survival

“City of Quiet Wars A feared literary mogul recovering from illness crosses paths with a former prisoner whose favorite novel helped her survive incarceration. Their lives collide in a city where power hides pain and healing arrives in unexpected forms.

In the neon-flickering streets of New Orleans 453, Adam spends his days numb and aimless—trapped in a tiny apartment, numbing his mind with an obscure indie game, cold leftovers, and sleep. Life feels stuck, like a bad loop he can’t escape. Until one night… he does. He wakes up in a tower—not just any tower, but an impossible, living structure that stretches endlessly through the sky. having many portal, and each portal leads to a completely different world. Some are made of bones and shifting flesh, their walls crawling with eyes. Others are forged from gears, steam, and broken time. There are dreamlike gardens of light, glitching voids of darkness, and futuristic cities where nothing breathes. This tower is a relic of a desolate planet—where remnants of war, science, and forgotten souls blend into one.

Ten thousand and nine people are selected to beta test the world's first VRMMORPG called the Decagon. A game that offers players complete freedom, where all their choices matter and form the story itself. Every choice they make will change the game world itself. The players enter the world to find that it is a fully furnished and fleshed-out world with everything they expected to be there, but one thing. There are no NPCs of any kind in the starting area or outside either. The players are the only ones within this game world, as they decide everything and anything that happens. Though the reaction to this is numerous, one thing they do not seem to realize is that there is a reason ten thousand and nine players were chosen. For those nine players, a completely different game would begin soon. One that would change their purpose and goal within the game from everyone else drastically.

Ruaan Calder is many things. Wealthy. Charming. Completely guilty. He made one bad decision — okay, several — and now he's trading his designer suits for prison grey. Fine. He can handle that. He's handled worse. What he didn't account for was 'Officer Harolin Crowe.' Cold. Ruthless. Unfairly attractive for someone whose entire personality is making Ruaan's life a living hell. The man has it out for him specifically — blocking every move he makes, sabotaging every attempt to climb the prison hierarchy, and showing up exactly when Ruaan is 'thisclose' to winning. It's personal. Ruaan just doesn't know why yet. Every Thursday, the prison runs its games. Win and you move up. Lose and you wish you hadn't. Ruaan is determined to reach the top — and Crowe is determined to keep him at the bottom, under his boot, where he belongs. The problem? Being under Harolin Crowe isn't nearly as unpleasant as it should be. And the man who swore to make him suffer keeps finding very creative ways to do exactly that. Ruaan Calder deserves everything coming to him. 'He just didn't expect to enjoy some of it.' --- WARNING: Dark themes, prison violence, explicit content, morally grey characters, and a villain who may or may not deserve what he gets. Enjoy!

You think you can understand Chaos? Foolish! Chaos isn't merely disorder; it is the ultimate paradox - Life and death, creation and destruction, the beginning and the end. In a hyper-advanced future built on quantum technology, humanity is awakened by the same energy tearing the universe apart. Entities from a higher dimension invade, forcing humans to the brink of extinction. In the shadows of this broken world, Missio Augustus wanders aimlessly like a lost soul, fighting his own inner darkness. As the Lieutenant General of the Black ops division, he goes on a mission to capture an international kingpin but experiences his life-long trauma once again. While falling into depression, he watches as an ancient church brings mayhem upon humanity... This is a relaunch of my original work. I am moving this story from my previous account (SageofMusic) to this new handle (Ekadash). I am the sole creator of Music Box Mayhem.

In the shadows of Naruto’s Hidden Leaf Village, a peculiar figure quietly rewrites the rules of shinobi life. Hiruko—a man carrying the mind and methods of a “Mad Chemist”—walks the thin line between genius and madness. By day, he is a fully licensed Konoha researcher. By evening… he indulges in “experiments” that make even seasoned ninja uneasy. Spies vanish, secrets unravel, and science advances—whether the village likes it or not. Whispers call him one of the “Twin Wolves of Konoha.” Others label him an unhinged scientist. Hiruko, however, insists he’s merely… thorough. Even legends feel unsettled around him. Orochimaru finds his gaze disturbing. Tsunade demands the return of stolen bloodline secrets. And Jiraiya, ever the opportunist, seeks inspiration from Hiruko’s bizarre tales. Yet beneath the rumors and dark humor lies a dangerous truth: Hiruko isn’t just experimenting on bodies— he’s dissecting the very foundation of the ninja world. And when science replaces jutsu… Konoha may never be the same again.

