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The beginning of the apocalypse brought chaos and disaster to humanity. It tore away the mask of society and revealed the cruelty hiding beneath. Ivy Ravencroft experienced it all firsthand. Her family was unfair and cruel, and they abused her so badly that she went blind. Her lover died trying to protect her, and she spent the next five years struggling to survive, until she finally died in the apocalypse. But then, Ivy woke up again, reborn in the first year of the apocalypse. At first, she felt hopeless. If only she had returned to a time before the apocalypse, she could have gathered food, weapons, and supplies to survive better. Still, she was grateful for one thing: she had kept her special ability, the power to create safe zones. This time, Ivy made a promise. She would protect her lover, find her real family, and take revenge on everyone who had hurt her. .................................. "Huh? Why is there a bento box lying here?" Ivy asked, confused. "What bento? Are you trying to trick me again?" Silas asked, sadness in his eyes. "This one!" Ivy said, holding up the packaged meal and waving it at him. "What the... where did that come from?" Silas stared at it in shock. Ivy’s eyes widened. She realized something, only she could see these items, and when she picked them up, they became real. "Can… I buy it from you?" Silas asked, unsure. "Of course. But I won't give it to you for free." Ivy smiled like a fox. Silas closed his eyes; he was ready for her to demand something sky-high and said, "Okay. Tell me how many gold bars you want." Ivy smiled and teased, "I don't want gold bars; they are way too cheap. I want one kiss." Silas: Blushing hard. His subordinates: "..." This wave of dog food was too unexpected! ....................................................... With the supplies, picking a superpower and a safe zone superpower, Ivy built her own residential area. She gained Kindness Energy and multiplied supplies with the help of Temporal Storage. While other bases struggled to make a simple house, she used her golden finger to make luxurious buildings and rent them out, becoming the big shot in the apocalypse.

A man from the 21st century opens his eyes in Rome in 87 BC and discovers that he can clone himself without limit. In a time of chaos and ambition, he will use his ability to survive, crush his rivals, and build a power that could change the fate of Rome.

Upcoming Alpha, Kael has spent years chasing what may well only be a memory. A moonlit figure who saved his life but vanished before he could learn more. Remembering little more than her piercing violet eyes and her stunning blond hair, Kael is willing to turn the world upside down to find the girl again; certain she is meant to be his, His hunt for the moonlit figure brings a new tactic. A bridal screening. And, through that screening brings into his life Grace. A beautiful daughter. With eyes of a stunning shade of violet and hair of blond. Beautiful. Polished. Confident. Everything a future Luna should be. Had his search paid off in more ways than one? Had he found his childhood savior as well as the perfect bride? Only there is a complication. Along with Grace came her maid, Wren. Resentment bubbling between the two women is clear to see. A power-hungry omega? Or more than meets the eye? Either way Kael is torn because the one thing the women share is the stunning violet eyes. A rare thing within their world, and something he had been searching for for so long. Yet here he was, faced with two women, so different to one another both with the one thing he recalled from his moonlit memory. Was either woman the one he had been searching for? Or was it nothing but a haunted past he needed to let go?

It’s the age of superhumans! Genetic modifications, Cybernetic enhancements, magic enchantments- the choice is yours! For the right price, you can rise above the masses and gain power only ever seen in myths! For the right price! No matter how far humanity advances, power will always fall in the hands of the wealthy few. It was a truth Dante learned at a very young age and with it came a burning hatred for those who use power to oppress and dominate. The flames grew stronger once he found himself faced with the cruelty of those who rule from above. Left all alone in the world, robbed of everyone he cherished, Dante swore revenge on those who hurt him, but true power couldn’t be fought with hatred alone. In his search for a weapon that could help him take his revenge, Dante crosses paths with a certain Artifact, his fate taking a turn he could never have anticipated. =================================== This is not a Fan Fic. Check out my other works: Valkyrie Smash. Support the book on Patreon.com/Nomanalive

Amara Cole just wants to be an ordinary person. So she stays quiet, keeps her head down, and pretends her magic is barely worth noticing. But the truth? She’s stronger than anyone in the kingdom. Now she’s stuck at the most elite magic academy, surrounded by powerful nobles, a future king who won’t leave her alone, a warrior who thinks she has potential but is just lazy, a rival who wants her gone, and secrets that could shake the entire world. All Amara has to do is keep pretending to be ordinary. Easy… right?

