tragedy

Set in late medieval England, 1457, thirteen-year-old Roald dreams of crafting steam-powered water vessels far beyond his village’s imagination. His world changes forever when a man in a strange mechanical cart—who calls himself a boatmaker—arrives and takes Roald as his apprentice, bringing him to the distant kingdom of Dillaclor. But Dillaclor is not the kingdom the boatmaker remembers. Beneath its altered streets and shifting loyalties, a hidden figure pulls the strings of power. As Roald is drawn deeper into court politics, dangerous alliances, and mechanical innovation, he must decide what kind of craftsman—and what kind of man—he will become before the kingdom is quietly dismantled from within.

He chose every single member of his squad. She was the one he never chose. Kang Dae-hyun is a legend. The kind of detective other detectives tell stories about. So when the Commissioner gives him orders to handpick his own special investigations unit, he does what he does best—he chooses the best of the best. A veteran who's seen it all. A tech genius who can find anyone. A former special forces soldier who never backs down. A rookie with impossible instincts. A profiler who reads people like books. Perfect. Balanced. His team. Then the Commissioner makes one more call. Yoon Seo-ah was Korea's most famous actress. Now she's a freshly graduated police officer with zero field experience, zero street knowledge, and zero business being anywhere near a real investigation. She doesn't want to be on Team Zero. He doesn't want her there either. But the Commissioner doesn't explain himself. He never does. And in this job, you don't ask questions—you solve cases. Now the most untested detective in Seoul is working alongside the most unorthodox squad in police history. Murders. Robberies. Conspiracies that reach higher than anyone wants to admit. Case after case, they'll have to figure out if she sinks or swims. If she becomes one of them. Or if she tears them apart. What happens when a woman who spent her life pretending meets six people who deal only in truth? Do they solve the cases? Do they fall in love? Does she find the justice she never said she was looking for? Or does someone on Team Zero have secrets that could destroy them all? No one knows. Not even them.

She was sold for debt. She was never meant to escape. But when the city burns and a powerful Ascended commander pulls her from the wreckage, Aria Vale finds herself caught in a rebellion far bigger than survival. In a world where superpowers divide humanity and trust is a liability, two women from opposite sides of power must decide — Will they fight each other… Or burn the system down together?

What makes the God of Death cruel? No one truly knows— not even him. Fortunately, this God left a bible... a bible that can only start in the middle. Why don't we take a peek? ... There are three Gods hidden amongst the livings; One built the world in greed; One buried the world in sorrow; One ties the world in illusion. If left alone in their whimsical rebellion, the world will soon perish, unable to withstand their presence, and so they must be driven away. Left with no choice, the Heavens seek the help of the God of Death; an entity who may just do more damage than the three Gods could ever do combined. ____ @uwyxkai @tsar Updates Daily TW: Gore

What happens when a Hanma is dropped into the Lookism world? He is not the anime Baki. He is not the legendary Hanma from another universe. He is just a boy born with a body that refuses to obey normal rules. He grows up in a world where gangs decide law, fists decide status, and weakness is punished without mercy. He does not start as a monster, but his body learns faster, adapts faster, and endures more than it should. By the time others realize something is wrong, it is already too late to treat him like an ordinary fighter. He does not chase fame or chaos, but he does not avoid violence when it becomes unavoidable. Each fight leaves marks on bodies, walls, and reputations, and each step forward forces him deeper into the brutal hierarchy of Lookism. As his presence spreads, familiar events begin to shift, alliances fracture, and organizations that once dominated the underworld start to feel pressure they cannot explain. If you want to see a Hanma walk into the Lookism world and dismantle its strongest fighters, and rewrite the balance of power with raw physical dominance and calculated decisions, then you are in the right place. This is not a story about instant supremacy. This is a story about a body that evolves, a mind that adapts, and a world that slowly realizes it created something it cannot control. Disclaimer: All credits belong to the original creators of Lookism and Baki. I do not own these characters or their worlds, except for the original characters I create. This version of Baki Hanma is not the same as the one from the anime. He only shares the name and abilities, while his personality and story are different. The cover image is not mine. If the original creator requests its removal, I will remove it.

