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#VillainDad #CuteProtagonist #Ghosts #Misunderstanding #Transmigration #SmartMC Mira realized two things the moment she woke up in the body of a nameless orphan in a fantasy novel: 1. She is a disposable "shrimp" destined to die in the crossfire of the main characters. 2. She is the only person in this world who can see the screaming, terrifying ghosts that haunt every corner of the empire. Tortured by the wails of the dead, Mira finds only one source of silence: Duke Kaelus von Nacht. Known as the "Dark Lord" and the "Emperor's Sword," Kaelus is a man so ruthless and soaked in bloodlust that even the ghosts are terrified to go near him. To the world, he is a monster. But to Mira, he is a walking, talking pair of noise-canceling headphones. Desperate for a good night's sleep, Mira clings to him, acting like a naive, affectionate child to secure her place by his side. She succeeds, but she miscalculated. Kaelus didn't adopt her out of kindness. He needed a disposable child to act as 'live bait' for the assassins targeting him. Now named Seraphina, she must navigate a deadly game of survival. She thinks she is using him as a ghost shield. He thinks she is a fearless prodigy who loves him. As Seraphina munches on poison berries and naps through ambushes to avoid seeing spirits, the cold-blooded Duke starts to ask the wrong questions. "Why does she only sleep when I am holding her?" "Why does she stare into space with such disdain?" "Is it possible... that I am a good father?" Spoiler: He is not. But he’s about to destroy an entire kingdom because someone woke her up. --- ### Excerpt "Your Highness, the Archduke," the aide whispered, trembling hard to cover his laughter from bursting out. "The child... she is clinging to your leg again." Kaelus looked down. The tiny creature known as Seraphina was attached to his calf like a barnacle, drooling on his pristine military trousers. "She is fearless," Kaelus murmured, misinterpreting her desperate need for his ghost-repelling aura as familial affection. "The assassins are approaching, yet she seeks comfort only in the eye of the storm. She is the perfect bait." Seraphina, currently trying to avoid eye contact with a headless ghost hovering three feet away, squeezed her eyes shut. 'Just don't move. If I let go, the headless guy will ask me where his nose is again.' "Sir," the aide hesitated. "She's... eating your cloak." "Let her eat," Kaelus commanded, drawing his sword. "Whatever she wants, she gets. Except for freedom."

300 Power Stones on Sunday will unlock 3 chapter updates on Monday. 1x Magic Castle will unlock 6 chapter updates on the same day (though I admit this might be a bit impossible) (ᵕ—ᴗ—) — — — — — — — — — — — — — — The Emperor had issued an official decree to appoint a successor to the throne—one who would become the next ruler of the empire. But instead of a direct appointment, the successor would be determined through a formal battle among the princes and princesses. A battle that would drag in many factions, overflow with conspiracies, claim countless lives, and reshape the entire continent... was about to begin. But among the contenders, there was one prince who had no intention of fighting—Nolan. Handsome, lazy, and utterly annoying, Nolan was well-known for the many unflattering titles given to him by those around him. Nolan: "Fighting to become emperor? Please... I just want to relax and enjoy life." Rather than compete, he convinced his twin sister to fight in his place while he supported her from behind the scenes. Nolan: "My dear sister, I leave my future in your capable hands!" And with that, the prince’s journey toward a life of leisure—relying entirely on his sister—officially began. — — — — — — — #Note: 1. The main character is lazy and oblivious to his surroundings. However, he deeply loves his younger sister, his mother, and the siblings he cares for as family. 2. Don’t worry—he won’t stay lazy and ignorant forever. There will be meaningful character development, and he’ll play a key role in helping his sister ascend the throne and become Empress. 3. While his laziness can be irritating, he’s actually a kind and supportive person. That said, he becomes ruthless when the lives of his loved ones are threatened. 4. As for romance—I'm still undecided about including a harem. The chances are low, though, since I’m more interested in telling a story with a single heroine… especially in an era flooded with harem novels. Ahem!

