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Male Protagonist Web Novels

Web novels tagged Male Protagonist, sorted by what's popular on NovelCult.

Simulated Journey To The Top

The Qiao Empire is a place where cultivation separates the remarkable from the forgotten. It's where a bigger fist is the law, and falling behind means staying behind, forever. Du Yuan is behind. On paper. Bamboo spends years underground before it rises faster than anything else in the forest. Du Yuan is a reincarnator. Earth's knowledge has quietly been turned into leverage.  He has a seat to take over, a clan to expand. A future already meticulously mapped. Then the Simulator arrived.  It made him question the understanding of the world, that took over 16 years to build.  It grants cheats and golden fingers from who knows where.  It runs possibilities he has lived yet hasn't lived and hands him power drawn from their outcomes. It speaks of other versions of him as casually as one speaks of the weather. He has survived a reincarnation on skepticism and patience. He doesn't plan to change any time soon.  Nonetheless, His original plans need some serious modifications. The roots, however, aren't going anywhere.

Acron · Eastern Fantasy · 8 ch

Arachnoextinction

On an uncharted island in the middle of the Pacific, Dr. Ivory Gale arrives for a routine inspection of a secret United States government cloning facility. His mission is to verify progress on a project to resurrect the woolly mammoth. Simple job. In and out. What could possibly go wrong? Everything. Literally everything. Dr. Kale, head scientist at the cloning facility and certified lunatic, has been keeping secrets from the United States government. Not the kind of secrets they can all giggle about later. These are the kind of secrets that awaken a long-extinct and highly murderous monstrous spider species. Armed with a gun he doesn't know how to use, a crippling case of arachnophobia, and the help of a ragtag group of survivors (including one who definitely wants to kill them all to protect the government's secrets), Dr. Gale must find a way to escape the facility before nightfall. Because once the sun goes down, the giant spiders come out to hunt. All of them. Welcome to Arachnoextinction.

ShowerKrogan · Comedy · 41 ch

The Doomsday Reaver

The Doomsday Trials had one purpose: forge the ultimate warrior with the ultimate progression system. Not one place, not one time. All of time, to fight across every age of man, from the brutal stone age to a future of demonic hordes and twenty foot mechs. But the plan failed. No-one advanced. Everyone died and the trials were forgotten. Then Felix falls from the sky. Naked. Broken. Five hit points. Oh, and there’s a sabretooth tiger about to decorate the jungle floor with his guts. Great. Blasted to the dawn of humanity, Felix awakes in the savage past. No tutorial, the system hasn’t even been updated in centuries. But this place has rules and stats, and Felix knows how to exploit the hell out of both. Suddenly he’s doing what hasn’t been done in centuries – winning, advancing. Because the trials never needed a perfect warrior. Just an obsessive gamer. Right, plan. First? Don’t die. Next? A working HUD. Maybe some pants Chapter release 5x week M-F. 20 ahead on patreon 300k already written across three volumes. Cover by Alan Gomes

icohalliday · Adventure · 34 ch

Daughter's Defender

Billions died during the First Trial on Day One. The day the devil came to Earth to play. The Planetary Games. An intergalactic game show. Earth is the Colosseum—and humanity its gladiators. Empowered with alien magic and knowledge, humanity is pitted against each other in a vicious struggle for supremacy, where there is only one survivor. Dan is dead set on making it to the end, but not for himself. Every night, Dan dreams of the family that died, but he wasn’t the only one who survived the First Trial. His sons gave their lives protecting their newborn sister, Aurora. Their sacrifice will not be in vain. He will do whatever it takes to ensure she makes it to the end before taking his own life. Aurora will win the Planetary Games. The only problem is, young children were never meant to survive the first trial, let alone the rest of the game. » WHY READ THIS: - A LitRPG System Apocalypse Game Show - Slow Burn Progression - A Unique Fantasy/Sci-fi Mix - Weak To Strong To OP Characters - A Plot Other Than "Numbers Go Up" - Emotional Depth *** Warning: Contains Mature Non-Sexual Content *** Ebook, Paperback, and Audiobook Available on Amazon.

K_J_Kiki · Apocalypse · 113 ch

Desio Jokoa

Ellis Ranger is a strange boy with an unusual gift of tasting people's emotions. After moving once again for the seventh time, he thought this would be his chance to be normal, but when a wraith attacked his new school, Ellis's desire for normalcy was shattered. Desperate for finding answers about himself and for an ordinary life, he joins a mysterious organization that swore to protect humanity from the unknown. As Ellis dives deeper into the world of monsters, he realizes that secrets won't remain hidden forever. Ancient horrors inch closer, forbidding magic resurfaces, and the thread between reality and nightmares becomes shorter.

