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This story begins during the canon timeline, bridges world-breaking events, and continues past the series finale. Dracule Marya Zaleska has always lived in the shadow of her father, Dracule Mihawk, the world’s greatest swordsman. But Marya is no ordinary heir to a legendary name. Gifted with the enigmatic Oni-Oni no Mi (Mist-Mist Fruit), she wields the power to summon spectral apparitions and manipulate the veil between the living and the dead. Yet, this power is both a blessing and a curse, as it binds her to a destiny she does not yet understand. Determined to escape her father’s towering legacy, Marya sets out on a journey to uncover the truth about her mother, a woman shrouded in mystery who sacrificed herself to protect a secret so profound it could shake the foundations of the world. Along the way, Marya discovers fragments of her mother’s past—clues that lead her to ancient ruins, forgotten battles, and a conspiracy that ties her family to the origins of the Devil Fruits themselves. As Marya delves deeper into the mysteries of her lineage, she navigates treacherous seas, faces off against ruthless enemies, and uncovers the truth about the Mist-Mist Fruit’s dark origins. But the closer Marya gets to the truth, the more she realizes that her parents’ sacrifices were not just for her sake—they were to protect the world from a looming catastrophe. As the line between ally and enemy blurs, Marya must confront the darkness within herself and decide whether to embrace her Mist-Mist powers or reject them to forge her own path. "Dracule Marya Zaleska: Oni Phantom - Devil Fruit Origins" is a tale of legacy, sacrifice, and self-discovery. In a world where the past and present collide, Marya’s journey will reveal the secrets her parents died to protect and challenge her to rise above the shadows of her name to become a legend in her own right. Will she uncover the truth in time to save the world, or will the weight of her legacy consume her? #FinalSaga #PostCanon #BridgeLore #PostTimeskip #CanonExpansion #WorldBuilding #HighWordCount #DailyUpdate

An unknown cosmic phenomena known as Etherfall came, and the world collapsed into a chaotic apocalypse. Cities destroyed, laws vanished, and monsters roamed freely as humanity struggled to survive in a reality ruled by game-like system with levels, power, and brutal evolution. Myles was not chosen as a hero. He survived by enduring this chaos. But his fate changed when five women from another world reached out to him. Each of them bound by their own goals, secrets, and reasons for helping him. Through intimate contracts that transcended flesh and soul, they shared power with him, pushing his growth far beyond ordinary limits. With every battle and every bond, Myles continued to rise. His level climbed. In a world shaped by Etherfall, he slowly became something far more dangerous than the monsters, or even the gods hunting humanity. This is not a story about saving the world. This is the story of a man who grew strong enough to make the world fear him. ---

Genre: Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance Word Count: 1500-5000 words per chapter. Slow Burn Isekai. [Arc 1 - Survival Test ~ 52 Chapters] [Arc 2 - Academy Tournament ~ 27 Chapters] [Arc 3 - The Chosen Saintess ~ 37 Chapters] [Arc 4 - Aragonian—Venetian Wars ~ 55 Chapters] [Arc 5 - Corrupted Tree of Elven Forest ~ 43 Chapter] [Arc 6 - The Noors Rebellion ~ ??? Chapter] A game developer suddenly enters his own game world, taking on the body of an antagonist? After realizing the suffering of humans caused by the scenarios he and his team created, the protagonist vows to try to prevent and minimize casualties from the disasters they caused in that world. Author Note : I hope you guys will be patient in judging the novel at least until you finish the first arc.

