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In a sprawling fantasy world called Eldrenvar, where towering sky-cities float above a scarred wasteland, power belongs to the "Gifted"—those born with innate magical abilities called Sparks. These Sparks let them wield elements, manipulate minds, or bend reality itself. The Gifted rule as nobles, warriors, and gods among men, while the ungifted toil below in the dust, mining Etherstone to fuel the sky-cities’ levitation. Follow Tomas Kael, a 28-year-old laborer from the wasteland town of Dustcrag. Tomas is no hero—he’s a wiry, sweat-soaked grunt who hauls Etherstone 14 hours a day. He’s got no Spark, no lineage, just calloused hands and a stubborn belief: hard work beats talent. While the Gifted coast on their powers, Tomas trains relentlessly—running laps with stone sacks, swinging a pickaxe until his muscles scream, studying old texts by candlelight. His dream? To climb to the sky-cities and prove an ungifted man can stand equal to the elite.

Five years after their bitter breakup and the bankruptcy of their shared publishing dream, literary agent Maya Chen and audio producer Marcus Taylor are forced to confront their past when a high-stakes book project brings them together. Maya needs the perfect producer for her client's memoir to secure her position as the youngest junior partner at Preston & Associates. Marcus's award-winning Soundcraft Studios could be exactly what she needs – if only she can keep their complicated history from interfering with business. But working together proves more challenging than either expected. As they guide author Elena Reyes through recording her family's story of food, culture, and resilience, Maya and Marcus find themselves facing echoes of their own narrative. Each recording session peels back layers of professional polish to reveal wounds that never properly healed. The intimate nature of audio production forces them into close quarters, where old chemistry crackles beneath new boundaries. When rival agent Peter Walsh threatens to poach their star author, Maya and Marcus must decide if they can trust each other enough to fight for more than just this project. A power outage during a crucial recording session leaves them literally in the dark, forcing conversations they've avoided for years. As they help Elena capture the authentic voice of her family's story, they begin to rediscover their own voices – and the possibility that some love stories deserve a second take. With their careers and hearts on the line, Maya and Marcus learn that sometimes the most powerful stories are the ones that break all the rules. Like a skilled audio engineer finding the perfect mix, they must balance past and present, pride and vulnerability, ambition and love to create something entirely new from the pieces of their broken dreams. "Remastered Hearts" is a story about second chances, creative passion, and the courage to risk everything for a love worth repeating – this time with better production value.

In a world, similar to earth, with a lush planet and advanced technologies,near cyberpunk mixed with old technologies and ideologies, a millennia ago, a very power god, worked hand in hand with an extremely advanced race, to combine technology and magic, making this world known as Lua, undergo changes, with 10 continents, each with its own nations, to change, people gained a system, the systems helped grant a class, some were combat, others engineer, and some everyday professions, like blacksmiths, armorers, even actors had classes be born into existence, well on year 2153, a particular short statured girl------ named Silver Hailstorm, whom just turned sixteen, the age of the system awakening and also the day she has to register her class with the kingdoms hunters association, something some dread for their weak or common class, others look forward to, but on this day, silver is treating it like any other. Working in the family owned mechanic and armor fitting shop, where most of the clientele is military vehicles, the money is decent,but not enough to help us climb the social pedigree and gain a spot in a tier 2 city. Silver is a cat girl standing at only four feet tall, making her no bigger than the dwarves, and no less aggressive as them, usually wearing her mechanic coveralls, and a black tank top, the upper part of the coveralls tied around her waist, and her over sized weilding gloves, and weilding goggles adorning the top of her hair, grease stains can be seen all over her, but uncaring to all this as she works on taking the damaged armor panels off the hover troop transport. A vehicle that has a very similar appearance to a humvee or Bear, on earth. Her Dad, Also a Cat person, here they are just known as nekos from here on thats how they will be addressed, burst through the office door into the bay while trying his best to yell over the drown of loud rock music, and the industrial grinder. "Sil!...Sil! you have to go awaken and register your system!". Barely hearing him over the noise, silver cuts the grinder off before walking over to her dad, giving a quick hug before dashing out while tossing over her reply. "thanks dad for the reminder im leaving now!" And like the neko she has always been, fast and too agile for her own good she sprints down to the office, her small size allowing her to zigzag and at times perform acrobatics to not bump into people, a feat larger people would struggle to repeat as she does, rushing to the office about half an hour away from the shop on foot. She laughs and cackles on glee and the sheer freedom and speed she is going through so mych foot traffic, being a tier one city with more than twenty million people in it, theres always a lot of foot traffic.Some people who have seen her in traffic before are used to her antics while others are awestruck and surprised as she flashes by, her red pixie cute hair fluttering around her and her red and white stripped hears easily seen as she does flipps and dives over people into the tiny spots in the crowd. After a near flat out run, for 15 solid minutes, making it outside the huge hunters building, where hundreds of thousands of new hunters and old are streaming in for various reasons, some are just like her here to activate the system and see what they awakened as and to register.Walking in and looking around having to hop several feet in the air a few times to survey over the crowd, in doing so drawing some attention from several group all around wondering if she is part rabbit or something, some of the people in line in front and behind her giggle and laugh and a couple dwarves smirk as they realize what she is trying to do before she finally sees that she actually randomly selected the correct line on the first try. "phew, made it, and im not dead last, hopefully i awakened something with machine..." she says,a bit of forshadowing.

