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Amidst a world of broken kingdoms and hidden treachery, trust is more threatening than warfare. As the queen of a failing kingdom, Selara Valemire of Eryndor faces the burden of her father’s death, combined with the threat of her enemies who bide their time until she falls. After learning that ruling requires sacrifices, Selara has also learned that ruling and the love of others don’t mix well together. While far away from his homeland, Kaelen Draven, an honorable knight, finds himself caught up in the conflict that starts with warfare but ends with treachery. After the conflict rips his own kingdom apart from the inside, Kaelen is left with friends who seem to have turned against him; all he has left is duty and the burden of just surviving. The string of fate leads Kaelen to Eryndor, where there is power in shadow and loyalty is not what it appears to be. As the fight for survival grows larger and secrets are revealed, Kaelen and Selara are moved closer together by circumstances but torn apart due to obligations. In a world where all kingdom’s destinies have been determined by the fire of war and their enemies look familiar, love is not a sanctuary; it’s a gamble. And not every decision results in triumph. Some decisions end with failure.

Original work for paid Patreon members. One of three of the first vampires chose a path different from his siblings. Blessed by Winter, he lives as a lonely lord. Misunderstood and overlooked. patreon.com/GoldDragonMachina

You are part of the system’s elegant game. If a system you enter to be healed keeps the price of exit hidden…

It’s not quite a transmigration, nor is it a rebirth. It’s more as if some "Mad Scientist God" took two entirely unrelated souls, mashed them together, and stuffed them into this shell. Em... well, maybe they tossed in a little something "extra" for good measure? I don’t know if I’m a dinosaur, and I don’t know if I still count as human. I only know that my tiny brain is currently processing a level of information it was never meant to handle at this age. These were the final thoughts of Carlo, a hatchling Giganotosaurus, born by sheer accident in the Giganotosaurus Exhibit of Jurassic World, just before he blacked out. ——————— Author’s Notes: 1. The Protagonist: A Giganotosaurus from the ARK: Survival Evolved vanilla module. He is not a human, but rather a dinosaur possessing human knowledge. 2. The "System": There is no traditional narrative system, but the protagonist can view a "Dinosaur Stat Panel" identical to the one in ARK. 3. Reader Discretion: This book leans toward paleontology and the author's personal imagination of dinosaur ecology. It is not a non-stop "kill-or-be-killed" action flick; expect a focus on nature and behavior. ——————— PATREON LINK: https://www.patreon.com/AlexandrusTL 50+ advance chapter!

For 150 years, humanity has fought a losing battle against an alien invasion. Each year brings devastating losses, yet surrender is never considered. When a key strategic island is abandoned, it seems like another crushing setback—but fate has other plans. Twin siblings Sylvia and Ethan are left behind, presumed dead in the chaos. Struggling to survive in the ruins of war, they uncover a startling truth: their unique bond and abilities may hold the key to turning the tide. Can two survivors succeed where humanity has failed for a century and a half—and bring an end to the war?

Vayukshi is a city that appears only when the world is willing to forget it. Ira Malhotra never meant to find it. A healer burdened with a rare condition that binds her heart to the emotions of others, she crosses into a city that should not exist—and touches a man who should not feel. Devansh is a Chiranjiv—an immortal punished not with death, but with the absence of love. For centuries, he has guarded Vayukshi without attachment, without desire, without fear. Until Ira collapses at his feet and wakes carrying the weight of his silence. The closer she stays, the more she loses pieces of herself. The more she loses, the more his curse begins to crack. In a world where immortality is a sentence and love is a crime, their bond threatens the balance of the universe itself. Some stories are about falling in love. This one is about what love costs.

When Yun woke up her illness had disappeared and instead she'd become a plant in a fantasy world with only fragmented memories of her past. With fate pushing her to the path of growing stronger, Yun is certain something is wrong. A system that had been the root of her illness in her past life awakens within her. An ominous god that keeps forcing her to murder haunts her existence. I will be posting this story on RoyalRoad.com

