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Content Notice!!!! This is an alternate-history work featuring reincarnation and supernatural elements. It deals extensively with geopolitics, warfare, religion, ethnicity, imperial power, and morally complex decisions. The narrative portrays real-world inspired historical tensions and uncomfortable subjects without simplification. It is intended for mature readers interested in political strategy, historical speculation, and philosophical conflict. Not recommended for those seeking light entertainment. Although at the beginning there will be comedy, and even slight Romance. And there will be Family Building. --- Reborn as the Iron Prince In his first life, Zhang Ge was no hero. A former child performer turned engineer and logistics analyst, he understood war not as glory—but as systems, supply chains, and men dying because someone miscalculated fuel. Then he died. When he opens his eyes again, he is no longer in the 21st century. He awakens in imperial Germany — inside the body of Prince Oskar of Prussia, fifth son of Kaiser Wilhelm II. The year is 1904. Europe stands balanced on a knife’s edge. The Great War is ten years away. And this time… he remembers everything. Armed with knowledge of future catastrophes — trench warfare, naval blockades, industrial slaughter — Oskar refuses to become another ornamental royal. Instead, he begins reshaping the empire from within: Modernizing industry before rivals awaken. Reforming logistics before generals understand their weakness. Building dreadnoughts that rival Britain’s fleet. Forging elite forces that fight with tomorrow’s doctrine. Investing in technology decades ahead of its time. But power attracts enemies. Within the palace, jealous princes whisper. Within the army, old men resist reform. Across Europe, empires grow uneasy at Germany’s sudden acceleration. And in the shadows, forces that do not fly flags begin to move. Oskar does not dream of conquest. He dreams of survival. Yet the stronger he makes Germany, the closer the world drifts toward the very war he is trying to prevent. Can one reincarnated strategist alter the course of history — or will he simply forge a stronger empire for an even greater storm? --- Disclaimer This work is a speculative alternate-history fiction in which a modern man is reborn as Prince Oskar of Prussia and attempts to reshape early 20th-century Europe. While inspired by real historical figures and events, all characterizations, timelines, and outcomes are fictional and should not be interpreted as accurate representations of historical reality.

It all started with a dirty little secret. Freshly arrived on the Douluo Continent, I made the "mistake" of overhearing the truth: the famous Grandmaster, Yu Xiaogang, is no genius—he is a plagiarizing fraud. To silence me, he tried to kill me. Big mistake. On the brink of death, my Martial Soul, the Scarecrow, awakened its true demonic form, dragging me back from hell with a second Martial Soul in hand. Now, I am no longer prey; I am the puppeteer of souls. Yu Xiaogang? I will make the world see your hypocrisy as I twist you into the most despised Evil Soul Master in history. Tang San? Your precious disciple will fall with you, transformed into public enemy number one. As the Demon Holy Son of the Spirit Hall, I will rewrite fate. Death is too merciful a gift for you two... prepare for a fate worse than hell. Thank you for the support, friends. If you want to read more chapters in advance, go to my Patreon. Read 20 Chapters In Advance: patreon.com/Bankai10

For ten thousand years, humanity has lived beneath the shadow of an ancient miracle. The Great Stasis transformed the monstrous beings of the Abyss into petrified statues, allowing civilization to rise upon the remains of the creatures that once nearly destroyed the world. The Scaled Order has guarded that legacy ever since, teaching that faith, obedience, and sacrifice are the price of humanity's continued survival. But in the quiet town of Silvervale, something has gone terribly wrong. After a gruesome murder beneath a tree, a young man awakens from beneath the earth with no memories of who—or what—he is. He is quickly branded as a creature of the Abyss and condemned by the Church. Yet before his execution can be carried out, their God intervenes. Now forced to live among the very people who fear him, he begins to learn their language, their customs, and the meaning of their humanity.

​Adrian Marsh knows exactly how this story ends because he watched the series unfold on a screen in his previous life. Now, trapped in the suffocating reality of Derry, he is the only one who hears the clock ticking toward a massacre. Armed with a system that transcends reality, he must weaponize his knowledge, his abilites and manipulate a terrified group of outcasts into fighting back. But in a town built on fear, changing the script might just make the nightmare worse.

Under the sun, the world is not as it seems. Janus, an ordinary man, is haunted by recurring, realistic nightmares of a ruined world, monstrous creatures, and beings that far exceed normal human imagination. "It's just a dream." Covered in sweat, he desperately denies his nightmares. But the line between dreams and reality slowly begins to blur. Two worlds begin to merge. Fantasy and reality. The nightmares from his dreams begin to crawl into reality—bloodthirsty and hungry for human lives. Janus is forced to either rise up and take the mantle or stand by and watch as humanity is slaughtered. But the path to power is paved with pain, suffering, and death. With the System, he levels up. But would that be enough? Along the way, he forges friendships, enemies, and encounters with psychopaths. The taste of power is sweet, but often, it is poison seeping into the bones and corrupting those with an unquenchable thirst for it.

