survival

When the System arrived, Earth broke. Monsters rose, cities fell, and killing became the fastest way to grow stronger. Kael should have died on the first day. He had no power, no destiny, and nothing that made him special. But he survived something impossible, and whatever woke inside him did not feel like a gift. Now every victory changes him, every reward leaves a scar, and in a world that turns survival into progress, Kael must become stronger without becoming a monster.

I stood in the quiet of the drawing room, fists clenched. “Adrian… you have no idea what you’ve done. You walk back into my life after all these years, and everything I planned—my independence, my future—it’s on the line because of you.” He took a slow step toward me, his expression unreadable. “Evelyn… I didn’t come back to disrupt your life. I came back because I couldn’t stay away. Because I couldn’t stop thinking about you.” I let out a bitter laugh, shaking my head. “You couldn’t stay away? You were promised to her—Miranda. To my sister. And yet here you are, acting like the world revolves around your feelings, ignoring mine.” “I never ignored you,” he said quietly, his eyes searching mine. “I just… I couldn’t control it. Even then, even as a boy, I wanted to protect you. And I still do.” “Protect me?” I echoed, my voice rising. “Do you know what protection cost me? Years of being overlooked, underestimated, treated like I didn’t exist? I worked my whole life to plan my escape, to make something of myself on my own terms—and now you’re here, threatening it all.” He hesitated, then stepped closer, his voice low but earnest. “I don’t care about promises, Evelyn. I’ve always cared about you. And I’ll do whatever it takes… even if it means standing against my own family.” I shook my head, forcing back the anger and the heat that flared within me. “I don’t need your promises, Adrian. I don’t need your protection. I need my life. I need my freedom. And I refuse to let anyone, not even you, dictate it for me.” His jaw tightened, and for the first time, I saw uncertainty flicker in his eyes. “Evelyn…” “This isn’t about what you want,” I said firmly, stepping back and holding his gaze. “This is about me. About my future. And I’ve made my choice. You will have to respect it—or step aside.” A tense silence fell between us, heavy with unspoken words. And for the first time, Adrian Cross realized that I was no longer a girl to be protected. I was a woman who would fight for herself—at any cost. Evelyn Hart had spent her entire life overlooked, living in the shadow of her brilliant sister and a family that never truly believed in her. At eighteen, she planned to leave it all behind and chase her dream of becoming a model — independent, unrestrained, and in control of her own future. But fate had other plans. Adrian Cross returned — the man once promised to her sister, the boy who had silently protected her all those years, and the man she could never afford to rely on. His presence threatened everything she had carefully built, stirring emotions she had long worked to suppress. Caught between family expectations, past promises, and a dangerous attraction, Evelyn must make the ultimate choice: surrender to the life everyone expects of her… or claim her independence, no matter the cost. In a world where endurance meets courage, she will discover that true power lies not in being loved, but in standing alone.

Transmigrated to the world of One Piece, before the story has even begun. My identity is a member of the Rocks Pirates. My luck isn't bad, as I've activated a system called the Six Paths Sage. From the Sage Body to the Nine-Tailed Chakra Mode, then to the Kurama Mode, Six Paths Sage Mode, I will ultimately become the Six Paths Sage.

After dying in his old world, a Lord of the Mysteries fanatic awakens 2 years before Klein Moretti’s transmigration as Lucian Vale, heir to a wealthy coastal Loen family that has just been wiped out at sea. Given a boon and made a Blessed of the High-Dimensional Overseer, Lucian chooses the Abyss pathway and sets out to gather enough power to shape the world before the gray fog even rises. Alger: 'Mr. Fool, why have you let a serial killer into the tarot club!?!?' Little Sun: 'Mr. Devil is truly a very kind and helpful person. He only smiles a little strangely sometimes, but that must be because he is a bit shy!' Klein: ... https://abyssalscholar.com/ 3 chapters/week ~3000 words/chapter

Getting shoved into a horde of zombies by a group of spineless survivors was not how Hana expected to die. Then again, neither was dying as the most notorious villainess among them—the kind who used people without hesitation and discarded them just as easily. An unflashy, pathetic end. She deserved it… didn’t she? But the universe wasn’t done with her yet. Hana wakes up in a completely different world with a system notification she can’t ignore: Karma Points: -1,250,000 To survive past one month, she must bring it back to zero. No shortcuts. No cheats. No killing. Just… being a ‘good’ person. “…You’ve got to be kidding me.” As if that wasn’t bad enough, during her quests, she keeps picking up strays—dangerous, powerful, clingy strays. “Hana, you need to pay attention to me today.” The dragon beastman murmured, crowding into her space. “No way, Hana promised to cuddle me,” the nine-tailed fox added sweetly, offering her a flower. “What nonsense? Hana said she would fly with me,” the falcon beastman cut in, wings twitching. “You’re all delusional.” The snow leopard beastman scoffed, tail flicking lazily. “Hana already made plans with me.” Hana this, Hana that, Hana blah, blah and blah! Hana pinched the bridge of her nose, exasperated. Saving her karma might be possible. But surviving them? That might be the real challenge. And the system was definitely not helping.