**MATURE Themes, Language, & Content** “Wait, this has to be a joke... I’m expected to share a dorm room with a man? I was supposed to room with other women!” She screeched while holding the sides of her head. “A man?” The male eyed her up and down, “Did you think I was human?” “Of course, you’re human. Things like vampires, werewolves, demons, fairies, and such don’t exist. So, what else could you be other than a human being?! Don’t be preposterous!” “Last I checked, demons exist,” he coldly replied, looking offended. She snorted as she crossed her arms in disbelief, “What? You expect me to believe that? Yeah, right... Are you trying to tell me that you’re like a demon or something?”. “LIKE a demon? No, no... I AM a demon, and my name is Xinith,” he lowered his voice as he crossed the room toward her. She stepped back until her back was against the door, “That is utter bullshit. Now back up, you creep!” “No,” he said in a much lower tone, “not until you believe me. Do you want proof? Then say that magic word you humans like to use so much to find us.” One of her hands was reaching into her back pocket, where she kept a small pepper spray bottle. He noticed her hand and gripped her wrist tightly, enough that he overpowered her and pinned not just one, but both of her wrists overtop her head. “You shouldn’t have done that, little one,” he growled, his face nearing hers. The room suddenly felt like it was closing in on her. Her heart was racing, and it felt like it was in a pinball machine, causing physical pain in her chest. Her lungs felt like they were drowning, and her eyesight kept fading in and out. She immediately tried thrashing herself around but to no avail. She was having a panic attack, and he was the cause of it. --- Alex was ready to start the next chapter of her life: College! Little did she know that the administration would mistake her for being a male student and place her in the men’s dorm because of her name. She gets stuck with the single suite that has only one bedroom but two beds! Even worse, she finds out that her dormmate is a demon?! What would happen if the two had a budding romance? Is her demon dormmate just using his powers to lure her in, or is she feeling something real? Only time will tell...

The demon beasts spent 1,000 years praying for the return of the sealed soul of their demon god, so he could save them from the wrath of the heavens and restore their glory. But when this demon god awakened from his seal, he casually declared: “Rebel against the heavens and lead a demon army to take over the world? Nah, that sounds like work. All I want to do now is rest. Officially retiring as the demon god!” ——— I died and woke up in a BL novel as the villainous demon god who died tragically. Well, obviously I’m not going to live through this stressful fate of being a demon god and dying. So I quit. I’m not going to get involved with this plot. I’m just going to be a salted fish and maybe find love in this land with hot men. [System notification: You can’t escape your fate without getting rid of the evil seeds you planted!] “Evil seeds I planted? What the fuck is that?” [The demon god created the 7 deadly sins in the world in the form of 5 ancient beast babies. And if they aren’t stopped, your tragic fate will reoccur!] Fuck. Now I’m left babysitting ancient beast babies who are somehow my babies. But that shouldn’t be too hard, right?! Baby Dragon: Gets angry and burns down the whole house. Baby Lion: Keeps making everyone an enemy. Baby Tiger: Steals everything available in the market. Baby Mermaid: Keeps making random strangers sleep with each other! Baby Cat: Sleeps all day while feeding on literally anything. "....." “Well, at least I have a supportive Phoenix husband to help me with the babies”—that would have been my thoughts if my husband wasn’t the same person this villainous demon god had tortured for years. The same man he had made his lab rat and slave! He probably wants me dead now. [System alert: The Phoenix is angry and might blow up in 10 hours! Coax him to prevent triggering your doom!] Huh? I also have to babysit my walking time-bomb Phoenix husband who wants to kill me every day?! ———— •Xianxia danmei x Beastworld •Married Couple •Older Master Shou x Younger Disciple Gong. •Fluff and Angst ©COVER NOT MINE

Death by overwork? Check. Isekai’d into a glittery kingdom called Aelthryndivoryssalindria, yes, that's the name but I call it Aelthryn, because who has time for that? Double check. All I wanted was a soft life filled with pastries, naps, and no husband. But five years into my new life as Princess Elyndravyssorathielindria Sylvarindelthys—Elyn, please, God knows why the names are so difficult to pronounce—my father demands I marry. But explain to me why all the potential suitors look like they were picked up from the fucking gutter? I kid you not. one of them literally suggested teaching me to ride a horse and guess who found out he could not ride one at all and at the end of the day cried begging for his mother...me. And that's just one. There's also the fact that I don't want to even get married. So in a panic, after scaring my suitors away, I tell my father I'm in love with Zorathys Vaelkyrion. What I didn't plan for was the fact that Zorathys is real, he’s at our annual ball, and he’s calling me his lover to settle Dad’s debts. Now I’m stuck in the Underworld, managing Hell’s paperwork, babysitting demon nobles, and dodging a giant snake with a sweet tooth. Oh, and Zor? A lazy, body-pillow-hugging tease who makes my heart race. Worse, every escape portal dumps me in his bedroom, and he’s not so bad. But when I stumble into a plot to overthrow him, my soft-life dreams might cost me everything—unless I fight for the husband I never wanted. Send help please, I just wanted a soft life and not a demon husband.. --------------------- "...you can't marry my daughter," my father said to the demon king and I nodded. "...she...she's gay. Yes," he said with a nod like that was the most reasonable explanation ever. "She's into girls." I was shocked and stared at him then back at the demon king who paused. Maybe this could work after all. I nodded too, supporting my father's words. The demon king smiled then. "What good taste you have, there's a reason why we belong to each other after all. I'm into women too." What?

