Superpowers Web Novels

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

The Greatest Hero's Illegitimate Successor

In a world where Superheroes are worshiped as gods and managed by ruthless corporations, 17-year-old Owen Frey has only one ambition: to remain invisible. Asthmatic, cynical, and an absolute coward, he knows that getting mixed up in Super business is the fastest way to end up as a red smear on the pavement. But the universe has a twisted sense of humor. Through a disastrous stroke of bad luck, Owen finds himself bound to a strange organic membrane. This unkillable parasite turns out to be the living suit of "Hope" the planet’s greatest hero, who mysteriously vanished. Worse yet: the suit has a brutal survival instinct, possesses uncontrollable strength, and flat-out refuses to leave him alone. Forced to juggle his high school finals, everyday bullying, a hopeless crush on the school's new prodigy, and a divine armor holding him hostage to go beat down criminals, Owen will quickly learn that behind the comic-book smiles lies a bloody, terrifying reality. He never wanted to save the world. Which is just as well he’s already trying to survive his own clothes. "I will be posting this story on Royal Road'

TheOneWhoKnowNothing · Action · 78 ch

Arc of the Souls

The Soul. It brings life, creates life and destroys life. For 15 years, the galaxy has been in turmoil by an all-consuming war between Soul-Core and Dark Intrinium. Few understand the true reason behind this conflict, yet all bear witness to the destruction it has left. In a desperate attempt to change the course of history, Jumkou Katatoria travels from a shattered future back to the year 2195. Her mission: To stop a catastrophe that left the galaxy in ruins. But playing with time caused an irreversible paradox, creating an even bigger threat than ever before. And she did not come back alone. Chasing her through the rift is the most dangerous Soul-Wielder ever. Those chosen by the Soul were given power. Some use the power to save, others use it to destroy. Which will Jumkou choose? Welcome to the ｢ Arc of the Souls ｣ NOTE: Arc 1 will be reworked/rewritten in the coming future.

Noyr · Sci Fi · 122 ch

Arrogance: Volume One of Ebb & Flow

Volume One Synopsis: Eryk Blakely is different. He’s an emotionless husk pretending to be normal, until he gains superpowers when the end-of-year senior party ends in a massacre. He gains the ability to permanently remove other people's powers and then redistribute them to others, while also stealing a piece of their personality with it. He’s found a solution to his inability to feel. Where it might be irrelevant for most people, for him, it is a life-changing experience. So begins his transformation into a monster, all the while becoming more human. There are no lines he won't cross, no crime he won't commit, and nobody he won't harm in pursuit of his goal. This story does have heroes, but Eryk is not one of them. What to expect: -Faction/Organization Building -Intelligent/Calculating MC -Slow burn, step-by-step rise to power -Interesting 3-dimensional cast of characters -Neutral Evil protagonist

reziduality · Thriller · 201 ch

Death punishment Quest for Vengeance

In 1950, a red rupture split the sky open and changed humanity forever. When the rift vanished, nearly sixty percent of the population awakened supernatural abilities. Cities fell, new powers reshaped society, and from that day forward most people manifested their abilities at the age of sixteen. Power became status. Power became survival. Alan Winchester is the son of the world’s top ranked hero, yet when his generation begins awakening, nothing happens to him. With no abilities in a world built around the superhuman, he turns to science and works inside his father’s organization, believing he can still earn his place another way. Then he discovers classified files: illegal experiments, disappearances, and murder cases hidden behind the image of heroism. After a chain of violent events forces him out of everything he knows, Alan travels to China searching for answers, training, and a different path to power. What begins as survival turns into something far more dangerous as he uncovers forces tied to the original catastrophe that changed humanity. Death. Corruption. Revenge. In a world ruled by strength, Alan will carve his own. What to Expect: Weak to strong progression Brutal fights with real consequences Detailed power systems and scaling Mystery arcs and hidden conspiracies Hero vs villain conflicts with lasting damage Slow-burn romance later on Side characters are not guaranteed to survive Schedule: Chapters 1k–2k words

Alaeddine · Urban Fantasy · 90 ch

The Arcane Guardians

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. - Henry David Thoreau In a world where both magic and supernatural powers coexist, Felix Pagonis is a complacent but powerful psychic who is merely content with using his powers for himself. Despite facing blatant discrimination against his race, he leads a relatively easy life working as a part-time law enforcer in an elite task force: the Guardian Council. But all that will change when his colleague, Gaius Deusdedit, discovers a unique spellcraft that traces back to their world’s sinister origins during one of their missions. A reluctant Felix is dragged into a plot that may very well plunge their world into an eternal, literal hell. Facing a powerful criminal syndicate as well as sinister forces in the shadows, the duo will soon find themselves losing a lot more than they can handle.

