Fantasy Web Novels

Fantasy web novels with public chapters on NovelCult.

The Infinite Has Edges

The first bell broke before anyone could ring it. Then someone started moving a mountain. Not a particularly promising beginning for the people living beneath it. High above an ancient city, under an ocean suspended in the sky, Aevran Sol is having a disagreement with an old acquaintance named Rhovel. Aevran would prefer that the city remain standing. Rhovel would prefer to see what happens if it does not. They have known each other for a very long time, and neither is particularly inclined to concede an argument. Unfortunately, this disagreement involves rather more than words. There will be extraordinary magic, weapons with histories older than kingdoms, and the occasional demonstration of why being immensely powerful does not mean being right. Or invincible. But this is not only a story about someone who can stand against impossible things. Long before the battles, before the centuries of knowledge, before Aevran became someone capable of arguing with beings that treat mountains as interesting objects, there was a boy with a family, a curious mind, and rather more questions than his parents probably appreciated. And that part of his life matters just as much. The Infinite Has Edges follows different periods of one extraordinary life through a vast world of magic, ancient mysteries, dangerous creatures, remarkable peoples, friendships, mistakes, discoveries, and consequences that do not conveniently disappear when the fighting ends. There will be adventure. There will be battles. There will be quieter moments worth remembering. And there will be questions. Quite a few questions, actually. After all, even the infinite must have its limits. Finding them might be the easy part. Welcome to the story. Loreforged

Loreforged · Fantasy · 2 ch

A Tale of Seven Villains and a Jerboa

Tags #Mature #Villain-centered dark epic fantasy #High-fantasy #Secondary-world-fantasy #Rival Kingdoms #Supernatural #Bromance #Angst #Found-family #Action* * * On his way home to the Empire of Arkosia, Vermon, son of Uthus, causes trouble in the central mountains of the Empamalangon Kingdom when he burns an ancient temple and enslaves a sick young man discovered hiding within its secret underground chamber after a fierce confrontation between them. As time passes, Vermon realises that Orb, his new slave, is no ordinary man. Behind his frail appearance lies an astonishingly blood-stained history and secrets far more dangerous than Vermon could have imagined. Their meeting was destined to unearth a past Vermon had forgotten entirely and set in motion a chain of events that would draw him together with five other villains, all bound by the same desperate longing: to have a family. * *

Lazarus · Fantasy · 7 ch

Memory of Heaven

Love is not illegal in this universe. It is simply not allowed to exist. When an Overseer of Reality falls in love with a girl meant to die, causality begins to fracture—and the universe starts preparing to erase them both. *** In a universe governed by function, efficiency, and cosmic law, love is an anomaly no system can quantify. Fitran is an Overseer of Reality—an executor of balance tasked with maintaining causality across worlds. He was never meant to choose, hesitate, or care. Rinoa is a fractured soul, rewritten across eras and timelines, engineered to become a necessary martyr—a sacrifice required to keep reality stable. Together, they are a contradiction. Every time they hold hands, probability falters. Every time they separate, the universe stabilizes. As ancient machine gods awaken, angels descend to enforce order, and the Void turns its attention toward Earth, one truth becomes unavoidable: The universe does not fear war. It does not fear extinction. It fears a love that breaks meaning itself. This is not a story about saving the world. It is a story about choosing love in a reality that would rather collapse than allow it.

MuhammadFitransyah · Fantasy · 11 ch

The Veil Saga Book 1 Ill Destroy Hell For You

Hawk Helman has been exiled to the Mortal Realm to pay for his crimes he committed as the worst demon to ever exist, the Blood King. After a thousand years of loneliness and virtual isolation, Hawk meets Hero Grace, a new hire at Hawk's job, and his entire life, not to mention his whole universe, is changed with just one simple touch.