My arm ached where the needle pierced the vein. Already, my fingers were numb, spots spinning in front of my eyes. Something clattered onto the pavement. The needle. It must have slipped out of my hand. Nothingness swirled around me, bringing the first sense of peace that I'd felt since...ever. But that was okay. It meant that there was no one to miss me, and no one I would miss. Well, perhaps there would be a few, but they could always find others to extract their cruel, sadistic pleasure from. My last breath was rough and shallow, the last beat of my heart pitifully fail. I sank to the alley floor, eyes closing, welcoming the blessed nothingness of the end. Only...death was supposed to be dark, wasn't it? And since when did 'nothingness' have so many gods? Discord: https://discord.gg/PX3xqJdZMY

Eighteen-year-old Sylas Wood is reincarnated into the world of Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation. No longer human, he gradually discovers that he has been reborn as a high-ranking member of the demon race. With no knowledge of the story or the world around him, he must navigate this new life blindly—unaware of how his very existence may alter the fate of everything. [Power Stones are much appreciated]

From courtesy of chaos to redifining chaos itself. This is the journey of Raven Lovemire with the end goal of not immorality but savouring what creation has to offer. Immortality is but a by-product guaranteed. ................... This is the story of Raven Lovemire, a young man living in a world without any extraordinary energy ( chi, qi, mana etc., ) who by sheer coincidence absorbs the damaged soul of a powerhouse of the universe wondering in space and simultaneously inherits everything from him. From knowledge to his soul palace to the chaos essence and chaos scripture, everything!! As the world he live in advances from a mortal world to an extraordinary one again, Raven finds himself at the top with his harem of diverse beauties with exotic bloodlines with the inheritace received. His favourite past time being, merging different bloodlines with his own chaos power and creating strong dependants with great potential. Of corse, the best is reserved mostly for his own harem! Be it The nine tailed fox, Eastern and Western dragons, Phoenixes with long fiery tail, Golden lions or hybrids of dragons and phoenixes, lion and scorpion, snakes and ants. Nothing is off the list! Merging humans with beast bloodline is commonplace. If beauties flock to him due to his power and charm......beter not blame him for that ;) ................... From fantasy to reality. From Imagination to realism. From longing to Conquering. From mediocrity to everloasting glory. Why everything needs to be built only on the bones of hatred and revenge? betrayal and Lust? Follow me on this journey of an individual fueled by desire and longing for things he could only dream of once. IF we end up turning The universe upside down....dont complain :) .................. This is my very first novel and I wish for it to succeed and not drop it halfway. So let's make sure this goes that way together. I am open to suggestions and corrections so if u have any, feel free to speak it out. Names and plots can only be altered in such way that it doesn't affect the past chapters and ongoing storyline. Love u fam! Pookie Chaos!

I've been sick ever since I can remember. My dad's a drunk prick, and he doesn't treat my mom very well. My girlfriend cheated on me with my best friend, because she figures I'm going to die soon anyways. They all do. Hell, they're probably right. I've been to countless doctors, and they can't figure out what is wrong with me aside from the fact that my body is slowly shutting down. I don't have any friends anymore. My dad doesn't allow me home anymore, and apparently, I'm not even their real son. That was a real kick in the teeth. Only my mom tries to talk to me still, but there's always hell to pay if my dad catches her. At this point, I've accepted my end, and I wish it would just hurry up. At least, that's what I told myself, until I came across a new fuzzy little friend that would change my entire life. My name is Elias Crosse, and my tale is about get crazy. Notes: This story features an OP MC, so power development and growth isn't really present for him, although there is some. A lot of the growth mainly comes from other characters, and features a focus on said characters. Elias is also not someone who puts up with other character's bullshit, and routinely puts them in their place. I am tired of the trope of characters hiding their powers, or letting other characters walk all over them and theirs because they are not strong enough to do anything. I don't exactly know how to describe my story in terms of a genre. It has action, it has slice of life, and it has romance. There is no fade to black, and I can be very descriptive. This is also a HAREM story. If you don't like that kind of thing, you will not upset me by not reading it. I'd prefer you didn't, honestly. I have been fixing, updating, and changing somethings for consistency, to improve the story, the grammar and errors, and for things to make more sense. Some things may change, as this is a work in progress. The more I write, the better I feel I am becoming. I just write, and I have the ideas of where I am going in my head, but other than that, I just write the story as I see fit. As such, I forget some things, I miss somethings, and most often, some ideas in my head get jumbled together and it ends up not making sense some times. I am working to correct that as best as I can.

