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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
A MORTAL'S TOUCH
[COMPLETED] A human who fall in love with a Goddess and surrounding with his friends Kazuma, Rionoka. sequel - The Silent Sky: The Warmth
Ash_010 · Seinen · 38 ch
This isn't the otherworld I imagined
Mark always imagined being summoned to another world would lead to an incredible adventure. A legendary weapon, extraordinary powers, perhaps even a grand quest to defeat a Demon Lord, you know the usual. Instead, he gets three ordinary abilities, a mysterious book, and a kingdom with a rather unusual problem: its population is declining. As if that weren't enough, the summoning gateway breaks, leaving Mark stranded in a world he never asked to visit. Now he must learn to survive in a place where his expectations are practically useless, his abilities aren't quite what he hoped for, and the kingdom's problems may be far more complicated than they appear.
Jenny301 · Action · 1 ch
Another Side
Set In a world where anyone can unlock extraordinary power called "Powers" with enough hard work, most people simply choose not to due to the difficulty in doing so. For a group that have, they soon realise there is much more going on in the world they live in than they had bargained for.
yfstudio · Action · 96 ch
Echoes of the Silent Sky
Year 2147. The Sun stops—not dead, not dimmed, but *paused*. Fusion ceases for 11 minutes and 43 seconds every 72 hours. A silence with a pattern. A signal. Astrophysicist Dr. Ella Vayne decodes the sun's tremors and discovers the frequency matches human brain theta waves. Not coincidence. Something is broadcasting to Earth—or waking something *in* Earth. Recruited into a black-ops mission, Ella and ex-special forces operative Kasen Reed are sent to a remote Martian research base. The scientists there report footsteps in the dead of the base—footsteps that echo from 300 meters below, where satellite scans show only empty rock. What they find buried beneath Mars isn't a ship. It's a **memory vessel**—a relic built by a civilization that encoded its final moments into a structure that responds to human neural patterns. And Ella's brainwaves? They sync perfectly with the sun's silence. They always have. She wasn't chosen. She was *made* for this. But someone on Earth is building a tower—a transmitter. They don't want to receive the signal. They want to **reply**. The question isn't who sent the silence. It's who—or what—will answer back.
gloriabatao · Sci Fi · 21 ch
The Bells of the Buried World
Some roads lead somewhere. Others should never have existed. When a Bell sounds across the land, Marek expects trouble. He does not expect the roads themselves to stop agreeing with the maps. What begins as a routine journey carrying desperately needed medicine quickly becomes something stranger. Familiar routes lead travelers back to where they started. Forgotten roads return. Ancient markers point toward places that should be days apart. Maps that have been trusted for generations begin contradicting one another. And Marek is one of the few people capable of finding a way through. He is a skilled ranger and navigator, accustomed to reading terrain, judging distance, and noticing when something does not belong. But the world is beginning to behave according to rules no ranger was ever taught. Then Recognition begins changing people. New abilities emerge from what they understand, what they survive, and what they prove themselves capable of doing. Marek is not alone. A formidable warrior, an Elven scholar, healers, travelers, local leaders, and people caught on the wrong side of impossible roads are all beginning to discover pieces of the same mystery. None of them has the whole answer. Every discovery makes the world larger. Every answer creates another problem. And somewhere beneath roads that should not exist, something ancient is beginning to connect places that were never meant to touch. The Bells of the Buried World is a progression fantasy and high-fantasy mystery featuring exploration, meaningful character progression, practical problem-solving, dangerous creatures, archery, magic, ancient infrastructure, multiple fantasy peoples, combat with consequences, and a world whose history may be far stranger than anyone remembers.
Loreforged · Fantasy · 12 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 · 5 ch
Foolan
Foolan was hired to make a room full of strangers laugh. He should have asked why they were mourning someone who hadn’t died. A concealed painting, an empty chair, and one careless joke leave him trapped inside an artwork with a missing man beneath the table. In this world, original paintings can be entered. Those who survive and comprehend their meaning return with power. The first successful comprehender claims its strongest form. Everyone afterward receives a weaker echo. Some return changed in ways nobody knows how to repair. Foolan wants to get out, collect his fee, and discover who decided his life was worth twelve marks. His search leads through disputed collections, dangerous expeditions, and a trade in weapons extracted from artworks. The Feathers have a place in that trade. They also have reasons to keep certain disappearances unexplained. One of their recruiters offers Foolan help. He sees through the jokes with an accuracy Foolan finds difficult to refuse. For once, someone understands him. Foolan has yet to learn what that will cost.
Iakalam · Action · 2 ch
I Command
Some voices are born to be heard. Others are born to be feared. Shelly Halton was never given the chance to be ordinary. Born into a noble family, her existence became a secret that even her own blood feared to expose. But beneath the whispers, the shame, and the doors closed against her lies something far more unsettling than her appearance. Something that should have remained forgotten. In a world where a single voice can change everything, Shelly will discover that being silenced and being powerless are not the same thing. Meanwhile, in the kingdom of Eclastare, a young noblewoman named Sophia finds herself drawn to something she cannot quite explain. Singing has always been a part of her life, but there are moments when her own voice feels strangely unfamiliar—as though it carries something she has yet to understand. Two girls, each with a voice of her own. Two lives moving toward a future neither can fully see. But the world is not kind to those who are different, and power rarely comes without a price. As secrets linger beneath the surface and the boundaries between fear, freedom, and ambition begin to blur, their paths will lead toward a conflict neither can simply sing or command her way out of. Because when the world refuses to listen, what is left for those who were born with voices that should never have existed?
