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A shadow slave x reader fic about a gn reader insert with a ice based divine aspect. Starting with their first nightmare going through the story of shadow slave. A first person story with a very flawed narrator.

Beneath these skies, we see the danger, but can't quite grasp if ot's real. Maybe the naivety of humanity can be lethal.. What's seen as simple side effects can slowly turn out to be the cause of the destruction of it all. A lethal infection starts; zombies take over the world. They lose their ability to think straight. They are here to get us all! A quiet, character-driven horror about a slow-burning zombie apocalypse told through shifting POVs, including found documents. Book genres: Fantasy Sci-fi Survival Post-Apocalyptic Horror (psychological) Book warnings: Deaths Psychological horror Loss of bodily autonomy Medical trauma Violence Infection / pandemic themes War trauma New chapter every Friday! Author's timezone is UTC+2, and uploads are usually around 9PM-10PM.

Willow wakes in a hospital bed injured, medicated, and alone. She is informed that her life, as she understood it, ended weeks earlier. Her fiancé is there. Calm. Controlled. He explains that they broke up before the accident and that the separation was mutual. He says he remained by her side only out of decency. He is already involved with someone else, his boss’s daughter, and speaks as though this version of events has always been established fact. No one in the room challenges him. The doctors attribute Willow’s disbelief to concussion and trauma. Nurses lower their voices and repeat the same explanation with careful reassurance until it becomes official, documented, and final. Each repetition strips away her certainty, replacing memory with doubt. When Willow looks to the one person who could contradict him, she finds no relief. Her fiancé’s closest friend, a man who has never hidden his dislike for her, says nothing. He offers a brief nod that confirms the narrative without words. With that single gesture, the past is closed. Every detail they present contradicts what Willow knows she lived. Weeks have been erased. Conversations have been rewritten. A relationship has been reassigned without her consent. If she resists, she will be labeled unstable, emotional, and unreliable. She will be the only one insisting that reality has been altered. So Willow stays silent. Within that silence, something colder begins to take shape. She begins to question why her fiancé needed the past rewritten at a moment when she cannot safely object. She begins to wonder why his closest friend chose this precise moment to agree. She begins to realize that decisions were made about her while she lay unconscious and defenseless. The Quietest Knife is a dark psychological romance centered on gaslighting, betrayal, and power disguised as care. It follows a slow, deliberate descent into manipulation, control, and revenge, where harm is inflicted quietly and authority wears the mask of concern. This is not a story about forgetting. It is a story about being rewritten calmly, professionally, and without resistance.

[You have accumulated too many karma points in your life, so you can make a wish.] If I had to make a wish, it would be to become a demon. I wish I could become a demon… a demon who judges the world for my misfortune. (Tragedy, psychological, Thriller, Demons, dark romance, system, Mature-R18) For a better reading experience (if you want to, of course), you can read the first volume while listening to music: PARASYTE – Next to You I hope you enjoy it.

The world is slowly starting to go to shit as demons begin to take over the surface. In the wake of this, the government decided to help fund multiple organizations to help with fighting back against them. This resulted in people getting special modifications/injections to fight back against the demons trying to take over the world. Reiji lost his arm during the initial wave that crushed his hometown. But he doesn't want that to keep him from getting revenge on the bastards that took everything from him. He volunteers to become a part of a special project which results in his arm modification being a chainsaw. Only downside being, blood is required to keep it functioning. They took something from one of the demons before it died and infused it with some of the new technology.

