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A young boy, bullied at school, is reincarnated in another world as the strongest magic sorcerer. The story revolves around the protagonist, Ritsuki Mikumo.

Have you ever read a book that made you question the very boundary of fiction? Most stories offer glimpses of incredible worlds with deep histories and intricate details, but they always feel like stories. They lack that visceral, uncomfortable sense of realism. Until now, I could say the same. I stared down at the dark tome resting on the table, my brow furrowed. I had pulled it out of the library shelf purely out of curiosity. Who could have guessed it would be this insane? The book told a weary, familiar tale: a destined hero who fought for the world and never gave up. He reached the source of the world’s destruction, braced himself for the final blow, and… he lost. The end. Phew... thankfully it's all fiction. Wait, it's not?

‎*Mature Content* Vivian Ravenscroft was never meant to live this life. ‎Swapped at birth by a desperate mother—not just to save her, but to place her where destiny could shape her—Vivian grows up under the powerful Ravenscroft name, believing Sebastian, ten years her senior, is only an untouchable brother figure. ‎Protective. ‎Distant. ‎Forbidden. ‎Until the night violence shatters her world. ‎As she recovers, the truth unravels: her royal bloodline, a father who erased her existence, and the devastating reason she was raised beside Sebastian—to bond with the one man she was never allowed to love. ‎The man who looks at her and whispers, ‎“I thought you had given yourself away…” ‎Only to learn her heart—and her body were never claimed by another. ‎Stanley was never love. ‎He was survival. ‎Drawn into royal decrees, billionaire rivalries, and laws written in blood, Vivian must decide whether to obey a destiny chosen for her—or fight for the one her heart recognizes. ‎Because the way Sebastian looks at her now… has changed. ‎It lingers. ‎It burns. ‎It strips away every lie she once believed. ‎At a royal wedding watched by kings, presidents, and the most powerful names in the world… ‎the distance between them finally breaks. ‎And when the night falls— ‎There are no more titles. ‎No more rules. ‎No more pretending. ‎Only him. ‎Only her. ‎In the quiet heat of a marble bath, where silence wraps around them and the past finally loosens its grip… ‎his hand finds hers. ‎His touch is no longer restrained. ‎And when he kisses her, ‎It is deep. ‎Unsteady. ‎Years of control slipping all at once. ‎Vivian doesn’t stop him. ‎She melts into him… answers him… trusts him. ‎Because somewhere between the lies, the pain, and the years they were forced apart— ‎her heart had already chosen him. ‎And when he finally takes that last step… ‎When the space between them disappears— ‎She breaks. ‎A soft cry leaving her lips. ‎A moment of pain… of truth… of surrender. ‎And then— ‎Nothing but him. ‎Because what she gives him that night is not just her body— ‎but the part of her that has never belonged to anyone else. ‎Her first. ‎Her only. ‎Sealed in a moment neither of them can ever take back. ‎Because some bonds are not accidents. ‎They are written long before birth. ‎Tested through pain. ‎And fulfilled in the moments where resistance finally turns into surrender. ‎And love like theirs… ‎Was never meant to be broken.

Two people on diametrically opposed paths. One has been looking for his Fated Mate and a former lover, while the other has been looking for someone to whom he can give his heart, and trust. What would happen if they happened to run into each other one day? What secrets have they been keeping? What happened in their past? What will happen to them? Will they ever find love again? Or will they be swayed by Lust, and illusions that cover as fate?

Imagine graduating from college in a few months, and then the apocalypse happened. Moreover, dungeons and monsters appeared, superhuman powers awakened, and the world changed, yet Jade remained as he was—the ever so heedless, unbothered, emotionless, and weird guy manning the cash register. But some people deemed him lucky because he seemed to be unaffected by all those happenings. But would they still believe that when Jade came home one day from his night shift, tired and hungry, to find a dungeon gate right inside his house? The worst thing that could ever happen to him was get sucked in that gate, however, instead of the gate, strange Seekers are sucking up to him instead. Jade: Why is this happening?! Seeker 1: Help me go back to my world, and I will give you everything you wish for. Seeker 2: I don’t care about going back to that damned world, so can you just let me stay here with you? Seeker 3: Jade, honey, you’re the best Minder! I need you, so come with me to my world. And so on… these Seekers are all lunatics forcing him to help them go back to their respective worlds! But how can Jade do that, when all of them were just mere characters from books?! Now, what will Jade do?

