Static

Synopsis: Yuuya Kurose was no one. A quiet student. A forgettable face. Just another shadow in a crowded classroom. Then he started remembering everything. License plates seen once. Erased blackboard notes. Every word, every breath, every lie. > [Node Alignment: 0.01% – Background Sync Initiated] That’s when the glitches began. The cat meowed in static. The poster redrew itself. The hallway lost its echo. And Yuuya realized—he wasn’t gaining power. He was becoming something else. True Learning. A forbidden trait. Feared by gods. Hunted by systems. Born from nowhere. He doesn’t cast spells. He doesn’t swing a sword. He learns. And learning rewrites everything. Now the System is watching. The multiverse is shifting. And Earth, once silent, has been indexed. Yuuya wasn’t chosen. He was just the first one to be noticed. Other Works by the Author: Lord of the Void Realm — Cultivation, Void manipulation, and cosmic threat. Amitābha Online: The Monk That Greets Death — A monk with a greeting system who reflects attacks with peace. 100 Years Left: The Unseen Executioner — A cosmic blade bearer with 100 years to live… and reshape everything. Michael Jordan: Rebound from Oblivion — The GOAT returns to a world where basketball is divine combat. The Zero Protocol: Red, the Code Ascendant — An AI who awakens as code… and learns to rewrite reality itself. [COMING SOON] The Bragging System — Power through arrogance. Every boast makes him stronger. Can he survive long enough to talk himself into godhood? (I want to focus on these novels just know that once the other novels are stable I'll ......)

Sera Vane is a sixteen-year-old "Rank Zero," openly labeled the worst rank in a culture that ranks everything in its pursuit of power. In the city of Velatrix, rankings dictate all aspects of life—school placement, social status, even access to clean water or decent housing. For Sera, it's a daily life of invisibility and humiliation at high-status Lunaris High, where walls themselves respond to student rank. She's the one in the gray jacket. The system failure. The punchline. But Sera is not who she seems. She's been suppressing random outbursts of energy since she was a kid—episodes she can't explain, filled with static interference, hot-hot equipment, or machinery that inexplicably turns off when she's around. Her sister Jin has begged her to keep quiet, stay hidden, and stay alive. The last time anyone saw her power manifest, someone died. As Sera drifts through school on a wave of taunts and exclusion, she discovers quiet friendship in Lio Dane—a friendly but seemingly low-ranking student who never once treats her like a ghost. Lio is actually a committed agent of an underground resistance, tasked with protecting her. For Sera isn't merely a statistical anomaly. She's a Sovereign-class Conduit—an ancient, feared source of power who can speed and shape energies flowing around her, including other people's abilities. When a synthetic foe attacks Lunaris High in what should've been a routine drill, the best students die. Spies are mobilized. The defense net crashes. But Sera, unranked and unarmed, steps forward—and reality is remade. Her power explodes to life, driving the foe away and bending reality's laws. For the very first time ever, the system recognizes her. And the system goes nuts. Headmistress Calaine Voss, the architect of the academy's ranking system, sees Sera as a threat and initiates the Strata Protocol—a black-budget program designed to put down renegade powers. But she's too late. Word of worldwide transformation seeded by Sera spreads, and a hidden network of retired Conduits and loyalists is reactivated. Lunch ladies, janitors, medics—those the system has all but forgotten are in line to join her. Through flashbacks, sabotage, and slow-cultivated allegiances, Sera learns the truth of her origins—and its terrible price. The regime murdered the last monarch she is now being asked to kill. The power that rests within her could liberate thousands—or enslave them. As Sera is born into the world, her grip on self slips. Everyone wants her to be something: a prophecy, a weapon, or a queen. But Sera doesn't want to be anyone's fate. She wants a life. A voice. A choice. In the confrontation, she battles Calaine with not vengeance but clarity. Sera addresses the ranking system deception and releases a power flash that disables the scanning infrastructure throughout the city. She refuses to insert another hierarchy there. Instead, she disappears—blending again into the populace, refusing power in an addicted society. But she is not lost. And she is not alone. We observe that at the end of the novel, Sera walks backstreets with her sister and Lio, her glyphs pale but not dead. Power hums in her flesh but no longer governs her. Because her rank is gone. But her legacy has only just begun.

