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A soldier wakes up with no memories—but his body remembers war. In a future where entire planets are consumed by a deadly outbreak, Akane is thrown into battle with nothing but instinct and a mysterious power called Overclocking. As he fights alongside the only person who knows his past, he begins uncovering a truth that was meant to stay buried. Because some soldiers aren’t just part of the war… They are the reason it exists. he forgets his past, but his body never forgot how to kill.

​"Faith is a cage. Logic is the key. Strength is the only truth." ​In the year 280 AD, the Kingdom of Devon is governed by two things: the absolute authority of the Church and the undeniable power of the "Divine Plan." To question either is not just treason—it is a death sentence. ​Into this world of rigid morality comes Eizen Devon, the third prince. Possessing a hauntingly sharp beauty and emerald eyes that see far too much, Eizen is an anomaly. While the world bows to unseen gods, Eizen deconstructs them with ruthless philosophy. He views emotions as chains, morality as a tool for the weak, and human nature as a predictable script to be manipulated. ​ No "power of friendship" or moral hesitation. Eizen is a true pragmatist who pursues strength and logic with absolute efficiency. Eizen is not bound by ego, reputation, emotion, or moral posturing. He understands a fundamental truth most people never grasp, the world does not reward goodness or righteousness. It rewards those who understand its rules and act accordingly. ​

For years, Akar knew only the cage, the whip, and the blood-soaked sand of the arena. He thought freedom meant merely surviving the next fight. He was dead wrong. Raised as livestock in a brutal gladiatorial pit, Akar is not a monster by birth, but a human bearing a terrifying curse. Fueled by pure rage and an unnatural regeneration that violently refuses to let him die, he is a weapon forged by cruelty. He knows nothing of the world beyond his iron bars. When the chance to break his chains finally arrives, he doesn't just escape—he slaughters his way out into the dark, unforgiving forest. But the world outside is vastly more dangerous than the arena he left behind. Thrust into a reality he doesn't understand, Akar is relentlessly hunted by his vengeful former masters. He is no hero, and he has no grand destiny. He is simply a cursed man carving his path through a world that wants him broken. The world tried to make him a monster. Now, it will hear his Black Song. What to Expect: - Grimdark & Brutal Action: Visceral, bloody, and realistic combat where every mistake costs flesh. - Cursed MC: A human protagonist burdened by a violent, unnatural regeneration, learning how the real world works. - No Plot Armor: Actions have permanent, devastating consequences. - Survival & Hunt: A raw, desperate struggle to stay free against overwhelming odds. - Slow-burn Worldbuilding: Uncovering a dark, unforgiving world through the eyes of someone who grew up in a cage.

In a world where the chosen bear Divine Scars glowing outlines channeling infinite power leaked by Singular Beings humans forge abilities from that endless divine energy. One outline: Lightlinger. Two: Lightrozer. Their strength is bound to one or two domains, dictated by which Divine's energy flows through their scar. However, some only have an outline, with no scar. But the world is never fair. Those not chosen, driven by envy, turn to a darker path. They become Darkens killing and absorbing finite souls through cursed artifacts called Ghost Vaults. Unlike the limited Lights, Darkens craft unpredictable, often fatal abilities from stolen life essence. Souls are finite, and the hunt never ends. The vastness of existence holds boredom in some corners… and alongside it, curiosity guiding everything. Age of Layers dives into the hearts of broken souls where guilt never fades, promises warp lives, and fragile bonds are the only defiance against an indifferent cosmos. It asks one question: What are humans? What to expect : Multiple shifting POVs and perspectives (the story moves fluidly between characters in a mosaic style) Slow-burn psychological dark fantasy focused on human nature, lies, trauma, and coping mechanisms Complex, flawed characters with deep inner contradictions and realistic emotional struggles Themes of indifference, rewritten reality, and “what are humans?” under pressure Non-linear mosaic storytelling with frequent scene shifts, flashbacks, and quiet horror Gradual escalation from intimate family drama and personal fractures to larger cosmic events No traditional heroes or fast power fantasy — the real conflict is internal and systemic Discord: https://discord.gg/3jUR673eXW

