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Humanity's hope - is a degenerate gambler?

James Carter has never been good at making safe choices. He owes money to friends who no longer answer his calls, to strangers who very much do, and to people who solve problems with broken fingers instead of paperwork. Gambling was supposed to be his way out—one big win, one lucky night, and everything would be fixed. That night never came. Then the Tower appeared. It fell from the sky like something out of a nightmare, a massive black structure that pierced the clouds and rooted itself in the middle of the world. Within hours, monsters began pouring out of its gates. Governments panicked, cities locked down, and people everywhere heard the same strange notification in their heads. A System. Suddenly, everyone could level up. Strength, skills, magic—humanity had been given the tools to fight back. The only way to stop the monsters was to climb the Tower and clear all 100 floors. James expected to get something normal. Instead, he got the Gambler’s System. He can gamble his stats. Strength, agility, health, even levels. Win the bet, and the rewards can make him unbelievably powerful. Lose… and he might walk away weaker than before, if he walks away at all. For most people, survival means training, planning, and climbing the Tower carefully. For James, survival means doing the one thing that ruined his life in the first place. Betting everything. Because when the world turns into a game, sometimes the only way to win… is to go all in.
TheAnomaly · 1k Views

Papuru Star

A thousand years ago, Earth vanished. Ripped from its orbit by unknown forces, it was dragged across the void and bound to a mysterious purple star alongside sixteen other stolen worlds. The star became known as Papuru, and fear forged what diplomacy could not, an uneasy Coalition of planets desperate to understand their captivity and reclaim their lost skies. They never escaped. Instead, they adapted. Now, one thousand years later, the Coalition celebrates its survival through spectacle. Every ten years, the galaxy turns its attention to Coalition Carnage, a year-long, planet-spanning martial arts tournament where champions clash across worlds, environments, and impossible odds. For civilians, it is celebration. For Superstars, it is fame, fortune, and legend. For winning planets, it brings something far more valuable, blessings that keep entire civilizations alive. But Coalition Carnage was never just a tournament. Beneath the cheers, sponsorships, and hero worship lie truths the Coalition has buried for centuries. Secrets woven into the rules, the powers, and the very star that binds them together. Truths that, if uncovered, could unravel the Papuru system itself and erase every stolen world in a single, final catastrophe. This is a space opera about power, survival, and the cost of entertainment. Featuring superpowered combat, planetary politics, rival champions, and the long shadow of a mystery older than human history. The 100th Coalition Carnage is about to begin. Some will win. Some will die. And some will learn what the Papuru Star truly is.
John_Wilson_6271 · 2.1k Views

My System Breaks Heaven's Rules: All Races Tremble Before My Summons

At 21, Yan Ye was just an ordinary young man—until he suddenly woke up in the body of a seventeen-year-old boy in a world far larger than Earth, where dungeons, monsters, and countless intelligent races have made strength the only law. In this world, every human starts ordinary and classless. Only at eighteen do they awaken a class and step onto the path of power. Powerless, alone, and trapped inside a ruined body, Yan Ye should have been nothing more than another failure waiting for Awakening Day. But he didn’t come alone. Unlike everyone else, Yan Ye possesses a strange system that rewards effort, imposes brutal punishments, and allows him to grow even before his Awakening begins. In a world where Summoner is an Irregular-rank class known for its instability, dependence on luck, and cruel limitations, Yan Ye is destined to awaken the very class others would dread. A Summoner’s fate is normally decided the moment they awaken. Their number of summons is fixed for life, and every new evolution means abandoning their current summon for an unknown new one. But Yan Ye was never meant to follow the rules imposed by Heaven itself. What to expect: From fat to fit. From weak to strong. From being alone to building a harem of extraordinary summons Weak-to-strong progression A unique power evolution system No NTR, no face-slapping, no fake weak act, and no nationalism No Awakening in the very first chapters, but there will still be action, growth, and system progression Romance, slice of life, and action will all be part of the story
Autumn_Monk · 1.4k Views