CE Washburn · Yaoi · 126 ch

The Life of Modret

The tool, Maz, spends his days as a normal kid in the Underworld until, one day, he meets a mysterious person and comes to realize that he's connected to a much larger social and political scheme, built on warring factions, forgotten truths, and conspiracies hidden within the shadows. And, throughout it all, the tool, Maz, must walk the blurry line between fact and fiction, love and hatred, virtue and villany, if there was ever a line at all. Above all else, Maz must navigate the line between his self and his purpose as a tool. ************************************************* You can also read on Novellek or Royal Road My progress on Novellek is slower but I am trying to migrate the novel onto those platforms as well. All available chapter are already released on Royal Road.

TheFantasticODD · Mystery · 43 ch

I Can Extract the Plot ( As a Trash Side-Character)

Caelen Vance was supposed to die in Chapter One. Not metaphorically. Not “almost died but awakened hidden powers” died. Actually executed. Publicly. By axe. Unfortunately for the plot, Caelen remembers the game he reincarnated into. And unfortunately for the world, he just unlocked the single most broken ability imaginable: Endless Concept Extraction Touch anything. Steal one of its concepts. Permanently. Sharpness from swords. Durability from shields. Intent to Kill from monsters. Later? Luck. Identity. Memories. Even Divine Authority itself. There’s only one catch: He can only extract once every 24 hours. Now trapped inside the brutal dark-fantasy RPG Apocalypse: Reforged as a talentless noble bastard with a dead mana core and a 30-day countdown to execution, Caelen has exactly one goal: Survive quietly. Get rich illegally. Avoid every main character. Retire before the apocalypse. Naturally, everything goes horribly wrong. The future Ice Tyrant overseeing his execution becomes suspicious of him. The regressed heroine meant to save the world thinks he’s a timeline-breaking demon. A terrifying demon assassin starts living inside his shadow after he accidentally frees her from slavery. And a merchant genius keeps trying to convert emotional intimacy into legally binding business contracts. Now Caelen must survive political conspiracies, eldritch horrors, noble assassins, and the increasingly violent cold war between four dangerously competent women all while pretending he is absolutely, definitely, completely normal. Which becomes difficult after he accidentally removes a monster’s “Intent to Kill” and gives it an existential crisis. After all… It’s hard to stay a background character when you’re secretly stealing the concepts holding the world together.

Arthur04 · Fantasy · 14 ch

Against The Eternity

Warning: This fiction contains: Graphic Violence Profanity Sensitive Content Power is never free. It is paid for in blood, memory, and choice. Five hundred years after the fall of the God Emperors, a boy named Eklavya walks a path stripped of protection, inheritance, and certainty. He leaves behind clan safety not for glory, but for responsibility—unaware that his body carries memories his mind has long buried. This is not a light power fantasy. Cultivation here is brutal, political, and unforgiving. Strength is earned through loss, survival, and restraint. As ancient enemies stir and hidden truths claw their way to the surface, Eklavya is forced to confront a question greater than power itself: What kind of man survives long enough to claim revenge? Dark cultivation, slow-burning emotion, ruthless battles, and a tragic, escalating journey against fate itself. Read Against the Eternity—where survival is a choice, and eternity is the enemy. Note: This is an original novel written entirely by me. It was first written in my native language and later self-translated into English, so you may notice slight variations in phrasing or flow.”

Phoenixfly_steller · Action · 118 ch

Sulphur & Lightning

Osu. The word meant outcast. A creature lower than all his peers and set apart by the gods. The world of Reigina, disparate in its races and traditions, still maintained a universal treatment for such souls. Born into this world as one such creature, Elijah Brimstone must navigate the muddy waters of a society that despises him and unravel the tangled threads of his past that shaped who—and what—he is. Secret beings. Arcane texts. Mysterious metals. Who could sound the depths of such a world? Was he on a fool's errand or on the stairway to Heaven? WHAT TO EXPECT: Well-researched cultivation. Western alchemy. Authentic African folklore and culture. Cosmic horror Competent main character with clear limitations. Lots of action. Unique array system. Industrial age fiction. Sulphur & Lightning combines Eastern and Western Alchemy traditions with Nigerian and African folklore to present a story that's both familiar and foreign. Lycans. Elves. Cultivation. Sorcery. Clans. Castes. Everything you're used to in fantasy, and more.

