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In the year 2247, the world as humanity once knew it has crumbled into the remnants of a fallen civilization. Beneath a rotting atmosphere and relentless storms of toxic dust that devour all life, the last refuge of humankind lies sealed within colossal glass domes known as the Seven Biotope Enclaves, controlled by the central government. But a buried truth is about to be exposed. When the most perfect bioweapon ever created escapes from a hellish research facility, the ironclad order of the domes begins to fracture. This is not merely an escape. It is the beginning of a world-shaking infiltration. A worthless scavenger boy is forced to join forces with an immortal weapon as they venture into the heart of a hidden power, confronting genetically engineered killers and uncovering secrets long buried beneath silence. The single key that will decide the fate of the world may lie within someone’s final breath. When the government sees you as nothing more than a test subject, rising up is no longer a choice. It is the only way to survive.

This is a collection of finished short stories ranging across many genres. Volume 01 consists of polished (touched-up spelling and grammar) versions of my novis works I made while still in elementary, middle, and high school. Volume 000 (the Auxiliary Volume) contains the original works from Volume 01 as they were when I wrote them,* and Volume 02 is all of my no-vice works after school. *Don't bother reading the Auxiliary Volume unless you really want to. As of updating this description (04/08/26), I am still tracking down the dates of when I wrote these pieces, as I didn't have the foresight to put the dates on the documents themselves. (My real name, as it appears in the original texts, is replaced with "Final") (Jul 19, 2018, is the earliest date I have for most of my novis stories, though they were definitely not all written on the same day.)

In every story, there exists a protagonist star, that shields the chosen male and female leads. It bends fate itself to ensure the triumph of its chosen and those who bear it are destined to rise, to win and to be loved even if it's at the cost of someone else. Shen Xiatang was never meant to matter. She was just a disposable side character, a stepping stone, a tragedy written solely to elevate someone else’s “happy ending.” Betrayed, abandoned, and crushed beneath the overwhelming luck of those favored by the Protagonist Star, she dies with a curse on her lips that states: “In all life times, in all generations for as long as your line will be, I will make sure that your children's children and their children's children, suffer for the injustice I have faced today. I will muddy their luck so bad that they will wonder what kind of bad karma they must have accumulated to meet a calamity like me!” Whether by divine mistake or something far more sinister, her wish is granted and Shen Xiatang awakens not as a living person, but as an invisible spirit bound to people like her who were destined to be crushed by the protagonist. With revenge in her heart and terrible suggestions on her lips, join Shen Xiatang as she joins hands with those who had been destined to be cannon fodder to rewrite fate itself.

Tonight, Raphael enters the hunt. The System never forgives failure. Kill, or be killed. Every hunt makes him stronger. Every hunt makes him less human. On the first day, he hunts Demons, drawing their power through contracts and making it his own. On the second day, he hunts Witches, forging bonds to synchronize their minds and wield their magic. On the third day, he hunts sinners, claiming bounties paid in blood, even if it means bearing their sins. Now, this city is Raphael’s hunting ground. Blood stains his hands. Sin corrodes his soul. To hunt monsters, he will become one first.

To the world, he is a fallen Alpha. To his enemies, he is a target. To himself, he is a monster. In a world ruled by S-tier Alphas, Zhou Qixian is a masterpiece of deception. He has convinced the city—and his powerful family—that he is an A-tier Alpha. But beneath the expensive suits and the scent of power lies a toxic secret: he is an S-tier Omega. Zhou Qixian was the "disappointing" son, an S-tier Omega masquerading as an Alpha in a family that only values one. Disowned by his family and hunted by a past he can't escape, S-tier Omega Qixian must hide his lethal pheromones to survive because an omega will always be an omega. But when he finds the twin brother he never knew existed. Qixian entangles himself in Haoran’s world of warmth and healing, the secrets of the Zhou family begin to unravel. But Gu Yichen, the cold-blooded CEO of the city’s strongest empire, is already suspicious. He’s determined to unmask the "Song Qixian" who cries out for mercy in his sleep and reeks of death and spider lilies. Qixian must decide how much of his humanity he’s willing to sacrifice to protect his brother. When the masks finally fall, will the truth set the twins free, or will it destroy the only family Qixian has left?

In the nation of Avrael, power is both a blessing and a curse. Sixteen-year-old Ayato Daath, a poor orphan, had always hoped to live unnoticed in the shadows of the city. But when he is forced to undergo The Rite of Manifestation, the ritual that determines one’s magical potential, his worst fear comes true he is an Elite. Now torn from the only life he’s ever known, Ayato is thrust into a brutal world of magic, bloodshed, and treacherous politics. In a society where the strong prey on the weak, where rival factions scheme in the dark, and where a single misstep could mean death, Ayato must quickly learn one thing; adapt, or perish. And one thing Ayato already knows is that in Avrael, only the ruthless survive.