Mercynarie · Action · 88 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

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

Crime & Regret

[BISEXUAL PROTAGONIST WITH GL] In a world where people are separated into ability users and unabilitied, Luna Ione is an 18 year old ability user with only one goal: to find her missing siblings. Six years after their disappearance, a chance encounter leads her to two secret organizations. Regret; an organization that uses their abilities for good and wants to resolve things peacefully, led by the heroic and mysterious Blaze Winslow. Crime; a criminal organization that uses their abilities to take revenge on the unabilitied, led by the elusive and mystifying Thorn Shadows. But Blaze and Thorn have a feud that runs deep, and now that Luna has become entangled in it, she's about to find out that the war between Crime and Regret may be more complicated than she could have imagined... Rated Teen+ for violence, mentions of abuse, and depictions of obsessive/toxic one-sided love. Logo with help from @/Meowssey

Lilyflowerv · Urban Fantasy · 31 ch

Gematrail — Echo Observer — Lævateinn

There is a layer to this story that cannot be reached through the surface plot alone. Clues have been deliberately woven throughout the story for the author and readers to uncover together. Everything needed to reach it should already exist in the knowledge and tools we possess, yet it has not fallen into anyone’s hands—not yet. As you read on, the story quietly waits for someone to notice. *** DEVOUR. The ordinary. The reality. The world. Despair, hope, good and evil—none are permitted. The prophecy is fulfilled here. Soon, the world will lose everything. And the man who once saved it has already lost himself. *** The boundary between illusion and reality had long since ceased to exist. In the year 20XX, without warning or precedent, Monsters emerged — consuming cities, devouring lives, swallowing the world’s last reserves of hope whole. And then, when humanity had nearly surrendered to despair, a Savior appeared. What awaited him was a death sentence — the charge: high treason against the state. Stripped of everything that had ever made him himself, he was cast into a cold and indifferent sea. Yet even there, sinking through the abyss, a light found him — the luminance of a Goddess, merging with what remained of his shattered soul. Darkness coiled around him like a living thing, its tendrils hungry and absolute. And still, against all reason, he was pulled back to the surface. He returned with nothing. No past. No name. No self. They gave him a new one — Ariwara Yūki — and with it, a second life stitched together from silence and borrowed time. Beside him walked Sano Amana, the girl who would become his anchor, and for a while, the two of them knew something that almost resembled ordinary days. Then the Monsters came back. They always come back. As his own memories continue to bleed away, Yūki pursues the vanishing silhouette of Amana — drawn ever deeper into a storm where government conspiracies and the ambitions of shadowed factions grind against each other like tectonic plates. He was once the Savior of this world. Now he has nothing. So what, exactly, can a man with nothing left — do? *** Comedy / Ecchi / Fantasy / Harem / Horror / Mature / Mystery / Romance / School Life / Sci-fi / Slice of Life / Supernatural / Tragedy From Japanese Full-length light novel This translation is provided by the author.

⛰️ Mt.Kongou_Ragnarok · Fantasy · 33 ch

Ashborn/アッシュボーン

KobyJamaal · Sci Fi · 20 ch

Catalyst

Five hundred years after "The Shattering" left a scar on the world forever, humanity lives in a fragile " peace " upheld by the cold, iron grip of the Rogue Capture Team (R.C.T.). Terra Umbral doesn’t care about peace. He doesn’t even care much about his own name. As a "Dragon-Killer" with a kill count close to a thousand, Terra is a chaotic force of crimson Ether and lost memories. When a routine heist for a mysterious relic goes wrong in Washington D.C., Terra becomes the target of a full-scale manhunt led by the R.C.T.’s most elite and most unhinged operatives. Forced to take along Dash, a naive sporeborn youth whose life he has already ruined.

dumbhd · Action · 13 ch

What did I leave behind?

After surviving the greatest school massacre of the century, a young man awakens with no memory of who he is. No past. No memories. No identity. He tries to move forward, leaving behind the scars he cannot even remember. However, the more he distances himself, the more fate insists on pulling him back. Encounters with people who seem to know him reveal fragments of a story he never knew was buried… or perhaps one he wanted to forget. Between what was lost and what still lingers in the shadows, submerged beneath the underground of his own truth, a question haunts him like a constant whisper… What did I leave behind?

NovelsEmFragmentos · Urban Fantasy · 1 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