Ethan Crowe walked out of prison after seven years with nothing to his name and nowhere to belong. The world he returned to was unrecognisable. Gates had torn open across the globe, monsters roamed beyond human control, and society now revolved around the Titled - people chosen by mysterious voices and granted supernatural powers that made them heroes, weapons, and rulers all at once. Ethan wasn’t one of them. Not at first. Lost, angry, and with no future worth chasing, Ethan was barely surviving when a voice finally spoke to him. "Your Title is… Lord Of Beasts." But something about his awakening was wrong. Instead of gaining power in the real world like every other Titled, Ethan awakened a System tied to the Tower Of Beasts - a brutal, game-like world he can only enter while asleep. Inside the Tower, Ethan must fight for survival against monstrous creatures, earning power through a system of skills, evolution, and beasts. As for the beasts he acquires there? They persist beyond his dreams... Registered as an E Rank Titled with only D Rank potential, Ethan should have been insignificant. Yet the Lord of Beasts cannot be measured by ordinary standards. As Ethan grows stronger at an impossible rate, his existence begins to ripple outward - drawing the attention of elite Titled, criminal syndicates, and forces lurking behind the Gates themselves. His past refuses to stay buried, his beasts grow more dangerous, and the truth behind his Title hints at something far more terrifying than anyone realises. In a world ruled by power, Ethan Crowe starts at the bottom. But as the Lord of Beasts, it’s only a matter of time before he climbs to the top! Note: The novel is a gritty version of the typical hunter/awakener novels with a beast twist, which I hope you will enjoy Discord Server: https://discord.gg/c34nURr72W P.S. This is my WSA 2026 Entry - all support with powerstones and reviews is appreciated :) Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Any similarities to real events, locations, or people are purely coincidental and not intended to portray anything.

In a world where Earth has merged with two foreign planets, deserts burn beneath three suns and people struggle to survive the shifts of the New World. Saeyo Arakawa, a poor young potion seller living alone on the edge of the world, dreams of turning into someone important despite not having the supernatural gifts granted by the Merge.

Chapters and Release: Release days: Everyday Release time: 3pm UTC Status: Unedited. (Will edit after main story conclusion. Specifically from the start.) *** Synopsis: A fifteen-year-old schoolgirl happens to find herself approached by a strange woman after a rough day—who happens to know her plans on running away. Astonished, she tried to interrogate, but ended up getting dragged into another universe and another world. There, she finds out that experiments are being ran on fourteen other candidates set aside for her. Being the last candidate, she is told that she might be the first one to face demise. But she is determined to find out what is up with this co-operation is. After some time, she finds out that this whole world and setting is similar to that of a book she read during her younger days. And the protagonist happened to be her own cousin. *** (Prologue) Listen... No one is judging no one here. And so am I. The world has been cruel these days. Being modern means being rude to people on the street who are below your rank—That is what they believe. I find this all frustrating, why move with a state of mind that could as well kill you someday. You don't know if this person is a lawyer, a far relative, a doctor, a politician. But you already get the gist, don't you? And like any other teenagers my age, I really want to run away from all this. It's not like I am an orphan or from a poor household. I am from a family which is a standard class in economical terms in this world. And yet, I want to run away. Haha! Anyways. I did succeed. I wonder at what cost? I am away from all that hostility of course... But now I am in another world. Not reincarnated. Not transmigrated to another body. I am with my own soul in my original body, but in another world. This world... is weird. Thinking back, I remember reading a strange book when I was young. This book actually speaks about this world. I am a character there. Funnier thing, I don't know what is up with it either. It appears to me that the writer decided they want to see the 'live-action' version of it. So now... I am the actor playing my ownself.

"They called me a god, a monster, a harbinger of the end—but I chose to become none of them." Once revered (and feared) as the Lightning God destined to unleash a world-ending storm, the protagonist defies fate and shatters the prophecy meant to plunge the realm into darkness. Branded a traitor to the divine order and stripped of most of his power, he vanishes. Years later, he's reborn into obscurity, wandering the world he once ruled, with no allies, no title—just a crackling storm within and a mystery unraveling around him. But prophecies don’t die quietly. Something else took its place. And then there’s her—the one sworn to stop him… or maybe save him.

On mid-6th Century, in the Eurasia region. The Turkic Tribes under leadership of the Ashina Clan had conquered vast plains that border the Caucasus Mountains region. Iltas a mere footman of the Gokturk Central Army are assigned to guard the empire's treasury and envoys to the East Rome. Avar Kingdom ambushed them. Remnants of their once sworn enemies, a vast confederation of tribesmans who fled when the Ashina rebelled. Now the Blue Turks as their name implied, are in the brink of collapse. Questioned by it's nomad and settler subjects. During the harsh journey, under merciless winter of 587. The conflict inside Gokturk administration reach it's boiling point. Civil wars on the young empire is inevitable. Iltas on the other hand, only want seek for the righteousness. Always longing for the ultimate path of truth. Iltas must fight to survive and endure so that one day he shall find the wisdom that he yearn for. -- 12+ Genre: Action, Drama, Philosophy, Military

[ADVANCE CHAPTERS ARE UPLOADED ON MY PATREON] Support: patreon.com/Narrator_San Lock was just another face in Konoha’s Academy… until fate handed him a path no one else could see. Neither genius like Kakashi, nor heir to a great clan, Lock survives in the shadows—quiet, unnoticed, forgotten. But hidden beneath that ordinary shell lies a talent dangerous enough to shake the shinobi world. As classmates clash, friendships form, and the village stirs toward war, Lock walks his own road. Not as a hero. Not as a prodigy. But as Konoha’s unseen blade.

