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The Samsara Tower is a virtual world built from countless films and television works. Every Samsara Players struggles to conquer each dungeon, striving to earn rewards and grow stronger. Shura, after transmigrating into this world, was stunned to discover that the very dungeon challenges others found nearly impossible… were all movies and shows he had already seen in his previous life!? ----- From me, Mr. Translator: This book is already available on Webnovel, but its translation is almost identical to the raw text. The names of characters, places, terms, and even references from movies and anime were all left in Chinese, which I honestly couldn’t stand. The charm and brilliance of the story were lost, and its appeal diminished because of that. So, as a passionate reader, I decided to take it upon myself to properly translate this amazing book—one of the true gems hidden within the mountain of trash in the Chinese fanfic section. I’m not a hater, just a reader who wants to enjoy and be fully immersed in the story. Peace.

Silas Malachai, 23 years old, enters the Toy Factory — a clandestine institution beneath the streets of Chicago — to dispose of anomalous objects: toys and relics that lose their narrative energy and die. He soon discovers he is unlike anyone else: instead of absorbing stories, stories flow *from* him. As he descends through the ranks of the Factory, he comes to realize that his father didn't study the system — he *built* it. And in his diary, whose contents shift with every reading, he left behind a map to something the Factory has feared for decades. The question is not whether Silas will survive. The question is whether the person chosen by stories is a weapon, a resource, or a door that should never have been opened.

(I will be posting this story on RoyalRoad.com) To summarize this story in one sentence: A boy is Chosen to stand against a person who was never meant to be evil but now rules it. In the long term, without any spoilers. It's about a boy who becomes a god but still chooses to be human. A story about the cost of power and why someone would want it. When seventeen-year-old Damon Vale lost his mother, his whole world cracked. Not just with grief, but also with an impossible truth. Damon is no longer just a high schooler dealing with gangs and betrayal; he is the descendant of a powerful Queen of Woewyn, a kingdom on a realm carrying good and bad in excess. Raised on Earth by the Queen who lied to save his life, Damon is gifted and burdened by a power that literally bends elements and is constantly on the verge of purging his own body. Now, ancient gods and demons are pouring in and out of The Multiverse, some disguised as humans. Chronisouls, some torment, some help. For Damon, the choice is simple: Embrace the divine power that hurts him from the inside out, or watch his life on Earth, including the one girl who sees past his walls, shatter forever. From quiet rooftops(literally) to cosmic wars(also literally), Damon must discover if saving existence means losing the simplicity he always wanted, getting something better... or obtaining worse. (He doesn't really look like the cover. I only used it 'cause a friend made it for me and it's pretty cool. He looks like my pfp)

"Tonight marks the end of Damon Mateo." Carlos said as he pointed his gun on Maria who was now sprawled on the floor in tears.. BANG! Blood and brain matter sprayed on the floor. Maria was dead. Damon was stunned. "Mommy!!!" Amelia shouted and rushed to her Mother. BANG! Amelia fell on top of Maria, dead. Damon was truly stunned speechless. He couldn't believe what was happening. He couldn't find his voice. He just stared at the faces of his dead wife and daughter. He then turned to Carlos. Damon stared at him for a few seconds, and a smile showed on his face. "Carlos, I want you to know, that I will find you.. even if I have to make a deal with the devil himself, but know this, I will return, and I will kill every single one of you. I will make you all die, in a slow, painful, and undesirable death." Damon vowed with crazy smile on his face. "For that my friend, you have to claw your way out of hell first." Carlos replied with a nonchalant expression on his face. BANG! Blood and brain matter escaped from Damon's head as he fell down beside his family.. dead. They held me, and made me watch as they ravaged my wife before killing her, then killed my four years old daughter, and killed me as well.. they put a bullet through my skull.. but I told them I'll be back, even if I have to make a deal with the devil himself, I'll pay whatever price the devil, and when I return, I will make them bleed from their eyes.. I will make them, every single one of them, die in a.. slow.. painful.. and undesirable death, who knew there was actually someone listening. I was once human, now I'm a vengeful demon. You have no idea what's coming, but I do, and even the devil who gave me a second chance will feel utterly terrified of what's to come. A REVENANT'S WRATH

On an infinitely chaotic, dimensional battlefield… Uchiha Madara, his gaze filled with contempt, activates his Susanoo. "You wish to dance, too?" Ryomen Sukuna stands with his hands in his pockets. "You're the challenger here." Aizen Sōsuke slicks back his hair with a single motion. "From this moment forward, I will stand at the top." The bald Saitama just scratches his head, completely lost on what is happening. Having lost her signature ahoge, Saber Alter frantically swings Excalibur Morgan in a chaotic frenzy. Amidst the pandemonium, an immense and powerful chakra erupts from within Kaito Shirogane. His eyes lower slightly as a smile plays on his lips. "My apologies, everyone," he says. "It seems... I'm the real monster here." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Genre Tags: [Anime Multiverse + Overpowered MC + Game-like System] (The story focuses on anime-based worlds, but also includes worlds from film and other novels.)