140 years after the Nuclear Collapse, humanity survives inside a fortified megastructure with devils of different class hunting them. humans are forced to advance quickly in technology to battle this devils. will they be able to survive the onslaught of the devil or will they succumb to a cruel death?

Lin Yue has never been afraid of being alone. At twenty-four, he has already lived through more than most people ever will—not in grand, tragic ways, but in quiet, suffocating ones. Growing up as an orphan passed between cold institutions and indifferent guardians, he learned early that attachment leads to pain. By adulthood, he lives a detached, monotonous life, working night shifts and avoiding unnecessary human connections. To him, living is simply continuing. Everything changes on a rain-soaked night when he returns to his apartment. The hallway feels wrong—too long, too silent. Then, a voice calls his name from behind. Calmly, without hesitation, Lin Yue ignores it and keeps walking. That single decision triggers something unseen. When he reaches his door, the number has changed to “404.” The moment he steps inside, reality fractures. Lin Yue is pulled into a game called the Flow, a system of endless horror instances where players must survive deadly scenarios governed by obscure and shifting rules. Failure means erasure. Survival means being dragged into the next nightmare. Unlike other players, Lin Yue adapts quickly, relying on observation, emotional detachment, and his ability to remain calm under pressure. But something is wrong. Despite breaking rules and defying logic, Lin Yue is never punished by the System. Instead, he is marked—singled out by an unknown force. His actions begin to distort the behavior of instances, as if the world itself cannot fully process him. That is when he notices him. Gu Yanchen, known as the Arbiter, is a being feared by all players—an enforcer of the System who exists to maintain order and eliminate anomalies. Cold, precise, and seemingly inhuman, he should have killed Lin Yue the moment he deviated from the rules. Yet he doesn’t. Instead, Gu Yanchen watches. As their paths intertwine, Lin Yue is forced to confront something more terrifying than death—connection. Gu Yanchen, who should be nothing more than a mechanism of judgment, begins to act with intention, even obsession. Faced with this impossible choice, the Arbiter hesitates—for the first time. That hesitation fractures the system itself. Rules collapse, instances distort, and the Flow begins to unravel. In a world where everything is designed to erase humanity… What happens when two people refuse to let go? “The System wants me dead. But its Arbiter won’t allow it.”

Edgar de Lankat is a small-time street hypnotist surviving on cheap cigarettes, betting, and swindling. He awaken a trait that enable him to detect earth pole magnetic wavelengths. An ability that allow you to become a compass. A literal breathing compass. How useless..

The dance ended with a final, graceful spin. Lord Greyson released Dydra with a courteous smile, his admiration lingering in his eyes as he gave a slight bow. “A pleasure, as always,” he said lightly. Dydra returned the smile out of habit, though her thoughts were already elsewhere. She gave a small excuse and stepped away, her gaze drifting across the ballroom as if searching for something—someone. But whatever she sought, she did not find. A faint frown creased her brows. Without another word, she turned and slipped out of the ballroom, heading toward the quiet of the garden. The cool night air should have calmed her. It didn’t. “You’re letting other men touch you?” The voice came from behind her—low, unhurried… almost lazy. But Dydra’s entire body reacted instantly. A sharp shiver ran through her. She didn’t need to turn to know who it was. That voice carried something unmistakable beneath its calm surface—something restrained. Something dangerous. “I—it’s not—” Her voice broke mid-sentence. Panic tightened her throat as cold sweat formed along her skin. “Need I remind you,” he continued evenly, each word measured, “who you belong to?” The calmness was the most terrifying part. Not anger. Not shouting. Just control—tight, absolute control. Dydra parted her trembling lips again, but no sound came. Her mind went blank. Then suddenly— A hand closed around her waist. Firm. Possessive. Her breath caught as her eyes squeezed shut on instinct, her body going still. “Dydra,” his voice dropped to a whisper, closer now. “Who do you belong to?”

