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In 1832, in the remote village of Nougrihi near the ancient ruins of Mahishnati, the Yoro clan lives under the iron grip of centuries-old traditions. Superstition is law: rigid caste divisions, omens that dictate every decision, whispers of black magic, and ritual human sacrifices offered in secret groves to “appease the earth” and prevent famine. Fear is the true currency—fear of the gods, fear of the elders, fear of change. On a moonlit night, a boy named Kunal is born into this world. From the moment his piercing eyes open, the villagers sense something different. They whisper that this child will change everything. What they don’t know is that the prophecy is self-fulfilling—not because of destiny, but because Kunal’s mind refuses to accept the lies they live by. As a boy, Kunal watches the rituals in silence, memorizing every detail, every contradiction. The sacrifices never truly stop the droughts. The caste rules never bring justice. The fear never ends. His genius awakens early: an exceptional intellect that sees patterns, questions authority, and refuses to bow. Years later, as a young man, Kunal marries Siya—a woman as sharp and beautiful as she is loyal. Together they live in the shadow of the clan’s traditions, but Kunal’s mind is already working. He begins to study the world beyond the village: colonial engineers building canals and roads, magistrates investigating ritual killings, the slow spread of logic against superstition. He teaches himself engineering and detective methods—how to design irrigation systems that make sacrifices unnecessary, how to investigate “omens” and prove they are manipulations or coincidences. But every step he takes threatens the clan’s fragile order. Elders see him as dangerous. Lower-caste families see him as hope. Some accuse him of black magic. Others quietly follow him. Paranoia spreads like wildfire: villagers start doubting their own memories, questioning rituals they once accepted without thought, watching each other with suspicion. Kunal wants only one thing: a normal life with Siya, free from fear. Yet the deeper he digs into the clan’s “legacy,” the more he realizes it is not a curse from the gods—it is a cycle of collective trauma, guilt, and control. Breaking it means confronting the elders, exposing the lies, and risking everything: his family, his safety, his sanity. As the clan begins to fracture, Kunal must decide how far he is willing to go. Every revelation brings more danger. Every ally brings more betrayal. And every truth he uncovers forces him to look deeper into his own mind—because the greatest fear may not be the clan’s traditions… it may be what he himself becomes in the fight to destroy them. In Legacy of Fear, intellect becomes a weapon, doubt becomes a virus, and one man’s refusal to stay silent threatens to unravel an entire world built on lies. A gripping psychological thriller about genius, guilt, tradition, and the terrifying cost of truth.

Armed with Godly powers at their fingertips, the Order of the Cyberknight arose to reform the rotting world of 2069. But all this war is but a game for the God-Emperor of the cyberknights. Even as the Grand Knight, Mike would remain an indoctrinated servant of the empire. However, when the ugly truth becomes too painful to ignore, will he remain a pawn or become the adversary? As for Kadyn, Mike's most faithful, what will be her ultimate path within this storm?

Armed with Godly powers at their fingertips, the Order of the Cyberknight arose in a crusade to reform the rotting world of 2069. But all this war is but a game for the God-Emperor of the cyberknights. Even as the Grand Knight, Mike remains an indoctrinated servant of the Empire. However, when the ugly truth becomes too painful to ignore, will he remain a pawn or become the adversary?

In a parallel world created by a God who abandoned his world, the year is 2044. Heiss and Kalika, invented names with damaged pasts, without well-remembered parents and with supposed new families. The perfect codex created for killing with multiple personality problems and the successor who will begin her family's revenge. Two young people with peculiar inheritances, but with no one to accompany them at first, will face a world led to decadence and corruption. Ruled by idealism, religion, politics, and lost history. They will go against what the world has established, fighting against the districts and the different groups with the most power in the world, trying to win as many allies as possible along the way. All for “change,” because whenever there is change, we are closer to perfection or, at least, further away from the demons that torment us. Pain, love, despair, every emotion you have ever felt in your life is experienced like a roller coaster ride. Only through learning can this world be understood, and only then can one understand oneself better. I recommend starting with the author's notes.