Embers of Frost

"Why is the Earth so different?" In the year 2085, the impossible happened: the Earth began to slow down until it stopped completely. Without an apparent reason, the planet drifted out of its orbit and began to wander through deep space. Neither the most brilliant scientists nor the most advanced AIs could find an answer as to why this was occurring. The Moon failed to follow Earth’s new path, as a result, massive tidal shifts swallowed entire continents, leaving only a fraction of humanity alive. The catastrophe deepened when, after three weeks of drifting, Earth collided with a mysterious, pitch-black planet. In the wake of the impact, more landmasses were shattered, leaving only portions of Asia and Africa intact. From the darkness of this black planet, strange entities emerged. Humanity dubbed them "Krukins", hostile, ink-black creatures that were extremely aggressive toward the survivors. Right before the Earth began its descent into chaos, a biologist was launched toward a planet near a black hole. This world, dubbed "New Earth" due to its striking similarities to our own. The biologist, Darian, was told that while ten years would pass for him on this new world, only fifty years would pass on Earth. But the calculations were wrong. It wasn’t fifty years that passed back home, it was five hundred. When Darian finally returns to Earth, he is not alone. On the alien planet, he found a small creature capable of fusing with him, granting him the power of ice. He returns five centuries late to find a world he no longer recognizes, a planet overrun by Krukins. Standing amidst the ruins of his home, Darian cannot believe his eyes. Daily Chapters at 5:00 PM (Italy Time / CET) (For global readers: 4:00 PM UTC / 11:00 AM EST)
eug_cap · 45.8k Views

Emerald Witch

Betrayed,plotted against,and killed. Elodie Adedora’s corpse was left to glaciate in a cold abyss… but why does this protagonist wake up seven years later? … Far away, off the outskirts of the Solaria kingdom, where the sun and warmth were scarce. A dark cave, lit only by the dim reflection of silver chains, suspending a single person to an icy wall. The person's skin, dark and covered in winters frost. The hairs on her head and eyelashes were grey, covered by tiny icicles. Her lips, pale of all color, cracked, and like the rest of her, cold. But, slowly, her lips were the first to melt. Her eyes started to flutter open, revealing brown eyes flickering with white. A bright, illuminating, magical white. "Kill the queen. You must kill the queen. That is why you are alive." The iridescent shimmer of white began to spread across her body, intertwining itself with the natural ebony color of her skin that was stuck to her bones. The intense frail appearance of the girl filled out into a healthy complexion. The melting ice dripped like water down her skin, and the more that dripped, the more alive the unconscious body seemed to become.  Just as a first warm breath escaped the girl's mouth, a spiteful emotion bubbled up to the surface, flashing across the girl's eyes. Pain, suffering, and betrayal. Those were the three most prevalent in her expression. One of the three must've been a feeling strong enough to revive the dead. The chains on her arms were thick and bulky, frosted over with a glaze of ice and frost. In a second however, she ripped her arms away from the stone that in prisoned her, falling weakly to other side, where her other arm remained suspended to the ice wall. A screamed ripped out of the girl who had just awoken, the voice of regret. It echoed against the walls of the cave. Her restraints shattered in a horrifying unison, metal bits flying in different directions in the room. Falling to the ground, her shivering body hit the ice floor below her. The ice ground made direct contact with her knees and forearms. Under the intense contact, they scraped and peeled. Yet, the girl's hands and knees held strong as she stood up. Her dark, raven black hair fell in front of her face, a protruding but delicate nose bridge interrupted its flow.  "You will never be forgiven..." Were the first words to leave the girl's lips. The white flickers and crackles in her eyes and across her skin had calmed. The iridescent shimmer had also vanished, and yet,  Now was the moment the girl appeared the most intimidating, warm tears of anger had overtaken the melted ice on her skin, obstructing parts of her vision. She raised her head, and with it, a stem of green glow manifested from no where. In her palms, the white shimmer of light had now turned a threatening forest green. In this icy prison was where the infamous evil witch was held captive. It would also be the same place which this story begins.
INFJX · 33.6k Views

