Age of Adepts - Chapter 37

Winner of the 2017 Joara Novel of The Year Contest-

In a world plagued by Morgellons, a deadly disease that turns humans into non-human creatures, people have chosen to abandon their humanity in order to fight against the bloodthirsty corpses. In the end, there will be no humans left on Earth.

But that harsh world is, in fact, a world fabricated merely for entertainment. A world for humans to live in exists neither inside nor outside.

This is the story of a boy who, while living a miserable life, stares at the stars as he desperately tries to keep his humanity.

Died watching his beloved club crumble. Reborn with the ultimate cheat code. Can he rewrite their destiny without breaking the game?Amani Hamadi breathed football analysis. His final, bitter moments in the future were spent witnessing Bristol Rovers plunge towards relegation, his heart breaking with theirs.Death, however, wasn't the end. He awakens in 2010 – younger, back at Rovers as a youth coach, and utterly bewildered.But confusion turns to stunned disbelief when a mysterious interface flickers across his vision: the Football Manager System.Player stats, tactical projections, future potentials – it's the legendary video game brought to terrifying, exhilarating life.Armed with encyclopedic knowledge of the future and this analytical tool, Amani has a second shot at his managerial dreams.Yet, reality bites hard. Trapped as a lowly assistant, his revolutionary insights are ignored. He's forced to watch helplessly as history repeats itself: relegation, financial ruin, and a club drowning in despair.When catastrophe finally opens the manager's door, Amani steps in – only to face scorn as the “25-year-old novice.”Now, the real test begins. Can Amani leverage his impossible System to:- Unearth hidden gems the football world has discarded?- Implement tactics so advanced they border on madness?- Lift a broken club from the depths of League Two obscurity?- Navigate the dangerous ethics of knowing tomorrow's headlines today?Every decision ripples through time. Every bargain signing is a gamble. Every tactical masterstroke invites ridicule before it breeds awe.And as Bristol Rovers defy expectations, Amani must balance his quest for glory with the weight of his knowledge, choosing which miracles to preserve and which destinies to alter.From the ashes of relegation, a legend is forged. But will the System be his salvation, or will the beautiful game exact a price for his second chance?Follow Amani's journey as he battles skepticism, financial ruin, and his own conscience, aiming not just for promotion, but for glory that echoes through history – one resurrected career and impossible victory at a time.

BLURB> He was reborn by mistake. Raised with purpose. Loved by a god. Worshipped by monsters. And the galaxy doesn’t stand a fucking chance.Irvine’s soul took one wrong turn through the wheel of karma and woke up in a body grown by an intergalactic hivemind goddess with boundary issues and galaxy-sized ambition. Now he’s the golden child of a psychic swarm that feeds on control and burns whole worlds for affection.With Crystal at the helm, warriors like Kimchi, relic-weapons like Kiya, and a council of psionic horrors eager to call him king, Irvine must choose what kind of god he wants to be.Because when a hivemind learns to love......it doesn’t know when to stop.The universe will kneel—or get devoured trying.SYNOPSISIrvine didn’t ask to be reincarnated, but the cosmos had other plans. And it didn’t hand him a cheat code or a clean slate—just one random boon, selected by an uncaring divine roulette wheel.Good karma? Bad karma? Balanced as all fuck.Now he's reborn in the body of a psionically tuned alien hybrid, raised from psychic infancy by Crystal, the hivemind queen of a race so advanced they’ve abandoned individuality for shared omniscience. All except her baby boy.Irvine is the singularity inside the swarm, the first soul allowed to think, dream, and desire independently. Trained by warriors like Kimchi, advised by bio-symbiotes like Kiya, loved ferociously by hive sisters like Diane, and shadowed by powers ancient and unnamed, Irvine is both weapon and wielder, saint and sacrifice.But empires don’t run on hugs and handjobs. As Crystal expands her dominion—across star systems and sentient nebulae—Irvine must lead the charge through blood, fire, and psionic flame.His soul is still human. His body? Engineered for extinction. His heart? Not entirely his anymore.

Kaius just wanted to unlock his class - instead, he restarted the apocalypse. After years of training, Kaius has barely acquired the first two of his family’s legacy skills. Powerful and vanishingly rare, the method of creating them is a secret people would kill for. Now they might be the only thing that keeps him alive. Narrowly surviving a bandit ambush, he gets trapped in the Great Depths- a world spanning dungeon. To escape, he will have to slay one of the Guardians that defend the exits; a feat no one without a class has survived. Ever. If that wasn’t bad enough, if he succeeds he will reignite a forgotten trial that nearly ended civilization. -Runic-Tattoo Wizard/Spellblade in a world of sorcerers -Exceptional MC, with some initial Slow Burn elements -Large scope, inspired by epics such as Azarinth Healer, BTDEM, PH, and more. -Third Person POV, with a 99% MC focus -Numbers go brrrr -Attack Badger (Friendly?) -Battle maniac MC who is not a murderhobo -No harem, romance, or VR