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The boys summoned from Earth were meant to be heroes. Instead, they became slaves. Branded as expendable weapons by the empire that summoned them, the group later known as the Strays survives through rebellion, escape, and bloodshed. Freedom comes at a cost—and now powerful nobles, mercenary orders, and kingdoms hunt the runaway summons who were never meant to live. Armed with stolen magic and hard-earned scars, the Strays travel a continent consumed by war, searching for one impossible prize: a way back to Earth. But in a world that profits from their existence, escaping may mean tearing down the very empires that control it.

Lightborn is the centerpiece of the Dawnbringer series of novels in the world of Irándiel, upon the small continent of Telmérion, cold and rugged and yet inhabited since the beginning of human history by the first family of humankind. Though the setting is high fantasy—a work of co-creative imagination fashioning a mythical world with its own history and geography—the plot and the ins-and-outs of the world are deeply realistic, portraying as it were an ancient and long-forgotten past of our own world. Or more precisely, what is offered here is a mythical exposition of the true past that we all share—with very little magic or other fantasy tropes, but with a great deal of “magic,” in other words, a world filled with wonders and terrors of all kinds, from the ancient guardians of the world, the Anaíon, to vicious and deadly beasts such as dragons, eötenga, and vru’ádach. The characters thus find themselves caught in the cosmic battle between light and darkness, between the weakness of love and the power of hate, which casts its rays and its shadows also into the heart of every man and woman. The journey marked out before their feet calls for integrity, fidelity, and heroism, and also something more, something that lies at the heart of every good adventure and every life, and which is the very measure of man. When Eldárien returns to his homeland after many years away—burdened by the awareness that he has perpetrated great evil at the hands of an Empire whose knight he has become—he encounters a continent riven by strife and war and threatened by creatures even more horrifying, born of the very darkness itself. He wishes to lay aside the sword, to leave behind a past marked with violence and bloodshed, but he also longs to aid his people against the forces that endanger their very existence. And such a path he cannot walk alone, facing obstacles both within and without, and he finds given to him both the light that he wishes to serve and friends to share the journey. All the while the land that he loves slides inexorably into conflict, into what shall be known henceforth as the War of Darkness, and he and those to whom he is joined are called upon to share the fate of their people, looking forward in hope to the promised coming of dawn after darkest night.

A mage from distant lands. Hated by the world, she carries its secrets to the lands of the immortal, the demonic and the divine, while being harassed by a certain Dark Lord. --- Author's note: I got bored so, I made this. My grammar isn't the best, plus I'm starting to suspect both my breaking keyboard and failing autocorrect is scheming against me, so sorry about that. I made this while drawing inspiration from my half-baked knowledge of different stuff I've read as well as a story I wrote in secret back in high school (that I never showed anyone, or finished). I wanted to include as many different things as I possibly could when i started writing this stuff which is probably why it is such a mess (especially the names. I wanted to use names from different places in the world, but it got confusing.) I don't want to offend anyone or make any statements on anything in my writing. It is mostly just for self-amusement. That being said, if you like it then good for you. And if you don't, then why are you still here? Shoo! Go! Get out of here! Anyways, enjoy! Oh look! My note is longer than the synopsis! Lets make it longer! Oh look, a butterfly! Whee! Byeeeee!

This story follows a young man named Prince Jacob. On a day that he was meant to enjoy, he gets marked with an insidious skull, seemingly locking a dreadful destiny in place. He soon realizes that his kingdom's problems are nothing compared to the horrors living beyond the stone walls. Despite destiny going against him, Jacob continues pursing his impossible dream through miserable trials and unravelling dozens of mysteries about his world.

