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Good news: I’ve traveled through time. Bad news: I’ve landed inside a book I’ve never even read. So… what should I do? Fortunately, before crossing over, I happened to watch a video made by a fellow book fan. According to it, survival is simple—just follow these rules: Assassin potions are the safest path. … If you want a hobby, buy a telescope and spend your nights watching the stars. The officials in this world are extremely dangerous. To them, you’re nothing but a heretic to be eliminated. If you run into them, grab the pistol at your side without hesitation. … Stuck with no hope of promotion? Recite Amon’s honorable name—you’ll be “sent” straight to an angel. Facing an impossible dilemma? Shout “Leodro” to the sky, and every problem will vanish. Perfect, right? Assassin pathway, stargazing in my free time, shoot first when meeting the authorities, call Leodro when things get tough, and pray to Amon if I can’t advance. Survival formula complete in seconds. Looking at the task list in his hand, Loen felt incredibly pleased with himself. … Years later, Loen had already ascended to angelhood. Yet, staring at that same task list—still blank, with not a single goal accomplished—he let out a long sigh. “How did I end up achieving nothing at all?”

In the world of the Inside Us, life is sustained by energy. Every human carries a heart’s soul bound to a fragile container, strengthened or drained by every connection they form. When that container empties, life ends. Eva, heir to the first of five kingdoms, is a Source, a rare ruler capable of forging powerful energy bonds. Yet power has never made her fearless. Thoughtful and deeply self-doubting, she struggles to control the force she was born to command. Centuries after its defeat, the forbidden Sixth Kingdom rises again. Its followers believe that the flaw of humanity lies within the very system of the heart’s soul. They seek to sever it entirely and unite all energy into a single controlled vessel, erasing the chaos of human life experience in the name of stability and order. Among them stands Eva’s own twin brother. As her energy spirals toward collapse, her Protector, a being whose existence is bound to her heart’s soul, makes a desperate choice to save her. But survival is not enough. To stop the Sixth Kingdom, Eva must learn to master her container and confront the fear that has always defined her. Because what the Sixth Kingdom calls weakness, she knows to be something else entirely. The richness of human life, in all its beauty and suffering, is not a flaw. And she was born to prove it.

"Zhou Mingrui, this stab, be careful not to be arrogant or impatient." During the ascension ceremony, Klein, stabbed in the back by his good brother, slowly turned his head, his face filled with disbelief. Seeing that Klein was still struggling to live, in a moment of desperation, Nyarlathotep roared, "Old Zhou, do you remember the first time we met?" Klein was stunned, revealing a weakness. Nyarlathotep's eyes flashed with malice, and he acted without hesitation. Klein finally stopped moving, motionless. He was dead. ... "Yes, I killed Klein. I guided the Outer God. I was the one who awakened him in the beginning... Oh dear, how could I be so evil?" "No more words, please act quickly." On the eve of the apocalypse, the shameless traitor, the despicable collaborator, the former lackey Nyarlathotep faced judgment, questioned whether he felt guilty for Klein's trust, to which he replied, "So what?" ... In the first year of the new era, humanity was safe...

What is more forbidden than falling in love with your husband's prisoner? For a Queen, it isn't just betrayal. It is treason. And when that prisoner is a werewolf - the enemy of her people, such an act becomes an unforgivable crime, one not even death can pardon. Ismena would never do that though. She would never fall in love with her husband's prisoner. So why does she keep dreaming of the beastly enemy, shackled in cold iron and locked away in his dungeon beneath the castle?

A seasoned detective and blood spatter analyst dies chasing a lead on a triple homicide—only to be shot and killed by the mob. But death was not the end. He awakens in the body of a recently murdered orphan, Edward, and finds himself drawn to the center of every crime scene in this newfound world. With his experience as a detective and the newly awakened Necromancer System, he solves crimes and builds a name for himself throughout all of Naseriya.