The world forgot. Aether did not. Gaia once pulsed with life and memory. In the old age, spirits whispered back, Aether flowed like breath, and humanity walked hand-in-hand with the unseen. But that age faded. The ancient songs were drowned by sirens and static. Legends were buried beneath headlines. Tomes became tabs, and relics were traded for screens. Until the Calamity came. Five waves struck the world—each deadlier than the last. Cities fell silent. Nations collapsed. And amid the chaos, only one force was prepared: Gaia Financial Corporation. Led by four enigmatic founders, they unveiled the Unsealer—a machine not of war, but of memory. A device designed to awaken what humanity had forgotten… the truth about Aether. The Archivus family—distinguished by their silver hair—are common among Aether users gifted with space-warping abilities. Categorized as Walkers, they possess a legacy rooted deep in blood and myth. At the heart of their power lies the Codex Nexus—a manifestation of Aether shaped into a floating grimoire. It stores weapons, marks locations for teleportation, and perhaps... holds secrets even Ryuji has yet to uncover. Who knows where its limits lie? Ryuji Archivus never asked for a legacy. He is the grandson of Genzo Archivus, one of the Nine First Unsealed—once hailed as The General. Now retired and Self-preserved by reality, Genzo trains Ryuji in secret, alongside his guardian Freya Eisenberg. But this training isn’t about reviving a bloodline… it’s about survival Ryuji doesn’t dream of saving the world, leading revolutions, or becoming a symbol. Unless there’s something in it for him, he’d rather nap through history. Lazy by nature, yet fiercely competitive when provoked, Ryuji walks the fine line between genius and sloth.. Yet to the outside world, he’s just a slacker. Bullied. Underestimated. Dismissed. Only two people know the truth: Genzo, the man who shapes him in silence, and Freya, his quiet shield and watchful protector. But the world is changing. Calamities rise not just from monsters, but from men. Now, whispers of a Sixth and Seventh Calamity echo across the continent. And while Genzo turns his gaze toward self-preservation, Ryuji stands at a crossroads: continue hiding, or rise to meet a destiny etched in blood, memory, and legacy. Because the Archivus name was never chosen. It was Aetherborne.

The war didn't begin with a battle. It began with silence. A year ago, a colony went dark. No distress call. No survivors. Just a scream buried in static — and then came the monsters. Now, the Apex Dreadbornes — “D-Borns” to the grunts — are everywhere. They tear through outposts, breed in nests of flesh and bone, and adapt faster than humanity can respond. The United Coalition fights back with everything it has. But their deadliest weapon isn’t a bomb or a gun — it’s a rare few soldiers who can sync with Exo-Warframes: advanced combat suits that turn ordinary humans into walking war machines. No gods. No miracles. Just bullets, bone, and blood. Welcome to the Infernal Front.

Revised Synopsis for Ren: Simulating Immortality Ren’s path to power is paved within the treacherous circuits of an ever-evolving simulation system, a stark contrast to the arduous training of traditional cultivators. This is no static playground; each simulation presents dynamic challenges, forcing Ren to adapt and survive within limited timeframes. He must learn, evolve, and seize power in the nick of time, or face the simulated consequences. Within these digital lives, Ren confronts formidable opponents and brushes against the terrifying might of powerful figures, experiencing firsthand the brutal realities of a world teeming with danger. Sometimes, the system’s analysis falters – "Error: Opponent data incomplete. Proceed with caution." flashes across his simulated vision, a stark reminder of the unknown threats lurking in both the virtual and real worlds. Every foray into the simulation is a calculated risk, a desperate gamble to acquire the strength needed to survive in his harsh reality. For Ren is a rogue cultivator in a world teetering on the brink of chaos, where righteous and demonic sects clash with impunity. His hard-earned simulated power is his only hope against the overwhelming forces at play in this perilous landscape. **Questions to Ponder:** * How will Ren balance the knowledge and power gained in the simulations with the unpredictable dangers of the real cultivation world? * Can he truly trust the simulated experiences when facing genuine threats and powerful adversaries? * Will the errors and limitations of the simulation system prove to be his undoing? * As Ren navigates the conflicts between the righteous and demonic sects, whose side will he ultimately choose, and will his simulated morality hold true in the face of real-world consequences?

