Hunters who are born from the support of sponsors. And the twelve heroes who shine the brightest among all. They called themselves gods and erected Eden. Eden. ‘Ruled the world.’ That was the era I, Lee Joon Kyung, lived through. A normal person living in a world dominated by hunters. I lived as a livestock just like other normal people. The only thing different was but a book I owned. It was a biography of the Demon Lord, a forgotten but true hero. One of the twelve sovereigns, Athena, visited me. ‘Go to the past? An era more than 100 years ago? An era when the hunters emerged? I fell into the past. Doomsday Sky, who sponsored the Demon Lord, sponsored me. I lived a life similar to that of the Demon Lord, but... ‘It won’t be the same as the Demon Lord.’ I dream of a brighter future, even more so than what the Demon Lord dreamed. The strength I have now, is the same strength that the Demon Lord had. A hunter surpassing another hunter. To will become a player.
Chapter 8 in Naver\'s 2023 Rookie Short Story Collection (2023 루키 단편선).
In the aftermath of the war, the world\'s hierarchy had been shaken up and enforced with an iron fist. Once a high-ranking officer among the beastkin, Qing Ti ends up at very bottom—reduced to a mere plaything—and falls into the hands of her nemesis, Chen Xilan. Just when people thought Qing Ti would be tormented to the point of wishing for her own death, the game of taming and being tamed had only started to begin.
Raised to kill like a pack of loyal hounds, the Baskerville children took countless lives as a band of fearsome assassins. Despite being the shunned illegitimate son of the brood, Vikir served his family faithfully, only to meet his untimely demise at his father’s hands. But when he is inexplicably reborn with a second chance at life, Vikir, armed with the memories and knowledge of his past, swears to rise above the pack and take his revenge. This time, he\'s ready to bite the hand that feeds.
In the mysterious, RPG dungeon-like Tower, Gongja Kim lives a mundane existence, envying all the star hunters. One day, his wish for more is granted with a legendary skill to copy others’ abilities… at the cost of his life. Before he can make sense of it, he’s killed by the #1 hunter, the Flame Emperor! But this activates his skill and now he’s copied a new one, the ability to travel back in time upon death. How will Gongja use these skills to outplay the competition and rise to the top?
The Primordial Core’s an unconquerable dungeon, the lair of the most powerful monster ever to exist, the Original Monster, the incarnation of evil — Swallow... who happens to be a lazy boss monster who just wants to sleep. Taking care of this lazy bum is Renee, a homunculus maid whose obsession with Swallow knows no bounds. At this point, the only one keeping the dungeon running is Patrick, the last brain cell of the bunch — and he’s a skeleton! Will Mr. Swallow get any rest amid all this chaos?
A series of stories between a girl with black hair and a girl with white hair
You three kids, I’ll teach you. Recently, there have been several changes in my life. The first is that I became the governess of Lord Bertha’s siblings, and the second is that I remembered my past life. Why did I recall my past life now? Could this be inside the novel I read in my past life? If I remember correctly, I, “Estella,” the governess, will soon die. All to protect the half-siblings from that immoral man, “Diego”! “You seem like a more capable person than I thought.” “You’d better look for a job at another estate because you’ll go crazy if you stay here.” But “Diego,” the man who I thought was a heartless psychopath, turns out to be surprisingly kind…? Alright, I’m going to organize a dramatic reconciliation between Diego and his half-siblings!! How could you possibly kill these adorable kids when they’re hugging you?!
The story of a high school girl, Han Go Woon, who has turned into a zombie, looking for posthuman, a test subject that transcends humans in order to live as a human.
The question remains: Why should rapists and murderers be locked up in prison? Just as my wife suffered, shouldn’t they feel the same pain?\" Former soldier turned assassin, Kim Taepil, brutally kills thugs responsible for raping women, transforming from a heroic figure to a ruthless killer overnight. Taepil, overwhelmed by helplessness, is visited by Representative Shin Jin-su, who offers him an unexpected proposal: ‘Become the punisher yourself.’\" With the justice system corrupted, a group of ten government-sanctioned avengers seek to establish a new order by exacting vengeance outside the law.
Specialized in excessive suppression, police officer Shin Hae-soo gains the ability to go back 60 minutes in time. On the day his father passed away, he instinctively knew. This was a murder disguised as a suicide. Determined to catch his father\'s killer, Hae-soo becomes a detective. Then, one day, following a mysterious accident, he suddenly gains a supernatural ability! As he solves criminal cases and tracks down the organization, a massive shadow begins to emerge bit by bit!
On the day he was rejected by the company he had devoted his life to, He went back to the moment of his first day at work. Kim Cheol-su, a low-spec rookie employee who joined Han-young, a leading domestic company. Can he finally achieve his long-desired position as the ‘CEO’ in this lifetime?