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**WARNING** CONTAINS SCENES OF EXTREME PHYSICAL VIOLENCE AND SEVERE DISTRESSING PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA● In the shadowed stillness of the room, she stood transfixed amidst the onslaught of memories of a father now gone. Her tears fell not with a cry, but traced a path down her cheeks in a heavy, stifled silence. As his tall shadow loomed upon the threshold, a faint tremor of dread and uncertainty coursed through her. He stepped inside, moving forward slowly, until he stood close before her. For a fleeting moment, her gazed locked with his—those wild eyes said to carry the scent of blood and the weight of a dark, haunted past. But behind that predatory gaze, another truth was beginning to reveal itself. His fingers, trembling with uncertain restraint, reached towards her face; a touch so delicate it seemed impossible that these hands had ever closed around the cold hilt of a sword. He gazed into the girl's light brown eyes but, he was not looking at her; instead, deep within her eyes, he was searching for someone else. Then with his gentle hands, brushed the tears from her cheeks. With a fevered longing, he pulled her against his chest, as if he were chaining her to his very soul; he then buried his face in her hair. With every breath, he drank in the scent of her. The girl, eyes wet and body rooted in place by fear, yet burning like a furnace from sheer embarrassment, heard the rapid thrumming of his heart against her ear—a beat whose rhythm, like the tender words of a mother, offered solace to a broken heart. Her fear dissolved in the face of the man’s pure and evident grief. She lifted her shaking hands, clutched at his clothes, and in that heavy silence, allowed herself to rest in the chill of the embrace of that dangerous man.

One in ten awakens changed. The rest decide what that change is worth. In a near-future America scarred by the Great Pulse, the world is divided between "branded heroes" and those the system wants to erase. Behind the fireworks, neighborhoods vanish and "unregistered" children disappear into private prisons. When a handful of broke, ordinary strangers begin pushing back, they discover a terrifying truth: The system isn't broken. It was built this way. Shadows of Liberty is a story of survival inside a nation that asks its children to save it, then punishes them for trying. When the torch you were raised to revere burns the hands holding it, do you keep carrying it… or do you finally let it fall?

In a world ruled by elemental power, a boy is born with a forbidden vein that should not exist. Hunted by the government and feared by society, Tomora must survive a cruel world that chooses peace over justice. As ancient powers awaken and humanity reveals its true nature, he is forced to decide whether this world deserves to be saved or erased.

After a devastating crash that should have ended his life, Pondaru wakes up in a body that isn’t fully his own—an unnervingly perfect shell branded with the mark of Project N4O-CHI, a blacksite program that erases humans and rebuilds them as living pleasure dolls. Stripped of his old world, Pondaru finds himself in a decayed cyberpunk underworld where neon lights hide cruelty, androids are discarded like broken toys, and survival often means losing the last pieces of your humanity. But Pondaru isn’t like the others. He bleeds. He hurts. He remembers things automaton like him shouldn't be capable of. Torn between the twisted kindness of a group of mercenary misfits and the looming shadow of the corporation that made him, Pondaru must navigate a world of lust, violence, and identity crisis—where every choice brings him closer to either reclaiming who he is, or becoming the product he was designed to be. In a city that devours the weak and worships desire, one thought haunts him above all: If I bleed… then I must still be real…Right?

Hikari no Kuro (Black of Light) He was born into violence. Trained by sixteen. Forced to kill by seventeen. By eighteen, Kuro did not inherit Tokyo’s underground. He absorbed it, until his silence ruled louder than screams. For twenty years he wore a scar under his eye and blood on his knuckles. His father built a king; Kuro became a monster who believed he deserved no light. Then he vanished. No war. No funeral. Just rain, a battered T9 phone, and a throne he abandoned only after making sure it would not collapse without him. Hikari was never meant to meet him. She has spent her life learning how to disappear: shaking hands, hidden bruises, a breath that catches when men get too close. She does not believe in rescue. Only survival. When violence corners her in a dead-end alley, Kuro sees her. Not a victim, not a ghost, but someone worth pulling back from the edge. Even if the calm he wears stops holding. This is not a love story. It is a covenant written in bone and forty-three seconds of silence, between a woman who believes she is ash..., and the man who knows ash still burns. Because even in the purest light... a shadow always lingers. ! Content warning ! : violence, trauma themes, harassment. Chapter-specific CWs provided.

