survival

Originally, Kamiyo who stayed in the Sand Village just wanted to grow up in a lowly way, and ensure that he could survive and live comfortably. As for the fighting and killing, let the protagonists do it. But there are unexpected events, Kamiyo's immediate boss suddenly sent him to Konoha as an undercover, and did not give him any chance to refuse. Kamiyo had no choice but to compromise and choose to go to Konoha as an undercover. However, Kamiyo's undercover career had not even begun, and he was discovered by Minato Namikaze. The most unfortunate thing was that the only boss in the Sand Village who knew his undercover identity died, and Kamishiro directly became an illegal resident. Kamiyo sat on the Kazekage, looking at the sky blankly. How can this be played? ---------------------- Advanced chapters at p@treon

What happens when a man is too great to be allowed a single life? After his death in the war of the Mahabharata, Karna does not find peace. He finds repetition. A cycle without end. A universe that refuses to accept his death. Forced to relive existence across countless lives, Karna begins to understand a truth hidden from gods and men alike— Fate is not absolute. It is enforced. And he is the anomaly that threatens it. But to break the cycle… He must answer one final question: Is freedom worth the destruction of destiny itself?

Lucas Hernandez was a marketing analyst with a bad knee until a distracted driver on Delancey Street turned his life into a literal cartoon. Transmigrated into the world of Kim Possible as an athletic teenager with a four-fingered animated body, Lucas discovers he’s bonded to the "Trope Architect System." In a reality governed by Saturday morning cartoon logic, he can see the invisible narrative threads that force villains to monologue and heroes to walk into traps. By spending "Narrative Points" to edit scripts in real-time or equipping "Trope Cards" to manipulate probability, Lucas is no longer just watching the show—he's the one directing it. But as his "Narrative Debt" climbs and his interventions start breaking the show's perfect win-loss record, he realizes that even in a world of slapstick and gadgets, the consequences of changing a story are very real.

In a universe where humanity spans countless star systems, power is no longer measured by wealth or rank, but by mastery over magic fibers, living threads of energy woven through both flesh and machine. Kaelen, reincarnated from Earth, awakens in the Core, the political and military heart of civilization. Within him lies the DNA of the first magic fiber scientist, the genius who fused magic fiber with advanced technology. Clad in a heavy red steel mecha made of circuitry woven from his own fiber-yarn, he stands at the intersection of man, machine, and magic. Beside him, though the galaxy knows her by another name, stands Seraphine Vale, the universe’s most celebrated stage goddess. Bathed in silver light, she commands billions with a microphone in hand. Yet, beyond the stage, she is something far more dangerous: a lieutenant general whose silver magic fibers mobilize fleets as easily as her fibers move crowds during her performances. Though he never wanted to be a part of warfare, Kaelen finds he must act to protect his love and humanity. He rises to become a Tesseract Realm mage, the absolute peak of the present human mage hierarchy to shield humanity from extinction.

After a bus crash in his previous life, a man awakens in the summer of 2010 as the "forgotten" sixth member of Lenny Feder’s legendary childhood clique. He is bonded to the "Rewind & Repair Protocol," a causality-manipulating system that identifies "critical bugs"—emotional damage and missed opportunities—within the friend group's history. Using the system's "Causal Intuition," he must navigate the high-stakes comedy of a lake house reunion while spending points to fix his friends' crumbling lives. As he raises his "World Integration Score," he discovers that being a true friend is the only way to keep the timeline from glitching out of existence.

In the story where we witness Karon’s journey both inward and outward, our first stage is the Silent Forest. There, we will read and judge his struggle with loneliness and survival in the wild, and we will see what a child can become in such an environment.

He threw money on the bed after our one-night stand. I threw it back in his face at his own inauguration. By sundown, we were engaged. By the week's end — married. Franklin Flemington needed a wife to secure his empire. I needed a miracle to save my family. For two years, we played our parts flawlessly — the golden couple the whole city envied. Behind closed doors, I was invisible to him. When the two years were up, I handed him divorce papers without blinking. He stared at me like I'd lost my mind. "I've given you everything a husband should. What more do you want from me, Octavia?" I smiled, signed my name, and walked out. I thought that was the end. I thought I'd finally won. I forgot one thing — Franklin Flemington has never lost anything in his life. And he has no intention of starting with me. Game on.

