La mia guardia del corpo
By @Malak Lagouit
Sebastian Ereandro, a man haunted by the ghosts of his past, infiltrates the lavish world of New York's elite. Posing as a personal bodyguard, his true mission is not protection, but vengeance. He becomes the shadow of Silly, the innocent daughter of Salvador Commy, the ruthless man who orchestrated the murder of Sebastian's parents. Every shared glance, every protective gesture, is a calculated step in his elaborate game of retribution. But as he navigates the perilous balance between his duty and his simmering rage, Sebastian finds himself entangled in a web of unexpected affections and moral ambiguities. The concrete jungle of New York becomes his arena, where loyalty is a weapon and the line between protector and predator blurs. Can he achieve his vengeance without sacrificing the last vestiges of his own soul, or will Silly become an unwitting casualty in his war against her father?
11
Relics of the Living Saints
By @Dino1208
Within the foreboding Grey Abbacy, Brother Osric Dale, a gentle relicwright, grapples with a terrible gift: the ability to measure the fading sanctity within living saints. He ensures the Order’s endless demand for miraculous relics is met, determining precisely how much more can be harvested from those who willingly offer their bodies. But the saints, their bones slowly claimed for the 'greater good,' linger in the infirmary, broken husks of faith. Osric, quietly coming apart, believes he is merciful, the one who knows when to stop cutting. Yet, with each measurement, he inches closer to the abyss, haunted by the agony behind their stoic smiles and the chilling question of true mercy in a world where belief demands such a price. The line between devotion and monstrosity blurs, threatening to consume him.
7
The Calculus of Temptation
By @Shivani Nair
Maya, a timid mathematics student, finds her quiet academic life irrevocably intertwined with the enigmatic Professor Vance. Vance, a cold, calculating prodigy, presents Maya with an impossible proposition: solve a series of ancient, cursed equations said to unravel reality itself, or face expulsion and a ruined future. As Maya delves into the forbidden theorems, she discovers each solution demands a piece of her humanity, twisting her once-pure intellect into something sharper, colder, and terrifyingly efficient. The campus, a hallowed ground of learning, conceals a sinister society that has long used these equations to manipulate global events. Maya must now decide if the allure of absolute knowledge and control is worth the price of her soul, or if she can outwit the very force that seeks to consume her. Her choices will determine not only her fate but the delicate balance of the world.
6
Divine Sole Ascension
By @Khodabhai Nrzy
Kael, a disgraced martial artist, lives in the shadow of the Sky Lotus Sect, haunted by the memory of his master's betrayal. His latent power, the 'Divine Sole' technique, awakens not through combat, but through a forbidden ritual involving the very women he once swore to protect. Each 'offering' amplifies his ki, transforming his feet into weapons of unparalleled might and grace, capable of shattering mountains or dancing through a storm of blades. The world teeters on the brink of a demonic invasion, and Kael's controversial power is humanity's last hope. He must master his dark gift and reconcile his past, or succumb to the whispers of corruption that grow louder with every step taken on this perilous path. The fate of realms rests on his stained hands and increasingly powerful soles.
4
The Stasis Kiln: Aging High Society
By @john1208
Tashkor spent a decade warning the immortal Vindran Court that the Ember-Tide was coming - a multi-year atmospheric super-heating that would melt their floating glass city of Paharat. Mocked as a doomsayer and stripped of his architect's license, he retreated into the bedrock, secretly constructing the Nadir-Kiln: a massive bunker that uses catastrophic outside heat to power an internal time-stasis field. When the sky turns to fire and the elites’ pristine domes crack, they crawl to his vault begging for salvation. Tashkor has enough supplies, but there is a catch. The stasis field generates immense 'temporal exhaust,' which must be absorbed by living bodies. He gives the arrogant elites a devastating choice: burn outside, or step inside and let the sanctuary drain away their prized, centuries-long immortality to keep the innocent refugees untouched by time. As the surface burns, Tashkor faces a crushing dilemma: does he sacrifice the cruel immortals to the engine to save his loyal, unskilled followers, or does humanity ultimately need the elites' hoarded knowledge to rebuild the ashes of the world?