In the Valerius family mansion, everyone knows "Butler Sálvia." Although technically one of the housemaids, she flatly refuses to wear skirts or corsets, finding comfort only in rigorous masculine attire, tailored vests, and white gloves. Polite, religious, and possessing impeccable posture, she has become the family's right hand, overseeing everything from the young master's etiquette to the estate's security. However, Sálvia's elegance is a facade for a terrifying reality. Sálvia is the "Genius of Harlequir," the sole survivor of a legendary assassin clan wiped out by mysterious forces. The comfort she finds in men's clothing is not merely an aesthetic preference; it is a practical necessity. Those garments allow for the swift draw of her hidden daggers and the fluid movement required to kill in seconds. Her life of servitude is an act of penance and gratitude toward the Valerius family, especially their son, who dreams of becoming the knight who will defeat the Demon King. In the boy's heroic spark, Sálvia sees the purity she lost long ago. Thus, she has sworn that no shadow shall touch the young master as long as she draws breath. But when the ghosts of her past—the very ones who destroyed her clan—begin to emerge on the kingdom's borders, Sálvia realizes that prayer will not be enough. To protect her new family and satiate her desperate hunger for vengeance, she will have to stain her white gloves with blood. When a threat arises, the butler's polite education gives way to the assassin's ferocity, unleashing a violence so horrific it would make the Demon King himself recoil. Sálvia is a tragic and formidable figure: a woman who serves with the devotion of a saint, but hunts with the precision of a demon.

Lior is an ordinary teenage student. One day, after arriving home from high school, he went to sleep in his bed. When he woke up, he had no idea what had happened or why he was there. He had been reincarnated into the body of a young demihuman slave in a bygone era. Because of this, his adventure in a new world is about to begin.

At the far north of the Atherno Continent, in an unknown village, Kyrian was born as a mere mortal. Weak, insignificant, and destined for oblivion. But he was anything but ordinary. Upon opening his eyes for the first time, they revealed an absolute white eyes without pupils or irises… and with them, an inexplicable innate talent. The ability to see what no one else could. His eyes didn’t just see the particles of spiritual energy, they could steal them. And more than that. Whether intentions, laws, concepts… everything before his vision could be taken by his eyes. When he stole his first Sword Intention, his eyes awakened to the path of the blade. Upon taking the Intention of Ice, another ocular pair was born. With every new stolen intention, his eyes changed, and new ones appeared. Kyrian does not hide them from the world, no, heeding his mother’s last wishes. He uses his gift without fear, with only one goal. To become strong by any means. (This is my first story, so don't expect anything mind-boggling. I just write what I think would be interesting and easy to read. English isn't my first language, so if there are any mistakes, please let me know so I can fix them. Otherwise, enjoy your reading)

In the Empire of Lýssar, lies come at a cost—each one tears a memory away. Nairé Kôren, a dockside courier who lives roof to roof, enters the palace to deliver a forbidden gray seal… and witnesses the impossible: the Crown Seal abandons the heir and chooses her instead. Now everyone wants her—guards, courtiers, and a secret order that hoards memories to rewrite history. To survive, Nairé must navigate oaths, conspiracies, and betrayal, while facing the cruelest rule of all: in Lýssar, the truth can kill you… and love may cost you your very identity.

A school exchange trip to Korea's southern islands ends overnight when a neural broadcast triggers a mass behavioral collapse. The government responds with Containment Protocol Black Tide. Nineteen year old Seo Jun-ho has no powers and no systems, only discipline, combat training, and the ability to stay calm when others lose control. As the infected spread alive, in pain, and no longer fully human, society collapses faster than the outbreak itself. Authority fails. Information becomes a weapon. Safety becomes currency. Forced into leadership he never wanted, Jun-ho must guide his group from island to island toward the mainland, making decisions that save some lives and erase others. The more he survives, the further he drifts from the person he used to be. This is not a story about heroes. It is a story about what control keeps you alive and what it costs to keep it.