Noah, a 21-year-old guy with an average life and being a weeb, kicked out, and lonely, would find himself facing death after a bright light made its way towards him. However, that wasn't his end as he soon woke up to find himself in the body of a monster spider! As he comes to terms with his new existence, he finds out the mysteries of the world and explores it, realizing things he never knew before. ------------- Chapters Weekly: 3

Ethan is a man nearing forty who has squandered his life behind a screen. Since his teenage years, he has poured everything into online games, chasing digital achievements while real life quietly passed him by. Now, with reality finally weighing on him, he realizes how empty his existence has become. Despite decades of obsession, he has only one thing to show for it: the #1 account in the world’s most popular MMORPG, Lost World Online—a fully immersive virtual game operated through neural-link technology. It is an account powerful enough to guarantee fame, sponsorships, and a second chance at life. But overnight… it vanishes. No warnings… No errors… His account simply ceases to exist. Ethan spends the entire night frantically searching for answers, contacting the developers through official forums, only to be told that nothing can be done. Without the account, even streaming or professional contracts are impossible. Exhausted and hollow, he finally gives up and falls asleep, deciding to forget his regret, half hoping everything would be a dream when he wakes up. When Ethan opens his eyes, he finds himself standing before the character creation screen of Lost World Online. It feels like a dream, yet his mind is clear, his body well responsive, not even like a game. Paying little attention, he goes ahead and creates a character and initiates the game. Then, his vision is swallowed by darkness. A violent rush of wind slams into him, and when his senses return, he is standing inside a bustling town from the game. Before he can question the missing opening cutscene—something that should always play after character creation—his attention is seized by the scene around him. The town was celebrating an Annual Festival. This was a festival that only ever occurred once, a festival that marked the first day Lost World Online was launched. Realizing the impossible, Ethan hurriedly calls up his system interface—only to find that there is no options menu, no settings, no log-out button… “This cannot be real.”

He had thought he had finally reached peace. But when faced with a disaster he could not comprehend, Oren realized it was not peace waiting for him, but death. In desperation, he pulled on his anchor, escaping certain death. The anchor did not return him "home," nor did it grant him safety. Instead, it dragged him downward and cast him into a cursed world. He fell from the clouds and crashed into a lone house on the distant outskirts of a great city. He survived but at a cost. Cursed by the very world he had trespassed upon, Oren awakened there as something he had never been before. Stripped of what he once was, he was forced to walk the world and flourish as something painfully fragile, slowly reclaiming what had been taken from him.

In a world shattered by an unexplainable cosmic event known only as The Great Awakening, life itself changed forever. Humanity was no longer the sole bearer of consciousness—beasts, plants, and even the land itself began to evolve. In this new age, desire was no longer hidden; it was magnified, raw, and often deadly. Societal norms crumbled, and power became the only law. Thus began the Era of Awakeners—or as history remembers it, the Era of Chaos. Those who could wield the newfound power became either saviors or tyrants. Two opposing forces arose from the chaos: the Luminaries, guardians of light who sought order and justice, and the followers of darkness, who reveled in might and domination. Demon Beasts surged across the land, controlled by dark hands, while noble Spiritual Beasts allied with the light, bound to awakened warriors through sacred pacts. But the war for balance wasn't fought just with claws or spells—it was a battle of ideology. At the height of the conflict, two legends emerged: Solaris Auroran, champion of light, and The Eclipsed One, master of darkness. Their final battle reshaped the world, ending with both their deaths and the birth of two great faiths: the Church of Light and the Dark Covenant. Now, in a fragile era of uneasy peace, the world stands at a crossroads. The scars of the past have not healed. Corruption festers within even the holiest sanctuaries. Shadows gather in secret, and whispers of a second Awakening loom on the horizon. This is not a story of good versus evil—it is a story of power, consequence, and the primal desires that shape all life. In a world where beasts can think and gods can die, who will shape the future: the noble, the corrupt… or something entirely new?