The Specialists: Book One — Awakening “So far as we’re on Earth, we all live, we all walk, and we’re all different... but... it’s more than that, isn’t it?” There will always be a set of people — or maybe various sets — different from the rest. They walk among us, invisible yet always watching, bound by rules written before time began. Not all their stories are told. But come to think of it... if we never tell, they will never know. Beneath the hum of cities and the illusion of normal life, another world exists—one of secret factions, ancient clans, and Arms that bend the laws of nature itself. Shadows move across time, hunting and watching those who can rewrite reality. When an orphaned student receives a call that changes everything, and a stranger draped in dusk arrives at the edge of his world, the first thread begins to pull loose. What wakes isn’t always alive. What’s buried doesn’t always stay dead. And the ones who remember… are already watching. Awakening is just the first movement in a war older than history itself.

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In the wake of the bloody skirmishes between the Planetary Defense Forces (PDF) and the Traitor Guard, the war-torn surface of the Hive World is littered with the "expended" assets of the God-Emperor. While others see only corpses and ruin, Kian Voss, a scavenger blessed with the "Scavenge-Strike-Extract" System, sees a golden opportunity to strip the land bare. A discarded Lasgun from a fallen guardsman? Claimed. It’s loaded with Mark III Overcharge Packs. A set of scorched Carapace Armor? Stripped. That’s Grade-4 reinforced plate. The Bolt Pistol of a dead Commissar? Emperor's Mercy! It’s chambered with Grade-5 Kraken Penetrators! A wrecked Leman Russ Battle Tank? Pry open the hull—he’s just salvaged a Master-crafted Archaeotech Power Cell! Everything goes back to his Underhive Sanctum. By trading with hive-gang syndicates and black-market contacts, Kian exchanges his loot for construction materials to fortify his base. From his hidden workshop, he manufactures Artificer-pattern Stubbers and High-output Power Cells. Clad in his own customized Power Armor, Kian Voss spearheads the assault against the heretic. His goal? To farm enough "Favor of the Emperor" to eventually ascend to the foot of the Golden Throne itself!

- Disclaimer: Chapters are long and detailed. Slower pacing and character driven narrative. The Last Step is an epic fantasy spanning years of chapters, where history, ideology, science, and humanity collide in a world ruled by magic. Once, humanity stood at the bottom of existence. Magicless. Powerless. A race hunted to the brink of extinction. To the world, humans were little more than intelligent animals, fit to be enslaved, toyed with, or discarded. Their survival was never expected. Yet somewhere in forgotten history... someone changed that fate. Now, 7,000 years later, humanity stands beside the very races that once ruled over them, wielding magic that should have never been theirs. Few remember how that miracle came to be. Kaiser Everhart is one of them. Not as a chosen hero. Not with divine blessings. Not with overwhelming strength. Only with a mind that refuses to end his story. Born into a life that could only be described as hell, Kaiser Everhart grew up believing humanity was selfish, cruel, and undeserving of faith. All he ever wanted was a quiet life. A place where he could finally understand what happiness felt like. Instead, the world refused to leave him alone. Drawn into a continent where primordial beasts roam forgotten lands, where dragonics shape empires, elves preserve ancient civilizations, demons struggle against a curse of their own existence, beastkin, dwarves, and fairies each reign over fields humanity could never hope to rival, Kaiser finds himself standing among races that have mastered magic, divinity, and power over thousands of years. Yet the deeper his journey goes, the more one question begins to consume everything: Can humanity be saved... if humanity itself is its greatest enemy? This is not a story about becoming the strongest. It is a story about changing the world one impossible step at a time. Long before Kaiser Everhart was born, another man walked a remarkably similar path. One who devoted everything to humanity... Only to lose faith in it. As the past slowly awakens, two ideals begin moving toward an inevitable collision: The man who abandoned hope in humanity. And the man still searching for a reason to believe. Somewhere between them stands Kaiser Everhart, unaware that every step he takes is leading him toward the one person who understands him better than anyone else ever could. A slow-burning saga of politics, philosophy, science, war, romance, psychological manipulation, civilization-building, and the fragile hope that even the weakest race can create its own future. The road is long. The answers are earned. And every step matters. Discord: https://discord.gg/3tRarQqWJj

