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He killed her father. She vowed to kill him. General Cassian Varro secured the throne with a single execution. Nyxara Kahem lost everything in that same moment. But instead of exiling her, Cassian keeps her close under his roof, under his protection, under his control. When rebellion threatens to tear the kingdom apart, the council demands a political union. Marriage is the only way to silence the south. Hatred becomes proximity. Proximity becomes tension. And tension becomes something neither of them can afford. Nyxara carries a power older than the throne itself. Cassian is immune to it. In a palace built on blood and strategy, love is not weakness. It is war.

In the shadows of the underworld, where blood is law and fear is currency, reigns Kael Draven—the most powerful and dangerously handsome Vampire King to ever exist. After centuries of absolute dominance, even immortality begins to bore him. But Kael doesn’t crave peace… he craves a new world to conquer. The human world. To rule it, he doesn’t need armies—he needs control at the very top. And that begins with infiltrating the most powerful bloodlines of humanity. With a single calculated move, Kael manipulates the mind of Victor Hale, the second richest man in the world, rewriting his memories and becoming his long-hidden son—the mysterious heir revealed after years of secrecy. Overnight, Kael rises as the most desired and influential young billionaire, stepping into a world of wealth, politics, and power. But his true target is far beyond wealth. Elena Rothschild—the elegant, untouchable daughter of the richest man alive. Once a woman who believed in love, Elena was shattered by betrayal when the man she trusted abandoned her at the moment she chose him over everything. Now, she trusts no one. To Kael, she is merely a key to domination. A heart to win. A mind to control. A bridge to ultimate power. With charm, calculated kindness, and irresistible allure, Kael begins weaving a perfect illusion—becoming everything Elena could ever want. But something goes wrong. The more he gets closer to her… The more his lies start to feel real. The more his immortal heart—long thought dead—begins to beat again. And as love slowly replaces manipulation, Kael faces a truth he never anticipated: To conquer the world, he may have to lose her. Because Elena is not as fragile as she seems. She carries a hidden ability… one that can sense the darkness within him. And if she discovers the truth— The monster behind the man— Everything Kael has built will collapse. Love or domination. Truth or illusion. In a world where power is absolute, even a king can fall.

In the shadows of New York, where Hell’s Kitchen teeters between crime and chaos, a new kind of “priest” has arrived. Anqiluo Rocks isn’t your typical man of faith. Once an ordinary guy named Ethan, his life ended in a freak accident—only for him to awaken in the Marvel Universe with the full power of a maxed-out necromancer from Diablo II. Armed with an inventory full of gold, forbidden magic, and an army of the undead at his command, he settles into an abandoned church on the edge of Hell’s Kitchen… and claims it as his own. His mission? Simple. If the criminals won’t seek redemption—he’ll beat it into them. Gang leaders, arms dealers, and killers alike soon find themselves facing a terrifying choice: Confess, donate, and join the “church”… or get personally exorcised by a bone-armored madman with a blunt weapon and zero patience. But while Anqiluo is busy “saving souls” (and collecting generous donations), he unknowingly draws the attention of someone far more troublesome— Tony Stark. What started as an online trash-talk match is about to spiral into something much bigger. In a city already filled with heroes, villains, and gods, one question remains: What happens when a necromancer decides to become a priest… in Hell’s Kitchen?

At the very moment when Pain invaded Konoha and Sage Mode Naruto made his entrance, a Dual Comparison Viewing Chamber descended upon the world of Naruto. The ones being compared were the leaders of the Akatsuki from two different worlds. In the original world, the leader Nagato had pushed the Rinnegan to its absolute limits—destroying Konoha required nothing more than a single Shinra Tensei. Yet in the parallel world, the Akatsuki’s leader, Kagerō, was even more astonishing. Armed with the mindset and insight of a transmigrator, he sparked a revolution of both technology and ideology within the ninja world. Several years later, just as Nagato finally avenged Yahiko’s death— Kagerō had already carried out a land revolution across the shinobi world, redistributing land and abolishing exploitative debts. An industrial revolution followed, bringing forth era-defining technologies—along with aerospace advancements and even biological cloning. Jiraiya: “He is not a Child of Prophecy… he is a steadfast materialist.” Uchiha Sasuke: “The moment I met him, I knew—only this man could bring an end to this filthy world.” Naruto: “If my goal used to be becoming Hokage… now, I only want to stand by Leader Kagerō’s side.” When the viewing concluded, and the two worlds merged as one, the daimyō of the original world fell into complete panic.

