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Jade sword grandmaster

Martial Masters are powerful beings, capable of shaking heaven and earth and slaying countless mythical beasts with a single strike. Mortals kowtow at their mere mention, some even offering up their possessions just to gain their favor. In a world where all living beings seek strength and freedom, Wu Jin, a young man, longs to break free from the shackles that bind him. Roaming the world freely, eating and drinking without worry, living without care. Living as his heart pleases.

sunset1 · Action · 2 ch

UNFOLDING

Unfolding was born out of the author’s two passions—writing and gardening. When her marriage, career, and health all fell apart within a year, she gathered the poems and stories she wrote in the past 15 years. Some of them were imagined and written to help her cope – with life as a young student from the province, a young worker dating, and eventually, as a wife and mother. As she was reading and editing her poetry and prose, she realized her voice as a writer changed over the years. Her understanding of love, loss, and identity started to shift through her experiences. Now living alone, she felt herself opening up like a blossom unfolding. Fully. Unapologetically. Not caring about color nor smell. Just a flower finally greeting the world, before it dies.

VEALOVINO · Mature · 27 ch

Dark in the Dollhouse

In a time under the reign of the 8th King of Anarchy, this story unfolds. Yuliana blazed as her whole body was engulfed in flames. With just a withering mind left, her final option was to force her own death. So she attempts to end her life in an ultimate act of jumping off, only to get caught by a suited and eccentric dollmaker. Evander, who wields a mystical power known as Artistry, finds her fate to be an amusing one and decides to revive her from the clutches of death. Using the Codex of Life, he builds her a new body and identity, allowing her to have a fresh start at life. But the past still lingers. The flames that once burned her, and the mysterious Supreme Oracle rooted deep within her, Yuliana's fate is not yet resolved. She must deduce it, the reason that put her into such a predicament in the first place. Thus begins the tale of Evander and Yuliana, the dollmaker and his doll, the burning girl and her 'saviour'. To what end will they see their fate? What to expect: •🧠🔍 A brain churning mystery that makes the reader think and a plot that keeps on expanding. •🧐🎭 Thoughtful and expressive characters with complex emotions and actions. •🌍📜 A rich world with a long standing history and lore, spanning across 8 Anarchy Eras. •🩸🔪 A dark fantasy with intense imagery and a prose that doesn't cut in the descriptions. •🔮📖 A complex power system known as Artistry which revolves around using ichor to draw archaic sigils in the mind.

Haspberry · Fantasy · 41 ch

Wars of the Mist

In a world where power defines status and survival, Ganimedes Vulkaris was born under a curse: incapable of manipulating mana, he was relegated to insignificance within his own House. Raised beneath the weight of familial intrigue, his life ends—and begins anew—when an attempt on his sister’s life alters the course of his future. Presumed dead, he embarks on a journey in search of identity, justice, power… and even his own soul.

leodib · Fantasy · 2 ch

Fallout Odyssey

No one remembers how it started. By the time it mattered, it no longer did. The War had dragged on for years. Borders were redrawn in blood and cities were emptied, until the nations of the world, desperate for an ending, reached for the weapons they had sworn never to use. Nuclear fire lit the skies, engineered plagues drifted on the wind. For a moment it seemed to have worked, and the fighting stopped, but the poisoning didn't. Plants grew twisted, animals turned into things that had no names and people changed too, though never in the same way. Some were untouched, some went mad, many simply died. The lucky few who changed differently woke to find something new inside them, a power unlike anyone else’s. They called these gifts Manifests, no two ever alike. The world that rose from the ashes of that war would come to be known as The Fallout.

Vont · Apocalypse · 23 ch

MY FRIEND OR GIRLFRIEND ?

Nishi uraka is a gloomy mysterious guy with lack of conversations skill but he have a female friend in his class Rika daiko . Both of them care for each other since middle school but after enrolling in high school second year both of them started to notice a change in their feelings.  Read friend or girlfriend for story.

