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He's always been living with the devil and he just knew that he couldn't deal with it for too long. He on the other hand knew that this person would never leave him and couldn't. Can he really bear being apart from the man he has come to love more than his own life?.... This is an erotic novel for adults. Read at your own risk.

Every Bitten carries black teeth for each demon they bind. The more black teeth, the more power. Shikainci has zero. He is an anomaly, a boy who killed a Grin‑Eater without a single mark. The demon of stillness that chose him left no stain, no hunger, no cost. Now he trains under Ritsuka, captain of Black Fang, while the Nine Warai of Calamity rise to unmake the world. They fear him. They hunt him. And he only smiles.

The end of the world didn't come with a quiet virus or a silent whimper; it arrived on the wind as an echo of booming, sadistic laughter. Inside the colossal, brutalist fortress-cities known as the Redoubts, humanity clings to survival behind massive stone walls, connected only by heavily armored steam trains cutting through the toxic waste. But outside the iron gates roams the ultimate nightmare: the Grinned. These towering, mutated giants—ranging from three to sixty meters tall—were born from the sudden, catastrophic atmospheric blowout of the Red Spill. They are not mindless beasts driven by primal hunger. The Grinned retained their human intelligence, meaning they actively strategize, engineer massive traps, and chillingly mimic the screams of lost children to lure soldiers out of hiding, smiling with manic, unhinged ecstasy the entire time. One drop of their pressurized, infectious blood into an open wound or eye turns an ally into a cackling monster in just thirty seconds. To fight these massive sadists, elite scouts rely on the Valkyrie Harness, a steam-powered aerial grapple system that allows them to swing through the air at lethal speeds. But slicing a giant's neck at fifty miles per hour is a suicide mission that requires dodging a localized rain of boiling, infectious fluid. In this world, there is no chosen one and absolutely no plot armor. **GRIN** is a relentless, multi-volume anthology where any character can die at any second. Volume One, "The Iron Gate," throws a desperate group of survivors into the meat-grinder when the outer wall crumbles, forcing an elite scout, a fake soldier, a cold pathologist, and a crew of escaped death-row inmates to fight together for the last train out. Volume Two, "The Long Road," plunges into claustrophobic psychological horror aboard an armored train stranded in the fog-choked wastes, haunted by a giant mimicking human voices over the radio. Volume Three, "The Blood Covenant," uncovers a dark political conspiracy in the high-society inner rings, exposing the sick truth of how the elite have been fueling their empires using the spinal fluid of captured giants. Trapped inside the pressure cooker of the collapsing Redoubts, the monsters outside are only half the threat. Out here, the corrupt cops, murderers, and predators standing next to you are just as lethal as the smiling giants clawing at the gates. Wipe the blood from your eyes, because the show is about to begin.

Ozion has spent his life as a shadow—ignored, overlooked, forgotten. But beneath his quiet exterior lurks something far darker. He is not weak. He is not ordinary. He is a predator in a world that does not yet know to fear him. Guided by the final words of his mother—“Never die. Stay alive.”—he has honed his ability to steal power, twisting fate itself to his will. The whispers in the dark call his name, unseen forces watching, waiting. And soon, the world will realize. The weak boy they ignored will become the nightmare they can never escape.

Magie, östliche Fantasie, Kultivierung, wissenschaftliche Technologie… Maschinen, biologische Kreaturen, Energie, Seelen… Verschiedene Zivilisationen und Spezies haben eine Welt betreten, die spielähnlichen Regeln folgt. Als einer der ersten Millionen Menschen von der Erde, die diese Welt betreten, erhält Ji Ye, der früher seine Survival-Videos gestreamt hat, eine Fusions-Erbschafts-Fähigkeit. Damit entwickelt er viele Kombinationen! KI-Chip + Panzer = Transformer! T-X + Dämonische Souverän-Alte-Sutra + Geisterbesessenheit-Teufelskunst = Silberne Unsterbliche Dämonin! Göttliche Stein-Gene + 10.000 Jahre alter Pfirsich + Neun-Transformationen-Gold-Pille + Haustier-Geisteraffe = ? Investitur der Götter = Das Licht der Vorsehung auf die Menschen + Macht des Glaubens + Kriegsbeute-Göttlichkeit + ? + ? Unendlichkeitshandschuh = ? + ? + ? + ? + ?