In the world where people are divided in two nations, RICH and POOR. Rich lives and rules the whole world and the poor lives in slums made inside the walls laid by rich people. A boy named Richard Keats living among the poor in the slums gets his life turned upside down. Now what will the boy do and what path will he choose? Follow him through his journey to know what happens next...

Six thousand years ago, when the fallen angels tore through the heavens and drowned the Cardinal continent in a dark holy war, seven great Maidens were called as the world’s final Stronghold. In a battle that annihilated nearly all civilization, only one of them returned alive ... Anastasia Germaine Lawrence, the Maiden of the Silent Winter. Her six companions fell after sacrificing their soul and body to seal the leader of the fallen angels. Anastasia, who survived yet could not save them, bears wounds that never healed. Guilt froze within her heart, turning her into a silent wanderer who rejects the title, honour, name and destiny she once carried. Having abandoned her Maiden status, Anastasia treads an endless path of penitence ... searching for a way to pay a price she will never could pay. Yet the shadow of that ancient war never truly vanishes. The figure who slaughtered her all friend… still watches her from afar. Waiting for the right moment... To rise again and bring the world back to suffering

Mainly involving around the Shainihebun, where everything is lead to betrayal and tragedy, Chiyo, a warrior that is known for her talent to create crystals out of nothing, lives a life of a prey and goes through consistent loss and self-guilt. The book is about Chiyo's self sacrifice to spread the Mythical Prisms, basically indulging deep into the origins of what went down millenias ago.

Lucien Vale was never meant to be important. In his previous life, he was a terminally ill otaku—weak, bedridden, and living only through the fantasy novels he loved. His death was cruelly ironic: not from cancer, but from a truck accident on his way home from the hospital. When he opens his eyes again, he finds himself reincarnated inside his favorite novel. But not as the hero. Not as the demon lord. Not even as a major antagonist. He awakens as Lucien Vale, a third-rate villain—a disposable noble whose only role was to provoke the protagonist… and die in rage as a stepping stone. This time, Lucien refuses that fate. Granted a mysterious Bonding System, he gains the ability to form deep bonds with others—replicating their talents, attributes, and potential once trust is earned. Through bonds, effort, and calculated future knowledge, Lucien begins to rewrite the story itself. At the prestigious Imperial Academy, Lucien trains among nobles, commoners, and other races—elves, dragons, vampires, and dwarves—while hiding terrifying truths: Hidden attributes like Void, Space, and Divine A cursed, evolving sword that speaks to him alone A dangerous path beyond SSS Rank As monsters rise, students vanish, and demons move in the shadows, Lucien discovers that power alone is not enough. Even SSS Rank is merely a ceiling imposed by the world. Chosen by the Goddess of Sight, Lucien is shown a forbidden route—the Path of Transcend, a brutal thirteen-step journey meant to surpass mortal limits, extend lifespan, and challenge even gods. But power has a price. The Void threatens his sanity. Bloodlines clash within his body. Gods argue over his existence. And the story he once knew begins to fracture beyond recognition. Now standing between heroes, villains, demons, and gods, Lucien must decide: Will he become humanity’s strongest protector… Or the calamity that devours everything? This is the story of a forgotten villain who refuses to be a footnote, and instead walks a path even the gods fear to follow. if you are weak hearted person, then don't read after second boss death . My novel is only comedy in starting.

After three hundred years as a legendary grandmaster in a glorious cultivation world, Zhung Hang dies peacefully in his death bed, only to awaken in a modern hospital bed. Doctors smile kindly and tell him it was nothing but a coma-induced dream. Stripped of every achievement, every bond, every shred of meaning, he returns to a life where no one ever truly wanted him. Parents who saw him as a burden. A little brother who died forgotten. Love that was never love. On a rainy night, he slits his throat and makes one final vow: “If reality is crueler than any dream, I will carve the next one with my own hands, even if I have to become something neither demon nor saint.” Death refuses him. He awakens again, reborn as an eight-year-old boy named Zhung in a third, far crueler world. Here, there is no qi, no spiritual roots, no merciful heaven. Power is measured by the **Nine Refinements of Will**, a brutal path where mortals must drink the fresh blood of divine or demonic beasts to tear open an **Aperture** inside their flesh. One wrong drop can leave you a conscious vegetable feeling eternal agony. One deep wound can strip a lifetime of progress in seconds. In this world, Zhung has only one light: his mother Zheng Han, the third and person in three lifetimes who has ever loved him without condition. For eight years he remains powerless, hiding behind a gentle smile while secretly feeding travellers to a beast in the forest cave, waiting for the day its blood will let him begin. He does not walk the righteous path. He does not walk the demonic path. He walks the **Broken Path**, a third road forged from the refusal to ever again be heaven’s tragic puppet. A dark, slow-burn xianxia of cosmic betrayal, quiet maternal love, and a soul that will gamble everything just to protect the one person who never asked him to be anything more than her son. The heavens wrote the first two tragedies. The third one will be his.

