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RE: Trailer Trash

RE: Trailer Trash

Original Adventure Drama Historical Contemporary Slice of Life School Life Supernatural Female Lead
8,583 Followers
1,007 Pages
1,690,857 Views
45 Chapters
Sunday, July 17, 2022 3:12:49 PM

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.

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
8,389 Followers
1,092 Pages
1,471,256 Views
45 Chapters
Saturday, August 13, 2022 9:48:00 PM

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.

Borne of Desire

Borne of Desire

Fan Fiction Action Adventure Fantasy Portal Fantasy / Isekai Supernatural Male Lead Female Lead Strong Lead Multiple Lead Characters Non-Human Lead Progression
2,493 Followers
333 Pages
145,769 Views
10 Chapters
Wednesday, July 27, 2022 6:47:30 PM

A man given a new lease on life finds himself amongst pokemon. From his memories of pokemon as a whole, he assumes the power of pokemon and the world around him runs on convenient fate, rule of cool, and cheesy friendship just like any other anime. Unfortunately for everyone else, he's 100% right.

NOTE: If Borne of Caution is an attempt at a coherent and realistic look at pokemon, then, Borne of Desire is the opposite. It's all the mindless indulgence I DONT want in a serious story. It's a very seat-of-my-pants for-fun project and is written with no storyboard. Updates will be inconsistent and quality cannot be assured. Not to be taken too seriously.

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 Lead
5,701 Followers
1,367 Pages
1,938,723 Views
141 Chapters
Friday, August 5, 2022 1:02:56 PM

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.

[Virtuous Sons updates every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 8pm EST.]

Sunflower : [A sunflower based litRPG]

Sunflower : [A sunflower based litRPG]

Original Action Adventure Fantasy Psychological LitRPG Portal Fantasy / Isekai Harem Slice of Life Supernatural Male Lead Female Lead Strong Lead Non-Human Lead Secret Identity Magic Strategy High Fantasy Dungeon Progression Attractive Lead
2,559 Followers
152 Pages
197,437 Views
24 Chapters
Sunday, August 14, 2022 3:47:44 PM

Hello. I am a sunflower.

Are you a sunflower too?

Well, it doesn't really matter. Today is a calm day. The wind is warm. I do not know why I am alive, but do you want to look at the sun together with me?

- I am a sunflower.

[Updates Sundays]

Underland

Underland

Original Adventure Fantasy Mystery Supernatural Multiple Lead Characters Steampunk Genetically Engineered
5,468 Followers
428 Pages
410,908 Views
31 Chapters
Monday, July 18, 2022 5:32:46 PM

Once, the sun shone brightly on Azlant. Until came the Whitemoon, to steal mankind's light and condemn it to eternal darkness. 

Valdemar Verney is a sorcerer with a dream: to find a new world for his people to settle, one where the sky isn't a ceiling made of stone. But in the underground empire of Azlant, dissent is never tolerated. Brought before one of the undead Dark Lords, Valdemar is offered a choice he cannot refuse. Meanwhile, the swordswoman Marianne Reynard is given a mission: to investigate a dead cult with a few mysteries left to unravel.

Both are looking for the truth, though they might regret finding it; for many cultists, monsters, and cosmic horrors stand in their way. They'll just have to kill them all.

Cover by Vitaly S. Alexius. 

12 Miles Below

12 Miles Below

Original Action Adventure Fantasy Sci-fi Supernatural Male Lead Strong Lead Magic Grimdark Dungeon Post Apocalyptic Dystopia Progression Artificial Intelligence
5,049 Followers
1,763 Pages
1,643,639 Views
143 Chapters
Thursday, August 11, 2022 4:00:05 PM

The world is in ruins. 

Extreme sub-zero temperatures suffocate the surface, making even simple survival an ordeal. Frozen derelicts of bygone eras span across massive ice wastes. And the elite few hoard any technology rediscovered within.

The only escape from the deadly climate is beneath the surface. But it’s another disaster underground. Monstrous machines lurk in the depths. Unhinged demigods war against them, dying over and over, treating it all like a game. The land itself shifts over time, more contraption than rock. And an ominous prophecy states that the key to everything waits at the last level - but nobody’s ever reached that far. 