anaugustauthor · Fantasy · 38 ch

Esmeria

In a distant realm, a god-king revered by his followers rules with unyielding force, crushing nations that dare oppose him. Yet his ambitions stretch far beyond mortal subjugation—he hunts down other gods, erasing them from existence in his quest to become the sole divine power. As his dominion expands, gods disappear, kingdoms are threatened, and the world continues to change. Across this vast realm, adventurers, warriors, and gods pursue their own ambitions, unaware of how far the god-king's influence will eventually reach. Can even a god, crowned by worship and forged in tyranny, hold on to such power indefinitely? Or will someone rise against him, bringing about a downfall as inevitable as it is unforeseen? In a world where gods can die, only one can remain—but for how long? Cover art by Little-Moon on Scribblehub.

daight · Fantasy · 138 ch

My Chimera Reincarnation

A young woman wakes up to a strange room with no memories and a voice telling her to fuse her soul with three animals to complete her soul within a time limit.

Zor-rei · Litrpg · 4 ch

The goddess I Serve Hates Her Life

Felix passed the trials, earned a place among the divine, and expected his life to finally get easier. Then he met Jessica. She’s a goddess who hates her job, despises her responsibilities, and somehow makes being divine look like the worst career choice in existence. Unfortunately for Felix, she’s his new boss. He wanted to serve the heavens. He didn’t expect to babysit a goddess.

Jake501 · Action · 7 ch

The Abomination Within Letcham

The city of Letcham was lorded over by a vampiric ruling class from Castle Sangmont. However, twenty years ago they had been massacred, and in their stead the church took hold of the city. Their religion was less about gods and more a worship of human kind's advancement and, when the plague swept the city, bloodshed. This plague was not a normal sickness, it turned folks ravenous. They acted more like beasts than men when infected, so they were called as much. One day a young woman named Mayme was sent to get supplies from the city in her ailing father's stead. The only issue was that she was the daughter of a leech of Sangmont. A monster the church would not take too kindly too-- nor would the man in Letcham who made it his life's mission to slay the rest of her wretched kind. The very man she was forced to rely upon when she got trapped outside with the beasts by the city's nightly lockdown. [Content Warning: Violence & Gore, Physical Abuse, Sexual Assault, Medical Torture]

Lavinia Lambb · Horror · 1 ch

The Star Of Ire

"No one is good to you once you stop pleasing them." Three thousand years ago, the gods made a wager: do mortals deserve to exist? The cruelest god cursed mankind. The kindest offered a way out. In the dark, the curse still waits — not for the wicked, but for the one the world chose to break. Three thousand years, and it has never once failed. Two centuries after the last catastrophe, Aseri sings hymns to a hero-king and calls the truth a myth. Markella believes every word — top of her class, bound for the palace, certain of her golden future. She has no idea what she is. She has no idea what's waiting. The Star of Ire has slept long enough.

ccmaker · Fantasy · 7 ch

RED DAWN

Ash lived believing he was carrying something he never should have had to. He couldn’t let it go, and he called it a burden. He never admitted what it really was. One day, Ash started hearing a voice in his head. It offered him a way to awaken his soul and become one of those who had everything in life, who lived as they wished. Free. But Ash’s soul hadn’t awakened naturally, and a forced awakening carried great risks. He couldn’t take them, not while he was bound to the lives of three others. So the voice made a offer: a way with no risk at all.

sky · Fantasy · 4 ch

Extra's Path To Main Character

The story takes place in Ardenmoor – a continent where Mana flows through the earth like blood through veins. Every human is born with a Mana Affinity, a rank from F to SSS that determines their potential. Nobles hoard Mana Stones, elite academies train the gifted, and the strong rule absolutely. The world has a story. Specifically: it plays out like a novel, with a chosen protagonist, destined allies, legendary dungeons, and a final demon king. That story was already written once. Amaron Volg knows it by heart – because he lived it as an extra.