Umi_t · Romance · 8 ch

Road Of Knights

Smart kid named Hugo dreams of becoming a knight but he struggles to unlock his power, then a group called the Freedomers attacks his kingdom, forcing Hugo to face the true meaning of being a knight and the price that comes with it.

hsmcomics · Shounen · 24 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

Rudimenta: Charoite Spear

I really would if I could but I can't. My hand seems to spasm at the thought of writing a blurb. I'll try but it doesn't seem to be working out. Ok trust. There's a girl picking berries.

PanicRising · Fantasy · 14 ch

A Wayfarer's Pilgrimage to Extraterrestrial Lands: 0

Disclaimer: This is a collection of short stories. Each stories are not related to each other. "We meet again, Zun." What was left of a bustling civilization from a distant star was a note from the underground. As its heavenly body curled inward, not even a trace of its existence was left. But the story of the wayfarer, has only begun.

Zenostromz · Sci Fi · 7 ch

Damn Reincarnation: Ashes of Glory

The demonkings are no more alive and destruction had finally come to an end. ‎‎‎After countless battles— Eugene Lionheart finally fulfilled his purpose to kill every demon king and saved the world from ruin but ending doesn't seems satisfactory. ‎‎Beyond the ashes of war, a new fate begins As ancient scars slowly reopened the world and Eugene discovers that true of source of destruction wasn't the demon king themselves. But the outer entities lurking beyond reality. ‎‎Amid this growing darkness stands Noir Giabella. The woman who tied to Eugene by a curse neither of them can escape. One carries the light, other walks besides in darkness, yet together they become guardians chosen to watch over the world after fall of the demon kings. ‎‎But some fates are cruel. No matter how deeply they love each other they can't be able to together because of their fate prevents them.

TwilightGod · Action · 9 ch

Unfunny Super Eyes

A superpowered teenage thief needs to return a stolen suitcase before the mafia realizes it's gone. Average Chapter Length: 1000 words Updates every monday.

DaveyPagonzaga · Urban Fantasy · 11 ch

Fuck Around And Build Out! [Isekai, LitRPG, Comedy, Kingdom Building]

Oswald lived a good and decent life, though far too quiet, dying at its end with no regrets for the choices he made, but harboring until the very end foolish dreams of how things could have been otherwise. And, as if to reward him for the man he was, or perhaps curse him for wanting even more, the world gave him a second chance to become a 'hero', to achieve the glory, however questionable, he had always dreamed of.

Jhonata_R_Jordan · Litrpg · 1 ch

Under The Veil

Original ONGOING Portal Fantasy / IsekaiTime LoopUrban FantasyProgressionWar and MilitaryActionMysteryPsychologicalRomanceApocalypseDystopiaFirst ContactGender BenderHigh FantasyMagitechMale LeadMartial ArtsMythosReincarnationSteampunk Warning: This fiction contains: Graphic Violence Profanity Sensitive Content On the empty street, a lone figure walked. A black coat draped over a white shirt, stained in dark, uneven patches that had yet to dry. Black trousers followed the same muted tone, blending him into the night as though he belonged to it more than the world around him. His hair was black, unremarkable at a glance, yet his eyes—sharp, brown, and unwavering—carried a quiet weight. Not exhaustion of the body, but something deeper, something that had settled within him long before this moment. Blood marked his clothes. Fresh enough to glisten faintly beneath the dim light, yet old enough to cling stubbornly, refusing to fade. The road remained silent. No footsteps but his own disturbed the stillness. No distant engines, no whisper of wind—nothing. Only a single street lamp stood above, casting a weak, yellow glow that felt… insufficient, as though it illuminated less than it should, leaving parts of the world just slightly beyond reach. And in that dim light— Something about the scene felt incomplete. Then, without warning, the streetlight flickered. Once. Then twice. Then irregularly, as though something unseen had begun interfering with its rhythm. The shadows shifted with it—but not entirely in sync. A fraction too slow. A fraction too late. As if they were no longer bound perfectly to the objects that cast them. NOTE:- Please only read if you are ready to imagine the extreme gore and all types of mortal cruelty. Also available on Minkly.io in audio form

Phoenixfly_steller · Mystery · 7 ch

Son of the Celestial Demon

A blood revenge hides deep within Shiro's memory. Who is he?. The day he finds out who he is, Murim will see blood. But all he knows now is that he must get stronger to survive in the everchanging world.

