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Marcus Cole has always felt like something about him doesn’t belong. When terrifying dreams, strange visions, and a mysterious girl begin pulling him toward a past he can’t remember, Marcus discovers that his lost memories are tied to an ancient war between humans and demons. As reality begins to unravel, Marcus must uncover who he really is before the darkness hunting him finds him first. Because the life he’s living was never truly his. And the boy he used to be is running out of time.

“Daily posts. The Endless Psalms express all things in the universe with brief words. These short worlds accumulate, creating the cosmos and the Omniverse.”

Dark fantasy

he winter he turned twelve, the city stopped noticing him at all. No coat. No name anyone bothered to learn. He lay down in the snow behind a shuttered record shop and decided the cold could keep him. He had only ever wanted one thing. To make a sound that would make a stranger stop walking. Something stopped. A voice woke up behind his ribs, and it brought with it every song from a world that is not this one. Music this Earth will not dream up for fifty years. It told him a secret it swore was true, that he was born with the rarest gift a person can carry, and that the world would fight him for every inch of believing it. It is 1970. He is twelve years old, with nothing but a borrowed catalog of the future and a talent no one can see yet. The cold took everything from him once. He is going to make the whole world listen.

For ten years, Gwen Harlow suppressed her forbidden Witch-Wolf magic to be the perfect Luna for Lucien Blackfang. Her reward? A silver dagger to the heart, twisted by the very man she lived for—all to make room for her treacherous sister, Sienna. But death was not the end. Granted a second chance by the Moon Goddess, Gwen wakes up ten years in the past, on the day of her joining ceremony. This time, she won't kneel to the man who killed her. Instead, she walks past a stunned Lucien and chooses Kaelen, the ‘Cursed Alpha’ feared by the entire world. Lucien thought he was discarding a burden, never realizing that Gwen’s secret magic was the only thing keeping him alive. Now, as Lucien begins to rot without his silent protector, Gwen rises as a sovereign of shadows, ready to burn his empire to the ground. "Once, I died for you. Now, I live for your ruin."

She spent years hiding her power just to chase one dream: becoming a scientist. It didn't work. Yurelin "Liyn" Yurei is forced into Syntara Academy — an elite school for Veyra users — with a level so low she doesn't even belong there. Everyone around her is extraordinary. She is not. Or so she believes. What she doesn't expect is him. Leith Orien. Twenty years old. War hero. Her new homeroom teacher. A man who looked at her like he already knew every secret she had ever tried to bury — including the ones she keeps carved into her own skin. He shouldn't care about a struggling transfer student. She shouldn't notice the way he looks at the stars. But old secrets don't stay buried, and neither do the dead. The power Liyn has been running from her entire life is finally waking up — and so is everything she lost the night her world first ended. She was never meant to just be a scientist. She was meant to survive what's coming for her.

A modern corporate drone dies in 2024 and reincarnates as an 8-year-old boy in 1983 USSR. Using his business knowledge from his past life and his new identity's military family connections, he systematically builds a vertically-integrated empire spanning oil production, banking, and infrastructure to become one of Russia's most powerful oligarchs—surviving the Soviet collapse, the chaotic 1990s, Putin's oligarch purges, and international sanctions through strategic submission and infrastructure control. NOW on Royalroad NOW on P@treon too. support me to give you the best chapters

Spider-Man in DC is a Spider-Man tragedy that burns through the common expectations to expose DC's demented dark side. Jake is a protagonist pitted against the best and worst in DC from the second he steps into this world. He goes from moments of humanness with Catwoman to absolute terror as he gets tortured in the hands of Harley Quinn and Gotham. He might survive a brutal battle against Batman, only for the universe to send the cosmic bounty hunter, Lobo -- The Main Man himself -- on his tail. Some things are not meant to be survived, and Jake finds out the hard way. However, nothing is impossible. Even in the absoluteness of Death, Jake survives and adapts. He doesn't rise above his trauma. He metabolizes it, and uses it against the very world that wants to destroy him. A/N: Nothing good happens in this story. The first volume is a villain origin story, and the origin is that the world made him useful. Be advised: Gore (MC gets tortured in Arc 2), body horror, chemical compulsion played as horror not fetish. Your favourite characters will get hurt. Volume Structure: Volume 1: Death appears (Death happens): #1 - #85 Volume 2: Despair appears (The world loses Hope). #86 - Present Volume 3: Destruction comes in (The World Ends) Volume 4: Desire takes control (Peace was always a lie) Volume 5: Delirium (the world unmade itself) Volume 6: Dream (the game was always rigged). Volume 7: Destiny (In the end, this was always the path). Volume 8: The End (The Hour is Nigh). Disclaimer! I own nothing in DC, Marvel, or the Sandman Universe.

