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The Door That Was Never Meant to Be Opened

Two school friends stumble upon a hidden, sealed door tucked behind their school’s gym storage room — a door that clearly someone went to great lengths to keep forgotten. Curiosity gets the better of them. What lies behind it seems ordinary at first… but something ancient and patient has been waiting for exactly this moment. Once the door is opened, a game begins. And games like this don’t end easily.

The_lite · Horror · 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

The Eighth Absolute

The Eighth Absolute Volume 1: The Weight of the Sword Some bonds are forged in fire. Theirs was forged by a life debt, forbidden magic, and absolute terror. After spending his childhood with his found family, ten-year-old Ravon leaves home in search of his real parents. Terrified of his own power, he survives by relying only on basic spells and his sword. When an ambush nearly kills him, he is saved by Lyra, a young witch obsessed with advanced and forbidden magic. Her price for saving him? A massive life debt and his service as her personal vanguard. Together, they navigate wilderness, extreme environments while slowly forging an unstoppable partnership out of sheer necessity and a shared, dangerous adventure. What to Expect : • Character Development • Grounded Progression & Tactical Combat • "Sunshine x Grumpy" partnership • Expansive Worldbuilding • Protagonist battling a personality disorder and trauma What Not to Expect : • World-ending threats in the initial chapters.

Ru_Astryx · Mystery · 50 ch

The Eighth Absolute: Madness

Every world has stories that are never told. Beyond the heroes and villains of The Eighth Absolute lie countless lives unfolding across an endless multiverse. Kingdoms rise and fall. Gods wage silent wars. Demons bargain for souls. Angels guard forgotten truths. Monsters carve out legends, while ordinary people struggle to survive in extraordinary worlds. The Eighth Absolute: Madness is a collection of canon side stories set throughout the vast multiverse of The Eighth Absolute. Each tale explores a different world, era, or realm, revealing new cultures, mysteries, and unforgettable characters that exist beyond the main story. Some stories are tragic. Some are inspiring. Others descend into pure madness. Most importantly, these stories aren't just about characters I created. They can be about yours. Readers who have supported The Eighth Absolute through honest reviews and meaningful comments may have the opportunity to see their own original characters become part of the canon multiverse, living, fighting, and perhaps dying within these pages. Every story matters. Every character leaves a mark. Welcome to the madness.

Ru_Astryx · Fantasy · 4 ch

The Ending Reader

People say every person dies twice. The first time when their heart stops. The second time when they are forgotten. Vael learned that earlier than most. In the rain-soaked megacity of Nexarum, he lives with a curse that allows him to hear the final words people will ever speak. Most are meaningless. Some are horrifying. But one night, inside a Dead Scene where reality twists into nightmare, he hears a silver-haired girl whisper: “Thank you for finding me again.” The problem is she says it like they have already loved each other across countless ruined worlds. As the city collapses beneath endless rain, fractured timelines, and horrors born from abandoned stories, Vael is dragged into a war against the inevitable end of humanity itself. And at the center of it all stands a girl trying desperately not to fall in love with the boy destined to erase himself for her sake. Because in every timeline, the world ends. And in every ending... Vael dies for her.

Arthur04 · Fantasy · 8 ch

The Fading Moon

Tokyo never sleeps, but for twenty-three-year-old Mike, every day feels the same. Living alone in a small apartment and trapped in a routine he no longer enjoys, Mike has long given up on excitement, friendship, and love. His world is quiet, lonely, and predictable—until a rainy night changes everything. Under the glow of a fading moon, he meets Jessika, a spirited high school girl whose smile hides secrets deeper than the night sky. Their first encounter is anything but friendly. She finds him cold and grumpy. He finds her irritating and impossible to understand. Yet fate keeps bringing them together. As days turn into months, arguments become conversations, conversations become friendship, and friendship slowly blossoms into a love neither of them expected. For the first time in years, Mike begins to feel alive again. But Jessika carries a secret. A truth that threatens to shatter the future they dream of together. As the moon fades from the sky, so too does the time they have left. A heartbreaking story of first love, loss, hope, and memories that never disappear, The Fading Moon explores how even the briefest light can change someone's life forever. Some people enter our lives for a moment... Yet stay in our hearts forever.

MananTayal · Romance · 30 ch

The Fury Flame

Erathea is a vast world filled with magic, piracy, and more. In this world there are an array selection of characters with the main focus being Rhea Nox and Captain Connor. Rhea Nox is a wild woman who is trying to find a place in this world. How can she when the society she faces treats her race as nothing better than slaves? Not only that but a religion that sees her powers as blasphemous. Finding her true new home will be harder than she predicts, with a trail full of grief and rage laid before her. Connor is a pirate captain of the renowned Nightmare Maiden. He has a secret behind his copper eyes and a goal that can very well end his life. A man reaching for the deepest of watery caverns to the highest points of mountains. A man that is a great tactician but fails to see what is the most important. Will it be too late for him by the time he notices what's at stake? Their paths will cross as ordained, the question is will they be able to crawl out before they get swallowed up by Erathea?