"Stuck..." by Lapis L. Lazuli --Timeframe: 3218 --Stage: Andromeda Galaxy, Planet Alpha Four astronauts—Graham Young, Celeste Wong, Jennifer Cross, and Michael Forrest—blast off to Planet Alpha, a last-ditch shot at saving a bloated, broken Earth choking on 32 billion souls. Tech’s slick, hope’s thin, and Michael’s the odd man out: a quiet, brooding pessimist/realist who’d rather sleep than play hero. They’re hunting a new home, but when their ship vanishes, leaving nothing but a hole in the ground behind, and buzzsaw traps start snapping, Alpha turns into a spatial meat grinder. Graham’s charisma can’t save him, Celeste’s grit hits a wall, and Jennifer’s just trying to keep herself together while Michael’s calm cracks into something... else. "Stuck..." kicks off a sprawling lore asking “What is Humanity?”—not with grand answers, but with a cold, hard look at the wreckage. Is it the evil that festers, the good that fades, or the mess in between? This ain’t a fairy tale; it’s a bloody warning.

As the saying goes, "Hard times create strong men." It’s a phrase the Valorian nobles love to throw around, a shiny little motto they use to justify their oppression of the lower classes. Up there, near the sky, where the air is cleaner and the sun actually reaches, they live in their glittering towers, untouched by the rot that festers below. Down here, in the depths, it’s a different story. Rats gnaw on the corpses of those killed for a few dollars or maybe it was just a bar fight that went wrong, ending with one of the responsables with a bullet to the head. Who knows? Who cares? That’s just life at the lower levels. Brutal, ugly, and short. I’m one of the lucky ones, if you can call it that. Thanks to my aunt’s tireless efforts, I managed to claw my way into the Valorian Military Academy. Don’t let the fancy name fool you... it’s just a glorified cannon fodder factory. But hey, at least I get paid while I’m here, and that’s more than most lowlifes like me can say. Still, the question gnaws at me... Will I even live long enough to pay my aunt back for everything she’s done for me? Cadets like me are sent on patrols to "maintain order" in the lower districts, which is just a polite way of saying we’re thrown into the meat grinder. The mafias down here don’t care about uniforms or badges. They’ll kill you just for looking at them wrong. And today? Today’s my first time leading a small squad of cadets on patrol. We’ve been assigned to one of the "safest" areas in the lower districts... as if such a place even exists. The air is thick with the stench of decay, and the streets are lined with hollow-eyed faces that have seen too much and given up on hope. But that’s not even the worst part. No, the worst part is her.... This cheeto-headed girl!!