Arthur Sterling died exactly as he lived: a ruthless liquidator who spent his life gutting the weak for the powerful. Reborn as a starving beggar in the muddy slums of a magical world, Arthur realizes a sickening truth: the "Gods" of the higher realms treat this universe exactly like his old enemies treated their victims. It is a disposable battery farm. Mortals are just livestock. And the world is ripe for the harvest. Arthur refuses to be a pawn in a rigged game ever again. He isn't going to slowly climb this universe's cultivation ranks. He is going to conquer it from the top down. [Ding!] [Congratulations on Activating the 10,000x Infinite Return System] [Passive Skill 'Bind' Unlocked: All Experience, Cultivation, and Insights gained by Bound Targets are passively transferred to the Host at a 10,000x multiplier.] Why lift a finger to train when the world is full of eager, naive heroes willing to bleed for you? Arthur slaps his first Binder on a plucky "Chosen One." The boy sweats blood to swing a wooden sword a thousand times. [Ding!] [Target 'Caden Cross' has completed 1,000 sword swings.] [10,000x Multiplier Activated!] [Host has gained: 10,000,000 perfect strikes. Forging Domain-Level Sword Intent!] His mortal body violently restructures into that of an apex predator, but he doesn't stop there. Arthur aggressively expands his reach. He binds an untouchable Arch-Mage suffering from an ancient curse and a terrifying Demon Empress chained in the abyssal depths. Feeding on their passive energy, he tears through the absolute limits of the Mortal Domain in mere days. The cataclysmic influx of cosmic power forcefully rewrites his DNA, forging the Dimensional Breaker Physique. It is an impossible, reality-defying vessel, a body so devastatingly dense that it completely nullifies the physical laws, supreme curses, and crushing gravity of the universe itself. To Arthur, the arrogant deities of the Apex Realm and the Celestial Court aren't untouchable Gods. They are just bloated tyrants sitting on stolen power, waiting to be dethroned. When the Heavens finally notice the anomaly and descend to enforce their absolute laws, Arthur doesn't bow. He forcefully severs the planet's leylines, transforms an entire floating academy into an apocalyptic dreadnought - the Ebon Citadel - and blasts his way into the higher dimensions. Armed with a pitch-black sword wreathed in the Primordial Flame of creation, Arthur Sterling is coming for the throne of the multiverse. The Gods built a slaughterhouse to harvest the weak. The new Emperor is here to burn it to the ground.

Through a twist of fate and cruel misfortune, Paul awakens in the body of his own ancestor, trapped in a world marching toward war. Forced into the ranks of the Nazi elite, he must walk a razor’s edge, outwardly loyal, secretly reshaping history and trying to stop the inevitable tragedy. From the reality of war, to ruthless officers, glittering parties, every choice could mean death. Can Paul use this second life to reshape history, or will fate deal him a cruel hand once again?

Draven is a magic professor in a fantasy world. He is also an earl, notorious for his evil deeds and mistakes since youth. His downfall is due to a curse that hinders his intellectual potential and his talents. Eventually, he becomes a villain, losing everything he holds dear: his siblings, fiancée, house, domain, and more. After a miserable death, he reincarnates in the modern world as Dravis Granger. In his new life, he grows up to be a highly intellectual individual oblivious towards his previous life, becoming a young professor in mechanical engineering and a researcher. However, he harbors a strange obsession with creating a game, fueled by vivid imaginings of another world. This obsession leads him to develop a game that mirrors his previous life. Upon completing his virtual reality world, he regains his past memories. Overwhelmed by intense emotions—rage, sadness, and the realization of his past ugliness—he suffers a fatal heart attack. In his final moments, he hears a voice, seemingly from the world itself, offering him a chance to return to his original fantasy world. However, he would only retain the memories of his modern life, not those of his first life’s mistakes. He agrees and is reincarnated once more, this time with the knowledge of a modern mechanical engineering professor. But one thing about the Dravis Granger, he's not just a mechanical engineer professor. Not just a straight, killer genius professor. He has his ideals, and the world is too full of villains for his great idealism. So he strived, with his great mind, he became a mastermind. But not as a villain, but as a person who has lost hope in police and justice, and decided to help the people by his own hand. Collecting victims and invited those handpicked talents to his side, making several insane stunts, assassinating, trapping, and eradicating the scums from the world. But now in this fantasy world, he has to survive from multiple factions trying to kill him, protect his domain, protect his siblings, protect his fiance, and the most important thing. Protect the world. But he hadn't lost the Dravis from the modern world. As a professor at the morning, an earl at the afternoon, and a dark knight at the night. _____________________________ "You've hurt my student." Draven stands still, no mana seems to emit from him, but just a single frown. A frown that is enough to make the room's heavy. "As a teacher, you think I would leave you unpunished?" "You seem to think that I care about your position, Prince Hermit. But believe me," Draven took a slow step. "Not even your father could protect you from me," _____________________________ Daily Update 2 Chapters = 14 chapters/week Some Friendly Rewards 100 Powerstones = +2 chapters in that day 200 Powerstones = +4 chapters in that day 50 Golden Tickets = +4 chapters in that day 1 Gift = +4 chapters in that day _____________________________ One of the King of Kings Series