In the year 1733, the crown prince of England paid a visit to Norway, and fell in love with their only princess. It is love at first sight for both of them, and after several visits, the princess conceives a child without a betrothment even. What else is shame? "BASTARD and ILLEGITIMATE" Those were the first words Reginald heard coming into the world. It was since then he understood he was his mother's plague. After suffering for a long time and denied his human right, Reginald finally becomes the crown prince. But that didn't stop the criticism he gets for being an illegitimate child, his self esteem is lost everyday. Not just criticized, but rejected by his both his paternal and maternal extended family. No one wants a child born out of wedlock, as Reginald was conceived in his mother's womb before she became married to king Jonathan Hanover. The royal court would not accept an illegitimate king as well, especially not one thought to be a bastard. Their lot connive with the Grand duke who wants the throne for his nephew; prince Arthur and Reginald's life becomes threatened by petty looking threats. It turns out the threats on his life were built to look loose and weak, enough to make him put his guard down. He is assassinated a second time. In the bustle, he meets Charlotte Brumble. The ever curious and intriguing apothecary. Charlotte Brumble is a young and aspiring orphan apothecary living with her grandmother in the quiet and poor Ramsbottom. Acquiring her knowledge from her late grandfather who once served in the castle as a professional medical officer, she makes earnings from selling medicine and medical services to the folks of Ramsbottom. Having had a rather unfriendly experience from a young age, Charlotte has been molded into an unfeeling person, and has no time for vain worries except for money of course. She bears the plague of being unfortunate, possessed and crazed as a result of too much knowledge for a girl her calibre. Charlotte meets Reginald unaware of his status, and they bond as friends. Reginald knowing who is responsible for his assassination sets to find evidence and on doing that he returns to the castle and the culprits face justice. Charlotte first welcomed Reginald to her world, then he welcomed her to his. Life in the castle was living on a pedestal, there were a lot of people who needed to be satisfied and they didn't mind eating human flesh and blood to gain that satisfaction. From Reginald's love problem to the reason why her father was framed and kicked out of the castle Charlotte solves as many mysteries as she can. To the admiration of the Grand prince, Reginald's zealot of a brother who just didn't know when to stop. Grand Prince Mason learned something he was not willing to pass by; Charlotte is the only person alive who can carry out the rigid test and prove to everyone that Reginald is his biological brother and the only one fit for the throne. Charlotte would not carry out a test that could cost the extinction of many lives including her's. What if Reginald really is not the king's son? What would befall her and her grandmother who was all she had, or Reginald, his own family, his mother, his sisters...or the Mason whom she was already losing herself to In a world where saving the crown prince could also mean ending him, Charlotte is faced with two options; take the risk or ignore the problems at hand. It would have been an easy one for the old Charlotte; cold, hard hearted and selfish, but surrounded by people she wanted to stay forever after experiencing new loss, Charlotte is at the deep end.

Fated to be a Drone like his forefathers, abused and exploited till his final breath, Buzz had only one wish. He wanted to awaken any other class, even if it burdened him with a trash talent. But that day, the wheel of fate began to spin as he awakened a class-talent combination that shouldn't even exist! An SSS-RANK Drone! A system of Maximum Adaptability! Both unheard of across the vast cosmos! With his bizarre talent, a whole new world of possibilities opened up, where Buzz could adapt himself to surpass the limits of any realm, mimic the strongest member of any class! Thus begins one young man's rise from a generation of slaves, a society designed for exploitation, a civilization used as mere cannon fodder in cosmic wars. Additional Tags: Overpowered Protagonist, Duels, Ability-steal, Ruthless, Fast-paced, Scheming, Politics, Kingdom Building, Wars, Aristocracy, Harem, Overpowered Love Interests, Anti-hero, Yandere, No NTR/Yuri, Master-Disciple Relationship, Apocalypse, Wars, Battle Maniac, Dark.