On a storm-soaked night, seventeen-year-old Haruto Shikigami loses everything. His parents are slaughtered before his eyes by a devil born from humanity's fears. Yet when death stands before him, Haruto feels something strange—not fear, not anger, not grief. Nothing. That night changes when he becomes the vessel of the legendary Crimson Devil, a calamity responsible for one of history's bloodiest tragedies. Branded a threat to humanity and hunted by powerful factions, Haruto is taken to the Tokyo Institution of Exorcists, where humans form dangerous covenants with devils to fight back against the darkness. Surrounded by prodigies, monsters, and broken souls, Haruto struggles to control the power sleeping inside him. Alongside his teammates—Shimi Horimiya, a girl haunted by a tragic past and the scars of the Blast Devil, and Yamado Kahanru, an arrogant genius who trusts no one—he is thrust into a world of deadly missions, political conspiracies, and ancient secrets. Guiding them is Adryn, an unpredictable exorcist who possesses multiple devil covenants and hides far more than he reveals. As forgotten massacres resurface, powerful organizations move in the shadows, and the truth behind the Crimson Devil begins to emerge, Haruto discovers a terrifying reality: The greatest devils are not always born from fear. Sometimes they are born from humanity itself. In a world where every covenant demands a price, friendships are tested, families are torn apart, and survival often means sacrificing a part of yourself. The question is not whether Haruto can save the world. It's whether he can save himself before the Crimson Devil consumes him completely.

Hailey Matinus is the sole survivor of a brutal betrayal that wiped out her real family and handed their empire to the man who destroyed them. Raised in the shadows of loss but fueled by quiet rage, she reinvents herself, building power, wealth, and a new identity. Years later, she steps back into the world that was stolen from her calculated, unrecognizable, and ready. But as she infiltrates the Brooks family through a dangerous marriage of convenience, Hailey finds herself caught between revenge and unexpected emotions, especially when the very man she needs to use begins to see through her walls. In a game of power, secrets, and love, Hailey must decide what matters more: reclaiming her legacy or risking her heart.

This book is also known as Douluo: My Parents Died Because of Tang Hao at the Start In the era of Douluo Continent 3: The Legend of the Dragon King, after the Heaven-Reaching Douluo Yun Ming burned his life to leave the last spark for Shrek Academy, his soul was swallowed by a spatial rift and returned to the era of the Sea God Tang San twenty thousand years ago, becoming the grandson of Yang Wudi, the clan leader of the Breaking Clan. A brand new story unfolds from here. What kind of sparks will fly when Yun Ming, the sole Lord of the End of Shrek Academy, meets Tang San, the Lord of the First Generation's Revival? Two people with completely opposite personalities and dispositions!!! PS: This novel has no system, is anti-Shrek, relatively not dark, and involves ascending to godhood.

In a world where faith itself turned against him, Keita is left pondering on ways to define his existence. Raised on stories of justice and courage, he believed the world would answer the righteous in kind. But the world answered with cruelty instead. Branded a monster and rejected by society, Keita learns that heroes aren't chosen by virtue, but only by convenience. In a medieval world governed by Ryu, the fundamental force of the universe that binds cause and effect, power manifests through Spiritual and Physical Cores within living things. Knights, mages, different races, and beats all draw strength from this system. However, Keita is born with something that should not exist, a Causality Core. Wounds that should kill him do not end him. Cause and effect fails to conclude when it reaches him. Every time he survives, reality fractures, and unresolved consequences are cast into a hidden realm called the Black Archive. Constructs created by gods, drift the cosmos with their role as editors, removing any anomalies within the system. Cast into a role Keita never chose, he stands at the edge of truth the universe tries to erase.

In a world ruled by war and ruin, where the strongest armies clash for absolute dominion, Victoria Ave Strassfey—heir to the mightiest kingdom of her era—loses everything in a single night. Cast into a foreign world governed by magic, where gods, beasts, various races and unknown creatures roam freely, the fallen princess rises with one unbreakable resolve: vengeance. To return home, she must obtain the gift of mana in a land where nothing is given, but everything must be taken. The path ahead is riddled with trials, mysteries, and dangers far beyond imagination.

Remesis, the youngest daughter of the Grand Duke, never knew her family's love. At eight years old, she was cast out to the North like a useless thing and forced to become the wife of a woman the entire empire feared — the deposed crown princess, the Mad Mistress of the North. But Remesis did not break. She decided to turn her cage into a weapon. She struck a deal with the one everyone called obsessed: "You will help me destroy my family. I will help you reclaim your throne. And afterward, we will divorce. No strings attached. No feelings." A simple plan. Cruel. Perfect. But Remesis forgot one important detail. Her wife was not merely mad. She was far more dangerous. "Am I to understand that you intend to cast me aside after using me?" At some point, revenge ceased to be her only goal. And now Remesis must come to understand: what if the most dangerous game of all is playing with her own heart?