Echo of the Vorathar The gods were sealed. Humanity was cursed. And the world never forgot. In a land of endless fog and poisoned marshes, humans live on the edge of extinction — hunted by elves, crushed by orcs, and judged unworthy by dragons. But there is something feared even more than humanity itself. The Vorins. The mere rumor of a Vorin’s awakening is enough to start a hunt. There is no trial. No mercy. Only survival. In a world where every step can be your last, growing stronger means drawing attention. And drawing attention means death. Here, power is not ambition. It is necessity. And survival… always has a cost.

In the realm of monsters, a man is summoned as Vampire Lord Lucius, bestowed with dominion over creatures of the night. Yet, a curse hangs over him, threatening to strip away his immortality and power unless he quenches his thirst for blood within three days. Amidst this peril, both humans and monsters seek his throne, igniting a power struggle; fighting humans by day and monsters by night. (Currently Discontinued)

He sacrificed everything and everyone to save her. Now she’s the monster he must kill. Zeek is a man running out of reasons to keep going. A wandering rogue turned pariah, he has spent years feeding the Heart of Sorrows—a living labyrinth built on ancient genocide, whose walls shift, whose dead rise, and whose hunger never ceases. He keeps returning for one reason: Lilliana. His wife. A woman of near-angelic descent who sacrificed herself for his survival and became the labyrinth’s unwilling queen in the process. Every expedition ends in failure. The blood of companions, hired blades, and friends alike stains his hands. Desperate and running out of time, Zeek assembles one final company: Verris, a brutal mercenary duty-bound to the men he lost inside those same walls; Kerris, a scarred archer who survived the labyrinth once and carries the grief of those who didn’t; Amon, a fire mage from Kemet who carries a reincarnated soul older than the corruption itself; and Heka, a Shu-Ra queen—a being the gods tried to erase from existence—who drifts in smoke beside the man she loves across lifetimes. Together, they descend into a nightmare that remembers them, adapts to them, and weaponizes everything they’ve ever lost. At its heart, The Labyrinth of Endless Grief is a story about love as an act of destruction. It encompasses the specific grief of watching someone you love become unrecognizable—not dead, but gone—and the terrible choices made in the space between who they were and what they’ve become. Zeek doesn’t just fight monsters. He fights his own hubris, his guilt, and the dawning realization that saving Lilliana may require destroying the last version of her that remains. The labyrinth doesn’t invent horrors. It finds the ones we never imagined carrying and leaves them with us.. This is a grimdark tragic romance inspired by Dragon Age: The Calling, the atmosphere of FromSoftware’s Souls series. Book One of the Heart of Sorrows trilogy.

She was nothing. A nameless slave who survived by staying silent, by staying small, by never daring to want more. In another life, her other half was everything she was not. Born into power beneath a fractured empire, porcelain pale, black haired, brilliant and alone. Yet they were similar in a different way. Under shattered blood moons, the impossible happens. A body without a soul. A soul without a place. When they collide, something whole is born, and the world feels it. But one world is not enough. To accomplish what she now seeks, Grace will walk across fractured realms and dying skies, stepping through boundaries that were never meant to be crossed. Kingdoms will fall out of her path. Ancient forces will turn their gaze toward her. She is no longer bound to a single world. This story is dark and unforgiving, with psychological torment, betrayal that cuts deeper than steel, and vivid, gory violence that does not shy away. It is a story about identity. About rage. About ambition that refuses to die. And about what happens when something incomplete becomes whole and decides the world needs correction.

Marcus was a thirty-four-year-old hedge fund analyst who died of a heart attack at his desk, only to wake up as Skinny Pete six months before the events of the Breaking Bad pilot. Trapped in a malnourished body screaming for a fix, Marcus discovers he has a supernatural edge: the ability to summon an infinite supply of NZT-48, a cognitive enhancement pill that turns his mind into a biological supercomputer. While navigating the dangerous streets of Albuquerque, his new "Lucky Survivor" ability—a subconscious probability field—begins nudging reality in his favor, allowing him to survive brutal ambushes and avoid police stings by pure "luck". Desperate to escape the shadow of the Heisenberg era, Marcus travels to Tijuana for reconstructive surgery to shed Pete's identity forever and become the legally real Marcus Webb. As he builds a sophisticated information-trading network, he must decide if he will use his Wall Street skills to prevent Jesse Pinkman’s spiral or simply disappear before the blue meth hits the market.