He was forbidden. My brother's best friend. Also the most dangerous man in the country. And I signed myself over to him. Leah Thorne had one rule: stay away from Dimitri Valentino. It shouldn't have been difficult. He was ruthless, feared, and devastatingly beautiful in the way that only truly dangerous things are. The kind of man who owned nightclubs, commanded armies, and made grown men weep with a single look. The kind of man her brother Mike trusted with his life. The kind of man she had absolutely no business wanting. But one shattered marriage, one bottle of whiskey, and one catastrophically bad decision later, Leah wakes up in Dimitri's bed with a signed contract on the nightstand and six months of her life no longer her own. Her body. His rules. No exceptions. The contract is iron-clad, the penalty clause suffocating — fifty million dollars she doesn't have. And Dimitri Valentino, the Wolf of the Italian underworld, has absolutely no intention of letting her go. He says he'll ruin her for other men. He's not lying. Because beneath the cold control and the thousand-dollar suits is a man who has wanted her for seven sinful years — who has memorized the curve of her smile, the sound of her laugh, and exactly how to take her apart piece by piece until the only word left in her vocabulary is his name. Eve came to him broken, looking to feel wanted. She never expected to feel owned. She never expected to love it. Six Months Contract With The Mafia God is a scorching dark romance about forbidden hunger, dangerous obsession, and the catastrophic moment a good girl stops running from the wolf who has always been hunting her. Some contracts change everything. Some men are worth the fine print.

A school that creates killers. A game where betrayal means survival. And a girl with a secret worth everything. The higher you rise… the closer you get to a truth that can destroy you.

Brought to you by the same author of "Rise of the Undead Legion" Biako. Ludwig Heart, the heir to a vast fortune and a life of luxury, craves only one thing: freedom from his gilded cage. But when a plane crash catapults him into a world of magic and danger, he awakens not as the hero he dreamed of, but as a victim in a twisted ritual. Trapped between the ambitions of dark necromancers and the wrath of vengeful gods, Ludwig must navigate a deadly new reality where his life is no longer his own. Stripped of privilege and resurrected as an undead pawn, Ludwig’s fight for survival will determine whether he reclaims his destiny...or becomes a mere footnote in a world of shadows and deceit.

The flight was only the beginning. Yulong has turned to ash, yet from the ash grow new shadows. The Dark King has changed his face—he now wears the features of a dead man, and those who look into his eyes do not see a stranger, but the neighbor from next door. His hunger is no longer his alone. His progeny roam the night, scenting life in the veins like ripe fruit, spreading like a curse across the land. Liyen follows a small flame. A tiny light in the darkness that neither flickers nor fails—the little Qi-Flame that dances through forgotten paths and leads her deeper, down into the earth where silence breathes and memories do not die, but wait. Down there, in the gullet beneath the world, the lost one is said to be. But what lurks in the depths is no prisoner—it is an exchange: A cage of flesh in which two breaths writhe—and only one may remain. Meanwhile, strangers open a door in the night. When this band of foreign adventurers appears in the darkness, the true journey has only begun. Instead of finding refuge, they find a blood-feast and smiles that almost reach the eyes. For sometimes the greatest danger is not the monster you fear, but the friend who smiles at you—whose teeth only show when the moon loses its blood. Now stands the choice: To speak the warning and be branded mad—or to remain silent and watch with living flesh as trust turns to slaughter. (Book Three of The Beast Within series – The Bloodclaw—a direct sequel to "Yulong") A story about how sometimes the monster does not lurk beneath the bed, but beneath the skin—and about what price it demands to wear a face that is not your own. An OPTIONAL lore companion book is available on my WebNovel profile. https://linktr.ee/jjwaka TikTok.com/@jjwakawaka pinterest.com/jjwaka1144/ instagram.com/jjwaka414 Copyright 2026 JJWaka & Wayne Shao. All rights reserved. This work is protected by copyright. Any reproduction, distribution, translation, adaptation, public performance, or other use—even in part—is prohibited without the express written permission of the authors. Publication of this work is reserved exclusively for the authors—regardless of platform, medium, or format. Any further publication or use by third parties, even for non-commercial purposes, is strictly prohibited. All characters, plot lines, texts, musical compositions, sound recordings, visual elements, and other creative content are the intellectual property of the authors.

