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Chaos Devourer System

In a future timeline… Earth is thrown into chaos when an unknown force pulls it from the Milky Way, sending it into a strange new galaxy. A powerful energy called Mana floods the planet, changing its very core and breaking the old rules of reality. This Mana awakens long-hidden genes in humans—genes that once only existed in myths. The world is now ruled by strength, and only those with the strongest awakened genes are respected. As humanity grows stronger, they venture beyond Earth, exploring a vast new universe full of alien races, dangerous creatures, and worlds never seen before. This new universe has no limits, and the word "Impossible" no longer exists. The story follows Zeras Celestria, a young man from one of the Nine Families. Considered worthless for failing to awaken the family's powerful A-grade Lightning Hammer Gene, Zeras instead awakens the weak F-grade Multi-colored Hair Gene. He is therefore sold to a dark group known for cruel experiments on the weak. Left for dead, Zeras feels his life fading with each breath, anger and despair filling his heart. Until… [Congratulations.] [Host has been blessed by Chaos.] [Host has successfully awakened the SSS-grade Chaos Devouring Gene.] Armed with an SSS-grade Gene and an insatiable thirst for vengeance, Zeras begins his journey—a relentless pursuit to become the strongest, to rise above the universe’s boundless horizon, and to claim a power that no one before him has dared to grasp. A Path Many Have Walked, But None Have Conquered. A Future Scene… "Look into my eyes. What do you see?" A young man stands, his hair white as snow, his lips red as blood, and his face perfectly sculpted. But his eyes—no, they are not eyes. They are endless black holes, swallowing all light and hope! "I see death, madness, pain, and..." "Yes… I am the final embodiment of Chaos." OTHER WORKS My Bio-Nanotech System Infinity Guardian System
Supreme_IQ · 3.1m Views

Took the Entertainment Industry by storm, Fan beg me not to kill.

Xiao He unexpectedly gained a criminal cheat skill that allows him to learn all kinds of crime-related abilities. —But the catch is, he has to keep “stabbing people” to stay alive. Xiao He: …I was a perfectly fine college student, who the h*ll wants to be a criminal?! Huh? There’s actually a loophole! By chance, Xiao He triggered a bug in the cheat skill. He figured out a way to substitute real crimes with acting performances and broke into the entertainment industry as a professional villain! He can be a refined yet depraved mu*derer, wielding a chainsaw and haunting everyone’s nightmares. He can be a heartless, despicable fugitive whose crimes are so notorious that the public wants him dead. He’s a romance scammer, a serial killer, a cold-blooded assassin… He’s actor Xiao He! —At first, Xiao He was just trying to survive by constantly taking villain roles. But unexpectedly, he rose to fame with his so-called “nonexistent acting skills” and became one of the hottest award-winning actors in the industry! Everyone in the business knows: the more people a script’s character kills, the faster Xiao He accepts the role. But outsiders say: He doesn’t look like he’s acting at all—better investigate him thoroughly! Even the fans are saying: Bro, please stop killing people! I’m seriously scared you’ll end up in jail! Yet, while the real “cancers” of the industry kept getting arrested, the one who looked most like a villain—Xiao He—kept thriving, even sweeping awards like crazy. Eventually, everyone was like: Whatever, let him stab people on screen for us. Just give him space.
Asanpi · 168.3k Views

The Vanguard!

Lin Feng read the novel for nine years. He hated it. He argued with it. He even left hundreds of comments no one answered. He knew every major plot turn and every character the story decided was expendable. He also knew how it ended for him. When Lin Feng wakes up transmigrated into that same novel as a minor villain, he remembers exactly what the plot demands. In eight years, he is supposed to die. Not alone. The people who stood by him are meant to follow soon after. One leaves a suicide note. Another writes that she doesn’t want to live a second longer without him. Their deaths are treated as acceptable losses so the real protagonist can move forward. The protagonist has a system. The world bends to protect him. Everything else exists to be used and discarded. Lin Feng has no system. What he has is memory, resentment, and a clear understanding of how those deaths are supposed to happen. He decides they are unacceptable. By avoiding the spotlight, interfering early, and changing events long before they reach the point of no return, Lin Feng turns himself into a variable the story was never built to handle. Every deviation carries risk. Every choice he makes draws attention. But if the narrative demands that everyone who cared about him dies quietly to preserve a hero’s rise, then the narrative itself is the problem. A transmigration story about survival, shared fate, and refusing to accept an ending where love is treated as collateral damage. Author’s Note: First published on Royal Road, with simultaneous releases on ScribbleHub and WebNovel on December 24, 2025. AI assists with drafting and research, while all story direction, characters, and final edits are by the author.
SaltedFishX · 19.5k Views

The Dancer of Blades

If you have talent, you will be called a genius or even a prodigy... But how about hard work? He was never talented. No gift, no destiny, no sect that wanted him. Only a sword, a stubborn will, and years of bleeding in silence while others soared past him with ease. They mocked him. They looked down on him. They called him talentless trash not worth the ground he stood on. He destroyed a sect anyway. In his final moments, surrounded by enemies, stabbed from the front and the back, betrayed by someone he trusted — He did not beg. He did not surrender. He laughed, raised his blade one last time, and carved his name into history with a single slash that split both a man and a mountain in half. They would remember him as the Mad Demon Blade. But history is written by the living, and the righteous never forgave what he had done. Now reborn in a small forgotten village with nothing but the memories of a life spent being stepped on, He opens his eyes to a second chance. Not for revenge. Not for glory. Not to prove anything to the world. But because he simply refuses to kneel again. In a world where talent determines your worth, your future, and even your right to be respected — one stubborn, bloodied, ordinary man will walk a path paved by nothing but sheer will and the endless repetition of a single swing. Because the blade does not care about your bloodline. It does not care about your destiny. It only cares about one thing. How many times you swung it.
JemLazyTired · 1.1k Views

