survival

The world relies on Hunters: elite warriors forged in the fires of the Spirit Realm, wielding inhuman strength and the "Rune of Light." But the apex predators of this world aren’t beasts; they are Spirits. Born from divine residue and fueled by human emotion, they range from harmless floating puddles to the catastrophic entities known as Witches. A Witch is a walking apocalypse, capable of unmaking a kingdom in a weekend if she’s having a particularly bad Tuesday. Naturally, because humanity is nothing if not predictable, these engines of destruction are also sought after for their "otherworldly beauty", but there is only one way to find and tame the great spirits, venturing into the spirit realm, surviving your journey to the god tree, and being branded with the "Rune of Light." Chase is an adventurer who spends his days sweating in the dirt for copper coins and his nights dreaming of glory. He’s got the heart of a lion, the wallet of a beggar, and a moral compass that points directly toward "overpowered fighter who could kill a dragon". Its worth a shot. Chase's ultimate goal in life is to become a hunter, his nation sits directly on the border of the great white forest, a place brimming with monsters. If the monster population is not stabilized it would cause a massive wave of monsters to descend upon his nation and the surrounding nations causing many deaths and the displacement of tens of thousands. One mistake means death. One success means godhood. For Chase, the risk is worth it—because in Andromeda, you either die a monster-slayer or live long enough to become a legend.

After obtaining the Mech Designer System, Ves aims to create the greatest mechs in the galaxy! In the far future, the galactic human civilization has entered the Age of Mechs. The countless lesser powers of humanity have come to adopt mechs as their main weapons of war. Only a small number of humans have the right genetic aptitude to pilot these destructive war machines the size of buildings. Born to a military family in the edge of the galaxy, Ves Larkinson is one of the many people who lacks the talent to earn glory in battle. Instead, he became a mech designer. Helped by his missing father, Ves has obtained the mysterious Mech Designer System that can help him rise in the galaxy and beyond. His mechs based on the principles of life quickly allows him to rise to prominence. Powerful and highly compatible with mech pilots, his products have the potential to take the market by storm. However, success does not come easily, and countless challenges bar his ability to sell his mechs to a market eager for innovation! With the sins of the human race in the galactic arena slowly catching up, Ves must navigate the perils of the ultra-competitive mech market and maintain control over his growing organization of misfits. This is the golden age of mechs. This is the golden age of humanity. The question is, will it last? "Any challenge can be overcome as long as I design the right mech!" --Join The Mech Touch's unofficial Discord server! https://discord.gg/APB5KCU --Follow my Instagram and Twitter! https://www.instagram.com/mlduong https://twitter.com/MLDuong --Cover Art by Derek-Paul Carll (carlldpn) --The Mech Touch is an original webnovel written by ML "Exlor" Duong. --The Mech Touch is mainly published on Webnovel.com and a select few platforms affiliated with the parent company of this website. --Artificial Intelligence / AI clarification: Since I started to write and publish The Mech Touch on 2018, I have never used AI tools to write my webnovel. All of my chapters are written and proofread directly by me for many years. The only automated tool that I have used is the basic spellchecker that comes standard with the Google Docs application. I have not changed my approach towards writing chapters for The Mech Touch even as technology has advanced and introduced new tools. I will continue to maintain my current approach for this webnovel until it has come to an end.

Lyra thought she was just a survivor—an orphan scraping by in the shadows of a kingdom at war. But the night she’s captured by Raiden, the infamous Dragon Prince of the Fire Nation, everything changes. He is ruthless, dangerous, and devastatingly magnetic. She is sharp-tongued, stubborn, and hiding a secret even she doesn’t fully understand. Together, they are forced into a journey of trials, quests, and betrayals—where every step pulls them deeper into danger… and closer to each other. As Lyra’s hidden powers awaken with terrifying force, Raiden becomes the only one who can push her through the fire without letting it consume her. But passion is as dangerous as battle, and the storm building between them may be the greatest threat of all. As kingdoms march to war and enemies close in from every side, Lyra and Raiden are forced into a dangerous bond—one that blurs the line between hatred and desire. But the deeper their connection grows, the more perilous the truth becomes… Because falling for the Dragon Prince might not just break her heart. It might burn the world to ash. Steamy tension. Fierce banter. Heartfelt moments. Deadly quests. In a world on the brink of ruin, Lyra and Raiden must decide if their bond is a curse… or the only thing strong enough to save them both.