For Joric, a soul who had clawed his way out of the hellish reality of the 41st Millennium, any new world was a paradise by comparison. After all, what fate could be more hopeless than being cast into the galaxy-spanning nightmare of the Imperium of Man? He had no divine blessing, no unnatural psychic gift—nothing but his own wits—and was born into the polluted, sunless depths of a hive city's underhive. Yet, through sheer grit and a fervent devotion to the Machine God, he ascended from the grime to become a Tech-Priest of the Adeptus Mechanicus. It was on an archeotech recovery mission, deep in the ruins of a forgotten age, that he made contact with a strange, ancient device. In a flash of impossible energy, he was hurled across the veil of reality to a world uncannily similar to the lost Terra of ancient legend. For a fleeting moment, Joric believed the Omnissiah had guided him home. He was wrong. He soon discovered this world was not the cradle of humanity, but a rain-slicked dystopia of chrome, neon, corporate overlords, and digital ghosts. This was a cyberpunk reality, and his grimdark tale was just beginning.

Mankind in its present state has been around for a quarter of a million years, yet only the last 4,000 have been of any significance. So, what did we do for nearly 250,000 years? We huddled in caves and around small fires, fearful of the things that we didn't understand. It was more than explaining why the sun came up, it was the mystery of enormous birds with heads of men and rocks that came to life. So we called them 'gods' and 'demons', begged them to spare us, and prayed for salvation. In time, their numbers dwindled and ours rose. The world began to make more sense when there were fewer things to fear, yet the unexplained can never truly go away, as if the universe demands the absurd and impossible. Mankind must not go back to hiding in fear. No one else will protect us, and we must stand up for ourselves. While the rest of mankind dwells in the light, we must stand in the darkness to fight it, contain it, and shield it from the eyes of the public, so that others may live in a sane and normal world. We secure. We contain. We protect. — The Administrator

Jin Yeong lived an ordinary life. He worked an ordinary job, went home to an ordinary apartment, and was the kind of man nobody ever remembered. That all changed the day the sky cracked open over Seoul. A voice echoed across the world, mocking humanity's weakness. Monsters flooded the streets, cities fell in a single night, and every survivor was given a skill to fight back. Some awakened the power to control fire, lightning, or the earth itself. Jin awakened Limitless Weapon Mastery, a skill that let him use any weapon at its full potential and nothing more. Without magic or special powers, he seemed to have drawn the weakest hand of all. But in a world where survival meant fighting with whatever was within reach, Jin soon discovered that his skill held far more than anyone expected. With nothing but his skill and the will to protect the people beside him, Jin began his journey through a broken world, where anything he holds can kill.

In a world shaped by a great war, magic, guilds, and a new frontier, an ambitious half-elf dreams of leading a guild of his own. The problem? He can’t cast a single spell. Armed only with stubborn determination and a strange scepter, he sets out to carve his place among adventurers and lead his guild to greatness. Together, this unlikely band heads into a land of uncertainty, monsters, and mysteries that few dare to tread. Gold is plenty, danger is constant, and survival is anything but guaranteed. But as the boy’s journey begins, whispers of darker powers stir along the surface of the continent and beyond, ancient magics and forgotten enemies long thought sealed away. His dream is simple: build a guild and explore the the world, however, the world has other plans.

[Warning: Adult content 18+. Extreme Smut every 10 - 20 chapters] "What, I have received two SSS-Ranked skills? Tower, show me." [Skill Name: Divine Pervert Touch] [Skill Name: 10,000 Ways of Pleasure Manual] --- Kent was a handsome human male who, for some reason, couldn't get his d*ck to stand up, nor was he able to feel pleasure. He lived his entire life full of regret and hatred. Knowing his days wouldn't get any better as time passed by. He chose to become an adult movie director, where he got to see things up close and earn handsomely for his professionalism. (He couldn't get his dick up, so no weirdness on set...Lol) Then he was killed, and his soul was sucked into the realm of Hatred and Resentment. However, everything changed for him from there on. He received a Celestial Grade Inheritance Tower, which granted him access to an Overpower Harem System. He also received a godly body with a full 9-inch divine rod. But that wasn't for free... He was assigned a mission to kill the god of alchemy by the goddess of hatred and resentment. Of course, he must first make the goddess his first harem member as the requirement for his inheritance. After a whole year of sex and pleasure, he got his wish. Then, he was sent to start his journey as a cultivator with a haram system and two SSS-Ranked skills. With Women waiting for his rescue and a goddess who grants his every wish, Kent began his journey filled with love, lust, and bloodshed. A journey full of blood, pain, and Pleasure... ============ No NTR No Yuri ============ Join The Discord Server: https://discord.gg/wFptfB9Sgv

