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Indeterminacy Cycle is a novel that follows the protagonist; a student selected to participate in a series of entrance examinations held by an isolated and highly selective institution. These examinations are not academic, but instead consist of structured trials designed to test reasoning under uncertainty. Participants are placed in physical puzzles and social deduction games where information is incomplete, misleading, or intentionally falsified. Progress through the examinations depends less on knowledge or strength and more on how effectively a participant can interpret behavior, manage credibility, and adapt to constantly shifting conditions.

I got isekai'd to a death world with no system and a dead guy's boots. Great start. But I found something better than cheat skills: a crashed facility with experimental dimensional magic, an AI who's been waiting seventy years for rescue, and enough abandoned magitech to make reality my playground. Step one: Don't get killed by the dimensional horror hunting the halls. Step two: Fix the lonely AI and learn magic that works like code. Step three: Turn this frozen tomb into a base of operations. Step four: Build an empire and make the galaxy regret forgetting about this planet. I'm a software engineer. I fix broken systems. And this universe? It's about to get debugged.

Long ago, the gods created a world full of beauty & resources; ready to embrace all life that would come to inhabit it, the world started to become populated with animals, plants, and sentient beings like elves, beastmen, demons, humans, and more. At first, the races lived in harmony, and the gods granted blessings to help them grow, build, and hunt. It was wondrous, but then, conflict started to rise between the races; as time passed, darkness began to fester in their hearts: they grew envious of the others strengths, anxious & fearful at what they could do, disgusted at their appearances. Pressure continued to rise until it couldn’t any longer, and the Grand War descended upon those prepared and unprepared… The gods knew the sentient races couldn’t exist without conflict, as they themselves couldn’t, but to see how fast they have fallen into madness… Destruction erupted and came to every corner of the world, nothing was untouched by the war, millions of lives were gone in the blink of an eye for the gods, and there was no end in sight. The world that they all created together was being destroyed bit by bit by the war, but only when the races started committing unspeakable acts to each other and their own, even to the very world to gain unnatural power did they intervene. They all unified and came to an agreement. They descended to their now ruined world and forced the fighting to a close with their power and might. Once that was done, they enforced an enactment across the world; a price for all the terrible happenings during the Grand War. For all things, no matter how far away they were, they heard these words: "You had peace, you had hope, you all had a beautiful world, but now, you have BURNT it to the ground, you all have done sick, twisted deeds to gain the slightest edge in battle… We gave blessings, with the goal to help and spread growth, but you have absconded from our wishes and only used them for self-interest and murder… There was no need for such a large and bloody war to happen, yet this is what it came down to, the war wasn’t going to end before taking the entire world down with it. And so, we had no other choice but to get involved. We gods have decided upon a fitting punishment for ALL to live under… The world shall be refitted anew with resources to make up for what has been destroyed, burned, and the horrid damage to the planet will be reversed, however, since all of you created conflict with each other in a peaceful world, we thought you all would make peace with one another in a violent one. In 10 years time, monsters shall start roaming the world, spreading forth the destruction you all once wrought… Apart, you have no chance to survive the tide of change, but together, you will survive. That is all…prepare with these 10 years, and we wish you all the best of luck." The entire speech was done by the leader of the gods, the Goddess of Creation. And with a bright flash of light, they couldn't see anything, but once their vision returned, they were surprised. The gods were gone, and the world was no longer broken, scarred... but it wasn’t as beautiful as before the Grand War, this was an unspoken punishment from the gods: the world would NOT return to how it was, no matter how much they pleaded for its beauty to return. There was another untold punishment that everyone noticed imminently on reawakening, that their previous powers were now gone! All forms of power were reset to zero, and they would have to start from scratch! Without them being able to curse out the goddess for this indignation in fear of the incoming catastrophe, the races began to rebuild and train to recoup their strength. While they had made peace and worked mutually, there was always an underlying conflict, intolerance, lingering from the Grand War. As their time came to a close, things came to fruition just as the goddess said, monsters now roamed the world, spreading the havoc once sown by their own hands.