"Har raat ek hi awaaz... 'chan-chan' Dikhai kuch nahi deta, par lagta hai koi paas hai... Sach kya hai ? Aur darr kya ?"

"I was sent to reap her soul. Now, I became it prisoner." ​Sloane is a Wingless Reaper. For five centuries, he hasn't known mercy only the cold weight of his blade. His final mission was supposed to be easy: find the girl born with the Infinite Soul and kill her before she manifest and destroy his kind. Elena has spent twenty- four years in a guarded palace, hidden from the world and even the air outside by the ancient Ouroboros cult. She is a walking miracle whose blood holds the key to immortality. She doesn't know she’s a savior; she only knows she wants to be free. ​The cult wants her blood. The Wingless want her dead. When Sloane finally corners his prey, the universe intervenes. A golden brand sears into his wrist the Divine Shackle. A 24-hour countdown to his own death begins, and there is only one way to stay alive : He must protect the girl he was sent to kill. ​Now, the world’s deadliest hunter is her only protector. To the Ouroboros, she is a prize to be harvested. To the Fallen, she is a plague to be erased. To Sloane, she is a beautiful curse. ​As the prophecy draws closer, he realizes the most dangerous thing isn't the ticking clock on his wrist... it’s the heartbeat he could feel for his enemy. ​One HUNT. One LEASH. No ESCAPE.

This work is a fanfiction rewrite of Kimetsu no Yaiba, written by the author. While it follows the original timeline and major arcs, events, relationships, character dynamics, and outcomes have been deliberately altered. This story introduces: An original protagonist (Karina) Modified canon events Expanded emotional and psychological depth Adult themes and intimate relationships This is a female-centered narrative, focused on strength, desire, trauma, and emotional bonds between women. CONTENT WARNING / TAGS Fanfiction – What If / Canon Rewrite Yuri / Yurie Romance Sexy (emotional and physical intimacy) R18 (adult themes, desire, tension, sensuality) Dark Fantasy / Action Psychological and Emotional Intensity All relationships depicted are consensual, adult, and integral to character development and plot progression. NARRATIVE INTENT This continuation does not aim to replicate the original work. It aims to fracture it, rebuild it, and explore what the canon deliberately leaves untouched: Desire as a weakness—and a source of power Love as a destabilizing force in a world of discipline Female bonds that are not secondary, but central Karina is not a replacement character. She is a disruptive variable. Mitsuri Kanroji is not a supporting role. She is a turning point. Their relationship will evolve naturally through: Proximity Shared battles Emotional exposure Physical awareness Nothing is rushed. Nothing is gratuitous. Everything has consequences. CONTINUITY STATUS The story resumes after the Entertainment District Arc, moving forward into a rewritten continuation of the Demon Slayer timeline. From this point onward: Canon outcomes are not guaranteed Characters may survive, change, love, or fall differently Muzan adapts The world reacts History has already shifted. It will continue to do so.

Wrenhart Steinbach got killed at his own Branding Ceremony. For eight hundred years, the System has given every person in Graumark a Class, their rank, their power, their place in the world. Warriors. Mages. Rangers. The strong rise, the weak serve and anyone branded with the Forbidden Class is executed before they can open their eyes. And Wren got that Class. [Class: Aschenschlund (SSS) — FORBIDDEN] [Talent: Devour — Consume the skills of anything you kill.] [Warning: Each Devour accelerates Soul Erosion. At 0%, the host ceases to be human.] A spear through the chest. Three days dead. Then the System dragged him back, dumped him in the Ashwilds with nothing but a scar and a Brand that every authority in the world wants destroyed.

In a Victorian metropolis powered by biomechanical magic, Kaelen Draven is an apex predator hiding among scavengers. A Lingard elite with a "Taker’s" blade and a cold-burning chip in his spine, he lived by a hypocrite's oath—until the man who betrayed him bought the city. ​Now, trapped in a corrupt Bureau of Justice, Kaelen must lead a squad of broken misfits to dismantle a conspiracy that turns human lives into industrial fuel. In a world of legalized slaughter, the only way to save the weak is to become the monster the King fears most.