Shanum Asmara, a beautiful 20-year-old college student and orphan, lives independently after her parents passed away. She lives in Jakarta to pursue her education at a public university thanks to a scholarship she earned through hard work and intelligence, while her elderly grandmother lives alone in Yogyakarta, working on a rice farm. Since childhood, Shanum has been accustomed to facing life's difficulties, so she learned various types of martial arts from her grandmother, such as pencak silat, karate, and taekwondo, to be able to protect herself. While living in Jakarta, strange things often happened around Shanum. She felt that she was always accompanied by an invisible figure when she returned to her boarding house alone. When she was bullied by a college friend, the perpetrator suffered a mysterious accident. When she was almost kidnapped by thugs sent by the Rice Lord who wanted to make her his wife, those people also received an unexpected retribution that she couldn't explain. During her college break, Shanum returned to Yogyakarta and told her grandmother about all her experiences. From there, she learned a secret she couldn’t fathom with modern thinking: since childhood, Shanum had been protected by a ghost named Den Mas Alif Bhirawa. Who exactly is Den Mas Alif Bhirawa? Is he merely a guardian, or is there a deeper connection linking him to Shanum? And what is the true purpose behind his constant surveillance and protection of Shanum from the past until now?

In a shattered, post-apocalyptic world, eighteen-year-old Fang Qiong awaits her Awakening—a system that grants powers on one's 18th birthday, deciding their fate in a brutal world. [Awakening has Begun...]

https://www.royalroad.com/profile/814934 "I will be posting this story on RoyalRoad.com." In the tale of history and the shrouds of darkness, who was watching? Who was calling?  The Voices of the unseen watching from the rifts, awaiting their time of calamity. In the Shadow of the gods and monsters, nestled between nations lies a place not marked on any official map, A place known only to those who need it most. They call it the  House of Red-Hill. To the mundane, it's a charitable home for war orphans and lost children. A quiet estate just beyond the edge of the Nation of Aegis, run by a woman once hailed as the brightest mind, but Red-Hill is no sanctuary. beneath its warm halls and shared meals, the children are trained in silence, secrecy, and survival. They are taught not to pray but to act, to kill, to protect.  Each child is raised to not just face the monsters lurking in the shadows but to be bought, licensed, and employed by those afraid to rely on divine mercy alone.  Some call it salvation, Others call it exploitation. But to the children of Red-Hill, it's just home. And every night, when the rifts groan, they lie awake in their beds.... waiting for their next assignment.

Everyone knows the legend of Tsugikuni Yoriichi — the almost divine swordsman whose strength and solitude made him untouchable even among the Demon Slayers. A man who shone like the sun… yet whose fate was forever marked by tragedy. But what if his story had taken a different path? What if, like Tanjiro Kamado, he had a brother who became a good demon—and one final chance to fight not only against evil, but against destiny itself? Born into the Tsugikuni bloodline, Hiru was adopted as the third brother of the prodigious twins—Yoriichi and Michikatsu. Yet unlike them, his fate diverged into shadow and flame. Between humanity and demonhood, brotherhood and destiny, Hiru’s existence would become the unseen thread that rewrote the story of the Sun Breather himself.

Reborn into a world of swords, monsters, and divine hierarchies, Jay awakens in a boy’s body with memories of a violent past he cannot escape. Trained by the unpredictable master Beijamim, he must navigate a world that sees him as innocent while hiding the truth of countless lives he once took. In a realm where power is worshipped and feared, Jay’s reincarnation is not a blessing—it is a trial. Some souls are reborn not to be saved… but to be judged.