In a world ruled by power, rules decide who deserves to live. Ryder McKalliff was nothing special—a shy construction worker with a minor ability, a loving mother, and a sister he swore to protect. But one mistake was enough to brand his family as criminals. In a single night, the system he trusted executed his mother, murdered his sister, and declared him a fugitive. Hunted by society and abandoned by justice, Ryder awakens a forbidden power—Dark Overlord, an unknown skill that drags him into a ruined world where monsters reign and survival demands blood. There, every kill makes him stronger, every ally bends to his will, and every step pulls him further away from the boy he once was. When he returns, the world hasn’t changed. Only he has. Now living under a false name, Ryder steps into the shadows of underground combat and global tournaments, climbing a hierarchy built on cruelty and spectacle. To tear down the system that took everything from him, he must become something far worse than a victim. Not a hero. Not a savior. But a ruler of darkness. Because in this world— only those who break the rules get to rewrite them.

A flaw in the structure of the universe. In a single, incomprehensible instant, all human beings on Earth were erased from its surface and scattered across Gaia, a vast world of mana, ancient races, and limitless power.

Set in late medieval stages of England in the year 1457, it follows Roald, a thirteen year old boy with a passion for crafting steam powered water vessels as he finds his whole world, beliefs, and views forever changed when one day a man in a strange, mechanical cart who prides himself as a "boatmaker" arrives in his little village and takes him along a thrilling journey back to his kingdom Dillaclor as his newfound apprentice, but when they arrive, not only will they find the kingdom have been strangely altered, but there is also a figure puppeteering the strings underneath. Now, with strange alliances and even stranger friendships, they must craft themselves a way to stop the figure from completely dismantling the great image of Dillaclor, saving it's citizens from a potential tyranny and uncovering dark secrets that lay within the palace walls.

In the universe of Odyssey Online, legends do not die. They become ghosts. After a calculated betrayal that stripped her of her virtual empire and shattered her real life, the game’s greatest strategist was erased from the system. Now, she is a ghost, an error in the code, a player with no past, no present, and no future. With a barely functioning scrap ship nicknamed Ladybug, she drifts through the shadows, taking the humiliating jobs no one else wants. What begins as a simple quest for revenge against her former partner turns into something far darker. She uncovers that her downfall was not an act of jealousy, but a conspiracy that reaches into the real world, orchestrated by an enemy she never knew she had. To uncover the truth, she will have to ally herself with forces that should not exist, and become a myth far more terrifying than the one that was stolen from her. Can a single player, armed only with her brilliance and a cold thirst for vengeance, break an entire system? The hunt has begun. But no one knows for certain who is the hunter… and who is the prey

Ryo Kenzaki was just a high schooler. Ordinary. Forgotten. Content to fade into a crowd and wait for the end of the day. Then a star fell from the sky, and everything changed. In a moment of instinct, he pulled a bleeding woman from a crater—and learned that the world he knew was a lie. The Human Realm exists on borrowed time, separated from the Hunting Realm by a crumbling threshold. On the other side, monsters wait. Creatures born when Hunters break—warriors twisted into something that only remembers hunger, their humanity consumed by an endless need to kill and feed. When a Spider creature hunts Ryo across burning ruins, he's dragged into the last sanctuary: a dojo at the edge of both worlds, run by a woman who expected his arrival. Tsukihime offers him a choice—one that isn't really a choice at all. A blade. A Kizugami—a weapon forged from wounds themselves, blessed with a terrible awareness. It doesn't serve the wielder. It judges them. And in the moment Ryo touches the hilt, he feels it: the blade seeing into him, searching for something, finding him wanting. But there's no walking back. A Kaimon hunts him. A cosmic Eye watches from the sky. And somewhere in the gathering darkness, something vast and inevitable is moving toward the world's end. Ryo never wanted to be a Hunter. Never wanted to inherit a curse he didn't deserve. But fate, it seems, has already made its choice for him. The only question left is: when everything is stripped away—when he's forced to become something other than human—can he still stand as himself once more? Or will the blade consume him like it has consumed all the others?