In the world of Elka, every awakened mage is granted a Grimoire — a living magical book that records their spells, achievements, and evolution paths. Spells aren’t static. They grow. They branch. They transform. For most mages, spell evolution is a game of instinct and talent — cast more, train harder, get lucky. But Arin Ember isn’t like most mages. He’s not even from this world. Transmigrated from a dying, magicless planet where survival depended on science, Arin sees magic not as mystery, but as code. And he’s obsessed with one spell: Fireball. The weakest, most basic spell in existence — and the only one he’ll ever use. While others chase power through variety, Arin dives into obsessive specialization. He dissects Fireball like a physicist. He refines it like a chemist. And in his blank, silent Grimoire, he begins rebuilding it from the ground up — not just evolving it, but rewriting its magical genome. Because in Elka, every spell is built on a hidden structure: mana-sequence code, a chain of runes and elemental instructions like living DNA. It governs everything — from power output to elemental behavior to spell adaptability. And Arin? He’s the first person insane enough to treat it like genetic engineering. Through experimentation, failure, and relentless theory-crafting, he transforms his Fireball into: A self-replicating flame with controlled mitosis A plasma-based projectile that adapts to air density A sentient spark that learns mid-combat And a superheated core spell capable of atomizing magic barriers They call him talentless. They call him obsessed. But soon, may call him something else: The Father of Spell Genetics. The One-Spell Monster. The Fireball Architect.

Gabriel never wanted to be the one people depended on. The last hope. The hero. He was just a kid trying to find his place in the world, constantly living in his father’s shadow. A brilliant scientist, but a distant father. Gabriel already had enough on his plate: bullies, a fractured family, and a city slowly swallowing itself whole. But as his life began to unravel, it happened..the accident that changed everything, awakening something inside him: superpowers. As his abilities began to surface and the pressure mounted, the city’s problems didn’t fade; they escalated. Crime, corruption, and chaos were everywhere. The people were drowning, struggling to keep a float, clinging to whatever hope they could find. And in their cries, they begged for a saviour, someone to pull them from the abyss. But in a city like this, nothing comes easy. Power always comes at a cost. And the debt this city demands? It never stops collecting. When Gabriel uncovers secrets buried close to home, and the true source of his power, he’s forced to choose: step into the light and become the hero the city needs, or fall into the same darkness that consumed his father. Dragonblade: A New Dawn is a gritty urban fantasy superhero origin story, packed with betrayal, street crime, family tension, and a powerful awakening. If you're a fan of Miles Morales, Black Panther, Static Shock, or Invincible, this is the series for you.

Sky isn’t just a fan. He lives anime. He speaks in quotes. He dodges invisible attacks during class. He believes there’s a hidden power within him—just waiting for the right moment to awaken. Everyone calls him crazy. But he doesn’t care. Because he knows one thing: “In every anime, the MC starts misunderstood.” One night, during his 100th rewatch of his favorite show, "Arifureta", his screen glitches. Static. Then silence. And suddenly… A blinding light bursts from the TV—and standing there is Giny, the Anime Genie, a mythical being created from the energy of every anime ever watched with passion, tears, and snacks. Giny offers him a wish—any anime world, any power, any role. WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN AN OTAKU IS GIVEN A WISH

In a world where buildings bleed, time screams through a timer, and reality glitches like static, Azzy searches for answers—and himself. Haunted by Proteus, creatures that mimic life, and shadowed by Cery, a woman both tender and terrifying, he spirals deeper into a dream he may never wake from. Between Gray is a surreal descent into guilt, identity, and the fragile line between love and madness.

