story the circuit

Virelia bleeds chrome and secrets. In the city of neon wings and dying gods, a half-fairy, half-machine fugitive named Elaris Vein is being hunted by the very syndicates that destroyed her family. When fate collides her path with Kael Dravien, mafia prince of the Obsidian House, their alliance is as volatile as the sparks between them. He doesn’t believe in fairies. She doesn't trust humans. But survival forces them into a war neither fully understands. As circuits glow and loyalties fracture, ancient tech-magic stirs—awakening AI twins, illusion-weaving rivals, and a betrayal that could collapse the world order. Love is dangerous. Revenge is coded. And wings—no matter how broken—always return. A neon-drenched tale of betrayal, mafia romance, cyber-fairies, and a kiss that starts a war.

JP was just an ordinary electrician—until a freak accident with a storm-damaged transformer fried him alive. But instead of fading into darkness, he awakens in a strange new world of swords, monsters, and magic. Gifted with two unique abilities—Appraisal, which lets him see the true nature of anything, and Alchemist’s Touch, which allows him to reshape and fuse materials—JP discovers that his real-world knowledge of circuits, wiring, and energy makes him a one-of-a-kind genius in this medieval land. What others see as crude magic stones and useless junk, he sees as components for inventions: mana-conducting coils, rechargeable batteries, enchanted lanterns, and even shock traps to fight monsters. But his innovations don’t go unnoticed. Rival alchemists grow jealous, nobles scheme to control him, and adventurers flock to his side in search of “miracle tools.” From dungeon expeditions and dragon hunts to defending his workshop from assassins, JP must use both his modern logic and newfound powers to survive—and maybe, just maybe, bring electricity to a world that’s never dreamed of it. A story of adventure, invention, and commerce, where a humble electrician lights up another world—literally.

Abigail, a member of a race long forgotten by the outside world, watches her small world crumble when an escaped prisoner known as the Child of Prophecy turns everything to ruin in her quest for revenge. Sent away by her father for her own safety, Abigail is forced beyond the boundaries of everything she has ever known. In the world outside, she encounters strange discoveries, powerful organizations, and a growing mystery that seems connected to forces far greater than herself. If she hopes to save her kin, she must uncover the truth and find the strength to face what destroyed her home.

Vael Dusk arrived in Kuala Lumpur with forty-three dollars, a duffel bag, and two years worth of running behind him. He wasn't looking for a fight. He was looking for enough money to disappear — somewhere cold, somewhere quiet, somewhere the dead couldn't find him. He'd left the Army with a discharge paper that said *cleared* and a head that said otherwise. Four men were buried because of a call he made. He'd been paying for it ever since in the only currency he had left — movement. Never stop. Never sit still. Never let the quiet catch up. The quiet caught up anyway. It always does. One night in The Pit — Kuala Lumpur's most brutal underground fight ring — changed everything. Vael won. Not cleanly. Not carefully. He won the way a man wins when he has nothing left to protect, which is the most dangerous way there is. Victor Shen was watching from the shadows. Victor Shen is always watching. What follows is a descent. Through the underground circuit of Southeast Asia — Bangkok, Jakarta, Manila, back to KL — where fighters are assets, loyalty is a leash, and the only way out is through. Vael will rise through ranks built on blood and debt and silence. He will find Raza, who sees what he is and trains him anyway. He will find Danny, who looks up to him with the specific trust of someone too young to know better. He will find Mei Lin — Victor's own niece, dismantling the empire from inside it, the one person in this world who looks at Vael and sees past the veil to whatever lives underneath. He will lose them. Not all of them. But enough. Enough to break something in him that was already cracked. Enough to turn the hidden thing loose. This is not a story about a fighter who becomes a champion. It's a story about a man who carries a demon he can barely control, in a world that will do everything it can to make him stop trying. *Some men enter the circuit looking for money.* *Some enter looking for glory.* *Vael Dusk entered looking for nothing.* *That made him the most dangerous man in the room.*

Cyberpunk x Zombie Apocalypse In a world torn apart by apocalypse and overrun by terrifying Necro-bots, Axel Maverick and his cyber-savvy feline companion, Nano Byte, tear through the chaos in a Mustang headed for the lawless town of Little Maw. A regular gig spirals into chaos, leaving Axel with two choices: kill himself or break into the research centre where the Necro-bots were born, a place thought to be impenetrable. Now fortified by the ruling Authority, this facility holds the key to saving or dooming the fractured world. With Nano Byte and his Mustang, Axel gears up for a showdown against the forces threatening to engulf him and his world.