[WebNovel Spirity Awards 2025 Bronze Winner] Idan and Arabel both belonged to different strata of society. Idan came from an ordinary middle-class family, while Arabel came from one of the richest Morgan families. Besides his parents, Idan has an older sister who is a year older than him. Arabel has a younger twin brother besides her parents. A year after the global catastrophe, when the world was in chaos, the first awakened ones with superpowers appeared. Among them were Idan's older sister and Arabel's younger brother. After the first of the ten disasters described in the Revelation received by the people was overcome, a solemn evening was held. It was there that the fate of Idan and Arabel changed dramatically.: When their eyes met, Idan heard a sudden monotone voice. [Ding! The perfect user has been found, and the activation of the Supreme Husband System has begun! 5%] [Ding! The Supreme Husband System Has Been Activated!] [Ding! The perfect partner has been found, and synchronization with the Supreme Wife System has begun! 1%] [Ding! The system is synchronized with the Supreme Wife System! 100%] [The first task of the system has been issued!] [Propose to your future Wife within 1 day!] [Failure of the task – deleting the system and losing the opportunity to awakening!] While Arabel suddenly heard a monotonous voice. [Ding! The perfect user has been found, and the activation of the Supreme Wife System has begun! 5%] [Ding! The Supreme Wife System Has Been Activated!] [Ding! The perfect partner has been found, and synchronization with the Supreme Husband System has begun! 1%] [Ding! The system is synchronized with the Supreme Husband System! 100%] [The first task of the system has been issued!] [Invite your future husband to dance for 1 hour!] [Failure of the task – deleting the system and losing the opportunity to awakening!] English isn't my main language, so please bear with it if you found some mistakes. Join my Discord server: https://discord.gg/thE3cXkq5Q

Whoever murdered Levi Larson’s parents wanted his eyes badly enough to steal them. They left him alive. Now he wants to know where they are. But Earth has split into Day and Night, and humanity survives around pillars of holy light while Nightcrawlers hunt outside. Revenge means becoming a Daywalker—contracting with the same nightcrawlers for the power to evolve. It also means entering the CRS Platform, where Raiders, Conquerors, and Saviors fight over worlds before an audience that enjoys watching them die. The rewards could put his parents’ killers within reach. Assuming he survives long enough to earn them. Levi is blind, inexperienced, and starting years behind his enemies. But his senses are evolving, and a man doesn’t need to see a throat to know where to cut. Discord: https://discord.gg/KSNWWshhfm

HI, So I guess I should greet you, or should I greet the energy behind you first? So I am Adi, who can see spirits since childhood, and I was not pretty proud about that fact, but now it is my life, so a greater kind of mess is about to happen in my life.

The people of Earth have been summoned once again. Scientists document six extinction events in Earth's history, but none of them were as natural as they claimed. Sylas and his family have been called back to the Browns, a family of billionaire elites with assets reaching into the trillions. He isn't sure what to expect until he touches a floating bronze cube that changes his life. [Bronze City Stele] [Status: Dormant] [Time to Activation: 04:13:38] Unfortunately, there's only one Stele and the Browns have already decided upon their candidates. If Sylas wants to control his own fate, he'll have to enter the Trial. Now, woefully unprepared, and stuck in a world filled with the extinct creatures of Earth, he'll have to carve out his own opportunity... whether the Browns like it or not. ======================== https://discord.gg/hfsxubXx2T instagram: @awespec_

Grimmhoth: a world of mystery. The Black Hole, a mystery, appeared first in 1140. The Dark Umbrella: an Organisation Focused on mysteries and anomalies, and, of course, searching for the Black Hole and its syndrome. The Black Hole changes time in the places it appears; it changes the people, changes, or, worse... changes human form. Fiona, a young detective who works for the Dark Umbrella, is one of the greatest detectives of the Dark Umbrella, with the Black Hole in her First Mission as a Crow. She wants answers: why, how, and....More about the Dark Hole and More. Death is not the Worse Fate; rather, it is the kindest fate. Getting Cursed whole Life is the worst. I'm not a hero.... I'm a Detective Fiona's Quote The woman on the Cover Is Fiona Philomela Hamilton, the main character of The Shadows of grimmhoth

