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Contains content depicting diverse relationships (i.e., minority and majority groups). Viewer discretion is advised. This is a science fiction tale cloaked in fantasy; 'Gear' is the codename for a certain group's ability to awaken ideologically—a new organ sprouting from self-awareness, thus possessed only by sentient beings. It represents the manifestation of psychic power from the intangible to the tangible. You are welcome to read "Shattered Gears Rend The Vault(《叛齿吞穹》)" Author's Statement: The character relationships in this novel are not politically correct; they reflect the author's personal creative intent. The author (myself) depicts characters within these groups not to portray the groups themselves, but to shape the characters. Both minority and majority groups exist within the narrative, enhancing the story's depth and authenticity. Furthermore, I will portray these relationships appropriately. Should you encounter rigidly depicted relationships, know that this is intentional—real relationships are not smooth gradients; rigidity and fluidity coexist. Rest assured, the sci-fi elements you anticipate will not be hindered by these relationships. Should you choose to read my work, I am honoured by your presence!)

From elementary school to college, Mia and Enzo have been inseparable. Their friends even call them "double tape" because they are always stuck together. Now, on their twelfth anniversary, Enzo is ready to pull off his dream proposal. But one mistake changes everything. While Mia is tidying up, she finds confidential papers she was never meant to see—a secret that shatters over a decade of trust. With this revelation, is the wedding still happening? Why is Mia so devastated by what Enzo did? Can she still accept him after learning the truth? DISCLAIMER: GRAMMAR ISSUES

Ansys woke up in a world he knew too well—one that was never meant to be real. To survive, he must form genuine bonds with women destined to love too deeply… or be erased from existence. This world remembers obsession as history. Saintesses who burned cities for love. Queens who froze time to keep what they could not bear to lose. Healers who destroyed everything gently, patiently, while smiling through tears. Now reborn without a past, without roots, and without the right to exist, he stands where their paths converge. To live, he must bind together heroines who were never meant to share a single heart—without breaking them and without becoming the monster this world has seen too many times before. --- Content Warning: This story contains mature themes including obsession, psychological manipulation, power imbalance, possessive affection, and morally complex relationships. Reader discretion is advised.

She signed a nameless contract for a comfortable life. Yet every night, a mysterious man appeared, stirring her heart. Is this contract only about money… or something far more valuable?

The world is shrouded in eternal darkness. The Sun exists only as a memory, the starry sky indifferent, and humanity has learned to live under shadow. In this universe, Isaac is born marked: a Chosen One, bearer of a Faith capable of altering reality through subtle, nearly invisible acts. Amid cities frozen in time, decaying empires, and a morality that bends to indifference, he must walk among shadows, understand human nature, and confront what it truly means to act when everything seems destined to stagnation. Additional information: Category: Novel (500+ planned chapters). Pace: Slow burn, with gradual, introspective development. Theme: Philosophical, exploring morality, faith, power, and the essence of humanity.

Sarah Johnson disappears in broad daylight, swallowed by a crowd that saw nothing. While her sister Molly searches desperately for answers, chilling messages from an obsessive ex resurface—messages promising he would find her. Detective Brian Dawson begins to suspect this is no random abduction, but something far more calculated. As secrets unravel and trust begins to fracture, Molly and Brian are pulled into a psychological game where the predator may be hiding in plain sight.

What is an extra? An unknown character in a novel that has no mention or involvement in the plotline whatsoever. “A few thousand people died due to this horrible tragedy.” With these few lines of words, people or in actuality, extras simply die. There simply is no consequences to kill off some random person when they have nothing to do with the plot. This is the dilemma the author proposed to me. Should I just sit here and wait for my inevitable fate of dying? No. I can't sit here doing nothing to stop the avalanche that is to come. I need to change that unchangeable fate of mine and turn into something that can be changed. Change fate into destiny. The author said to me, “To prevent your death as an extra, you must first become something more than an extra like a side character or a main character and to achieve that, you must be relevant to the story at all costs.” * * * This novel is heavily inspired by a novel called: “The Demon Prince goes to the Academy”

The heavens do not bleed; they burn. When the King of the Skies lost his heart to the earth, his grief shattered the mortal realm. But he did not seek a replacement, he sought a vessel. With a roar of thunder, he reached down and pressed a silver brand into the skin of a newborn babe, a mark that would pulse with a fevered heat as she grew, a constant, aching reminder that her body was never truly her own. For years, she lived as a ghost, an untouchable prize for a God who had not yet come to collect. She was an outcast in a village that feared the storm in her blood, unaware that the mark on her waist was a bridge between her skin and his divine hunger. But the Sky is not the only power that watches her. While the King waited in the heights for his harvest of fire, another voice whispered secrets of bone and blood into her ear. While the world threw stones, she learned the language of the roots and the hidden, thrumming rhythm of her own desire. Now, the child of the storm has grown. She carries the emerald mercy of a healer in her palms and the violet wrath of a God in her veins. She has stepped out of the cage of her childhood and into a realm where her presence is a spark in a room full of powder. She was born to be a sacrifice. She was raised to be a bride. But as the silver mark on her skin begins to burn with a new, predatory intensity, she realizes the King doesn't just want her soul. He wants the woman she has become. The King is watching. His patience is fraying. And the lightning is coming.