[A Multi-POV epic fantasy adventure featuring a fully rendered artwork in every chapter! Updates every Friday] “We will find our siblings and we will save them. No matter what anyone says, they are alive,” Allen says, holding Jenna’s palms in a deathly tight grip, “You cannot lose hope. I beg of you.” After a hiking trip goes terribly wrong, and an ancient ritual causes the earth to open up beneath their feet, Allen, Jenna, Ana and Blake awaken to find themselves bloodied, bruised and torn apart in a world far too different from their own. Allen and Jenna enter a world where dinosaur-like creatures are real and a deathly fog envelops the region, threatening to put all who breathe it in for too long into a coma that can never be undone. Forcefully dragged into the sharp politics of the underground city of Uykuda upon arrival, the two must navigate their forced new roles while juggling the most important task of all—finding their lost siblings and going home. Meanwhile, Ana and Blake crash land into a forest teeming with daemons willing to eat anything or anyone to survive. Hindered by Blake’s broken arm, the two are forced to team up with a woman known as the Reaper in the hopes of being lead to a healer before Blake’s injury can get them killed… that is, if the Reaper, the kin-eaters or the monstrous beasts hidden deep within the caves don’t kill them first… And finally, on the other side of the world lives the clueless prince who caused this whole mess, living a life of bliss ignorance until the consequences of his actions finally catch up to him and suddenly that life of bliss has an end date that’s coming up fast. Can Allen and Jenna escape their ties to find their lost siblings? Can Ana and Blake survive long enough for that to happen? Can they find the clueless prince to reserve the damage he’s done before his timer runs out? You’ll have to read to find out…

its a story of villain who's trying to understand his existence. but his existence was nothing but suffering. who just trying to survive. this novel ain't not recommend from child and people who can't handle heavy words this novel was not completely h. its more like sad story about war and deaths. and someone failure. its just made for fun.

Amber died once. At least… that's what the world believes. Now living under the name Wolfe, she begins again as a rookie trainer in Johto while hiding a dangerous secret: she is an undercover operative working against the very criminal organization that nearly destroyed her life. But starting over isn't as simple as taking a new name. Every battle tests her control. Every friendship threatens her cover. Every mission drags her closer to the past she tried to escape. As Wolfe struggles to rebuild herself, she begins to learn a painful truth: Survival is easy. Living is harder. And when the war she thought she escaped begins closing in again, she must decide whether she is still Amber… Or if Wolfe is the person she was always meant to become. A dark character-driven journey about identity, survival, loyalty, and what it means to choose who you become.

Middle-aged, broke, and a constant disappointment to his parents, Elliot Myers hits rock bottom—stealing his dying aunt’s cancer treatment money and ending up alone, miserable, and dying on the sidewalk. But when he opens his eyes… he’s not on Earth anymore. He’s reborn in a brutal fantasy world of warriors, monsters, and holy magic. Now, Elliot must walk the path of a warrior and redemption, hunted by a shadowy group known as the Dark Inventors, who will stop at nothing to destroy him. Can Elliot overcome his past, take control of his hidden inventor talent, and rise to become a world-class warrior? Or is he doomed to die sad, broke, and alone… all over again? READ NOW

Existence is not as sturdy as it seems. Alexander Ackrom lives within the bottom rung of society, yet he learns this first hand when a dishelved man in a suit tears the fabric of reality apart like paper. In the same city, Simon Setal accepts a new job. He doesn't know what it is or what he'll do. Nevertheless, he's lured to it by the promise of gaining the power to help his fellow man.

"Power is not a measure of energy. It is a measure of how much of the universe you are dragging behind you." Eila used to be a god. Now, he is just a rotting corpse with a sword. He was the Kingdom's absolute shield. But when the elites murdered his sister to leash him to their throne, Eila didn't kneel. He shattered the timeline and nearly erased their empire from reality. The cost of his revenge was absolute. Stripped of his mana and rotting from a cosmic affliction known as Paradox Debt, Eila has been discarded into the mud of a sterile, war-torn world. He is a walking casualty, thrown into the meat grinder of the Vanguard's trenches. But a broken god is still a god. Armed with nothing but a suicidal battle IQ and a desperate rebellion at his back, Eila is going to dismantle the empire piece by bloody piece. He doesn't need magic to butcher his enemies; he just needs to survive long enough for his true power to return. However, as Eila bleeds for every inch of ground, his mind is beginning to fracture alongside the timeline. And the unseen hands that wind the clock of the universe are starting to notice the broken gears... The Era of Mana is dead. This is The Age of Anomalies. ● WHAT TO EXPECT: This is a Grimdark Psychological Fantasy heavily focused on brutal warfare, political fallout, deep trauma, psychological extremes, and betrayal, all woven together with hard progression elements. MC will bleed for every victory. Upload Schedule: 1 Chapter Daily. Read This If You Love:    •  Mind-Bending Lore: A complex magic system where power is tied to cosmic debts, timeline glitches, and physical horror.    •  Zero Plot Armor: Unapologetic Grimdark action where bones break, allies die, and choices have permanent, agonizing consequences.    •  The Power-band Progression: Watch a fallen, depowered god fight through the mud and blood with nothing but pure battle IQ to claw his magic back.