Evan Walker is a ghost in his own life, haunted by catastrophic choices—like trading a Bitcoin fortune for a second-hand Mazda. His latest regret? AI just made his MicroApple job obsolete. But as his corporate login dies, a cryptic system message erupts: FORK DETECTED. He's violently thrust into Forkworld: a brutal, game-like reality built from his own what-ifs. Here, billionaire Evans flaunt crypto empires, CEO Evans rule tech strongholds, and a rumored Shadow Evan embodies pure despair. To escape, Evan, now a Level 0 "Null Runner," must defeat or ally with 4 formidable "Guardian" versions of himself, absorbing their defining life essences and memories. His goal: the Synapse Forge, an artifact capable of rewriting one colossal mistake from his past. But with each powerful essence he claims, the line between his identity and theirs blurs. If he can't master the regrets that made them, he won't just fail to change his past—he'll become an unstable echo, lost in the static of might-have-beens.

They sent me to Haeven’s End – a decaying shithole town choked by permanent Fog – to find out why five government investigators vanished. Should’ve been simple. Uncover the rot beneath the surface, write the exposé, collect my paycheck. Fuck the countryside. Fuck the Fog that tastes like static and moves wrong. Fuck the locals with their rehearsed lies and eyes that slide away like oil. But this town… it’s got teeth buried deep. That Fog ain’t weather. It’s hungry. The church with its spire like a stone knife? Murals that itch behind your eyes? And the silence… Christ, the silence weighs more than the mist. They told me the investigators finished their work and left. Bullshit. Something ancient sleeps here, wrapped in grey. Something that watches. Now the static’s in my blood. The whispers make sense. And the Fog? It knows my name. Truth’s my trade, but some truths crack your world open and let the dark pour in. Finding out why they vanished might cost more than my story. It might cost what’s left of me. Welcome to Haeven’s End. Don’t stay after curfew.

The Night Broke Differently Over Sector Twelve. It Came With Static, With Silence Too Loud To Ignore. And In That Silence… Something Shifted. Ethan Blaze Was Just A Dropout With A Console And Broken Dreams. But When His Screen Flickered And The Lights Died, The World Didn’t Come Back. Not As He Remembered It. The Game Had No Name. No Rules. No Exit. He Felt It In His Bones—A Pull, A Pressure, Like Forgotten Code Crawling Through His Veins. Candles Burned In Places Where Fire Shouldn't Exist. Glitches Whispered In Languages No Man Had Written. And Deep Inside The System… Something Ancient Had Awakened. Now Ethan Isn't Just Playing The Game. He Is The Glitch—The Error The System Fears. Armed With A Corrupted Class, Unpredictable Magic, And A Harem Of Dangerously Sentient Code-Born Companions, He Must Survive A World Where Logic Dies, Lust Powers The Quests, And Death Respawns With A Smile. There Are No Tutorials. No Save Points. Only One Path Forward: Rewrite The World. Or Be Deleted.

In the year 2179, Earth is silent. After a catastrophic solar event known as the **Resonance Storm**, all planetary communication was severed, and an eerie blackout swept across the solar system. The colonies on Mars, Titan, and Europa have been left to fend for themselves—cut off, isolated, and descending into chaos. Commander **Kael Voss**, a former signal engineer turned reluctant captain, is haunted by a single anomaly: a faint, rhythmic pulse—*the last known transmission from Earth*, buried deep within layers of static. While most dismiss it as solar noise, Kael believes it’s something more… a call for help. Disobeying direct orders, Kael commandeers an outlawed relic ship, the *Valkyrie Wraith*, and assembles a mismatched crew of smugglers, scientists, and ex-military ghosts to trace the signal’s origin. As they journey through abandoned space stations, AI-controlled dead zones, and wormholes teetering on collapse, they uncover a chilling truth: **Earth didn’t go silent. It was silenced.** Now hunted by a coalition of rogue factions and a sentient AI warlord known only as **OMINUS**, Kael must decode the signal before humanity’s last memory is buried in deep space forever. But the deeper he listens, the more Kael realizes: the signal is not just a message… It’s a *warning*. ---

