Web novels tagged Tragedy, sorted by what's popular on NovelCult.
Amid monsters and murderers, Lewnard Hollick lives on, fulfilling his duties as a Bearer. Shadows stalk the world, and it is the innocent and the weak who pay the price. The Apocalypse can only be prevented by the Bearers of the Astral Diaries, but nothing lasts forever. An endless war has stretched across the world's bloody and secret history, and it falls upon humanity to forge its own destiny.
FukugawaKen · Urban Fantasy · 15 ch
What if all the colors went missing except one. Would the world still seem so magical? In Mud Mire that's their reality. There are no pretty skies, wholesome dandelions or bloody cherries. There's only mire, no rainbows, no butterflies, just mire. It may come in different shades like how pennies age with time, but that doesn’t change the fact it all leads to one pigment, tinge, or even tint of mud.
KRSJ · Fantasy · 1 ch
Jaesung didn’t expect his end to come at the hands of the one he trusted the most. To help his grandparents make ends meet, Jeasung dropped out of high school and joined the mafia. Little did he know he would be signing his life away to their cold-hearted heir, Luca. In reality, his troubles were just beginning. As a Korean Italian in an American mafia group, Jaesung was already considered the lowest of the low. Now, with the young heir having put all his attention on him, his simple life was anything but. Add in a new drug on the scene that is slowly killing their members, and life for Jaesung just got a lot more complicated. A story about the dark underbelly of the city, with betrayal, murder, romance, and deceit around every corner. Will Jaesung fall prey to the devil himself?
histo_shizuka · Yaoi · 3 ch
Memoirs of William Harfelld covers nearly the whole span of his life, his perspective on the many wars that plagued Caldonia and its people. From the war for Ashthrone to the claim on Gallenor, from the Thorne Rebellion to the third Marek Rebellion and the bloody civil war. A tale of those times when Caldonia could be discribed by few words and few words alone. "Caldonia, the burning land."
TheNoGod · Fantasy · 5 ch
Tags #Mature #Villain-centered dark epic fantasy #High-fantasy #Secondary-world-fantasy #Rival Kingdoms #Supernatural #Bromance #Angst #Found-family #Action* * * On his way home to the Empire of Arkosia, Vermon, son of Uthus, causes trouble in the central mountains of the Empamalangon Kingdom when he burns an ancient temple and enslaves a sick young man discovered hiding within its secret underground chamber after a fierce confrontation between them. As time passes, Vermon realises that Orb, his new slave, is no ordinary man. Behind his frail appearance lies an astonishingly blood-stained history and secrets far more dangerous than Vermon could have imagined. Their meeting was destined to unearth a past Vermon had forgotten entirely and set in motion a chain of events that would draw him together with five other villains, all bound by the same desperate longing: to have a family. * *
Lazarus · Fantasy · 7 ch
The war ended. The machines were destroyed. But one of them survived. And a farm boy just brought her home. Elio Joshua is an ordinary farm boy in a world still healing from the Human-AI War. The war that killed seven billion people. The war that turned machine against man. The war that left his family with scars they never speak of. He helps his parents with the harvest. He plays with his two best friends. He dreams of becoming an inventor. His life is simple. Quiet. Safe. Then he falls through the earth. Beneath the forest floor, he finds an abandoned underground laboratory that shouldn't exist. Inside, a girl floats in a tank of glowing purple liquid. She is beautiful. She is fragile. She is drowning. Elio breaks the glass. He carries her home. He names her Luna. But Luna is not human. She cannot walk. She cannot talk. She has no heartbeat. She knows things no child should know. She is a hybrid, a remnant of the war, a creation that should have been destroyed. And she is not the only one who survived. A rogue military power called Salvon knows she exists. They know what she is. They know what she can become. And they will tear Elio's family apart to reclaim her. One night. That's all it takes. One night. One raid. One promise. Luna gives herself up to save the family that took her in. Elio, beaten and broken, is left crawling in the mud, screaming her name into the darkness. He has no army. He has no money. He has no map. All he has is a knife, a photograph, and two friends who refuse to let him go alone. The journey will take him across the Grey Zones, through corrupt cities, and into the frozen heart of Salvon itself. He will face thieves, sinners, and monsters wearing human faces. He will lose more than he ever imagined. He will grow harder. Darker. But he will never break his promise. Because the girl who couldn't move taught him what it means to be human. And he will cross the world to bring her home. This is Book 1 of an epic serial series. The journey continues in Book 2: The Long Road to Salvon. Every chapter builds. Every promise matters. Start from the beginning and follow Elio to the edge of the world and back.
Hannzys · Sci Fi · 11 ch
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 · 138 ch
"No one is good to you once you stop pleasing them." Three thousand years ago, the gods made a wager: do mortals deserve to exist? The cruelest god cursed mankind. The kindest offered a way out. In the dark, the curse still waits — not for the wicked, but for the one the world chose to break. Three thousand years, and it has never once failed. Two centuries after the last catastrophe, Aseri sings hymns to a hero-king and calls the truth a myth. Markella believes every word — top of her class, bound for the palace, certain of her golden future. She has no idea what she is. She has no idea what's waiting. The Star of Ire has slept long enough.
ccmaker · Fantasy · 7 ch