Oh Gustave. Our dearest Gustave. A father, a brother and a sincere friend. Our sharpened blade, a bullet from Lumiere or merely a rock thrown out at sea. Our David to her Goliath, a star shining bright in a cast out night, a light piercing the darkness. Soul ablaze with love, it’s fuel an infectious hope for those who come after. A heart worth it’s weight in chroma, yet fate played a cruel joke, stabbed through to protect a warden and the breath of a tomorrow to come. A sacrifice to heavy to bear on our shoulders, the grief banging against our resolve, the tears can no longer be controlled. The disaster expedition grieved, Verso turned his cheek, yet Maelle grieved for two. Maelle’s heart now twice 16, with twice the adventure, yet dragged down by twice the grief. Once a daughter, a sister and an innocent soul. Now a legacy bearer, vower of vengeance and yet at her most vulnerable. The shoulder she leaned on, cried on and dreamed on, falling right before her eyes. Clouded by hatred, her sword rising against a mother, a father and a brother. Painted to a likeness, at the hands of a new paintress, many stood where once a city of light once stood. A new city, casting a shadow where once hope lived. History is written by the victors, how will this story be told? Are we limited to the tale spun by a writer drunk on their own power? No, Lumiere is a city of fighters, we never rest, we never lose hope and we never relent. No matter the cost, the sacrifice or even if the task seems outright impossible. When one falls, we continue. Here we stand, at the end of a story, but our resistance stands. Our final hope to undo the wrongs of this world, the cruel joke’s fate relentlessly paid at our cost. A legacy carried from an engineer, unto his apprentices – in the form of a useless relic. The writer’s weapon of choice, words, written by the hands of the original Gustave. There is a way to send it back and to right this wrong. Gustave. Oh Gustave. We remember you, we mourn you and we miss you. Now you are our last hope, two families – Lumiere and Dessendre mustn’t collide, help us! --- This is a fan fiction, for the game, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. If you are as much a fan of Gustave as the next person, sit tight. Let's change some fates. However, fate changing needs a cheat/ golden finger. No systems (overdone as a genre, great titles like Solo Levelling already exist), No transmigrators (would no longer be Gustave) & No Regressors (Gustave for obvious reasons). There is already an amazing relic at hand, "Gustave's Journal". This is Part 1 of a two part, fate defying fan fiction. For Gustave! The 2nd Part is clearly using this cheat code. Will have same elements as the game; gore, destruction and death etc.

[2026 WSA ENTRY] Emi Hoshino, a fourth grader living an ordinary life, has always been able to see mysterious Shadows, until one day, she is contacted by Lumi, a powerful Star Spirit, who offers her a magical contract. Emi learns that she is one of the rare few born with magical abilities, allowing her to perceive beings from beyond human understanding, and with that, she is given the chance to become a Magical Girl. Nervous and unsure, Emi questions the spirit and hesitates to accept the contract, frightened by the thought of what she might awaken. But when Lumi explains that these powers can protect others from the Formless Spawn and the creeping influence of the Shadow Realm, Emi accepts without hesitation. Her choice binds her to forces older than the Earth; powers that shine like hope, yet draw the attention of something vast and unknowable. With her new magic, Emi soon discovers that being a Magical Girl carries an unbearable responsibility. She becomes a guardian standing between humanity and the encroaching Outer Darkness, fighting entities that do not think or feel as humans do. Thrown into a hidden world of danger and wonder, Emi must join other Magical Girls to battle sinister beings, uncover forbidden truths buried beneath reality, and learn to fight together against horrors that cannot be fully understood. Along the way, Emi grows from a hesitant, tearful girl into a brave and determined hero as she discovers that she is the reincarnation of a powerful Magical Girl in the past.

What if the dead ruled the world? and the livings are slaves. But someone refused to take the fate...

What if your most vivid dreams weren't dreams at all, but a window into a life that isn't yours? Since she was a baby, Vivian’s dreams have been startlingly real. She experiences the sights, the sounds, and the profound, dizzying sensation of living inside the body of an entirely different person in a world brimming with magic. But the truth is far more dangerous than an overactive imagination. Whenever she falls asleep, her consciousness swaps places with Ally, a gifted young mage in the fantastical realm of Aethelgard. It’s a phenomenon they call the Switch. Two women, bound across dimensions, living a shared existence but never able to occupy the same world at the same time. However, what started as a lifelong, disorienting secret is rapidly becoming a fight for survival. As the mysteries of their connection deepen, they draw the attention of powerful, dangerous players in both worlds—from the charming, enigmatic Alex in Vivian's reality, to the brilliantly manipulative Scholar Tristan in Ally's. With dark forces closing in, the two women must rely on their fiercely loyal protectors—Ben on Earth and Callum in Aethelgard—to help them navigate a deadly game of survival. But make no mistake: these ladies are no damsels in distress. They must unravel the ancient, cataclysmic tie that binds their souls before the shadows of one realm completely consume the other. Because the line between science and magic is fracturing, and the next time they close their eyes, they might not survive the awakening.