For centuries the Twelve Great Clans have ruled over the Physical and Astral realms, their bloodlines blessed by the Pantheons they serve. Among them, the Solaris Clan stood at the pinnacle... Until betrayal tore their legacy apart. Cyrus the last heir of the Solaris Clan is on the run with his father, seeking sanctuary in another country as they try and escape the grasp of a shadow organization who wants to rid the world of the Twelve Great Clans. During the journey Cyrus is forced to undergo his Starbirth trail. A trail once passed, allows the person to connect with a given constellation. When Cyrus astral projects into the astral realm, he does not connect with his clan's constellation. He connects with a mysterious constellation with unknown power. Now blessed with unique power, Cyrus decides he wants to fight back and get revenge on the person who killed his mother and the rest of his clan. But after a reckless first encounter he quickly realizes he does not have the power to exact his revenge. So to get stronger Cyrus decides to become a Rift Runner. A profession where starbound are enlisted to protect the world from threats that come from outside the world of Valonara. In this cosmic fantasy follow Cyrus on his quest to become powerful enough to obtain revenge, while unlocking the secrets of the astral realm and the origin of his powers Volume 2 Return March 16th 2026 Current upload schedule Mon-Fri (1 Chapter a day) Discord: https://discord.gg/NhzJrJAW52 If you would like to support the series my Patreon is 20 chapters ahead of what is posted on Royal Road

In a multiverse of infinite layers, Kael Veyris emerges as a singularity of power. He does not merely fighthe reshapes wars, redefines enemies, and rewrites the rules of life itself. As gods, titans, and cosmic entities attempt to challenge him, Kael’s reality warping abilities leave them powerless. But absolute power comes at a cost. With every law he bends and soul he claims, Kael must confront the fragility of identity, morality, and the infinite consequences of reshaping existence itself.

A boy woke up in a ruined shrine on a mountain. Monsters and humans await his journey. He plans to survive and navigate through life. But someone seems to have far bigger plans for him.

In a universe ruled by the relentless pursuit of power, civilizations have waged endless wars over a mysterious cosmic force one so vast it obliterates all who dare approach. Centuries later, a new source emerges: the God’s Ruins, seven ancient gateways granting ascension and power to those who dare enter. As the great races vie for control, a fleeting wave of cosmic energy chooses a vessel on a distant planet, giving birth to Nova. Unaware of his true origin, Nova grows up ordinary until a shocking revelation about his birth forces him to flee. In the chaos, he unlocks powers beyond imagination, drawing the attention of secretive forces that have hunted him since birth. Nova soon learns his destiny: he is the Cosmic Bridge, the link between worlds and the key to ending the interstellar conflict? or so he thought. As he struggles to master his growing abilities, the fate of the cosmos hangs in the balance, and the awakening of his full power may reshape existence itself.

What is science? Science is the methodical pursuit of knowledge through observation, experimentation, and reasoning, bridging the gap between theory and reality, and connecting the present to future aspirations. Science is a process of constantly negating itself, constantly proving itself, and constantly advancing. The Magic Gods in Toaruverse, the Gods and Demons in Little Garden, the Ixseed in No Game No Life, the Heroic Spirits in the Nasuverse... Everything from the past awaits overturning by the future; so-called definitions forever await new truths. This is the story of someone transmigrated to Academy City, becoming a scientist and Level 5 esper, who through endless "calculations" ascends to become the Science God. “When all processes are completed, the predetermined result will naturally arrive."

He can feel every wound in the world. He just can't feel his own. Cael Dawnmere is Veth's most feared Warden — a man who walks toward monsters while everyone else runs. His secret: he feels other people's pain as his own, a forbidden Mark that makes ignoring suffering impossible. For twenty-seven years, saving others has been the only way to survive himself. Sable Vorne was sent to find him. The empire she serves knows what he is — the last Soulreader, the only being alive who can seal the tears bleeding darkness into the world. They want to use him. Then discard him. The same way they discarded the one before him. She was not supposed to warn him. She warned him anyway. Now they're running — through a world fracturing at the seams, toward an ancient people who hold the only answers, hunted by the empire that wants him as a weapon and her as a loose end. Falling toward each other the way two people do when they've spent their whole lives saving everyone but themselves. The darkness is bleeding through. The wounds in the sky are growing. And the only man who can stop it is about to learn the hardest truth of his life: You cannot rescue the world while you're still bleeding.

When the city lights begin to fade, she is left standing alone in the shadows of her past. Betrayed by the people she trusted most, Aria must rebuild her life in a city that never sleeps. But as secrets unravel and danger closes in, she discovers that sometimes the last light of dusk is the beginning of a new dawn.

In a world build upon layers of simulated realities, *Cael Ardyn* is a lowly system debugger tasked with the lowest possible task one could do to earn the direct credits from the archivists, stumbles upon a catastrophic flaw in the final iteration of the humanity's timeline. After surviving an unpredictable Record Break— a scenario where the world collapses and restarts, he retains his memories and found something which mere mortal should never have. As Cael was just on terms with what he came around, he encounters weird supernatural phenomenons which marked the beginning of his new life and adventures or the end of previous ones he newer knew he done.

I thought death was the end. Then I woke in a world where fate can be bought with blood. Here, interdimensional gates connect humanity to Grimmyth—a realm of cosmic horrors, ancient vestiges, and impossible power. Those chosen by it become Grimlocks, the Warlocks of Grimmyth, receiving the power to reshape their destiny. Grimlocks hunt Grimmons and protect others with the power they received. Guilds raid Grimlores and rule like empires with the riches they loot. Government explores, regulates, and stands guard against Grimmyth—the unknown frontier where horrors beyond imagination await. Crayon V. Wyatt, a poor soul who was never meant to stand among them. Betrayed, indebted, and disgraced, he was beaten and left to die — until I inherited the name and everything that came with it. Grimmyth chose me. Now I wield the power of Grimmyth as its Warlock. In a world both deadly and breathtaking, I don’t want to just survive. I intend to uncover its mysteries, challenge its frontiers, and experience everything it dares to offer. ... A Grim Deck building saga by IGotStones