“If Heaven demands that I kneel, then let Heaven descend and make me.” Lican was born in flames, in a world where strength determined who lived and who died, and where weakness was nothing more than an invitation to be crushed. At thirteen, he knew nothing about cultivation, destiny, or the world beyond the place he had been imprisoned, yet when he finally escaped, he found himself thrown into a wilderness filled with beasts, hunters, bloodshed, and dangers far beyond anything he had ever known. With only his father's teachings, a strange jade hairpin, and a mysterious cultivation manual left behind for him, Lican begins to walk a path unlike that of ordinary cultivators. He has no dantian, no powerful clan behind him, and no master waiting to guide his steps. Instead, his body, soul, blood, and even the world around him become part of a path he must uncover for himself. But as Lican grows stronger and begins to understand the strange power he carries, he slowly discovers that his survival was never part of the fate written for him. He was supposed to die. His existence itself stands against a destiny that had already decided his ending, and the further he walks down this path, the more he begins to question who truly has the right to decide how his story should end. If Heaven has already chosen his fate, then Lican will have to choose whether to accept it—or fight the very heavens that wrote it.

In a world that only worships light, was born an heir to the title of King of Darkness who is destined to become the destroyer of the world—Leviathan Demonio. His existence is both a blessing and a threat to an unbalanced peace. Light is worshipped and darkness is exiled. In this world, there is magic and false history. No matter how much evidence is found, in the end only lies are recorded. Questions are never answered correctly, instead giving rise to more secrets. They live within a system built upon lies. Respect what they hate, and hate what they respect. That is the only rule to survive. Only one, yet no one is able to use it to open the path toward truth. Then, how? The destruction is not the spark that lights the fire, but a time bomb that could explode at any time. Can the truth be found before that?

Levi Larson wakes from the same nightmare: his parents slaughtered, his eyes ripped from their sockets. The Nightcrawlers tormenting him offer revenge. All he has to do is sign a Sleepwalker contract surrendering his body. He refuses. He wants his eyes back and his parents avenged, and he does not believe these creatures can deliver either. When Nightcrawlers invaded Earth, holy pillars descended over a thousand cities, creating sanctuaries where humanity could survive. But even there, humans remain vulnerable in their sleep. The genetically gifted humans negotiate partnerships with the nightcrawlers, gaining monstrous abilities and a path to evolution in exchange for the sunlight they absorb, while retaining control of themselves. These humans become Daywalkers. Levi needs to become one. But blindness makes him a poor partner: he cannot absorb sunlight efficiently, leaving him little to offer a Nightcrawler. In his most desperate moment, a Nightcrawler offers him a Daywalker contract. Levi accepts. Only after signing does he learn the price. His contracted nightcrawler’s evolutionary path has killed every partner who attempted it. Now Levi must find the solution they all died searching for. The Three-Body Problem. ***** Discord: https://discord.gg/KSNWWshhfm midgardnovels.com

In a world where everyone is born with the potential to awaken a power known as Arcana, the path to strength is a dangerous one. Awakening requires a "Persona Split"—a psychological fracturing where the mind loses its grip on reality. Caught in the chaos of who they truly are versus what they have become, many mages lose control, their newly found powers spiraling into destruction. Fourteen-year-old Silver Archive wants no part of this cycle. His only dream is a life of peace, far from the tragedies that have haunted his clan. But as the third in line to the nearly extinct Archive name, the pressure to awaken is mounting. Will Silver become another victim of the Persona Split, or can he find a way to claim his power without losing his soul?

Nightmares don't end. They layer. When reality fractures, the chosen few are pulled into worlds that shouldn't exist—each one a nightmare more twisted than the last. A warrior sacrifices everything to hold back the darkness. A prisoner fights for survival in a world of endless shadow. A girl loses herself piece by piece, becoming something hollow. A weapon walks the world, carrying stolen power it doesn't understand. Every story is connected. Every nightmare runs deeper. As the layers peel back, the truth emerges: some were never meant to wake up. Some were never real to begin with. And the ones pulling the strings have been playing this game far longer than anyone knows. Ash Eyes is a dark fantasy thriller where protagonists change, realities shift, and survival means sacrificing everything—including yourself. Psychological horror • Multiple POVs • Nested narratives • Nothing is what it seems • this also has graphic violence and body horror • psychological Trauma and identity loss • dark fantasy themes • character death and transformation

An intelligent and capable Harry Potter without the burden of an abusive childhood arrives at Hogwarts, and the Wizarding World is thrown for a loop. His adversaries better watch out, for when he or his are threatened, Harry takes no prisoners. Strong and morally grey Haphne. AU.