Dunia tidak lagi sama setelah kejadian yang dikenal sebagai Chrono Convergence. Apa yang dulunya hanya sebuah game virtual bernama Chrono Life, kini menjadi kenyataan yang tak dapat dijelaskan. Monster, dungeon, dan sistem level yang sebelumnya hanya ada dalam dunia digital, kini merasuki realitas. Seluruh umat manusia dihadapkan pada tantangan baru, di mana batas antara permainan dan kenyataan telah lenyap. Di tengah kekacauan ini, Demiurgos, seorang pemain biasa yang dulunya dikenal sebagai "grinder" tanpa bakat istimewa, terbangun untuk menemukan bahwa semua kekuatan, loot, dan level yang ia kumpulkan di Chrono Life kini hadir dalam tubuhnya di dunia nyata. Namun, alih-alih kegembiraan, ia merasa takut—karena ia tahu satu hal yang membedakan dunia nyata ini dari game: kematian di sini adalah akhir yang sesungguhnya. Saat seluruh dunia berjuang untuk bertahan hidup, organisasi besar seperti PBB membentuk Player Association, mengumpulkan para pemain terkuat untuk melindungi bumi dari ancaman monster dan dungeon yang terus bermunculan. Tapi Demiurgos punya rencana lain. Dia tidak ingin berada di bawah kendali siapa pun, apalagi mereka yang memanfaatkan kekuatan para pemain demi keuntungan mereka. Dengan talent tier F yang dianggap lemah, namun berbekal kerja keras dan skill spesialnya yang unik, Observe, Demiurgos memutuskan untuk bertahan hidup dengan caranya sendiri—menjaga kebebasannya dan menemukan rahasia di balik peristiwa aneh ini. Namun, di balik kegelapan, sebuah rahasia besar tersembunyi, dan setiap langkah yang ia ambil membawanya semakin dekat pada kebenaran yang mengancam tidak hanya dirinya, tetapi juga seluruh umat manusia.

In the power meat grinder that is Washington, D.C., the Blackstone Group controls political scavenger Emily Watson through barcode tattoos. When avenger Victor Stone scorches her skin with an electromagnetic pulse, a dying Emily scans the barcode on her collarbone, accidentally activating a nerve gas canister buried in an underground pipeline on Capitol Hill.Within 72 hours, a toxic fog containing genetically-targeted technology envelops Washington, specializing in killing politicians registered in the DNA bank. Victor discovers that the biochip under his burn scar is counting down, and a jailed and reborn Adam Crawford holds the key that will shut off all the gas valves-but that will permanently lock tens of billions of the Blackstone Group's dirty money into a blockchain tomb. The trio must choose from the ruins of power: destroy all evidence and be reborn, or save their arch-enemy in exchange for a filthy immortality.

Dr. Emma Taylor, a psychologist, finds herself stranded in the isolated town of Raven's Peak after a sudden power outage. As she tries to find a way out of town, she begins to experience strange and terrifying occurrences that suggest something sinister is lurking in the shadows. As Emma delves deeper into the mystery, she discovers that Raven's Peak has a dark history of supernatural events and unexplained disappearances. With each passing moment, Emma realizes that she is trapped in a desperate fight for survival against forces that defy explanation.

MC found a job as a plumber and electrician in a property management company. Today, MC was chatting with her colleague Lao Li in the property management office. She received a call from a resident who said that there was a power outage at home and asked her to go over and check the circuit. After she told him the building number and location, MC suddenly noticed the young woman who lived in that household. She had been paying attention to her for a long time. Mature, hot, wearing high heels, wearing stockings, having beautiful legs and a perky butt, these were all MC's unique impressions of that young woman. After MC hung up the phone, he told Lao Li that he was going to do the repairs, and then he took the tool kit and went to the young woman's door...

