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Hermi did not volunteer for this marriage. She is a royal bastard, hunted down by a father she has never met, then handed off to a foreign king whose name is whispered like a curse. A perfectly efficient solution for everyone involved. Except Hermi. That foreign king rules a wasteland so barren and forsaken that the six surrounding kingdoms use it as a dumping ground for criminals and exiles. He is rumored to be a tyrant. Every princess sent before her is said to have died within months. Hermi's expectations are, understandably, low. She arrives with exactly one goal: survive long enough to burn her home kingdom to the ground. A modest ambition, all things considered. Survival, however, turns out to be complicated. The land is hostile. Her husband runs cold and scorching in equal measure. The crown on her head feels less like power, and more like a very formal death sentence. Then, somewhere between a wasteland and a husband who wouldn't stop watching her, Hermi awakens something the continent hasn't seen in thousands of years. A magic so ancient and absolute it rewrites the rules of the world. The kind that makes kingdoms nervous. The kind that makes alliances form overnight. Hermi arrived in the wasteland to start a war. She didn't expect to become the reason the entire world has no choice but to declare one against her. — Tags: Dark Romantasy, Morally Grey, Political Intrigue, Kingdom Building, Power Couple, Slow Burn, War, Dragons, Monster Hunt, Magic System, Level Up, Power Growth — Warning: Explicit Gore and Sexual Content

The girl from the Scarlet Devil Mansion meets a soul from another world, and the two souls merge into one, creating a new Flandre with a brain and reason. After stepping onto another world called Terra, she looked up at the twin moons in the sky. "Ugh, I want to go home so badly, I miss the desserts my sister makes for me..." And so the girl embarked on her journey to find her way home.

In a world ruled by strength and chaos, a soul from modern Earth awakens in the frail body of a seven-year-old Sakazuki. Orphaned by pirates and left with nothing but a burning hatred, he refuses to remain weak. With knowledge from his past life and the power of the Magma Magma Fruit, he begins his ruthless ascent through the ranks of the Marines. But justice is not so simple. Corruption festers within the very institution meant to uphold order, and the line between protector and tyrant blurs with every battle. Undeterred, Sakazuki will forge his own path—one paved with fire and blood. From a vengeful child to the most feared force in the Marines, witness the rise of a man who will set the seas ablaze and redefine what it means to bring order to a chaotic world. 100 Power Stones = 1 Bonus Chapter ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ● I do not own anything related to One Peice, this is purely a fanfiction. There will not be any system or special perks for the MC, he will rely entirely on himself. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• To read 26+ advance chapters and support me, visit my p@treon at - P@atreon/SilverShark769

"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. 100/1,000: 1 Bonus Chapters. 2. 200/2,000: 2 Bonus Chapters. 3. 300/3,000: 3 Bonus Chapters. 4. 400/4,000: 4 Bonus Chapters. 5. 500/5,000: 5 Bonus Chapters. There will also be bonus chapters for gifts. Discord: https://discord.gg/wA7n2M23Aw

MATURE CONTENT 18+ Aurora De Luca is the wife of a wealthy man. Then, he disappeared, leaving behind a huge debt behind. The man he owed wasn't just anyone. He was Caesar Alexandrovich Dragunov—the most dangerous man in the Underworld. No man in the mafia world hadn’t heard of his name or that his hands been stained with blood since he was young. Everything about him was full of carnage, chaos, and murder. To the world, Caesar is a monster. But Aurora knew something no one else did. Caesar… is the father of her unborn child. A one-night stand—meant to be her desperate escape—had turned into a deadly game of hide-and-seek. Because Caesar is searching for the mysterious woman he had spent the night with. And Aurora had no intention of revealing herself. Not when the truth would place both her and her child directly in the lion’s den. Can she still keep her secret when she's taken captive by him? Or will she fall prey to the temptation of the very beast hunting her? ... "Your husband's back," Caesar said as he stepped closer, trapping her against the wall. "Do you want to go back to him?" Her lips trembled. "I..." He didn't let her finish. "Too late." His hand wrapped around her waist. "You stopped being his the moment he left you and I took you away." "Now," his lips dangerously close to her own. "You're mine." ... Read this when: If you want a romance between a man who had the world under his feet give his heart to one woman, and a broken woman searching for true love and freedom. STRICTLY NO RAPE. SLOW BURN ROMANCE

