sum and substance

[Mature Content] In a world on the brink of annihilation, a woman holds the lifeless body of her beloved, the very Demon Lord who summoned her to be his pet and pawn in a devastating war. Transported from her own world against her will, she once sought only death, but found an unexpected love for both her captor and the fantastical realm he ruled. Now, as chaos reigns and all is lost, his final act of love is a spell to send her back to the safety of her original world. But she refuses to accept a life without him. In a desperate, world-shattering gamble, she unleashes a forbidden power to reverse time itself, willing to sacrifice her own soul for a second chance to rewrite their tragic destiny. Will she be able to avert the apocalypse and save the man she loves, or is she doomed to watch her world—and her heart—be torn apart once more? This is a tale of epic fantasy, dark romance, and the fierce determination of a love that defies even fate itself.

Ten years ago, Nathaniel Cross signed the report that destroyed Victoria Hart's company. Then he walked past her like she was a stranger. Now his own empire is collapsing, and she's the only liquidator sharp enough to save it. But she doesn't know he's the reason she fell. Working together will either expose the truth... or bury it forever.

The universe is a ruthless meat grinder run by arrogant gods. Omni is about to break the handle. When the supreme deities of Light and Darkness clash, they don't just leave ruins behind—they wipe entire realities off the map, melting millions into screaming, formless biological paste just to clear the board. Sector 9 was one of those casualties. Omni survived the visceral, agonizing slaughter of his home, but he didn't escape empty-handed. Dropped into a rotting cosmic scrapyard where the alien rain burns flesh to the bone, he is armed with a deadpan stare, a fiercely protective system whispering in his mind, and a dangerous, dormant power fueled by pure, unadulterated chaos. To charge it, Omni needs human friction. Fortunately, he’s found the perfect catalysts. His party isn't a roster of legendary heroes. It’s a terrified coward who is accidentally indestructible, a girl cursed with a parasitic furnace of blinding rage, a broken empath bleeding out from past betrayals, a scholar bullied by a hallucinatory teacher in his own brain, and an exhausted, dust-covered goddess of reincarnation who just wants a nap. Together, they aren't trying to fulfill a grand prophecy or save a dying cosmos. They’re just trying to boil some alien spices, keep their houseplants alive, and carve out a cozy, chaotic sanctuary in the middle of a terrifying universe designed to crush them. But the cosmos is a ticking time bomb. The heavens and hells are locked in a petty, apocalyptic rivalry, and the collateral damage of their tantrums threatens to erase Omni's fragile sanctuary at any moment. Bound by a dangerous vow to a cosmic entity named Aethelgard, Omni has been tasked with an insane suicide mission: fix the broken universal ledger and force the bloodthirsty pantheons into a permanent equilibrium. He doesn't want to be a savior, but if dragging the arrogant deities by their throats and forcing them to play nice is the only way to protect his front porch, Omni is fully prepared to get his hands dirty.

When a nationwide power failure shuts down the grid for exactly sixty seconds, most people dismiss it as a technical disaster. But one hundred individuals awaken inside a sealed, windowless concrete complex with no communication and no escape. Among them is Adrian Vale, a twenty-seven-year-old former civil engineering student buried under debt and disappointment. A digital screen greets them with a chilling message: Welcome to Zero Sum City. Only one leaves with everything. The participants are forced into deadly rounds known as Phases. Each Phase tests core human instincts such as logic, trust, endurance, sacrifice, and dominance. The challenges are built on mathematics, probability, and psychological pressure. In one Phase, players must cross a shifting grid of pressure tiles where one mistake eliminates the weakest statistical performer. In another, groups receive incomplete information, forcing them to decide who holds the correct solution before time runs out. As resources become scarce, alliances form and collapse quickly. Violence is not always necessary. Sometimes elimination comes through voting or simple miscalculation. Adrian soon notices something others overlook: the building itself is part of the game. Hallways subtly move, walls reposition, and the entire structure operates like a living puzzle. As contestants disappear, Adrian discovers the eliminations follow a disturbing pattern connected to personal histories and psychological traits. This is not random survival. It is selection. When the remaining players shrink to four, the complex begins a controlled self-destruction. Adrian must choose between winning the game or destroying it, realizing that survival and freedom may not be the same.

