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Atlantis, Themyscira, and other cities have joined in the fight between Superman's One Earth Government and the Insurgency. The question is which side are they on?

Ethan Carter was just another face lost in the chaos of Chicago—a man the world didn’t notice, a life no one counted. Struggling, unnoticed, and surviving on scraps, he had no idea that his ordinary existence was about to shatter. One night, a strange opportunity lands in his lap: money appears where there was none, doors open where there should be walls, and subtle shifts in the city hint at forces he cannot yet understand. Nothing is as it seems. In a world driven by power and influence, Ethan must navigate unseen currents, where every choice has consequences, and every ally or enemy may be more than they appear. From the shadows, the city will watch a man nobody thought could matter.

Daichi thought his life was perfect. As a demolition household heir with eight properties generating passive income, he was living the dream of every modern person—collecting rent without lifting a finger. But fate had other plans. After a attempt to save someone from drowning, he transmigrates into the brutal world of One Piece as a low-ranking member of the Beast Pirates. But Daichi isn't your typical protagonist seeking adventure and friendship. He has one goal: rebuild his real estate empire and return to his comfortable landlord lifestyle! With the power of Groudon and a cheat that more property = more haki, Daichi begins his rise through the pirate world. Why fight for treasure when you can buy houses and collect rent? Daichi: "My dream is to collect rent from the world" ------ Image from pinterest Has powers of Groudon

This story will not follow the plot, and our mc will also not be a blood bag for class D. -------- Shimizu Akira accidentally transmigrated into the world of "Classroom of the Elite" and became an ordinary student in Class D. "Ding! Daily intelligence has been updated." "1: Class A's Kamuro Masumi will attempt to steal beer from a convenience store today." "2: Karuizawa Kei is looking for a 'fake boyfriend' to act as her shield." "3: If you need to satisfy your physiological needs, knock on Chie Hoshinomiya's door three times at exactly 2:00 AM." "4: Tonight at 22:00, Kushida Kikyo will visit your dorm room under the pretense of 'asking for help with homework,' but in reality..." "Is this information... reliable?" With the advantage of foresight and intelligence, Shimizu Akira navigated between various factions: He provided crucial clues to Horikita Suzune when she needed them most. He became the ideal candidate for Karuizawa Kei's "fake relationship." He enjoyed a battle of wits and romance with Sakayanagi Arisu. "Why is the intelligence getting stranger and stranger?"

If i knew that ruling a universe would be this tiring, I would have preferred to retire in my original world…sigh… .

Unwavering Tenacity Legacy Of The Heaven Defying Anti-God Humans are the playthings of fate, bloodlines the chains forged by heaven, emotions the predictable shackles that bind potential... A heaven-defying cultivator, tortured for eternity, binds with a fallen Death Sovereign and rewinds time to his crippled youth. Armed with dual divine bloodlines and 2000 years of bitter wisdom, Nether Emrys D'Artagnan severs emotions, exploits family schemes, and pursues absolute transcendence—viewing grudges, mercy, and fate itself as mere distractions on the road to eternity. In a world ruled by impartial heavens, only persistence endures. Note:This Book Merges both The Eastern Cultivation system and The western Base progression.

Power doesn’t rise loudly. It accumulates. He didn’t conquer the city. He optimized it. An empire built without anyone noticing. Additional Tag #Urban Fantasy#Realistic Urban Life #University Life #Underdog #Survival #Social Hierarchy #Intelligent Protagonist #Calm MC #Rational Thinking #Low-Key Dominance #Planning & Schemes #Resource Management

When he finishes fighting to make his country a better place, a mysterious mind organizes a worldwide attack for an evil purpose and in search of saving his family and avenging his dead wife who was expecting a daughter, he will face this mind reaching the end of his life only seeing a light.

Planet Terra, the brilliant blue orb of the Solaris solar system harbors a population of 13 billion people that are non the wiser of the fate of their world. Beneath all the nuances of modern society a terrible evil lurked under the mask of wealth and bureaucracy giving way to scientific anomalies that threaten the existence of mankind. After a fateful encounter, Lyson Raitaurus, just a regular 17 year old student on his final year at the Serafin Academy of Engineering discovered a mysterious orb made of nanites that became integrated to his body. Now he with his new powers and his friends will have to undo the mystery of the orb and the hidden organizations behind the looming threat hovering over his home world.