Han was a ghost in the machine—an elite programmer who died as he lived: chained to a screen and consumed by a system that forgave no errors. But death wasn't the end; it was a reboot in an unsupported environment. Waking up in the body of a beaten-up teenager in a world of martial arts and immortal cultivators, Han discovers his skills didn't disappear. To him, the flow of Qi isn't spiritual energy; it’s source code. The laws of the universe aren't divine truths; they are algorithms. And most importantly: every system has bugs. Equipped with his new attribute, [Eternal Debugger], Han can see reality’s metadata, detect flaws in his enemies' techniques, and inject his own logic into a world that sees him as an anomaly. In a place where the strong dictate the rules, Han has come to rewrite them. “If fate is a program written by the gods, then I am the virus that will crash it.”

NOTICE: THE NOVEL INCLUDE INFO—DUMP, CHARACTER PROGRESSION SLOW PACE NOVEL. There is no single hero to save this world. There is only Fate, guiding the world toward its inevitable end. Welcome to the planet of Zhokov—an enormous, unforgiving world split across six colossal continents. On June 2, 2151. a catastrophic war erupted, nearly swallowing the planet whole under the wrath of the Demon, GODFREY. It was a blood-drenched conflict that obliterated billions of lives across the globe. At some point, Humanity was saved, A miracle...? or perhaps, by something far more horrifying than the bloodshed itself. Now, an deceptive peace covers the land, but an apocalypse is already brewing in the shadows. Time and unexpected fate will decide how long this fragile world can spin in its quiet atmosphere. Beneath the mask of peace lies a suffering void waiting to be unleashed. Because even if humanity grows powerful, Fate always wins. VIRUS OF THE DEMON.

In the neon-drenched dystopia of Neo-Babylon, a war rages between warring factions, but Kai Stroud, a rogue operator, has no allegiance—just a mission to survive. When a routine job goes south, Kai stumbles upon a secret tied to his missing family: encrypted data locked inside his own brain—a digital blueprint for something powerful enough to shift the balance of the entire war. Now, every faction wants a piece of him. Hunted by corporate enforcers, anarchist hackers, cyber-cultists, and mercenary warlords, Kai is forced into a deadly game of survival. Along the way, he forms uneasy alliances with six formidable women, each with their own reasons for chasing him down: Selene Voss, the cold and ruthless Corporate Enforcer sent to capture him, who begins to question her orders. Rox Callahan, the Rebel Hacker who sees him as a rival and ally in equal measure. Nyx-7, the enigmatic AI Worshipper drawn to the secrets within his mind. Valeria Kane, the fearless Cyberpunk Gangster who respects power—and Kai’s unpredictability intrigues her. Mira Sorelli, the Idealistic Officer torn between duty and what’s right. Raven Locke, the Drifter Mercenary who prefers watching from the sidelines—until Kai forces her to care. As Kai and his growing crew unravel the truth, they uncover a hidden organization manipulating the war from the shadows—a faction that believes humanity is obsolete and seeks to replace it with a new cybernetic species. At the heart of it all? A rogue AI with a god complex, an army of machine-controlled soldiers, and a plan to erase organic life entirely. With Neo-Babylon on the brink of destruction, Kai and his team must fight, outsmart, and outlast their enemies to bring down the true puppet masters. But the closer they get to victory, the more Kai’s past, his family’s fate, and the truth about his own existence come into question. And with his six rivals-turned-allies all falling for him in their own ways, his personal life is just as explosive as the war itself. In the end, Kai must make the ultimate choice: Save the world—or disappear into the shadows. Destroy the enemy—or become something new. Choose a side—or carve his own path. Because in Neo-Babylon, loyalty is a lie, survival is war, and love is the deadliest battlefield of all.

Yuji Sato was just a poor kid with no future. His life changed the moment he entered the VR-verse as Yuto’o, a street hunter famed in the underground Death Circuit. But on the night of his greatest victory, the system glitched… and Yuji died in the real world. Instead of vanishing, his soul became trapped inside the VR-verse. He rose again as an anomaly known as a CIRCUIT GHOST—a glitch-born entity capable of possessing machines, devouring data, and shaking the foundations of mega-corporate empires. The corporations want him erased. Hunter AIs stalk his every move. But he has already died once. What else is there left to fear?

Reborn alongside her son, Chen Xiaobao, Chen Momo learns from the mistakes of her past life and starts a frantic hoarding spree. To survive, the mother-and-son duo each put their skills to use in the apocalypse. The lively little Chen Xiaobao quickly wins everyone's heart, and Chen Momo finds love of her own in the apocalypse too...