Talent and change, those two define humanity. But if you lack neither innate talent nor do you possess the ability to change, what are you? As a freshman at Laxus Flare Academy, Elliot Elanderin is surrounded by geniuses and talents you couldn’t find anywhere else. Compared to them, or anyone really, Elliot is pathetically ordinary, someone without a defining skill, role, or value. One day, after battling with his inner thoughts once more, he hears a sound that felt outside of this world. That sound leads him to a girl. A girl who embodies everything he wasn’t. Elliot begins to learn about not her talent, not her looks, but her. And along the way, she learns about him as well. As that friendship flourishes, he begins to learn more about the friends he was already surrounded by. New relations develop, both platonic and romantic. New struggles are revealed, both internal and external. With these new conflicts, Elliot’s life grows increasingly chaotic. After each one, more questions arise. Fortunately, he only had to answer one. Who do I want to become? ------------------------------------------------- What to expect: -Character Driven Drama - Internal monologues - Heavily psychological and philosophical narrative -Slow burn connections -A coming of age story set in New York More tags: Psychological, philosophical, daily life, school life, drama (This story is already posted on Tapas, Scribblehub, and Royal road by me. In the description of them my ownership is mentioned)

Fusion is a science-fantasy saga set on a living world shaped by three suns—Solara, Virel, and Nexon—whose energies govern will, identity, and transformation. At its center is Allium Bell, a being created to maintain balance between these forces. Designed as a function rather than a person, Allium begins the story detached, precise, and unsure what it means to choose. As disturbances spread across settlements—emotional flattening, identity erosion, and subtle behavioral harmony—Allium and a small group of allies investigate what initially appears to be environmental instability. What they uncover is not a single enemy, but a growing manipulation of identity itself. As ancient entities exploit the world’s systems and the power of the tri-suns, the cost of balance becomes increasingly personal. Rose, a seraphim seeking warmth and self-definition; Cassidy Firewell, a human forger shaped by loss and humor; Weaver, a creator haunted by the limits of design; and others are drawn into conflicts where force alone cannot solve what is breaking. Fusion is a slow-burn narrative that prioritizes atmosphere, character psychology, and consequence over spectacle. Threats emerge gradually—through silence, behavior, and implication—before violence ever arrives. Power is never free, growth is never clean, and victories carry lasting cost. The series explores themes of identity vs. function, choice vs. design, and the danger of systems that value balance without humanity, building toward escalating conflicts that reshape both the world and those sworn to protect it.

Some doors, once opened, cannot be closed again. Vikram Singh spent twenty years serving his country across four conflict zones, earning respect and recognition in every corner of the world. All he ever wanted in return was simple — to come home. On the evening of his retirement, he finally does. By midnight, home is ash and rubble. Everything he fought to protect, everything he lived for — destroyed in a single act of devastating precision by an enemy he cannot name, wielding resources that should not exist in any ordinary world. What follows is not a story about justice. It is a story about what grief does to people who refuse to let it make them weak. His eldest daughter Kavya — a national taekwondo athlete who once carried her family's strength as naturally as breathing — finds herself standing in the ruins of everything she has ever known. Beside her is Karan, her closest friend and a national MMA athlete, who has quietly decided that he will burn the world down before he lets it burn her. Together they begin pulling at a thread that leads somewhere enormous, somewhere dark, somewhere that no amount of athletic training could have ever prepared them for. Because there is a difference between fighting to win and fighting to survive. Between a competition and a war. Between an opponent and an enemy. As Kavya and Karan descend deeper into a world operating entirely in shadows — guided by fractured information, forged by violence, and tested by losses that don't stop coming — they begin to understand that whoever destroyed their family did not act on impulse. This was deliberate. Precise. Personal. And it goes back much further than one evening in Ranchi. Some wars never officially end. They simply go quiet — and wait.

In a world that has forgotten its own creation, the cycle begins again. Long before memory, the universe was shaped by fragments of unimaginable power—stones that carried will, purpose, and consequence. In the modern city of Sagar, three ordinary students begin to feel the echo of those fragments awakening within them. Vaibhav, burdened by a crystal that remembers countless deaths. Shlokh, whose voice resonates with balance and authority. Shourya, who glimpses futures he pretends not to notice. As exams end and winter approaches, reality begins to fracture—memories blur, dreams bleed into waking life, and an unfamiliar presence steps closer from the shadows. This is not a story of heroes chosen by fate. It is the story of a cycle that never stopped… And of what happens when creation begins to remember itself.

