shadow monarch: heroines could hear my thoughts?!

In the modern city of Ellington, life seems calm and ordinary. Yet, mysterious forces and supernatural events lurk in the shadows. People whisper of superpowers, while some are unaware of the existence of supernatural creatures protecting humanity from the unseen dangers. Our protagonist, caught in the crossfire of these hidden worlds, discovers a power within themselves that changes their destiny forever.

What happens when you receive a system after a heart-break. Betrayed and humiliated by his girlfriend to a point of depression, Tristan's saw nothing good in himself, being called poor and charged of an obscene-related crime only made matters worse. However in his emotional state, Tristan could only hear a mechanical voice inside his head, alas! it was a system. [ You have received a role play system] ......."I have a technology that no one even knows exist!" .......

"Step away. She's mine." Eric’s voice was calm but firm, his smirk barely concealed. The man in front of him scoffed. "And what about her?" He pointed at another woman. Eric chuckled, unfazed. "Also mine." The man’s face twisted in disbelief. "And… her too?" Eric nodded casually. "What can I say? A king doesn’t turn away his queens." Frustrated, the other man threw his hands in the air. "How many women do you even need?!" Eric grinned, tilting his head slightly. "As long as beauty exists, they will always belong to me." --- Life had always been cruel. Fired from his job over a ridiculous reason. Dumped by his girlfriend for being broke. Just when he thought things couldn’t get worse, a drunk driver sent him flying. Most would call it the end. For Eric Carter, it was just the beginning. [Ding! Activation requirements met. System initializing…] [Welcome to the Royal Harem System—Dedicated to building the greatest harem in history.] A slow, confident smirk stretched across Eric’s lips as he cracked his knuckles. "From today onward, I, Eric Carter, will be the undisputed Harem King." He straightened his posture, radiating newfound confidence. "Excuse me, miss. You're breathtaking. Would you do me the honor of becoming my wife?"

Marvin was living a fulfilled life being recognized as the rightful heir to his father's vast tech business empire and living happily with his beautiful wife and kids, not until he lost it all in an instant. His father had denounced him as heir to his business empire and later on, Marvin got to find out that he was not the actual father of his kids as his wife proudly revealed her infidelity to his face. This all happened because the Synapticore force which was a necessary element needed to run the family business was not discovered in his body and as such he was considered worthless and too mundane even when he had helped his father generate tens of millions of dollars. He was believed incapable of running the family business and competing with other business rivals that possessed other powerful and efficient mechanisms and supernatural elements that helped them to not only maintain the family pedigree but to keep up with the intense rivalry in the business sector. In all the rejection he faced for being too mundane, little did they know that he had a much greater and overwhelming supernatural force within him. It was nothing like they could have conceived or ever imagined. It was the Ultra Mega Synapticore Force.

He saw the end of mankind and suffered a miserable death. But when he opened his eyes, he was back thirty years before his death. Since he had a possible second chance, he decided to become the strongest and survive that miserable end. To become the ultimate wizard. ‘This time I will start with the very beginning.’ He wanted to start before the end of the earth, which was bound to happen in five years. The VR game The Endless. The passage to the planet Yuriel before the end of the earth. If he could become the strongest while he was an immortal player, he would have a chance to escape that tragedy. To people who didn’t know the truth, it was just a game. To people who knew the truth, it was their future. To Jason, who knew the future, it was his ticket to survival. … ‘Let me use thirty years of my experience. Ah… I never played The Endless in my previous life. Great!’ ‘I know all about planet Yuriel. But, in five more years….’ ‘I have no time to join a Guild. I can’t babysit anyone.’ … “Join our guild if you want the money to buy a VR cabin. ” … ‘I have to focus all my time on getting stronger.’ “There is no food in the village.” .. “Hey, where are you going? You brought a child here and trying to leave? She is your child now, so take care of her.” “Eh… I will come back soon.” ‘Damn it. Didn’t I say, ‘I don’t want to be a babysitter’?’ … “That child is cursed.” “Did you say she is cursed? Say that again, I will kill you.” … ‘Right. Why did I start playing this game, again?’