—WEBNOVEL SPIRITY AWARDS 2026 ENTRY— [You Have a New Quota!] Hello, Servant.   It's time to feed your Lord.   You understand, don't you? Blood Quota — 0/????? ml   Time Remaining: 04:00:00 [WARNING]  If the required quota is not met, the automatic consumption protocol will activate.   The System is hungry. To feed itself, it will devour a random part of your body. --- When rifts tore open between Earth and the Underworld, humanity found salvation in the Sentinels—warriors bonded to magical rings, gifted with the power to fight back the endless tide of monsters. Blake should have been one of the greatest. Born into a legendary bloodline. Raised in privilege. Expected to inherit a legacy of power. But Blake has a problem. He can't use magic. And worse—he's terrified. Of monsters. Of pain. Of the very combat that defines what it means to survive. When his father delivers an ultimatum that will exile him from everything he's ever known, Blake is forced into a final exam he has no hope of passing. Then the monsters come. His team dies. And in his final moments, as something monstrous devours him whole, a crimson window appears in the darkness: [Do you accept the Blood Pact?] Now, Blake is no longer human. He is a Servant—bound to an ancient entity that feeds on blood and cares nothing for his survival. Every few days, a quota appears. Every quota demands thousands of milliliters of blood. If he fails to deliver, the System doesn't negotiate. It takes payment from his own body. Piece by piece. While the world celebrates Sentinels as humanity's protectors, Blake must become something else entirely—a hunter in the shadows, stealing blood to survive another day. In a world where heroes fight monsters to save lives… Blake must kill them to keep his own. --- How much of yourself would you sacrifice to survive? How far would you go when failure means losing everything—one piece at a time?

In Argent, you have twenty one years to live. On your twenty first birthday, the System assigns you an ability and teleports you beyond the barrier. So far, only four people have ever survived the exile. The reason? The outside is filled with Corruptors, and Corruptors cannot be harmed. They are forces of nature. Walking disasters. You don’t fight them. You just pray they don’t find you. Allaran knows this. He’s known it his whole life. An orphan raised in the warehouses, he spent his days hauling crates from loaders to shelves. Useless work for a useless boy. He made peace with dying long before he ever learned to hope. Then his twenty first birthday came. His ability manifested. Switch. The power to change the location of two things. A joke. A warehouse clerk’s trick in a world where survival depends on being extraordinary. What he didn’t know was that his useless power could do something no one had ever done before. Kill the unkillable. The Corruptor’s head landed in his hands. The eye blinked once. Twice. Then went still. And the System lit up with words no living human had ever seen: You Slayed [King Emi – Level ???] XP Threshold Met. [Leveling Up]. In that instant, something Argent had never known was born. Hope.

{WARNING: MATURE CONTENT 18+} The world marches toward an unavoidable ending. A foul, unstoppable plague of corruption called the Scourge is devouring every corner of the world. A king, Ixion, once nobly fought against the vicious, untamed foes; however, the fruitless nature of the fight was that it could only end in one fashion — a pitiful loss. If that was the destined fate of the world, and his resistance would buy a year or two at most… Why spend the little time he has left in the depths of melancholy and grief?! Why not enjoy his life while the world crumbles?! So, Ixion decides to make a list of things he wants to do and accomplish before the world’s demise. A list full of his most devious, lecherous fantasies and desires, alongside a plot of revenge — revenge against the world that had forsaken him.

Jin grew up peacefully with his grandfather, dreaming of becoming a wealthy farmer one day. But he never expected his life to be turned upside down in a single day. Will he be able to overcome the trials that await him, or will he submit to them and become a corrupted entity?