THE ASCENDED GAMBIT A decade ago, Adrian Cross was a street rat who watched the love of his life fall down a flight of stairs. Now, he is the Crown Alpha of Aurelion, forced into a televised marriage trial to save his throne. But the first stop on his royal tour is the Gilded Zest, the most exclusive restaurant in the Golden Sector. The owner is Elliot Dane, the boy who survived the fall and transformed into a charismatic, millionaire mogul with a dangerous biological secret. When a nine-year-old eco-protestor with the King's obsidian eyes drops from the rafters, the secret is out. The Crown demands an heir. The Omega demands his freedom. And in a world where biology is destiny, the rules of engagement just changed.

Divine concepts creep into the mortal realm as physical manifestations. They feel like punishment—like a joke written by giggling gods who had too much of everything. Six-year-old Xīng Hé wakes one morning marked with three. She's drafted. Tested. Sorted into a system that uses children as weapons and calls it divine evolution. On her first mission, twenty-seven of her teammates die. She survives. She still doesn't know why. The beings who rule this world are Transcendents—ancient, reality-shaping, long since past caring what it costs to be human. And now they're fighting over her. One wants her as a disciple. Another wants her as a pawn. A third wants her dead. She doesn't know what makes her valuable. But she's starting to understand. In this world, your power is you. The thing you loved most as a child. The wound you carry. The question you've been asking your whole life without knowing it. Most people get one truth about themselves, made manifest. Xīng Hé got three. The only way out is up. She's going to climb to the top. The only question is what she'll become when she gets there The Origin — a philosophical tragedy disguised as cultivation fiction. For readers who want their power systems to cost everything.

No ritual. No warning. No escape. Now there are devils living within his soul— one commenting on his choices, offering terrible advice, and the other occasionally trying to take the wheel. Hunters want him dead. Demons want him useful. And Drex just wants five minutes of peace without voices in his head. Unfortunately, the devil has other plans. Dragged into a war of contracts, devils and increasingly questionable life decisions, Drex must survive a world where every power-up comes with a catch, every ally is suspicious, and his own body may or may not betray him at the worst possible moment. In a world where flesh breaks, shadows think, and possession is a management problem, Drex learns one painful truth: Being possessed isn’t the worst part. Sharing control is. ~~~~~ That's right. Peak fiction right here... Read my Shit.

#WSA2026 Light?It was always something we depended on to see within the world but that has changed. What is one supposed to do when the world is engulfed by darkness? Giving us no choice but to adapt to the world we once knew. People turn into monsters, light ceases to exist, and yet I'm left here with no idea on how to move forward. I'll never forget the woman who gave me that direction to follow. A woman with beautiful long white hair, shining brightly under the moon is all I can remember. "Rise above them all. Become the strongest and you'll never have to fear the dark." her voice echoes. I'll become the strongest... If that's what it takes to survive this hell. cover by: DarkZ2 join the server https://discord.gg/KSRRq597Hp

Mostly a mix of fluff and drama, this is a story about Ruby's path to the fulfillment of her biggest dream - performing in the Tokyo Dome -, Kana accepting that she doesn't depend on others to be great, Akane learning to truly understand others, as well as, more importantly, herself, and Aqua's journey to achieve the one thing he never had in the decades he wandered around this earth aimlessly: Self Love. This work may contain content that might be disturbing for some individuals. This will be the only content warning.

The realm is bleeding, caught in the perpetual meat grinder of four sovereign empires locked in total war. Deception, plundering, and endless slaughter are the daily realities, all boiling down to a single, primal law: kill or be killed. The death toll stopped mattering centuries ago; today, the blood spilled is simply the price of their sole obsession,the absolute destruction of their enemies. Each faction is driven by its own dark ideology. The Human Empire believes the only way to end the chaos is through complete conquest and the absolute subjugation of the realm. High in their pristine lands, the Elves use devastating magic to "purify" the world, viewing the other three races as a rotting plague infecting their sacred lands. The highly intelligent Dwarves run the realm's war engine as hyper-industrialists, building terrifying siege engines for profit and mechanical superiority. Meanwhile, the Greenskin Horde:a terrifying alliance of swarming Goblins and massive, tree-splintering Orcs fights a bitter, desperate war of survival and revenge. Yet, paradoxically, a twenty-kilometer scar of land between their borders remains untouched. Known as No Man's Land, it is the only safe haven in the world, a fragile, sacred truce forged by the First Rulers back in Age 0. It stands today as an ironclad monument to the collective cries of the countless innocents who burned in the ancient crossfire, a rule honored by even the most ruthless generals. In a world consumed by bloodshed, the true battle isn't just for survival it's to see who will be left standing when the ashes finally settle.