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BLURB: The new MMORPG game ‘Wisher's Death,’ with the adaptive technology of transporting the players into the game, has become the most played online game. Everybody, both old and young, wanted to play the game; thus, its popularity, as well as cost, went over the charts. These four teenagers, Eiden, Gabbie, Jason, and Derrick, poured their hearts and sweat to save enough money to play the game. But instead of getting transported into the game, they transmigrate to a whole new realm where mutated beasts and mythical creatures threaten the existence of humanity. With no hope of ever returning, Alas! They're awarded leveling-up systems. The Emperor has said “Whoever makes the Upper Ten rank and becomes a protector of Jingwu shall have their greatest wish granted from the goddess's wish orb,” Is this their ticket to returning home? What is the secret behind this wish orb? Can they endure and survive the plagues of this new world?

I have conquered nations, subdued entire populations. Everyone from the Eastern plains to the Northern colonies fear me. But they don't know me. My name is Lloyd Bishop, and I am the Dragon Duke, The greatest enforcer of the kingdom of Tekka. 10 years ago, I watched from the closet, where I witnessed my entire family be gunned down in the city of Hilburg. My father and uncle, shot by a man with a dragon tattoo on his arm, who then burned down our home. I managed to escape, but I died from smoke poisoning. My life would be saved by a young girl, Lisa Francis, who brought me back to life and showed me the way out of the city. That was a decade ago. I left everything behind that day, my 3 childhood friends, and Lisa, a girl I didn't even know yet. In the time since, everything has changed, I was now more powerful than ever before, but the rage of my family's murder hadn't been quelled. And now I have returned to this city that took everything from me, and my mission is clear. Reconnect with my childhood friends, repay the girl who saved my life. But most importantly, I will show those responsible for my parent's death… THE WRATH OF THE DRAGON DUKE!

In the shadows of the world's most dangerous casinos, where fortunes rise and lives crumble with the turn of a card, one man plays a game no one else dares to. His name is whispered in backroom deals and bloodstained poker tables—a gambler who never bets unless the stakes are deadly. He doesn’t rely on luck. He bends it. Manipulates it. Controls it. But when an invitation arrives from The House, the unseen rulers of the underground gambling world, he realizes the real game has only just begun. To uncover the truth behind his father’s disappearance, he must challenge the world’s greatest gamblers, each wielding Ki-powered techniques that can turn probability itself into a weapon. A single mistake could cost him everything. But if there’s one thing he knows, it’s this—the greater the risk, the sweeter the win.

"You should have died a long time ago, but instead you continue to live and disturb the many pleasures of my Lord. It's all your own fault, you fool," whispered a man as he pushed Elios' thin body. Elios, the God of War died a horrible death, his pride and body destroyed by the betrayal of those he trusted. But fate said otherwise, a moment later he returned to a time four years ago when he was faced with two choices that would determine his life.