ON HIATUS The mighty heavens exist, ruling over all things. Those favored by its will are granted power and fortune, while those who dared to oppose it perished, leaving none behind. This is the tale of a man who once defied the heavens, underwent multiple reincarnations, and returned once more to the cultivation world. But here’s the twist. This young man remembers nothing of his past lives and is simply a teenager from Earth. How will he who has no knowledge of cultivation and experience in fighting, survive this grim world while being an inner disciple of a lower realm force, or so Xiao chen, the teenager thought till he heard a systematic sound in his mind. [Ding! Host has awakened the heaven's destined villain system!]

Forced into war as a child soldier by a corrupt king, Milo must navigate a ferocious battlefield in order to survive and take his revenge.

After being reincarnated into the Pokémon world as a member of the Blackthorn Clan, he was suddenly abducted by a giant rainbow-colored fire chicken that fell from the sky. When Ho-Oh dropped him in an open field and he saw a little kid beside him and an old man in front wearing an ice-sculpted mask, he understood everything. So… he had been chosen by one of the Pokémon world’s super bosses. Join Team Rocket and stir up a storm! Break into Galar and take Eternatus! The legendary Trainer Red, the mentally unstable Kanto Elite Four member who defected from the League, the ambitious schemer Giovanni, the clash of truth and ideals, the dominance of the three primal lords of land, sea, and sky, and the collision of time and space… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pokémon: Snatching Eternatus at the Start Author: I Can Really Fly MC in here is part of team rocket and his quite devilish but still likeable. Be warned that he is a villain.

Earth was suddenly crushed, and humans captured into the wizard world. A new whole dominating civilisation takes over. Discover how wizard thrive to dominate the universe through knowledge and determination.

The year is 2026. A devout Christian named Arthur Bennett wins a lottery to participate in a virtual reality experience at a high-tech company called Elysium. The program utilizes a VR pod to immerse users in a world based on a popular cartoon from Japan. As the other participants—a mix of personalities with varying degrees of Japanese animation knowledge—prepare to enter the simulation, Arthur remains the only one who has never indulged in anime. Upon entering this new world, he discovers an unsettling truth: if he dies in this world, he dies for real. Arthur eventually finds himself trapped in prison, unable to log out, and demanding to be released from the program. Calls go unanswered, and things become nightmarish, where hunger, thirst, hygiene, and even death are all real. Angered that he was deceived, he abandons all sense of logic and vows to become a villain no one had ever seen coming.

“When you read these words, I am already dead…” “Please take good care of my last will and my ashes safe.” --------------------------------------------------- During the Third Great Ninja War, Kiyohara was nothing more than a disposable pawn, a true cannon fodder. He lived each day believing death could come at any moment—if not today, then tomorrow. But unexpectedly, he received the Last Will System. With it came the ability to obtain the will of himself who had died in different versions of the shinobi world. By fulfilling the last wishes of his other selves, he could inherit their abilities, even stack their talents upon his own! Thus, Kiyohara gained the support of countless versions of himself: “Anbu Captain Kiyohara” “Akatsuki Member Kiyohara” “Missing Nin Kiyohara” “Mizukage Kiyohara” “Uchiha Kiyohara” “Ōtsutsuki Kiyohara” --------------------------------------------------- “What? My future self dies just like that? Then I must avenge you all!” “Oh, infinite futures of mine, lend me your strength! .... Not the same as Overdrafting the Future, Starting in Naruto but had the premise. Not known if harem or had romance yet.