In a world governed by divine systems, sacred gifts, and carefully curated destinies, the greatest threat is not a demon lord or a fallen Divinity—but an anomaly the world itself cannot observe. When Null, a seemingly unremarkable human, is summoned alongside a proclaimed Otherworldly Hero to the mighty Atlantis Empire, he is immediately marked as a mistake. While heroes are celebrated, Null is ignored—until an Ultimate Ability awakens within him. That ability is Fantasy Omniscience. Unlike sacred gifts granted by the World, Fantasy Omniscience is a transcendental intelligence capable of reading existence itself as a novel—past, present, and confirmed futures laid bare in absolute truth. It bypasses fate, divine concealment, prophecy, and even the World’s own narrative control. Yet there is a paradox. Fantasy Omniscience cannot fully observe its own user. Null exists as a conceptual blind spot—a being excluded from causality, unrecorded by destiny, and immune to narrative correction. The World cannot define him. Deities cannot foresee him. Even omniscience cannot predict what he will become. In a world where every story demands a final enemy to justify its ending, Null is not the hero. He is the unresolved variable. The one existence the story cannot conclude. And if the world insists on survival… It may have no choice but to make him its Final Antagonist.

He can feel every wound in the world. He just can't feel his own. Cael Dawnmere is Veth's most feared Warden — a man who walks toward monsters while everyone else runs. His secret: he feels other people's pain as his own, a forbidden Mark that makes ignoring suffering impossible. For twenty-seven years, saving others has been the only way to survive himself. Sable Vorne was sent to find him. The empire she serves knows what he is — the last Soulreader, the only being alive who can seal the tears bleeding darkness into the world. They want to use him. Then discard him. The same way they discarded the one before him. She was not supposed to warn him. She warned him anyway. Now they're running — through a world fracturing at the seams, toward an ancient people who hold the only answers, hunted by the empire that wants him as a weapon and her as a loose end. Falling toward each other the way two people do when they've spent their whole lives saving everyone but themselves. The darkness is bleeding through. The wounds in the sky are growing. And the only man who can stop it is about to learn the hardest truth of his life: You cannot rescue the world while you're still bleeding.

Alpha wakes up with a nightmare, a nightmare in which she has passed 1 and a half year in an apocalypse and died by the strongest, Vampire Knight. Alpha believed that it was just a nightmare and checked the day and it was 23rd December, 2026, the last day of peace in her dream. The next day, she came to school, as usual, but realized that the things are going like the way it was in her dream. She ran to save her love to the ground but unfortunately, as same in her nightmare, she lost him again and the Apocalypse began again, with a proof that it was not a dream but she has came back to time. [ The cover is not mine. If the artist wants to remove it, please tell me. ]

Harry Potter and Wandering Witch Elaina : At Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, there was a witch named Elaina. Inspired by the stories she read in her childhood, she enjoys a carefree school life. Freely wandering through this wondrous and mysterious school, encountering eccentric wizards and living through a tumultuous yet vibrant daily life, she experiences countless meetings and partings as a witch. This is the tale woven by the witch Elaina, a story of wonder and adventure. --- Daily Updates! Read Up to 50+ Chapters Ahead at patreon.com/Glimmer09 ---

In a world where humanity controls only a quarter of the land, survival is not a right—it is a gamble. Beyond the kingdom’s borders lie the Outer Lands, territories ruled by demons, dragons, and forgotten gods. Those who enter return rich… or not at all. Rexor de Strauss is the son of a fruit merchant—born a commoner, armed with nothing but a blade and a technique created to survive, not to conquer. Trained by a father who once walked the Outer Lands, Rexor learns early that strength is never free. But he is not alone. Among priests who abandoned the weak, nobles who rewrote history, and a kingdom that exterminated an entire family out of fear, hidden sins begin to surface. Ancient gods watch silently, bound by contracts they cannot break—waiting for humans desperate enough to meet their conditions. As demons stir, bloodlines awaken, and betrayal seeps into every alliance, one truth becomes clear: The world is not broken. It was built this way. And when the Outer Lands finally consume the last human borders, no god will come to save them.