Maverick Langley went to sleep as a struggling twenty-three-year-old freelancer and woke up as Lilith, a five-year-old girl in the worst possible place: the Warhammer 40,000 universe. In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war. Lilith wakes in agony, trapped in a body that isn't hers, with no memory of how she got there. Beside her is Eve, her twin sister, a child with glowing red eyes and inhuman strength who has never known kindness or warmth. Together, they are experiments. Weapons. Failures. When the creators who made them decide to dispose of their mistakes, the twins must fight for survival in a galaxy that sees them as abominations. With only each other to rely on, they escape into a universe built on faith, fire, and fury. Stranded on a war-torn hive world, the sisters must navigate the watchful eyes of the Imperial Inquisition, learn what it means to be human, and hide secrets that could doom them both. Lilith carries the mind of an adult in a child's broken body. Eve knows only one truth: Lilith is everything to her. Together, they are stronger than alone. Apart, they are vulnerable. And in the Imperium of Man, weakness is heresy. As dangerous powers awaken within Lilith and unseen forces take interest in the strange twins, they must learn to survive in a galaxy where even the Emperor's protection has limits. "In the darkness between stars, who protects the Emperor's broken children?"

Torn apart and eaten alive by zombies, Jiao Lizhi died filled with regret and hatred. As darkness engulfed her, she opened her eyes—only to find herself back at the beginning of the apocalypse. Crawling back from hell, she sought revenge and fought to live a better life. Watching his loved one torn to pieces before his eyes, he lost his sanity. To avenge her, he destroyed humanity’s last hope with his own hands. On the day the world was swallowed by darkness, he took his own life as the last man standing on Earth. When he opened his eyes again, he vowed never to lose her again! As the world turns into a living hell, will they be able to undo the regrets of their past lives? TRIGGER WARNING! Gore, Violence, Graphic scenes, Abuse.

After transmigrating into the body of Uchiha Itachi, he expected bloodshed, conspiracies, and the weight of a doomed clan. Instead, he got something far worse. A system. Not a battle system. Not a cultivation system. A game-development system. “Based on detection, this is Earth, 2024. Please complete your first game as soon as possible.” He is trapped in the ninja world… yet forced to create modern games. No chakra-enhancing rewards. No forbidden techniques. Just deadlines. Fine. If fate insists on tormenting him, he will return the favor. If the system wants games, then he will give the world games—Uchiha-style. Psychological. Cruel. Inescapable. “Netherworld Game… activate.” From that moment on, the ninja world gained something far more terrifying than a prodigy of the Sharingan— An Uchiha who turns illusion into interactive despair, dragging the entire world into his handcrafted nightmares.

What would happen if the Emperor of Mankind and His Primarchs were forced to watch verified records of the Imperium’s future together? They would witness the deaths of loyal heroes, the betrayal and downfall of brothers, the true nature of the Warp, and a distant future where the Imperium survives only through stagnation and sacrifice. Faced with this forbidden knowledge, the Emperor and His sons must decide whether to tighten control, defy fate, or accept inevitability—and whether knowing the future can prevent catastrophe, or only hasten it. (This story is written by a new author out of love for Warhammer. It focuses primarily on the Imperium and the Primarchs.)

Leo died like an idiot and got a second chance in a world that doesn't tolerate idiots. Dropped onto forbidden Oni territory, he's forced into a death hunt where survival should be impossible, but his body adapts through violence, pain, and sheer refusal to stay dead. One brutal victory earns him gold, status, and the attention of Iori, a warrior prodigy who's never tasted defeat. Now, traveling a continent where strength is law and gods play with mortals like pieces on a board. Leo faces a simple question: how strong can you become when dying just makes you harder to kill?

Ebony Baptiste agrees to a first date with a man she met at the university library after weeks of late-night phone calls. James seems charming and fascinated by her work in natural medicine and virology—but his interest is anything but innocent. When he drugs her with plans to abduct her, something ancient intervenes. Raphael—a powerful jaguar shifter—has been watching from the shadows, knowing from the moment he saw her that she is his fated mate. When her life is threatened, he unleashes the beast within. James doesn’t survive. Shaken and unsure of what she witnessed, Ebony struggles to reconcile science with the image burned into her memory: burning amber eyes in the dark. Detective Gabriel Cruz, a white witch sworn to protect the city, knows the truth—but revealing it could change her life forever. As danger closes in, Ebony is drawn into a hidden world of shifters, witches, and ancient bloodlines—where destiny doesn’t ask permission. It claims you.