The choice has been made—the Noctusborn has awakened. But the price only becomes visible now. Elandor, the former King of Kaelon, now walks as a creature of darkness through the nights of Melandor. He hides in the bodies of the living, tears families apart from within, makes entire villages vanish. In Yulong, no one suspects the danger—until a blood-drenched rider arrives with a warning, and no one listens. Until Liyen, the archer, sits in a cell with a truth no one believes. Until Yaoming stays behind, so that others might flee. Every choice is a sacrifice. Every rescue has its price. The clock is ticking. And this time, time itself becomes the enemy. (Book Two of "The Beast Within" series—a direct sequel to "The Awakening of the Noctusborn") An OPTIONAL lore companion book is available on my WebNovel profile. https://linktr.ee/jjwaka TikTok.com/@jjwakawaka pinterest.com/jjwaka1144/ instagram.com/jjwaka414 Copyright 2026 JJWaka & Wayne Shao. All rights reserved. This work is protected by copyright. Any reproduction, distribution, translation, adaptation, public performance, or other use—even in part—is prohibited without the express written permission of the authors. Publication of this work is reserved exclusively for the authors—regardless of platform, medium, or format. Any further publication or use by third parties, even for non-commercial purposes, is strictly prohibited. All characters, plot lines, texts, musical compositions, sound recordings, visual elements, and other creative content are the intellectual property of the authors.

⚠️ Warning!!⚠️ (This novel contains Inces—I mean, contains the "practice of keeping the royal blood pure", and some R18 scenes not meant for kids) Villains. Characters who opposed the protagonist. There are charming villains, there are villains with a touching backstory, there are villains who are simply pure evil, there are villains you can sympathise, and there are villains who simply have that title because they aren't on the same side as the protagonist. But no matter what kind of villain you are, at the end of the day, you are just a stepping stone for a protagonist. But in this vast universe, where immortals can pluck the stars and gods can create the sun, there are villains who won't stand for their fate. They will trample over the protagonist and defy their predestined fates and declare to the heavens, "Villains aren't stepping stones!"

This book is a companion lore archive to "The Beast Within" series. It is entirely OPTIONAL and not required to understand the main story. Book One: "The Awakening of the Noctusborn" Book Two: "Yulong" Book Three: "The Bloodclaw" https://linktr.ee/jjwaka TikTok.com/@jjwakawaka pinterest.com/jjwaka1144/ instagram.com/jjwaka414 Note on Illustrations & Coats of Arms: All coats of arms, symbols, and illustrations in this work were created specifically for this fictional universe. They do not represent real state, noble, or organizational coats of arms. Copyright 2025 JJWaka & Wayne Shao. All rights reserved. This work is protected by copyright. Any reproduction, distribution, translation, adaptation, public performance, or other use—even in part—is prohibited without the express written permission of the authors. Publication of this work is reserved exclusively for the authors—regardless of platform, medium, or format. Any further publication or use by third parties, even for non-commercial purposes, is strictly prohibited. All characters, plot lines, texts, musical compositions, sound recordings, visual elements, and other creative content are the intellectual property of the authors.

A king who loved his people. A husband who swore to protect his family. A man willing to sacrifice everything—even his humanity. King Elandor of Kaelon has everything a man could desire: a realm that worships him, a wife who touches his very soul, and a future bathed in light. Yet in the shadows of his own city, strings are being pulled. Not against his realm—against his heart. When darkness strikes, Elandor faces a choice no man should ever have to make: Accept. Or become. There is a way to grow stronger than his pain. A way to crawl into the bodies of his enemies, hollow them from within, steal their strengths. A way to become immortal—yet the more he takes, the more the king dissolves into ash. And from that ash, something older awakens. The Beast Within is the story of a man caught between love and damnation—and the discovery that the greatest monster is not the enemy, but what we become to defeat him. Book One: The Awakening of the Noctusborn An OPTIONAL lore companion book is available on my WebNovel profile. https://linktr.ee/jjwaka TikTok.com/@jjwakawaka pinterest.com/jjwaka1144/ instagram.com/jjwaka414 Copyright 2025 JJWaka & Wayne Shao. All rights reserved. This work is protected by copyright. Any reproduction, distribution, translation, adaptation, public performance, or other use—even in part—is prohibited without the express written permission of the authors. Publication of this work is reserved exclusively for the authors—regardless of platform, medium, or format. Any further publication or use by third parties, even for non-commercial purposes, is strictly prohibited. All characters, plot lines, texts, musical compositions, sound recordings, visual elements, and other creative content are the intellectual property of the authors.

