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The Black Retreat: Dark Omens

The first book of "The Crimson Chronicles" trilogy. — In the heart of the vast Great Forest of Althea, the young fire mage Clei has spent a decade honing his powers. But as his magical strength reaches a critical bottleneck, he is driven to abandon the solitude of his woodland home—not only to uncover the truth behind his adoptive father's sudden disappearance, but to finally explore the vast, untamed world beyond the trees and step into the sprawling cities of the Kingdom of Pyraeth. What he finds is a world teetering on the brink of chaos. Two decades after the catastrophic Umbral Blight, the Human Realm is once again shadowed by doom. The Prophecy of the Black Moon has resurfaced, and a sinister cult is orchestrating a new plague. This malevolent force—the parasitic Umbral Phantoms responsible for turning millions into mindless Hollowed twenty years ago—has returned with a vengeance, threatening to plunge the world into eternal darkness. Facing terrifying monsters and the hatred of people who once rejected him, Clei must fight his way through a world falling into darkness. To survive, he needs to uncover the truth about his father's past, before the very curse that made him an outcast consumes him from the inside out. *** 2-3 chapters/day Author's Note: This is the very first book I wrote when I was younger, and to fully incorporate the lore of all my stories, I decided to pick this up along with two other books in the trilogy: The Empyrean Ascent Echoes in the Abyss
Chrissy · 5.5k Views

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Zed Yurien was born with exceptional spiritual power and dreamed of becoming a powerful mage. Yohan wanted to become a part of the border agents, an elite force revered by many for protecting them from monsters. "I get stronger after every new creature I hunt. Lucky for me, I enjoy the chase." For some reason, Yohan had started to see random visions of the future in his dreams. Yohan lips curled up as he gazedl at the charming women before him. "I'll be needing your help though~" “My body is quite picky, but if an energy is pure enough, it adapts, and I power up immediately.” Yohan woke up in a strange martial world, where being skilled in pleasure arts was a respectable feat. The world of Ashwyn was in constant threat from the ten dangerous labyrinths, where demons and monsters dwelled. Not only that, over a hundred years ago, an epidemic swept the realm—Eros Overload Syndrome in men and Mana Crystallization Disorder in women—killing countless people and nearly collapsing civilizations. Though medicine and regulation eventually brought stability, these conditions became a part of daily life rather than disappearing entirely. Their existence reshaped society in unexpected ways. Relationships grew more complicated, industries surrounding relief, medicine, and pleasure flourished, and new crimes and professions emerged alongside strict laws and regulations. Amidst all this, Yohan received a quest from a mysterious woman: Tame the 7 succubus queens hidden in the dungeons to fix the collapsing world. Yohan met an attractive woman in the subway station and a remote control fell out of her pocket. When he picked it up, he saw a hint of panic flash across her face. Yohan suddenly felt mischievous. He wanted to watch a good show. So he pressed the button with an evil grin. The subway station exploded. That's how he ended up dying. He found himself reborn in the magical world of Everniel. Even though the world was in constant danger of mystical portals appearing, connecting it with the monster infested islands, it was also full of opportunities. Awakening stone being one of them. But Yohan failed to awaken any magical skill at the prime time. This didn't stop him from trying to be better, richer in life. There were many profitable professions besides being a Hunter after all. As he planned to research colleges and his future career paths, a mysterious girl sneaked inside his house. "Your soul is different from the rest," she declared. "These impure stones will never trigger your awakening." To Yohan's shock, her appearance started changing and a mature demoness appeared before him. She licked her lips. "But let me give you a gift~." And so, Yohan gained his first ever magical skill... The ability to see through anything, be it a monster's weaknesses... Or people's filthy desires.
I_Only_Write_Peak · 126.3k Views

The Unluckiest Isekai: I'll Survive by Befriending Weirdos

It’s always the same story. A guy gets isekai’d, gains absurdly overpowered abilities, gathers a harem, and becomes the chosen hero destined to save the world. Unfortunately, Darcy got none of that. Transported to the planet Reya by his childhood pet buffalo, he finds himself in a world ruled by magic, spiritual power, monsters, and seven emperors powerful enough to shake entire continents. Yet in a world where spiritual power determines everything, Darcy possesses absolutely none. No blessing. No cheat ability. No hidden talent. To make matters worse, the people of Reya seem to find his appearance strangely unpleasant for reasons he himself doesn’t understand. All Darcy wants is a peaceful life. But fate seems determined to drag him into trouble. Beneath the surface of Reya lies a forgotten past hidden from the general public for over 10,000 years. Across the territories of the seven emperors stand seven ancient inverted tombs connected to a lost civilization erased from history itself. Why were the tombs created? Whose tombs are they? Are they connected to seven different beings… or a single existence? What truly happened 10,000 years ago? The tombs are protected by deadly barriers capable of killing almost anyone who enters. Even the emperors themselves cannot remain inside for long. For 10,000 years, nobody has entered the tombs. Until Darcy arrives. Because he is not from Reya and possesses no spiritual energy from that world, Darcy becomes the first person in 10,000 years capable of entering the tombs, triggering the greatest emergency the planet has faced in millennia. Alongside a strange group of companions—including a carrot-eating vegetarian vampire with an unbearable personality—Darcy finds himself pulled deeper into ancient conspiracies, forgotten technology far beyond modern understanding, and secrets capable of shaking the very foundation of Reya itself.
Seasonal_Flood · 27.9k Views

Sword Arts Online: Darkness

What if the creator of Sword Arts Online had controlled Kirito and his friends, turning them into evil, and brought the game into the real world, turning it into a giant game world? Well, this is the situation where our ordinary protagonist Roxas Nietes, or Spark78Reformed, as his player username, had found himself. Being a foreign high school student living in Japan with his friends in a shared house owned by his school would make his life there difficult, but his intelligence on basically anything instead made him prepared and an actionist. He was an ambivert who loved music, art, writing, picture taking, philosophizing, and best of all, making scenarios of all kinds in his mind. So, the day before SAO was brought into the real world, Roxas had unknowingly received a mysterious-looking email from a player named Anko Tachibana, who was a deceased player. That email is a request for help because he, who knew Kirito and his friends before, wants someone to help them, who are now known as the Elite Players, snap from their state of being brainwashed by the game. Roxas accepted it after some thinking, but there’s one condition: he will be Anko’s vessel because Anko is now a spirit after his death in the game. To be free from Anko’s ghostly possession, he needed to complete the task in any way he could. Now that he was Anko’s vessel, what would Roxas do to do this big and seemingly impossible mission? Well, he will use his intelligence, ambivert personality, and scenario-making mindset to do it, plus action. That combination sounds ridiculous and unorthodox, but for him, it will be a good one. So, join him, Anko, and their friends in a now-altered reality fighting monsters and bosses across Aincrad-ridded Japan and getting into the Tower while trying to get Kirito and his friends out of their brainwashed state. But the dark side of Sword Art Online was slowly revealed as Roxas and his friends went deeper and deeper for their mission through their spirit guardians. One of them was the origins of Eugeo and Alice (This was what if Eugeo and Alice were once humans who were killed and were forced to be bots in the games?) Warning: This story is dark, and the cover photos for this are NOT mine! Credits go to the original owner!
Roel_Wesley_II · 296k Views