Mitzie thought she was an ordinary seventeen-year-old student—until one strange encounter changed her life. After meeting a mysterious boy named Amons Kling, Mitzie suddenly loses consciousness and awakens inside a brutal prison known as the G.G.G. facility. Surrounded by strangers and forced into deadly games, she discovers that G.G.G. is not simply a prison. It is an experiment designed to find extraordinary individuals capable of reaching somewhere no ordinary human can enter. Their first game is Color Rush, a deadly competition where players must collect nine different color cards while fighting against one another. Each victory grants another color, but every defeat means elimination. Mitzie possesses an apparently unimpressive ability: Danger Sense, a Closis that gives her an electric warning roughly five seconds before danger occurs. It doesn't reveal what the danger is or where it will come from. To survive, she must rely on her intelligence, hand-to-hand combat skills, weapon mastery, and ability to interpret the warning before it's too late. But as the games continue, Mitzie discovers that the players possess a mysterious energy known as Zeal, which can awaken supernatural abilities within the human body. Meanwhile, figures such as the enigmatic Fox and the suspicious Kling seem to know far more about G.G.G. than they should. Eventually, Mitzie learns the terrifying truth: G.G.G. was never the final destination. The organization behind the experiment is searching for someone capable of entering Layer Paradise, a mysterious world beyond the boundaries of ordinary reality. A normal human body cannot enter it, forcing the organization to find individuals capable of transcending their physical limitations. Paradise is divided into seven layers, each more dangerous and mysterious than the last. Within them lie impossible treasures, powerful artifacts, beings beyond human comprehension, and secrets capable of changing the known world. The higher Mitzie travels, the stronger her enemies become—and the more she realizes that the powers she once considered extraordinary may only be the beginning. Her journey begins with a simple goal: Survive G.G.G. But eventually, she will have to ask a much bigger question: What is waiting for her at the seventh layer of Paradise?

Jin Yeong was just another office worker—forgettable, unremarkable, and stuck in a life that never went anywhere. He wasn’t strong. He wasn’t talented. In a world of ambition, he was just… there. Then, the sky cracked open. A voice echoed across the world, mocking humanity’s weakness. A system was given. A chance to survive. People awakened powerful abilities—fire, lightning, super strength. Jin got this: [Limitless Weapon Mastery] "Any weapon you wield is used at its maximum potential." No fire. No magic. No enhancements. Just a simple skill? But soon he and the world will learn a simple truth: It’s not about what you wield. It’s about how you wield it.

He once ruled as a feared dungeon boss. Now he’s raising a human child. After abandoning his collapsing dungeon, Zortheus never expected to find an infant alone in the wild, or to become her father. Disguised as a quiet villager, Zora, he gives Lila the peaceful life he never had, burying the monstrous past she must never learn. But with her growing dream to become an adventurer, the outside world inches closer to the very truth he fights to hide. And as old threats stir again, their quiet life stands on the edge of a secret away from unraveling. The world remembers him a villain. She only knows him as Dad. Two truths that cannot meet… or everything breaks.

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. Author note; - This novel, seniors, is a progression fantasy as well as LitRPG. with the latter being centered around three major characters( Mc not included) -to get more info about the world, power systems and the like, hit my Tic tok( Kairos Caelin) https://vm.tiktok.com/ZS92ku3TGugtN-2aGQj/

The Maker abandoned the world with one final promise: the greatest artist would inherit the divine throne. But without his will to compose it, the very fabric of the world began to come apart. Beneath the gaze of the purple sun, blight devours the land and twists the laws of nature. Monsters haunt what remains, kingdoms fight over an ever-shrinking world, and entire civilizations cross the veil into Aetrea with nowhere else to go. And Wesia has chosen its answer to the Maker’s absence. Its Emperor means to inherit the empty throne at any cost, and the Empire already lives as though his ascension were inevitable. Where chaos can still be fought, Wesia fights it. But when the whispers take root too deeply in the minds of the villagers, when paranoia turns to worship, and the Inquisitors suspect people have started making pacts with things that are trying to cross over, Wesia does not send soldiers to help. Bastet was a farmer in Briskwood when Wesian soldiers appeared among the fields. By the time he understood what they had come to do, his father was dead, his sister was gone, and Briskwood was burning. Bastet alone survived the Cleansing. He should not have. Wesia spent the months that followed breaking him apart, and bound what remained with a blood oath. Now he cannot disobey his superiors or deceive them, and must always act in what he believes to be Wesia's best interest. To learn why Briskwood was destroyed and what became of his sister, Bastet must cross a dying world while Wesia hunts him through it. Before long, he is no longer traveling alone: beside him is a young scholar whose understanding of art may prove as necessary as his own instinct for survival. Their road leads through places where stories can acquire wills of their own, where the line between man and monster is not always drawn in flesh, and where the struggle for the Maker’s throne has made art into faith, weapon, argument, and power. Bastet means only to find the truth and remain free long enough to act on it. But the world has little interest in letting him pass untouched. Survival will demand bargains, and choices with no innocent answer will force him to decide not only what his oath allows, but what he is willing to become. Originally serialized on Royal Road, where Couplet reached the Top 25 Best Rated among more than 25,000 fictions in 2019. The novel is complete, and chapters are published weekly. If you’d rather read the full story now, the complete digital edition is available on Amazon and Gumroad.