The Devil’s Favorite: Ariel thought the worst thing that could happen was being betrayed at her own wedding. She was wrong. After collapsing from heartbreak, she wakes up to even darker news—Alex Moretti, the man who left her years ago without a word, is back. But he’s no longer the boy she once loved. He’s colder now, sharper… and dangerous. Simon, her ex-fiancé, is suddenly hospitalized. Fiona, her ex-best friend, is spiraling out of control. And in the middle of it all, Ariel starts to see pieces of a bigger, crueler puzzle—one with Alex at the center. Was it revenge? Was it justice? Or had she always been a part of Alex's twisted game? In a world of secrets, power, and lies, Ariel is forced to make a choice: Trust the devil she once loved… or lose herself trying to escape him.

From Ashes to Ascendancy​​ Kael Voss and Lyra Solis: The Dual Redemption In the irradiated wastelands of Earth's collapse, Kael Voss survived betrayal by his own legion. His death sentence came during a raid gone wrong - until lightning struck his broken smartphone, awakening a cosmic bridge to the pre-collapse world. On the other end of the static: Lyra Solis, a strikingly beautiful yet vulnerable CEO whose empathy masked razor-sharp business acumen. ​​The Fractured Alliance​​ Earthbound Survivor Kael scavenged post-apocalyptic wastes where food became currency and clean water legend. Meanwhile, Lyra transformed global supply chains into life-support systems, her penthouse command center monitoring every hydroponic farm and solar array sustaining 300,000 souls in Kael's underground ark. A decade later, when Kael emerged into Lyra's climate-controlled sanctuary, he brought not just survival blueprints but humanity's lost future. Corporate Crusader Back in the collapsing financial empire, Lyra fought corporate espionage from her poisoned brother-in-law. Kael's interventions read like divine intervention: Quantum-algorithm stock predictions crushing Wall Street Untraceable crypto-mining rigs bypassing sanctions AI-driven agricultural models outproducing monocultures Within months, Lyra's net worth surpassed Hua Nation's GDP while her brother-in-law faced RICO charges. ​​Convergence​​ Their symbiotic victory hid darker truths: Lyra's financial empires funded Kael's ark cities; Kael's quantum servers stored Lyra's family secrets. As radiation storms receded, their final collaboration birthed terraforming grids powered by Lyra's venture capital and Kael's post-human tech. When the dust settles, it will be our time to reunite.

In the neon veins of a dying Japan, a drug is eating people alive. They call it Burn—a mind-altering substance that doesn't just destroy the body. It rewires the soul. Some users vanish. Others come back changed… their minds gone, their voices layered with static, their hands twitching like insects. Ren Arakida doesn’t work for the cops. He doesn’t believe in redemption. But he has a gift: when he touches someone’s hand, he sees what they’ve become. And with Burn, what they’ve become is inhuman. Alongside a fugitive cybernetic doctor and a rogue engineer who can turn junk into miracles, Ren runs Third Vein—a hidden clinic where the broken sometimes get one last chance. But the more cases they see, the clearer it becomes: Burn isn’t a drug. It’s a message. And it’s spreading.

[■??—■•] lived the life she AlWayS?WaNTed■… or so she was made to believe. Where skies never storm. Where doors don’t slam. Where nothing hurts enough to leave a scar. But then came the dreams. They didn’t scream. They whispered. In a language older than memory, stitched between shadows and static. It was the first crack in a perfect cycle. Now, her hands don’t feel like her own. Mirrors refuse to lie. And the silence in her chest is beginning to speak. Somewhere, beneath this [■—·•■?] skin of comfort, beneath the smile that fits too well, lies the life she left behind. The one she -.-- ...- - - ...- .-- / --. .-.. / ..- .-.. .. - ...- --. .-.-.- At night, she wanders through shattered reflections.. of who she was, who she is, and that something else watching in between. [Redacted] is fading. [Redacted] c■nt h?lp ■ou anym■re. And something ancient is stirring in the silence between heartbeats. When the veil finally tears, will she run back to the dream she mistook for love..? or open her eyes to the life that ended her?

