survival

A series of short stories happening within the Cursed universe while also connecting to the Earth's defenders series. These short stories will release alongside the Arcs of the current novel which is Cursed: Earth's defenders. The first two short stories will release within the release of arc eleven. These are Aro's story: Torture and The ripper: Hukani incident I will publish two chapters a week at 6pm BST, on Thursday and Friday When a story ends another will begin shortly after, at most two weeks in-between stories. The first chapter will be published on the 21st of May. Please comment suggestions and any feedback you have on how to improve for the next chapters. And if you feel like the short stories should be included with the current series instead please let me know.

KILL SURGE is a dark isekai web novel built on a single, relentless engine: survival through violence that cannot ever fully stop. Mark is summoned into a dying world as a Slave Candidate, and the blessing he should have received fractures into a curse-and-boon loop. Any kill refills his body completely; any real lull in danger drains him toward death. The first arc is an escape through a fortress designed to contain summoned assets—ritual halls, anti-magic corridors, specialist barracks, bureaucratic record vaults, and sewage underworks—where every fight changes the board: routes open and close, keys upgrade, heat escalates, records are burned, and wounds persist as limitations even when his meters refill. Dialogue stays sharp and functional; lore is revealed through action—seals, brands, ledgers, protocols—never through speeches. As the series escalates across continents and institutions, Mark’s power does not “level up” from killing; it refines. He becomes cleaner, faster, more procedural—while an anti-cheese consequence accumulates: each refill subtly erodes cognitive control, compressing decision windows, dulling empathy, and twisting threat perception. The world’s corruption is not only a monster in the dark; it is rot embedded in systems that label people as assets. Mark’s answer is not salvation. It is enforcement.

Merin is reincarnated into a new world.  After he died in his previous world. And the new world is an extraordinary world. He is full of curiosity and fear for the new world. But he is born in the new world as a tree. Struck in a place. To explore the new world, he tries to find way to escape from his tree body, or transforms himself to a humanoid. In the process, he finds the reason he reincarnated into this world.  A mirror, that can send his soul to reincarnate into new worlds. Authors note- The first volume would be of Merin's life in another world and as a human.

A saga of gods, mortals, and the war against the End. When the old gods fade and new ones fracture, darkness finds its chance. Across forgotten villages and cursed lands, fractured faiths awaken—Slavic deities, Gods, angels, saints, witches, monks and hunters—each clinging to crumbling power as the Devil moves unseen. From broken forests to holy empires, scattered souls rise to resist the coming storm. Bound by fate, divided by belief, they must decide what to protect: their gods, their people… or something greater. Because in the end, when heaven falls and hell awakens— Only the last faith will stand.

Marcus Lopez was supposed to be a broken orphan running from a fire, but the soul that woke up under that San Francisco overpass brought something older back with it. Transmigrated into the deadliest school on earth, he discovers an "Ancestral Memory" talent that allows him to relive the lives of history's greatest killers in his sleep. While Master Lin watches for weakness, Marcus uses "Death Consumption" to grow stronger from every life he takes, turning his peers' trauma into his own fuel. He isn't just trying to pass his finals at King's Dominion; he's building a composite identity from a thousand years of blood, all while a mysterious text message proves that someone in the cartel knows he isn't the real Marcus anymore.

One minute, a red truck was ending his life on Fifth Avenue; the next, he woke up as Harley Vaughn, a scarred extras coordinator for Vought Studios in a world where "superheroes" are corporate-sponsored nightmares. Stranded in the post-Season 1 timeline with nothing but a $2,100 bank balance and a cracked phone, Harley discovers he possesses the "Mythmaker’s Ascension"—a system that harvests collective human belief to rewrite reality itself. He doesn't need Compound V to become a god; he just needs enough people to believe he is one. As he navigates the dangerous shadows of Homelander and Stormfront, Harley must master a "Narrative Field" that turns public perception into physical power, starting with a few thousand believers to crystallize his first rank of superhuman durability. In a city addicted to legends, he’s going to give them one they can finally believe in—even if he has to fake it until it's real.