Being reincarnated into a world filled with perpetual violence, unending chaos, and never ending drama has to be the worst feeling anyone could ever experience. Weren't good things supposed to happen when these things happened? At least a guy can get a fade before all this pandemonium ensues right? Join the M.C as he navigates the world of Invincible as the titular protagonist of the series Mark Grayson, and experience how he does things his way; If he lives long enough to do it that is. Book #1 of the "Self Insert" Series. To see more chapters in advance, see other works in progress/being created, and to get a different type of viewing experience. Be sure to check out my Patreon. I will be posting this story on RoyalRoad.com and other sites https://patreon.com/Vinneer.

A human girl is captured during a border raid and used in a forbidden ritual meant to bind her life to the Demon King’s. The ritual fails… or so everyone thinks. Months later, she discovers she’s pregnant — not with a demon, but with a hybrid heir whose existence could end a thousand‑year war.

Leo wakes up in a foreign world with no memory of his name, past, or purpose. The only thing he’s certain of is this: if he wants answers, he’ll have to survive. Forced into a lethal trial designed to forge assassins, Leo navigates a brutal alien landscape filled with rival killers, hidden agendas, and treacherous power plays. His instincts are flawless, his reactions precise. It’s as if he was born for this, though he has no idea why. As the tests grow bloodier and secrets begin to unravel, Leo learns he may not be just another participant, for whispers of a legendary figure begin to follow him, a being long believed to be dead, a God-Killer with no equal. Now a target of both fear and worship, Leo must master his skills, uncover the truth behind his identity, and outwit enemies who’d rather see him buried than reborn. Because behind the silence of his forgotten past lies a legacy too powerful to ignore, and a destiny that refuses to be denied. -------- NOTE - The MC in this story is a cunning vigilante type character who is morally gray and will often make questionable choices not befitting a traditional 'Hero' type character. Find me on discord at - raj_shah_7152 or join the server - https://discord.gg/rfcvNwUMjv

Set in the world of Bloodborne, Shadow of the Moon follows the events of the main game through the eyes of Lucero: an outsider turned hunter.  Yharnam is a city of legend with tales of a miraculous cure-all: Healing Blood. A strange substance that promises good health and untold power. For decades, the sick and weak, and greedy  have made the treacherous journey in hopes of finding this blood. While most would perish, very few souls manage to enter the city’s wall alive. Alas, none ever leave for there is a terrible curse which blights the city’s streets. A mysterious scourge births monstrous beasts. Follow Lucero as he unravels the many secrets and mysteries behind the city of blood. Will he discover the eldritch truth locked away in the Yharnam’s roots, or will he be driven mad? Legal: BLOODBORNE is an Action/Horror PS4 Exclusive published by Sony, developed by FromSoftware and co-developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE). This is merely a work of fanfiction and does not claim any property as its own. 

Rhaego Targaryen died before he was ever born. That was how the story was supposed to go. instead, he awakens in the ashes from the flames with scales beneath his skin, wings at his back, and carrying memories that do not belong to this world. As Daenerys Targaryen builds her path through Essos, her son grows at an unnatural pace, learning power far beyond even her dragons. But the world is not kind to things it does not understand and Westeros even less so. Far to the North, war gathers. Old enemies rise. And the choices made by a boy who should not exist may change the fate of kingdoms… or burn them to ash. The game has changed. This time, the silver queen has an heir.

After being killed in a store accident, meeting a mysterious R.O.B., and remade into a super soldier, Jason finds himself reincarnated in The 100. Now stuck with a bunch of reckless delinquents on a post-apocalyptic Earth, he’ll have to fight, adapt, and outsmart to survive. “Dammit, this should’ve been Marcus, not me…” Patreon.com/Fredozy

A Detroit factory worker's life ended under a falling engine block, but he woke up tasting copper and sand in a world that had forgotten the smell of rain. Stranded in the skeletal remains of a vehicle graveyard, he discovers his body is no longer entirely human—it's host to a "Living Dungeon Armor," a silver-gray parasitic organism that hungers for scrap metal and radiation to evolve. As he navigates the brutal politics of the Citadel and a tightening blockade by the Bullet Farmer, he must master the "Breath of the Machine" to awaken dead engines and link the minds of the desperate into a telepathic Hive Mind. In a wasteland where everything has a price, his survival depends on feeding a suit of sentient steel that learns from his pain and turns his very skin into a weapon of war.

