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Shadow Slave | Sleepless Dreamer

Set in the Shadow Slave world...a time before Sunny was born...this story follows a simple soldier who must survive in a dystopian, apocalyptic landscape where magic and gun warfare collide. In a far-off Quadrant known as North America, a young soldier named Hope is 16 years old when he gets infected by the Nightmare Spell. He passed! But...he feels a bit scammed...? A flaw that makes him fade from people's memories... A cursed attribute that makes him remember everything endlessly in eternal wakefulness... It's as if the Spell is twisting his future and existence into an almost improbable one. All he has ever known his purpose to be was to serve as a simple soldier. Not too powerful. But not so weak either. And maybe, just maybe like some others, become an Awakened. Although he never dreamt of being one. Now that his whole life is compromised after his First Nightmare, his first objective is to survive on his own. But as he tries to escape his fate, his actions seem to lead him further from his goal. He struggles against obstacles that slowly grow bigger and out of proportion. Maybe the Dream Realm and the Real World aren't so different than one may think. Hope's journey involves uncovering secrets and gaining knowledge about his true nature and his new role in the world. Is he fit to be a hero? Could he redefine it? *** Please read the READER DISCLAIMER in Volume 0. This is my spin-off novel of "Shadow Slave" by Guiltythree. But please don't expect the same writing style, setting, and characters, especially the main character. This story reveals more about how people/cities/governments operate after the Spell’s arrival. I always find it interesting how maybe one country handles it fairly, but how others handle it with desperation to the point that you question humanity. There will be easter eggs pointing to the original novel either intentional for the plot or unrelated to it, but all for fun. I am a new author so props to all who bear with me and helps me improve my writing. If it is not for you, please don't leave outright hate comments. Eat wassabi instead if you want pain. Critique and advice would be great too. Cover Art: @ellieaedon I will be posting on RoyalRoad.com and on AO3 for some people's preferences.
MonoSilence · 561.3k Views

The Last Step

They will call him a fool. Maybe sometimes a god. However, most, will forget his name. In this world, magic alone cannot win a war. Neither can intelligence. Neither can science. The Demons, Elves, Dragons, Beastkin, Dwarfs, and Fairies have spent 7,000 years proving it, and humanity, the weakest race alive, has paid for every lesson. Its end was close. It wasn't a story where a hero is born. They created an artificial weapon. Kaiser Everhart has no morality. No ethics. No greed. No fear. No heart. He cannot feel what other people feel, so he copies it, and he imitates it so well that his friends think he is kind, his enemies think he is a coward, and no one has ever caught him fooling. He does not care about humanity. He never has. He cares about one promise. A childhood friend once taught him that a life is worth saving, even a broken one, even when logic says no. He never understood why she was right. He promised her he would find out. And promised himself to cherish that smile of hers. So he ascends. He is building a staircase to heaven out of the one thing heaven rejects: competence. He is using what no god has ever combined, magic, science, and brutal intelligence that has no end. And he is not climbing to stay. He is climbing to bring someone back down. Every step takes something from him. He knows it. He keeps climbing anyway. He loses himself one piece at a time, and the world never notices, because it is too busy praying to him. Heroes get rescued by the people they save. Nobody is coming for him. "Was it worth it, Kaiser?" "Yes." He always smiles when he says it. This is a dark fantasy where anything goes. Every victim has a story nobody wrote down. Long before Kaiser, another man climbed the same stairs. He gave everything to humanity, then stopped believing in it. Now they are walking toward each other, and only one can be right. A slow-burn dark fantasy of war, politics, science, magic, romance and the price of becoming a god. Long chapters, big payoffs. No heroes exist. Two ways to begin: - Chapter 1: The full adventure, and the biggest payoff. - Chapter 144 (The Void's Tale): A standalone origin with no magic and no lore. Meet him early, then come back!
Sevrain · 635.7k Views

Horrifying Tales of Haunted Place-(Will be Re-Published)