Sus lobos conocen la verdad. Sus corazones la sienten. Sus mentes se niegan a creerla. Eric cree que está maldito, que su lobo está enterrado tan profundamente que apenas existe. Sera cree que es humana, que su loba está latente para proteger su vida. Él no sabe que ella es su pareja. Ella piensa que es un pervertido demente. Pero la atracción entre ellos es innegable: peligrosa, ardiente, incorrecta… y, sin embargo, increíblemente correcta. Cuando Eric se ve obligado a aparearse con la chica nacida en la noche de la Luna de Sangre para romper su maldición, destruye el frágil vínculo que ninguno de los dos entiende. Y perder a Sera casi lo destruye. Ahora sus lobos se agitan en la oscuridad, desesperados por reunirse. Si despiertan, se encontrarán. Si no lo hacen… perderán el único amor que el destino les tenía reservado.

Hunderte von Jahren waren vergangen, seit sich die Menschen und ihre Hexenverbündeten nach dem verheerenden Krieg zur Vernichtung der Magi-Clans in die Festungsstädte zurückziehen mussten. Atomwaffen hatten den Himmel verbrannt, und die Große Magie hatte ganze Kontinente vor dem Ende unter das Meer gezogen, aber der Sieg war gesichert, und kein Magi war mehr am Leben in ihrer sich langsam erholenden Welt. Zumindest dachten sie das. Wolfe Noxus wurde in den unteren Etagen einer vom Morgana-Zirkel geführten Festungsstadt geboren und wuchs im Schein magischer Lichter auf. Doch nach seinem achtzehnten Geburtstag, als er durch einen Schnellschuss die verbotene Fähigkeit erlangte, die Kräfte der Magier zu nutzen, sollte sich sein ganzes Leben ändern. Das verbotene Erbe der Magier gehörte ihm. Er musste nur lange genug leben, um es anzunehmen. Finde meinen Discord unter discord.gg/hxTpqZQtKN

Die Geschichte wird angeblich von den Siegern geschrieben. Wie steht es dann mit der Geschichte der Erde? Vor zwei Jahrtausenden erlitt ein junger Junge namens Emery ein tragisches Schicksal. In seinen letzten Momenten wurde er in die prestigeträchtigste Magierschule des Universums versetzt und dort aufgenommen. "Du gehörst zu den wenigen Auserwählten aus Tausenden von Menschenwelten. Ob du diese Chance ergreifst oder nicht, liegt bei dir. Du bist an der Magierakademie, dem Gipfel menschlichen Erfindungsreichtums. Magie, Wissenschaft und Macht sind für diejenigen erreichbar, die es wagen, danach zu streben." [Scan abgeschlossen - Vierfach-Eignung. Wasser, Erde, Pflanze und Dunkelheit.] "Ein Vierfach-Akolyth! Nur einer von zehntausend Akolythen besitzt dies!" So begann Emerys Reise zusammen mit seinen 4 Freunden vom entferntesten Winkel der Erde. Jedes Jahr kehrten sie zur Erde zurück, um zu wachsen, Rache zu üben, die Prinzessin zu retten, die Welt zu erobern und der größte Magier der Erde zu werden. Ihre Namen sind bis heute in unseren Geschichtsbüchern eingemeißelt.

The first time Ji Huan was to be married, the groom died just as her bridal sedan chair arrived at his door. The second time Ji Huan was to be married, the groom was struck by lightning just as the auspicious hour arrived. Having been 'returned' twice, her ominous reputation spread throughout the surrounding villages, and it seemed she would be left on her family's hands. Her grandmother, who favored boys over girls, slapped her thighs and wailed, "What sins did I commit in my past life, that you can't even be sold for a single tael of silver!" Ji Huan: "...You might not believe this, but I'm destined for great fortune in the future." Yikes! There's a rule that "those who are unmarried by the age of seventeen will be assigned a husband by an official"? Not to worry, not to worry, I'll just find a fake husband to deal with it. That vagrant at the village entrance... if he cleans up, he's actually quite presentable. It'll be him!

"You should get up from where you fell down. Wifey, don't you want to hold your head high and show off in front of them in this life?" the man whispered close to the woman's ear, his tone full of temptation. "Are you really that kind?" The woman took a wary step back, completely unwilling to fall for it: "Those people aren't just anybody. Aren't they your dearest parents and siblings?" "Wifey, I am clear on who is close to me and who is distant. From now on, you and the children are the ones dearest to me." A pained look flashed in the man's eyes; it took him a lifetime and a painful price to finally understand—if he himself doesn't know how to fiercely protect his own wife and children, how can he expect others to hold them in any regard? This is actually a story where both the male and female leads are reborn, one after the other, and the male lead, after learning from his painful experience, ultimately undergoes a Cultivation to become a "loyal dog." With a spatial dimension and a superpower, see how Gu Nuan Nuan brings her mother along for a magnificent reversal in this life!