Abijah or Miss J,21, newly hired kitchen manager at Cedar Falls K12 Academy on the southside of Milwaukee Wisconsin. Abijah was fully aware of the supernatural world around her. She knew about the werewolf pack and territory that she lived and worked on. About the wizards, witches, fairies, dragons, vampires and more that existed in the world. And how the school was a mixed species tolerant facility. She respected them and stayed in her Lane that is until young Zavier Marshall, 7, future Alpha of the Cedar Falls pack, comes to her one day claiming that she is his mate! Follow the crazy adventure of self-discovery and courage as Miss J, not only has to deal with a young arrogant Alpha, but also his super jealous and possessive wolf, Tank. And an obsessive ex-boyfriend that refuses to accept the fact that she has a Mate! Warning this book contains Rape, Violence, Harsh Language and Dark Content. And human, mystical creature relations. It may cause triggers so be aware!

"Listen. I have no Ouija to talk with you, I can see you if you come out of that goddamn wall." Lovisa's dark humor and defiant spirit shine through even in the face of danger. Lovisa, a low-grade necromancer, finds her quiet night disrupted when a power outage and a mysterious knock at her door send her spiraling into a tense and eerie encounter. After witnessing her neighbor suspiciously tossing a garbage bag from his window, Lovisa's nerves are stretched thin. The real nightmare begins when a ghostly figure materializes in her room. Before she can act, she’s attacked, blacking out after a brief struggle. Waking up confined in a mafia cell, Lovisa’s only solace is the hope that her hacker friend Adriel—who's as reckless as he is loyal—will come to her rescue. Stuck in this grim situation, she discovers an unusual ally in the form of Quentin, a ghost who casually haunts the cell for fun. Despite his nonchalance, Lovisa seizes the opportunity to manipulate the spirit into helping her. In the surveillance room, hidden eyes watch her every move, intrigued by her peculiar conversation with the ghost. The scene is set for a blend of suspense, dark humor, and unexpected alliances.

A solar storm has caused a global power outage, scrapped mobile phones, disrupted networks, and disrupted transportation. All facilities that require electric power have ceased to operate, leaving the world in darkness. Human civilization has begun to struggle, and people's hearts are even more terrifying than you imagine..

System Notification: Your King of Passivity talent was activated through killing the Elit Demon Clan Warrior. You have automatically received the Critical Strike (Passive) Skill. What? I got another passive skill. I have way too many skills, I can barely see the end of my skills panel. I need to be low-key, low-key. This is the story of a game grinder who used his passive skills to destroy legends.

The Blood Moon descended and the magical world was invaded by dark and evil beasts - Werewolves, Evil Spirits, Vampires, Hellhounds, Nine-Headed Serpents… More than half of humanity perished; the rest could only hide within a few major cities in order to survive. In order to defend against the beasts which attacked frenziedly, humans began to build various tough walls and defense towers with different functions under the guidance of the “Architects”. After paying a huge price, the humans and the dark creatures entered into a stalemate. The walls and the towers had become gory monster meat grinders. In order to weaken the monsters, every human, once they came of age, would be teleported to various parts of the world to collect materials and set up bases. The humans’ bases of operation also gradually expanded. Right after he was reincarnated into this world, Thomas was teleported to the wilderness. He was not even an Architect yet. Just when he was about to be overwhelmed by the monsters, he acquired the Super Enhancement System! By collecting the cores of different monsters, Thomas could activate various cheat codes in the system. [Fire Tower has been upgraded to Serial Explosions Tower. It might is comparable to a Tomahawk Missile.] [Beginner-level Shooter Tower has been upgraded to Elf Shooter Tower. The shower of arrows will turn any monster into a pile of minced meat instantly.] [Earth Wall has been upgraded to Magical Diamond Wall. It can reflect any form of magic.] While others were still scavenging for resources and struggling to survive, Thomas kept building all sorts of tall towers and thick walls. Monsters were killed by him one after another. Henceforth, humans saw a ray of hope for the first time. Thomas would surely use his system to lead the humans in annihilating the beasts and seizing back their homes!