When the power dies in Savannah, it doesn’t come back on—it wakes the dead. As the city collapses into chaos, the Leesburg family is torn apart across multiple frontlines. Dr. Sharon Leesburg barricades her floor inside a failing hospital, sealing herself in with women in labor, newborns barely hours old, and staff already breaking from exhaustion. Below them, emergency rooms become feeding grounds. Above them, there is nowhere left to run. Every decision she makes costs lives—she just has to choose which ones. Her husband, Dr. Ellis Leesburg—a top-clearance military neuroscientist stationed at Hunter Army Airfield—races to contain an outbreak he helped study, only to realize it has already breached the base. Whatever safeguards were in place failed quietly, efficiently, and far too late. Their children are scattered through a city gone dark. Six-year-old Ella Belle, the heart of the family, never makes it home from school. She vanishes somewhere between early dismissal and total collapse—leaving no answers, no trace, and no time. Twenty-three-year-old Justin Leesburg is forced into leadership on the streets, navigating dead zones and back alleys with dwindling supplies, a handful of traumatized survivors, and the constant fear that every step away from home is a step farther from his missing sister. His younger sister Tally—volatile, reckless, and desperate to matter—keeps dragging danger toward them, mistaking noise for courage and control for heroism. Mari, Justin’s partner, is pushed past patience into brutal honesty. Kenzie, a quiet survivor carrying her dog and the memory of her family’s deaths, learns quickly—because silence, not strength, keeps you alive. This is not a story about clever zombies or easy survival. The dead react to sound. The living react to fear. Every choice is loud. Every mistake echoes. And while the horde closes in from the outside, the real danger fractures the people still breathing—grief, guilt, rage, and the unbearable question haunting them all: Where is Ella Belle? Surviving Zombies is a visceral, character-driven apocalypse that strips away hero fantasies and replaces them with moral collapse, trauma, and the brutal truth of survival: you don’t just fight the end of the world—you fight each other, and yourself, while it’s happening.

"Fro the love of money is the root of all evil" Seven mercenaries from across Asia are deployed into Zarakhanda—a nation already collapsing under a silent war between global superpowers. What begins as a simple extraction mission turns into a death trap when they are cut off, hunted, and forced to navigate a battlefield controlled by rival militias… and foreign intelligence agencies pulling the strings. As alliances fracture and truths surface, the team realizes they were never sent to rescue anyone.

Growing up in the outskirts of the Dream Realm, Corvin strived to create a better life for his sister. When the Nightmare Spell became the only option, he took it. Transported into an ancient corrupt world, he found himself walking a road toward something that should not exist, fighting to keep alive a girl already claimed by fate. What he could not have anticipated was that saving her would cost him something no power in the world was meant to touch — his soul. This is a fanfiction set within the universe of Shadow Slave, written by GuiltyThree. All power systems, cosmological lore, and established mechanics belong entirely to him. Only the characters, story, and original worldbuilding are my own.

(WARNING: R+!9 Contents) In a world torn apart by the undead, survival is no longer about just staying alive. It’s about who you’re willing to trust, what you’re willing to give up, and how far you’ll go to feel something human again. Iyisha Clarke, a young doctor with more instinct than experience, crosses paths with Malcolm Briggs, a former Navy SEAL carrying wounds deeper than just the physical. They didn’t plan to travel together, much less depend on each other. But between dodging zombies, stolen kisses, and broken boundaries, their connection becomes harder to ignore. Supplies are scarce, safe zones are shady, and sex in a zombie apocalyptic world is messier than it sounds. Some people are trying to rebuild. Others are just trying to breathe. And somewhere between a dying government and whispered hope, Iyisha and Malcolm might find more than just survival. They might find a reason to live.

Path Of War is an AI-assisted novel which takes readers into Masashi Kimoto's world of ninjas that's filled with martial arts and political struggles. The year is 2026. A devout Christian named Arthur Bennett wins a lottery to participate in Elysium's experiment. As the other six participants—a mix of personalities with varying degrees of Japanese animation knowledge—prepare to enter the simulation, Arthur remains the only one who has never indulged in anime. Upon entering this new world, he discovers an unsettling truth: if he dies here, he dies on earth. Calls for him to be released from the experiment go unanswered. Now he must deal with real-world consequences such as hunger, thirst, hygiene, and even death. Angered that he was deceived, he abandons all sense of logic and vows to become a villain no one had ever seen coming.

