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Death was supposed to be final. Bastion is holding—barely. PvP is reshaping humanity into factions, bounties, and betrayals, and the Obelisk keeps rewarding the worst instincts like they’re “optimal play.” Then the Iron Sovereignty hits Alec West’s team with an ambush designed to break them. A black Ascendant shard tears through the chaos—and Cole goes down, impaled and dying. And the System does something it’s never done before. ASCENDANT-CLASS TRIAL INITIATED. Objective: Clear the Tower of Teeth and claim its Heart. Time Limit: 24 hours. PvP: Enabled. Reward: Restore life to...

The academy that was supposed to make me strong is collapsing. Not metaphorically. Spirit Peak is sinking—one hundred feet already—and the elders would rather execute the messenger than admit their “immortal” foundation is failing. I’m Wei Luo: a disgraced heir with a broken body, a cursed “Rot” in my chest, and an engineer’s brain that refuses to accept magic as an excuse. When I expose the truth, the Arbiter gives me a choice: Fix the descent… or be unmade. My solution is simple in theory: the Spirit Nexus—the engine keeping the floating peaks aloft—is misfiring. I ...

Keeping them alive is worse. I’m Wei Luo—the engineer who broke the old Pillar system… and got handed the Admin Rights to whatever’s left. The Hex-Grid is running. Nexus City is thriving. For the first time, the world feels like it might actually work. Then the planet tries to swallow itself. The Central Mountain Range is sinking. Solid granite is turning into a rolling ocean of stone. The Earth Pillar is losing buoyancy, and if it drops below the crust, an entire continent folds in on itself. And it’s not an accident. Gravity Beasts are dragging the mountains down—hunting mass,...

The heavens don’t test you to make you stronger. They test you to see if you deserve to exist. I’m Wei Luo—an engineer reborn into a ruthless cultivation world, cursed with Rot, and tracked by a system that behaves less like destiny and more like hostile code. I survived Spirit Peak. I stabilized the Nexus. I made enemies powerful enough to aim the sky at my throat. Now the north is under siege. A continent-wide storm wall hunts us with Heavenly Tribulation Lightning—bolts that don’t just kill… they erase. And at the center of it all stands the Azure Pillar, a living tower ...

A Harem Xianxia Cultivation Fantasy Crippled meridians. Forbidden techniques. Six months to live—until lightning strikes. Wei Chen was dying—until a mysterious manuscript and a bolt of lightning tore him from Earth into a new life as Wei Luo, a disgraced young master in a realm ruled by cultivation, sects, and spiritual power. But this world sees him as worthless. His meridians are shattered. His clan abandoned him. And now the powerful Azure Mist Sect wants him eliminated. They should have killed him when they had the chance. Because Wei possesses a rare ability: Soul Architecture—...

He didn’t ask for a sword. He got the Developer Keys. Jake Mercer just wanted a boring life. A failed game designer turned retail tech-support clerk, his only goal was to survive the daily grind of New Harbor without getting noticed. Then the violet pulse hit. The world didn't just end; it rebooted. Skyscrapers turned into dungeons, physics became a suggestion, and the population was assigned Classes. But while everyone else became Warriors or Mages, Jake got something broken. Something dangerous. Class Assigned: [Admin: Provisional] Now, Jake can see the code behind reality. He can edit ...

One Burns. Three Stabilize. Five Ascend. Mason Reed was just looking for a distraction. Instead, a glitched mobile game downloaded his soul into Arcora—a dying world ruled by a tyrant King and his anti-magic Inquisition. Mason isn’t just a lost traveler; he is a Summoner, a conduit for the rare and volatile "Alpha Spark." He possesses infinite magical potential, but there is a fatal catch: his body is a reactor running without a vent. If he doesn’t bond with powerful partners to channel the energy, he will burn alive from the inside out. His survival depends on building The Circle—a...

Lightning should’ve ended Marcus Shaw. It didn’t. It made him the rarest thing on campus—a storm-caster who can fuse powers with others. Beneath Fenwick lies Spellbound Academy, a covert program where gifted freshmen train while rival agencies close in. Marcus joins an unlikely crew—Elena the strategist, Sage the theory prodigy, Kira the half-fae shield, and Derek, the rock-steady “reality anchor.” Together they unlock collaborative casting—magic that multiplies when they connect—and it terrifies the establishment. A ruthless handler, Victor Ashford, is recruiting in public ...

They found ruins. Now they must build a future — or die trying. When Edwin and his weary band of survivors stumble upon the abandoned village of Greenreach, they uncover more than just ash and rubble. Signs of a brutal goblin raid mark the land — but so does the opportunity to start again. Armed with a mysterious Stronghold Stone and guided by a game-like System interface only he can see, Edwin has one shot to turn these ruins into a stronghold. But the village still hides secrets... and possibly traps left by those who came before. Goblins. Tragedy. A defiled shrine.

When tech support worker Danny Walsh dies saving a stranger in a Seattle alley, he awakens in the magical realm of Aethermoor—and discovers he’s been granted a rare magical class: Resonance Mage. His power? The stronger his emotional bonds, the more powerful he becomes. And the deepest bonds are romantic. To survive, Danny must build more than just a party—he must forge a polyamorous family of extraordinary women, each of whom holds a piece of his heart. There’s Kira Moonwhisper, the silver-haired healer whose compassion steadies the group. Lyra Brightblade, a noble paladin who ...