LOKI · Action · 3 ch

THE UNHAPPENED: The City Beneath Almost

In the city of Bellwether, things that almost happened never truly disappear. Unsent letters, forgotten possibilities, and lives that were never lived gather in a hidden world beneath the streets. Seventeen-year-old Nilo Venn has spent his life repairing broken objects, never realizing that some of them contain fragments of unrealized futures. Everything changes when a mysterious girl carrying a yellow umbrella arrives at his shop with a terrifying message: Nilo will die tomorrow. As impossible events begin rewriting the city's history, Nilo searches for his missing mother and discovers a secret buried inside his own past. But the deeper he ventures into the world beneath Bellwether, the more he questions whether the people he loves ever existed at all. Someone is collecting abandoned possibilities to create a world where nothing unexpected can happen again. And Nilo may be the only person capable of stopping them. To save tomorrow, he must first discover what happened to yesterday.

SAMARCHANDRAKAR · Fantasy · 7 ch

Work From Home Sect

No one: The beginning of almost every isekai story... The protagonist slowly opened his eyes. "Where am I?" Judging by the ceiling above him, it definitely wasn't his room. The last thing he remembered was walking home from work when a truck came out of nowhere. After that... Did I get isekai'd? Several years later, he finally obtained what every transmigrator dreamed of. A system. [Ding! Welcome to the Sect Master System!] [Beginner Pack Reward Issued.] His eyes lit up. What was it? A divine cultivation technique? An ancient bloodline? A heaven-defying treasure? Instead, a familiar rectangular object appeared in his hands. "A... smartphone?" He stared at it in confusion. "What am I supposed to do with this?" [Create a Sect. Become its Master.] "I don't even have a place to start a sect..." He paused for a moment. "Oh wait, I can just make one at home." The system: [...]

LazyMeow · Fantasy · 46 ch

The Colour of Your Heart

Hell’s seven colours to rule Hell’s seven kingdoms. Red, Green, Grey, Blue, Yellow, White and Black. Satan, the ultimate lord and commander of all seven Kingdoms had made it so. No one remembered where the colours came from or when they last lived without them. It just became a way of life. The royal descendants, spawns of Satan, were born with the power to manipulate most Colours. Born with the power to submit most to their will. However, in order to ascend and become true Masters of Hell, they were to conquer all Colours and pass the final Test. No matter the cost. Over the years, Satan himself lost many of his own children to the Test, but it was the iron law. It could not be changed. There were some whispers. Predictions foretold. A rare human soul, joined with one of Satan’s children, would bring an end to his reign.

JeeChay · Romance · 10 ch

Journey of the Poison Sovereign

The Rushu village once existed peacefully, in the valley of the wailing phantoms. But one day, they were unannouncedly attacked. By a force unknown and immune to their poison arts. In the midst of this one-sided massacre, a singular boy survived and was saved by his lone ambition of exploration that had led him far from his village. And far too late back. Alone, and standing on the slope if the hill that bordered his village to the left. Only two things remained between the boy and air itself. Despair. And a deep longing for revenge!

Gyrr0Glyph1c · Adventure · 4 ch

Fame, Glamor, and Control [Short Story]|Anchor Towns Tales #0.5

Every villain sees themselves as a hero in their story, a “good” guy. While Roxanna Bach and Mark Kestrel have selfish intentions, they are willing to do anything to maintain success in the music industry. Working in the secret underground world of mythical Hollywood has its perks, but recruiting new members of a Supernatural Supremacist cult and amateur rising stars is never an easy task for them. Will their successful track come to an end? [COMPLETED][Pre-Sequel short stories taken place before the events of The Melodies of Secrets.]

Nellie V. Parkinson · Fantasy · 10 ch

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