In 2026, the world froze over in an apocalyptic ice age. Dean Winters, a man struggling to survive, is betrayed by his lover, his best friend, and the very group he kept alive. Left to die alone in the frozen wasteland, his life came to a bitter end. But death does not claim him. Instead, it hurls him back to a time before the apocalypse began, with every memory intact and a mysterious superpower known as Tyrant’s Ledger. The first of its kind to awaken among humanity, it allows him to perceive numerical values that reveal whether a person is hostile or friendly, and whether an object, location, or resource is spoiled, corrupted, or lethally dangerous. This time, with his newfound power, Dean won’t just survive. He will crush anyone who stands in his way, gather the powerful under his banner, take revenge on those who betrayed him, and rise from the snow as a true Winter Tyrant.

It was never supposed to happen. On a cold night just after New Year’s, a group of friends killing time at a Nashville mall makes a stupid decision, one that feels harmless in the moment. A trail in the woods. Five minutes. Nothing more. Then they hear a scream. What they find beneath the cliff isn’t a person, and it isn’t an accident. It’s a cave that shouldn’t exist, glowing with a pale, unnatural light.. and something inside that is listening. After that night, nothing is the same. The voice follows them. Not always loud. Not always clear. Sometimes it sounds like someone they love. Sometimes it sounds like themselves. And when they listen for too long, something else comes with it—something that walks the woods after dark, unfinished and patient, never rushing, never seen by the wrong people. The Gang of friends weren’t chosen. They weren’t special. They didn’t unlock a prophecy or inherit a curse. They made a mistake. As fear fractures their friendships and silence becomes unbearable, the group is forced to confront an impossible truth: the thing beneath the trail is older than the city above it, and it doesn’t need to chase them to ruin their lives. It only needs to be heard. Set in modern-day Nashville, What Listens Beneath is a slow-burn supernatural horror about ordinary teenagers thrown into something ancient and unforgiving—where survival isn’t about strength or courage, but about knowing when not to listen. Because once something hears you… it never forgets.

On the snow-bound borders of the empire, General Chu Hongying commands legions with unbending steel and a heart she swore to silence. When fate binds her to Shen Yuzhu—a frail strategist whose mind gleams sharper than any blade—their alliance becomes a mirror reflecting both strength and vulnerability. Together they must survive the empire’s shifting chessboard, where bloodlines are currency and truth is a weapon. Between snow and flame, they discover that even hearts tempered by war can still learn to tremble.

After waking up, everyone will travel through a wasteland world, and the survivors will face various challenges such as acid rain, extreme cold, extreme heat and mutant creatures. Every corner holds unknown dangers, and the survivors have to adapt to this harsh environment. To withstand natural disasters, the survivors must build their own shelters in this dangerous land, stockpile enough water and resources to survive before the disaster strikes. While others struggle daily to gather rotten scraps and fight over limited supplies, fear and desperation slowly spread through the wasteland. Vikram Parker awakened a plant system. While others are scraping for a little bit of food, Vikram can cultivate crops. While survivors reinforce their shelters with fragile wood and broken metal, he grows living walls of vines and sturdy thornwood. His plants can bear fruits, purify water, and gradually transform barren land into fertile soil. As the regional chat fills with panic before every incoming disaster, Vikram calmly harvests fresh vegetables inside his green sanctuary. Looking at the endless cries for help and warnings of starvation, he can’t help but think. Surviving in the apocalypse isn’t that hard. Goals for the first 300 chapters: - Daily Update 1 Chapter Power Ranking Top 3 = 1 Extra Chapters! Power Ranking No 1 = 3 Extra Chapters! Every 20 Golden Tickets = 1 Extra Chapters! A Castle = 5 extra chapter! A Spacecraft = 10 extra chapters! A Gachapon = 15 extra chapters! ................................................

Died in the cold. Starved. Betrayed. Devoured by the very people he once trusted. In a world where humanity collapsed into chaos, kindness was a weakness-and he paid the price for it. But fate gave him something impossible. A second chance. He awakens 30 days before the apocalypse. This time, he knows what's coming: The freezing world. The rise of enhanced humans. The fall of civilization. And the moment the people closest to him chose survival... over him. But Jae-Min is no longer the same man. Cold. Calculated. Unforgiving. Armed with knowledge of the future, a growing spatial power, and unmatched precision as a sniper who never misses, he begins to prepare-not just to survive... But to dominate. As factions rise, monsters emerge, and the world descends into war, Jae-Min moves from the shadows-one step ahead, one bullet at a time. This time, he won't be the one abandoned. This time... he chooses who lives. Warning: This novel contains graphic violence, gore, explicit sexual content, psychological trauma, and mature themes intended for adult readers only.