Kagen is a reincarnated soul born into the Nara clan of Konohagakure, a clan famous for sharp minds, shadow techniques, and a love for doing the bare minimum. Unlike his clan mates, Kagen hates laziness. With memories of a past life and the danger of the ninja world always looming, he knows talent alone is not enough to survive. Starting weak, he trains hard, studies harder, and pushes the Nara shadow techniques far beyond how they are normally used. This is a slow but clear journey from weakness to strength. -Self-insert Nara -MC will have Crystal Release ( A Kekkei Tōta) - This story may resemble an abandoned fanfic you’ve come across before, but with changes. The change come after chapter 25. So you have been warned. Of course, If you want to go read the abandoned Fanfic. It's your choice. It's a good read though and credit to the author. -- Not a translation -No harem -Clear character progression from weak to strong - First Person Point of View with occasional other characters Point of View

When humanity faces extinction, what breaks first? our bodies, or our humanity? How much of ourselves are we willing to lose to stay alive? In 2104, The world has already ended, but its consequences haven’t. In the OctaCore: the last of humanity's shelters, resources are limited and the radiation is rising fast. Within two years, the surface will become unlivable. Long before that, the food will run out. The monsters that destroyed the world are still out there, but they’re no longer the worst threat. With the shelters on the brink, the council faces an impossible choice: Cull 80% of the population to preserve the remaining 20%, or Launch a suicidal mission into the wasteland to retrieve a supply shipment that could sustain humanity long enough to rebuild. A small team is chosen for the Hail Mary attempt. Memory-scarred survivors, soldiers who’ve already lost too much, and civilians carrying secrets they’d kill to protect—bound together by the thin hope that something out there might still be worth saving. Outside, they will face the world that once was: a ruined city haunted by monsters, nazis and the aftermath of choices no one wants to admit they made. What to Expect: 1. Morally questionable characters 2. No clear good or evil—only survival 3. Character-driven beginning → escalating high-stakes plot 4. Brutal worldbuilding 5. Mature themes (genocide, moral collapse, societal failure) 6. Gore, violent imagery, disturbing psychological content

Li Wei, kind of your everyday guy, not out there saving the world or anything. He’s probably the dude you’d find zoning out in class or scrolling endlessly through memes. No chosen one vibes—until, bam! Out of nowhere, this ancient jade fragment fuses itself to his hand. Not painful, just... weird. And then it gets crazier. He starts unlocking these freaky powers, stuff right out of a wuxia flick. We're talking slow-mo parkour, mystical energy blasts, the whole sha-bang. Honestly, most people would just freak out and call it a day, but poor Li Wei? He’s got no guidebook for this. And it’s not like his life gets easier. Modern Earth’s messy enough, but throw in baggage from ancient cultivation worlds that randomly crash into his reality? Yeah, total chaos. Imagine trying to cram for your finals or just hang out with your friends, all while dodging assassins with killer kung-fu moves straight out of those old school movies. Sects start popping up, each with their own deadly drama and rules—some want to recruit him, some are straight up trying to end his career before it starts. Now here’s where it gets juicy—nobody’s got time for easy morals. Friends have secrets, enemies sometimes aren't total jerks, and don’t even get started on the people stuck somewhere in between. Li Wei’s trying to figure out who’s a real ride-or-die and who’s a snake in disguise. And in the midst of all this supernatural chaos, his heart’s doing its own thing, falling for someone that's practically a big, flashing “DANGER” sign. Kind of classic, right? Like the universe really wants to see how much emotional whiplash he can handle. But here’s the big question: is Li Wei gonna put it all together, turn the odds, and break out of normal-human mode? Or is he just gonna end up being another casualty in someone else’s ancient feud? Either way, it’s a wild ride—kind of like binge-watching your favorite fantasy drama and realizing you’d also have no clue what to do if lightning powers got dumped on your lap. Grab the popcorn, because Li Wei’s about to make some bad decisions in style.

In a world where cultivation meets modern society, ordinary young men and women compete not only in business but in martial prowess and mystical power. Amidst corporate battles and urban intrigue, one young cultivator rises above all, blending strategy, strength, and ambition to conquer both the financial and mystical realms. With every challenge, he learns that true power comes from mastering both the world of men and the forces beyond.

Lin Chen lived a disciplined, invisible life in a modern Chinese city—until arrogance at work cost him his job and hunger pushed him into the shadows. One desperate mistake draws the attention of the city’s underworld, where power moves quietly and mercy is never free. Betrayed, hunted, and forced to erase his identity, Lin Chen survives only by intelligence, restraint, and will. He doesn’t seek power—but power has already noticed him. In a city ruled by unseen queens, survival is just the beginning.