Youth has passed away... As a business tycoon on Wall Street, serving as the vice president of a publicly traded company, Arjun Singh's life seemed to have it all: mansions, luxury cars, stocks, and even a beautiful and charming female secretary. But despite the material abundance of Arjun's surface life, he faced daily power struggles among executives, various conspiracies and schemes that left him physically and mentally exhausted. He even discovered secrets of securities fraud and insider trading within the company, putting his life in danger. One day, an NBA Finals game reminded him of his days playing basketball in Senior Secondary School, as if he was the one making the decisive shot on the court. After watching the Milwaukee Bucks win their first NBA championship from a luxury box, he silently left. His fighting spirit reignited, he wanted to expose the mastermind behind the scenes at his company. Late at night, Arjun walked alone in a dark alley. Bang! Bang! Bang! Three gunshots rang out, and Arjun lay powerless in a pool of blood, silently closing his eyes. When he opened his eyes again. He was reborn... Back on the basketball court of his Senior Secondary School days, he awakened the All-Star player System...

Al Potter goes to Hogwarts and is sorted into Slytherin House much to the surprise and outage of his family and the wizarding community.

The tyrant of iron and blood, the bulwark of Eastern Europe, the savior of the Soviet Union, the master of Constantinople, the liberator of the Third Rome, the new tsar of the north, the nightmare of Chechnya, the meat grinder of the free world, and the leader of the red regime, General Secretary Gennady Ivanovich Yanaev.

After school Jason goes and picks up his little sisters and they all go to the library While at the library theres an earthquaking boom and power outage System message the end of the world you once knew is upon you Your only mission survive and restructure Your new abilities will be based off a character of your choice from the last 3 medias you have consumed Please choose now who you will be You have one week to get used to your abilities before the exiles descend good luck

This is a story of a man named Devaki Stonewell . He is being hunted down my a ominous entity and has to work hard if he wants to escape through a hatch or a gateway but the area around him has suffered a sever power-outage and has to regain power to escape. (This story is based off of the game Dead By Daylight) (Most credit goes to the creators of the game) (So show some support on their game)

William was playing a zombie apocalypse survival RPG on the highest difficulty, when he was about to finish the game an power outage struck in his city. William who was almost finishing the game was irritated because he didn't save his progress. Without anything to do anymore, he goes to his bed to lay down and sleep. When he woke up he was still on his bedroom. Suddenly a voice rang in his head.

Probably many were interested in the question - how do immortal beings spend their leisure time, whose strength is not limited by physical laws? How to prove to others as immortal and powerful that you are the most worthy of the most worthy? Welcome to the Royal Rumble, friends! A sort of survival casino, where the players are the honorable gods! It is also worth noting that bets are accepted exclusively in the form of planets, and sometimes even entire star systems! Each player chooses his “pawn”, which will play in a special playing field. One goal - to pump and survive! But what to do if a regular guy from Earth speaks against a strong ogre, a sly elf and a tenacious zoomorph? Without special abilities and any abilities, he is sent to the most real meat grinder, where dragons, horrible monsters and bloodthirsty Kings rule the ball. Oh, and not sweet to have GG ...

A groomsman and his last-minute guest are about to discover if a fake date can go the distance in a fun and flirty debut novel. Agreeing to go to a wedding with a guy she gets stuck with in an elevator is something Alexa Monroe wouldn't normally do. But there's something about Drew Nichols that's too hard to resist. On the eve of his ex's wedding festivities, Drew is minus a plus one. Until a power outage strands him with the perfect candidate for a fake girlfriend... After Alexa and Drew have more fun than they ever thought possible, Drew has to fly back to Los Angeles and his job as a pediatric surgeon, and Alexa heads home to Berkeley, where she's the mayor's chief of staff. Too bad they can't stop thinking about the other... They're just two high-powered professionals on a collision course toward the long distance dating disaster of the century--or closing the gap between what they think they need and what they truly want...

Shiku was just your typical day to day grinder. Working his job and then going home to play games or mess with machines, but one day *bonk* Shiku found himself waking up years into the future. Now having to endure space travel and a whole new world he realizes one thing. I dont want to be Alone.

