In a time under the reign of the 8th King of Anarchy, this story unfolds. The young woman blazed as her whole body was engulfed in flames. With only a withering mind left, her final solace remained in her own death. Thus she attempts to end her life in an ultimate act of jumping off, only to get caught by a suited and eccentric dollmaker. He, who wields a mystical power known as Artistry, finds her fate to be an amusing one and decides to reanimate her from the clutches of death, building her...

The king is dead; his heir is too young to assume the throne. Jarl Vale wants to become Lord Protector, spurred by his ambitious brother Konstans. Jarl Isarn likewise seeks this power; he is aided ΓÇô or thwarted ΓÇô by the return of his brother, the knight and war hero Athelstan, whose squire, Brand, hopes to restore his familyΓÇÖs fortunes, cost what it may. Through all of this, an enigmatic traveller makes plans with jarls, scribes, and priests for his own purpose. Abroad, powerful forces ...

The top percentage Rattata was a legendary existence never before proven to work in the highest levels of professional battling, or any level of professional battling to be honest. But, Joey, a reincarnated youngster, was willing to pull all the stops into making this dream a reality and make his partner ascend into the realm of champions. A pre-canon self-insert.

At that time, the magical knowledge was accessible to all readers. A sense of longing was born in us at that time, as we thought that a new golden age was about to begin, something like the Enlightenment that we study in history classes.Unfortunately, that longing ended as quickly as it began. After all, a new trend began to become popular: the TT elixir seemed like a miracle out of its time. It promised to increase our magical energy and expand our knowledge of spells even faster."Who knew t...

Could you survive a horror movie? That's the question Riley must answer after he and his friends get lured to Carousel, a malevolent town where horror movies come to life. Riley thinks he is in big trouble when he is assigned the Film Buff archetype, a minor support class that has a penchant for dying early in movies. At first resigned to his fate to die over and over, he believes he has found a way to survive. Upon obtaining the Oblivious Bystander trope, monsters and killers will not harm h...

Stranded on a new world, his only option is to go full Genghis Khan. Ray was a professional killer, bound by a code that kept him sharp, careful, and alive. But when a mission goes wrong, he awakens in a brutal world where survival means taking lives and growing stronger with every soul consumed. Among six exiles from Earth, only one can return. Five must die. Ray needs to go home to take his revenge so… the other earthlings are out of luck. What to expect: ✨ System introduced in Chapter ...

In the far off future a lone sentient weapon survives the horrors of a war and finds himself without purpose. This is the tale of Mentuc as he struggles to find a new path of life, alongside the aid of his beloved wife. Of course, the past has a way of not letting go and history is always written by the victors... An interactive story where we follow the life of Mentuc both in his present day life as a married civilian and his past as the commander of the infamous Genesis Battalion, an entire...

In the year 2090, technology has advanced to the point where Simulation Boxes, (Sim Box for short) are common place, allowing for the user to link up their brain's neural network to a full dive Simulation. While initially used for educational purposes, recently a large gaming company, Averon, released a fully fledged immersive MMORPG simulation where users can become anyone they desire, level up, choose their class, and become a hero or a villain. The name of this simulation is The Shattered...

[I was reborn after being murdered because of the true wish that I made for revenge against all human-peoples, but now I’m alive again and I actually just kind of don’t want to do that anymore; so I opened a shoe-store instead!] After being violently torn from her old life in the natural world after being grotesquely murdered by miners belonging to members of the common races of humans and elves, Mirabelle the fairy makes a true wish to anything that can hear her dying screams, beckoning ...

Leon and his father, Artorias, are the last remaining scions of a once powerful and illustrious family of lightning mages.  After barely surviving an attack that destroyed their home fifteen years ago, they now live in the dangerous Northern Vales, a desolate wilderness far away from civilization.  But those who want them dead are strong, patient, and relentless, and it is only a matter of time before they find the two they seek...   Posted first on my website, wardenreading.com, which wil...

Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 1 is now on Amazon! mybook.to/dungeoncrawlercarl Book 2 is also now available! mybook.to/dungeoncrawlercarl2Royal Road and Patreon is where to get the newest chapters and releases.  The apocalypse will be televised! A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible.In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth—from Bucki...

Strip away wants.  Strip away desire, strip away dreams and hopes.  When you peel it back, such things are luxuries only possible when you have first guaranteed your survival.  Survival is everything, and in its pursuit, even the self may need to be stripped away for the survival of the species.  Life, of her and her people, was nothing to the aliens if it was not useful.  So she would be useful, she would be obedient, and she would survive.  Under the control of the new rulers of her w...

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: This story is a rough draft! If you'd like to see a more current version of the story, please go here!  Although this rough draft has more content, I really, really recommend reading along with the revised version. Major revisions are made, including humongous expansions and outright changes to multiple plot elements, and it is the revised version under which the story will be continued. If you read this rough draft, you will be reading up on an obsolete version of th...

"They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. What then are we to think of it when the gods themselves steal our ideas on how the universe should work? Can we complain when they turn reality into a game? Can we get a refund on life itself? The gods claim they answered our prayers. That they built this world with us in mind. That they brought us here for our own sake. Maybe they did. Personally I think they have their own reasons. We're not the players in this game, we're the pieces o...

Erind Hartwell, a first-year law student with psychopathic tendencies and an obsessive compulsion to follow an arbitrary set of Rules, tries to live a normal life in a world where superhumans battle eldritch horrors invading minds. Society frowned on different, and she was content with playing along if the world didn't bother her. That was one of the many Rules she followed. Unfortunately, the world couldn't help but bother Erind's normal life. On the brink of death, an entity offered powers ...

Hull is living on the streets of Treledyne, scrabbling to survive. HeΓÇÖs sure that if he can just find a card that he can use, things will turn around and heΓÇÖll start building a deck that will let him take revenge on the ones who have wronged him. ItΓÇÖs hard to get started, though, when the only cards he can use come from the Demon Realm. Basil might be a noble, but the third son of the baronet in charge of the City Watch doesnΓÇÖt exactly have his pick of the KingΓÇÖs Card Reserves. If o...

Lindle is determined to be as unlike his father as possible.  Unfortunately, being a half-giant is hard to ignore, and the system seems determined to force him to take a giant-exclusive class. Seizing what very well be his last chance before his path is determined in three months, Lindle takes a job guiding an adventuring party out of his snowy village and into the sunless tundra. Down in the dungeon, he finds his chance, but no one's ever heard of an Artificer class before. Fortunately, Lin...

Anathema know only power, hunger, and violence. They are mindless creatures—but what if someone made one that wasn't? Four decades ago, breaches opened up across the world, unleashing hordes of strange and powerful monsters called Anathema. Now, the constant threat of these incursions is held back by a growing number of Guardians who awaken the potential to cultivate powers that will help them fight back against the Anathema. Alex isn't one of them. As far as she's concerned, she's a perfec...

Captured as a baby dragon, Fia is forced to fight for her life in a coliseum. And she's not the only one.  Thrown into a cell with an aggressive, juvenile dragon, Fia hopes to survive if she can appeal to the mysterious Umbra Caligo. However, Umbra seems as desperate to survive as her—and Fia has nothing to offer him. The older black dragon is far too young for the countless scars on his wings. Fia wonders if she must become more like him to not only survive, but also escape and make it ho...

Rewrite -> https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/55140/stranger-than-fiction  150k words of rewritten and new content, updating 3 times a day. Faith is like ice-cream. It comes in all flavors. Greek, Norse, Sumerian, Christian— just name it and it's there. Adventures, on the other hand, are like credit cards. The first taste is free, but the price only goes up from there. Family heirlooms, now those are true evil. You get burdened with them for sentimental reasons even if they’re icky. For L...