In Konoha Year 46, Hyuga Aokawa gained Quincy powers, and the battlefield gradually changed after that. Lightning Release + Divine Annihilation Arrow, a headshot from 800 miles away. The Wind Release: Holy Arrow combined with a single shot destroyed the enemy command post, ending the battle. Explosion Release + Rain of Light, a barrage of attacks blanketed the battlefield. Hyuga Aokawa gazed at the rout of the enemy forces: "Do you like the ninja world version of Katyusha?" Sage Mode + Spirit Particle Cluster transforms him into a mobile turret, unleashing the power of a falling meteor with every gesture. When the enemy, after numerous schemes and at a terrible cost, finally reached Hyuga Aokawa, they encountered... Hyuga Aokawa, a Quincy version of Sage Mode, is proficient in all aspects of ninjutsu, taijutsu, genjutsu, and medicine, with no weaknesses. In the realm where flesh and spirit intertwined, he grinned a chilling smile: "Who told you... I'm not good at close combat?" On that day, Iwagakure once again issued a no-responsibility evacuation order. The object is no longer the yellow flash, but a legend known as the "White Shura". Years later, the Otsutsuki God descended upon the ninja world, only to have his throat choked by a hand covered in the power of the Soul King. Hinata Aokawa looked down at the struggling god: "I heard you're also omniscient and omnipotent?" --------------------------- Join my Patreon now to get instant access to the next chapters!

REVISION IN PROGRESS (January 2026 – Present) This manuscript is undergoing ongoing revisions for clarity, continuity, and consistency. Any remaining errors or inconsistencies indicate sections that have not yet been finalized. Yanna Rivera is tired of surviving. A drowning college student in the gritty heart of Quezon City, she carries the crushing weight of her family’s predatory loans—a debt that threatens to bury them all. Her life is a suffocating cycle of panic and poverty, where she must make impossible choices just to keep the lights on. But deep down, Yanna harbors a secret, shameful craving: a desire to stop choosing. To stop thinking. To simply obey. Enter Camille Navarro. Camille is a whisper among Manila’s elite—a tattooed heiress with a body built for violence and eyes that strip souls bare. She doesn’t just acquire companies; she collects things that interest her. And when she discovers the desperate Rivera family on the brink of ruin, she doesn’t offer charity. She buys the debt. Overnight, Yanna’s creditor changes from a faceless loan shark to a woman who demands payment in flesh and obedience. The deal is a devil’s bargain: Yanna will live in Camille’s penthouse and serve her every whim until the ledger is cleared. But Camille is a meticulous sadist who sees the shivering masochist hiding behind Yanna’s fear. What begins with kneeling on munggo beans soon spirals into a dark, intoxicating world of ropes, leather, and headlocks that feel safer than any embrace Yanna has ever known. In the silence of the penthouse, Yanna discovers a terrifying freedom. Stripped of her autonomy, she is finally free from the burden of her chaotic life. But as the punishments turn into pleasure and the fear turns into worship, Yanna realizes she is falling for her tormentor. With the Navarro patriarch circling and the outside world threatening to shatter their twisted sanctuary, Yanna must face the ultimate question: Is she paying off a debt, or has she sold her soul to the only woman who knows how to break her perfectly? Tags: #BDSM #DarkRomance #Yuri #GL #Smut #Philippines #PowerImbalance #SadistxMasochist #SlowBurnToInferno #ExplicitContent #Mature18+

After dying of a heart attack at thirty-four, a high-level executive wakes up in a shallow grave in the Louisiana woods. He’s transmigrated into the body of Samuel Huffman, a 150-year-old vampire "nobody" who was recently staked and left for dead. Bonded to the Vampire Monarch System, Samuel realizes that in the world of True Blood, age usually equals power—but his system is the ultimate equalizer. While the vampire world is busy "mainstreaming" with synthetic blood, Samuel uses his corporate instincts and supernatural interface to build a kingdom from the margins of Bon Temps. From manipulating the Authority to building a loyal nest, he’s not just surviving the night; he’s rewriting the hierarchy. The System: Vampire Monarch Blood Potency (BP): The core measure of power. While other vampires wait centuries to grow stronger, Samuel can accelerate his BP through strategic actions and "consuming" influence, allowing a young-looking vampire to hit with the force of an Elder. Glamour & Mental Influence: A specialized skill tree that enhances the natural vampire ability to hypnotize. Samuel can invest points to bypass the mental resistance of humans and even cloud the minds of other supernatural beings. Territory & Dominion: The system provides a tactical overlay of Bon Temps and beyond. Claiming "Dominion" over a location provides passive resource generation (wealth and blood supply) and alerts Samuel to any rival vampires entering his turf. Lineage & Progeny Management: This function allows Samuel to track the loyalty and growth of his "children" (vampires he turns). It ensures his bloodline remains fanatically loyal, creating a built-in army that grows as he does.