"What are you willing to do to achieve something? How serious are you about achieving your goals?" This was the question that Loki and the other people who came to the Four Directions sect to earn their freedom were asked on their first day in the sect. For Loki, this question was easy for him to answer because he was reborn as a slave in this world and had already defied the will of his slave master in order to join the Four Directions sect. He had braved danger and suffering to reach the Four Directions sect. So he knew what it meant to be desperate and was willing to do whatever was required of him to achieve his goal. In the world of the blessed heaven realm, there is no such thing as human rights, and freedom is a luxury that very few people have. It is said that everyone is a slave to someone. The only difference is how strong their master is. So he, just like everyone else, is under the control of someone above them. But he doesn't want to remain a slave forever. He aspires to greatness, immortality, and freedom. He wants to acquire enough power to gain control of his fate. He also wants to rise to the top of the world and be the one to control others. He even wants to gain power and control over death. In order to achieve this, he is willing to do anything. This is his answer to the question of what he is willing to do to achieve his goals. His answer to this question was why he awakened the Fenrir metac. This is a metac that can help him achieve his goals by granting him the ability to find prey, hunt prey, and devour them to strengthen himself. With the Fenrir metac, he will transform from a prey into a predator. He will even have the chance to rise to the top of the food chain and become the strongest predator. That is to be his purpose in life, and with great luck and perseverance, he might achieve it. Golden Tickets/Power Stones: Bonus Chapters 1. 100/500: 1st Bonus Chapter. 2. 200/1,000: 2nd Bonus Chapter. 3. 300/1,500: 3rd Bonus Chapter. 4. 400/2,000: 4th Bonus Chapter. 5. 500/3,000: 5th Bonus Chapter. Discord: https://discord.gg/wA7n2M23Aw

NARUTO LEGENDS OF THE PAST is a collection of short stories focusing on the backstories of the main characters from the Naruto universe. It traces the development of the plot centred on Madara Uchiha’s goals and ideology, which form the basis of the Fourth Great Ninja War in the original series. The various short stories explore themes such as Itachi Uchiha’s psychological journey leading to his decision to sacrifice himself for his brother Sasuke, or what caused the disappearance of the Senju Clan and the death of Hashirama Senju – events that remain unexplained in the original series to this day. You don’t have to follow the order of publication, although it is recommended. Each short story includes a Glossary to help readers navigate the names of villages, clans and characters.

Arata wakes up in the 19th century and an world full of rampant demons. Lucky for him, he makes a contract with the Dream Devil, Freddy, the moment he arrives. Now he's immortal in sleep. Invincible in nightmares. Close your eyes anywhere in the world, and Arata will be standing behind them. Demons are born from fear. Fear of control birthed the Control Devil. Fear of chainsaws birthed the Chainsaw Devil. Fear of stab wounds? That one somehow became Aki Hayakawa. And Arata? He doesn't fear much anymore. Which makes him the most dangerous thing in this world. Because in a reality shaped by terror, a man who's already dead inside has nothing to lose. And everything to take.

Once known as the assassin prince Alistair Sinclaire, he is reborn as Hoshikawa Hoshino. He leaves behind a past of blood and mystery. For the time being, he gets to live a life without politics, battles, and fighting for a throne. He is surrounded by friends, love and people he wants to protect. Hoshikawa finally feels happy. But fate is not done with him. Blood is spilt once more. Again and again, fate takes his loved ones from him. When tragedy keeps happening, his grief turns into something much more——revenge. He adopts the name Alistair Nightfall and goes into hiding from Project Atlas, enrolling at Celestara High. There, he starts looking for those who ruined his life and learns the dark truth not only about himself but also about the world.

What would happen if you were born into a world filled with bizarre races wielding even stranger powers, as a species whose sole purpose is to evolve by devouring every other race? Chaos. That's exactly what happens when the universe's one and only true Apex Predator is born into Marvel. This is the story of how Xenomorph tears apart the cosmic food chain and reshapes the hierarchy of life itself.

[Horror Game Developer : My games really aren't that scary!] I hate horror. From the skittering sounds of footsteps racing behind me, to the soft yet unnervingly cold whispers curling around my ears... All of it. I hate it. So much so that I start puking whenever I reach a certain threshold. And yet, I am a Horror Game Developer. A crappy one at that. So, given my lack of ability, I decided to quit. And yet... [Congratulations, you've been selected for the Horror Game Developer System!] Nope, I don't want it. Let me quit. ※ Note : Your world might experience some changes. But don't worry! It's part of the game! *** This is a story about a game developer who hates horror, but has no choice but to develop games scary enough to traumatize people. You want to curse me for making you piss your pants? If that's the case, who do I curse? *** An SCP inspired story with its own twist! Discord : https://discord.gg/FK7ZQU3b9p

[Congratulations, The Universal Adaptation System has successfully synchronized] Hide was left flabbergasted when, out of nowhere he saw the system notification. It was his third and final Awakening process, there would be no more chance if he failed to awaken. But to his surprise, nor did he only Awaken a Unique Class with S rank potential, but also a System that let's him adapt to anything. Now paired with a Unique Class and the Universal Adaptation System, follow Hide as he goes on to complete his promise to Exterminate all Calamity Beasts from existence. #Overpowered #Revenge #Antihero #Adapt #SSSAwakening #Gates #Dungeons