THE Fallen: heresy

Aiden Chase never believed in fairy tales. To him, magic was nothing more than beautiful words written in fantasy novels—stories meant to escape reality. His life was ordinary, predictable… until the day he decided to clean the attic of his ancestral home, a place long abandoned and heavy with dust and silence. Hidden beneath torn sheets and rotting wooden chests, he discovered an antique mirror framed in darkened silver. Strange symbols were carved along its edges, intricate and unfamiliar—almost alive. The moment Aiden touched its surface, a cold sensation crawled through his veins. His reflection did not move with him. It stood still, staring back with sharper eyes… as if it knew something he did not. That night, the mirror revealed the impossible. Instead of reflecting his bedroom, it displayed a vast purple sky crowned by three moons. Crystal towers pierced the horizon, and luminous creatures drifted across the air. A magical world—one he had only ever imagined in fiction—now stood vividly before him. Without thinking, he reached out again. And the mirror pulled him through. Aiden fell into a realm known as Elarion, a world where magic is not merely power, but the very law of existence. Humans coexist with ancient sorcerers, star-bound knights, and mysterious beings called the Mirror Wardens. But his arrival disrupts the fragile balance. The mirror he found is no ordinary relic—it is a Gate Artifact, a bridge between two worlds long separated. And it answers only to him. Soon, Aiden is hunted by a shadowed order known as the Umbra Order. They seek the Gate Artifact to break an ancient seal and release a legendary entity trapped between dimensions. They believe Aiden is the “Chosen Reflection”—a soul resonating in two realities at once. As he struggles to survive, Aiden discovers he can wield Reflection Magic—a rare ability that allows him to copy, redirect, and even distort magical attacks. But every time he uses it, faint cracks appear across the mirror’s surface… and within his own soul. Amid fierce battles, betrayal, and the unraveling truth about his bloodline, Aiden learns that his ancestors were not mere guardians of the mirror. They were wardens of something that should never be freed. Now, Aiden must choose. Destroy the mirror and seal the gateway forever—losing the magical world that finally made him feel alive. Or uncover the full truth, confront the power hidden within his own reflection, and accept his destiny as the bridge between two realities. Because sometimes, the most dangerous thing is not the world beyond the mirror… But the reflection waiting to replace you
owlstars35 · 51 Views

Debt System: The Interest Collector

Debt System: The Interest Collector In Greyhaven City, survival is simple: You either own the debt… Or the debt owns you. Ethan Vale was never meant to win. A university student crushed by corporate lawsuits. A missing father who exposed the wrong company. A financial system engineered to keep people obedient. Helix Dynamics didn’t threaten him. They calculated him. And he was statistically insignificant. Until the night his laptop powered on by itself. > [Debt System Activated] Borrow power. Repay through impact. Failure to repay will result in Asset Reclamation. This isn’t a blessing. It’s a contract. Borrow strength for ten minutes. Borrow genius-level cognition for one hour. Borrow predictive foresight for thirty seconds. But nothing is permanent. Every borrowed advantage accumulates interest. And repayment doesn’t require money. It requires disruption. Expose a politician. Trigger a corporate scandal. Manipulate gang hierarchies. Destabilize markets. The more controlled chaos he creates, the more the system rewards him. The city becomes a chessboard. People become variables. Institutions become leverage. Most would use this power to fight. Ethan uses it to calculate. He tracks the system’s patterns. Documents its reward algorithms. Tests its limits. Searches for inconsistencies. Because he realizes something terrifying— The system profits from instability. And it isn’t the only one operating in Greyhaven. Other users exist. Some reckless. Some violent. Some loyal to the system itself. While corporations weaponize data and underground syndicates control the streets, Ethan begins climbing quietly through financial networks, political alliances, and information warfare. He doesn’t want to rule the city. He wants to own the mechanism behind it. Because if the system feeds on chaos— Then someone must regulate the chaos. And if every power must be repaid— Then one day… The system will present its final bill. When that day comes, Ethan Vale won’t be a borrower. He’ll be the interest collector.
Rebel_03 · 143 Views

Princess’s Struggle for Survival

Imagine waking up as the villain in your sister's cheesy fantasy novel. Yeah, not ideal, especially when that villain is destined for hatred, and a grim end in some forgotten dungeon. That's Astrid's new reality. Her old life? Gone. Her new mission? Survive. And step one means throwing the original script out the window. But changing fate is way harder than it sounds. In a desperate move, Astrid makes the story's heroine, Lyra, her personal maid. Clever, right? Except teaching Lyra magic and treating her like, well, a person, backfires spectacularly. Lyra's gratitude twists into something intense, dark, and possessive. And she's not the only one. Astrid tries mending fences with her powerful aunt, only to find herself smothered by a love that feels dangerously close to madness. Even her ambitious half-sister, originally her rival, gets weirdly attached after Astrid shows her a bit of warmth and helps her gain power using some modern-world smarts. Astrid thought she was being clever, building alliances, creating intelligence networks, rewriting roles. She is changing the story, but it's warping everyone around her. Their loyalty? It's becoming obsession. Their affection? A dangerous fixation. Now, Astrid isn't just fighting the plot. She's drowning in a mess of her own making – caught between people who crave her, tangled in lies and affections twisted way out of shape. Everyone wants her, and sharing isn't remotely on their agenda.
_Astra_20 · 1m Views