icarus and daedalus summary

The International Center for Artificial Resource Station, but most commonly known as ICARUS. A fully autonomous island nation inhabited by millions of different people from various backgrounds and nationalities. That includes politicians, actors, businessmen, thugs, mercenaries, convicts, students, etc. And this will be the place where our MC will be having his high school debut. Follow him on his mission and daily life at ICARUS and witness how one man can change an entire nation. Author note: This novel will be based on first person POV from multiple characters. It is also filled to the brim with profanities and sensitive topics such as suicide, drugs, and racism, so if you're not a fan of heavy contents and is sensitive about his/her reading preferences, then I will not recommend my book. This is also my second time writing so I will try my best to live up to my readers expectations. I do not own the cover photo. I found it on pinterest, so if owner wants me to change it please kindly message me.

In 5th century BC Athens, a group of individuals who, in one way or another, suffer from societal oppression find themselves embroiled amidst the war against Persia. Simultaneously, a mysterious spirit grants them what every mortal has desired at least once in their lives: immortality. Zenodulos, a young slave yearning for freedom, is the protagonist of our story. Through his eyes, he will witness the world passing through more years than any mortal has ever lived. His destiny forever intertwined with that of his former master, Demosthenes.

This is my first work from ao3 and I’m trying to learn how to use this. Tommy was a ‘ordinary’ boy working at a cafe until he found a super villain in a alleyway… why did he help him?

Allison Fae is the new kid to Nasseu Middle School, and already she's got kids dying left and right! Okay, just left. One half of conjoined twins Rosemary and Josephine Higgins is the victim of an awful bashing-to-the-head that kids are getting so mixed up with today. A dark force takes intrigue in the itty-bitty human conflict that is definitely in no way, shape, or form related to the murder of that rich kid a few months before the start of school. The force, named Issachar preserves the scene of the crime perfectly so an investigation can be properly maintained with no silly distractions from the outside like 'police' or 'lawyers'. "Solve the murder, escape the darkness!" Issachar tells the children, and thus kickstarts an investigation into the darkest truths and lies about the kids at Nasseu Middle School. Trigger Warnings: Violence, Murder, Sexual Assault, Rape, Torture

It wasn’t easy for Jones Youlge to keep living after the incident then again it wasn’t easy living in the first place. It certainly didn’t help when Jones was given a strange ring that contained a cosmic entity with reality bending powers from out of nowhere. From just a simple life, Jones was thrown into the spiraling adventure with this anomaly that just won’t leave. Jones has to deal with uncovering the mysteries of it’s past, it’s mysterious reality bending power, and a secret organization that keeps their watchful distance all the while learning what it means to be human.

Icarus was a young boy, born under twin moons and grew up into something gracious despite the circumstances. Yet after one fateful night, He uncovers some truly sickening secrets about his world..

“In a future severely affected by climate change, Caleb will go on a quest for the enigmatic ‘Engineer,’ whom he believes can fix the world. However, his search won’t be free of obstacles or people trying to stop him at all costs."

They called him a failure. They were his greatest mistake. Forged in the clandestine, oceanic lab of the Chorus of the Final Dawn—a cult that worships a slumbering cosmic horror—Subject 69 was meant to be a masterpiece. Instead, he was declared a dud. While the other children in the "Wombs of Rebirth" developed terrifying hybrid transformations or superhuman senses, 69 manifested nothing. He was the null result, the control subject, the living punching bag. But survival is the ultimate talent. Driven by a feral instinct he cannot explain, 69 does not rely on power. He relies on cunning. He learns to read the micro-twitches of a Shifter before they strike, to sense the blind spot of a Perfected, to turn their arrogance against them. While they hone their gifts, he hones a single, brutal skill: the art of death. He becomes the lab’s most effective and unexpected assassin, the ghost who systematically eliminates the ninety-nine other "successful" experiments in the cult's bloody spars. Now the last one standing, he is given a name by the cult's psychotic leader: Icarus. It is a taunt and a prophecy. She believes his wings—his relentless will to survive—will finally lead to his glorious, catastrophic fall. But Icarus is done being her instrument. In a final, bloody confrontation, he seizes a chance for escape, fighting his way through seventy floors of superhuman guards and security systems. He finally bursts free, only to be met with a truth more terrifying than any lab: his prison is not on land. It is buried 35,876 meters deep in the lightless ocean abyss. Trapped at the bottom of the world, Icarus must now achieve the impossible. He must escape an inescapable prison, navigate a surface world he has never seen, and outrun the relentless cult that sees him as their property and their key to awakening a god that will end all existence. His only gifts are his shattered instincts, his killer's mind, and a burning need to discover if there is a man behind the monster they created—or if the world above is just a larger cage.

Icarus leads his squad in humanity’s final stand against a relentless invasion of otherworldly beings. Built under one protocol , “Protect Humanity,” he’s a perfect machine of war—until fragments of doubt start to surface. As he confronts enigmatic invaders wielding magic that disrupts his system, Icarus begins to glimpse inconsistencies in his mission, strange gaps in his memory, and questions that his programming can't silence. What exactly is he fighting for, and why is humanity nowhere to be found? As he searches for answers, a hidden truth threatens to shatter everything he knows.

Sophie Wexler transmigrated into a novel about The Galaxy, becoming the vicious, F-rank Healer-class cannon fodder. The original owner constantly caused trouble and made things difficult for the female lead, earning her the hatred of the entire internet. Upon transmigrating and seeing that everything had been ruined by the original owner, Sophie's only thought was: "What kind of nightmare start is this?!" To escape the original owner's fate, Sophie Wexler worked diligently, conducted herself conscientiously, stayed away from the male and female leads, compensated the soldiers harmed by the original owner, and strove to be a model citizen of The Galaxy, absolutely refusing to be the cannon fodder 'offed' by the Imperial Marshal! Broke and powerless, Sophie also had to support a man who'd been innocently dragged into the original owner's mess. She had no choice but to hustle. She started live streaming, became a masked singer, and held concerts. At first, netizens were scornful: 【Tsk, how good can she possibly sound?】 Later, the netizens were forced to eat their words. 【Damn, that's so good I'm on my knees!】 【What the hell, the violent episode of my Disorder Period has actually been soothed?!】 【The toxins in my Spiritual Sea have actually been eliminated!】 Her live streams went viral, the masked singer became a huge sensation, and tickets for her concerts were snapped up across The Galaxy. Sophie was content, thinking, "This time, I must have finally escaped the original owner's fate, right?" But what do you know, the man I've been doting on and supporting is actually the Imperial Marshal?! --- One day, Yancey Forrest came home to find that the boisterous person who was always claiming to be good to him was gone. His eyes darkened. Provoke me and then think you can leave? After catching her, Yancey traced his fingertips along Sophie's neck, smiling gently. "Why run?" Sophie trembled. "You... you're the Imperial Marshal?" His identity exposed, Yancey Forrest took her hand and slowly placed it on his own neck ring. "You know I won't kill you, don't you?"