A high-stakes management consultant from Boston trades spreadsheets for a Glock 19 after waking up in 2008 London as James Moriarty. Trapped in the BBC Sherlock universe years before the detective's debut, he must refine his Spider's Web ability to transform a sloppy criminal crew into a global empire. While balancing a dangerous romance with Molly Hooper, he applies corporate efficiency to the underworld, discovering that his new body possesses lethal muscle memory perfectly suited for the upcoming Great Game

[#Guideverse. #GuideXEspers #poly #throuple #1v2 #R18 #3some] Ayen used to be part of the Adrift Organization, a private company of guides. However, as he was the lowest of his entire batch, and it could even be said that he was barely considered an E-class Guide with a pathetic amount of energy that made him no different from a normal person, he was kicked out of the organization miserably. He didn’t have a choice but to apply to the Guides Association, which was managed by the government, and that only meant he was now both a civil servant and a member of the military. With a meager amount of energy, and as the lowest-level E-class Guide at that, no Esper had ever chosen him. No one with their right mind would really choose him. And five years later, at a certain forbidden zone, Ayen met Khal and Devion, two dangerous SS-class Espers. Two Espers that no guide could handle, and a Guide that no Esper had ever chosen. Two different situations and an unexpected discovery. #Guideverse. #GuideXEspers #poly #throuple #1v2 #R18 #3some

Tia Xu. A useless peasant never meant to exist. An unranked awakener. No power. No future. In a world ruled by magic, monsters, and measured worth—he was nothing. After thirty years of failure, he chased a legend… and chose death. But death refused him. “Soul rejected. Return denied.” Reincarnated without mana, aura, or talent, Tia is cursed with something far worse than weakness—a system that doesn’t favor him, and a tragic fate that won’t let him escape. In a world of gates, gods, and hidden bloodlines, he must carve a path without power… while uncovering the truth behind: – his missing parents – the legend that consumed his life No talent. No blessing. No second mercy. Yet somehow… he will become something far greater than imagined. #WeakToStrong #Reincarnation #System #NoHarem #MaleMC #MagicAndSwordsmanship #Gates #Academy #Deities

A thousand years ago, the gods vanished and their power splintered into fragments called Mysteries. The Heroic Age ended in fire and blood, leaving behind an Iron Age of corruption, war, and decay. On the border of the Imperium Arkanis, a cursed youth named Ithan awakens a forgotten flame. Banished from his village and branded as a blasphemer, he takes up the life of a mercenary — only to discover his fire is the same divine gift Prometheus once gave mankind. As his power grows, allies fear him, enemies hunt him, and whispers spread a new name across the Iron Marches: the Ashborn. But Ithan's fate is only one thread in a world unraveling. Across the seas, the rising empire of Nova Roma conquers with legions powered by Aether, led by an immortal emperor who once slew gods. In the heart of Arkanis, Princess Diana sees the coming storm and struggles to unite fractured nations before it is too late. And from the ashes of a fallen sea-kingdom, Theseus of Pelagion carries a warning: Rome has returned, and the age of Mysteries may be ending. Steel will clash, empires will burn, and the fire of rebellion will rise again.

Yang Wu suddenly transmigrates to the world of Swallowed Star with a time simulator, becoming Yang Wu, a senior student at the Limitless Martial Arts Academy. Note: You can read +100 advanced chapters in my patreon: Patreon.com/Kakarot17

Meet Kai, a Pokémon fan who got far more than he expected when he loaded up his old Heart Gold save file. To his astonishment, he found himself pulled into the game, awakening in the vibrant world of Pokémon. Now, with excitement and determination, he sets out on an incredible journey to become the very best! Kai is about to set off on his own Pokémon adventure, a journey filled with unexpected twists and turns. Along the way, he’ll come to realise that the real world of Pokémon is far less forgiving than the games, with challenges that test his skills, courage, and determination at every step. If you enjoy my work and want more to do with Pokémon, check out my Patreon channel! https://www.patreon.com/lavalord115