In the year 2147, humanity no longer fights with guns or machines alone — they fight with genes. After the discovery of Primal Gene Fragments hidden within mysterious dimensional rifts, scientists unlocked the ability to evolve human DNA beyond its natural limits. The world entered the era of Gene Evolution. Cities became fortresses, corporations became gene empires, and the strong devoured the weak. But evolution is expensive. Only the elite can afford powerful gene upgrades. Kai Ren, a poor slum scavenger living at the edge of Mega City Helios, survives by collecting scraps from abandoned rift zones. During one dangerous expedition, he discovers a forbidden relic buried inside a collapsed alien ruin. Instead of killing him, it binds to his DNA. [Ultra Gene Evolution System Activated] Unlike normal gene users who must buy or steal genetic upgrades, Kai gains something impossible — a system that allows infinite evolution. Devour mutant beasts. Absorb alien DNA. Break the limits of human biology. Each evolution pushes him closer to something unknown… something no longer human. But Kai soon discovers the truth. The rifts were not natural. They were doors. And something beyond them is evolving as well.

This is a Fanfic of the webnovel Shadow Slave by Guiltythree ;] As usual, this is an OC character that follows the story of a Legacy named Dein. He's just a guy who has the worse luck in the whole world. Two worlds even. ;] He's also a bit schizophrenic but anyways, I've only written this because I wanna practice writing. [Disclaimer! This story has a lot of swearing. Why? Because I like swearing ;]

Brian finds himself drawn into a journey one of a path lined with ancient mysteries, fractured truths, and a history long obscured and twisted. As veils lift and secrets unravel, he becomes entangled in forces far greater than himself. Yet through it all he starts to understand his own path. This is a story of revelation, where an already fantastical and mystic world is not what it seems.

Sophia Martinez, a 24-year-old early childhood education graduate, desperately needs a job to pay off student loans and support her sick grandmother. When she becomes the live-in nanny for ruthless billionaire CEO Alexander Steele's six-year-old twins, she enters a world of wealth, grief, and dangerous secrets. Alexander has shut down emotionally since losing his wife Elena in a car accident two years ago, leaving his children Emma and Ethan to act out with a succession of short-lived nannies. But Sophia is different, she sees through his walls and is determined to heal this broken family. As Sophia bonds with the twins and falls for their emotionally unavailable father, she discovers that Alexander's world is built on lies. Elena's death wasn't an accident, it was murder, orchestrated as part of a conspiracy targeting the Steele family. Corporate attacks on Alexander's empire, media manipulation, even Sophia's own hiring, none of it was coincidence. When Alexander's supposedly dead father emerges from the shadows, Sophia learns the Steele family legacy involves international intelligence, hidden enemies, and deadly power games spanning decades. As she discovers her own family's connections to this secret world, she must decide if love is worth the price of a life built on secrets and danger. From passionate romance to deadly betrayals, their love story becomes a battle for survival against forces that will stop at nothing to destroy the Steele legacy. Can their love survive when trust becomes impossible and everyone around them has hidden agendas?

[ WARNING: THIS NOVEL CONTAIN SCENES OF EXPLICIT GORE AND VIOLENCE] Kaganashi live his life in dedication to his job as a game developer till it finally payed off, his game sold more than ten million copies in just one week, his wife finally gave birth after three years of pregnancy and his father just woke up from his thirteen months coma. With good news like that, nothing could go wrong. That was until he was killed on his way home and was forcefully reincarnated into a fantasy world, where he woke up in the body of Bell without the memory of his past life. --- This is my first fantasy novel, so it might not be as good as other novel but I promise to improve in my writing and I will gladly receive any criticism or advice from my readers. What to expect; overpowered MC, fast paced action, slow paced storytelling, leveling system, romance, harem, no NTR, slavery and explicit scenes of gore.

One moment Nikolai was an MMA-trained veterinarian fighting for his life in a Moscow alley; the next, he woke up in the thin, uncalloused body of Roderick of Oxenfurt, a disgraced nobleman exiled to a crumbling manor in a sulfurous swamp. Stuck with fourteen exhausted settlers and a ruined fief, he discovers the "Convergence Dominion Matrix," an amber-gold system that rewards him not for killing, but for the "Social Convergence Index"—the density and diversity of intelligent life he can get to coexist. Using his vet instincts and "Anatomy Read" to diagnose everything from sick rats to ancient Conjunction-era anchors buried forty meters deep, Nikolai must turn a monster-infested marsh into a multi-species stronghold. Between bargaining with Dopplers and surviving the "Dread Sense" of the rotting east wing, he's realizing that the Northern Kingdoms’ monoculture is a fragility he was sent to fix—one species at a time.