PLOT SCOPE The barrier holding back Abaddon — powered by the Twelve Heavenly Crystals — has started to weaken, and Gates to that realm are tearing open all across Zeon, threatening to unleash floods of fiends onto every civilization in their path. In response, the Fabled Class sends Kei and Vincent on a critical scouting mission into the Sunhonghin Imperial Kingdom (Iona). Their goal: infiltrate the Shengyowon vault during the once-every-three-years Fang Heian festival, track down the crystals, and figure out what's draining their power. Once they arrive in Iona, the pair builds a cover story and ends up crossing paths with Princess Choi Yejin, leader of the Blood Rose division. After demonstrating their combat skill through a series of trials and duels at Zheng Fort, they're formally brought into the imperial ranks as her retainers. Their journey deeper into Iona, headed toward Lingwen Fortress, takes a sharp turn when the Southern Alliance Treaty (SAT) launches a full-scale invasion. Forced to fight alongside the Hwa-Samurai along the coastline and take down enemy commanders in the process, Kei and Vincent find themselves stretched thin — juggling their cover as loyal retainers with their real mission, all while something darker moves quietly behind the scenes, working to tear down the barriers protecting their world.

The world ended on the that day God descended. The Human Emperor vanished. His nine subordinates fell. And the seas began to rot, filling the air with a corrosive stench of decay. Grey awakens in a world where cultivation is war and mercy is extinction. Ancient techniques twist the mind and forbidden arts consume the body and soul. And divinity hunts anything that dares to rise. But within Grey’s heart lies something even the Gods did not foresee... A path beyond light and darkness. A path of Nihility, where inner realities fracture the heavens, and existence itself can be rewritten. If he ascends, the Gods will fall. If he fails, the world will drown in its own decay. In a world abandoned by heaven, he will either ascend. Or become the end of all things

Used as a sacrifice by his own parents to save his twin brother, Ezra Ashenlocke awakens to a nightmare known as the Trial of Steel. A child-soldier operation that started with one command. “Assemble your guns. Kill or be killed.” He realizes this is no test. . . It’s a massacre. But unlike the others, Ezra gains the ability to see fragments of memories from a life lived in another world. The life of a weapons engineer, a hardened soldier who spent years designing tools of war in a different world from his. Those memories—the only path for his new body to turn from prey into predator. Now, Ezra must use everything he has learned, and everything he will learn to survive the trial and the dangers waiting far beyond it. In the land known as the Country of Alchemy, Britannia he begins his path to master the art of Gun Alchemy. Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/GYASYd4cDM

Arthur Moreau disappeared during a live broadcast. No warning. No transition. No last words. One moment he was finishing a world event in front of fifty thousand viewers. The next, he was gone — and what arrived somewhere else was Gepetto: his character, his creation, the identity he had spent years building inside a game that no longer contained him. The world that received him has existed through dozens of eras. Civilizations rose and collapsed long before humanity had a word for either. What walks its roads now — human and elf and dragon and beast-kind and peoples whose names don't translate — are the living residue of everything that already happened here. The gods who shaped the early eras did not all survive them. The world doesn't advertise how much of it is arrangement of ruins. Elysion is a Republic in the way that a cracked foundation is still a building. Beneath the gas lamps and the elevated rails, the actual structure is simpler: those with enough weight act as though permission doesn't apply to them. The working class breathes chemical residue and calls it employment. There is no king. There are only consequences. The Church of the Solar God holds it together, which is not a metaphor. The Solar God is not a symbol. He walks. He acts. He has reasons of his own. Nine others arrived the way Gepetto arrived — carrying what they built inside the game, now operating in a world where what they touch does not reset. They are not heroes. They are ten people who understood a system well enough to reach its limits, placed inside a reality where the limits are elsewhere and the other Players have their own intentions. Gepetto does not try to fight it. He studies it. While others assert themselves through force or faith or the assumption that visibility equals strength, he builds something quieter. A structure: distributed, patient, invisible until it is not. The story that begins with one man in one city does not stay there. The skills are real now. The strings are real. And what they touch does not reset. Because the puppeteer pulls the strings. But in a world this old, someone is always watching. AUTHOR'S NOTE: House of Puppets is not a power fantasy. It's slow by design — the kind that accumulates, not the kind that stalls. The story starts small and expands aggressively. The pacing shifts across volumes. It will surprise you in directions you didn't see coming. Tonal influences: Lord of Mysteries, Reverend Insanity, the Soulsborne tradition, Dostoevsky. Not references — register. I'm a reader who started this by studying what great work does and trying to do that. The story is strange and volatile partly because of that, and I think that's also why some of it works. The ambition is real. The reading will tell you if it got there. [This work is currently on hiatus. I'm not sure when I'll be back, but I haven't abandoned it (at least not forever!). I promise to come back and continue the story later on.]

