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Abysmal
With his best friend's life in the hands of the most ruthless merman in the seven seas, King Marius the Conqueror, Kai is running out of time. To stand a chance at saving him, Kai must master the catastrophic power he inherited—but controlling it may cost him his own soul.
Kai's hatred for Marius is all-consuming, but so too are the dangerous, conflicting emotions that churn beneath the surface. For beneath the animosity, something darker stirs—something that threatens to unravel everything he believes about himself and the merman he once swore to destroy.
Guided by the elusive Spirit of the Sea, Kai plunges into forbidden magic, desperate to turn the tides of war. When the moment of reckoning comes, he traps Marius in a deadly spell, believing he has finally turned the tables on his nemesis. But he soon learns that Marius's power runs deeper than he ever imagined—and that the Spirit of the Sea may not be the ally he thought.
As the ocean is consumed by the spreading Dark Zones, a void devouring everything in its path, Kai faces an impossible choice: abandon his thirst for vengeance to save the world he swore to protect, or let his hatred consume him. With new enemies rising and Marius revealing a past more fractured than Kai could have imagined, the line between enemy and ally begins to blur.
With treachery closing in on all sides, one question remains: Can the ocean's most feared tyrant become the ally Kai needs to survive?
Abyssal
The day that Kai learns that he's half-human, half-merman and that he's the key to ending a 100-year-old war, is also the day that the entire ocean learns of his existence. For years his family kept him hidden from the world, but now the strongest, most dangerous merman in all the seven seas knows about Kai, and he's coming to the surface for him.
To ensure victory, King Marius the Conqueror must capture the half-breed prince of Astria, his nation's greatest enemy, and claim him as his Mate in order to absorb his power before he learns to use it. There's only one problem: there's nothing Marius hates more than humans, not even an Astrian, and Kai is both those things. But when Marius sees the beautiful Kai and clashes swords with him, the cold-blooded king's blood begins to boil for the very first time.
When a dark, handsome, sword-wielding stranger attacks Kai in his home, instead of running, Kai fights even though he knows he's no match. Defeated, Kai is kidnapped to a world he never knew existed and is held prisoner against his will. Thrust into a secret, dangerous aquatic world, Kai must learn to navigate swimming with a tail instead of legs and avoid a powerful, possessive king's advances if he wants to save his newly-discovered mer-people from annihilation.
Sweet Silence
Sage is a villain. Not by choice. It just sort of turned out that way, but hey, he's not complaining. Being bad is pretty cool, actually. And while by most people's standards his superpower is pretty lame - muting sound, of all things - he's found it pretty useful when robbing the rich.
Most heroes ignore him. Except one. Lich, the necromancer. Sage didn't know how talking to the dead was considered heroic, but whatever. That's not the problem. The problem is that Lich apparently has a homing beacon locked on Sage specifically, and he keeps getting in Sage's way, despite most heroes not bothering to deal with the small-time villain committing petty theft.
It was annoying, but fine. Sage wasn't all that active in the villainy community anymore anyway. He had just turned thirty, and quite frankly, he was done with this shit. But still, he wanted to go out with a bang, so he planned his final heist: robbing the most powerful man in the city, the governor.
Except, when Sage broke into the governor's house all he found was the governor - dead as a doornail. What's worse is that for the first time in Sage's life, he was no longer invisible. He was found standing over the body, murder weapon in hand.
Now, the entire city of Fairview wants Sage dead, and the only person on earth who can clear his name is his very own necromancer nemesis. For how much they fight, Lich is surprisingly on board with helping Sage...
And so, the two embark on a quest to discover the real killer and clear Sage's name, but the trail leads them to discover some of Fairview's most well-kept and dangerous secrets...
The Cage
Julian's dream is to become one of the most successful criminal lawyers around, so when a client asks him to venture to The Prison From Hell located on a remote island for an assignment, he jumps at the chance in hopes of a promotion. He's well-aware of the prison's infamous reputation, corrupt laws and peculiar hierarchy, so he already expects to find the baddest of the bad and the foulest of the foul within its concrete walls. Instead, he finds and catches the eye of the most beautiful man he's ever laid eyes on.
When Schneider Cross, the new King of the Prison, offers him a one-in-a-lifetime chance to represent him as his attorney, Julian accepts, but just before he leaves, a riot breaks out and the prison descends into chaos. Julian is unwittingly caught in its midst and is made to defend himself from a group of rapists, forcing him to kill in self-defense.
Angered, the inmates conspire to pin a bogus murder charge on Julian and have him thrown into The Prison from Hell with the intention to finish what they started. Dangerously unprepared and still reeling from the injustice, Julian must now seek the protection of the strongest man in all the prison if he is to survive. Only to ensure the King's protection, Julian must agree to become his 'bitch' and 'serve' him in an entirely different way than the first job entailed.
But how can Julian possibly agree to such a thing when he suspects Schneider of conspiring with the other inmates to get him locked up?
The Matchmaker and the Villain were bound by fate
Dwayne saved a cat. He did it out of love, not knowing that the cat is the thousand-year-old god of love. The god was touched by his actions and granted him the power to see the fated strings. He also gave Dwayne a mission to rekindle love in the hearts of humans. In other words, he has to play as a matchmaker!
Dwayne vehemently refused! But the god of love promised to fulfill his wish. And he was tempted. For his comatose mother, Dwayne agreed to do the missions.
Until one day…
[Ding! A new mission was issued to the host!]
Dwayne: What is it?
[Mission: Your fated partner has arrived. Please become lovers with him.]
Dwayne: My partner? Wait, who? Let me see! Is she a beauty? ... Huh? ‘Him’? What do you mean, ‘him’?
[Your fated partner is a male.]
Dwayne: llkhrwfbhsfdyw!!!!
[This will be your last mission. When completed, the god of love will fulfill your wish.]
Dwayne: …… Who is he?
[Partner information: Raven McGrden, the CEO of Vermillion Garden Corporation. The co-founder of Scarlet Garden, a famous underground syndicate. The illegitimate son of one of the famous richest families in the world who paved his way to success by plotting the deaths of all his family members in gruesome ways.]
Dwayne: …. Can I request a fated partner change?