Shiba Takumi, a 17-year-old outcast in the quiet castle town of Matsumoto, has spent years pouring his pain into underground rap, only to be met with silence, ridicule, and crushing rejection. Labeled a delinquent after violently defending himself from relentless middle-school bullying, he’s been abandoned by a family that views him as a shame and ignored by a society that discards anyone who doesn’t conform. When his raw plea for a collaboration is brutally dismissed by popular idol Suzuki Aika, Takumi channels the humiliation into a diss track that unexpectedly goes viral, finally giving him the attention he’s craved — but at the cost of burning bridges he didn’t know he still needed.

“I like the name. Glass Fang. Has a nice contradiction to it, doesn’t it? Something sharp, something fragile. Pretty. Breakable. Deadly._ That’s what they see when they look at me— Glass. A quiet girl with shy smiles and average scores. Invisible, forgettable, fragile. They don’t see the fang underneath. The venom. The bite that tears the throat out of their perfect little hero machine. I go to class. I take notes. I wear the stupid glasses and laugh when they want me to. Then at night, I rewrite the world from below. They call her Nyxshade now. But really, she’s just me. Without the leash. This story isn’t about heroes. It’s about the lie they wrapped the world in— And the girl sharp enough to shatter it. Glass Fang. Remember the name. I’ll make sure it’s the last thing they ever choke on.”

Zaino is from a magical world called “The all null" his life was miserable,when he finally die's , the god decided to give him a chance in a new life. but after questioning bit to much, he was sent to hell, after unknown time passed away he comes back. Now more powerful than ever, with his friend lily he explore the world and he want's to have revenge on the gods and finds the secrets of the world and find the time to have fun in the way, and trys to find out what really happened that day. and trys to find himself in the way.and started to trust other people, don't believe all of the story doubt everything.

A tormented man flees through a cosmic void, haunted by fractured reflections of himself and the crushing weight of existence. After enduring starvation, terror, and physical agony (including being flayed alive), he reaches the Cathedral of Cosmos – a realm of terrifying, incomprehensible divinity governed by the Indomitable Magistrate. The Magistrate, a being of chilling indifference and cruel mockery, confronts the man. He resurrects the man’s greatest pain: the memory of his wife and child, incinerated in war. Forced to relive this trauma, the man is then compelled by the Magistrate to ritually flay his resurrected wife using a "Bayesian Blade," transforming her suffering into a perverse sacrament called the "Liturgy of the Flayed." Her final words affirm eternal hatred born of suffering. When the man attacks the Magistrate in rage, his defiance is effortlessly crushed. The Magistrate concludes with a musical performance underscoring the Cathedral’s core truth: all meaning is inverted. Pain is love, cruelty is compassion, and suffering is the only transcendent sacrament in a universe devoid of gods, hope, or redemption. The man’s journey ends not in salvation, but in the absolute acceptance of torment as his only reality. Protagonist: The Flayed Man/Reverend Agony Secondary Protagonist: The Flayed Woman/Matriarch Despair Tertiary Protagonist: Nikolai Rozhdestvensky - Unpractical Man/Ubermensch/Absurd Hero First Estate: The Clerics of Ineffable Domain: ■ Pope of Determinism ■ Cardinal of Relativity ■ Archbishop of Uncertainty ■ Bishop of Probability ■ Deacon of Decoherence 2nd Estate: The Suzerain of Abstract Domain: ■ Emperor of Origin, the suzerain of Logic, Concept and Comprehension ■ Archduke of Morality: the vassal of Good, Evil and Ethics ■ Duke of Chaos, the vassal of Distortion, Anarchy and Loophole ■ Marquis of Order, the vassal of Authority, Hierarchy and Assertion ■ Count of Pragmatism, the vassal of Rationality, Irrationality and Ambiguity ■ Viscount of Idealism, the vassal of Reform, Justice and Transformation ■ Baron of Reason, the vassal of Phenomenology, Epistemology and Ontology. ■ Baronet of Wisdom, the vassal of Experience, Potential and Insight ■ Provost of Instinct, the vassal of Impulse, Innateness and Intuition Third Estate: The Parliament of Irreducible Domain: ■ Indomitable Magistrates ■ Potentiate of Omnipresence ■ Sovereign of Omnipotence ■ Philosopher of Omniscience ■ Justiciar of Axioms ​ Genre: Metaphysical Cosmic Horror, Satire, Tragedy, Fusion of Classical and Post-Modern Literature, Graphic Violence, Politics and Science Fiction Warning: Contains cognitive hazard depiction of disturbing graphic violence, verbal and psychological abuse. Please, proceed with warning for not easily disturbed.

