RE: Monarch - Chapter 63: Enclave XXXIII

In an era when knowledge was banned, the physician Lyle had to be extremely cautious even in academic research, an invitation from the Andrei Academy materialized before his eyes.The Andrei Academy of Cassandale?Lyle peered closely at the tombstone before him, hissing,“Ah, the scholars here really know how to pick a spot.”

“If the world cannot contain me then I shall contain the world.”____After living half of his teenage life with constant fear, always on the run and being treated like an outcast because he was slightly different from other kids. Uche has a strange healing ability that made him immune to any injury and because of this, Uche had learned to endure the cruelty of humanity, living today to survive tomorrow.Until he met a group of vampires who claimed that he's one of them, curious to find out the truth, Uche ventured into the vampire world only to be met with a different kind of cruelty. He was outcast again, tortured and broken into pieces, all because he was different from the vampires too.He was another monster from them.Still clinging to finding out the truth about him and paying those people that hurt him back, Uche would venture into the underworld.Would he be able to find out the truth about him? would he survive in the underworld full of all kinds of monsters that defies the logic of life? More importantly, would Uche be able to pay back the people that hurt him or would he focus on a different goal entirely?Curious to find out? Add to your library and follow Uche on his journey of conquest.

MATURE THEMES: Slavery …TW elementsAfter her family is brutally murdered in front of her by the Vampire King, Zyren Blackthorn, for being hunters, Aria is left broken and devastated, desperate for death.Her world is shattered when Zyren, instead of killing her, claims her as his pet, dragging her away from her village into the heart of the central city. As a human slave, she is forced to endure his sadistic desires. Every night, he reminds her of her helplessness, but beneath his cruelty lies an obsession that burns with intensity.Despite her hatred and longing for revenge, Aria’s body betrays her, and she finds herself caught between a dark desire and her desperate need for revenge.Excerpt:Aria’s breath hitched as Zyren’s fingers traced the line of her jaw, his touch colder than ice, yet searing her skin with the promise of more. She should resist, should fight back, but her body betrayed her—shivering, craving the pleasure she knew he could give.“You thought I’d kill you,” Zyren murmured, his voice a dark purr. “But instead, you’ll belong to me. Every part of you will be mine.”Her lips parted to speak, but the words caught in her throat. The memory of her family’s blood staining her hands made her stomach churn as she glared hatefully at him.“Tell me,” he growled, his hands moving lower, pressing against the softness of her skin, “do you still wish to die?”She clenched her fists, tears threatening to spill, but her body trembled under his touch.“I wish for nothing but to be free of you,” she spat, but even as the words left her lips, she felt the hunger in her—a hunger she hated but couldn’t deny as she stared into his red eyes.A need to PRESENT herself to him and have him mount her…body and soul.

On that day, the fog blocked everything.

On that day, he became the captain of a ghost ship.

On that day, he stepped through the thick fog and confronted a completely subverted and fragmented world—the old order had vanished, strange phenomonoms dominated the endless seas beyond civilized society, and isolated island city-states and fleets of ships challenged the sea that had become the last ember of lights for the civilized world. All of this while the shadows of the old days were still stirring in the deep sea, waiting to to devour this world that was about to die.

But for the new captain of the ghost ship Vanished, there was only one question he had to consider first— Who knows how to drive this ship?!