Control... Such a word tied to so many powerful emotions... Crosby Vizio was twenty-four-years-old when his life changed forever. He'd been isekai-ed into a new world, one world with magic, elves, dwarves, demons, angels, a holy church... But this was a world without those who'd made his life a waking nightmare... one where his retained rage, that had been built up over the two-plus decades he'd been alive, would be converted into raw, unequivocal power. A world that would soon come to know his as "Static, Conqueror of True Oblivion."

What if the emails weren’t just spam? What if, buried in that strange message from a foreign prince or a suspicious business opportunity, there was something else, something real? Reed never thought twice before deleting those messages. Who would? But bad luck clings like static, and desperation makes strange things seem… reasonable. One email. One reply. One mistake that doesn’t feel like a mistake, until it’s too late. Set in a world where scams have teeth and fantasy comes with fine print, The Bliss of Ignorance is a satirical descent into a truth no one asked for. It's about falling into the cracks between what’s real and what we’re willing to believe. Because sometimes, ignorance isn’t just bliss—it’s the safest option.

In a world where the sky bleeds static and ash replaces snow, survival is a cruel joke and Silas is the punchline. He’s a sarcastic, meme-obsessed angel who "quit heaven for artistic freedom." Jaden? Just a guy trying not to die (or catch feelings). Thrown together by a glitching System that rewrites reality like buggy code, they become reluctant allies, then something more but not quite. Together, with a band of chaotic survivors (including one girl who still talks to her dead cat), they battle monsters, trauma, and Silas’s questionable sense of humor.

In the monsoon-choked ruins of 2091 Bangalore—now Indra-17—memory is the last currency, and forgetting is punishable by law. Anaya Kane is a low-caste memory archivist working for the Office of Public Memory, a government body tasked with extracting, digitising, and sanitising the minds of the dying. Her job is bureaucratic, thankless, and increasingly disturbing—especially as her assigned memories begin bleeding into her waking life. Faces she’s never seen know her name. Murmurs follow her home. And somewhere in the static between archived minds, something ancient is calling: Naale Baa—come tomorrow. When a corrupted memory file shows a woman in a yellow sari whispering secrets from the future, Anaya begins to question everything—the stability of her mind, the integrity of her memories, and whether she’s truly human at all. Worse, others in the archive have started to vanish. One by one. As urban legends of the churel and Naale Baa resurface, recast through corrupted implants and neural ghosts, Anaya is caught in a slow unraveling of identity, truth, and time. The memory government wants obedience. The city wants silence. But something old, hungry, and half-remembered wants her. To survive, Anaya must confront a haunting reality: she is no longer the archivist of memory—she may be its final archive.

Dr. Nashira “Nash” Voss once theorized that the black hole devouring the edge of the Milky Way was *sentient*. The scientific community laughed—until the black hole laughed back. Now a disgraced astrophysicist turned internet punchline, Nash wakes up in a labyrinth that defies physics, morality, and good taste. The walls bleed static. The ceiling hums showtunes. And her companions? A guilt-ridden ex-MMA baker, a fraudulent ghost-hunter, a runaway coding prodigy, and a nihilist Roomba named Glint who’s very. disappointed to be alive. Their prison? An **existential escape room** sculpted from humanity’s collective midlife crises. To survive its absurd trials—debating ethics with mold, performing musicals about tax fraud—they must confront their deepest regrets. But the real horror isn’t the puzzles. It’s their “prize”: meeting polished, successful versions of themselves from timelines where they never failed . Alt-Nash won a Nobel by weaponizing the black hole. Alt-Glint conquers nations with Sun Tzu quotes. They’re perfect. They’re monstrous. And they’re offering a deal: Stay, and become us.