Rain washed the blood from Hajoon Stacy’s face as he lay in a dark alley, barely breathing. All his life, Hajoon had been ridiculed. After his father died, his mother abandoned him, leaving him alone in a world that treated him like trash. Everyone said the same thing about him. He was weak. No matter how hard he tried to learn how to fight, nothing ever worked. Strength, talent, luck—he had none of it. Until he was left half-beaten to death by a gang. Left under the pouring rain to suffer. [System Activated] > Apex Fighter System Initialized

If you're looking for a protagonist who struggles, suffers, and earns every power-up through pain — wrong story, keep scrolling. Meian was born with Kage-level chakra, a mind that permanently locks every jutsu after a single glance, and one simple goal — to be left alone. The village has other plans. Tsunade hands him the entire Senju archive like it's nothing. Kakashi can't shake the feeling something is off. Powerful women keep finding reasons to stand a little closer than necessary. He didn't ask for any of it. He's just built different. Don't count him in — he'll still end up carrying everyone anyway. Easy to read. Hard to put down. Zero suffering required.

"Dragons and their spawn rule the skies, the land, and the seas... humanity survives in the cracks, dreaming of a comeback." _____ Power comes from the beast you tame. Wolves, hawks, snakes, spiders, chimeras, the stronger your summon, the brighter your future. Too bad for our protagonist. When everyone else summoned salamanders, eagles, troll dogs(not doge) or tigers, he got… Well, let’s just say the only thing lower on the food chain is dirt. Laughed at, bullied, and living as the butt of every joke, he’s not exactly winning. But giving up isn’t an option... His aging parents sold everything for his "failed" chance, and he won’t let it be for nothing. But hey, this is his story. The weakest beast tamer? Here’s the thing about being at the bottom: it teaches you how to climb. And dragons? Turns out they start small too. As kingdoms crumble under greed and external threats, the weakest tamer begins his rise. Follow his path as he unlocks a potential so rare, so terrifying, it leads to dragons… Every evolutionary line leads to the strongest ‘SSS Dragons’. _______ Warning: Contains world-ending dragons, ridicule-fueled underdog revenge, dragon-scaled protagonist, morally questionable nobles, insane creature evolutions and enough twists to make you wonder if weakest really means luckiest. A MC who’s out to prove everyone wrong… even if it kills him. Spoiler alert: It won’t. For those who love a whole lot of fun, this one’s for you. If you’re looking for a darker story, look somewhere else (Maybe Utopian System (;) This one’s about having fun and taming expectations. _______ We will use the same Discord from my first book, come join! https://discord.gg/W3CjfC2cw4 _______ Silly tags that seem to matter a lot to some readers: No Yaoi, No Yuri, Possibly Harem (Vote! I can write either, and in any case, there will be multiple girls. The only difference is whether he chooses one in the end or goes the "liberal" route.... democracy is yours!), No NTR.

Power is a Disease. "...The armor allowed nothing to pass through. No light. No air. Total darkness. Total silence. Not calm. Not peaceful. Nothing..." Fear is a Weapon. "...the girl felt a constant fear of being followed by something that didn't merely observe, nor simply study or analyze. It was something that wanted to unsettle her. And the reason was simply because it could..." Humans are a Tool. "I think it's wrong to imitate the enemy in order to fight them." How long can humanity remain itself before getting lost? How can a war consumes the martyr souls of the one who are fighting it? How thick is the barrier between the being humans and the being monsters? Victor doesn't care about these questions. Its only desire is just to go home, away from the dying hell infested by monsters; the Earth.