The world fell slowly and cruelly under the weight of a virus that transformed people into flesh-hungry shadows, reducing everything to ruins... but not to silence. There are echoes - in their memories, in their nightmares, in buried truths - that still resonate. If they manage to decipher them in time, those echoes could lead them to salvation. If not... they will be dragged into the same abyss that consumed the world.

[Transformation + Infinite Flow + Beast Evolution + Gene Fusion + Mimicry Lolita + Movie Monsters + Urban Domination] Reborn as the weakest female vampire bat in the cave, Lilith thought she would live a mundane life like this. However, after Lilith reached adulthood, the God Game descended upon Earth, and Lilith awakened the SSS-level talent [Gene Domination]! Merge with all things, plunder genes, and evolve infinitely! From the Blood Orchid of the Anaconda Disaster to the Perfect Killer of the Alien, Lilith, with her SSS-level talent [Gene Domination], has gradually risen to become a cosmic behemoth comparable to a god. However, in order to obtain the T-virus during Resident Evil, Lilith devoured a large number of zombies and also gained a large amount of human genes. After a recent evolution, Lilith gained mimicry, transforming from a female bat into a little girl with white hair and red eyes. From then on, Lilith, with the body of a loli, stepped into the human world, engaging in territorial struggles with humans, and ruling the game battlefield with the body of a giant beast.

Shawn was bitten by a zombie on the very first day he arrived in the world of The Walking Dead. Just when he thought he was finished, he unexpectedly awakened the “7 Days to Die” system. In this apocalyptic world overrun by the undead, he wielded a massive warhammer, striking fear not only into zombies—but also into the hearts of the surviving humans. From Quarry Camp to the Prison Fortress… From Southeast Atlanta to the entire United States… With the system in hand, Shawn crushed everything in his path, climbing to the top step by step on a mountain of corpses. Yet sometimes, even he felt confused. "Weren’t zombies supposed to be endless?" "So why do there seem to be fewer and fewer the more I kill?" ------------------------ Unlock the next 30 chapters at: https://patreon.com/Rexlent47

After a year of relentless effort, Alex becomes the first to conquer a tutorial quest deemed impossible by the entire playerbase of Endless Leveling Online. But instead of loot or leaderboard fame, he earns something far stranger—an invitation from the God of Games. He was given a one-way-trip to Arcana. A world where stories shape reality, where he could become the Protagonist of his own story. In a land of endless possibilities and ever-shifting destinies, Alex would try to bend the rules, rewrite fates, and forge his own legend. But being the Protagonist means more than glory. It carries a heavy responsibility. As secrets unravel and alliances are tested, Alex must decide whom he must protect, and save before the world collapses under the weight of its own story. ------- Join me in Discord: https://discord.gg/UesrNGmKWz

Wondered if a cryptomining app would make you a Superhero..or villain? Damen Dark is an unfortunate orphan trapped in a cruel household, forced to endure the abuse of his uncle, his family, and a world that seems determined to break him. One ordinary day, he receives a mysterious link on his phone advertising a new app—DemCoin, a cryptocurrency mining program. Damen knows it’s probably a scam. But curiosity gets the better of him. At first, the app seems harmless. It “mines” coins by targeting living beings—stray animals… and people. With little expectation, Damen uses it as a private outlet for his bottled-up anger, siphoning coins from those who torment him: his family, his classmates, the bullies who rule the streets. It feels like justice. It feels good. But DemCoin is far more than a mining app. As Damen accumulates enough coins, hidden features unlock—features that allow him to target individuals and steal their powers. What begins as survival turns into temptation, and temptation into transformation. With every stolen ability, Damen grows stronger… and more dangerous. Now faced with unimaginable power, Damen must choose who he will become. Will he take revenge on a world that never showed him mercy, or rise as a hero to protect it? The truth lies somewhere in between. In a cruel twist of fate, Damen soon realizes the irony of power: the stronger he becomes, the greater the threats that hunt him. And worse still, DemCoin is not just a tool—it is a force, subtly guiding his path. Whether he knows it or not, the app isn’t shaping him into a savior. It is forging a supervillain. And Damen Dark may have no choice but to become exactly that.