survival

In the holy empire of Elyndor, touching the Abyss is the greatest sin. Those who survive its kiss gain power that rivals the gods—while a creeping curse devours their humanity. Shade Voss was born a noble, trained as an assassin, and condemned as a traitor. On the day his executioner raises the axe, a Rift tears open above the plaza and floods him with pure Abyssal power. Shadows rise at his command, ravenous and alive. In a single heartbeat he slaughters hundreds and awakens as the first of a new breed: a Devourer. Fleeing the capital,shade accidentally unleashes two legendary monsters the Church kept chained for centuries: Veyra Thornblade — the Crimson Berserker, a walking catastrophe wrapped in living thorns and unbreakable chains, addicted to battle and bloodshed. Seraphine Nocturne — the Calamity Witch, an ethereal sorceress who can erase existence with a whisper, burdened with memories older than the empire and a seal that—if broken—will end the world. Branded the “Three Harbingers” of an ancient prophecy, the trio becomes the most wanted beings in Elyndor. Inquisitors, nobles, and fellow Abyss-touched all hunt them—some for justice, others for the power inside their veins. To survive, shade and his cursed companions must feed the Hunger growing within—devouring Rifts, monsters, and, if they lose control, each other. But the Abyss is no gift. It is a predator. And it has chosen these three broken souls as its perfect vessels. Seal the Abyss and lose everything. Devour it—and become the new gods of a dying world. In a land where power corrupts and trust is suicide, three monsters will carve a path of blood toward salvation… or utter damnation. Abyssal Chains: Devourers of the Void Power has a price. Hunger always collects.

After the unfated fall of the goddess, her divinity doesn’t simply vanish; it lingers and clings to the protagonist like a curse, even at his deathbed. Awakening in a new world, the protagonist is forced to adapt and survive with the use of the "system", whether he likes it or not. And someone, somewhere, is trying to erase him from the narrative.

Ethan Winter, siendo el último de su linaje, asciende a la corona, pero su llegada es recibida con desdén por la poderosa Casa de los Halcones, que lo ve como un líder débil e indigno. Sin otra opción que adentrarse en un mundo despiadado, donde la fragilidad se paga con la vida, busca asegurar una alianza que fortalezca su reinado. No obstante, lo que comienza como una simple estrategia política pronto lo atrapa en una intrincada red de traiciones, poniendo en peligro todo lo que ha conseguido.

Seven wakes in a glowing forest with a broken body, missing memory, and a power core barely holding together. The Veshari fear him. The corruption hunts him. Only one girl reaches out her hand. Aeri — a child of biolight. Her glow stabilizes his failing core. Her emotions shape his power. Her trust awakens something ancient inside him. As Seven gathers materials, repairs his hybrid frame, and slowly learns the Veshari language, he evolves: Scrap → Machine Machine → Hybrid Hybrid → Resonance Being Resonance Being → ??? But something in the forest watches. Something remembers him. A slow, emotional, upgrade-driven story of survival, crafting, exploration, and a bond between light and metal. If he evolves enough, he may discover who he was. If not… the corruption will consume the world.