In a world shrouded by fate's haze and woven with deception, who dares seize true victory? Through endless corridors of choices, missteps, and folly, whose hand truly shapes the game? "He" awoke, a stranger cast into an era of steam and shadows, where cannons roared and miracles teetered on the edges of madness. The stage is set. And when, "Their" fates collide, the game would hurtle toward its inevitable end: The Final Gambit. ******* LIVE WORDCOUNT: 149.332 words - 38 Chapters ******* Cross-posting to Royalroad, Wattpad and AO3

Arthur Sterling died exactly as he lived: a ruthless liquidator who spent his life gutting the weak for the powerful. Reborn as a starving beggar in the muddy slums of a magical world, Arthur realizes a sickening truth: the "Gods" of the higher realms treat this universe exactly like his old enemies treated their victims. It is a disposable battery farm. Mortals are just livestock. And the world is ripe for the harvest. Arthur refuses to be a pawn in a rigged game ever again. He isn't going to slowly climb this universe's cultivation ranks. He is going to conquer it from the top down. [Ding!] [Congratulations on Activating the 10,000x Infinite Return System] [Passive Skill 'Bind' Unlocked: All Experience, Cultivation, and Insights gained by Bound Targets are passively transferred to the Host at a 10,000x multiplier.] Why lift a finger to train when the world is full of eager, naive heroes willing to bleed for you? Arthur slaps his first Binder on a plucky "Chosen One." The boy sweats blood to swing a wooden sword a thousand times. [Ding!] [Target 'Caden Cross' has completed 1,000 sword swings.] [10,000x Multiplier Activated!] [Host has gained: 10,000,000 perfect strikes. Forging Domain-Level Sword Intent!] His mortal body violently restructures into that of an apex predator, but he doesn't stop there. Arthur aggressively expands his reach. He binds an untouchable Arch-Mage suffering from an ancient curse and a terrifying Demon Empress chained in the abyssal depths. Feeding on their passive energy, he tears through the absolute limits of the Mortal Domain in mere days. The cataclysmic influx of cosmic power forcefully rewrites his DNA, forging the Dimensional Breaker Physique. It is an impossible, reality-defying vessel, a body so devastatingly dense that it completely nullifies the physical laws, supreme curses, and crushing gravity of the universe itself. To Arthur, the arrogant deities of the Apex Realm and the Celestial Court aren't untouchable Gods. They are just bloated tyrants sitting on stolen power, waiting to be dethroned. When the Heavens finally notice the anomaly and descend to enforce their absolute laws, Arthur doesn't bow. He forcefully severs the planet's leylines, transforms an entire floating academy into an apocalyptic dreadnought - the Ebon Citadel - and blasts his way into the higher dimensions. Armed with a pitch-black sword wreathed in the Primordial Flame of creation, Arthur Sterling is coming for the throne of the multiverse. The Gods built a slaughterhouse to harvest the weak. The new Emperor is here to burn it to the ground.

After dying in his old world, a Lord of the Mysteries fanatic awakens in Pritz Harbor 2 years before Klein Moretti opens his eyes in Tingen. He is now Lucian Vale, sole heir to a wealthy, powerful, and corrupt coastal family. Branded as a Blessed by the High-Dimensional Overseer, granted a dangerous boon, and hunted by the vultures circling his estate, Lucian realizes that wealth and caution alone will not keep him alive. To survive, he chooses the Abyss pathway and becomes a beyonder. In the years before the gray fog rises, Lucian forges House Vale into a dominant beyonder faction, his name spreading beyond the harbor as a rising terror in the beyonder world. Yet, long before the final apocalypse can unravel the world, a crimson light ripples above the gray fog, and a remarkably rational Devil takes his seat at an ancient bronze table. ‎ ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ‎ Alger: 'A Devil... personally accepted by Mr. Fool. I dare not question "His" arrangements, but my survival instincts are screaming. What terrifying plan is “He” preparing? Could "He" be planning to use him against the Seven Churches? No... thou shalt not test God. I must observe carefully.' Audrey: 'His emotional colors are perfectly controlled, like any proper Loen gentleman. Yet my Spectator vision catches the suffocating pressure beneath his gentlemanly calm. It feels so dangerous! To walk such a dark path while keeping his manners... Mr. Devil must carry a very complicated burden. No, no, you must not pry too deeply, Audrey!' Klein: ‘A wealthy member with stable Beyonder channels should have been good news... No, that sounds too shallow. This is clearly to strengthen the Tarot Club’s foundation and improve its long-term development. But why did my new “reliable channel” have to be a literal Devil? Why couldn't he have Miss Justice's bright, pleasant personality? ‘...Wait, no. A cheerful, innocent-acting person happily performing bloody, sacrificial Devil rituals is actually infinitely more terrifying. I take it back! I’m still just a broke Nighthawk trying to afford decent meals. Why does every step toward making The Fool look more impressive also make me feel closer to dying young?' ‎ ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ‎ https://abyssalscholar.com/ 2 chapters/week ~3000 words/chapter

