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Jake Frost: Destroyer of the apocalypse

When betrayal costs him everything, including his life, Jake Carlson gets an impossible second chance. In a frozen apocalypse where humanity huddles in underground shelters and frost beasts prowl the surface, Jake has always been the family scapegoat, the adopted son who risks his life for supplies while his stepmother Angela, stepbrother Markus, and ex-girlfriend Hailey take everything and give nothing. When a frost beast attack forces survivors into a sealed shelter, Jake is left outside to die, betrayed by the very people he sacrificed for. As monsters tear him apart, Jake's final thought is a desperate wish: "If only I could go back." Then he wakes up. It's April 4, 2024 three months before the apocalypse begins. Jake remembers everything: the brutal cold, the frost beasts, the betrayals, and most painfully, the death of his childhood friend Jules two weeks into the disaster. Armed with knowledge of what's coming and a mysterious icy power awakening in his chest, Jake has one goal: survive, thrive, and infiltrate the organizations that hold the key to understanding and possibly preventing the apocalypse. His childhood friend Jules works for Nexus Corp, one of the mysterious "Four" companies building high-security shelters across the country. But Jake suspects they know more than they're letting on. To save Jules and uncover the truth, he must get inside Nexus Corp before it's too late. What Jake doesn't know is that deep beneath the earth, a shadowy council controls four ancient sources of power connected to the coming disaster an event they call "The Rupture." These sources are destabilizing, and the council is racing to complete "Phase One" before everything collapses. But something has shifted in the balance. An anomaly. An energy disturbance that occurred exactly when Jake returned to the past. As Jake fights to reclaim his father's stolen hotel empire, outmaneuver his treacherous family, and infiltrate Nexus Corp, powerful forces are beginning to notice him. The council monitors their sources obsessively, and any disruption could expose their carefully laid plans or doom the world before Jake can save anyone. Jake knows when the world will end. What he doesn't know is that his second chance may have already set forces in motion that no one can control.
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The War That Should Have Ended

This world has ended—yet it was never given the chance to mourn. From the ruins of the old civilization, a new and brutal order was born: magic and machines were forged into weapons, cities rose atop shattered foundations, and history was rewritten by the victors. In Galmasca, slavery was legalized in the name of reconstruction—and slaves were turned into soldiers, thrown onto battlefields so the “free” world would not have to spill its own blood. A man—one slave with no future—is forcibly drafted into Galmasca’s military. He does not fight for glory or hope. He fights because if he doesn’t, he’ll die sooner. But on the battlefield, he loses something that should never have been the price of the world’s stability. From that moment on, war stops being about survival—and becomes about revenge. His search for answers drags him deeper into the state’s war machine: operations buried from official records, cities sacrificed in the name of “necessity,” and lies repeated endlessly so the world won’t collapse under the weight of its own past. Each step toward the one responsible for his loss only tears open a greater wound—that the world’s destruction was not an accident, but the result of deliberate choices, inherited across generations. Caught between the urge to retaliate, the need to stay alive, and a system that requires his blood to keep standing, the former slave learns a truth no one ever taught him: this world does not endure because of justice, but because of lies repeated until they become reality. And if he chooses to demand the truth, he may have to become the enemy of the very world he wants to destroy— or save—on his own terms.
Arthur_Pendragone · 9.6k Views