The night sky over the Eastern Base burned a deep crimson. Flames devoured the steel walls that once promised safety, while the screams of the dying echoed through the cold wind. The stench of blood mixed with smoke, and the ground was littered with the bodies of soldiers, civilians... and Zombies. Ashira Vale staggered through the chaos, blood dripping from the wound on her side. Her breath came in short, sharp bursts. Each step felt heavier than the last, but she didn't stop. She couldn't. She had fought too hard to die like this. Yet... she had been left behind. She turned around, slashing down a lunging zombie with trembling hands. The gate slammed shut right in front of her face as metal scraped against metal, sealing her fate outside. The people she once trusted, those she fought for, bled for, were gone. Not because they died. Because they left her. "You're too dangerous to keep around, Ashira." That voice still echoed in her mind, cold and sharp as the wind cutting through the smoke. Her teammates. Her so-called allies. The people who swore to fight beside her... had used her. And when she was no longer useful, they threw her away. She remembered the cold look in their eyes when the gate shut. The smirk on one of their faces. The whispered words that cut deeper than the wound in her body. Betrayal. That was her final taste of humanity. She stumbled toward a burning truck, the firelight reflecting in her bloodstained eyes. Every breath hurt, but the pain didn't matter anymore. The world had already ended. She glanced at the barricade she once guarded, now nothing more than twisted steel and burning corpses. The walls that once symbolized hope were falling apart, just like the trust she'd once had in people. The Eastern Base... the last stronghold of survivors. Ashira tilted her head to the sky, watching as smoke smothered the stars. Her lips curled into a faint, bitter smile. "So this is how it ends... for me." Her voice cracked as she looked at the horizon. "Even the end of the world, can't kill betrayal." She smiled bitterly. Her fingers loosened around her weapon as she sank to her knees. In her fading vision, the shadows swarmed closer—hundreds of undead closing in from every side. But just before they reached her, a faint light flickered before her eyes— like a broken screen glitching. [System initializing...] [User: Ashira Vale - detected fatal condition.] [Rebirth protocol activating.] [Returning to checkpoint: Nineteen (19) days before the outbreak.] Her heartbeat slowed. And as her body was swallowed by darkness, a final thought crossed her mind— a vow whispered between blood and regret. "This time... I'll change everything." ^^ REMINDER: This was another version of what you might think of about zombie apocalypse, This is all about survival with the help of power. Surviving is more than just staying alive. It's keeping your mind intact when the world's already gone mad. It's sleeping with one eye open trusting no one but still hoping someone's out there. It's learning when to run. When to fight and when to stay quiet enough when the dead pass you by. It's the constant battle between fear and hope knowing every day could be your last, but choosing to live is more than that...

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.

The Golden Lion of Konoha After being reborn in the Hidden Leaf Village, he expected a quiet, uneventful life as an ordinary shinobi. But an “ordinary life”? Impossible. A master of dual-sword combat, wielding the might of the Flutter-Flutter Fruit, he carries the very will and power of the legendary Golden Lion. Now, in a world ruled by chakra instead of Devil Fruits, his golden mane and roaring ambition will shake the foundations of Konoha itself. This era—will belong to the Golden Lion.

In the depths of a Tokyo laboratory, seventeen-year-old genius Sekitanki Hankō suru hito has everything—awards, recognition, respect—yet feels utterly hollow. His groundbreaking discovery of stable temporal distortions promises to revolutionize physics, but for him, it's just another achievement that fails to fill the void consuming him from within. When the world's first time machine activates, Sekitanki volunteers as its pilot, seeking not glory but meaning—something, anything to make him feel alive. His destination: the Carboniferous Period, 359 million years before humanity's existence. Within minutes of arrival, disaster strikes. A centipede the size of a train car destroys his only way home, leaving him stranded in an alien world where dragonflies have six-meter wingspans, millipedes move like living tanks, and scorpions hunt in coordinated swarms. Armed with nothing but his intellect and desperation, Sekitanki must transform from isolated prodigy into savage survivor. As weeks blur into nightmares of blood and chitin, he crafts weapons from the bones of his kills, cauterizes his own infected flesh, and battles prehistoric apex predators with improvised technology that shouldn't exist. Each fight strips away another layer of civilization, revealing something harder beneath—the stubborn human will to survive at any cost. But survival alone isn't enough. Haunted by memories of the family he abandoned and the emptiness that drove him to this desperate escape, Sekitanki begins rebuilding his time machine from impossible materials. His goal: return home and finally understand what matters. Yet when his improvised device finally activates, corrupted temporal coordinates throw him not to modern Tokyo, but to feudal Japan's Kamakura Period—an era of samurai, honor, and human violence more terrifying than any prehistoric monster. CARBONIFEROUS SCIENCE is a dark shōnen epic blending emotional devastation with brutal survival action, exploring genius, depression, and what it truly means to fight for something beyond yourself.

