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Mother of Learning

Mother of Learning

Original Adventure Fantasy Mystery Magic
12,409 Followers
2,930 Pages
6,918,009 Views
108 Chapters
2/10/2020 10:42:19 PM +00:00

Zorian is a teenage mage of humble birth and slightly above-average skill, attending his third year of education at Cyoria's magical academy. He is a driven and irritable young man, consumed by a desire to ensure his own future and free himself of the influence of his family, whom he resents for favoring his brothers over him. Consequently, he has no time for pointless distractions or paying attention to other people's problems. As it happens, time is something he is about to get plenty of. On the eve of the Cyoria's annual summer festival, he is killed and brought back to the beginning of the month, just before he was about to take a train to Cyoria. Suddenly trapped in a time loop with no clear end or exit, Zorian will have to look both within and without to unravel the mystery before him. And he does have to unravel it, for the time loop hadn't been made for his sake and dangers lurk everywhere... Repetition is the mother of learning, but Zorian will have to first make sure he survives to try again - in a world of magic, even a time traveler isn't safe from those who wish him ill.

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If anyone is interested, I have a story-related worldbuilding site that can be found here. I don't update it as often as I should, but there is a fair amount of content there already. It also contains a page with all the fanart, fan translations, audio books and the like - you can reach it directly by clicking this link.

I have a patreon account for those kind people that want to give me money. It also contains info for those who want to donate via paypal.

The story was originally posted on fictionpress, back in 2011. When I reached chapter 91, I started uploading the story to RoyalRoad, one chapter per day. The story will continue to be updated on fictionpress as well as here, and can be reached by clicking on this link if somebody is interested, though at this point there is nothing there that isn't also on RoyalRoad.

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The cover you see on the side has been made by a fellow RoyalRoad user Sydorow. Thank you for your time and art skills.

Beware Of Chicken

Beware Of Chicken

Original Adventure Comedy Fantasy Romance Reincarnation Portal Fantasy / Isekai Martial Arts Male Lead Xianxia
14,969 Followers
544 Pages
3,373,397 Views
80 Chapters
4/21/2021 7:02:01 PM +00:00

Jin Rou wanted to be a cultivator who defied the heavens, and surpassed all limits.

Unfortunately for him, he died, and now I’m stuck here. Arrogant young masters? Heavenly tribulations? Cultivating for days on end, then getting into life or death battles?

Yeah, no thanks. I'm getting out of here.

In which a transmigrator decides that the only winning move is not to play.

Beware of Chicken will be updated Monday to Wednesday, and then Friday.

The Perfect Run

The Perfect Run

Original Adventure Comedy Sci-fi Mystery Male Lead Strong Lead Anti-Hero Lead Super Heroes Time Travel Loop Genetically Engineered
9,107 Followers
937 Pages
1,718,962 Views
79 Chapters
4/22/2021 2:01:34 PM +00:00

The Perfect Run is now available on Amazon Kindle. 

Ryan "Quicksave" Romano is an eccentric adventurer with a strange power: he can create a save-point in time and redo his life whenever he dies. Arriving in New Rome, the glitzy capital of sin of a rebuilding Europe, he finds the city torn between mega-corporations, sponsored heroes, superpowered criminals, and true monsters. It's a time of chaos, where potions can grant the power to rule the world and dangers lurk everywhere. 

Ryan only sees different routes; and from Hero to Villain, he has to try them all. Only then will he achieve his perfect ending... no matter how many loops it takes.

The Perfect Run updates on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Cover by Vitaly S. Alexius. 

Vigor Mortis

Vigor Mortis

Original Adventure Fantasy Horror Female Lead Magic High Fantasy Progression
5,535 Followers
478 Pages
566,320 Views
45 Chapters
4/21/2021 6:18:13 PM +00:00

In a world of sky islands orbiting around a core of mist, humanity is besieged with countless threats.  When a young girl from the slums unwittingly becomes one of those threats, she finds herself capable of horrific things that she can’t help but learn to love...  

Vigor Mortis is a lighthearted story about existential terror.  Come for the horror, stay for the hope.  

Enjoy the read!