In the slums beneath Veston, Kael fled before his mother's body grew cold. No sun. No flowers. No hope. No dreams. Winter and gang lords buried them all. "Pray to the gods and endure for a better tomorrow," his mom said. Why would he pray to the same gods who denied him peace? Who thrust him into this nightmare? No, he'd carve a way to Veston with his own hands, and it started by breaking his promise to his mother for survival. But the job for gang lord Garrick Vane went wrong. He was left for dead with nothing but a ledger salvaged from a submerged temple. But he refused death. "I persist." Two words that awakened a forbidden power, an unlicensed truth anchored to belief and paid for in the warmth of his most precious memories. Now a heretic hunted by priests who burn the unfaithful, Kael discovered the ledger tracked everything: his stress, his anchor, the price he had already paid. Every choice stresses his truth. And if his anchor breaks, he wouldn't just die: he'd become something worse. **** Discord server: https://discord.gg/ubzzKM5wfp If you're enjoying the story and want to keep it free, please read it here: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/155290/the-crack-in-heaven-a-litrpg-progression-fantasy Don't forget to hit follow and comment there as well to make the algorithm notice your investment in Kael's story. 

On the planet Nevera, in a world shaped by centuries of technological advancement and conflict, one family has remained unshaken. The Piao family stands at the center of it all, guarding a legacy passed down through generations. At the heart of that legacy is the World Tree. More than a symbol, it is a living archive. It holds the recorded lives of the Piao bloodline, along with generations of accumulated knowledge, research, and innovation—knowledge drawn from the diaries of those who came before, powerful enough to reshape the world itself. At the center of this legacy stands Angela Piao. Unlike her sisters, Grace Piao, the head of the family, and Angel Piao, who commands its military power, Angela has lived a sheltered life, immersed in technology and far removed from the responsibilities of her bloodline. But that distance cannot last. The outside world is closing in. As pressure rises to access the World Tree and the knowledge it contains, the Piao family faces a turning point they have avoided for generations. For the first time, their control is no longer absolute. And the decision falls to Angela. Not because she wants it. But because she must. Beyond the family’s walls, people like Kael Everwyn, tied to the Piao bloodline yet raised far from it, reveal a truth the family can no longer ignore. Their influence has already spread beyond their control. And the world has begun to notice. It is watching. Waiting. Demanding answers. Caught between preservation and change, secrecy and exposure, Angela must decide whether the World Tree remains protected… or becomes something the entire world can claim. To make that choice, she turns to the past. Through the records within the World Tree, Angela traces the path that led her family here, searching for an answer hidden in history— one that may reveal the truth behind the Tree itself. Author’s Note: A female-led sci-fi story with politics, family dynamics, and AI — no romance, no harem, just story. Current Update Schedule: 2 chapters per day @2026 [GenieLove]. All Rights Reserved.

I'm sure most people have read novels where the main character wakes up in another world, in another body, at least once. And they've wondered what they would do if they were in that character's place. But while those characters wake up in their warm beds, why did I wake up among dozens of corpses? What's more, I became a murder suspect. Isn't that a bit much?

[UPDATE EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY] Akira Kurozawa, 17 years old, second-year student at Tokyo Jujutsu High, possesses a cursed technique as rare as it is cursed: Spiritual Absorption. Unlike sorcerers who exorcise curses, Akira devours them, imprisoning them within his soul. Each absorbed curse increases his power... but inexorably corrupts his humanity. While his classmates—Yuji Itadori, Megumi Fushiguro, Nobara Kugisaki—fight darkness from the outside, Akira battles the darkness growing within him. Black veins spread. Voices whisper. The line between sorcerer and monster blurs. Gojo Satoru watches, fascinated and wary. Sukuna takes interest. And Akira must answer a terrifying question: how far can one sacrifice oneself before losing what's worth saving?

In a world of inbalance and injustice the slick barrister Moses a corrupt but highly reputable lawyer called the shots . Having the ability to turn murderer into saint and saint into murderers . What happens when a dark secret from his father past come to hunt him and his family . What happens when he finds out what killed his father was lurking around to end him too until he provided what his father could not give or refused to. When he gets caught he in his own web of dishonesty and lies . How will he escape and save his family in the process A thrilling story mystery , redemption and Justice.