CLG · Supernatural · 6 ch

Journey To Become God

Bhuvan, who grew up on Earth, completely unaware of his mysterious origins. His ordinary life is shattered when a sudden and inexplicable phenomenon transports him, along with more than 54 other people from Earth, into a brutal and unknown world. Separated from his friends during an encounter with powerful creatures and mysterious warriors, Bhuvan falls from a mountain and is eventually rescued by the people of Elarin Village, a small village surrounded by dangerous forests. While recovering, he discovers that this world is completely different from Earth. Most people possess extraordinary abilities, including the ability to fly, while strength determines status, survival, and lifespan. As an ordinary human from Earth, Bhuvan starts at the absolute bottom. Everything changes when he learns that he was actually born in this world and that his family is still alive somewhere. Determined to uncover his origins and find his missing friends, Bhuvan must overcome his weak physique, lack of knowledge, unfamiliarity with the world's powers, and the dangers surrounding the whole world. As Bhuvan grows stronger, he uncovers secrets about his birth, his family, the people who summoned the Earthlings, and the mysterious forces connected to Heaven. And that the world itself is approaching destruction because of a terrifying cosmic cycle. The truth behind many other secrets about this new World, and Bhuvan's own existence are all connected to a much larger conflict. What begins as a journey to find his friends, discover his family, and understand his identity eventually becomes a struggle for the survival of the entire world and a journey toward becoming someone capable of standing among the strongest beings in the universe.

Bhuvan.k · Adventure · 5 ch

Rebirth: My Awakening

Shin, a 2nd-year high school student, lives a routine marked by monotony and tiredness that seems to increase every day. However, his life changes when, after spending a whole night playing, he falls into a deep sleep during a class. When he wakes up, he finds the room empty except for Yuki, his classmate and the secret love he never had the courage to confess to. What begins as a series of trivial interactions between them, soon takes an unexpected turn. Shin finds himself in a relationship and, bit by bit, rediscovers his world through love, friendship, and personal achievements he never imagined he would reach. His insecurities and fears slowly disappear as he walks this new path of happiness and success. — This is how i finally woke up to life. And began to live again.

Lxpe · Romance · 9 ch

Labyrinth Quest

Jordan Campbell, and his sister Zara Campbell entered Labyrinth Quest looking for a thrill, but when they logged in, the "Log Out" button vanished. They are no longer playing a game—they are fighting for their survival inside a hostile, crumbling world. With their bodies trapped and their minds pushed to the brink, the only way out is to climb. But as they descend deeper into the Labyrinth, they realize the monsters are only the beginning of their problems. Somewhere in the shadows, the developers are waiting... and they aren't looking to help.

CalvinRobson · Litrpg · 7 ch

Odium Incarnate

Synopsis FBI Agent. Closet Sociopath. Giant. All of these words describe SAC Imai. A man - no, a thing, unleashed onto the word to exact his hate filled vengeance on the proxies of his suffering. Ready to use any means - legal or otherwise - to bring the criminal element to 'justice'. And not the hollow victory of imprisonment. He would bring the only true measure of punishment to greatest amount of people possible. Death - painful if possible. Not just in its physicality but in the sheer destructiveness wrought onto society expertly hidden from prying eyes. Combat. Manipulation. Murder. All key disciplines of warfare. A war fought by a one-man army in the shadows of US law enforcement. /// Introduction - Justice is truly blind, O.I. Hate. It is powerful - it endures the longest amid the dying stars of human emotion. Hate. Utter contempt for one's own race. How far would someone go. How terrible their resolve. How deep the machinations. To extract their revenge - satiate that cool fire - against the object of that burning hate. What heights would such a being reach - when they abhor the sky that hangs overhead and the earth beneath their feet. Their weakness shackles them. Their humanity binds them. Not a wildfire, no, it would be slow. Painful. Equal. An instrument of justice become odium incarnate. A grudge so deep it would consume the soul. A predator unleashed upon ‘polite’ society. How far would such a being go? To make them feel true fear.