In a city where gods hide behind institutions and monsters wear human faces, Osaze is dying. with a disease meant to kill him slowly, Osaze survives only because something ancient has awakened inside him — the Blood-Stained Leopard, a predatory ancestral force bound to his leaking power. Every heartbeat keeps him alive… and brings him closer to exposure. When his father is murdered and the truth behind his illness begins to surface, Osaze is pulled into a hidden world of sacrifices, corrupted wealth, police cover-ups, and entities that feed on human lives. As a medical student, he understands the body. As a Guardian, he is learning how easily it can be broken. Hunted by cultists, watched by gods, and burdened by a power he cannot yet control, Osaze must decide whether to master his bleeding strength — or let it consume him before the curse finishes the job. Blood-Stained Guardian is a dark Afrofuturist urban fantasy blending mythology, crime, horror, and tragedy — where survival itself is an act of rebellion. contact me at : YouTube channel: @eterna_audio discord : eterna.audio tiktok : @eterna_audio

Yin Yue grows up knowing hunger better than comfort and silence better than prayer. When violence steals her mother and leaves her alone in the streets, survival becomes her only education. She learns quickly. Taken by traffickers and sold into the imperial palace as part of the Inner Court selection, Yin Yue enters a world governed by beauty, obedience, and quiet cruelty. Girls are renamed, ranked, and watched. Some adapt. Many disappear. Yin Yue observes. She learns how power moves through corridors, how favor is earned and lost, how kindness can be used and punished. Each choice she makes is small, necessary, and irreversible. There is no moment where she decides to become ruthless—only moments where gentleness proves too expensive. As years pass, Yin Yue rises through the palace not by force, but by understanding. Love becomes complicated. Loyalty becomes conditional. And power, once within reach, asks her to decide who she is willing to become. This is not a story about destiny. It is the story of a woman who lived—fully, painfully, intelligently—inside a system designed to erase her, and did not disappear.

Setsuna Shū is a magical girl with temporal magic that allows her to go back to the past whenever she performs a certain action. She works as a magical girl, hunting monsters and helping people… or at least, that’s what she lets everyone believe. In truth, she made a contract with a demon so she could return to the past and rewrite the future. Her real reason for turning back time is to save her “sister.” As a child, she had no parents, relatives, or friends. When she was finally adopted, her sister became her entire world — and for her sake, Setsuna wouldn’t hesitate to sacrifice the world itself. She gave up her original gender, her past “existence,” and even parts of her freedom in a demonic contract, all for the sake of saving her sister and taking revenge on the monsters that hurt her. But… is that really all there is to it? Or is Setsuna, in the end, partially responsible for everything that happened?

A second chance can save you... or condemn you. In a world ruled by honor, oaths, and a justice system as fragile as it is dangerous, a young man must face his past in order to avoid repeating it. Amid battles, impossible decisions, and hidden truths, he will discover that remaining true to oneself is the greatest challenge of all.

A “Video Compilation System” descends upon Teyvat, showcasing the most tear-jerking iconic scenes. It begins by playing Furina’s storyline, “The Final Feast.” Mortals and gods alike are moved to tears. Lumine: “You held on like that for five hundred years… Let me hug you.” Neuvillette: “Thank you. I cherished every moment of those five hundred years.” Zhongli: “She made a pact with herself to save her nation and honored it for five centuries, even deceiving Celestia in the end. I respect all justice carried out through one’s own conviction. Even if her divinity has faded and her throne is gone, in the history of Fontaine, Furina is still a god of justice worthy of recognition.” Next, the system plays “Withering Branches, Faded Dreams.” Greater Lord Rukkhadevata: “Let the world forget me completely.” Then it plays “The Kitsune Saiguu Chapter.” Great Kitsune Saiguu: “At Yae Publishing House, I truly lived happily. But now, watching you all leave, I can’t help but feel a little lonely.” Raw: 原神：盘点催泪场面，开局水神陨 Author: 我是小火苗丫

In the unforgiving wilderness of a desolate continent, a young wolf is born into a world where the weak are prey and the strong are still prey. This harsh, primal forest is a place where survival is a relentless struggle, and every creature fights to claim their place in the brutal hierarchy of the food chain. From the moment it opens its eyes, the little wolf, named Kai Syaoran, understands the ruthless laws of nature. The little wolf begins to question what it means to be perfect and whether true perfection can ever be achieved without immortality. Driven by an insatiable desire for perfection and the elusive promise of eternity, Kai Syaoran embarks on a perilous journey to rise above all things .