The war didn't end; it simply went underground. Ten years after the Great War against the Shadow Demons, humanity lives in a fragile peace maintained by the iron-fisted United Alliance. In the neon-lit "Safe Zones," life appears normal, but in the "Grey Barrens," the nightmares of the past still stalk the living. To the world, fourteen-year-old Kaelen Tores is nothing more than the "Grave-Walker"—a cursed orphan and the sole survivor of the mysterious Blackwood crash that claimed his parents, Valerius and Elara. Ostracized by his peers and haunted by whispers he can’t ignore, Kaelen’s life is a cycle of isolation and grief. But when a routine shortcut home turns into a deadly encounter with a Shadow Demon that shouldn't exist, the "curse" in Kaelen’s blood finally erupts. Saved by a mysterious blue-flamed stranger and a sudden, violent awakening of his own power, Kaelen discovers a hidden legacy: The Dark Archive. This ancient, leather-bound book—passed down through his grandfather—is not just a manual of magic. it is a sentient system tied to a bloodline the world has spent centuries trying to exterminate. Kaelen is not human. He is the last scion of the Shadow Dragons, an apex race of predators feared by both the Alliance and the Shadow Lords alike. Now, as a "System" begins to initialize within his soul, Kaelen must navigate a world of "Touch-Blessed" prodigies, corporate sorcery, and ancient grudges. With the help of his aunt Aria, he must master the shadow-dragon arts before the Alliance’s Inquisitors track the "Blue Fire" to his doorstep. But as Kaelen’s power grows, so does the hunger of the dragon within. He isn't just learning to fight the shadows—he’s learning that he was born to rule them. In a world of flickering neon and ancient ash, the hunter has become the hunted. And the Dragon has finally come home.

Alaric Northling was born where the law only arrived to collect bodies. Raised in the suffocating sprawl of the slums, the son of a woman the city used and discarded and a father who never existed beyond a name, Alaric learned early that justice was a myth sold to people who could afford it. Survival was the only truth. He stole because he was hungry. He fought because no one protected him. He ran because that’s what boys like him were meant to do. Until the night he didn’t. An arrest. A holding cell. Fluorescent lights buzzing like dying insects. And a single, dangerous thought: What if I stopped running… and became the one they run from? He doesn’t want redemption. He wants control. The moment Alaric decides to join the police force — to infiltrate the very institution that terrorized his childhood — something awakens. [SYSTEM ACTIVATED] Host: Alaric Northling Pathway Selected: Law Enforcement Ascension A presence only he can see begins to measure him. Evaluate him. Train him. Every choice becomes a calculated variable. Every confrontation, a quest. Every moral compromise, a stat increase. The system promises efficiency. Power. Mastery over crime. But it never explains the cost. As Alaric rises through the ranks, the line between justice and domination begins to blur. The streets recognize him. The criminals fear him. The corrupt watch him carefully. Because the boy from the slums isn’t trying to clean the system. He’s trying to outgrow it. And when a man who understands the darkness is handed the tools of authority, the city must ask itself a terrifying question: Did it just create its greatest protector… Or its most intelligent predator?

A man dies in a plane crash, and an entity appears before him that gives him the opportunity to be reincarnated in his favorite anime world. Summoned into the Hunter's world, the protagonist will have to grow stronger, and use his intelligence, cunning, and canon knowledge to survive while living adventures through this fantastical and dangerous world. P.S.: Great part of the story is based in other work which had so many flaws that I decided to remake it completely. You may find many coincidences with it, but this will be a different story.

Aayna is married to three brothers not because of choice, but because of her father’s belief in traditions and her own greed for her parents’ inheritance. Her only way out is a signed contract in which she must survive this marriage with no rebellion. No mistakes. Nothing that could trigger an early divorce. There is no way out for three years, but the longer she survives, the more inheritance she gets. Will she be able to end this marriage after three years, or will she fall in love with them and choose to stay? Read Married To Three Brothers to find out.