Reincarnation in a game as the Main Antagonist. It could be a novel itself, but that was what I dragged myself into. In the famous and successful game [Princess And Dragon] As if my life wasn't shitty enough, a bastard brought me in that hardcore violent Dating Sim Game and in the body of the worst villain and [Major Antagonist Edward Falkrona] If I want to survive, I have to become strong. If I want to be strong, I have to join the Academy and by joining the Academy, I will meet these guys... Yeah, I'm obviously speaking about the Protagonist, the Main Heroines, the Villainess and all the villains. Am I destined to watch that protagonist build his harem in front of me?! =========== For the illustrations and questions: https://discord.gg/47PvntgB3K

If one looked into a mirror, they'd find their reflection staring right back at them. But that wasn't the case for Damon. He woke up one night, only to find another face staring back at him. But that wasn't the worst case. The worst case was finding out you got transmigrated in a trashy third rate novel. Oh, and not to mention, the even trashier body he got transmigrated into. And a reminder, the world was doomed for destruction come a few years. What could possibly go wrong? Right?! ====== "It's like I was the one actually living it. I felt like I was Damon myself." "But that's not possible." "I am not Damon, I am...." "Wait... who am I?" –Damon.

Earth was never supposed to matter. But when humanity suddenly finds itself at the center of a crisis far beyond its understanding, the consequences reach deeper than anyone could have imagined. A threat begins to spread across the Megaverse, one capable of dragging countless realms toward a fate no one can escape. With powerful forces watching from the shadows, ancient secrets resurfacing, and enemies whose strength defies everything humanity knows, Earth is forced to make a choice: Fight against a fate that was never theirs to bear… or become the reason the entire Megaverse falls. In a universe where even the strongest may not be strong enough, survival is only the beginning. If Earth is lucky enough to survive its darkest hour, perhaps it can still bring a brighter future to the realms of the Megaverse. But first… they must discover what they are truly fighting against.

They silenced his family. He became the silence. Kairo Mitsune was living an ordinary life — until the day his parents died and the world quietly moved on. But the house remembered. Shadows lingered where no one stood. Fear clung to the walls. And something inside Kairo awakened — a sense that let him hear what silence tried to hide. The truth was simple.

In a world divided by a vast, uncharted sea, only the Fortunate thrive, while the Unfortunate scrape by in the harsh lands of Hinkon. Tuziku, born into poverty, never imagined his life could change—until a mysterious encounter awakens a terrifying power within him. Labeled an Underdog, he is forced to flee, hunted by ruthless forces from the prosperous Land of Fuyu. Betrayal, blood, and chaos follow him at every step, and survival means embracing the monstrous abilities he never asked for. As Tuziku battles enemies both human and demonic, he discovers that strength comes at a price—and vengeance may be the only path to justice.

Zara Ademi is a law intern stretched thin — paying tuition, supporting her siblings, and quietly counting down to her mother's surgery. When her closest friend Lena is found dead in her boyfriend's apartment the morning after a party Zara skipped, the police are caught between two verdicts: suicide or murder. The boyfriend, Ethan Mears — a game developer with no registered weapon and a spotless lobby exit on camera — seems untouchable. But the corridor camera went dark for thirty-nine minutes. The murder weapon has vanished. And the bullet caliber matches the very gun modelled inside his own game. With no badge and no authority, Zara does what she knows how to do — she reads the gaps. And the gaps tell a story the camera was never meant to show.

Life in the orphanage is supposed to be simple: wake up, eat your cereal, and stay out of trouble. But for 14-year-old Erebus, life is defined by the things he isn't allowed to see. THIS IS ONE OF THE WORK, I WANNA BE REMEMBERED FOR, I MAY SOUND COCKY NOW, BUT GIVE IT A TRY AND YOU WONT REGRET I will be posting this novel on the site of Royal Road, so anyone interested for more can check it on Royal road, the author on Royal road is also me,so there is no plagiarism If anyone wants to connect with me or my project dm me on instagram: laco.ste205