After Level 100 In a world where uncertainty has become constant, humanity begins to lose what once defined it. Love grows cold, empathy disappears, and malice finds ever more room to grow. People continue living, but no longer know what it means to be human. Then, without any warning, players are randomly chosen from different parts of the world. They are thrown into a fantasy world governed by levels, classes, and an absolute System. The rule is simple and unforgiving: reach level 100 in 180 days. In the real world, that time equals just one month. Failure means death. Each player receives a class and a well-defined evolution path. Hunting, fighting, evolving, and surviving become the only laws of this new world. For Steve, however, everything begins as a false hope. Believing he's facing a game capable of guaranteeing him a simple, free life away from the big cities, in contact with nature—and, above all, enough money to cover his mother's medical treatment—Steve accepts the challenge without imagining the true price of this choice. But upon entering this world, he discovers something that puts him at a disadvantage from the very first moment: Steve has no access to the evolution System. No visible levels. No automatic abilities. No guaranteed rewards. While other players grow following rules that favor them, Steve is forced to walk a solitary path—learning from his own mistakes, adapting to each battle, and surviving in a world where numbers define value. In a desperate race toward level 100, Steve must discover a truth the System would never teach: true evolution cannot be measured by stats alone. And as the limit approaches, a question begins to echo, silent and threatening: what really exists after level 100?

After Dying and being Reborn he found himself anew. he was reborn as mahito, that sadistic prick from The anime. well.. not like he has anything else to do right?

“You are so pathetic.”she scoffed, biting her lips, then, she hiked her long, flawless legs on the edge of the bed, spreading her glistening cunt to my view. My dick throbbed hard in my trousers. “The almighty Alpha Jaxon Talon now demoted to an Omega. Get on your fucking knees like a dog and crawl to me to feast on the dripping cunt of your Alpha.” ~ There was the devil and there was me, Alpha Jaxon Talon of the West End Pack. I was called the arrogant beast. I was strong and powerful. I took what I wanted without caring who got hurt in the process. My Pack worshipped me and feared me at the same time. Lilith Travers, the filthy Omega of my Pack was supposed to be a good fuck for the night but the Moon Goddess screwed me over. As Alpha, I was supposed to be mated to someone in my ranks. A woman who is beautiful, strong and from a powerful bloodline. When I found out that my mate was a filthy Omega, I rejected her. But then, my life turned dark and tragic when I got demoted to an Omega rank. Now, I'm stuck at her mercy, and there's no where for me to hide. Lilith was ruthless and she wasn't going to let me go scot-free after everything I did to her. My plan was to get her to fall for me and take back my position, but why do I find myself drawn to her, ready to protect her and kill for her if need be?

The Soul’s Bargain: My Blood Contract with the Devil ​"When my own blood left me to die, I chose to hold the hand of Death himself." ​Ella’s most beautiful day turned into her most harrowing nightmare. The fiancé she loved betrayed her in front of the world, choosing her own sister over her. But their cruelty didn't stop there; they framed her for a heinous crime she didn't commit—a crime punishable only by a slow, agonizing death. ​Fleeing for her life into the deepest depths of the forest, Ella’s fresh blood accidentally awakens a centuries-old sleeping demon, Lucifer. ​One year of a fake marriage. One terrifying 'Blood Contract'. ​The terms were crystal clear: The demon would save Ella by claiming her as his wife, clear her name, and systematically destroy everyone who crossed her. But in exchange, once the year ends, Ella’s innocent soul will belong to him forever. ​As their hate-filled marriage unfolds, Ella realizes she is playing with fire. Will she be able to claim her vengeance, or will she be reduced to ashes by the demon’s dark, obsessive love?

An empire divided by blood and privilege. ​While nobles feast behind castle walls, the poor fight to survive beneath a merciless sky. ​Kaiden Bryan was born into nobility—but his heart stands with the oppressed. With nothing but his mentor’s legacy and a forbidden vision of change, he dares to challenge the very foundation of the empire. Will Kaiden’s rebellion bring the first dawn of freedom, or will the darkness of the empire swallow the Aurora forever?