A Journey of Black and Red

A Journey of Black and Red

Original Action Adventure Fantasy Historical Female Lead Urban Fantasy Villainous Lead
6,771 Followers
2,086 Pages
1,771,114 Views
112 Chapters
4/16/2021 10:40:39 AM +00:00

Where am I? What is this! I... I don't remember anything. I am in chains? Why am I in chains?! And why am I so very...

Thirsty.

 

 

This is a story of vampires as I believe they should be, with their strengths and weaknesses, with their remnants of humanity and the beast inside. Updates every Friday. Mind the tags. 

Cover by Antti Hakosaari: https://www.artstation.com/haco

Special thanks to Svensonsen for getting me started, as well as Omi Nya, Jemima, my patrons and you dear readers, for the support.

Virtuous Sons: A Greco Roman Xianxia

Virtuous Sons: A Greco Roman Xianxia

Original Adventure Comedy Fantasy Tragedy Martial Arts Slice of Life Supernatural Male Lead Strong Lead Multiple Lead Characters Secret Identity Magic Wuxia Xianxia Low Fantasy Mythos War and Military Progression Attractive MC
2,762 Followers
218 Pages
171,926 Views
28 Chapters
4/12/2021 10:47:55 PM +00:00

The saying goes that when a man is born the Fates weave his destiny and swaddle him in it. Then one day the man dies, and the swaddle becomes a shroud. Heaven moves on.

It is audacity to question the Fates. Olympus is Olympus. The land of men is the land of men. To transgress that, to cross the line of divinity and scale Olympus Mons? To defy the Fates and cast off their threads?

That is hubris. It’s a mark that every philosopher bears plainly on their soul.

[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]

Vainqueur the Dragon

Vainqueur the Dragon

Original Adventure Comedy Fantasy Satire LitRPG Strong Lead Multiple Lead Characters Non-Human lead Anti-Hero Lead
10,363 Followers
1,656 Pages
5,461,852 Views
156 Chapters
10/1/2020 2:01:41 PM +00:00

Vainqueur is now available on Amazon! Book 1 (Audiobook 1), Book 2 (Audiobook 2). 

Vainqueur Knightsbane is your average dragon: a giant, fire-breathing lizard who loves to take naps on his golden hoard, kidnap princesses for fun, and make the life of adventurers miserable. Vainqueur's only pleasure in life is to watch his treasure get bigger, one coin at a time.

So when a would-be thief turned unwilling minion tells him about "classes," "levels," and "quests," Vainqueur wonders if maybe, just maybe, he should consider a career change. 

After all, why bother hunting monsters for free when you can get paid for it?

RE: Trailer Trash

RE: Trailer Trash

Original Adventure Drama Historical Contemporary Slice of Life School Life Supernatural Female Lead
6,475 Followers
728 Pages
1,023,121 Views
36 Chapters
4/1/2021 4:10:26 PM +00:00

In the year 2045, an MRI mishap transmits Tabitha Moore's mind back into her body in the past. Now it's 1998, she's thirteen years old, and she has to confront her long, miserable lifetime of failures—and once again being trailer trash—all over again.

...Or, does she?

/// A re-do story, everyone's guilty pleasure. Updates every month.

Kairos: A Greek Myth LitRPG

Kairos: A Greek Myth LitRPG

Original Action Adventure Fantasy LitRPG Male Lead Anti-Hero Lead Strategy High Fantasy Mythos Ruling Class Progression
3,946 Followers
327 Pages
216,215 Views
23 Chapters
4/22/2021 2:01:13 PM +00:00
It has been centuries since mortals unlocked the secrets of the Fate System and overthrew Mount Olympus. The old gods are dead, and their thrones are empty. Kairos, a young pirate with the ability to speak with animals, has an ambition: to ascend as the newest deity of a flooded world. But divine power is not given. It is taken.

Now Kairos must sail the endless sea, tame fearsome monsters, and conquer new lands. The challenges are many, but he will face them all. For Kairos is a cunning [Rogue] indeed...


