Riverside Reckoning
By @Mohammad M.G
Jax lives his life on the edge, fueled by adrenaline and a deep-seated hatred for the wealthy elite who look down on him. Fresh off a violent confrontation in the university district, he finds himself standing outside The Sterling - the most opulent restaurant in Riverside. To the wealthy patrons inside, Jax is a menace; to Jax, they are targets waiting to be exposed. He decides to crash their perfect, polished world, intending to disrupt their peace and take whatever he wants. But as Jax pushes his way into this high-society enclave, he realizes that the glittering facade hides a network of corruption far more dangerous than the street-level violence he is used to. What started as a petty whim of vandalism and rebellion quickly spirals into a high-stakes game of survival. Jax must navigate a web of powerful enemies who will stop at nothing to protect their secrets, forcing him to decide how far he is willing to go to tear their world down.
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Shadows of the Reaping
By @Mohammad M.G
In the obsidian-walled city of Nox, the annual Reaping is not a harvest of crops, but of souls and sovereignty. Elian, a disgraced apprentice scribe, is dragged from his sanctuary and subjected to the ultimate violation of his autonomy by the ruling High Inquisitors, who use a forbidden soul-branding ritual to strip him of his free will. Left broken but alive, Elian discovers a chaotic anomaly within his fractured psyche: the ritual didn't destroy his mind, it shattered the seal on a primeval, forbidden magic dormant in his bloodline. Now, bearing the physical and mental scars of his violation, Elian must navigate a treacherous court of political intrigue, predatory nobility, and dark magic. To reclaim his agency and exact vengeance upon those who desecrated his body and soul, he must learn to wield the very violation that nearly destroyed him, even if it means sacrificing his remaining humanity to become the monster his abusers fear.
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