Jenny301 · Action · 5 ch
Sovereign seals of aethelgard
Two planets. Seven houses. Zero mercy. Aethelgard is a brutal world of overpowered monsters governed by the Seven Great Houses, where the only way to rise is to violently crush the family above you. When twelve-year-old prodigies Lulu (House Blueyard) and Nie (House Zephyr) trigger an illegal brawl, they are sentenced to a demeaning year of forced labor serving the first family. Stripped of their freedom and bound by an absolute command spell, these two proud rivals must survive under the arrogant thumb of Master Dark. They think we are broken. They have no idea what we are building in the dark.
Jenny301 · Action · 6 ch
I Reincarnated As An Elf
Brenda had her future planned. At seventeen, she was already an award-winning pianist with dreams of becoming a professional musician. Then a building collapsed on her. She died. When she opens her eyes, she's no longer on Earth. She's an elf named Averly—a legendary warrior who is supposed to be one of the most powerful people in the kingdom of Elveria. There's just one problem. Brenda doesn't know how to use magic. Now, with thousands of elves expecting their legendary commander to lead them into battle, Brenda must survive a world she knows nothing about while pretending to be someone she isn't. But when she discovers that magic can be understood through the same rhythm, timing, and expression she learned from playing the piano, her new life begins to change. And as she uncovers the truth about the conflict between elves and humans, Brenda begins to suspect that her reincarnation wasn't an accident. She was given a second life. The question is—why?
Jenny301 · Action · 5 ch
Apotheosis of the fallen god
At the absolute peak of his divine ascension, Ivan Dovisky stood on the brink of becoming a god. But at the critical moment of his apotheosis, a mysterious entity intervened, shattering the ritual. Stripped of his divine power, Ivan was cast down—regressing back in time to when he was young and weak. He awakens on Earth, his long-lost homeland. But this is no peaceful realm. Earth has been transformed into a cutthroat battleground for "Players"—humans bound to a mysterious System that grants them superhuman abilities and powers. At the center of it all stands the White Tower, a colossal structure where Players must conquer floor after floor to earn experience, level up, and transcend mortality. Now, armed with the knowledge of a fallen god and trapped in a mortal body, Ivan must climb the tower to reclaim his lost power—and uncover the truth behind the entity that destroyed him.
Speyvenareble · Apocalypse · 2 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 · 136 ch
Overseer - [Psychological Urban Fantasy]
Every criminal in Anderis dreams of being hired as a Receiver for the Syndicate. And for good reason: they'd be guaranteed work and pay, gain a fearsome reputation, and, for those few gifted with supernatural abilities, they'd be granted free rein to use their powers. However, for the former-office worker—codenamed Rookie—the Syndicate's Retirement Scheme is all that matters. "50,000 shares. That's all I need to erase myself from the outside world. Past, Present, and Future... I'll leave it all behind." But with tensions rising between the nation's factions, rumblings of another War, and the headache-inducing voices he keeps hearing—cracks have formed in the thatched walls of Rookie's life, making way for his past to come pouring through. One dreadful wave after the other. Will Rookie attain the freedom he desperately desires? Or will he instead be drowned beneath the crushing tides of his past? - Current release schedule will be daily: from Monday to Friday at 17:30 GMT. - Backlog is about 250k words. So this story won’t be disappearing/going on hiatus for a good while! Cover Art by @NadiaDibaj
rstonefield · Urban Fantasy · 28 ch
A Slice of Me
Han Ji-hoon wakes up one morning with no memory of the previous night. His best friend, Min-jae Park, is dead and the police believe Ji-hoon may have been the last person to see him alive. As evidence begins to connect Ji-hoon to the crime, he starts questioning his own memories, his actions, and even his identity. What happened that night? And if Ji-hoon wasn't the one in control, then who was?
Daniel_Voss · Psychological · 3 ch
The Dreaded Knight and the Lost Princess
Hello everyone, My name is Cedric Gul, and Im here to tell you the story of a Dreaded Knight and how he looked for a Lost Princess. "Again." "What- what do you mean again? This is even more than enough the fuck you mean 'again'." "....Its not compelling enough-" "Shuuush, I'll be the one to decide that thank you." "...." Now then, readers and readies, why won't you join me? For one heck of a story. "Readies... isn't a-" "Why are you even looking at my journal?"
Lord of Ink · Fantasy · 2 ch
Lunar Legacy
Celvian was born into House Solmar of the Sun Clan, destined for divine glory. Instead, the Moon Goddess marked him - a blessing that became a curse in a world where her power is considered worthless. Stripped of everything he once was, Cel must survive in a world threatened by rift-creatures, where only Chosen Ones blessed by Gods stand between humanity and extinction. The Moon Goddess chose him for reasons beyond understanding. Whether that choice will forge him into a savior or twist him into something far more dangerous depends on how much of himself he is willing to give up.
Celastos · Fantasy · 43 ch
Particles of Fin: Cyan and Grey
A century after a war that reshaped the world, history has become little more than a collection of convenient lies. Felmer Gorbin lives an ordinary life as the heir of Cerfis, until a chain of events begins pulling him toward secrets that powerful people would rather keep buried forever. As political tensions between Falvaria and Cerfis rise, ancient people stir again, and hidden forces begin manipulating humanity from the shadows; Felmer must navigate a world where every answer raises new questions.
muneeb_96 · Action · 15 ch
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