WARNING: EXPLICIT SMUT, GORY VIOLENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL DARKNESS, AND MORALLY GREY CHARACTERS. He died in a woman’s arms. Poisoned by the only person he chose not to doubt. Alexander Sterling learned his final lesson too late. Trust is a luxury. Intimacy is a weapon. He wakes inside a fantasy academy game he barely played. Not as the chosen hero. Not as the hidden royal heir. But as Damon Valecrest , The Duke’s son… and the villain destined to be crushed beneath the protagonist’s rise. The problem? He never finished the game. He doesn’t know the plot. He doesn’t know who betrays whom. He doesn’t know the limits of his own Resonance. And in this empire, power isn’t just forged in battle— It’s traded in bedrooms. Whispered behind masks. Sealed through bodies and blood. A fallen heir prepares to reclaim the throne. A weeping executioner paints ballrooms red. Noble houses scheme beneath silk and candlelight. Breaches tear reality open without warning. The righteous fight for justice. The clever fight for survival. But Damon Valecrest? He fights to control the board. This world expected a villain to fall. Instead, It inherited a man who has already died once for trusting the wrong person. Character Illustrations : https://fcibtav.carrd.co/ Discord Link : https://discord.gg/E4hqSv2aH

Eros did not choose this life. He did not choose to be a slave. Nor did he choose to be an astral artist. But what he did choose... was to wage war against the world's oldest empire. For over a thousand years, his people have been silenced, persecuted, and degraded. No longer will they suffer. He will be their voice, their weapon, their god...

“A boy,” they said....and with that the war began. Now Aegon must navigate a court of lies, ambition, and dragons, where every step brings him closer to the throne… or the grave.

Win games = win babes = win slaves For every minigame won, the player will receive a beauty into their harem who obeys their every whim. Chen Mo was invited into this game — a game that provided an endless array of minigames, each with a unique storyline, atmosphere, and theme. The harem wasn't the only reward this game had to offer. Magical items bearing supernatural abilities could be purchased from its store, and a fair number of them could be used in real life. The players of this game were secret superpowered individuals in the real world due to these magical items, and Chen Mo had just become one of them... albeit starting off as an F rank one. With these magical items, Chen Mo didn't intend to use them only for selfish purposes; he was going to use them to change the world for the better. But mostly, of course, Chen Mo was playing for the heavenly babes. —————— DISCLAIMER: Violence Gore Psychological horror Horror Very graphic, explicit scenes

Ciaza was the miracle that broke her dynasty's ancient curse. She was born to be Empress, bound by a throne on the brink of collapse. In a palace of gilded lies, Ciaza must navigate the love of a fiancé she cannot fully trust and the terrifying devotion of a brother who knows her too well.

Somewhere between death and memory, she was remade. Pulled from the ashes of a failed expedition, a nameless girl wakes in a place called Solmere Bastion — an alchemical refuge built for the broken and forgotten. With no past but the relic she clutches, she is reborn as Ravine — a name given, not remembered. But the Dead Zone does not let go so easily. Whispers linger. Dreams unravel. The relic she carries is no ordinary pendant — it's a Matron’s Bloom; a sacred object passed only to those meant to carry on a bloodline... or a burden. As Ravine walks the rain-soaked halls of the Bastion, haunted by names that might have once been hers, she must uncover not just who she was — but who she is becoming. Because in this world, alchemy gives nothing for free. To live again is to owe something. And the Gate always comes to collect. Aporia is a slow-burn fantasy of identity, grief, and quiet magic — perfect for fans of lyrical prose, introspective journeys, and stories that linger long after the last page.

The world is a game of numbers, and Han Jinsu is a rounding error. Since the "Veils" tore through reality, humanity has been defined by a single metric: Mana Capacity (MCAP). For the elite, it is a ticket to godhood. For Han Jinsu, a Porter with a permanent MCAP of 0.00, it is a life sentence of invisibility and ridicule. As a "Null-Boy" for the prestigious Iron-Blood Guild, he is nothing more than human luggage—until the day the numbers stop making sense. During a routine sweep of a C-Rank dungeon, an S-Rank anomaly—an Abyssal Arbiter—manifests. Trapped and betrayed by his own team, Jinsu is used as a sacrificial decoy. He is left to die in the dark, a shadow-claw pierced through his heart. But you cannot subtract from Zero. At the brink of death, a jagged, glitching system awakens within him: The Nihil Engine. It doesn't offer him levels, quests, or traditional skills. It offers him Erasure. Now, Jinsu has returned from the grave with a hunger that mana cannot satisfy. He doesn't just defeat his enemies; he consumes their existence, converting their power into Void Saturation. From the back-alley "Black-Market" dungeons to the gilded halls of the Nine Pillars—the corrupt titans who rule the world—Jinsu begins a cold, calculated ascent. The hunters believe they are at the top of the food chain. They are wrong. A glitch has entered the system, and it is coming to delete everything they’ve built. Warning: This system is not designed for your survival; every step toward godhood is a step away from your humanity.