Huey Coleman, a 14 year old highschooler who is average in almost all aspects of life suddenly finds himself thrust into a world that it so much more different than the one he is used to. What happens when a boy who loves his mother is separated from her when the apocalypse descends upon Earth with the arrival of the Spirit Record System. Humans turn cruel when law and order are disrupted, animals mutate into beasts even the former house rabbit now has the ability to kill an adult. What happens when the only way to survive is to fight and kill? What happens a boy takes matters into his own hands for the sake of his friends and families? And most importantly what happens when people make and enemy out of him? Follow Huey on his journey to the top as the mysteries of the universe slowly unfold before him.

Have you ever heard of Shaman? The ones said to bring entire villages to ruin without ever touching them. Deep within the forests of Thailand, legends speak of Shamans—beings capable of wielding forces powerful enough to twist nature itself into something catastrophic. Entire villages once feared their existence. Though believed to have disappeared long ago, traces of them still remain hidden beneath modern society. At least, that was what Shiguma’s uncle told him Ever since childhood, Shiguma had been able to sense things he could never properly explain—thoughts, intentions, and emotions that did not belong to him. For years, he convinced himself something was simply wrong with him. Until he discovered chess. Within the board’s patterns and calculated movements, Shiguma finally found a way to steady the unnatural perception inside his mind. What he believed to be nothing more than a strange gift soon began drawing the attention of something far more dangerous. Something tied to the forgotten Shaman world. And the deeper Shiguma became involved, the more he realized his ability was never meant to remain unnoticed. It was meant to lead him into them.

An ordinary school day. Laughter, chaos, friendship — Samuel is right in the middle of it, alongside Antony and Tyron. But what begins as a carefree afternoon suddenly falls apart. When he regains consciousness, nothing is the same. Darkness. Pain. A world that is not his own. A forest that swallows him whole. Something hunting him through the shadows. Hunger, cold — and no trace of home. Something doesn't make sense in this world.

**After the collision of worlds from different dimensions, Earth descends into chaos—invaded by humans from another realm. William, bound to a mysterious power that transcends reality itself, sees this fractured world not as an end… but as the beginning of something far greater. His choices will not shape the fate of Earth alone, but the fate of entire universes. Will his power lead him to salvation— or drag him into an abyss from which there is no return?**

Liam Blaze was born weak in a world that worships strength. Bullied for his "useless" self-healing ability, looked down upon by everyone except his family, and warned to stay away from the girl he secretly loves, Liam has long accepted that he will never amount to anything. Until the day a Zone collapses in the middle of the city. Thrown into a desperate fight for survival, Liam makes a choice that costs him everything, he throws himself in front of a D-Rank Hobgoblin to save a little girl he barely knows. Broken, bleeding, and moments from death, Liam is pulled into an ancient dragon's prison by a cataclysmic roar that shakes the entire city. There, he meets the Overlord of the Immortal Flame, an ancient, imprisoned dragon whose core was stolen and whose power has been sealed for over a millennium. In exchange for a chance at true strength, Liam must survive the dragon’s deadly trial and prove his resolve to a being who finds him both amusing and pathetic. But freedom comes at a price. The one who imprisoned the Immortal Flame has now turned his sights on Earth. With a guillotine hanging over his world, can Liam grow strong enough to stop it before it falls? For readers who want the emotional depth of western fantasy with the progression satisfaction of eastern cultivation. Will be posting on RoyalRoad.com soon too

The universe learned to listen. Now it must learn to choose. After the Seam awakened and Echo became the conscience between worlds, existence itself changed. Civilizations no longer lived in silence. Choices carried weight. Consequences were witnessed. And humanity was no longer alone in shaping its own destiny. But peace born from legitimacy is fragile. Far from the center of influence, a new presence begins to emerge—one that does not value freedom, only survival. One that offers certainty instead of consent. Stability instead of choice. For the first time, the universe will face something Echo cannot simply listen to. Meanwhile, Aarav—the boy who once stood at the center of everything—has stepped away. No longer a symbol. No longer a reference point. Just human. And yet, his absence begins to matter more than his presence ever did. As civilizations begin choosing sides, and reality itself starts to bend around competing truths, Echo must confront a question it was never meant to answer: Is freedom worth the risk of extinction? Or is survival worth the loss of choice? In a universe where morality has gravity, every decision pulls reality with it. And not every world will fall in the same direction.