Electronics don't have an immune system. Something isn't quite right with all the broken cellphones that people have turned in for reparation all over the country. They are stone-dead. At the same time, a row of unexplainable events starts to trigger each other in society. A manufacturing flaw in the car's microchips quickly turns the roads into car-cemeteries. The trains are affected by electrical defects, the shelves in stores are empty, the summer colds are getting worse, and the power outages become a part of everyday life. On Karlsborgs Airport, the elite soldier Gustaf Silverbane stands ready for foreign aid when something terrible goes sideways, and a firelight fills the sky. The survivalist Filip Stenvik gets to see his earlier ridiculed hobby turn into something deadly serious. In the increasing uncertainty, the police officer Peter Ragnhell drives his already unconventional methods for crime-fighting to its tip. At the same time, the programmer Anna Ljungberg makes a discovery that threatens to change the basis for all human life on earth. Or is it already too late? After another power outage, everything changes. The dark fall walks into a starlit winter, where chaos rules and few survive.

A groomsman and his last-minute guest are about to discover if a fake date can go the distance in a fun and flirty novel. Agreeing to go to a wedding with a guy she gets stuck with in an elevator is something Alexa Monroe wouldn't normally do. But there's something about Drew Nichols that's too hard to resist. On the eve of his ex's wedding festivities, Drew is minus a plus one. Until a power outage strands him with the perfect candidate for a fake girlfriend... After Alexa and Drew have more fun than they ever thought possible, Drew has to fly back to Los Angeles and his job as a pediatric surgeon, and Alexa heads home to Berkeley, where she's the mayor's chief of staff. Too bad they can't stop thinking about the other... They're just two high-powered professionals on a collision course toward the long distance dating disaster of the century--or closing the gap between what they think they need and what they truly want...

....A groomsman and his last-minute guest are about to discover if a fake date can go the distance in a fun and flirty debut novel. Agreeing to go to a wedding with a guy she gets stuck with in an elevator is something Alexa Monroe wouldn't normally do. But there's something about Drew Nichols that's too hard to resist. On the eve of his ex's wedding festivities, Drew is minus a plus one. Until a power outage strands him with the perfect candidate for a fake girlfriend... After Alexa and Drew have more fun than they ever thought possible, Drew has to fly back to Los Angeles and his job as a pediatric surgeon, and Alexa heads home to Berkeley, where she's the mayor's chief of staff. Too bad they can't stop thinking about the other... They're just two high-powered professionals on a collision course toward the long distance dating disaster of the century--or closing the gap between what they think they need and what they truly want...

Meteors fell shaking the earth and on them came hordes of never before seen creatures, some good, some evil. With the meteors came the system, the system is a menu anyone at the age of 16+ can access. It tells you your level, age, knowledge, skills and talents as well as affinity. After losing most of its population the human race was almost entirely extinct but is making a comeback with there being a total population of about 2 billion. A few normal objects became known as items they got called this because they granted some type of special attributes like a strength increase or something similar. 2 years after the meteors fell they began to bring themselves closer together in small or large groups these are called ruins. Ruins regenerate mobs to protect the items inside, after some time the items regenerate as well. People gain skills, knowledge, abilities, by training and honing their skills and practice. People that explore ruins are called grinders. Earth is a big supercontinent known as the realm. There are 7 cites one for each race (besides the mechoids) and 1 for a mixed race city. The main weapons of this world are magic, small or medium guns, hand weapons( swords, spears etc) hand to hand, and bows.

Faiq's apartment building under fire while he's playing game console of his favourite game World of Hunter. While trying to escape from the apartment, the power outage affected by the fire, resulting short circuit and blown the television and game console altogether and cause dazzling light that blinded and knocked him out. Soon he able to open his eyes, he's been awoken at the unknown forest, filled with strange and mythical creatures. Follow Faiq adventures to find his way back while adapting to his new environment to escape from deadly and vicious creature that threaten his life in the unknown world