WARNING: THIS BOOK MAY CONTAIN STEAMY AND SEXUAL CONTENT WHICH IS STRICTLY NOT FOR KIDS UNDER +18 *** They took turns with his wife and his daughter hung from the rafters while he watched, bound and burning alive. The fire consumed him and when his screams finally stopped, something older than pain answered. The primordial blood that had fused with his own awoke and ignited. They call it an Abysswalker, a human whose blood has been forever changed by a primordial creature's living essence. Governments hunt him, people fear him. The world that took everything from him has no idea what it has awakened. Silver Ash doesn't want to survive. He wants to burn it all down. ***

The sky is made of ivory, and the air tastes of ancient sins. > Corvin is a Silencer—the Synod’s apex executioner. He has turned hundreds of genetic anomalies into dust to keep the world’s High-Resonance stable. He doesn't just kill; he shapes the kinetic forces of creation into instant silence. His final target is a ten-year-old boy named Kael. The Synod wants the boy erased not for who he is, but for what is erupting from his skin. Jagged, oil-black obsidian crystals are sprouting from Kael, vibrating with a haunting frequency known only in the deepest nightmares: The Void-Song. Memory is a jagged blade. In Kael, Corvin sees the face of the sister he was forced to silence. In the boy’s silver-and-black hair, he sees the end of the world. For the first time, the Silencer speaks. His command: "Run." In a relentless, high-octane hunt through the calcified ribs of dead gods, Corvin must protect the very seed of the apocalypse he was meant to destroy. As his body fails and the murderous "Crimson Leak" begins to claim his sight, Corvin learns the world's final secret. Some things are meant to be silenced. Others are meant to trigger a deafening rebellion.

Transmigrated into the world of Naruto. For many years, he trained relentlessly, yet his talent remained mediocre, and he had no system to assist him. In the end, he could only become an ordinary Special Jonin of Konoha. This was likely the peak of Kurogane Ren’s life. But… As Kurogane Ren watched Kakashi Hatake, who had just obtained the Sharingan, being targeted by Hiruko… It seemed everything had reached a turning point of fate. The Demon-Assimilation Technique!

Elizabeth Silvera lived a simple farmer life on New Havens, free of worry and concern, when her world was turned upside down by a knight from the Alzar Kingdom, Sir Benedict Hawken. From humble beginnings, Elizabeth must navigate a treacherous world filled with war and strife, while trudging through internal struggles. Where magic and martial arts are born, anyone can rise from Rank 1 Mortal to Rank 5 God! This is the story of how Elizabeth and her friends manages to become legendary apex experts, shattering the firmament and slaying gods alike! This is the Chronicles of New Havens! Book 1 Lion and Snake (Completed 2-22-2020) Book 2 Meeting of Masters (Completed 1-26-2021) Book 3 Empire's Collapse Part 1 (Completed 8-14-2022) Book 3 Empire's Collapse Part 2 (Completed 5-01-2025) Book 4 Southern Clash (In Progress...) Estimated Arc 1 progress: 65% Chapter updates are either daily or once every two days. All credit belongs to Square ENIX and Jeremy Chong for the cover and all adjustments are personally made. (Crossposted to Royal Road as Four Roads to Divinity)

"Was he a man dreaming he was a butterfly? Or a butterfly dreaming he was a man?" For a century, the continent of Laurasia has been a sepulchre of ash. What was once a tranquil expanse of kingdoms and emerald forests is now a Demonic Hell, usurped by the Demon Legion. Skeletons and carcasses are the only harvest in lands where humanity once thrived. Now, the few remaining bastions of mankind flicker like dying embers against an encroaching, eldritch night. In the heart of this chaos, within the high walls of the Capital, lies the Sanctus Sanctum—the supreme echelon of Mageia and the iron fist of the Magis' Guild. Seraph was the Sanctum’s ghost. A lowly orphan whose family was slaughtered by the swarm, he lived as a frail Acomage, bullied to the brink of death by noble-born magis who used "Mageia duels" as a veil for cruelty. After a ruthless assault left him broken and coughing up poisoned blood in a desolate infirmary, the boundaries of the multiverse fractured. A mysterious soul from a dark dimension—ancient, cunning, and lethal—has merged with the dying youth. Two fates, forged into a single, unstoppable entity. Now, the boy who once fled in terror has awakened with eyes that see the hidden truths of the world—one Gold, one Azure. He possesses a knowledge of the Macrocosmic that defies the ancient laws of the Magis' Guild. Seraph is no longer the victim cowering in the shadows. He is the master of a power that even the Demon Legion will come to fear. From the blood-stained halls of the Sanctum to the frontlines of the Great War, he will not just survive. He will become the cataclysm that ends it. The butterfly has awakened from its dream. And it has brought the Storm. (⌐■_■)