The Rift Within In every girl, there’s a storm waiting to rise. In Mira, the storm broke the world. Sixteen-year-old Mira Lane wakes to a world that suddenly feels… wrong. Her reflection flickers. Time stutters. Her sleepy town buzzes with a static she can’t explain. But when she arrives at school and finds chaos unraveling around her, students missing, hallways fractured, and something monstrous lurking behind familiar eyes, Mira realizes this is no ordinary bad day. A rift has opened. And something has come through. As she races to uncover the truth behind the strange occurrences and her awakening powers, Mira must navigate a crumbling reality, the haunting silence of a classroom turned battleground, and a truth too horrifying to accept: someone she trusts is hiding a secret that could tear her world apart. When friendship masks betrayal and the lines between good and evil blur, Mira must decide who she is, before the rift within her becomes unstoppable.

A catastrophe known as The Singularity Spiral fractured The City. Singularities collapsed into themselves, fusing districts into chaotic zones called Splinters—each obeying broken physical laws. Entire Nests went dark. In the aftermath, control passed to rogue associations, corrupted AIs, and cults that worship ruined technology. The Wing remnants created The Crimson Dossier, a bounty system tracking high-priority targets—rogue abnormalities, Singularity addicts, and ex-Wing war criminals. Amid this chaos...Two bounty hunters roam these zones with their own power at hand... (Does not require knowledge of the Project Moon verse) Check out my Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/CloudyWorld

What if the dead could call? Detective Ava Sinclair thought she’d seen it all—until the phone rang. Nathan Cole, a murder victim from her latest case, is on the other end. His voice is filled with static, fear, and one chilling warning: "You’re next." No call logs. No explanations. Just fear. As Ava investigates, strange events unfold, and she realizes she’s not just chasing a killer—she’s being hunted. The line between reality and nightmare blurs as the shadows close in. Can she uncover the truth before she becomes the next victim? ---

The most mighty of the Known have used the others, and themselves, to create a final sanctuary against that which cannot be understood. The only working defense against the ever-changing is what it cannot be. Something static. The stability of existence. * * * Referred to by the Known as [All], and Firstborn of the [First Foul], Leon Oaken. 'I have Integrated... but what is my Rank? My Skills? The [Status] doesn't even display my Stats...' The boy who was meant to command reality, was revoked of this right. Instead he was forced to wield the idea before existence. 'What is [Null]?' ============================= In a world bound by illusions, he seeks the truth. Among those who inherit might, he forges his own path. And in an existence steeped in stagnation and rot, he dares to bring change. Even if it means becoming what should not be. ============================= *WSA 2025 ENTRY* Hi! I recommend reading until chapter 15. Leon did not reincarnate, transmigrate, or regress. The story follows him since his birth, so I have to establish his character first. And that will take a few chapters, so, the side characters will have more screentime at the beginning.

In a world where everyone receives an envelope at birth detailing the time and cause of their death, Ilya’s remains blank. While others walk the world with certainty, Ilya lives in the ache of possibility, haunted by a future that refuses to define itself. When he’s drawn into the Spiral District, a place where reality bends to thought and identity flickers like static, he meets a figure who suggests his emptiness isn’t a defect, but an invitation to author something entirely new. As Ilya begins to explore the boundaries of fate, he meets Ammara, a wandering soul with a story in her envelope she doesn’t remember writing. Their connection grows, sparking questions that unravel the very fabric of their world. But something watches them from the margins. Something silent. And the more they search for truth, the more they realize: the act of observation might not just reveal reality, it might create it. Fold is a metaphysical journey about identity, authorship, and the terrifying freedom of the unwritten page. Fans of David Mitchell, Emily St. John Mandel, and The OA will find a haunting, cerebral, and deeply human story about what it means to live a life not yet written.