#Jujutsu Kaisen X High School DXD A ‘dying’ man seeking Enlightenment meets a Devil seeking Control… what could possibly go wrong? #Main Synopsis Rein, a human born with four Heavenly Restrictions, a miracle that should’ve killed him, and yet… here he is. Riddled with limitations that have made him live his life on hell mode, he has only one path to the perfection he craves: Enlightenment. Makima, the Control Devil herself, has reincarnated into this world, still driven to achieve what she failed to grasp in her previous life. And for the first time, she meets someone who can grant her the “happy life” she has always longed for. One seeks Enlightenment. One seeks Control. Together… they will end the world.

Fu Xian reincarnated into the cultivation world with no cheats and no backing. After three hundred years of relentless cultivation and countless hours of talisman refinement, he finally broke through and awakened a Transcendent Innate Aspect. Reincarnation Talisman. His soul could split into talismans and reincarnate as clones. Some chased battle and death. Some studied Taoism and Buddhism. Some cultivated Gu, demonic, or forbidden paths. High above the world, Fu Xian remained on his immortal island, refining talismans, trading resources, drinking tea, and watching everything in TV mode. After suffering for so long, it's fine to live leisurely and cheat your way into immortality, right? ... [Clones] > Clones are heavily influenced by MC's foundational personality but they do not have his memories > MC can exchange memories with his clones, which costs origin > There are Side Clones and Main Clones [Current Main Clones] (Random Order... in the future) > Gu Clone [Planned Main Clones] (Random Order) > Taoist Clone > Buddhist Clone > Demon Clone > Teacher Clone > Imperial Clone > Beast Clone > Fengshui Clone > Spirit Clone > Fairy Clone

Revenge was nothing more than what he had initially wanted. Time had passed, and he no longer saw the evil within the world as he once did, but rather the good. The family members he had regained, love itself, friendships... Noah only wanted to protect what was his. His home, the people within Hogwarts. The rest of the world could burn to ashes in his eyes. All he wanted was to never lose again what he had lost once before. ----- [What NOT to Expect: -Edgy, Vangeful, "I am alone" type MC -MC is hiding his power -MC is acting stupid just for the plot. [What to Expect: -MC loves his adoptive parents -MC cares about everyone around him, even if he does not know them -An MC that actually tries to learn things, does study and tries to get stronger -MC always plans ahead -Two love interest(NEVER more than two)]

In a world where power is ranked from F to SSR, he was branded a failure. In a universe where cultivation is forgotten, he became its last heir. Two hundred years after the Great Awakening filled Earth with cosmic energy, society runs on a simple, brutal logic: your Talent Tier is your destiny. Robert Walton, a seventeen-year-old with an F-Tier "Null" rating, isn't just at the bottom he's a societal ghost, the ultimate punching bag for bullies and a disgrace to his struggling family in the fortified slums of Nova-7. His life is a constant cycle of humiliation, until a shard of obsidian crystal from a lost reality crashes into his scrapyard. It doesn't contain power. It contains a teacher. Lin Zhong, an ancient guardian spirit from the primordial era of cultivation, awakens within him. While the elites of Nova-7 flaunt their flashy SS-ranked ice and time manipulation or SSS-tier martial flames, Robert is taught a forgotten truth: their "powers" are cheap copies. He is offered the original blueprint of reality itself. His "Null" status isn't a weakness, it's the perfect blank slate to learn the foundational laws of existence: density, gravity, silence, and chaos. Awakening as a Primordial Nexus, Robert embarks on a path no one else can walk: he can comprehend, and ultimately cultivate, all paths. While a fire mage learns to cast a spell, Robert learns the Law of Combustion. While a kinetic brawler enhances his strength, Robert masters the Law of Density. He doesn't choose a class he reverse-engineers reality itself, building his power from the cosmic ground up. Guided by his sarcastic spectral master and aided by a stone-jawed lynx with a secret royal bloodline and a shrinking habit, Robert must walk two worlds. By day, he navigates the treacherous hierarchy of a fortress city under siege from mutant beasts, hiding his growing power. By night, he cultivates, learning to harvest energy from trash and storms, turning society's waste into the building blocks of a legend. His goals are simple, yet monumental: protect his family, shut up every bully who ever looked down on him, and pass the Unified Academy Entrance Exam to win a better life. But to do that, he’ll have to stand beside and eventually against the dazzling prodigies of his generation: the elegant ice-wielding heiress, the fiery martial artist, the charismatic golden boy, and the lightning-fast troublemaker who sees a kindred spirit in Robert's quiet defiance. As Robert unravels the true, decaying nature of his world and the dark mysteries lurking beyond the city walls, one thing becomes clear: the system that labeled him trash is about to get a glitch it can't debug. He was told he had no talent. He's about to show them he doesn't need one.