What do we all seek after a long day? Some may say wealth, others comfort… perhaps the embrace of a lover or the warmth of laughter among friends. Yet when everything is stripped away, there is one thing every living being longs for: Rest. To lie upon a soft bed, wrap ourselves in warmth, close our eyes, and surrender to the tranquility of sleep, hoping for blissful dreams to carry us away from the cruelty of reality. But what if sleep was the crueler reality? What if every time your eyes closed, you were dragged into another world? A world not of wonder, but of nightmares. A place where monsters hunt you endlessly and even rest itself becomes impossible. At first, it may sound like fantasy. Another world? An adventure? The dream of every reader. But think deeper. If you spend the day surviving one harsh world, only to spend the night surviving another… then when do you truly rest? When do you heal? When do you live? Such is the fate of Prince Idel . A frail, exhausted royal who wanders the Dream Realm every night for eternity. In one world, he is misunderstood. In the other, he is hated. to get more info about the world, power systems and the like, hit my Tic tok https://vm.tiktok.com/ZS92ku3TGugtN-2aGQj/

#BoyLove #DanMei #Painful #Tragic #Mature #SliceOfLife #DarkFantasy Genre: Danmei, Boylove, Palace Intrigue, Male Courtesan, Angst, Hurt Author: HuaLuoShenYang Synopsis Is there truly a parent in this world cold-hearted enough to abandon their own flesh and blood? The answer is a resounding yes. Shi Yan Si was neither an exception nor the only one, but he stood as a testament to those whose childhood scars lingered like a lifelong shadow, drifting like a ghost on the fringes of humanity. Abandoned since birth, he was like a fledgling bird crawling through a desolate forest before its wings could even sprout. His only choice: to plunge into the abyss or to struggle for survival, waiting for his wings to grow so he could teach himself to fly. Tragically, those wings grew twisted and frail. Driven by a desperate hunger for affection, he lost himself in the labyrinth of desire. His obsessive love for his sworn brother led them both down a path of betrayal and sin, culminating in the ultimate agony—his eyes were gouged out by the very man he adored. With his own hands, he cast himself straight into a hell of carnal suffering. From the moment of his first breath to the flickering remains of his last, cold neglect and brutal torment followed him like a curse. Only when his spirit was a mere wisp of smoke did he finally stumble upon a fragment of peace called eternity. Love had become a distant, fading mirage—no longer a dream, no longer a hope. Au'Note: Should you discover any grammatical mistakes in any chapter of the story, I would be grateful if you could assist me in making the corrections. Many thanks.

Eternal Winter, the first prince of the Winter Kingdom who was supposed to inherit the throne, was trapped in a time rift while fleeing and became an adventurer. Eventually, his only younger sibling, Ichigo Winter, who was still very young, had to take his place. Ichigo Winter is a child who lacks emotions due to certain circumstances; he cannot even hold another person's hand because of a curse. At first, this was not a problem... until a war council attacked and slaughtered the Winter Kingdom on the orders of Enterprise Florest, the Council of Life, and attempted to kidnap Ichigo alive. Ichigo was the only one to escape the council's hunt by a miracle. This is the story of Ichigo gathering the pieces of himself and his allies to restore his race and kingdom.

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Tired of reading crap-y translated chinese novels or fanfiction where it's the author's power fantasy. Where the main character(s) is as bland as the English's national dishes. Then try this out. I can't promise you'll like it, but it's not that. Is this a reincarnation Mc? Yes! Will there be a Harem? No! Will every woman and girl want to sleep with the main character? No! Is the Main Chacter a sigma jade Chad that kills everyone that looks at him wrong? No! Will there be romance and even smex? That will come later because the main Chacter(s) are 12 at the start. You weirdo! Please read the author's note; don't skip over it. Yes, there's not one main character but 4. And yes, one of them is one of those elusive mystical known as females. Described only in legends.

In a city built on light, monsters don’t hide in the dark — they wear suits. Darian Veynar is New Aether’s golden hero. Cameras love him. The public worships him. His sponsors call him “proof of hope.” But heroes are built on sacrifices. When an old friend dies holding back a nightmare beneath the city, Darian survives — and the world calls it courage. Now he’s trapped inside a machine of propaganda, corporate warfare, bloodline politics. The story keeps changing. And Darian is starting to realize— He may not be the hero. He may be the lie.