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Universal Ascension (Earth vs Everyone)

When genius meets godhood, survival demands more than strength—it demands strategy. Feng Wuji never wanted recognition. The world knew him as a bestselling non-fiction author, but his true masterpiece remained hidden—a revolutionary work on psychology and strategy that shaped the decisions of world leaders, military commanders, and CEOs across the globe. Anonymity was his shield. Obscurity, his choice. Then the sky tore open. A higher-dimensional being descended upon Earth with an ultimatum wrapped in promise: compete in a universal tournament where 100 representatives from each planet battle for survival. Win, and humanity ascends to a higher plane of existence. Lose, and Earth—along with its eight billion souls—will be erased from reality. But something is wrong. Not everyone is meant to survive. The being that descended from the heavens called it a "trial." But trials test worthiness. Games have winners and losers. And elimination tournaments... only crown one victor. With allies who might betray him, enemies who might need him, and a truth too dangerous to reveal, Feng Wuji must master the deadliest game of all: Winning a tournament where the rules are lies, the prizes are uncertain, and discovering the truth makes you the next target. In a competition spanning galaxies, where alien civilizations bring powers beyond human comprehension, Earth's only weapon is the one thing that has always defined humanity: The ability to think, adapt, and refuse to surrender—even when the gods themselves declare the game is rigged. Earth wasn't invited to play. Earth was invited to be played. Can one strategist see through the deception before humanity's time runs out?
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Conquering the Stars with the Undead

“You shall command… Legacy.” Charon thought he would grow up to be a hero, a savior, a shining light for all humans across the galaxy. But humanity is at war. Beset on all sides, their empire is standing only through the combined forces of technology and magic. Massive mechs were constructed, the fabled Colossus Machines, designed to defend the galaxy. The Mages were rallied, bringing forth elemental destruction. Yet it wasn't enough. Planets fell, their people enslaved to the enemies of mankind. Even the Colossus Machines, strong as they were, could not keep up. Charon was one of the orphans caught in the war effort, surviving through determination and courage, earning him the gaze of the God of Death. Gifted with a great and terrible power, the reviled element Soul, the dead around him suddenly become gateways into a realm thought lost to time. Through it, he can chain undead beasts to himself, forcing them to serve in his legions. He is sent into the River Acheron, the realm of the strongest undead, and is made to fight for his release. During this time, he attempts to uncover secret histories and advance his powers to master the undead. With these powers, he learns something new about magic and technology: He can fuse souls into the Colossus Machines, allowing the power of Death to run through their cores. They become warped, twisted machines of vengeance that earn malevolent abilities. They become strong enough to win a war. Magic and machine are mixed to create something more, something darker. An army fit for a master of magic, a general of legions, a conqueror of the stars... An Archon of Death. **WARNING** The story has a lot of nuance and subplots. If you like complex world-building and lore, you'll love this. He gets his power around chapter 5 or 6, and it then develops from there. DISCORD: https://discord.gg/BJ3DTumc29
Trim_2cool · 105.8k Views

Breath Unearthed

Khalen Rasheen’s exile ends where it was always meant to: beneath a prison colony, in a collapsing chamber, staring up at something that should not exist. A skull made of crystal. A violet pulse. A voice like a blade, sharp and amused. It calls itself the part of humanity that refused to die quietly, and it offers him a bargain. In exchange for what he can do with fire, it will teach him how to survive a world built on Breath, a force that moves through people and stone like current through wire. It powers wards, engines, and cities, and it tempts everyone to draw a little more, to test what happens when limits bend. But Khalen’s world isn’t merely broken. It’s curated. Ancient anchor paths scar the land where a civilization once stood, and the ruins are missing, not ruined, as if someone lifted them out of history. Delvers call it discovery. Archivists call it proof. The Core calls it bait. Because the artifacts are real, and some were designed to make you more than human. He’s not hunting relics for glory, he’s hunting them because he’s learned that being human is not enough to keep anyone alive. Khalen can run, bleed, and try to stay human. Or he can reach for the relics, and become the kind of answer the Core understands. ** Style note: This story leans cinematic: close scenes, strong sensory detail, and worldbuilding revealed through motion and consequence rather than long exposition. Dialogue stays tight, especially in tense moments. If you like mysteries that tighten over chapters, watch the small physical details and offhand lines, they tend to pay off. This story was ten years in the making. I’ll try to make every moment earn its place. History, Religion, Archeology in a fun epic. ------- Heads up, This story uses longer chapters than is typical for web fiction (generally 3k–5k words). Scenes are structured to play out cinematically rather than in short serial beats. If you enjoy immersive chapters with complete arcs, you’re in the right place.
Archiviststylus · 3.5k Views

Ruinous Love

**WARNING** CONTAINS SCENES OF EXTREME PHYSICAL VIOLENCE AND SEVERE DISTRESSING PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA● In the shadowed stillness of the room, she stood transfixed amidst the onslaught of memories of a father now gone. Her tears fell not with a cry, but traced a path down her cheeks in a heavy, stifled silence. As his tall shadow loomed upon the threshold, a faint tremor of dread and uncertainty coursed through her. He stepped inside, moving forward slowly, until he stood close before her. For a fleeting moment, her gazed locked with his—those wild eyes said to carry the scent of blood and the weight of a dark, haunted past. But behind that predatory gaze, another truth was beginning to reveal itself. His fingers, trembling with uncertain restraint, reached towards her face; a touch so delicate it seemed impossible that these hands had ever closed around the cold hilt of a sword. He gazed into the girl's light brown eyes but, he was not looking at her; instead, deep within her eyes, he was searching for someone else. Then with his gentle hands, brushed the tears from her cheeks. With a fevered longing, he pulled her against his chest, as if he were chaining her to his very soul; he then buried his face in her hair. With every breath, he drank in the scent of her. The girl, eyes wet and body rooted in place by fear, yet burning like a furnace from sheer embarrassment, heard the rapid thrumming of his heart against her ear—a beat whose rhythm, like the tender words of a mother, offered solace to a broken heart. Her fear dissolved in the face of the man’s pure and evident grief. She lifted her shaking hands, clutched at his clothes, and in that heavy silence, allowed herself to rest in the chill of the embrace of that dangerous man.
Pouria_Zarrinpar · 2.5k Views