*"He couldn't save his family from the war — so he decided the world didn't deserve him anymore. He was wrong about that last part."* --- Arjun Delos Reyes lost everything in the aftermath of World War II — his father, his mother, his younger sister, all of them gone in the violence that swallowed Southeast Asia while the world was busy celebrating peace and he survived, carrying that survival for three years like a punishment he never asked for until in 1948 he walked to a cliff outside Manila and stepped off. His body died but his soul didn't move on — instead it expanded outward through time itself, past the Philippines, past the century, past every war and discovery and quiet human moment that ever happened, until a Voice found him in that silence and spoke to him the way a teacher speaks to a student who has finally run out of excuses, and that Voice didn't comfort him, it gave him a mission. Travel through every era, move through past present future and every branching timeline in between, change the moments that bent human history toward catastrophe — save Mahatma Gandhi from assassination, give Alan Turing the protection his own government denied him, ensure the discoveries that could have arrived decades earlier actually do, redirect the quiet decisions made by politicians and scientists and ordinary people whose single choices echoed for generations across every country and every timeline. There is one rule — he cannot interfere with anything that involves his family, not to warn them, not to watch them, not even to stand on the same street, and the moment he tries time itself removes him, and he has tried, he knows exactly how it feels, he will try again — and somewhere out in the threads of history someone else is moving through time making their own changes and they left four words in his private ledger that nobody else should have been able to touch, four words in German, and he hasn't figured out yet whether they're a warning or an invitation. --- **THE CONTRACT** 5 Reviews — 1 extra chapters 10 Golden Tickets — 1 extra chapter 50 Powerstones — 2 extra chapters 100 Collections — 3 extra chapter Targets double, rewards double — 100 powerstones means 4 chapters, 200 means 8, no ceiling. --- **GIFTING TIERS** Massage Chair — +1 chapter Car — +3 chapters Dragon — +4 chapters Castle — +12 to chapters Spaceship — +21 chapters Gachapon — +25 chapters Every platform gift counts toward bonus chapters based on its value — nothing goes unrecognised. --- **UPLOAD PROMISE** All reward chapters will be uploaded within 2–9 days of the goal being hit, tracked weekly and posted publicly so you always know where things stand. --- *Don't read it... unless you're ready to get addicted.* --- **EXTRA TAGS** #TimeTravel #DarkFiction #HistoricalFiction #WebNovel #SoulsOutsideTime #Gandhi #AlanTuring #RealHistory #MoralGrey #GeniusMC #PhilosophicalFiction #BillyBat #MultipleTimelines #SecretWar #NoSystemJustBrains #DeadButNotGone #ManipulatingHistory #LoreHeavy #CinematicFiction #OP_MC #DarkButHopeful #TimelineMission #MindGames #AddictedAlready #MustRead ---

Before the world learned the names of its monsters, it learned the shape of its silence. Engan has spent his life trying to outrun a feeling he can’t explain—an emptiness that grows heavier with every passing day. Shadows move where they shouldn’t. Time stutters in the corner of his vision. And sometimes, when the world goes quiet enough, he swears he can hear something calling his name. When a violent incident shatters the fragile normalcy he’s clung to, Engan is forced into a conflict far older than humanity itself. Ancient forces stir beneath the surface of reality, bound to cycles that have repeated since the first fracture of creation. Some want balance. Some want ruin. All of them want him. As Engan struggles to understand the power awakening inside him—and the terrifying purpose tied to it—he discovers that the world is not moving forward at all. It’s looping. And every loop ends the same way. To break the cycle, Engan must confront the truth buried in his past, the shadows that walk beside him, and the choice that has doomed countless worlds before his own. But the closer he gets to the truth, the more he realizes: Some destinies aren’t meant to be escaped. They’re meant to be repeated.

“Hey, everyone's used to main characters transmigrating into cool guys or extras with hidden potential... But the rotten corpse of some lowlife hustler? Seriously?” He ended his previous life on a high note... But he never expected to be chosen as a Champion and sentenced to a new life. Just as he never expected to wake up in a filthy grave, in the most dangerous place in the world. Following a forgotten dream, he steps onto a path to become a living legend... and the darkest star this world has ever seen. “Hey, what do I even call you?” “Me? Nobody... You may know me as Mr. Nobody.” “…” “And yeah, one more thing… Don’t talk sh*t about cats.”