Neva and Rhett, two young souls find their heartstrings woven in love. But just as passion and peace begin to bloom, fate intervenes. Bleak, haunting circumstances scatter blades across their romance, threatening to tear them apart. Ishmael, a man with a heart of thorns, yearns to mend the wound of losing Neva. And in the end, rays of love and joy filter through the clouds of horror that darken his world, as Neva appears before him once more. Twisted fate entangles them all, revealing the Game of Sphere, as misery scorches their souls. A concealed life beyond turns its pages, one after another, gathering a tale where faith and love and grace wins against the doubt and hatred and sin. --- The girl who once vowed to be his forever Now forbids him to ever appear. She refuses to recognize him, Disregarding all he ever was. He vows to protect her. Yet he is the terrifying truth she prays is a lie. He trips her, rips her apart— He's the living tragedy looming over her life. He once was her Elayne, now her hiraeth. He is the villain, pretending to be the hero.

Velkaar, the Golden Emperor, met his end not in battle but by breaking his own heart. Shattering his essence in a final, desperate act to find another of his kind. The age of dragons had ended, their memory fading into a sad tale… until that moment. And in the ashes of his despair, he found her. An egg. The last of his kind. Raised by a dying woman , taught to speak, to feel, and to hope until loss drove her from the only home she had known. With nothing but a name, a shard of unknown power, and a lineage she does not yet understand, she walks a world still haunted by the horrors that killed her kin. But the world does not forget what it fears. Nor does it forgive what it cannot control. And somewhere, in the dark corners of reality, something ancient is stirring again. Cults lurk beneath the peaceful lies. Reality itself is breaking. The strings are being cut. She is not ready. But time does not wait. /// Please read the first fifteen chapters if you find the synopsis interesting.

Endless wars since the beginning of time, a thousand year cycle of destruction between purity and corruption. Was it merely the whims of fate, or was it a cruel joke from the Heavens above? Whatever the case, Noah Blackwell will end it all no matter the cost, even if he was the only Harbinger of Negativity to win the war over fate. Saint-Supremes, Void Creatures, the Universe, they matter not. In this broken world, will his path to right the wrongs succeed, or will he lose it all over impossible ideals? =============================== Instagram: @Wen._.Ming (No Discord server yet) ===============================

In a distant past, the seven Ancestral Beasts clashed, and the blood they spilled rained onto the entire plane, infecting humans and animals alike, making them part of their powerful bloodlines. As a small village’s hunter, Liam was unaware of the consequences of that legendary battle. His sole goal was to become a cultivator to gain the strength and resources he needed to avenge his family. Yet, when Liam’s Ancestral Bloodline awakened, he uncovered a connection between his family’s killers and the Dragon King, a connection that could expand his revenge to the entire Kingdom. -------------------- Discord link: https://discord.gg/mefzf3aQJ8 Instagram: eocnovels X: @EoCNovels Cover artist: https://digitalrowye.com

About: Tear The Finite is a dark fantasy / psychological fantasy web novel. It is not a LitRPG or system novel; it focuses on tragedy, gods, revenge, and the cost of survival. Synopsis: The world was shaped by three gods: the God of Heaven, the Goddess of Hell, and the God of Nature. Each created a different concept of existence as humanity knows it. But when the gods cursed Eve, they created something they could no longer control. Driven by vengeance and forced to survive in a brutal world, Eve sets out to punish the very beings who shaped reality itself. Will she succeed in her revenge, or will she fall into the hands of the gods?