Horror stories written by Joseph Kohtz The Spooky Halloween Sleepover in The Haunted Woods: After a few of their friends go missing, a group of kids investigates The Dead Woods to find them. While there, they run into monsters and ghosts that pick them off. Since their friends are disappearing, they decide to have a sleepover in the haunted woods until they find them, but they soon all go missing after the hauntings intensify. Fear Itself: After being told a ghost story around the campfire, a group of kids attending the camp becomes terrified as ghosts and monsters haunt the camp and the surrounding forest. They become afraid of it, but some initially think it's all a prank by one of the counselors, even when the campers and counselors start to get picked off one by one. Even though things look bad, some campers still think it's a fraud, at least until things get worse. The longer they stay and ignore the ghosts' warnings, the worse the hauntings become. Then they become convinced and start to get scared out of their wits. The Ghoulish Haunted Mansion: On Halloween, a group of kids decides to venture inside an old, abandoned mansion to see if it's haunted, only to be scared out of their wits by all sorts of monsters and ghosts. While inside, the kids meet a talking cat and a jack-o-lantern who try to protect them from the spirits and convince one of them to read a spell from a book to banish the ghosts. Return to The Ghoulish Haunted Mansion: On a field trip, Susan Piper takes her class to The Wellington Mansion and tells how it was haunted before she banished the ghosts a decade ago on Halloween, with the help of her friends. She also told her class how to re-haunt the house and warned them not to do so. The next day, on Halloween, six of Susan's students enter the mansion, bring the ghosts and monsters back, and get scared out of their wits. Jack, the jack-o-lantern who knew their teacher, protects them with help from Alvin, the ghost puppy, and tries to convince Victoria to read the same spell Susan read when she was in the mansion to get rid of the ghosts.
Joseph_Kohtz · 35k Views

The Sharkings: Origins

Looking for a unique, thrilling, and expansive story? Beware! This story, 19 years in the making, is legendary! Announcements/News: Actively updating — Revised Volume 3 complete, Volume 3 Relaunch Underway! I'm back with Volume 3! Trailer dropped on my YT! A Brand-New chapter every 3 days! Actual Synopsis: Saga 1 - Major Arc 1 (Possible Spoilers) Volume 1: A special family happily lived in a secluded and sacred forest. However, their peaceful lives take a dark turn when two strangers appeared. An evil organization and the dangers of the outside world threaten their lives. How will three boys face against the cruel reality of the world? Volume 2: Three special boys attend an academy, seeking knowledge of the outside world. After a shocking turn of events, they seek to get stronger, obtaining special weapons from a secretive master. With fearsome and hungry monsters in their way, how will they learn to wield such weapons? Volume 3: Three special boys protect their home from a jealous prince and a hungry princess. Everything went as planned until they ended up elsewhere, outside their home... How will they withstand and survive the outside world? Volume 4: Three special boys defend outside society from a giant, fearsome prince. With the outside's military intervening, how will they ally? Also featuring a bittersweet rivalry between two close apprentices and shocking revelations of a dissolved noble family. Volume 5: Three special boys finally invade their enemy's main base of operations. As they confront the leaders, how will they manage a victory over them? Featuring backstories and climatic battles of significant characters. Saga 1 - Major Arc 2 (Possible Spoilers) Volume 6: Three special boys join the fight against new enemies of humankind. Monsters, created and locked up in a dark lab, were released. Featuring a time skip, how much stronger did the boys get? Is it enough to stop their new superior enemies or will they fail at their final mission of saving humanity? Volume 7: Featuring a rivalry between two monster species and an insidious reason for it, how will two young brothers solve the prolonged and bitter quarrel? How will they make it back to their homeland with reinforcements for humankind? Coming soon... Volume 8: Synopsis arriving soon... :) Even bigger synopsis in the auxiliary volume! Say what?! If you want free early access, contact me in my socials. XD Here are my socials: https://linktr.ee/habo_
Habo · 247.1k Views