In a world that has forgotten its own creation, the cycle begins again. Long before memory, the universe was shaped by fragments of unimaginable power—stones that carried will, purpose, and consequence. In the modern city of Sagar, three ordinary students begin to feel the echo of those fragments awakening within them. Vaibhav, burdened by a crystal that remembers countless deaths. Shlokh, whose voice resonates with balance and authority. Shourya, who glimpses futures he pretends not to notice. As exams end and winter approaches, reality begins to fracture—memories blur, dreams bleed into waking life, and an unfamiliar presence steps closer from the shadows. This is not a story of heroes chosen by fate. It is the story of a cycle that never stopped… And of what happens when creation begins to remember itself.

“You said you were worthless. But worthless things aren’t taken by anyone… Yet I’m taking you.” The boy narrowed his eyes. Renji smiled faintly. “So that means… you have worth now.” Fractured Gaze is a novel about broken souls, fading loyalties, and the quiet violence of choices that can’t be taken back. In the ruins of a forgotten empire, past tragedies hold power. And the rebellion begins — not with war horns, but with fractured people learning how to bleed together. There are no chosen ones here. No heroes. No prophecies. Only those who’ve been hurt... and those who decide what that pain is worth. If you're looking for a fast-paced power fantasy, this might not be your story. But if you’re drawn to action, found family, and the cost of fighting for something that may never love you back — welcome. All chapters are free to read. Written by me, occasionally assisted by AI tools for editing, phrasing, and clarity. Cover art generated with DALL·E by OpenAI.

My journey to rebuild my relationships with my family and friends that had grown distant, and to create a beautiful dream world for you and me.

Han Jae-Won, commander of the elite Black Wolf Squad, died with guilt in his chest and blood on his hands. Betrayed by the comrade he trusted most, and forced to watch his entire squad executed in front of him, he whispered his last words alone: “I didn’t want to die like this…” But death wasn’t the end. Jae-Won wakes up in a newborn’s body—reborn in a peaceful world far from war, bullets, and betrayal. Yet the memories of his fallen pack follow him. The pain, the loss, the rage… none of it fades. Now, armed with the experience of a soldier, the instincts of a leader, and a second chance at life, he will rise again in a world unprepared for him. This is the story of a broken soldier reborn with the will to climb, dominate, protect, and one day—avenge.

In a world where shadows dread the darkness, Sylas Tenebris was raised by Mercy, in her orphanage. a woman whose warmth defied a cold, unforgiving world. But when the Eclits Jurisprudence-a merciless law decreeing death for the suspected-targets their orphanage, Mercy entrusts Sylas and his best friend kael with a desperate mission: find Princess Luna and plead for her aid. Yet fate played a cruel ploy. As sylas and kael venture into a treacherous world, they discover that love and warmth are scarce, and survival demands confronting the harsh truths lurking beyond the orphanage's walls. The World Without Mercy' was originally uploaded by me before, but due to unforeseen circumstances, I had to discontinue it. Now I'm back - stronger, steadier, and ready to continue what I started. Everything here is my own creation, and I'm excited to share this story again. Welcome back to the world without mercy. You can also find this novel in royal road.