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House Of Puppets

Arthur Moreau disappeared during a live broadcast. No warning. No transition. No last words. One moment he was finishing a world event in front of fifty thousand viewers. The next, he was gone — and what arrived somewhere else was Gepetto: his character, his creation, the identity he had spent years building inside a game that no longer contained him. The world that received him has existed through dozens of eras. Civilizations rose and collapsed long before humanity had a word for either. What walks its roads now — human and elf and dragon and beast-kind and peoples whose names don't translate — are the living residue of everything that already happened here. The gods who shaped the early eras did not all survive them. The world doesn't advertise how much of it is arrangement of ruins. Elysion is a Republic in the way that a cracked foundation is still a building. Beneath the gas lamps and the elevated rails, the actual structure is simpler: those with enough weight act as though permission doesn't apply to them. The working class breathes chemical residue and calls it employment. There is no king. There are only consequences. The Church of the Solar God holds it together, which is not a metaphor. The Solar God is not a symbol. He walks. He acts. He has reasons of his own. Nine others arrived the way Gepetto arrived — carrying what they built inside the game, now operating in a world where what they touch does not reset. They are not heroes. They are ten people who understood a system well enough to reach its limits, placed inside a reality where the limits are elsewhere and the other Players have their own intentions. Gepetto does not try to fight it. He studies it. While others assert themselves through force or faith or the assumption that visibility equals strength, he builds something quieter. A structure: distributed, patient, invisible until it is not. The story that begins with one man in one city does not stay there. The skills are real now. The strings are real. And what they touch does not reset. Because the puppeteer pulls the strings. But in a world this old, someone is always watching. AUTHOR'S NOTE: House of Puppets is not a power fantasy. It's slow by design — the kind that accumulates, not the kind that stalls. The story starts small and expands aggressively. The pacing shifts across volumes. It will surprise you in directions you didn't see coming. Tonal influences: Lord of Mysteries, Reverend Insanity, the Soulsborne tradition, Dostoevsky. Not references — register. I'm a reader who started this by studying what great work does and trying to do that. The story is strange and volatile partly because of that, and I think that's also why some of it works. The ambition is real. The reading will tell you if it got there. [This work is currently on hiatus. I'm not sure when I'll be back, but I haven't abandoned it (at least not forever!). I promise to come back and continue the story later on.]
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Absolute Beast Dominion

In a world ravaged and ruled by magical beasts, where strength speaks for everything, and the weak are killed at the whims of the strong. Humans, Elves, Demons and all other intelligent species are forced to live inside walled cities to survive. And in the front lines are Beast Masters. With their taming talent, they act as guardians for their people. Defending against city-spanning beasts, then turning the same beasts into allies, capturing new habitable lands, and fighting other races. In this new world, new laws have been formed that need to be followed lest they risk annihilation. ====== Leo opens his eyes to find himself lying over the puddle of his own blood, and the life-changing awakening ceremony awaits him tomorrow. And his awakening was a success. But luck had it, he awakened with a common soul who are weakest of the weak. He made peace with himself, thinking he was destined to live a mediocre life. But promised that he would try his best to gain strength and crawl out of the hole even if he had to bleed. But everything changed when he received a gift from a mysterious entity. [Primordial Beast Dominion System] Where everyone is beating their head to make their beast grow and unlock their potential, Leo uses the system to break his limiter and grow fast and surprisingly strong. With dual talent and a broken system, he embarks on the journey to rise to the top of the food chain. As the system's name suggests, he will not stop until he dominates the whole world. [18+ Explicit content warning] [18+ Voilence] Additional Tags: #kingdombuilding #levelup #noharem #R18 #Beasttaming #strongfemalelead #singlefemalelead #elves #demons #dragons #Powerfulcouples #Yandere [MC and FL are not blood-related! Damn it!] --- Extra chapters for Super Gifts --- Join Discord! https://discord.gg/xsGQygG9v7 --- People who don't like reading smut may skip the R18 chapters. You'll not miss any critical plot of the story. R18 is not Slight R18; Slight R18 may contain some piece of information. --- The book is being edited, so if you notice a sudden shift in writing style, please bear with it. Editor: HaoShu [Discord: hao_shu]
NoendHorizon · 4.1m Views