Arjun was an ordinary nobody—until a prophecy from another dimension claimed him as an Avatar. Now, he is the only thing standing between our world and Tormaan, a demonic Asura warlord fueled by the corrupt essence of supreme dark matter AKA anti-god element. From the shadows of the cosmos, the immortal "Dark Sage" Shukracharya pulls the strings, seeking to plunge both the earthly realm and the celestial heavens into eternal night. To save humanity, Arjun must cast aside his mortality and ascend. He isn't just fighting a war; he’s claiming a throne he never wanted. The era of the humans is over. The era of the God-King begins.

In this world, reaching the highest tier of Heaven requires more than a single lifetime of virtue—it requires a mountain of Merits accumulated through endless cycles of reincarnation. For Mujun, this journey is a living nightmare. Unlike others, he remembers every detail of his past lives. For millions of years, he has played the role of the selfless saint, but the weight of forced goodness has left him weary, bored, and deeply isolated. Desperate for a companion who understands his burden and tired of waiting for an enlightenment that never comes, Mujun makes a fateful choice. He decides to stop following the rules of Heaven and start writing his own—starting with the creation of a companion, no matter the cost to the innocent.

Spencer Finch was just a normal guy in Portland until an aneurysm sent him straight into the body of Arthur Morgan during the chaotic Blackwater Massacre. Now stuck in the world of Red Dead Redemption, he must navigate the dying Wild West using the Frontier Empire System, a strategic interface that provides medical protocols and member loyalty stats. To keep the Van der Linde gang from collapsing, he leverages his knowledge of the future to pay off deadly debts and save members like Jenny Kirk before the Pinkertons close in.

In every story, there exists a protagonist star, that shields the chosen male and female leads. It bends fate itself to ensure the triumph of its chosen and those who bear it are destined to rise, to win and to be loved even if it's at the cost of someone else. Shen Xiatang was never meant to matter. She was just a disposable side character, a stepping stone, a tragedy written solely to elevate someone else’s “happy ending.” Betrayed, abandoned, and crushed beneath the overwhelming luck of those favored by the Protagonist Star, she dies with a curse on her lips that states: “In all life times, in all generations for as long as your line will be, I will make sure that your children's children and their children's children, suffer for the injustice I have faced today. I will muddy their luck so bad that they will wonder what kind of bad karma they must have accumulated to meet a calamity like me!” Whether by divine mistake or something far more sinister, her wish is granted and Shen Xiatang awakens not as a living person, but as an invisible spirit bound to people like her who were destined to be crushed by the protagonist. With revenge in her heart and terrible suggestions on her lips, join Shen Xiatang as she joins hands with those who had been destined to be cannon fodder to rewrite fate itself.

Transported into the pirate world—before the story even begins. Born a Celestial Dragon, he awakens a Treasure-Digging System— capable of unearthing anything from across countless worlds. Madara, Tatsumaki, Rem, Yoriichi, Misaka, Kurumi… all become his subordinates. From that day on— a different Celestial Dragon rises. Golden Lion: “Who said Celestial Dragons are trash?!” Garp: “The only one I acknowledge… is Saint Bernard Is.”

When life's being bitchy, it will 'eff you over. Who would have thought that when I, the Captain of the country's Special Forces, woke up after reading a recommended historical romance fantasy novel; I'd end up in the novel itself. Blah! Talk about cliché! Seriously though, it was fine that I ended up in a novel. But why do I have to end up as the third-rate villainess/ bro-con lady Celestine von Trier? It was fine as well, being all that. But why is it that I'm fated to die a pathetic death by choking on a cookie? The injustice! The audacity! The... the...stupidity... I refuse! I will run away from this ridiculous mumbo jumbo. I am the master of my own fate! Plot be damned. Let the Operation: Great Escape commence!