After her grandfather's death, Bai Hanyun was disowned by her parents and cast out of the Bai family. With nowhere else to go, she left the city and returned to the countryside. There, by a twist of fate, she discovered an antique mirror hidden in the basement of her newly purchased home. From that moment on, strange events began to unfold—until one day, she stumbled upon a prayer from a young general. Feng Xiyan, besieged by the Yuezhi Tribe and betrayed by the imperial court, had been driven into a desperate corner. With no access to water, food, or medicine, he and the citizens of Xiqiang City could do nothing but await death. But just as all hope seemed lost, Heaven intervened. From that moment on, the Feng Army and the people of Xiqiang City had enough food and water, living lives more prosperous than even the Emperor himself.

--- Curtains & Cages is a slow-burn LGBTQ+ romance wrapped in psychological drama and fame’s unforgiving glare. Elián Voss, a beautiful but emotionally repressed actor trapped under his stepmother’s control, delivers a haunting audition that goes viral overnight. As the world begins to see him, a mysterious media mogul watches from the shadows, drawn to Elián’s pain and talent. Their lives collide in a web of fake dating, buried trauma, and dangerous obsession—where love might be the only thing real. ---

In the closing days of 2027, as the world drowned itself in festivity, the U.S. Space Surveillance Network detected something abnormal approaching Earth. The object was vast, silent, and menacing. Within hours, satellite alarms blared, and authorities across continents were informed. A nuclear protocol was triggered. On the eve of January, the operation codenamed Oppression Stone Dust was launched, a joint militarized strike, humanity’s first united nuclear offensive in a century of fractured territorial rivalries. For one brief moment, nations stood together against a common enemy. I would have loved to say the mission succeeded. But instead, it marked the beginning of the end—the unprecedented fall of the world as we knew it.

In a fractured world carved by ancient wars, Japan was split into thirteen Vast Domains, each ruled by powerful “Veil Clans”samurai bloodlines bound to otherworldly pacts. Three centuries ago, the Midnight Veil descended from the sky like a curtain of shadows, birthing entities known as Yokai Wraiths monstrous spirits of concepts, emotions, and forgotten sins. They hunt by night, devour memories, and warp reality. To survive, humans forged Veil Contracts with primordial archetypes called Mystic Authorities, gaining forbidden abilities at the cost of sanity, humanity… or their own names. Some became Mystic Samurai, wielders of Blade Arts that distort space, time, and causality itself. But powers always have a price.

A coma devastates the world causing mass panic by those in public power positions, the world is in turmoil as those who went through coma's have awakened superhuman powers and are seeking to abuse it. The government is willing to use any means to gain even a fraction of its former control. Even at the cost of the very citizens they swore to protect. New laws, New regulations, New world.

After transmigrating, I found myself inside a mysterious Steam Game Library. Each door leads to a different world—Hollow Knight, The Elder Scrolls V, God of War, Dark Souls, Mount & Blade, Salt & Sanctuary, Don’t Starve, BioShock Infinite, Tomb Raider, The Great Cultivation Simulator, and countless others. Now, I can experience these worlds firsthand, fight, survive, explore, and grow stronger with every challenge. This is the ultimate journey across countless games, where every choice shapes my destiny. Step into the library. Enter the games. Begin the adventure! ------------------------- If you’d like to support my work, check out my: patreon.com/Greyhounds

Kai Langford has always lived in the shadow of his twin brother, following orders and blending into the background, until a mysterious vial awakens a dangerous power within him. Thrust into a world of relentless experiments and constant threats, he must fight to survive. Everything shifts when he meets Test Subect: 012, a bright, curly-haired boy whose smile sparks a fragile connection that challenges Kai’s trust and awakens feelings he never knew existed. As he struggles to master his newfound abilities, Kai must navigate a world determined to break him while protecting the people he’s come to care for.

Three kids. A world that is not their own. A mark they cannot hide. Torn from their lives by a cosmic event, Constant, Keiko, and Raid wake up in Excelsior, a place where magic is real and danger is tangible. Marked by an ancient power that attracts creatures from nightmares, they discover their only chance of returning home is an inaccessible academy. As they fight to survive in a medieval village, they must learn to trust each other to unravel the greatest mystery of all: Why did the stars bring them here? It is a story of friendship forged in desperation and the secrets of a world that insists on keeping them trapped.