EverSleepless · Martial Arts · 1 ch

Dragon Ball Omniverse

A crossover fanfic between multiple worlds. There will be DC, Invincible, Marvel, Ben 10, One Punch Man etc... crossovers. This is my 1st attempt at writing fanfic. So, I hope that it's not too bad. --------------- Synopsis: Jin, a young Saiyajin/Saiyan, intrigued by the legends of the Saiyans from the distant past about Goku, Vegeta, and Broly, travels the universe in the hopes of creating legends far surpassing the legends of the old. One day, due to a strange rift in space, he was transported to a different world. A world outside of the Dragon Ball Multiverse/Xenoverse. Will he be able to make his own legends in these strange worlds—or be forgotten?

Chill_Disaster · Adventure · 4 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 · 11 ch

A hypothetical story

Sixteen months ago, seven teenagers disappeared from their school, in broad daylight, without leaving any clue behind. A week ago, three of them came back. They are refusing to talk about where they were, what happened to them, or if the other missing teens are coming back too. Until Thomas decides to tell a hypothetical story. It is a ridiculous tale of world crossing, fantasy worlds, epic wars, cold castles, and quiet mountains. But his therapist is sure of one thing: the truth of what happened to them is there, woven somewhere in the stories. So she'll listen until she cracks the code.

ShinMeiko · Fantasy · 10 ch

My Unicorn Thinks I’m His Maiden – A Dungeon Crawler World Story

The world ended while I was hungover… and dressed as a magical girl. It's not exactly how I planned to start my day. One minute I was waking up next to a bonfire with my friends, the next, everything, my home, my town, all of it, gone. Flattened. Stripped. Replaced with dirt and stone like it never existed. Then came the message, Earth had been claimed and harvested due to an error in paperwork. And the survivors? We were given a choice: Enter a massive, AI-controlled dungeon… or stay behind and figure out how long we could last with nothing left. I didn’t have supplies, didn’t have a plan, didn’t even have proper clothes, but I wasn’t about to sit around and starve so, I started walking. Now I’ve got my friends behind me, a horse that refuses to leave my side, and a countdown to get to the nearest entrance. I don’t know what’s waiting for us down there, but I do know one thing... If I’m going to survive the end of the world, I’m apparently doing it in heels. (Gonna be straight up with everyone, if you are familiar with the DCC novels then you should know what to generally expect. No, Carl and Donut will not make an appearance, this story happens at the same time and the dungeon is a big place. I am attempting to stay within the cannon though. Also, there will be a gender transformation, but it won’t happen until the start of the 3rd floor. However, that doesn't mean that the AI isn’t going to be trying to push the MC into it, after all, the AI finds the idea funny... Also, I hope this series inspires anyone who enjoys it and isn’t familiar with Dungeon Crawler Carl to pick up the first book and give it a try. Finally, a message to Matt Dinniman. I apologize in advance. At the very least, I hope if you ever come across this story it is weird enough for you.) (Credit where credit is due, the character design for the cover is by the talented Marudochi) (This novel is also being posted on Scribblehub and Royal Road)

PrincessArylin · Fanfiction · 25 ch

Light in the Dark

"Light in the Dark" tracks the invisible warfare waged over human sanity when twin novice angels, Stella and Bella, are stripped of their cosmic memories and deployed to Earth in the fragile bodies of rescue kittens. Under the grand directive of their commander, Claudita, the young guardians must absorb and filter raw mortal trauma without letting the toxic negative energy curdle their own souls into hatred.

Kyupol · Supernatural · 4 ch