Waking in a desolate desert with no memories, he is drawn by the voice of a mysterious guide toward a path he cannot yet understand. With little knowledge of himself or the world around him, he must decide if he will follow its guidance, or doubt his own mind.

In a world where magical and spiritual forces clash, the story of "The Continent of Magic" begins in the city of Etrigan, where an unknown fate forms amidst darkness and hope. Adam Ethan, a cold and mysterious young boy born into a family of powerful sorcerers, lives with an inner struggle, revealing only indifference and secrecy, while his family wavers between hope and concern for his future. In this city, where mana dances in the horizon, Neil, a simple boy with pure dreams, encounters Adam's enigmatic character. Neil tries to understand this distant boy, observing him without forming a friendship. Yet this observation quickly leads him to unexpected discoveries, opening a door to hidden mysteries beyond his comprehension. As the story unfolds, both Neil and Adam face challenges that reveal the true nature of this magical world filled with secrets. Between the clash of power and self-discovery, each confronts the reality of his fate in an adventure rich with mystery and trials.

Everyone wants to live the best life they can. But for some people each day is a death sentence. The urge to take your life with each passing second. Then love comes knocking. Is the feeling enough to change your fate and be the drive you need to survive or will it become the perfect excuse for you to end it all. After loosing her mother at a crucial point in her life and facing a life threatening disease, Bella withdrew herself from society but High-school was the last place she still had to go. She would scale through it quietly and never show her face to the world again. But fate had other plans. The new boy in the block seems to have taken a liking for her but she has no interest in him. But as fate would have it,a friendship brewed between them and it seemed like life was giving her a chance to be happy but storms don't end. After a harsh breakup, she moves on with life drowning herself in poverty until she finds out the people around her aren't human and there was alot more going on in her simple quiet community than she thought there was vol 2 Three months to graduation, Bella finds out that she must die to save all her friends from dying but ignores all the warning signs. Just until the first death happens. Read to find out what happens next. Thank you Hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it. Power stones,comments and reviews are much appreciated. Much love from the author

After a mysterious death, Mystic Fire is given a second chance at life by a powerful otherworldly entity, but with a warning: he will be the last soul ever granted this power. Reborn as a struggling high school student with no parents, no money, and barely enough food to survive, Mystic tries to endure his miserable life while hiding the pain of his past. His only source of warmth is Luna Frost, his insane and clingy childhood friend who refuses to leave his side. But as Mystic begins another year at Satoshi Academy, strange memories and unanswered questions surrounding his previous life begin to surface. What was the true reason behind his death, and why was he chosen for rebirth? His ordinary school life is about to become anything but ordinary.

Reincarnation in a game as the Main Antagonist. It could be a novel itself, but that was what I dragged myself into. In the famous and successful game [Princess And Dragon] As if my life wasn't shitty enough, a bastard brought me in that hardcore violent Dating Sim Game and in the body of the worst villain and [Major Antagonist Edward Falkrona] If I want to survive, I have to become strong. If I want to be strong, I have to join the Academy and by joining the Academy, I will meet these guys... Yeah, I'm obviously speaking about the Protagonist, the Main Heroines, the Villainess and all the villains. Am I destined to watch that protagonist build his harem in front of me?! =========== For the illustrations and questions: https://discord.gg/47PvntgB3K

(This story is undergoing a change: due to complications in the story, the author has decided to reorganize it entirely. Therefore, every second of waiting is appreciated, and each comment will provide more ways to improve their writing.) I remember the history books. “Humanity defeated the demons that invaded Earth 500 years ago.” “Magic was the power that guaranteed this victory.” That's true to some extent. But there's a past that has been erased. A time I lived through. A time when humanity was on the brink of extinction, facing something far worse than the records dared to tell... or that historians wished to remember. It's been a long time. My memories are failing. My sanity too. This may be my last entry. If this book disappears, remember one thing: It wasn't the demons that became humanity's greatest fear. I became it. I came to tell the story of a man I knew. Someone important to me. He was the most hated man of all. But he was precisely the one who brought hope to a world doomed to end. Beside them were people I loved. Who died before my eyes. This truth will be told from their perspective. …And perhaps from mine. If I can still remember who I once was.