Mic_Mac_Roni · Romance · 35 ch

The Great Mage Above the World

I failed to save the world. And ever since then, I’ve been living in a forgotten corner of it. It’s been a long time... Now, the world has changed - and I have no idea what awaits me beyond this place. I am Rowan. I have crossed the boundaries of mortality, magic, and existence. I have witnessed the end of a world and survived what should have been the end of me. But surviving the end is not the same as finding a reason to keep going. The world has moved on. Now, it is time to discover what comes next.

FLASHY · Fantasy · 44 ch

The Intern He Hates

Luca West has everything: the fame, the fans, the flawless image Fisher Group built for him. What nobody knows is the price he's still paying for it — and he intends to keep it that way. Then his manager brings in an intern. Noelle Auclair isn't here for the glamour. She's spent years quietly obsessed with one question: how does a man like Luca West get made? Her thesis depends on getting close enough to find out. She just never planned on him deciding, the moment he sees her, that she's a spy sent to destroy him. He wants her gone. She needs to stay. And neither of them expected the two of them figuring out the truth about the other would feel like anything but war. A slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance set behind the glass walls of the entertainment industry's most ruthless empire — where every smile is a performance, and the one person who sees through his isn't supposed to be looking at all.

ccmaker · Romance · 15 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 · 33 ch

The Lost

Few students die and get transported to a different world. Yup they will have system.

Hands_Of_Tragedy_SSOTC · Fantasy · 1 ch

The Lost Remnant

In the kingdom of Homura, an old man narrates a legendary tale to a group of children — a story he swears is true. An orphan named Raiku awakens a rare martial ability and goes on a journey to become the greatest warrior

malik3 · Eastern Fantasy · 2 ch

The New World of Today

☆═══════☆═══════☆ ╰☆☆To those that may struggle with inner conflict or other things maybe this story will help with that overall thanks to all who read this ;3☆☆╮ ╰☆☆An adventure of teenagers finding their way into grown up life. Starting from zero understanding this new world from the old world they used to know. Come with them as they explore, adventure and face everyday problems as well as supernatural disasters and creatures.☆☆╮

ALANKOI · Fantasy · 2 ch

The Phoenix Saga (Reignited Edition) Part I: Phoenix Ignited

You ignite, and you RISE! A pair of curses have conspired to leave 17-year-old Ranma trapped in a feminine body she never asked for, and too physically sensitive to take a hit. Both are big problems for a martial arts master who used to be an arrogant boy. With no way back to the life she knew, she flees the home of her abusive father and leaves her fiancée behind in search of a life she can call her own. But, life on the streets of 1989 Tokyo isn't easy. After months alone and barely surviving, she stumbles hungry and broken into the Phoenix, a dive bar run by a hard-edged but kindly woman and the four hard-luck girls she took in out of the cold. Make that five. Ranma's new lease on life, as Ranko, gives her the chance to work through her trauma and experience the first unconditional love she's ever known. Empowered by the support of her new family, the partner she never expected to see again, and a newfound passion for music, Ranko begins to embrace her new identity as a young woman and rises from the ashes of the person she used to be.

Anne Ominous · Drama · 54 ch

The Protagonist Is Dead

What happens when the protagonist of a world dies? Will the world cease to exist? Or does it hold its crumbling pieces together in a desperate attempt to save itself? In a world where peace had finally become a reality, the man chosen by fate dies in an accident the world was never meant to allow. His death went unnoticed, unacknowledged by the world and the system that rules it. Until it was too late. As things go south and mana starts seeping into a world that is marching towards its demise, Kim Han — a man that was never supposed to mean anything in this story — finds himself facing a difficult situation. Unseen and uninterrupted by the fate that was withering, he must decide if he should quietly intervene in the tragedy that will unfold, or let the world choke under the weight of a story that will now never end.

Senyir · Fantasy · 8 ch

The Reason For Existence

An unfeeling young man bored of his stable yet monotone life has his entire reality changed after a strange power is given to him by a place that doesn't exist. He now must decide what to do with it and if he should carry out his plans for the world while also maintaining his dying relationship with the people around him.