Cover by Vitaly S. Alexius. 
Borne of Caution

Borne of Caution

Fan Fiction Adventure Drama Fantasy Portal Fantasy / Isekai Supernatural Male Lead Multiple Lead Characters Non-Human lead Urban Fantasy
4,807 Followers
594 Pages
430,205 Views
25 Chapters
3/14/2021 10:46:54 PM +00:00

NOTE: Currently on Haitus. To return on or before 6/14/2021

An irritated Pokemon might tell you to stop what you're doing. An irritated animal will probably just attack you. Pokemon, for all their power, would be open books and a breeze to care for to any competent animal handler on Earth. After a fiery death, a professional zookeeper who never outgrew Pokemon games ends up in the world of Pokemon. The entire world is thrown onto its side.

Lost In Translation

Lost In Translation

Original Adventure Drama Fantasy Romance Slice of Life Supernatural Male Lead Secret Identity Magic High Fantasy Mythos Time Travel Progression
1,817 Followers
229 Pages
92,907 Views
23 Chapters
4/21/2021 11:02:30 PM +00:00

If you're one to travel the roads, you may have heard of me. You may have heard my Names in the stories, the songs, and the whispers of the road. Perhaps you've even seen me during my travels, speaking to a bird of blue light, or on a city street, performing small acts for coin and repute. Or perhaps you may know me as the Skystrider, who walked with the wind. Or the Voiceless, a man of song without speech. You may know me as the Tutor, who taught the Lion of Summer how to fight, or the Traveler, who has walked all the roads of the earth. I am all of these things.

And people have branded me a myth.

But people don't understand what a myth is. They haven't heard the songs lost to our tongues, nor have they seen the things I've seen. They haven't gone to the places I've gone.

My feet have walked the plains, the seas, and the clouds. I have spoken languages unspoken; tongues lost to time. I have sung to the earth, held the moon in my arms, and walked the roads that your heroes hesitate to even mention. I have outwitted Demons. I have danced with the Fae. My songs have been heard by lords of wind and ash, and my steps have echoed in the bellies of gargantuan beasts the likes of which you have never seen.

These are what real myths are. And me?

I'm no legend.

I'm just the bard stupid enough to poke the real ones with a stick.


Discord link here.

Art by Steve Goad, taken from Google. You can find more of his art here!

[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]

Seaborn

Seaborn

Original Adventure Fantasy LitRPG Magic GameLit
8,196 Followers
836 Pages
1,180,875 Views
51 Chapters
4/18/2021 1:46:00 PM +00:00

Domenic is a sailor who just wants a life at sea. A brewing war between nations turn the already dangerous seas into something perilous. Domenic is forced into an untenable position, one he escapes with his life – though there is a greater cost he’ll have to pay after his deal with the devil.

Join Domenic as he explores the meaning and cost of both servitude and freedom!

New content weekly!  (Sundays in the U.S.)

Jack Voraces is narrating this story - and doing a fantastic job of it!  Listen in on his work and you can even pitch in on how you think things should sound.  The artwork done by Clara while he narrates is awesome too!  Check him out at these links:

For discord:  discord.gg/6B5hJdx
Twitch:  www.twitch.tv/jackvoraces 
RE: Monarch

RE: Monarch

Original Adventure Fantasy Psychological Mystery Reincarnation Martial Arts Male Lead Magic Strategy Grimdark High Fantasy Time Travel Loop Progression
4,184 Followers
809 Pages
857,780 Views
85 Chapters
4/16/2021 4:17:11 PM +00:00

Cairn is a prince who is already tired of ruling. Faced with an imminent coronation and an overbearing father, he wants nothing more than to drown his responsibilities in cheap liquor and poor decisions. With the help of his sister, he hatches a plan to escape the clutches of the throne once and for all. It all goes terribly wrong, and Cairn finds his priorities shifting in the face of unimaginable tragedy. The change of heart comes too late, however, and Cairn dies. He reawakens to find himself transported ten years in the past. He immediately begins to plan for the future, only to discover his killer has somehow followed him. To succeed, Cairn must unite the kingdom and discover the motivation of his killer, using as many tries as it takes. 

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I exhausted pretty much every time loop story ever written and decided to write my own. You'll see a few similarities here between this story and some existing stories, at least initially. There's a lot of inspiration drawn from both MoL and Re:Zero, though in terms of pathos and darkness, this story leans more towards the latter. Be warned, it is something of a slow burn. The main character will grow and become powerful, but a theme of this story is that power comes slowly and often at great cost. 

