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Reborn in the Apocalypse With a Monthly Concept System

After dying in his original world, Fraze reincarnates in a parallel world split into three continents. Expecting magic, quests, and everything he knows from his favorite webnovels, he quickly realizes the truth: this world is completely ordinary. No mana. No monsters. Just another version of Earth. Until the day the Apocalypse begins. A mysterious surge of world-breaking energy floods the planet, mutating every form of life. Animals evolve at terrifying speed, turning into apex predators overnight. Plants become hostile. And humans… Some adapt. Some awaken abilities. But many fail. Those whose bodies can’t withstand the mutation twist into grotesque, mindless abominations known as Deviants—ravenous creatures whose instincts are overwritten by the runaway mutation inside them. Amid this chaos, something awakens inside Fraze. [Concept Archive System – Activated] Every month, he receives a new Concept—Solidity, Weight, Light, Decay, Gravity, Death—and can archive these concepts onto people, objects, even locations… and decide who they actually affect. At first his usage is restricted: only simple objects, or himself. But as his system levels up, his domain expands—until even the concepts themselves can be rewritten. A power with no cost. No distance limit. No resistance. And in a world collapsing under mutation and madness, Fraze’s strange, unpredictable, almost carefree personality makes him the most dangerous and sought-after existence across all three continents. Because while everyone else struggles to survive… Fraze can simply open his Library, pick a Concept… …and overwrite reality.
_Still_R · 1.3k Views

Scholar's Mate

“In an age where knowledge cuts deeper than knives, Victoria is about to learn far more than is safe for any soul to bear.” Victoria and Robert were torn from the gentle dullness of their ordinary century and cast into a realm governed by proto-concepts—those ancient, unblinking truths from which life, death, and divinity themselves are carved. Proclaimed “Heroes” by a world too desperate to question its own choices, they were commanded to rise in strength, confront a Demon Lord, and deliver salvation to a land that had never been theirs. Robert donned the mantle with the fervour of a man stepping into destiny. Victoria… hesitated. And in that hesitation, something old—older than scripture, older than light—turned its gaze toward her. She felt its attention like a draft through a locked room. In a moment poised between terror and terrible understanding, she accepted its offer: a contract sealed in silence, a year of her life exchanged for a thing that should never have been permitted to exist. Not in this world. Not in any. She did not yet grasp that, in straying from the Hero’s ordained path, she had not merely shifted her fate— she had begun to unwrite the very scaffolding of her humanity. Now Victoria walks like a phantom through a world that has marched on without her— one year behind the celebrated Hero, yet burdened with an insight so sharp it threatens to cut her free from mortality itself. She can now trespass upon knowledge forbidden to scholars, sorcerers, or even those who stand at the pinnacle of human mastery. She commits the kind of acts whispered only of beings who have stepped beyond the human threshold… and never returned. And in a world built on primordial, immovable truths, one truth endures: Knowledge is power. But power, when mishandled, becomes a curse that devours its bearer— quietly, inevitably, like rot beneath embroidered silk.
NovaLumin · 75.1k Views

SSS Regression: I Claimed the Tutorial as My Territory

The world doesn't end with fire. It ends with a notification. Nate didn't get a heroic ending. He died seven years after the first Gate opened, crushed under a world that turned people into numbers and "useful" into disposable. Then he woke up back on Day One, in an office hallway, with the first Gate tearing open down the hall. This time, he knows the truth. The Tutorial isn't random. It never was. It rewards ownership, not survival. So Nate does the one thing nobody thinks to do in the first hour of the apocalypse. He claims it. A rooftop. A door. A patch of territory the System recognizes as his. The moment he becomes a Tutorial Owner, the building changes. It offers him Authority to enforce rules, and Debt to punish mistakes. Doors can be sealed. Contracts can bind. Lies can be audited. Violence can be taxed. Every choice becomes law, and every law has a price. And the second he takes that power, the real enemies show up. Not the monsters spilling out of Gates. The people who can see the panels too. A smiling man with a fire axe. A terrified coworker who becomes a target. A stranger on the roof whose fear turns into a mouth for something else. The Supervisor that watches for mistakes and punishes "noncompliance." The Collector that slips through cracks and offers "shortcuts" in exchange for memories. In this world, your best weapon isn't a sword. It's a clause. If Nate wants to survive this time, he can't just run from danger. He has to build control out of a living building that wants obedience, and a hungry disorder that wants loopholes. He has to keep his people together when the System tries to separate them. He has to beat deceptive traps designed to turn him into debt. He has to survive sterile zones where mistakes don't bleed, they get locked up, and deals that offer power at the cost of who you are. Because once you claim territory, you don't get to be normal again. You become a signal. And somewhere above the city, something is watching the new Owner who dared to say: "This Tutorial is mine."
NerdSmithy · 3.7k Views