Starbound: Chained across many lifetimes

Some loves defy the gods. Some curses last forever. For thousands of years, Giana has loved the same man across countless lifetimes She was once a mortal girl who climbed a sacred mountain and fell in love with a king—the immortal Linchpin who held back the darkness between worlds. When he made her immortal like him, the gods punished them both with a curse: he would be reborn endlessly, his memory scrubbed clean with each death, while she would remain, eternal and alone. But the gods were not satisfied with simple forgetting. They decreed that when he died, she would be torn away—ripped from his side moments before his last breath, denied even the mercy of watching the light leave his eyes. She has never held him as he passed. Never whispered goodbye. Never witnessed the exact moment he slipped from one life to the next. She only returns to find him cold, already gone, already reborn into a world that will steal him from her again. A thousand deaths. A thousand goodbyes she never got to say. Giana believed this was the curse the gods intended to last forever. But what if it wasn't? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kaelen Vance has everything. Money. Power. Control. He is a billionaire CEO who trusts data, logic, and the cold certainty of reality. But reality is cracking. For months, he has been haunted by nightmares that feel more real than his waking life: a frozen mountain, a woman with ancient, knowing eyes, the sensation of his own body dying over and over again. Then he walks into a coffee shop and sees her. Time stops. The world vanishes. And for the first time, Kaelen Vance—the man who has never believed in anything he couldn't touch—remembers. Not with his mind, but with his soul. But when he sees her again in the park, something in him knows her too. Now Giana must convince a man who trusts only facts that the madness invading his mind is not madness at all—it is memory. A millennia years of it. Thousands deaths. And every memory they recover cuts open again, spilling the very pain that could destroy them both. A CEO who needs to controls. A woman who has lost everything. A love that has survived the end of the world. But was it truly the gods who did this to them? Or is something—someone—else pulling strings from the shadows, orchestrating her agony across millennia to ensure the King never returns? One thing is certain: They will fight. Together. And if the gods are responsible, they will damn them all. -----------------------------------------------------------------------= I will be posting this story on RoyalRoad.com
BRLEE · 12.5k Views

Embers of Frost: From Biologist to Ice God

"Why is the Earth so different?" In the year 2085, the impossible happened: the Earth began to slow down until it stopped completely. Without an apparent reason, the planet drifted out of its orbit and began to wander through deep space. Neither the most brilliant scientists nor the most advanced AIs could find an answer as to why this was occurring. The Moon failed to follow Earth’s new path, as a result, massive tidal shifts swallowed entire continents, leaving only a fraction of humanity alive. The catastrophe deepened when, after three weeks of drifting, Earth collided with a mysterious, pitch-black planet. In the wake of the impact, more landmasses were shattered, leaving only portions of Asia and Africa intact. From the darkness of this black planet, strange entities emerged. Humanity dubbed them "Krukins", hostile, ink-black creatures that were extremely aggressive toward the survivors. Right before the Earth began its descent into chaos, a biologist was launched toward a planet near a black hole. This world, dubbed "New Earth" due to its striking similarities to our own. The biologist, Darian, was told that while ten years would pass for him on this new world, only fifty years would pass on Earth. But the calculations were wrong. It wasn’t fifty years that passed back home, it was five hundred. When Darian finally returns to Earth, he is not alone. On the alien planet, he found a small creature capable of fusing with him, granting him the power of ice. He returns five centuries late to find a world he no longer recognizes, a planet overrun by Krukins. Standing amidst the ruins of his home, Darian cannot believe his eyes. Daily Chapters at 5:00 PM (Italy Time / CET) (For global readers: 4:00 PM UTC / 11:00 AM EST)
eug_cap · 2.3k Views