Updates Monday, Wednesday, and Friday

Cover commissioned from the amazing Viki-Vaki on Deviant Art

The Essence of Cultivation

The Essence of Cultivation

Original Action Adventure Fantasy Portal Fantasy / Isekai Martial Arts Male Lead Strong Lead Magic Wuxia High Fantasy
7,230 Followers
164 Pages
258,918 Views
10 Chapters
12/31/2020 1:58:11 AM +00:00

After experiencing five years of an adventurer's life, Arcanist Sylar Wershin now spends his days catching up on developments in Essence Studies and teasing apart the functions of arcane trinkets and artifacts discovered by him and his companions throughout their time travelling the realms of Resham. An unexpected accident during the study of his latest subject of intrigue, however, displaces him across the Planes beyond what any known spell is capable of achieving.

Now finding himself lost in a realm rich in previously-limited Transcendental Essences, however, does he truly even want to return back to his old world? If nothing else, plagiarising - ahem, learning new spell structures by observing the local Mages should prove entertaining. Sure, there were new dangers in this foreign world, but they wouldn't be anything a fancy bit of spellwork couldn't solve.

Though, he would appreciate it greatly if someone could explain to him just what this 'cultivation' business was, why the local Mages were all muscle-brained freaks obsessed with immortality, and why they all seemed to lack any appreciation for the finer details of Essence manipulation. That would be nice.

Prophecy Approved Companion

Prophecy Approved Companion

Original Adventure Comedy Fantasy Satire LitRPG Virtual Reality Female Lead Non-Human lead Magic GameLit High Fantasy
2,816 Followers
524 Pages
537,373 Views
71 Chapters
4/13/2021 3:00:00 AM +00:00

Qube is an NPC in an AI-driven VR-RPG who avoids her scripted death and blithely continues following the Player, trying to make sense of the normalised nonsense of Fantasy RPGs and accidentally glitching out the world in stranger and stranger ways as she seeks to be the very best Childhood Companion ever.

It’s a loving parody of old school RPGs, high fantasy, and every gamer who has ever thought “what happens if I do this...”

Updates Tuesdays and Fridays.

This is essentially a first draft, so I welcome grammatical corrections etc.

Discord: https://discord.gg/XGr5DTN

Cover by: https://www.instagram.com/pengwen.l/

There is no Epic Loot here, Only Puns.

There is no Epic Loot here, Only Puns.

Original Adventure Comedy Fantasy LitRPG Female Lead Magic
10,909 Followers
1,795 Pages
7,548,289 Views
151 Chapters
2/20/2021 5:01:12 PM +00:00

She became a dungeon core.

Everything pointed Delta to murdering her way to success. People were just mana farms, right?

No, that was wrong. Delta refused. Then everything became odd.

Tower of Somnus

Tower of Somnus

Original Action Adventure Fantasy Sci-fi LitRPG Cyberpunk Female Lead Magic GameLit Urban Fantasy
6,181 Followers
965 Pages
1,262,711 Views
80 Chapters
4/21/2021 1:45:42 PM +00:00

When humanity first encountered alien life, we were judged and found wanting.  

The Galactic Consensus interviewed our leaders and subjected us to a battery of psychological tests to determine our progress as a society.  They found us to be selfish, wasteful, impulsive, and boorish neighbors.  Earth was blockaded and our collective encounter with our extrasolar neighbors rapidly faded from memory.

All they left behind was a hypercomm relay and a handful of subscriptions to a massively multiplayer game that participants played in their sleep.  The Consensus said that it would let us interact with our neighbors in a controlled setting.  That it would teach us to be better members of the galactic community.

The megacorporations that controlled Earth ignored the game until they learned that the powers earned from clearing dungeons were just as real when day broke.  Magic, supernatural abilities and rumors exploded from nothing and a subscription to The Tower of Somnus became a status symbol.

Katherine ‘Kat’ Debs doesn’t have much, but it could be worse.  Born in an arcology, she was assigned a job in the megacorporation that raised her almost as soon as she could work.  Despite the stability of her corporate life, she wanted something more.  A chance to claw her way up the rigid social and financial ladder to make something of herself.