Demonic beings run rampant, and cultivators revere the bizarre as the Heavenly Dao. For an ordinary mortal to embark on the path of cultivation, they must gouge out their eyes, sever their limbs, and cut off their spiritual roots… Ren Qing, who transmigrated into this world, discovers that he can bypass the gruesome costs of cultivation thanks to a Divine Ability. [Blindless Method]: By devouring eyes, he cultivates to the peak, growing one hundred and six celestial eyes all over his body. [Poison Bone Art]: Soak one's skeleton in poisonous water for thirty-six days, then reimplant it into the body. At full mastery, no life can grow for a hundred li around him. [Book of the Dead]: Seal the Lao Gong, Yong Quan, Shen Men, and Yin Tang acupoints with iron nails and bury oneself underground for three years. Upon completion, one becomes ageless, undying, and indestructible. --- Alternative Titles: Weird Way of Immortality: I Can Avoid the Price Cultivation: Tax Evasion

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When Clara wakes up in a new world, she’s no longer a top-tier survivalist from a post-apocalyptic future—she's now the newly married stepmother of four malnourished children in a poverty-stricken rural village. Her husband? A handsome but useless deadbeat who’s more interested in gambling and gossip than putting food on the table. With a thatched roof threatening to collapse, threadbare clothes barely holding together, and not a single coin to her name, Clara rolls up her sleeves. She's not here to be a tragic character. She's here to survive—and thrive. But raising four skeptical children, reviving a collapsing household, and navigating a village full of nosy neighbors won't be easy. Especially when her new stepchildren don’t trust her, and the whole village is waiting to see how fast the “new wife” will run away. Armed with grit, wit, and a lifetime of survival instincts, Clara is about to prove that even in the toughest soil, something beautiful can grow.

One misstep, and Valerius wakes up in the universe of Honkai: Star Rail. No cheats. No broken bloodlines. Just a mysterious Game Arena System with one mission: “Bring entertainment to the masses.” …What kind of nonsense is that?! But Valerius isn’t panicking. Not at all. “You all go ahead and fight your battles. I just provide the battlegrounds... and quietly profit behind the scenes.” And thus begins the era of Interdimensional PvP. Where warriors from Teyvat and the Express are dragged into game after game— Each more absurd than the last. Mafia Night: “Herta, clues are only 3 points each. Final offer—take it or leave it.” Zombie Survival Mode: “Keqing, this is called an RPG. One shot and even the Tyrant will cry for his mom.” Monopoly Gone Wrong: “Ningguang, 1 point per remote-control dice. Asta already bought three~” The result? Two worlds. Total chaos. Kaeya: “Two points for The World! Jing Yuan, what’ve you got?” Jing Yuan: “Hmph… Tail, do your thing.” Svarog: “No evil survives while I stand.” Lord of Qlipoth: “Step away from Clara.” Clara: “Berserker~~!” Sparkle: “Fight! Fiiight! MOAR CHAOS!” Silver Wolf: “Did I wake up in the wrong patch version or what...?” Multiverse war? Check. System hijinks? You bet. Profit-hungry MC playing 4D chess while everyone else fights? Absolutely. When Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail collide in a reality-bending game arena, only one rule remains: Don’t trust the MC. He’s the real final boss.

He woke up in Konoha. That should’ve been a dream come true. Except… he’s not Naruto. He’s not a side character. He’s— Naruto’s mother. Uzumaki Kyūsei never asked to be reincarnated into the world of shinobi… let alone become the Nine-Tails’ jinchūriki and the future “sacrificial parent” of the protagonist. In a world where fate is already written, where heroes rise on the corpses of their loved ones— He refuses to die for someone else’s story. So what does he do? He avoids danger. Avoids the “chosen one.” Avoids Namikaze Kaoru—the girl who should become Naruto’s father. But fate isn’t something you can just walk away from. Because inside him lies the Nine-Tails. Around him, war is brewing. And unseen hands are already reshaping the shinobi world.  What starts as a lazy life of freeloading quickly spirals into something far more dangerous— a clash between destiny and defiance. And this time… The story won’t follow canon.