Lu Yang transmigrated into a ruthless cultivation world—and straight into the ranks of the most treacherous demonic sect of all: the First Saint Sect. His only cheat? A mysterious treasure known as the Book of a Hundred Lifetimes, granting him limited rebirths with all his accumulated power, treasures, and awakened talents carried over into each new life. His initial plan was simple: lay low, cultivate in secret, and never leave the mountain until he achieved true immortality. But in a sect where every disciple is a predator and every senior is a potential murderer, staying unnoticed is harder than it looks. Life 1: Brutally murdered by his charming senior sister. Life 2: Killed the sister, only to be hunted down by an even crueler senior brother. Life 3, 4, 5… Death after death, scheme after scheme. After a hundred lifetimes of surviving betrayal, mastering forbidden arts, and outmaneuvering demons and saints alike, Lu Yang looked around—and realized something terrifying. He was no longer hiding in the shadows. He had become the Shadow itself. The demonic titan they now called… the primordial Saint. Support the book on patreon.com/WangLing338

A child been cursed. A nightmare to everything. An orphan every where he goes death follows him. His objective is to be a normal human. •Comment per chapter, only the first chapter tells you his objective. •Is to increase my skill. •Is exactly what so you're looking for.

"You are holding the best hunter in our village," they said. Lyor looked at the brown cat he had held so protectively in his hands. He needed to get him treated. "Huh?" The last thing Lyor remembered before waking up in this strange forest is the suffocating pain in his chest. Now people he found are saying that he is holding a hunter and not a cat. "What on earth is going on?" He mumbled as his vision grew dark. "What's earth?" He heard them ask before everything went black. In Nemeteia, a vast ancient tree stands at the center of a peaceful village, sustaining a barrier that protects its people from the dangerous creatures beyond. Most arrive with no memories of their previous lives. Lyor is the exception. After a life on Earth defined by hardship, pressure, and pain, he awakens beneath the great tree with memories he was never meant to keep. In a world where people speak gently, offer help without expectation, and rest without fear, he does not know how to exist without constant anxiety. Survival is no longer a fight, yet his body and mind have not learned that safety is real. On the day he arrives, he encounters Sol, the village’s most skilled hunter, who accidentally transforms into a cat mid-mission due to a lingering prank curse. Mistaking him for an injured animal, Lyor carries him back to the village with desperate concern, unaware he is protecting a human. That moment of instinctive kindness sparks an unexpected bond between them. Nemeteia is not without danger. Beyond the barrier live monsters, some truly hostile, others simply misunderstood. When Lyor’s rare ability begins to manifest, he may hold the key to strengthening the boundary between worlds.

One day, all the horror story became real. The Eight-Foot lady, Sadako, the Slit-Mouthed Woman... The Backrooms, anomalous containment agencies, the SCP Foundation—ghosts and horrors lined up like an endless parade. Chen Shi was pulled into a horror game. Representing his country. But he is only a relationship coach, how can he survived from ghost? But then he awakened the system! [Fertility System: More ghost babe, More Blessings]. While everyone else is desperately trying to survive... You're out here banging female ghosts?? Chen Shi smirks, you guys get stronger by cultivation? I level up by sleeping with hot ghosts!

For centuries, humanity has had many heroes who have sacrificed their lives to try and defeat the Demon Lord, but of course it wasn't an easy task. A being such as them only made it even more difficult for humans to try and fight against. Each hero that died would be reincarnated once again when defeated, it was a repeating cycle without them knowing what fate they have to experience, nor did any hero try to figure it out. The only mission they had in their mind: Defeat the Demon Lord. But are they the same person? Do they share the same soul? Could they be multiple people in one body? The answer remained unknown, until one day... A hero finally managed to defeat the Demon Lord with the cost of his life. Only managing to do so thanks to the skills he had learned as well as the passed down abilities he obtained through countless lives of the past heroes. He didn't know that of course. But what happens when a hero dies, without the existence of a Demon Lord to defeat? This is where the Legendary Hero who defeated the Demon Lord, River Thrin. Now reborn as Toki Keystone, must go through his new life in order to find out why he has been reincarnated into the future, or the modern era of magic society. Will he find out the truth, or will he live his life normally? Or, would he face the Demon Lord once again? [ Not sure if this is an isekai or maybe a reverse isekai, at all. But I wanted to try something a little different for fun, so I hope you guys enjoy reading it. ]

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.

Elara Ravenscroft is born into legacy, not love. Groomed from childhood to inherit one of the world’s most powerful private financial empires, she is taught strategy before tenderness, silence before trust. When she uncovers the truth—that her inheritance was never meant to empower her but to be used as leverage through her—Elara makes a choice no one expects: she dismantles her own dynasty from the inside and walks away from its throne. Her betrayal is not quiet.