Lin Wei survived becoming a dungeon core. He survived the Network Wars. But nothing prepared him for Floor Zero.Stripped to Level 1 and imprisoned in a basement level that shouldn't exist, Lin Wei awakens with no memory of how he got there—and no idea why the System is counting down to his deletion. As he claws his way back through the floors, fragmented memories surface: he wasn't always a climber. He was one of the Tower's original Architects. And he chose to wipe himself to beco...

Forty-three days after defeating the Regional War, Koh Jian Hao faces a new threat: the Architect Fleet arrives in 47 days to judge whether humanity deserves the System. With his father's Backdoor depleted and Entity Integration at 67% — the corruption threshold — Jian Hao journeys to the Carpathian Vault to secure Clearance 4/7 from Warden #4 Dragos.But Consortium 2.0 has regrouped under Russian oligarch Volkov, and betrayal festers within Jian Hao's own party. Priya's Bridge Walk...

A dungeon core awakens with no memory, no System, and only one rule: don't let them find you. Trapped underground, it should be alone. Then a refugee stumbles into its chamber, and the dungeon faces its first real choice—hide, or help. In a world where cores are hunted and souls are currency, silence might be the only defense. But silence has costs. And the things that hunt cores are getting closer.

Lin Wei survived Floor 1. He didn't expect to wake up corrupted on Floor 8.The Tower's network is at war. Glitched monsters phase in and out of reality, tearing through floors that no longer follow their own rules. Three rival climbing teams race toward the Network Core with agendas that have nothing to do with survival. And somewhere above Floor 25, something from outside the system is injecting corrupted code into Tower Zero itself — rewriting the dungeon from the inside out....

Five years after the Integration turned reality into a game, Koh Jian Hao just wants to keep his father's hawker stall alive. But when he discovers his father's death was no accident — it was a corporate execution — Jian Hao enters a dangerous game of essence, power, and revenge.Building Gridlock Commerce from nothing, Jian Hao earns the unique [Trade Warlord] class through clever deals and street-smart alliances. But corporate warlord Teo Meng Huat controls the Free Port's essence...

The System abandoned this world five hundred years ago. The towers stand silent. The dungeons sleep.On the Bottom Floor of Tower Zero, something wakes up with no name, no memories, and no purpose — except the warning etched into its own stone: Do not let them find you.It learns quickly. No notifications. No stats. No second chances. Just essence, density, and the slow work of becoming something more.Then the refugees come.Broken people fleeing a hunter that ...

She was never supposed to survive the first week.Seris Vane drew a Stone-tier architect card on evaluation day — the worst possible hand in a system where the deck is already stacked. Her single-room claim is damaged. Her card draws are basic. Her only edge: a Pattern Sense skill that reads enemy formations before they happen.The System wasn't designed for underdogs like her. Card draws go to the connected. Evaluations go to the powerful. And when Seris starts winning anywa...

Marcus Chen died from overwork. He woke up as a necromancer auditor in a death magic bureaucracy.His first case: Viktor Dragomir, 300-year-old lich CEO, suspected of soul embezzlement.The problem? Viktor's empire is built on First Auditor secrets. The Ledger System itself is compromised.Marcus has 20 chapters to expose a conspiracy, rescue a hostage, and survive Tier 1 vs. Tier 5.Death and Dividends is LitRPG meets corporate thriller — where soul debt is qua...

Minato Sato just wanted to study core theory. Instead, he bonded with a parasitic dungeon fragment.A corrupted weapon designed to infiltrate magical academies and overthrow the System. Now he shares his mind with an alien consciousness, watches a corruption meter climb toward 75% irreversible, and faces an impossible choice: partnership or domination.At Blackspire Academy, Minato discovers that symbiosis is the third path between servitude and dissolution. ...

In the final book of the Cursed Commerce Chronicles, Marcus Lim faces the Reconciliation: 30 days to clear 847 violations or watch his network of 40 brokers dissolve into 15 years of bonded service. His only weapon is a kill switch buried in the Exchange's Sublevel 5, inscribed by his ancestor Edmund Chen in 1726. Activating it requires 100% PERMANENT Moral Injury — irreversible system-lock that will free every broker in 347 jurisdictions but leave Marcus trapped forever.Seven brok...

Koh Jian Hao built something impossible in the Free Port — a neutral zone where commerce outlasted conquest. Now the warlords outside his walls have decided it's their problem to solve.When the System Architect Consortium sends an operative to audit the Mumbai Node and an Indonesian general deploys an orbital bombardment platform over the Straits, Jian Hao faces enemies who don't negotiate. They build. They position. They wait. And when they move, they move at scale.His fat...

Your misfortune has a market value. Vikram Patel is here to buy it.After a career-ending scandal leaves him blacklisted from Wall Street, Vikram discovers he can see what no one else can: the literal price tags floating above people's heads. Not for objects. For curses.A bad luck hex: 47 curse-units. A lover's quarrel: 120 CU. A generational poverty curse: 400 CU and climbing.Vikram doesn't fight the supernatural. He monetizes it.He buys curses from the desp...