A LitRPG Dungeon Core Novel I died. Respawned as a glowing rock. Now I build deathtraps, manage goblins, and argue with a sarcastic fairy. Blake didn’t expect to get hit by a car—or wake up as a Dungeon Core in a dark, damp cave. No body. No hands. Just pure mana, a dry wit, and the looming threat of magical adventurers trying to smash him to pieces for loot. With Twinkle, a bureaucratic fairy “assigned” to monitor him, Blake—now going by Nightshard—must master dungeon building, resource management, and core survival before the Bureau of Magical Regulation decides he’s too ...

The world doesn’t end with fire. It ends with a notification you can feel in your bones. Alec West was just trying to keep a remote communications relay alive when reality stutters—then rewrites itself. The sky fractures into a vast geometric lattice. The ground splits with impossible blue-white seams. And a force racing across the mountains—the First Wave—turns ordinary rules into a new kind of math. Suddenly, Alec isn’t just surviving the collapse. He’s being ranked. A system he can’t see is measuring everything: pain tolerance, instinct, aggression, efficiency. Power ...

The war with the System is over. The world it left behind is anything but safe. Twenty years after the Genesis event, New York City is a vertical jungle of neon vines, mana-storms, and monsters that learned to hunt in three dimensions. At the top of the Helix Tower, Marcus Shaw—the Sun King turned planetary admin—holds the bio-punk metropolis together with sheer will, a living World Tree, and a dynasty that once broke gods. Below him, in the Third Year Wing of Spellbound Academy, his daughter is failing to live up to the legend carved into every trophy case. Maya Blackthorne was ...

Danny and his bonded partners travel to the Dragon Peaks to face Maya’s mother—the Eternal Flame, an ancient dragon matriarch. But their reunion is shattered by the arrival of the Shadow Shepherd, a void-born predator that feeds on broken bonds and hungers to consume every connection in existence. In this haremlit fantasy adventure, dragons and humans must unite against extinction. Danny’s scarred resonance will be tested against impossible odds, his choices forging new powers and costing him more than he imagined. Lyra will pay with her arm, alliances will be struck between species ...

Heroes don’t wear collars. They do now. After the Spellbound tragedy, Fenwick University is “safer” than ever—rebuilt lawns, scrubbed stone, and blue-uniformed liaison agents every fifty feet. The survivors they call “heroes” are now assets—especially Marcus Shaw, a rare amplifier whose power can supercharge (or sabotage) any spell on campus. Agent Miriam Harrison has one rule for the Spellbound Five: train hard, obey harder, and remember who owns your power. When bugged dorms, signature-sniffers, and “mandatory” assignments turn classes into interrogations, Marcus and his...

Reality isn’t breaking. It’s rebooting. Derek Rodriguez—CEO, architect of the modern arcane grid, and the only man who can anchor a collapsing spellfield—thought the academy years were behind him. But when a package stamped THE FIRST lands on his desk and objects begin unmaking themselves, he learns the truth: The system that governs magic isn’t failing. It’s preparing to overwrite the world. As Manhattan glitches into impossible shapes—frozen birds mid-flight, sideways-running stairwells, bioluminescent walls turning liquid—Derek fights his way back to the one stable ...

Hero of Three Super Villains 365 days to turn a killer into a hero. The clock is ticking. Dr. Dante Krueger thought he understood criminal psychology—until he met Zara “Permafrost” Novak. The ice-powered terrorist who flash-froze twenty-three innocent people waits in her cell like a beautiful, deadly glacier, radiating a cold that goes far beyond her superpowers. The Salvation Matrix is watching. Every word. Every choice. Every drop in temperature when she’s angry. SUBJECT: Zara "Permafrost" Novak TRUST LEVEL: 8/100 (Extreme Distrust) MORAL ALIGNMENT: -78/100 (Villain Territory) ...

The world didn’t just get louder. It hit the universe’s hard limit. Two years after breaking the Cage and ushering in the Infinite Era, Marcus Shaw and his Spellbound Dynasty finally have everything they fought for. Magic is limitless, the cities blaze with neon sorcery, and their only battles are diplomatic ones. Tokyo’s Festival of Lights is supposed to be proof that the Upgrade worked—a global party powered by joy itself. Then a single pixel dies. In the middle of a packed shrine, sound cuts out. Color goes flat. A perfect square of the world turns matte gray…and crumbles into ...

The world didn’t just survive the reboot. It evolved—and so did its threats. Marcus Shaw thought stabilizing the grid would finally give his dynasty room to breathe. Instead, the new magic system is learning, mutating, and selecting. Nodes vanish. Leylines reroute. Casters wake with altered affinities—as if the world is optimizing for a conflict no one remembers agreeing to. When a sealed archive surfaces naming Marcus’s circle as “Prime Catalysts,” rival agencies surge back into the light. Old enemies return with rewritten intentions. And a rogue splinter-group begins abducting...

Mason Reed didn’t wake up in a new world to be someone’s pawn. In Arcora, he’s become something far worse for his enemies—and far better for those who need saving: a Sovereign Summoner with a living fortress beneath the earth… and a growing kingdom the crown can’t control. The problem? The moment the Sanctuary becomes a capital city, everyone knows it’s real—especially the King and his Inquisition. And when the forest itself is being poisoned by corruption nodes and Void-fire, Mason can’t afford to hide behind “impenetrable” walls. A king doesn’t cower while his ...