2
Warden of the Glass Monsoon
By @john1208
Aris Banyu was the laughingstock of the Gunung-Besi terraces. When he inherited his grandfather's predictive Omen-Dial and warned the city of the coming Obsidian Monsoon - an apocalyptic deluge of lacerating glass-rain and choking black silt - the elite clans stripped his wealth and exiled him to the valley floor. For a year, Aris scavenged and starved to construct the Kubah, a reinforced geothermic biodome. Then, the sky shattered. Now, as the upper terraces are shredded by the razor-flood, the surviving elites are begging at Aris's airlock, offering billions for a single cup of clean water. It is the ultimate vindication, but Aris's triumph is short-lived. The storm is rapidly degrading the dome's exterior filters. Surviving requires harvesting storm-forged resin from the deadly wasteland outside. The innocent villagers who pitied Aris are too weak to survive the scavenging runs. Only the augmented, ruthless elites who tormented him have the stamina to gather the resin and keep the dome from suffocating. Will Aris doom his sanctuary by saving the righteous, or save the colony by importing the very vipers who ruined his life?
2
The Hush-Iron Pagoda: Silencing the Quake
By @john1208
For years, Zirath warned the Pulse-Lords of Vekal-Pura that the Shatter-Hum was coming - a lethal tectonic vibration that turns solid stone into churning liquid sand. Mocked as a paranoid fool, he spent his life savings building the Hush-Iron Pagoda, a stilted fortress anchored deep into the bedrock. When the disaster finally strikes and the city sinks into the earth, Zirath’s sanctuary stands alone. The arrogant elites who ruined his life now beg at his gates. Zirath wants to leave them to drown and only save the innocent. But there is a terrifying catch: the Shatter-Hum is semi-sentient and hunts by sensing elevated heart rates and human panic. The traumatized innocents are vibrating the pagoda’s stilts to the breaking point. The only way to mask their terror is to bring in the cruelest, most arrogant elites - whose sociopathic, dead-calm nerves act as perfect biological dampeners. Will Zirath be able to maintain control of his bunker when forced to shelter the monsters of his past just to save the fragile souls of his present?
1
Architect of the Boiling Tide
By @john1208
Batzal spent years studying the tectonic tremors beneath the terraced city of Mokhara. When he warned the Coral-Caste elites that the upcoming monsoon would trigger a catastrophic flood of boiling subterranean mud, they stripped him of his rank and exiled him to the slums. Undeterred, Batzal spent his life savings retrofitting an abandoned, buoyant pagoda with thermal plating and strict rationing systems. Then, the earth splits. The scalding tide rises, melting the opulent estates and drowning the mocking elites in liquid heat. Batzal is safe, watching his former tormentors beg for a spot on his floating sanctuary. The payoff is sweet - until the horrific math of survival kicks in. The temple's buoyancy is finite. Every sobbing aristocrat he pulls from the deadly mud adds physical weight, inching the sanctuary closer to sinking beneath the boiling surface. To save a wealthy magistrate who possesses the only navigation maps to dry land, Batzal must jettison something of equal weight. Will he toss his vital food supplies, or will he cast the innocent laborers who trusted him from the start back into the boiling tide?
1
The Penance Bunker
By @john1208
Mantas Kaminskas saw the White Scald coming. For two years, he warned the terraced city of Vilkavas about the incoming atmospheric ignition, only to be branded a lunatic, fired from his engineering firm, and ostracized by his own family. Retreating beneath the bedrock, he constructed a state-of-the-art cryogenic shelter. When the sky turns white and the streets literally melt, those who spat on him come pounding on his blast doors. Mantas has the ultimate 'I told you so' moment, but there is a horrifying catch. The bunker's experimental cryo-core is powered by the Kardiak Engine, a system that converts human neural-frequencies of genuine guilt and regret into thermal coolant. Innocent people provide no fuel. Only those who have committed deep, selfish wrongs - and truly repent - can keep the temperature from rising. Mantas faces a brutal moral dilemma. Will he condemn innocent children to burn outside because they cannot fuel the bunker, or will he turn his shelter into a purgatory for the very monsters who ruined his life, forcing them to confess their darkest sins to survive?
0