I am currently in Konoha and have just become Orochimaru's apprentice. "So, is the Sharingan's transformation from one tomoe to two or three tomoe due to genetic mutation, or something else?" Staring at the restrained Uchiha test subject in front of him, Kenichi Amamiya's eyes shine with intense curiosity. Orochimaru silently accepts the thick stack of pages in his hand, titled “Research Report on the Impact of Soul Reincarnation on the Body.” When Orochimaru receives a paper titled “Research Report on the Impact of Soul Reincarnation on the Body” from his disciple, only one thought crosses his mind: This kid is even more dangerous than I am

In a city marked by rain and darkness, a young woman fleeing her own past, finds herself drawn into a hidden world where the lines between the human and the supernatural blur. The city, with its festivals and secrets, becomes the setting for a destiny she never chose. There, her paths cross with a vampire whose lethal charm hides truths more sinister than his words.

Gavin Ward traveled to another world and became the king of a small country, but at the very beginning, he was in danger of destroying the country. Gavin Ward who holds the Industrial Revolution system in his hand, said he was not panicking at all. The giant dragon soaring in the sky screamed and was shot down, and the Quinjet fighter jets escorted the huge space carrier sailing in the sky. The proud knight was crushed by the steel body of the apocalypse tank and roared impotently. The noble magician fled in the sky in a panic, and a V3 rocket roared past behind him. Technology crushes another world! Our journey is the sea of ​​stars! "Do you choose the left or the right?" Facing the gods of another world, Gavin Ward smiled, with a two-way foil in his left hand and an anti-matter annihilation cannon in his right.

Lucian Valemont was supposed to die a dog's death. Humiliated. Discarded. Killed by the golden protagonist like every forgettable villain. There was just one problem: he remembered the entire damn novel. Reincarnated as the bastard son of Duke Valemont, Lucian wakes up with a Villain's Path System and a destiny written in failure. His talent? Stolen by a curse that sealed 88% of his mana. His family? They'd celebrate if he dropped dead. The academy? They see him as a punchline. But Lucian has something the protagonist doesn't. He knows exactly what's coming. Every plot twist. Every hidden power. Every "destined" heroine who's supposed to fall for the hero. Seraphina Ashenblade—the proud sword goddess with a secret no one suspects. Elira Frostveil—the ice princess hiding a bloodline that could shatter kingdoms. Aria Lighthollow—the saintly healer with desires darker than anyone knows. The protagonist can have his spotlight and his predictable happy ending. Lucian will take the power, the women, and the throne the story never meant for him to have. The novel thinks it controls his fate. It's about to learn what happens when the villain stops playing by the rules. A WARNING TO IMPATIENT READERS: If you're looking for a brainless MC who gets instantly overpowered in chapter 3 and collects women like trophies, click away now. Go read something else. For the first 45 chapters, Lucian is physically pathetic. He doesn't survive with cheat-like strength; he survives through sheer spite, psychological warfare, and gaslighting people who could crush him with two fingers. If you have the attention span of a goldfish and drop novels because the MC can't one-shot the villain on day one, this isn't for you. But if you're smart enough to stick around for the build-up? Chapter 46 changes everything. The payoff will absolutely shatter your mind. Consider this a filter.

Abandoned by his party and left to die in a deadly dungeon, River survives only by accepting power from a demon lord. The demon wants to corrupt him. River wants to help people. In a cruel world that hates outcasts, fears red-eyes, and rewards monsters in human skin, a “useless” cleric and an evil demon begin an unlikely journey of good deeds, dangerous power, and the fight to prove that a person is more than the label forced onto them.

Rudeus loses to Hitogami and develops time travel magic in hopes to once see his loved ones again. The experiment was partly a success, sending a young child back to the year K410. The boy's soul was connected to Saint Millis through time travel phenomenon, which he then gets a power up that uses life force. ------------------------------- Art cover artist: @snaxybyte