"I'll rise above this, and you'll face the consequences of your actions," he declared, a silent promise to himself amidst the noisy laughter. “Now, you see that she was only using you all these time,” Jack said, and Sydney smiled slyly. Sydney's cold words cut through the air, echoing her heartless confession. "That's so true, I only used you to solve my Math problems. I would never want to kiss a guy drowning in unending poverty. This is not a fairy tale, where a princess gets to kiss a frog," Sydney declared, glancing down at the hole on the top of Micheal's shoe.

🏆 ["Sliver Medal" in System Category of "Meganovel Annual Writing Contest 2022"] 🏆 ‘Perhaps being stuck in a game isn’t so bad!’, Kyle thought moments before he was mistaken for a hidden boss by a rather dim, but quite powerful knight. That was the moment he learned what immediate regret meant. Kyle was an ordinary student at an insignificant university. Being the pinnacle of ‘average’, his life was as mundane as it could get, that is, until he found himself unable to log out of the full dive game that had recently released. Life in a game wasn’t too bad, that is if one’s not hunted day and night by the players, who mistook him for a special hidden boss with near human level A.I. And no amount of trying to convince them that he was, in fact, human helped. He survived a while until a knight kicked him though a boss door in a dungeon. Usually, facing a lich at such a low level would be a death sentence. By all means, it should have been. But lady luck smiled on him for once in his absolutely mundane life, and he found himself in the possession of said lich. About as confused as he can get, Kyle’s new life took a rather awkward and bizarre turn. And as such, his life of adventure fille with colourful and quirky characters, ferocious monsters and downright terrifying encounters began!

Maxwell Reed had his life going smoothly for him until he came to discover that his loving girlfriend, Vicky Thorman had been cheating on him with the Governor's son, John Reider. Powerless and poor, the least Maxwell could do was to pack up and lay low so he could endure his disgrace and slowly heal from his heartbreak, but what happens when he comes to find out that he is the long-lost son of a billionaire's descendants? And when his grandmother breaks the silence on how he had been adopted, will this help him reconnect the dots on what happened to his real parents?

"I can't believe you are so shameless! You don't feel any guilt at all." "I've been with you for a while now and all I have seen is poverty. How long do you think I can hold out like that?" Lisa defended herself "A poor guy like you does not deserve Lisa. You should be in the streets like the dog you are!" Mark spat at him. **** "You'll both regret doing this. I promise you." ••••••• Nicola is someone looked down on by so many people. He has no good job and he only has his good looks. He had only his girlfriend who he thought loved him until he found out she was cheating on him. She also looked down on him just like everyone else. Done with the betrayal, he had different thoughts running through his head until his breakthrough came. He found out he was the rich heir of the richest family in the world. All he had to do was come back to his family. His life changed overnight but many still did not know his identity. Will he be get back at all those who looked down on him or will he forgive them?

In the mountains sat a small village, populated by normal people. Cows mooed, pigs ate, and humans did their fieldwork. On usual days like these, a normal person in the village would enjoy some fried chicken under the shade of a tree. "Mmm, delicious chicken..." Not everyone had access to the chicken. Only a certain family did. But as time passed, someone arrived in the village and took away the items that helped the villagers live their lives. Some young people left with the man, thinking that they would strike it big. And one of those people was the owner of the chickens. Bai Feng, a connoisseur of food, a monster that's heavier than iron, a fool that's half smart and half dumb. Cultivation isn't for everyone, but with luck, everything is possible. Could Bai Feng cultivate and reach the apex? Or would he have to stumble along the way due to the passions of life, increasing the difficulty of his path? But one thing was for certain. Bai Feng would surely enjoy life along the way. Cultivation or not.