"Ark" or "Arknights" is a next-generation MMORPG that once reached a peak of 80 million online users worldwide. The game's setting is a world called Terra—not to be confused with "Holy Terra"—a vast and chaotic planet thirty times larger than Earth, filled with expansive lands and plagued by frequent natural disasters. The story follows Felix, a player who is unexpectedly transported back in time to the period before the game's official server launch. However, instead of returning as a player, he finds himself reincarnated as an NPC within the game. Now functioning with all the traits and systems of an NPC, Felix becomes a legendary figure among players. To them, he is: A mysterious merchant A dreamlike mentor An unattainable ideal for countless female players Within the world of Terra, Felix is more than just an NPC—he is seen as a spiritual guide, a false priest, a dreamer, a philosopher, a reformer, a philanthropist, a loner, a seeker, an explorer, and a pioneer. His motto: "Let the players enjoy the game—while I profit from every second they do." --- Quotes from notable figures in the game: Jesselton: “I could take two or three punches from Saria, but I wouldn’t dare take even one from Felix. Even if God ordered me to, I’d go to war with Him instead.” Arturia: “Felix’s presence makes me want to perform before him for three days and three nights, without rest.” Patriot: “Your ideals… they are reality.” MacArthur, a five-star American operator, once remarked: “All it takes is a single move from him, and he’ll dominate the entire Terra Daily hot search list. The moment I saw Felix on the battlefield, I knew—there was no turning back.”

Aurora was always the "stain" in her perfect family. While her younger sister was adored for her beauty, Aurora was hidden away, despised for her appearance, and treated like an ugly servant in her own home. Her fate seems sealed when her father sells her as a wife to a womanizing baron twice her age. But on the night her family tries to murder her to collect the insurance money, destiny intervenes. An ancient white wolf, the last of her lineage, passes her essence to Aurora before dying. Aurora awakens with a heart-stopping beauty and a power that Alphas would kill to possess. When she is rescued from the altar by Castian, a banished and dangerous Alpha, Aurora believes she has found her hero. What she doesn’t know is that Castian only sees her as a piece on his board to reclaim the throne. In a world of wolves where she is the most coveted prey, Aurora must discover whether her beauty is a blessing or a curse, while fighting not to give her heart to the man who plans to sacrifice her.

Kiran has lived her whole life under a curse — A curse that tightens around her heart with every passing day. Desperate and fearless, she performs a dangerous summoning, hoping to free herself from the fate that hunts her. Instead, she awakens the devil — Lucian. Cold. Untouchable. Bound to her by the same mysterious curse, Lucian is not just a stranger pulled from the darkness. He is tied to her heart in ways neither of them fully understands. Now fate has drawn them together, and the curse that binds them may be the very thing that destroys them. Because some devils are not summoned by accident… They are awakened for a reason.

The world ended centuries ago, leaving cities in ruins, beasts in the streets, and humanity reduced to shadows of its former self. Amid the wreckage, fragments of a magical network—the System Echo—linger, granting power to those daring enough to use them… at a cost. Elias is eleven, an orphan who has learned that survival is a game of wits, patience, and instinct. When he discovers a fragment of the System, he steps into a world more dangerous than he ever imagined—where every choice can bring power, madness, or death. In a world that preys on the weak, he must navigate ruined streets, rogue magic, and a system that may hold the secrets of humanity’s downfall. In this dark, post-collapse world, survival is only the beginning—and the line between courage and destruction is razor-thin.

a kid who's dream is just like any other normal kid, want to use a magic want to live in isekai fantasy world that kid got killed in terrorist attack and reborn in a world were pure magic exist but kid don't get overpower after birth he train him self so he and his family can live in that magical world but can he live like he want?

Herakles. Son of Zeus, Glory of Hera, and one of the greatest heroes to walk this earth. And you know what? F#ck that. She is my twin sister, and Fate can fight me in a parking lot. This is a world where Alcides (Young Herakles) was born as the twin sister of an amnesiac man, packed with mostly useless 21st-century knowledge. A man whose first priority is to protect his dear superwoman of a sister...if the insanity of ancient mecha-gods filled Greece didn't end him first. Fanfic URL (My main site and more updates!): https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14544815/1/Re-Herakles (Demigod OC, Big Sister!Hercules, #TeamHestia, Fate/Strange Fake Universe)