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.

This is a world drowning in filth and chaos. To attain glory, opulence, luxury, and true freedom, one must become a noble Madman of Zaun – someone who stands above the rules.

The Peerless Tang Sect is an era without hope, an age controlled by an invisible hand. It appears vibrant, full of life, and ablaze with brilliance, yet beneath that prosperous facade lies corruption without hope or possibility. Birth, decay, and death form the inescapable cycle of all things. And yet, even in the harshest environments, the most tenacious lives can still bloom into defiant flowers. Even amid corruption, vivid colors can still emerge. Forced by disaster to become an evil soul master, Chen Ming refuses to surrender to fate. Even if he is treated like a stray dog in the street, he will never stop barking at the heavens themselves. All things decay, but all beings are immortal.

Lin Mo transmigrates into the Pokémon world, only to be caught in the crossfire of a war between the gods of time and space. The collision of divine power tears his fate apart—and he is reborn again, crashing into the Douluo Continent like a blazing meteor, beginning his third life. At six years old, Lin Mo awakens Innate Level 6 Spirit Power and twin martial spirits. The first is a mysterious Little Dragon Egg—a martial soul that cannot hatch until he reaches Level 10 Spirit Power. Once it hatches, it grows alongside him, unlocking new spirit abilities as his cultivation rises, and evolving again and again into a terrifying powerhouse. The second is a future answer from ten thousand years later: a golden body martial soul formed from heart and blood—a path of body refinement that forges him into something that cannot be broken. Charmander Evolution, Burning the Heavens and Destroying the World [Charmander (Lv10)] → [Charmeleon (Lv30)] → [Charizard (Lv50)] → [Super Charizard X (Lv70)] … A dragon of flame that brings “small shocks” to the Douluo world—shocks that quickly become fear. Heart Forging Body, Indestructible Flesh Starting from the heart, Lin Mo tempers his organs one by one—five viscera, torso, bone, blood, and the whole body—until he reaches the final stage: an indestructible body. In this life, Lin Mo will no longer lie low. With the fire of a dragon that breathes destruction, he will burn through every obstacle. With a body that refuses to fall, he will carve his way upward—step by step—onto the road to godhood.

Voldemort is dead. In his final moments, a bright, cheerful voice echoes in his mind. Would you like to start over? Tom Riddle answers yes without hesitation. Of course he wants another chance. Whatever the price is, he will pay it, as long as he gets to do it all again. When he opens his eyes, the former Dark Lord finds himself in an orphanage in 1991. Only this time, everything is wrong. He is no longer Tom Riddle. He is a girl named Tamara Riddle. And to make it worse, she is bound to a ridiculous Virtue System. [Welcome, your account has been bound to the Virtue System!] To become stronger, she must accumulate virtue points. Tom: I am Voldemort. I can kill whoever I want. [WARNING! Strong murderous intent and malicious attack detected!] [Penalty activated: Level 1 electric shock.] With her eyes still stinging from the shock, Tom forces a gentle, harmless smile, while quietly calculating how to eliminate everyone in the room. But as the days pass, she does not kill a single person. Instead, the people around her start to like her. Then trust her. Then protect her. And when the truth finally threatens to surface, nobody believes it for a second. Harry snaps, furious: “What nonsense are you spouting? Tamara cannot possibly be connected to the Dark Lord!” Tamara only sighs, soft and tired. “Sorry, Harry. He is already the Dark Lord.”