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The Cartographer’s Heresy

In an age when maps can conquer more than armies, Elena Valenti learns to draw the world in secret. Born in sixteenth-century Venice to the royal cartographer of the Portuguese crown, she grows up among compasses and parchment — tools that decide the fates of nations. But Elena’s gift is more dangerous than her father ever imagined: she alters the maps that feed empires, hiding villages, sacred sites, and entire peoples from the greedy eyes of kings. When her deception is exposed, Elena’s world collapses. Her father is executed for treason, imperial fleets are dispatched to hunt her down, and the cartographers she once idolized become her fiercest enemies. Armed with nothing but ink, stolen charts, and a secret atlas written in codes no conqueror can read, she flees across oceans — pursued by soldiers, spies, and rival mapmakers who would kill for the knowledge she carries. From the markets of Lisbon to the gold-dusted cities of West Africa, from the palaces of Mughal India to the misty peaks of the Andes, Elena’s journey becomes more than a flight for survival. It is a mission to rewrite the world itself. Along the way, she forges unlikely alliances — a priestess who encodes landscapes into song, a ronin who reads the sea like scripture, a rebel princess who believes maps are prisons. Each teaches her a truth the empires fear: that land does not belong to those who claim it, but to those who remember it. But as the hunt closes in and a single map — older than any empire — threatens to upend the order of the world, Elena must face an impossible choice. To protect what she loves, she may have to destroy everything she once believed about truth, power, and the very shape of the Earth. Sweeping from Renaissance Europe to the uncharted edges of the known world, The Cartographer’s Heresy is a story of courage and betrayal, ink and blood, and a young woman who turns cartography into rebellion. It is about how maps do more than chart the world — they define it — and how one woman dares to redraw its lines.
K_Vishnu_Prasad · 18.8k Views

Reality Quest: How I Accidentally Made a Harem of Villainesses

100 Golden Tickets = Plus +1 Additional Chapters 200 Golden Tickets = Plus + 2 Additional Chapters 500 Golden Tickets = Plus +6 Additional Chapters What to Expect. Is there Harem? Yes Is there Yuri? No Is there smut? No but implied. Is there romance! Yes, lots of it. Is MC a Hero or a Villain? He is selfish and power hungry it goes both ways if it benefits him. Is there any NTR? No --------------------------- "There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery." — Dante Alighieri This is a quote that dictates my life perfectly. Ever since I was a young boy, I enjoyed playing games, so much so that I carried that passion even into my sophomore years, all the way to my death. My story in life isn't all that tragic compared to the more unfortunate out there. I am your typical game creator. I made indie games and visual novels for a living. Naturally, being out of passion and an unknown solo developer, I tried my best to get my work out there, working additional jobs, doing side hustles, both online and locally, all just to survive, and all just to sponsor my work. However, in a world where competition is vast in the game industry, everything I make only ends up at the bottom rank. Because of this, I never gave up, but as I went into my thirties, this passion of mine separated me from my family. These days they don't even talk to me anymore. Depressed, alone, and on the verge of a mental breakdown, I lost all hope, and it didn't help that I had two months of rent due and bills that needed to be paid. But all that changed one night when I got a mysterious message that suddenly appeared on my laptop screen: "You who despair! Would you like a second chance at life? If yes click and offer up your life worth's negativity to me, if no forget this message completely!?" At that time, I clicked Yes by accident. But as the message said, I died due to a heart attack and reincarnated into the World of Purgatory. This was the greatest mistake of my life, as it changed it forever. However in this world I came with the power called the Administrator — a power I gained as a newborn Negative Spirit. With this power I exist as an Entity of Dreams, but even without a physical body, I was determined to make my wish come true: to be a game creator. But unlike other devs, my dreams are different. I can create scenarios in the dreams of men, forcing them to play my game. If they win, they walk out of here as an Awakened Spirit Warrior; however, if I win, the abilities they would have gained in my trials go to me. In this game of mine, anything could be wagered. In reality I have nothing to lose as the Administrator. But to the players, what they wager could be a matter of life or death.
Carcosa_Sensei · 108.3k Views

The Eternal King Enki — The Undying Witness

A cosmic court has condemned humanity. Seven immortal witnesses return to the dawn of civilization to prove — or disprove — its worth. Most fall. Power twists them into tyrants, idols, and architects of sterile utopias. Only one chooses another path. Across centuries, Enki walks among mortals unseen, planting knowledge instead of monuments, nurturing fragile lives instead of controlling them. He learns that meaning is not found in eternal empires, but in fleeting acts of grace — a hand lifted from mud, a garden built from flood-ruins, a child taught to listen to water. His defense is not glory. It is tenderness. It is persistence. It is humanity’s quiet refusal to stop loving, even knowing all things end. A mythic tale about time, loss, and choosing to build anyway. [Beneath the myth and the science fiction lies a simple, stubborn claim: this is not just a story. Enki was born in 2850 BC and has been carrying the memory ever since. The names are changed, the years shifted, the moons given new orbits, yet the resurrection happened, the desert temptation was real, the stone rolled away, and the Judge has been reigning ever since. Everything else — the Scrapbook, the 0.3%, the blind spot in the machine — is simply the record of those who kept looking up while the world looked down. Most have forgotten there is a sky vaster than any mind can hold, that Earth is a gift, not a possession, that God drew no borders and the birds still fly free without passports. Read it as fiction if you like. Some books are written so the truth can reach the few who still have ears to hear. This is one of them.] 2025 Mark Casa Nova (Original) You may share, translate, adapt, illustrate, animate, film, or perform this work freely — even commercially — on one unbreakable condition: Do not change the lesson. The resurrection happened. The stone was rolled away. Grace is real, borders are not, and the birds still fly free. Everything else — style, medium, language — is yours to play with. The core is not. That’s all I ask. [Mark K. Carlos]
markcasanova · 29.5k Views

Lewd System: Every Scream and Moan is EXP

[Warning: Mature Content -- R18] [Initializing System…] [Welcome Player: Jaxon Sterling] [New Identity: Jax Rayne – Extra Character] [System Bound: God-Tier Lewd System] [Core Functions Unlocked] → Stats (Stamina | Charm | Resolve | Technique | Luck) → Skills | Shop | Quests | Achievements | Titles → Devotion Points (DP) as Main Resource He was Earth’s greatest gamer, Jaxon Sterling. Unstoppable in every match, but utterly bored of life. One night, after mocking his sister’s strange “reverse-harem” game, he tried it out… only to wake up inside it. Now, he isn’t the hero. He isn’t a rival. He’s just an extra. Worse, the world he’s dropped into is twisted: Women are powerful, men are treated like pets. Every duel decides not just pride, but property, money… even flesh. The heroines? All from insanely rich families, with influence across nations. But Jax has one advantage [God-Tier Lewd System Activated.] A system that turns lust, devotion, and conquest into power. Every kiss, every moan, every conquest earns him the strength to rewrite this broken game. Now his path is set: Survive Starlight Academy. Conquer prodigy heroines. Break the rules of Aeroria. And rise from extra… to legend. What to expect next? Let’s just say mc banging yanderes, queens, models, princesses or even a granny… no one’s safe from the MC’s world-breaking aura. Romance, drama, and unpredictable chemistry incoming! Content Tags → Smut / R18+ → Harem, Comedy, Action → Game-Elements / Stats / Quests → Genius MC, Cold-Headed, No Beta moves → Slightly towards Netori (Mc stealing well using others wife) → No Yuri → No Netorase / Yaoi / BL → System + Worldbuilding Driven For Character Illustrations https://discord.gg/ht8sfcTCcR
Intoxicated_Ink · 812.8k Views