Alric doesn't remember Truck-Kun or a slippery bathroom tile but he is pretty sure he died. Why is he sure? Because he wasn't a Cave troll stumbling through Middle-earth before he woke up. Now empowered by his monstrous strength and a Tithe of the Devourer cheat (instructions sold separately) he sets forth. Alric decides to live by the motto of "F* it we ball!" Smaug the Terrible you say? Have you ever seen a black arrow fired with the full might of a Troll? Sauron's laying waste to all before him? Hold up why is that Troll on the wrong side of the battlefield. Balrog in the Mines of Moria? "You shall not pass!"..."Wait isn't that my line?" . Alric can't wait to put his rather large new nose wherever it doesn't belong; just as soon as he finds a way to avoid getting turned to stone by his first sunrise.

Wulfstan finds himself in the middle of the woods, with no memory, and two strangers fretting over him. Memories that had danced in his mind faintly before he’d opened his eyes fled and left him no answers. He feels nothing but a strange tugging in his chest, an unspeakable longing. A longing he’d carry with him for the next 1100 years. A tragedy, a comedy, an adventure, a romance, spanning from 1000 c.e until 2100 c.e in England.

Arabelle, a 20 year old girl was born into poverty along with her sister and her single mother. As the eldest, she has been juggling in between jobs to support her family. Her sick mother can't do anything about it but to accept their fate. They have to live from the mercy of other people just to get by. She knows that their lives will never change unless she gets a job with good compensation. That's why when she saw the job ad as a maid in a mansion, she didn’t hesitate to go and apply for it. Little that she knows her boss is a vampire. Ralph is 200 years old and walks amongst humans. He only hires a maid just to make sure that he will not be discovered. After all, having a human around is like keeping an emergency snack. Every maid who has been to the mansion has mysteriously disappeared. As if they never existed since there is no body that has been found. Arabelle didn’t know about it. She will soon find out the mystery about the missing people from the mansion. Amidst the mystery, she will find herself falling for Ralph. After all, it 's hard to resist his vampire charm whenever she looks at him straight to his eyes. As if he always has something to tell her. While Ralph seems to be drawn to her because of his past. Arabelle doesn't have a clue since he's being careful not to show her. They are both trying to hide their feelings from each other. But the more they hide it, the more their feelings for one another shows. As if betraying both of them in the process.

If you were a dragon, that’d be fine too… right? Uh, wait—really? Is that actually a good thing? After waking up from a nap, Asterion finds himself not only in a whole new world, but also turned into a Glavenus! But… why a Glavenus one of all things?!

It's been over 300 years since every human, witch, wizard, hag, vampire, centaur, dwarf, and every other supernatural race residing on Earth suddenly found themselves on Floor Zero of the Tower. The population now sits just under 20 million, a sharp contrast to the original 8.2 billion. As a result, anyone under the age of sixteen is required to attend the Academy of Beginnings, a place designed to prepare them for the climb and uncover the mysteries of the Tower—why the System brought them here, and what lies at its peak. But with the highest known completed Floor being Floor 34… they still have a long way to go. Determined to honor his father and mother’s deaths and become the first human to reach the top of the Tower. Deacon Surtr Hayes stands on the cusp of graduating from the Academy of Beginnings, ready to claim his Tier 1 Class and ascend the Tower with his closest friends by his side. At least, that’s what should have happened. Waking up hours before receiving his first Class and finding out that not only was his father alive, but that he wasn’t even human, derailed everything Deacon thought he knew about his future and left him with many questions, the most prevalent being, “What the hell is a Jötunn?” Schedule: 3x a week (Sun, Tues, Thurs) What to expect: [+] Weak to Strong MC [+] Multiple Weapons & Magics [+] Various Mythologies [+] Tower [+] Grimdark [+] Antihero MC [+] Jötunn

In the secretive depths of the ocean, two sea creatures, Sarit and Abyss, though quite different, stay close only to each other pursuing thirst for revenge. Though they belong to different species, their shared hatred unites them. Sarit was a siren, despising humans, while Abyss, a Cecaelia sea creature, harbors a fierce grudge against the elusive Akkorokamui tribe. As they conspire to carry out their enemies extermination, their plans take an unexpected turn. Instead of vengeance, they discover emotions they never knew existed, for the very targets they sought to destroy. Embarking on an adventurous journey into uncharted waters, Sarit and Abyss confront not only the enemies they once sought to eliminate but also the deeper truths of their world, and themselves. In a realm where betrayal lurks beneath the waves, who will survive this battle? As they unravel the mysteries of a life never seen, they must navigate the complexities of their newfound feelings and decide what truly matters. Will they embrace their emotions, or will the tides of revenge wash them away? Author Note: Read through the first 8-9 chapters before judging, it gets better.