The Gods' army won the war according to their own plan. Afterward, they began to mercilessly destroy everyone who was on the Elders' side. Auren, who tragically lost his family, is now at a crossroads: Will he seek revenge, or will he too become a puppet of the Gods?

[Your shadow is alive.] [Feed your shadow, devour souls, level up, gain skills, complete quests, and grow stronger.] [Do you wish to view your current stats?] In the magical world of Aetherus, Damon Grey is the weakest student at Aether Academy, relentlessly bullied and ridiculed for his lack of power and defiant personality. Yet, he endures the torment, clinging to his scholarship—the only thing providing him with the funds to keep his sick sister alive. After a brutal attack leaves him near death, Damon encounters a dark viscous entity in the forest that fuses with his shadow, awakening the Living Shadow System. This strange power grants him unimaginable abilities but comes with a grim cost—a relentless hunger for souls and flesh to feed his shadow. Now, with his shadow alive and insatiable, Damon faces a terrible choice: feed it to grow stronger or starve it and die with it. In a world ruled by ruthless nobles, deadly monsters, and power-hungry demons, Damon must decide if his newfound power is a curse or the only way to survive. With the Living Shadow System, his fate is clear: devour or be devoured. discord. https://discord.gg/AYMgESBCTP

They say Emira creates all souls like coins. Heads or tail-Truth or flaw. Then she turns your destiny into a coin flip game except there's nothing to win. While Paradox makes the sick game even sicker. Which ever one heads or tail will be the cause of your death. Death.. She comes for everything at the end. The true end to everything living and dead. The witch of lies. The true end of the oddity and wrongness. In a world where knowledge begats strength. While strength leads you to truth and truth becomes the HARBRINGER OF DEATH. Join a fool on a journey to understand why it's better to remain a fool in a world that even the creator seems to not understand.

Tanrıların ordusu, kendi planları doğrultusunda savaşı kazandı. Ardından, Kıdemliler’in tarafında olan herkesi acımasızca yok etmeye başladılar. Ailesini trajik bir şekilde kaybeden Auren şimdi bir yol ayrımında: İntikam mı alacak, yoksa o da Tanrıların kuklasına mı dönüşecek?

Every "Diver" gets 96 hours on Earth before the Black Thirst disease drags them back... Back to Thirstfall—a brutal otherworld where a ruthless system called Ocean's Law decides who lives, who dies, and who gets erased. Most Divers break within a year. Dryden Sands lasted ten. He clawed from nothing to Rank-A with a class everyone called trash. He mapped hidden dungeons, cracked the system's blind spots, and survived things that shouldn't be survivable. Then the person he trusted most killed his family and took everything. Including his life. But dying triggered something—a relic fused to his soul that no one was supposed to find. It didn't save him. It reset him. Same world. Same body. Directly to Day one, when everything started. He knows where every secret is buried. Every trap. Every traitor. But his body is Rank-F, his new class is rated SSS, his time is bleeding out, and the system has already flagged him as something that shouldn't exist. In Thirstfall, the ocean doesn't just drown the weak. It hunts who shouldn't belong anymore. -------------- #No harem. #No romance plot armor. #Mostly survival.

Some secrets are buried so deep, even the man holding the mirror isn't ready to face them. Waking up naked and half-frozen on the edges of the forbidden forest of Yanaha, a young man remembers absolutely nothing. He doesn't know his name, he doesn't know his past, and he doesn't know why the sight of the kingdom’s two great rivers fills his soul with primal terror. All he knows is that the forest is filled with skinless corpses, and the Holy Monasteries are conducting deadly, underground experiments on children to unlock a power they call the 'Brain Worm.' Hunted by the armored knights of Etree and left for dead, he must wander an unfamiliar, harsh world to piece together his identity. But as the fog lifts on his missing memories, he realizes that whatever is buried inside his mind might be far more dangerous than the monsters lurking in the woods.