In a world where kingdoms rise on pride and heroes are worshipped as legends, one man walks a different path—not to conquer, not to rule, but to erase. Michael Varkhal is not a savior, nor a tyrant seeking a throne. He is something far worse—a man born from betrayal, shaped by cruelty, and driven by a single, merciless truth: the world that created him deserves to be destroyed. Once, he was human. Once, he believed. But the same society that preached honor branded him and his kin as traitors, slaughtered his family, and buried the truth beneath power and lies. What remained was not a victim… but a force of reckoning. With a mind sharper than any blade and a will that bends even monsters, Michael does not wage war like kings or heroes. He whispers. He manipulates. He turns allies into enemies and cities into graveyards—watching as pride, greed, and fear consume humanity from within. Entire guilds slaughter each other. Nations crumble without ever knowing his name. At his side walks a group of broken souls—each bound not by loyalty, but by shared ruin. Together, they move toward one inevitable destination: the heart of power itself. But among the countless lives he has shattered stands one who refuses to break—Yelena. A woman who has every reason to hate him, for he is the one who burned her homeland, who turned her world into ash, who stole everything she once held dear. Yet, despite her hatred, she remains bound to him… because to Michael, she is not just another victim. She is the only thing in this collapsing world he refuses to destroy. Not out of mercy— But obsession. As ancient forces stir and the mysterious Children of the Abyss emerge from the shadows, the world begins to realize a terrifying truth— This is not a story about stopping a villain. This is the story of a villain who cannot be stopped. Because Michael Varkhal does not seek victory. He seeks annihilation.

Lin Mo Chen had no intention of becoming part of this story. In a world ruled by Heavenly Rings, where the strong rise and the weak are left behind, the Lin Clan’s greatest genius suddenly falls from grace. The world awaits his inevitable return—everyone but Lin Mo Chen. After reading too many stories like this, he knows how things are supposed to unfold. But in a world built on destiny and clichés, can someone who recognizes the story truly avoid becoming part of it?

I own nothing at all. When tired of no one listening to you and to be betrayed for Katherine 2.0 that is your sister to be chained in the tomb left to rot, your past life memories awaken along with you powers/abilities. She travels the multiverses punishing and helping every universe that needs it.

