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TLDR What if instead of landing in the realms of Norse Gods, Kratos finds himself stranded within the realms of Hindu Mythology? ___ Summary After his last stand atop Mount Olympus, Kratos believed his bloody saga had finally come to an end. But death has other plans. Awakening in a mysterious, ancient land alive with powerful gods and unfamiliar legends, he finds himself face-to-face with a new pantheon - one as vast and intricate as the one he once tore apart. Without the blinders of vengeance clouding his vision, Kratos is forced to confront himself as never before. Without enemies to chase or grudges to fuel him, he must reckon with the monstrous deeds of his past and question the path that brought him here. Is there still a chance for redemption, even for someone like him? This is a journey of self-discovery, repentance, and growth - a path that might lead Kratos to something he has never known: peace. ___ Author's Note This is an AU (Alternate/Author's Universe) that picks up from where God of War 3 leaves off. Note that the label AU is important as I take some creative liberty when painting certain elements of the Hindu Mythos. The ratio of content that is true to the source material and my interpretation is 90/10. Though I will not deviate significantly from the crux/core of the mythology, I do need some creative leeway to ensure that the "rules" of the universe are robust and free of plot-holes. For more information on this, please read the Preface chapter. ___ FAQ Q: Will Kratos be killing gods? A: Maybe. Q: Will "X" (god or character) make an appearance? A: Maybe. Q: Will "X" (event) take place? A: Maybe. Q: Will there be a harem? A: No.

A young man reincarnates into the brutal world of God of War as Adrestus, abandoned son of Pheme, goddess of fame. Armed with eidetic memory and absolute body control, he builds a settlement, trains the Aura Guard, and earns titles like Spartan-Breaker. As Kratos ascends to God of War, Adrestus gathers blessings from Hestia, Athena, and Gaia. He forges legendary weapons and prepares for the coming storm. But when Zeus himself descends, the demigod faces a choice that will sever more than a hand—and leave Olympus forever changed. The Titans are rising. And Adrestus stands alone.

In a world where the sun has become an ancient legend, and the earth is plunged into darkness filled with nightmarish creatures, survival is an everyday battle between life and death. Everyone who enters the Sacred Land on the day of their coming of age receives a single chance to obtain supernatural power. Among all possible rewards, the most desirable is considered to be a powerful ancient heritage that grants incredible physical strength, invulnerability, and other legendary abilities. Fire, on the other hand, is considered an ordinary and even mediocre power. Li Wei, who has transmigrated into this body from the Blue Star, faces a choice. When two options appear before him — the ability to control flames or the rarest “Perfect Physique” — he, without hesitation, chooses the second. At that very moment, a wave of ridicule and contempt from the entire school crashes down on him. “Choosing the most useless physique instead of fire? This guy has definitely gone crazy!” “Haha, what an idiot! Now he’s just a piece of useless meat!” “The dumbest choice in the history of mankind!” After all, in a world where the sun disappeared hundreds of years ago, the “Perfect Physique,” which was once considered the strongest, has lost all its value. Without sunlight, it has turned into a joke. Everyone is sure that Li Wei has made a fatal mistake and doomed himself to a miserable existence. However, no one knows one important secret. Li Wei did not come from this world. And his knowledge is completely different. What if the “most useless” choice actually turns out to be the strongest?

What's the difference between death and this character, Neo? He woke up as an insignificant character. Neo isn't just the weakest in the entire novel; he is also the only character with one purpose: to die. But hold on, this insignificant character has these obsessive yanderes who would slaughter even the slightest fly that hurts him. And his mom? A tyrant villainess, who erased Atlantis and the hero academy off the face of the earth because of his death. Neo has them all. ----- Tags# #SLOW-BURN YANDERE DEVELOPMENT

Han Junho is seventeen years old. He lives alone in a single room on the commercial edge of Seolmun — a city whose name means threshold — pays his own rent, works a part-time job that has just closed without warning, and calculates, each month, whether the numbers will hold until the future his parents promised him becomes the present he can finally live in. He is not remarkable by any measure the world has developed for measuring such things. He moves through Seolmun with the specific invisibility of someone who has learned, through necessity rather than choice, not to draw attention. He reads. He plans. He continues. Then the gates open. Across Seolmun, dimensional gates tear through ordinary space and release beings from other worlds into the streets — beings displaced mid-transit through connections that have begun, without warning or explanation, to collapse. The human response organizes with the specific efficiency of a civilization that has no framework for what is happening and builds one anyway: factions, rankings, a system that classifies the awakened and deploys them against what the catastrophe is producing. The system is thorough. It is well-intentioned. When it attempts to classify Han Junho, it produces no result. He is designated Unregistered and set aside. What the system cannot measure, it cannot see. What it cannot see is this: the gates opening across Seolmun are not the catastrophe. They are the symptom. The catastrophe itself is a process — vast, indifferent, traveling through the dimensional connections between every planet in every universe that has ever existed — and it has been consuming worlds for longer than Seolmun has existed to be consumed. Every universe has fallen to it. Every version of this story has ended the same way. Every version except this one. So far. Somewhere above the story, something is watching. It has been watching since before the first word was set down. It knows what Junho does not know — what he is, what is positioned against him, how many times this has been attempted, and how many times it has failed. It knows what kind of reader you are. It knows whether you are cheering for him or not. And it knows, in the specific way of something that has witnessed every version of this story across every universe where it was attempted, that what happens next depends not only on Junho — but on what you bring to the pages that follow. THE LAST EXISTENCE is a story about the last surviving universe, the last version of one boy, and the last attempt at something that has never yet succeeded. It is also, depending on what kind of reader you are, something else entirely. You are already part of it. Turn the page.