Armed with Godly powers at their fingertips, the Order of the Cyberknight arose in a crusade to reform the rotting world of 2069. But all this war is but a game for Apogee, the God-Emperor of the cyberknights. Even as the Grand Knight, Mike remains an indoctrinated servant of the Empire. However, when the ugly truth becomes too painful to ignore, will he remain a pawn or become the adversary? New upload every Friday at 8 PM for the West / Saturday at 8 AM for Asia.

Lin Ye transmigrated into a multiverse crossover world, where he was supposed to enjoy a rosy, carefree daily life. But then Death Came Calling—and somehow, he ended up as part of its KPI performance target. Death shadows his every step. Yukinoshita falls. Sakiko is killed. One familiar character after another meets a grim end. Is this Death Reaper planning to spare no one? Death flights, abyssal earthquakes, catastrophic tsunamis, even viral outbreaks, biohazards, eerie memetic horrors—scene after scene of apocalypse unfolds in turn, all just to fill some damned performance quota. “This so-called daily life is being completely wrecked.” [First life: ended.] [Please choose: Inherit an ability, or draw a new one.] Haruno: “Why did Yukino have to die? Give me my sister back!” Asuna: “If I become your princess knight, can I survive?” Kaguya Shinomiya: “Get me out alive, and the Shinomiya family will grant you anything.” Mai Sakurajima: “Other than you, I have no one left to rely on.” Toyokawa Sakiko: “I’m never riding in a Maybach again… that hurt like hell.”

After a catastrophic event known as the Storm, humanity gained the ability to level up and fight back against the monsters that now plague the world. For some, it was a second chance but for Aken Ezomo,, it was a sentence. Permanently bound to Level 1 by a Unique Trait known as the Level 1 Curse, Aken exists at the very bottom of a society where strength determines value. But his curse is not what it seems. Unlike others, Aken does not grow through levels— He evolves through cursed energy, battle, and survival. As abnormal dungeons begin to appear and monsters display impossible intelligence, Aken is drawn into a hidden conflict far beyond the system’s design. A conflict that may reveal the truth behind the Storm… The system itself, and the terrifying role he was never meant to play.

MATURE CONTENT WARNING: 18+ Only. Smuts, Possessive. Silas Vane is thirty years old, a lethal "Ghost" for the Vane Mafia family, and a rare, strong Omega who refuses to be tamed. His mission was simple: break into the Royal Palace, steal the King’s secrets, and disappear. But Silas didn't count on Prince Alaric. At twenty-five, the Crown Prince is a predator—a dominant Alpha with a hunger for power and a sharp eye for rebellion. When he catches Silas in the act, a high-stakes chase ends in a devastating fall. Silas wakes up in the royal infirmary with a fractured skull and a blank mind. Or does he? Desperate to survive, Silas plays the only card he has: he pretends to have Amnesia. He plans to act the part of a victim until he can escape. But Alaric is a master of games, and he sees through the thief's mask. Instead of throwing Silas in a dungeon, the Prince whispers a golden lie: "You aren't a criminal, Silas. You are my fiancé. We were supposed to be married tomorrow." Now, trapped in a web of fake romance and possessive touches, the 30-year-old killer must play the "loving mate" to a 25-year-old King who knows exactly who he is. In a palace built on secrets, who is the real prisoner? And what happens when the "Mate" starts to forget that his love... was supposed to be a lie?

"For the love of money is the root of all evil"

On April 9, 2020, the United Kingdom became the epicenter of a biological nightmare. The Laien Corporation, searching for the ultimate combat force, developed a predatory chemical cell designed to reanimate the dead. After animal testing This narrative perfectly captures the visceral tension of the survival-horror genre, blending high-stakes corporate espionage with a cinematic, Hollywood-style zombie apocalypse. By grounding the story in a specific date and location (UK, April 2020), it creates an immersive 'what-if' scenario that appeals to fans of 'Resident Evil' and 'World War Z.' The ensemble cast of five distinct CBA specialists provides multiple points of view and high emotional stakes, allowing for significant character development and shocking 'hero deaths' that keep the audience engaged. The focus on 'upgraded' and aggressive mutants rather than traditional slow-moving zombies elevates the action to a blockbuster level, making it a prime candidate for a high-budget adaptation or a best-selling thriller series.