A reincarnated man harbors a twisted ambition: he longs for a grand, cinematic death before the eyes of the world, seeking to leave behind a grief-stricken memory that never heals. Yet, a singular obstacle thwarts his desire—his own overwhelming, god-like power. He possesses the devastating strength of Alfia in a male form, but without the debilitating illness that once crippled her. Coupled with the "Liaris Freese" skill, which drives his growth to ever-escalating heights, he has become an invincible monster. No matter how much he yearns for his end, death remains perpetually out of reach. [100 Power Stones = 1 Bonus Chapter] [80+ chapters ahead on P@tr3on = [email protected]/Raven737]

Shikuza, a prince with a forgotten face? has only one purpose: to hunt down the King of Ghosts. But in a world where the line between humans and ghosts is blurred by ancient riddles, who is the real monster? The ghost he's chasing, or the hero you're cheering for? The further you read, the more you'll realize... this isn't just a story. It's a memory. And it's standing right behind you.

The Honkai has vanished, and the original story has come to an end. But reality is not a novel, and so my daily life continues.

Four years ago, he was the boy who promised me his name in the heat of his bed. Now, he’s the Mafia King who came back to destroy mine. My father burned his world to the ground at exactly 2:17 AM. My family is extinct, my empire is ash, and I I became a ghost in a waitress uniform. But the shadows couldn't keep me safe from the Reaper. --- I thought I was hidden. I was wrong. Renzo Valenti didn’t return from the East for a reunion. He came for blood.. No gun. No warning. Just his hand around my face and the quiet reminder that I no longer belong to my name. --- “You’ll work for me,” he hissed, his breath a lethal promise against my skin. “Under my roof. At my desk. Until every life your father took is paid for.” I should have been his enemy. Instead— I became his property. --- I am his secretary. I am his prisoner. I am the only thing he is allowed to break. But the most dangerous part? It isn’t his hatred. It’s the way his touch still feels like something I never survived… —and never escaped

“In an age where knowledge cuts deeper than knives, Victoria is about to learn far more than is safe for any soul to bear.” Victoria and Robert were torn from the gentle dullness of their ordinary century and cast into a realm governed by proto-concepts—those ancient, unblinking truths from which life, death, and divinity themselves are carved. Proclaimed “Heroes” by a world too desperate to question its own choices, they were commanded to rise in strength, confront a Demon Lord, and deliver salvation to a land that had never been theirs. Robert donned the mantle with the fervour of a man stepping into destiny. Victoria… hesitated. And in that hesitation, something old—older than scripture, older than light—turned its gaze toward her. She felt its attention like a draft through a locked room. In a moment poised between terror and terrible understanding, she accepted its offer: a contract sealed in silence, a year of her life exchanged for a thing that should never have been permitted to exist. Not in this world. Not in any. She did not yet grasp that, in straying from the Hero’s ordained path, she had not merely shifted her fate— she had begun to unwrite the very scaffolding of her humanity. Now Victoria walks like a phantom through a world that has marched on without her— one year behind the celebrated Hero, yet burdened with an insight so sharp it threatens to cut her free from mortality itself. She can now trespass upon knowledge forbidden to scholars, sorcerers, or even those who stand at the pinnacle of human mastery. She commits the kind of acts whispered only of beings who have stepped beyond the human threshold… and never returned. And in a world built on primordial, immovable truths, one truth endures: Knowledge is power. But power, when mishandled, becomes a curse that devours its bearer— quietly, inevitably, like rot beneath embroidered silk.

Lin Feng is an orphaned youth in the remote Qingyun Clan of the Azure Hills Kingdom. During the clan’s annual Martial Soul Awakening Ceremony, he awakens a seemingly trash-grade murky grey soul, a sight that draws scorn and pity. However, this soul rapidly evolves, revealing itself as the Black and White Primordial Yin-Yang Lotus, a Devouring Bloodline of legend. It grants him the ability to devour the Qi, Life Force, and Spiritual Energy of any being he kills, whether human or beast, directly converting it into cultivation strength, bypassing traditional limitations. He also develops proficiency in the way of the sword, easily comprehending sword arts. His path is one of insatiable ascent. Each victory fuels the next, creating a self-perpetuating cycle of power. The bloodline is both his greatest asset and a profound secret, as its indiscriminate devouring nature would mark him as a monstrous threat if revealed.