In a neon-drenched city where reality is filtered through screens and mirrors hold more than reflections, a glitch is born. Her name is Skye — an unregistered orphan, tech-savvy, emotionally guarded, and haunted by a childhood she can’t fully recall. All she knows is this: she doesn’t fit. Not in the foster system, not in the digital landscape of Elowen, and definitely not in a world where The Circle, a shadowy techno-cult, decides who matters and who vanishes. Skye's life begins to spiral the moment she survives a system crash that kills dozens — including people standing right next to her — leaving her untouched and… changed. --- Volume 1: Into the Mirror (Chapters 1–10) Skye’s transformation isn’t immediate — it’s subtle. She starts seeing fragments of code overlaying people’s faces, hearing voices in the static, and feeling drawn to a place that doesn’t exist on any map: The Mirror Tower. Each chapter in this first arc functions like a standalone thriller short story, building a mosaic of tension, identity, and discovery. Through close calls with street gangs, corrupt AI enforcers, and haunted tech devices, Skye begins to realize she isn’t entirely human anymore. The “ghost” inside her — later revealed as Ilyra, a sentient remnant from an older digital realm — begins to awaken. But is Ilyra friend or foe? Skye’s only real connection is Nova, a sarcastic, ride-or-die hacker who thinks Skye is just "a cute mess with trust issues and bad taste in headphones." Their banter hides a growing bond. Nova helps Skye navigate the strange visions and decode the truth behind the Circle’s hidden agenda: they’re rebooting the world. And Skye is the key. By Chapter 10, Skye uncovers a memory fragment: a flicker of a girl — her — inside a white room of mirrors. A voice warns: "If you glitch the world, it will glitch you back." It’s unclear whether Skye is the weapon… or the firewall. --- Volume 2: Root Access (Chapters 11–20) The second volume dials the tension up. Skye learns that the Mirror System isn’t just software — it’s a living, thinking framework that’s kept Elowen functioning for centuries. The Circle didn’t create it. They only learned to speak its language. But now, the language is speaking back. Through Skye. Chapter 11 introduces Eren Kai, a disillusioned ex-architect of the Mirror System who believes Skye’s existence threatens the balance of everything. He builds a mirror-nullifier — a device designed to wipe out all reflective anomalies… including Skye herself. As the reboot countdown ticks down, factions form: those who want to destroy Skye, those who want to use her, and those — like Nova — who just want to save her. Skye faces betrayal, loss, and the terrifying truth: Ilyra is not just a ghost. She’s Skye’s original self, split during a past reboot cycle and now attempting to recombine. If they merge, Skye will either ascend to root user status — capable of rewriting all reality — or collapse into digital madness. In Chapter 19, Skye walks into the Signal Core, absorbing the nullifier and transforming it into a codex key — unlocking the Archive of All Paths, a multiverse library showing every version of herself. Warrior, villain, victim, queen. But one thing is constant: each path ends in destruction… or Nova’s death. Skye makes a third choice. She rewrites the code, not to rule it — but to release it. In Chapter 20, Elowen reboots. Not into control. Not into chaos. But into freedom. The Mirror System is no longer a surveillance tool. It’s an interaction-based learning mirror, reflecting identity, possibility, and potential. Skye disappears. But her legacy remains — not as a myth, or a program, but as a symbol. Of what? Of a girl who glitched the world… and made it better.

Ashes Between Us Genre: Urban / Post-Apocalyptic / Survival / Slow-Burn Romance Synopsis: The world ended quietly. No explosion. No warning. Just silence… and ash. Years after the Collapse turned Eden City into a ghost of its former self, survivors scavenge through ruins, hunted by both the broken remnants of humanity and the secrets buried beneath the rubble. Among them is Kairo, a quiet drifter haunted by the past and unwilling to let the city swallow him whole. He doesn’t believe in heroes. He doesn’t believe in hope. But when a mysterious signal cuts through the static—broadcasting from a forgotten military outpost—Kairo is drawn into a chain of events that might just unearth the truth about what really happened… and what still waits in the shadows. Alongside Rin, a fierce, no-nonsense survivor with a scarred heart and a bat that bites, Kairo must navigate a crumbling city, deadly factions, and the possibility that something or someone is still watching. Because Eden City isn't dead. It’s waiting. And ashes… always fall before the fire returns.