On the fourth day of May, Kevin was murdered in his apartment. He has no enemies and no friends. His parents have their own families, and he lives alone in a 200 meter square apartment – in other words, he does not have anyone who bores hatred against him. But he died. And the police concluded his death was an act of revenge homicide. Kevin pondered who would kill him when he suddenly woke to unfamiliar surroundings. And it took a few minutes to be processed in his head… Why are the furnitures so big?! The bed's mattress is so wide it's like the whole floor uses it as a floormat! The window is so high Kevin felt he was inside a church with glass walls as high as a three-storey building! Even worse, the appearance of a flower vase at his side is as tall as him! What the hell is going on?! [Host, you now possess the identity of the Male Lead's precious cat!] Kevin: What did you say? [Current Mission Progress: 0%] [Host, please work hard and prevent the Male Lead's terrible fate!] Kevin: …… What nonsense?! I just died! ………………………. [Host, the villain is one step closer to harming the Male Lead's life! Please prevent them!] Kevin: …… [Host, a villain's lackey wants to kill the Male Lead! Please stop them!] Kevin: ….. [Host, the Male Lead incurred a huge loss because of the villain, please bring him home and pamper him well!] Kevin: …… [Host, the Male Lead is injured because of the villain! Please nurse him back to health!] Kevin: …… Am I the Male Lead's mom or a pet?! ______________________________________________________ Updates are on Wednesday and Thursday.

Kim is nobody special — and that's exactly the problem. An eleven-year-old Academy student in Konoha with a dead father, a medic mother pulling double shifts, two sisters who need raising, and a scar that reminds him the world doesn't wait for you to be ready. When fragmented dreams of another world reveal that this one is heading toward war, gods, and extinction-level events, Kim does what any reasonable person would do: he looks for a loophole. He finds one. The Synchronization Jutsu — a self-developed technique that lets him passively resonate with the chakra of those around him — turns proximity into power. Classmates become unwitting tutors. Bloodline traits leave traces in his system. Every hour spent near stronger ninja pushes him further, faster, in ways the world's rigid clan hierarchies were never designed to allow. But growth attracts attention. The Academy's new top student catches the eye of Root, Danzo's shadow organization, and Kim finds himself walking a razor's edge — training under ANBU operatives by afternoon, teaching his sisters kata by evening, and pretending to be ordinary in between. Armed with pragmatism, a talent for teaching, an embarrassing crush on a weapons shopkeeper, and a moral compass that bends but refuses to break, Kim navigates a village that smiles in the sunlight and schemes in the dark. The clock is ticking. The war is coming. And an unremarkable boy with a remarkable secret is building something no one sees coming — not from the top down, but from the middle out. He's not a genius. He's not a prodigy. He's just paying very close attention.

Slowburn espionage - this is NOT made for the algorithm. [not-LitRPG / not-isekai / not-cultivation] SYNOPSIS: In this ever-changing world built on conspiracy and technological ambition, where governments, corporations, and mafias claw for dominance, Felix is the Golden Lion’s engineered weapon — the first step in humanity’s forced evolution. Guided by their mantra to “protect the peace,” he moves through the underworld’s shifting alliances and hidden agendas, confronting criminals and companies alike, in this constant game of masks and mirrors.

Raziel died a saint, slaughtered in his own cathedral the moment a Player fell from the sky, labeled his world a "Server," and reduced him to nothing more than a prologue NPC. His final act of faith didn’t stop the massacre... but it did shatter the rules of the Game. [ITEM USED: RESURRECTION TOKEN] [INITIATING REGRESSION PROTOCOL…] [SAVE POINT FOUND: 4 YEARS BEFORE THE PLAYER ARRIVAL] Raziel wakes up in his fifteen-year-old body, memories fragmented, but with one absolute certainty: the Game Over is inevitable. To the Church, he remains the perfect novice; to the Player, he is just another NPC. But this time, he will wield his faith like a heretical System: recruiting the future sacrificial lambs, twisting miracles into weapons, and becoming the Hidden Boss of the very world that once discarded him. If this world sees him as mere filler... Raziel will turn his faith into the heresy that crashes the Server. NO YURI / NO YAOI / NO HAREM / NO NTR "This story features a fictional religion inspired by real-world theological traditions. All religious institutions, doctrines, and practices depicted are entirely fictional. No disrespect to any real religion or its followers is intended."