Reborn as Prince Heixinggen of the Hohenzollern family's Swabian branch, he saw the coming storm of European turmoil and decided that Europe was no longer worth staying in. In East Africa, he seized land, organized immigration and development, laid the foundation through agriculture, and step by step, leveraged crises to achieve industrialization. Thank you for the support, friends. If you want to read more chapters in advance, go to my Patreon. Read 40 Chapters In Advance: patreon.com/Canserbero10

Olivia Henderson, a 55-year-old overweight otaku bitch and retired military commander, only wanted to buy groceries.Instead, she ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time and somehow survives what should’ve killed her. But survival has a price. When olivia wakes in an endless cosmic expanse, mocked by gods and hurled into a new timeline, she learns her “escape” wasn’t luck it was an invitation. Armed with nothing but her wits, historical knowledge, new bloodline and old military instincts, olivia must navigate a world that makes no sense… and uncover why the universe decided she was worth saving and what it expects her to become. ___________________________________ WARNING WARNING ⚠️⚠️⚠️ ⚠️ Content Warning: Throughout this story, there are scenes involving strong language, physical and emotional abuse, sexual situations, violence, and other mature or disturbing themes. Please read with discretion. Enjoy the story.

Lucas Andrade lived a life built on caution. An orphan raised with discipline and sacrifice, he became an economist not to chase power, but to avoid instability. Working quietly at a credit cooperative in Brazil, he believed control meant safety — until one night changed everything. After a near-fatal accident, Lucas wakes up to something impossible: a system that speaks only to him. Not a machine. Not a voice of madness. A presence with purpose. It offers no comfort, no illusions — only a clear objective: build the most powerful and respected financial institution the world has ever seen. The system is not cruel, but it is uncompromising. It rewards action, punishes stagnation, and has no patience for fear or hesitation. Lucas is given freedom to choose how he proceeds, but not the option to walk away. As he takes his first steps toward founding a new kind of bank, every decision begins to shape not only his future, but the balance of power itself. Markets react. People watch. Forces move in the shadows. What starts as an opportunity becomes a test of character, ambition, and restraint — and Lucas must discover whether he is building a better system… or becoming part of one far greater than himself.

At first glance, this seems to be a story about a basketball player striving for the pinnacle of his career and invincibility. However, in reality, Ming You seeks victory not through traditional training and skill development, but through strategies, intrigues, injuries, violence, and murder. Ming You is willing to employ any means necessary to achieve his goal — becoming invincible and a talent in his field, namely basketball. In addition to the brutality required to secure victories, Ming You must contend not only with basketball teams but also with managers seeking maximum profit, as well as investigators and detectives, since murders cannot simply be ignored as Ming You would prefer.

Beyond gods. Beyond death. Beyond the system itself. Damian was a failed magician performing to empty seats, until a mysterious old woman claiming to be God shot him in the head. He wakes up in a fog-choked Victorian city and becomes a detective, using his skills in misdirection to solve cases. The work is straightforward, until witnesses report impossible things, victims walk away from their own murders, and a strange mark appears on Damian's palm. They call it a Brand. A supernatural mark that grants power as you descend from 10th Degree toward Zero. As Damian solves cases and descends through the Degrees, each mystery brings him closer to understanding this world and closer to questions no one seems willing to answer. What happens at Zero Degree? Why do the gods watch so carefully? And what lies in the place everyone refuses to talk about? Negative Zero.

