Nocturnal Asphalt
Update on the Novel:
Volume 1 has concluded with 115 chapters. The novel will be on hiatus for a while before Volume 2 begins.
Volume 2 will introduce a new concept known as Owl Arcs. These arcs follow Taehyun and his companions during their journey before arriving in Korea. They form a core part of the main narrative rather than functioning as traditional flashbacks, gradually revealing the events that shaped the characters and their present circumstances.
Later volumes will also feature dedicated character arcs for each of the five fugitives, exploring their individual pasts, how they survived, and the circumstances that ultimately led to them becoming fugitives. These will be clearly distinguished from Owl Arcs with titles such as “Alicia Fleur's Story START.”
Six organisations. Six leaders. One relentless struggle for power.
Caught in the middle of their conflict were five fugitives, people whose childhoods were anything but ordinary. Raised in violence and forced to survive through whatever means necessary, they eventually escaped the lives that had shaped them. Now adults, they continue running from the world that created them.
Then, following a plane crash, they found a young boy.
Rather than leave him behind, the five criminals took him with them and raised him in the shadows, far from the life he was ever meant to know.
Years later, after countless brutal trials and bloodstained lessons, they return him to his homeland of Korea with one simple hope:
That he can finally live as an ordinary teenager.
Instead, Taehyun Navarro finds himself enrolled in a prestigious school where status is everything and intelligence can decide your future. Beneath its uniforms, classrooms, and ordinary teenage life lies another kind of battlefield. One built on manipulation, ambition, competition, and hidden agendas.
Strangely enough, Taehyun feels at home.
Compared to the world that raised him, school might be the closest thing to normality he has ever known.
But as he tries to abandon the instincts that once kept him alive, a question begins to follow him:
Can someone raised to survive ever truly learn how to live? And what does it truly mean to be normal?
And if Taehyun makes it to graduation, will he continue toward the ordinary life he desperately wants or will he return to the roots he's spent years running from?
Because while Taehyun fights to build a future, neither he nor the five people who raised him realise one simple truth:
The past never stays buried.
What to expect in this novel:
- This is NOT a Fantasy or a LitRPG, I do not recommend this novel if that is your main taste
- A Slow Burn story set in modern times
- Psychological matches and mind games, some within and outside of the Academy
- A niche blend of Found Family, Academic Thriller, Psychological Drama, and Organised Crime Noir
- Following the hiatus, expect chapters to drop between Monday-Friday
Author Note: This is the work of Scilent / VScilent1. This work of fiction will only be published on Royal Road and Web Novel for free. If you're reading this on another site or paid through Google Books, this work has been stolen. Furthermore any text similar to the chapters is likely plagiarised as I'm the creator