This is a story about the day Marcus Tiernan died, and what awakened in his place. ---------------------------------------------- In the Federation, your Awakening decides everything. A single test. A single grade. S-Grade means power, prestige, and immortality. F-Grade means obscurity… or death. Marcus Tiernan was born for greatness, descended from a line of heroes stretching back millennia. Yet something lies dormant within him; older than the stars themselves. Something that even gods didn't know existed. On the day of his Testing, the result sends shockwaves across the galaxy. A result the machine was never built to classify. [T̷R̸U̷E̵-̶N̷O̸O̵S̷P̸H̷E̵R̷E̸ ̵-̷ ̵P̶R̸I̵M̸E̵R̴ ] [PROGRESSION TO ■■■■■■■■: 0.00%] [ITERA—6.6260̷̢7̵͇015×1■■... ERR_OR...] ---------------------------------------------- The Nth Awakening promises a psychological sci-fi thriller masquerading itself as a Mech Cultivation LitRPG that will leave you cheering, crying and yearning for more. With a slightly slower burn than perhaps your average webnovel, it is a narrative carefully crafted with hints of foreshadowing; leading to a larger conspiracy that you the reader will get to decipher. The first 7 chapters serve as a way to introduce you to the setting, characters and stakes. While not mandatory to read, it is heavily encouraged as it provides context to the galaxy you’re going to step into. However, if you’re looking to dive straight into the mech and cultivation aspects of the novel. Then you can skip directly to chapter 8, the day of Marcus’ testing and watch how the plot unfolds. The previous chapters still there for when you run out of material and want to learn more. ---------------------------------------------- This story will also be posted on Royal Road

After an unexpected death, the consciousness of a young man obsessed with Hollow Exodus awakens in an unknown place, now inhabiting the body of an orphan in a fractured world. Trapped between two existences, Eiden wanders a land where the very echoes of reality are distorted. Here, creatures are not merely beasts but remnants of a past not his own, and ancient ruins whisper secrets of a lineage that should be extinct. Every shadow holds a fragment of truth. Every face hides a lie. Every memory from his past life is a double-edged sword. To survive, Eiden must unravel the mystery of his own existence before the world's echoes—and the demons of his past—consume him completely. I will do my best and I hope you will support me. I will try to upload one chapters per day.

​"They called my wolf a shadow. They never knew she was a weapon." ​Elara knew her life was a lie the moment the Alpha of her refuge pack, Commander Thane, revealed her hidden heritage. She isn't just a pack outcast; she's the last known Chimera—a terrifying blend of two ancient, warring bloodlines that should have canceled each other out. ​For nineteen years, she’s hidden her truth while secretly training in the shadows. Now, a devastating rogue attack has destroyed her home, forcing her to seek sanctuary with the very pack that hunts her kind: The Obsidian Claw. ​The Obsidian Claw’s Alpha, Kaelen Thorne, is cold, ruthless, and dangerously captivating. He doesn't believe in mates, yet the instant his silver eyes lock onto Elara, the world screams of a bond he’s sworn to reject. He sees a threat; Elara sees her only path to protection. ​Desperate to survive, Elara enters a chilling bargain: serve the Obsidian Claw, help hunt the Chimera threat, and she will be granted protection. But as Kaelen's possessive claim grows stronger and Elara’s forbidden power threatens to surface, she realizes two things: ​The rogue attacks are not random; they are trying to reclaim her. ​Kaelen Thorne is not just her reluctant mate. He is the prophesied executioner of her bloodline. ​She must decide: Expose her secret and become his enemy, or let the Alpha who wants her, destroy the wolf he fears.

How does one find a place to bloom in a world of betrayal and death, where evil reigns? An orphaned peasant, young Caleb never imagined he would become a force that would shape the fate of the Empire. Conscripted to fight a war in a place shrouded in mystery, he quickly learns to embrace a gift that could tip the scales in the Empire’s favor—but at what cost? As the conflict intensifies, he soon faces a choice: to become the very monster he fought against, or to preserve his humanity and fight for a future free from tyranny.