden force from the shadows. A force that will grow into a legend feared by governments and intelligence agencies alike. A phantom army. A hidden empire. A power that can strike anywhere on Earth without warning. From hunted fugitive… To commander of a secret interstellar citadel… Tony will forge the Phantom Legion. And one day, the men who betrayed him will learn a terrifying truth. The ghost they tried to kill… Has returned as a king without a crown.
ShadowKnight83 · 31.2k Views

Gates Guilt: Resurrection

The era of the sun is a dead memory. Humanity's sprawling kingdoms have fallen, and the last remnants of civilization are buried alive. Trapped within a decaying, subterranean iron bunker known as the Sanctuary, the few survivors of an apocalyptic extinction cling to a grim existence. Outside the walls lies an unforgiving abyss of monsters and black miasma; inside, the reality is just as terrifying. Under the iron-fisted rule of Chief Murad Xie, the Sanctuary survives through a horrifying arithmetic. Compassion is a forgotten language, and the weak are literally consumed to keep the strong alive. Eleven-year-old Akira and his mother, Syuri, are the last sparks of hope in this sterile tomb. While the rest of humanity has surrendered to the ruthless, blood-soaked laws of their cage, Syuri preaches of a forgotten world above—a place of blue skies and green earth. Her dreams earn her the title of a madwoman from the starving crowds, but Akira fiercely protects his innocence, clinging to her teachings in a society that demands cruelty. But innocence is a death sentence at the end of the world. As resources run dry and the shadow of starvation threatens to snap the Sanctuary's fragile peace, an elite soldier named Klein takes Akira under his wing. Knowing the brutal truth of their decaying sanctuary, Klein drags the boy into the pitch-black outskirts of the gates. Through agonizing, bone-breaking training, he seeks to strip away the boy's naive hopes and forge him into a weapon capable of surviving the nightmare to come. As the last embers of human civilization threaten to burn out forever, Akira stands at a crossroads. He must decide whether to surrender to the savage reality of humanity's final cage, or bleed to prove that his mother’s beautiful world still exists in the dark.
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Fracture System: The Sovereign Code

They called him null. Riven Cross failed his ability assessment at sixteen and has spent three years doing the math on a problem that has no clean solution: his younger sister needs Tier Three medical treatment, Tier Three is locked behind a ranked access wall, and null-classified individuals don't climb ranked access walls. He works freight shifts. He runs the numbers. He waits for a variable that hasn't shifted yet. Then he walks into an alley he was supposed to walk away from. The woman backed against the wall is Lyra Ashbourne — silver hair, two years of running behind her eyes, and the specific stillness of someone who has been in enough bad situations to know that movement before the right moment is worse than no movement at all. Three Sovereign Order operatives with a suppression field active stand between her and the exit. The math says walk away. Riven Cross walks toward it instead. The moment he grabs her wrist, something four centuries old wakes up inside him. The Fracture System — a supernatural ability architecture so powerful that the Sovereign Order split it deliberately three centuries ago to neutralise it — recognises the neural architecture it was built for. The active fragment activates in Riven. And Lyra, who has been carrying the system's other half in her bloodline since birth, feels it the way she has felt it twice before with two other people: like a lock recognising the shape of a key. Except this time it doesn't stop after a second. This time it doesn't stop at all. Here is the problem: the system grows through proximity. The closer Riven is to Lyra, the faster he levels up. The faster he levels up, the stronger the resonance pulse that broadcasts their location to every faction in the city that has been waiting three years for exactly this signal. Every level he gains makes her harder to hide. Every level he gains makes her harder to leave. Six levels in eight days. The Order's containment window closes faster than they can adapt. Faction propositions arrive with better furnishings and the same locks. And underneath all of it, in the foundational code of the registry that has been deciding who gets what in Novan City for three centuries, a witness record sits waiting — three hundred years of documentation of everything the Order has done with the power it was never supposed to have. The Fracture System is the only thing that can release it. But only if both halves choose to. Together. This is a story about a boy who was never null and a girl who stopped running. About two AI entities — one ancient and strategic, one sharp and isolated for three hundred years with extremely strong opinions — who have been waiting for exactly this host. About an institution that built a city on a lie and spent three centuries hoping nobody would find the proof. About the specific kind of arithmetic that looks at an impossible situation and walks toward it anyway. And about two people who discovered, eight days into knowing each other, that the choice the system was built for and the choice they were making for themselves had been the same choice all along.
Talien_Auravale · 6k Views

The World's Greatest Egoist

When the Abyss descended, Earth didn’t just fall—it awakened. ​Tall beams shot down from the skies, eroding nature and opening the gates for the Invasion of the Spawns of the Abyss. These Spawns were called Null Creatures and they brought a cataclysm change to the world forever. From the struggle to survive, Awakeners known as Egoists were born, beginning an everlasting fight that has endured until the time of Lucamir Elaric. ​Born in the suburbs with nothing but a hoe and a pickaxe to his name, Lucamir’s life changes when he awakens under the ancestral calling of the Null Trance. Suddenly, he is thrown into a tapestry of fate long defined by time and gods. ​“The path to godhood actually still exists?” ​The truth is simple: The gods were once mortals. They were Egoists, just like many others on Earth. But the foundational crossroads to becoming an Immortal was lost to time—until Lucamir found it. ​While others are limited to a single Archetype, Lucamir is granted an Undefined, enabling him to survey the unlimited options of seven Archetypes— Armed with 100% resistance to all forms of corruption, he ventures into the Abyss to claim god-like strength. ​But power comes with a price. As the Federation’s chains threaten to tie him down, and a whimsical god views him as his second coming, Lucamir must amass the treasures of the Abyss while carrying its scars. He must reach the top, lest he loses his soul. ​“Be it the Heavens or the Abysmal Realm, I alone shall be the Greatest Egoist.”
Tofi_ · 12.5k Views

Honkai Star Rail: Developing Mobile Games on Xianzhou

Lin Yu finds himself transported to the world of Honkai: Star Rail. Equipped with a divine mobile game development system, his first project is creating "Honkai: Star Rail." Soon, his game captures the attention of the entire universe. As players reach the Cocolia boss battle, the song 'Wildfire' begins playing. "Woah?! This is a turn-based game; how dare you make it so intense!" "The moment this music kicked in, I felt like I was about to take down an Aeon!" Progressing further, they encounter Dan Heng's sea-parting scene. "I thought 'Wildfire' was intense enough, but there's even more fire here!" "Dan Heng, still denying you're Imbibitor Lunae? Now you're a five-star limited character!" Arriving at Penacony: "Huh? Have you listened to 'WHITE NIGHT'?" "Acheron's power has been tested - fellow gamers, feel free to pull for her!" "Duke Inferno: Children, this isn't funny." "Before experiencing the story: Aventurine? Just another profit-driven fraud! After the storyline: May the Mother Goddess thrice close her eyes upon thee..." "What Aventurine?! He's clearly my unfortunate yet loyal bro!" *** Please support me on Patreon, where you can read a bunch of extra chapters, not just for this novel, but for all the novels I'm translating. I upload at least 2 times daily for each novel (meaning there are at least twice as many chapters on Patreon compared to here on Webnovel). https://www.pat reon.com/ThatGreatStuff
ThatGoodStuff · 3.3m Views