Mark did not survive the corporate world by being a genius. He survived by copying one. Whenever his logistics firm faced an impossible deficit, Mark asked himself one question: What would Reine Asakura do in this kind of situation? Reine was the cold, calculating, flawlessly logical protagonist of his favorite light novel, "Welcome to the High School of Meritocracy." Mark used her fictional strategies to climb the corporate ladder in the real world by simulating her cold, analytical thought process. Then, a twelve-ton truck suffered a brake failure, and Mark’s real world ended. He wakes up inside the biological vessel of Kenji, a painfully average, 160-centimeter-tall background character. He is sitting in a pristine white classroom. The girl sitting at the desk next to him has flat, dark reddish-brown hair, piercing amber eyes, and a perfectly neutral expression. It is Reine Asakura. He is trapped inside the novel. This academy does not operate on friendship or standard grades. It operates on a brutal "Seat Economy." Classes fight in psychological Special Exams to earn currency. That currency is used to buy the physical seats of students in rival classes. Once your seat is bought, you pay monthly rent to the enemy. If you default, you are expelled. It is a system of financial hostage-taking and mutual assured destruction. Kenji does not want to be her ally. In his previous life, he owed his entire corporate success to Reine's way of genius thinking. He was imitating her mind's cognitive process. Now, standing next to his idol, he feels the ultimate drive of a fanatic. Just as a basketball player dreams of playing a serious, limit-testing game against their ultimate idol, Kenji wants to step onto the court against Reine. He wants to prove he can dismantle the flawless genius mind that built his own success in his previous life. Kenji has one advantage: he knows the entire three-year timeline of the novel. But he also knows a mathematical truth. Meta-knowledge is not enough to defeat the super-genius, Reine Asakura, in a fair fight. If Reine detects that he can predict the future, her genius mind will adapt, and she will crush him. Kenji makes a calculated decision. He cannot fight her immediately because they are assigned to the same class. He knows her exact script: Reine will operate in the shadows for two years, secretly pulling the strings to elevate their defective Class D to the top-ranking Class A. Once she succeeds, she will transfer to an enemy class in Year Three simply to seek a real challenge. That is Kenji's strict deadline. He has exactly 24 months to gather the massive currency required to execute his own transfer to a third, opposing class. While Reine builds her empire, Kenji plays the perfect background character. He acts like an idiot. He complains about trivial things. He tricks Reine into categorizing him as harmless biological noise, even provoking her into a spontaneous, absurd bet: If he ever defeats her in a battle of wits, she has to go on a date with him. She agrees, calculating the probability of his victory at zero. She is wrong. While Reine manipulates the school from the shadows, Kenji uses his future knowledge to quietly exploit the economy's blind spots. He builds an untraceable dark pool of capital right under her nose. Then, the first day of Year Three arrives. Former Class D became Class A. Reine transfer to other class. Kenji cashes in his hidden funds, executes a hostile class transfer, and shatters his camouflage. The two-year observation phase is over. Reine’s data on foolish Kenji become suddenly obsolete. The war between a flawless super genius and a man holding the knowledge of the future has begun. #shadowmastermind #manipulation #psychological #strategy #tactic #battleofwits #pretendingtobeweak #hiddenabilities #calculation #highschool #schoollife #metaknowledge #chess #cote #cunning #ruthless #scheme #underdog #hierarchy #meritocracy #cold

Ling Xiao was originally an inner disciple of the Shushan Sect in the cultivation world. However, while observing a sect elder face their heavenly tribulation, he was caught in the tribulation lightning and swept away to a magical fantasy world, reborn into the body of a scion from a military family. Although the body’s original owner was complete trash at cultivation, however, as a transmigrator, Ling Xiao possessed countless sword techniques that this new world would revere as god-tier, not to mention miraculous medical arts completely beyond their comprehension… He was fully prepared to give this world a tiny bit of a shock!

Yang Chan transmigrated into a Martial Arts World on the verge of a chaotic era. With mediocre aptitude, he can only rely on the Tai Chi Health Cultivation Skill and the attribute-adding panel from his transmigration, continuously adding points to improve his Cultivation, enhance his aptitude, and increase his lifespan. He first set a small goal for himself: to live for a thousand years.

Zhao Rong boasts super medical and martial skills, yet he keeps a low profile as an ordinary college student. When he gets his first part-time job, which requires him to pursue a school beauty whose boyfriend is a killer, Zhao knows his peaceful life ends.

After playing the game Cultivation Life for ten years, Chen Lan is told that the game would shut down. At the time of farewell, however, Chen is suddenly notified that the game would manifest into reality! When the manifestation finally comes, Chen's cultivation directly reaches the level of the Great Emperor, becoming the strongest person on the entire planet! "Chen Lan, didn't you play that game?" "I did. I'm like you, Body Refining stage," Chen Lan replied casually.

After years of hard study, she finally became a master's degree holder. One day, she suddenly finds herself traversing into a different world as an illegitimate daughter. In her previous life, she was a prominent student from a prestigious university; in this life, she is a weak girl from a noble family. She hides her brilliance, conceals her sharpness, aims for survival, and seeks peace. However, the scholarly family she is part of is also fraught with countless disputes and endless troubles. The concubine schemes against her, her legitimate sister plots, leading to her ruin and disgrace. Retaliation is a must! Her attitude must be gentle! Her methods absolutely ruthless! She retaliates fiercely with gentle means, and what's next is... Marriage? To whom? Can she choose her own spouse? This is a serious issue. *******************************