A chance that wouldn’t come naturally to someone as familiar with dark alleyways and the glint of steel as she was with office work and corporate niceties.

Cover art by Faewild

Coloring/shading by KrazeKode

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Book One was  a National Novel Writing Month/Writeathon entry.  Book one has zero editing or proofreading.

As a warning, this WILL eventually go to Kindle Unlimited (meaning each book will come down shortly before I publish it).

Azarinth Healer

Azarinth Healer

Original Action Adventure Fantasy LitRPG Female Lead Magic
16,203 Followers
7,515 Pages
27,133,037 Views
670 Chapters
4/21/2021 12:01:16 PM +00:00

A new world with nearly unlimited possibilities. A status, classes, magic and monsters. Sounds good? Well, for Ilea it didn't come quite as expected as for some other protagonists, nor was there a king or god to welcome her.

The grand quest? Well, she might figure that out someday but for now, a new world with new food is prize enough. Her fists at the ready, she's prepared to punch and get punched, however long it takes and however many limbs she might have to regrow.

A story I've started writing now quite a while ago. Transported to another world, somewhat standard fantasy setting with my beginner attempts to make it dark but funny. There are Litrpg elements here but I do hope it's not too heavy and annoying. The fights should be interesting and aren't just numbers vs numbers. Contrary to the title the protagonist will be quite an offensive fighter.

Ilea Spears is your average sarcastic kick-boxing fast food worker and soon to be student. She will be transported to another world rather conventionally and will be confronted with survival in the wild.

Give it a shot and let me know what you think. My experience is incredibly lacking. If you find yourself hating it early on, do convey your anger in a detailed comment or review :) I want to get better but without any feedback it's simply quite difficult.

Quick heads up: Around chapter 120 there are a bunch of longer PoV changes that I discontinued again shortly after. The Arc around chapters 150-200 is darker than the rest and the themes shift quite a bit. Just know that it goes back to what you've come to know after that section.

Thank you for reading.

Quick update June 2019: Many complaints regarding the formatting, specifically spacing in conversations and of course the usage of the present tense in the first 36 chapters have been addressed. I'm of course learning by the day but compared to how it was before it should be an improvement at least.

Chapters usually around 3k words

Cover art by Kevin Catalan

The Many Lives of Cadence Lee

The Many Lives of Cadence Lee

Original Action Adventure Fantasy Romance LitRPG Reincarnation Slice of Life Female Lead Magic Strategy High Fantasy Progression
7,334 Followers
556 Pages
981,431 Views
48 Chapters
1/11/2021 6:45:00 PM +00:00

Cadence Lee thought she was a normal girl, perhaps a little well to do, but not exceptionally so.  She had her college classes, she had her job that her uncle gave her, and she had a nice boyfriend who was sweet if a little awkward.

Except, when a mugger accosts Cadence and her boyfriend attempts to wrestle a gun away from the criminal, Cadence ends up shot.  A normal girl, with the kind of wound Cadence had, would die.  Cadence managed to do that part.  But a normal girl wouldn't then open her eyes again and learn that death is not as permanant for her as it is for other people.  She can be reborn again, and again.  Each time stronger and with new abilities.

The catch?  Any world she is born into, she can never return to.  She has infinite lives, but only one life for each.

So begins The Many Lives of Cadence Lee.

[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]

Romantically Apocalyptic

Romantically Apocalyptic

Original Adventure Comedy Horror Sci-fi Cyberpunk Supernatural Male Lead Female Lead Strong Lead Multiple Lead Characters Anti-Hero Lead Super Heroes Post Apocalyptic War and Military Time Travel Dystopia Artificial Intelligence
1,166 Followers
346 Pages
259,478 Views
135 Chapters
4/10/2021 6:04:45 PM +00:00

https://www.rom.ac
You are walking west. You find a wishing well. You wish for it to grant infinite wishes for every human being on earth. The Universe is now broken. The current weather is apocalypse with chances of fallout and nuclear winter. Also, everyone is dead. Good job. 

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A post-apocalyptic, dark comedy that I've been working on since 2005.
Support RA at: https://www.patreon.com/captain
Join our discord: https://discord.gg/ngawayz

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