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ERROR 404: Soul Not Found

XuxaQue
Five best friends. One fatal crash. No respawns. When a horrific bus accident ends their lives, five high school gamers expect an ending. Instead, they wake up in the Great Jing Empire—a world of silver needles, poisoned wine, and ancient blood feuds. They aren't heroes—they "split" into the five most powerful (and opposing) factions of an Empire. * **The Crown Prince (Li Feng)** must rule a court of vipers. * **The "God of Death" General (Big Cat)** must lead a bloody slaughter. * **The Calculated Marquis (Su Cheng)** must treat lives like variables. * **The Shadow Merchant (Han Jue)** must trade in lethal secrets. * **The Reluctant Assassin (Lin Kai)** must kill to survive. Armed only with pro-gamer logic and the cold instincts of a team that never loses, they must dismantle a centuries-old conspiracy before the "memory rot" turns them into the very monsters they are playing. To survive the Empire, they must kill the boys they used to be. "This story is also being published on Royal Road and Letterlux by [XuxaQue]."
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The Extra: Subject 082

Rio only wanted to see how the story ended. Instead, he woke up inside it. Not as the protagonist, not even as a supporting character—but as someone who barely existed in the narrative. An extra with no importance, no future, and no place in the story’s direction. At least, that’s how it was supposed to be. Now in the body of Rio Valen, a disgraced noble exiled from his own house, he finds himself in a region the original story barely touched—one driven as much by advanced technology as it is by arcane power. And buried beneath it, something far worse. The facility he wakes up in shouldn’t exist. The experiments conducted there shouldn’t have succeeded. And whatever was placed inside him was never meant to survive. As fragments of memory return—both his own and the life he inherited—Rio begins to understand the situation he’s in. The world still follows its original course. The key figures are still moving toward the same future. But his existence doesn’t fit anywhere within it. Even so, people begin to notice him. Not because of who he is—but because of something they can’t quite explain. A presence. A flaw. Or something far more dangerous. Some approach out of curiosity. Others, for reasons he doesn’t understand. And a few, simply because staying away isn’t an option. With no role to follow and no clear path ahead, Rio is left with a simple choice: Stay invisible and survive. Or step into a story that was never meant to include him. Because in a world that already has its main character— an extra that shouldn’t exist might be the only thing that can change it. **The cover used is temperoray, I hold no credits towards the art**
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