Herald · Action · 30 ch

My Anomaly System

[SYSTEM NOTIFICATION] [Power-up applied successfully.] [Current HP: 100/100 (+10)] [CRITICAL ERROR: Source of Power-up Unverified.] [Scanning recipient database...] [Scan failed.] [ALERT: The System cannot log this transaction. Your existence does not match any known player template. The architecture is beginning to shift.] Xyrethian expected a normal System. Instead, it couldn't even identify him. Every time the interface tries to classify his existence, it fails. And every time it fails, something inside the architecture changes. Doors unlock that shouldn't. Events rewrite themselves. Announcements glitch. Entire levels begin behaving differently. Now, the System is hunting the anomaly it accidentally created. But while the world tries to delete him, Xyrethian discovers something impossible. Someone has been building these worlds from behind the scenes all along. If the System can create the games, why can't he?

Voidusa · Litrpg · 2 ch

Chimère

The World of Fortuna is experiencing a Cold War of untold proportions. Lucian, Prince of Rentiers finds himself and his country in the spotlight for the next and perhaps final stage of the conflict. In a world filled with super humans possessing powers thought beyond reach, Abominations of unimaginable cruelty, cunning and ferocity, and cultists seeking to bring the civilized world to chaos, Lucian's path is fraught with unimaginable dangers. After a failed kidnapping, he obtains dangerous powers that may save him and those he desires to protect, or they may send him unto a path of no-return...

theBlynded · Urban Fantasy · 3 ch

JJK: Starting with the Dog and Dragon Talismans

Levi drops into Shibuya on the worst night imaginable—with no cursed energy, no sorcerer pedigree, and two relics from another world. The Dog Talisman makes him unaging and nearly impossible to kill. The Dragon Talisman turns every strike into explosive dragon fire. Unfortunately, Sukuna has awakened, and Levi has landed directly in the path of the King of Curses. A gray mist soon links him to other Levis: Jujutsu Levi in the cursed battlefield, Night City Levi with cyberware and street-born instincts, Wizarding Levi with spellcraft, and Marvel-Vought Levi surviving a world of heroes, corporations, and monsters. Their memories and powers bleed together, merging talisman magic, cursed energy, cybernetics, and sorcery into a path no canon script can predict. As cursed spirits, ancient sorcerers, and hidden masterminds close in, Levi refuses to follow the doomed timeline. He will exploit every loophole, protect the people he chooses, and discover how far an immortal body can evolve when he learns to breathe dragon fire. Unofficial Jujutsu Kaisen fanfiction/translation. Jujutsu Kaisen and its original characters belong to their respective rights holders; this work is not official or licensed.

RoyalInk · Action · 161 ch

Naruto: I Ascend to Godhood Through Character Classes

Reborn in the world of Naruto. Good news: I'm in Konohagakure. Bad news: I'm a member of the Hyūga branch family. Worse news: My older brother, long designated as my family’s heir, lost one of his Byakugan during a mission. And so, six-year-old Shingo had his Byakugan gouged out, his family name stripped away, and was cast out of the Hyūga clan. The main house believed that a Hyūga without the Byakugan would never pose a threat again. Yet Shingo still had the Class System. [Warrior]: Forging muscles and bones through a thousand trials, fists capable of shattering all things, a body that can shake mountains. [Sorcerer]: The circulation of boundless energy, elemental transformation, commanding all magical arts. [Physician]: …… Years later, Shingo returned to the Hyūga compound, stepping heavily upon the chest of his former brother. "My eyes have been borrowed by you for all these years." "It's time to give them back."

Overgod · Action · 10 ch

Using Anomalies to Survive in Another World

Ethan Aster is suddenly transported to another world. A modern Earth except he has to deal with monsters, dungeons, and opposing hunters. Now, he has to survive on this earth and either fight hard to go back or stay and just live in this one.

Insanegooseman · Litrpg · 4 ch

Fate is Calling (but my phone is on silent)

Evon Pérez is the prime example of an incompetent fool, a slacker who charmed his way through life and left others to clean up his messes. He may have all of Reflector society wrapped around his little finger, but that doesn't mean he's good at his job as this generations Mirror. At least, that's how Florian sees him. As the right hand of Evon, Florian gets all up close and personal with all of Evon's "adventures" and has to deal with the consequences too. He is done with picking up the broken pieces of Evon's mishaps, and wants to go his own way. He hates that fate has been dragging him around by the collar ever since he was 14, ready for something new. But when large amounts of Scryers start popping up around the country, he's forced to reconsider his feelings about Evon and maybe, just maybe, pick up the call of fate.

idiosinkrasies · Magical Realism · 9 ch