An Imperial Scholar by day. An assassin by night. The World of Cultivation has changed. Elemental Mancers. Flux Mancers. Spirit Mancers. Soul Mancers. Raining down fire and splitting oceans. Destroying mountains with a single stomp and calming skies with a glance. Controlling the tides of Karma, while wielding the souls of others like a puppeteer tugging on the Lines of Fate. The most mysterious of them all were Spirit Mancers, a truth that Theron was more than intimately familiar with. Due to one's Tribulation, his life was turned upside down. His family, his rage, his somber sadness becoming nothing more than Bad Karma's fuel for a madman. He was once a gentle young man, a non-combative Water Mancer who wanted nothing more than to read his novels to the sound of the rain and one day become an Imperial Scholar. But now... Everything had changed. He donned a cloak in the silent night as the clouds above gathered. Pulling its hood over his chilling blue eyes, he stalked off into the darkness. The first droplets fell. He would become the nightmare of his enemies, the blade hidden in the shadows of Heaven's tears. The River of the Night.

The ignorant are lost in the world, thus they die meaningless deaths. Purpose is not found, it is given. The lord shall grant you a just purpose.

Survival is a calculation. Death is just a mechanical failure. Transmigrated into the nightmare of Terror Infinity, Lin Fan doesn't have a magical bloodline or a god-tier system. What he has is the mind of a world-class Engineer and the makings of The Legendary Mechanic burned into his memory. In a world where others beg the 'God' for power, Lin Fan builds his own. Why spend thousands of Reward Points on a weapon when you can scavenge the scrap of a movie world to build a Gauss Sniper? Why rely on a team when you can manufacture a drone army? Using every loophole in the God Dimension's logic and every resource at his disposal, Lin Fan is determined to replicate the path of the Great Mechanic-Black Star The terror is infinite. But so are the possibilities of technology. [A/N]: 2 Chapters Daily [Terror Infinity x The Legendary Mechanic inspiration]

Welcome to the universe of Spectre. Jace comes of age and joins the army like all others his age. In a militaristic society that is normal. But his high level of intelligence and hard work quickly make him invaluable. So invaluable that he becomes a center of conflicts as the galactic empires rise and fall, revolutions occur, and invaders arrive. Join Jace as he goes from an orphan from the slums to becoming Spectre. As he navigates his military life he also navigates passing relationships and long term... 'contracts'. The novel contains depictions of torture, bloodshed, and overall brutality. Sexual content is heavily suggested and will be depicted as well, but it will not be the focus of the novel. The book cover was generated using Adobe's AI art generation system.

Humanity is about to be helped. Auggie is the one who has to decide what that costs. Taken without warning by an alien civilization preparing to intervene on Earth, Auggie learns that survival is easy to optimize—and much harder to make ethical. As she advises forces far more powerful than humanity, she discovers that the most dangerous thing to remove from a system isn’t chaos. It’s dignity. A slow-burn science fiction serial about consent, control, and what it really means to save a world.

Kain, a young teenager, accidentally lost in a Dungeon and awakened a special system. A system that allows him to continuously return to level 0, using his level to add and increase his skill points. From there, Kain began his journey to find the truth of this world, and when he took off that mask, what he saw was...

I'm Peter Parker but not Spider-Man? My best friend Gwen Stacey is Spider-Woman? I turned myself into a mutant lizard and became a paraplegic? I remember my past life? I have a template system with a single template? I have a random technology system? I'm a genius in both in my current life and my past life? Okay, guess it's time to shine. Read ahead on P.A.T.R.E.O.N patreon.com/Danzoslayer517

I am the only son of the Dukes of Connaught and Strathearn, and the grandson of Her Majesty Queen Victoria of the British Empire. Now, in the name and honor of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, I swear upon my life to witness and safeguard the rise of this land — to unite all the people of Australia and New Zealand under one new name, and to watch our destiny unfold together. Long live Australasia! A tale of royal legacy, ambition, and the birth of a new empire at the edge of the world. Australasia novel, historical fiction, British Empire story, Queen Victoria descendant, royal alternate history, Australia rise, New Zealand union, time of empires, colonial historical drama, House of Saxe Coburg Gotha, royal family saga, Australasia unification, Victorian era story, alternate history novel, British royalty fiction, imperial expansion novel