Mankind prospered in the modern age, but one day, everything changed. Mana descended onto the world, making a permanent change to society. Alongside it was also the appearance of monsters invading the world from the sky and from below. Gods pitied mankind and bestowed divine bloodlines, creating superhuman people called the Supernals who can fend off the invaders. But not everyone who became a Supernal is suited for the role. Those people are pariahs that don't belong anywhere, especially when there are quotas for each divine bloodline. In a world where society revolves around those with divine bloodlines, Kai is a Supernal with the lowest talent. He doesn't fit with normal people and is too ordinary to mingle with Supernals. He was ostracized for hogging a slot in a divine legacy, and his only family suffered for it. But Kai isn't weak. It's just that nothing could properly check his bloodline. [Primordial Bloodline awakened] [Patron God: Goddess of the Primordial Night] Now, with the bloodline of the final night inside him, he will bring terror to those who wronged him. However, there's one big problem that he hadn't realized. -- Bonus Chapters will depend on your votes: Power stones, golden tickets, gifts, or even comments and reviews if the mood is great!

A Jujutsu Kaisen AU Kuzunoha: The Fourth Clan (970 years of silence, broken by one breath of fire.) The Three Great Clans? They forgot to count the Fourth. After 1,000 years of silence, the Kuzunoha Clan has returned. Born in the heat of July, Kiyomi is the manifestation of the legend : The Nine-Tailed Fox. The first Kitsune Heir in a millennium. As the balance of the Three Great Clans shatters into Four, Kiyomi must have to navigate the sorcerer's world of iron-fisted traditions and blood-soaked politics. The sister Satoru never asked for, but got anyways. ​"The Fox is awake. And she has teeth."

In the celestial realms above, the proud son of the God of Lust and Love swore a heaven-defying oath, to remain a virgin for eternity, claiming that true love needs no filthy touch of carnal desire. Enraged by such arrogance, his father cast him into the ruthless wheel of reincarnation, forcing him through nine mortal lives filled with torment and tragedy.

The sky broke the day he was born. Riven lives a quiet life on a forgotten world—hiding strength he cannot explain, pretending to be normal in a life that feels too fragile to lose. But far beyond stars and time, a being known as Aarion—the Endwalker—has returned. A man who is not human. A past that refuses to stay buried. A power the world itself cannot remember. As fate begins to move again, one truth becomes clear— Riven was never meant to exist.

"Grant me infinite knowledge, and I shall be as a fulcrum, to move the endless world!" ... Sorcerer Continent—a world where sorcerers exist. Wielders of arcane knowledge. Masters of all elements. Sovereigns of space and time. These sorcerers governed the world with their unrivaled prowess. One day, a young man awakened into this world with his past forgotten and no place to call home. Follow along as Grimm, by relying on his luck and wit, tries to survive and advance in this unforgiving world. Entangled within the machinations of fate, political schemes, power struggles, and wars, he forges his own path and creates a place for himself.

This is a world with only oceans, through which scattered are countless small islands and treasures. With swords, gunpowder, sailing ships, and most important, the Treasure Hunting System, Alka is ready to dominate the oceans! 「Map detected」 「Scanning for Treasure」 「Scan complete」 「Happy Treasure hunting!」

My grandfather is very eccentric, performing daily rituals of offering incense to himself, standing in front of his own spirit tablet and eating candles. Villagers are fearful of my grandfather. I am fearful of him too. Later, I discovered that what they were afraid of was not my grandfather, but me. Even grandfather is afraid of me. ... My name is Chen Shi. The Chen of honesty, the Shi of sincerity.

This is the war between humans and the Ancient God Clan, tracing back to Ancient Times, extending into the future, spanning the river of history, and composing an epic. The Ancient Gods invade reality with a shattered world. Secrets from timeless mythologies reveal the truth. Ascenders traverse the gaps of time and space, journeying between two realms. Reality and transcendence, blade and sword, blood and fire. When the apocalypse arrives, the Ancient Gods awaken from their long slumber. The curtain rises— My father once went missing while investigating the resurrection of a certain God, and his fate remains unknown to this day. I am anxious, but not entirely distressed. Because that resurrected God— Is me.