[Disclaimer: This story does not just follow one Main Character. Some books may follow different MCs and converge to a major event for another Book.] His story is known as the greatest motivational story to all. Dylan Ford was nothing but a homeless orphan. In the streets of the New York, he had survived through countless of fights and dangerous encounters. With his fist and wits, he overcame both adversity and poverty. From a street fighter to a businessman who built two multinational companies in just fifteen years. However, at the peak of his success, his brother and his most trusted aid, Dale Ford, plotted against him. The meticulous plot which involved many of his brother's enemy claimed his life. In his dying moments, a flash of white lightning devoured him. In the same vein, he found himself waking up in an unfamiliar forest with a brand new body, an unfamiliar sky with three moons, and unfamiliar people looking at him in shock. He soon discovered that he reincarnated in a world with special powers such as Innate Energy and Avatars and powerful beasts called Mystical Beasts! Things he thought only existed in novels. But what shocks him even more is that unlike normal reincarnations in novels, his was completely different. How can a body contain two souls? As he adapts in his new body that has an astonishing secret and a foreign world with seemingly endless wonders, he discovers a mysterious titanic mansion in his mind and is shocked by the profound abilities and secrets he receives from it. Word Count per Chapter: 1500-3000 To anyone interested : Follow me in Instagram: legend_of_genesis Follow me in Twitter :Legend_of_genesis Join me in Discord for a chat! https://discord.gg/CSn2enC

Warning - Dark romance. Age-gap romance. Werewolf bond. Emotional obsession. 18+ Elara Romano’s world crumbles the day her father dies, leaving behind one final wish: she must live under the protection of his oldest friend—Alessandro De Luca, the ruthless Alpha of Regina’s most powerful werewolf pack. Thirty-eight, cold, and untouchable, Alessandro had long promised her father he would protect Elara… but never imagined the pull of a bond he could not resist. In the shadows of the grand De Luca estate, rules are set, boundaries tested, and a mate bond awakens—one that neither Elara nor Alessandro can ignore. As whispers of danger, betrayal, and jealous rivals stir through the city, every stolen glance, every denied touch, and every secret shared brings them closer… and further into darkness. Between promises kept and desires forbidden, Alessandro and Elara must navigate a world where love is a curse, protection is a chain, and claiming what is theirs could destroy them both. release rate : 4 guaranteed chapter daily upload Support goals: 90 power stone in a week = +1 bonus chapter on Sunday. 10 golden ticket in a week = +3 bonus chapter on Saturday

Five years ago, Maxim Holloway and Ava Morgan were happily together—until Ava was wrongfully accused of a crime she didn't commit and sent to prison. Then Maxim just sort of...disappeared from her life. Ava believed he abandoned her, unaware that a tragic accident had stolen his memories and erased the life they shared. Now, after years of living as a completely different person, Maxim finally remembers himself and the woman that he lost. But he is far from the man Ava knew. He is now the feared heir of the Holloway family, a powerful man with a dark reputation. And Ava isn't the same woman either. Betrayed by the past, she doesn't trust their relationship anymore and she has so moved on with someone else. What is Ava going to do after Maxim regains his memories and wants his girlfriend back? Can she forget the past and accept man he has become, or will she choose the less chaotic life she built without him?

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

After the first collapse, monsters continue to overrun the cities. Amidst the devastation, Talia is an ordinary woman with no combat skills and somehow survives. When the second collapse begins and people start awakening supernatural abilities, Talia expects nothing. But instead of a weapon or fighting skill, she receives… an Evolving Management System. Her first class? Café Owner. In a world ravaged by destruction, it sounds ridiculous. But as Talia gets a modest café offered by the system in the ruins, she discovers that comfort is its own kind of power. Survivors flock to her café seeking warmth, food, and a moment of peace. Each day, her system evolves, unlocking new classes and abilities: from Inventory Manager to Sanctuary Keeper, each one granting her tools to nurture, protect, and lead. The café becomes more than a shelter, it becomes hope. But safety comes at a price. As her refuge grows, so do the threats: jealous survivors, roaming monsters, and mysterious figures drawn to her power. Leadership isn't easy. And in a world that’s already broken, can she hold everything together without breaking herself?