The4th · Psychological · 3 ch

The Revenge Affair My Bestfriend's Husband Offered Me

“It’s still her.” Three words. That was all it took for the carefully constructed world of my last five years to shatter into dust at my feet. Zane didn’t even have the decency to look away as he said it. For twenty years, I had been the third wheel. The reliable shadow to Jovienne’s brilliant sun. I had buried my own feelings for Zane so deep I almost forgot they existed, only daring to dig them up and confess them after Jovi had left the country and broken his heart. We built a life. A marriage. I truly believed, in my foolish, hopeful heart, that it was my happy ending. Now Jovienne was back, and the illusion was gone. The love of my life saw me only as a consolation prize. As my world collapses, the last person I expect comfort from is her husband—a man as cold and polished as he is powerful. Vance sees the same betrayal in my eyes that he sees in his wife's. Leaning in, his voice a dangerous whisper, he proposed the unthinkable: "They are living in the past. Let's be each other's revenge. What do you say, Nerissa?" I should avoid at all costs. It was a game that could burn our broken worlds to the ground. But as I looked into his eyes and saw the same raw, humiliating betrayal reflected back at me, the answer poised on my lips wasn't "no." It was a terrifying, thrilling question. “What,” I whispered, my voice steadier than I felt, “did you have in mind?”

NaykoAyasame · Romance · 72 ch

The Rise of the Unbound Sovereign Sect

Ten thousand years ago, the Ascended Masters abandoned this realm, leaving behind a saturated, chaotic wasteland. Now, the remnants—towering, violent giants bloated on stagnant Qi—rule the ruins of the golden age. They don't cultivate. They just exist, trapped in an endless, brutal loop of survival and stagnation. Julian didn't reincarnate with a magical system, a heavenly physique, or a mysterious master. He fell from the void as a hundred-and-twenty-pound mortal with a degree in Ethnobotany, a pocket of stainless steel acupuncture needles, and a terrifying realization: he is the weakest thing in a world of predators. To the giants, he is just a rabbit. A piece of soft meat. To survive, Julian must prove he is a useful tool, but not too useful. He can't fight them, and the tribe only wants to use him, but Julian didn’t dedicate his life to studying the lost arts of cultivation for nothing. Using forgotten mortal medicine to bypass overloaded meridians, he begins to systematically hack the anatomy of the world's monsters to forge his own foundation. But the giants are a dead end. Clinical, selfish, and obsessed with their own survival, they will never see Julian as anything more than an expendable asset. When forced to choose between the familiar cruelty of humanoid masters and the terrifying, toxic unknown of the deep wild, Julian walks into the dark. He chooses the monsters. Stepping into the domain of a dying, Sovereign-tier horror, Julian leaves humanity behind. He won't just hack his way to a foundation; he will engineer his own faction from the ground up. Julian is going to build the Unbound Sovereign Sect, and he won't use a single human to do it. <Author’s Note / Disclaimer:> The medical, anatomical, and acupuncture theories discussed in this novel are based on real-world traditional practices and botanical science. However, they are heavily dramatized for the sake of survival fantasy. Do not attempt to use two-inch surgical steel needles to vent your friend's stagnant Qi, treat snake bites with random ferns, or perform deep-tissue Shenshu point demolition on yourself. It will not give you the physical mass of a giant; it will just put you in the hospital. Read the fiction, leave the needles to the professionals.

Magic · Eastern Fantasy · 107 ch

The Saint and The Devil of Another World!

In a world once torn apart by war between humans and demons, peace finally arrived not through diplomacy, but through overwhelming force from 10 summoned heroes sent by the Goddess. The hero’s armies crushed the Demon King’s army, and reshaped the world itself. Two years later, the war is over. And with it, Changes in the life of both humanity and demonkind. The forgotten Saintess now works at a cat maid café she barely understands after her followers abandoned her for celebrity heroes. The defeated Demon King survives by taking odd jobs after losing his castle, army, and dignity to dungeon raiders and tourists. As their world becomes increasingly dominated by imported trends, and absurd hero culture, the former enemies reluctantly join forces not to save the world, but to reclaim what little remains of the one they lost!

ShonFrost99 · Comedy · 4 ch

The Sanguine Queen: I Reincarnated as the Strongest Vampire Character

Elise Shadowspill existed behind a screen in Green Emerald Online (GEO). She was the pinnacle of players, striking fear into the hearts of many, yet she was only pixels on a screen. All of that changed when her player walked into a gas station late at night. In a stroke of misfortune, or perhaps fortune, she was killed and ended up in the body of her character. The Sanguine Queen, surrounded by loyal followers, must navigate an unfamiliar world. In an unknown forest, in a new stage vaguely similar to the game, she will grapple with being the strongest there is. What to expect: -Overpowered Vampire Queen Protagonist -Loyal Subordinates -Slow Burn Yuri -A Hint of Edge -A Concoction to Scratch That Itch Cover Art By: BlueWinter

Kurayami · Fantasy · 25 ch