In the world of card games, myths from China will be re-established! Mythical legends of Earth will also become myths in this world! In this world of cards, with cards as the medium, the birth of myths is welcomed! What does it matter if the body is weak? What if suffering from muscle weakness? In this world without character cards, only equipped with weapon cards and skill cards, I will create a new genre! Starting with the Summoning Card: Nezha, the Third Lotus Prince! Give the world a shock from China!

That day the sun set and never rose again............... Author Spotlight: Chen Dong — WebNovel's legendary titan behind global phenomena like 'Perfect World', 'The Sacred Ruins' and'World of Longevity‘— returns with his most ambitious saga yet. Crowned among the platform's all-time greats, this master of epic worldbuilding has dominated fiction charts for many times, with multiple novels adapted into hit games. When this trailblazer drops a new book, millions brace for sleepless nights.

【Brand New Setting】【Fully Developed System】 When you awoke, you had become an official known as "Minister of Agriculture" in a fantasy game. "Dynasty's Prosperity" version: You diligently cultivated the "Seasonal Order," from "Harmonizing Winds and Rains" to "Summoning the Winds and Commanding the Rains," from "Bountiful Grain Harvests" to "All Things Flourish," commanding the seasons and quietly developing. You achieved minor successes, joined the army on expeditions, and controlled the "Four Books of Agriculture." You froze thousands of miles of great rivers to pave the way for the army. With "Miasma" you slew enemies, "Fog Shadow" obstructed tens of thousands of troops, establishing unparalleled military exploits and rising to the position of Director of Agriculture, secretly seizing the fate of the dynasty, all falling into your hands. "Spiritual Energy Resurgence" version: You nurtured "Mountain Spirits and Wild Creatures": Twin lotus make you invulnerable to both water and fire, the Seven Star Sword cools the light across Nineteen Provinces, Parasitic Species feeding on living beings, Void Species rooting in the void to absorb the Spiritual Energy of heaven and earth... You established an inner scenic area, cultivated immortal species, with "Grand Taiyi Lotus" replicating en masse! "Ancient Tree of Life" immortal and indestructible! "A true seed falls into the Dantian, can nurture spiritual sprouts for ten thousand years, one day when the cultivation is complete, my life is governed by me, not by the heavens!" "Heart fire shines like the sun, kidney water is the source, spleen stores earth, lungs refine through metal, liver sustains with qi. Using the body as the foundation, nurture original species, foster all laws, achieving the status of Shennong Dao Master !"

His tendons severed in his hands and feet, he fused with the memories of the Great Sage Equalling Heaven, Sun Wukong, in a moment of utter despair. From then on, he defied the heavens and rose powerfully, unstoppable once he began.

Chen Xi looks at the soldier who just threw a rock weighing a few hundred kilograms away and looks at the sky speechlessly. Is this really the late Eastern Han Dynasty? It doesn't make sense to see Lu Bu single-handedly cut through the ten-thousand-strong cavalry. Zhao Zilong ends up truly possessed by a dragon soul. Is he really human? Dian Wei single-handedly defends Cao Cao as they storm out of the enemy camp and slaughters a few thousand cavalry of the enemy. His combat strength is off the charts! Is there something wrong? Chen Xi touches a goose feather fan and fans it. A strong gale blows and he sighs. "This must be some mythical story, right? Even I'm not normal anymore."

Karl awoke to find himself shockingly reduced to a crippled Evil God confined within a bottle. The Fischer family had inadvertently become his favored members, sharing a fate connected by blood throughout the generations. They established a secret clan, infiltrated the state, manipulated wars, ascended the God Pantheon stairway, and fought for the honor and future of the family. They were assassins lurking in the shadows, beloved scholars, esteemed priests, powerful dukes, and legends in heroic epics. From budding to robust growth, steampunk evolved; the Spirit Realm descended through dreams; witches and ancient gods stepped forth, and people listened to the lost whispers at their ears. They were both the creators and the enders of stories. Generation after generation, in a continuous succession, they marched forward. "Step over my corpse and go on," he said.

In the war-torn world of Ardan, where monstrous abominations have overrun the land for two centuries, a young man named Ivel emerges from the blood-soaked waves of the ocean. Born amidst chaos and tragedy, Ivel is marked from birth as "the cursed one," a child of immense latent power born during the Great Reckoning, a cataclysmic event that fused Ardan with a dark, otherworldly realm. This fusion unleashed mana, a mystical essence that reshaped humanity, granting some extraordinary abilities while dooming others.