Zeph Vane and Kaelen Thorne were closer than blood. In the unforgiving slums of the Lower City, they were a perfect team: Zeph was the chaotic, charming loudmouth who could talk his way out of hell, and Kaelen was the ruthless tactician who kept them alive. ​They swore they would always have each other's backs. ​One heist changed everything. ​When a job to steal a military prototype goes wrong, Zeph is infected by The Omega Cortex—a god-tier Artificial Intelligence. Overnight, the world's biggest slacker is gifted with absolute logic, combat perfection, and the ability to calculate the future. ​Kaelen, feeling obsolete and consumed by a dark jealousy, seeks his own path to power. He stares into the abyss, and the abyss stares back. He bonds with The Void—a corrupting force of shadow, gravity, and reality-warping chaos.​As they rise from street rats to god-like entities, their brotherhood begins to rot. ​

Hoy morí, pero luego reencarné. Magia, fuerza y mujeres. Todo aquello que no conseguí en mi anterior vida lo conseguiré en esta. Daré todo de mi, no debe ser nada del otro mundo, ¿verdad? Nacido en un pequeño pueblo, Rievan descubrirá los secretos de la magia, los dioses, los monstruos y los reinos e imperios del mundo entero. Si conoce una que otra linda chica por el camino, es solo una pequeña casualidad. Por Lord Maxggs, rey supremo de la nada absoluta. Os deseo una agradable lectura

"A Life Without Substance" is a captivating fantasy novel that follows the journey of Alexander Steele, a historian, and scholar who finds himself betrayed by his closest friend, Sebastian. Transported to the mysterious realm of Elysium, Alexander must navigate a dangerous and unfamiliar world, where everyone he encounters either perish or turns against him.

I-, who was suppose to die in an accident, awakened as my vampire princess character from “Eternal Horizon Online”. It turned out that I together with my entire pet, assets, and territory from within the game had been transferred into a different world similar to that game. I was in a higher post than my followers who are stronger than me, I have no choice but to act like the ‘me’ in the game. Furthermore the demons and beasts of this world and even demi-human start following me, before I noticed I had established a huge empire. Also, the trouble caused by mysterious enemies is just endless…!

In the world of high finance, there are no ties. Someone wins, and someone is destroyed. Rainier Callisten is a ghost. A mathematical prodigy hiding in the shadows of a low-level analyst job, he thought he had the perfect plan to embezzle forty-two million dollars—enough to save his dying sister and disappear forever. He accounted for every variable, every firewall, and every security protocol. Except one: Devillione Vilgoughvrum Devillione is the cold, predatory CEO of Vilgoughvrum Financial, a man who views the world as a balance sheet and humans as mere assets to be traded. He didn't turn Rainier over to the police. Instead, he did something far more terrifying. He bought him. Trapped in a "Zero-Sum" contract, Rainier is stripped of his identity and forced to live in Devillione’s penthouse as a private asset. The rules are simple: Survive one year of Devillione’s psychological games without breaking, and walk away with a fortune. Fail, and he belongs to the CEO—body, soul, and brilliant mind—for the rest of his life. As the lines between hatred and obsession blur, Rainier realizes that Devillione isn’t just playing for money. He’s playing for total possession. In a game where the house always wins, Rainier must decide if he’s willing to lose his heart to save his life—or if he’ll become the first person to ever make the devil go bankrupt.

On the verge of death from illness, Yu Zhizhi transmigrates to the Beast World Planet, becoming the lowest-ranking plaything for slaughter. Her destiny was supposed to be a direct slaughter by powerful figures gone Berserk in their beast forms. Fortunately, she awakened the Childbirth System, and the style of the story suddenly changed— The maddened and fallen monster (Wolf): "I'll give you a choice, love me, or be bitten to death by me?" The evil Duke (Snake): "Beautiful maiden, please fall into the abyss of desire with me." The tyrannical Imperial Marshal (Shark): "I command you, you are only permitted to love me!" The wildly arrogant Crown Prince (Tiger): "I will kill all the males who covet you!!" (The list of Beast Husbands is expanding—) As the lowest-ranking female, Yu Zhizhi is doted on wildly by the powerful figures, undergoing Evolution all the way to the top-tier Rare grade and becoming the most noble existence in the Beast World Empire!