When an expedition into the far uncharted north goes terribly wrong,  Keith Winterscar and his father get trapped together in a desperate fight for survival. Stumbling upon an ancient power struggle of titanic scale; the two will need to set their differences aside while they struggle against Gods, legends, and the grand secrets of the realm that lies below.



Updating Monday and Thursdays.

Discord can be found here (This is a shared discord server with other books.)
WARNING: This series is ridiculously filled with spoilers, every book has multiple reveals. Discord was made for up-to-date readers since there's no way to really police spoilers.
Don't join until you're current!!

Millennial Mage (A Slice of Life, Progression Fantasy)

Millennial Mage (A Slice of Life, Progression Fantasy)

Original Action Adventure Fantasy Slice of Life Supernatural Female Lead Magic GameLit High Fantasy Progression
7,669 Followers
1,987 Pages
2,775,755 Views
160 Chapters
Monday, August 15, 2022 12:00:00 PM

The world is wild, untamed. Humanity thrives, but only in isolated, well defended cities, ever shrinking as the wilds slowly reclaim all that was taken. The most capable magic users are raised up as Mages to serve mankind, further their cause, and defend them over the course of millennia.

Tala is freshly graduated from the magic academy and determined to make her own way in the world. She hopes to pay off her massive debts, quickly, but still plans on living each and every day to the fullest. Too bad the Academy left some glaring holes in her practical education. Loath to let that slow her down, and with no patience for a standard, low-paid apprenticeship (intended to fill many of those knowledge gaps), Tala strives to learn and improve as rapidly as she can on her own. Her unorthodox methods for preserving her own life allow her to take greater risks in search of profit and advancement, much to the surprise of those around her.


I do hope you enjoy this tale, but let me know what you think either way! Critique, both positive and negative, is welcome.

Release schedule is weekly: M-W-F

Thank you for your time and for giving this story a try.


AUTHOR'S NOTE: If this is found on a site other than Royal Road, or the linked Patreon, it was not posted by the author. Please find this tale, here:

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/47826/millennial-mage

The Eagle's Flight

The Eagle's Flight

Original Adventure Drama Fantasy Historical Supernatural Multiple Lead Characters Strategy High Fantasy War and Military Ruling Class
2,006 Followers
3,032 Pages
1,066,321 Views
245 Chapters
Wednesday, July 13, 2022 7:00:30 AM

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 – or thwarted – by the return of his brother, the knight and war hero Athelstan, whose squire, Brand, hopes to restore his family’s 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 sense division in the realms of Adalmearc and make their own plans. It is only a matter of time before schemes clash, plots collide, and conflict erupts. War is on the horizon.

Story updates every Wednesday. The first, second and third book can be downloaded as ebooks from my site, where a map of the world or of Middanhal can be viewed. The site also contains other background information such as history of the realms, pantheon and religion, calendar etc.

FINAL CORE : [A holy dungeon-core litRPG]

FINAL CORE : [A holy dungeon-core litRPG]

Original Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy LitRPG Reincarnation Portal Fantasy / Isekai Gender Bender Slice of Life Supernatural Male Lead Female Lead Strong Lead Non-Human Lead Magic Anti-Hero Lead Strategy High Fantasy Dungeon Progression Attractive Lead
4,961 Followers
398 Pages
571,406 Views
47 Chapters
Friday, August 12, 2022 6:35:11 PM

[I died and was accidentally reborn as an angelic monstrosity, so now I’m building a holy dungeon-tower that is tall enough to reach the gods; so that I can complain about it! But the humans think that I am trying to destroy the world.]

[Dungeon-Core] [litRPG] [Base-building]

Dao of the Deal

Dao of the Deal

Original Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Portal Fantasy / Isekai Martial Arts Supernatural Male Lead Wuxia Xianxia Progression
3,450 Followers
361 Pages
309,967 Views
40 Chapters
Friday, August 12, 2022 8:31:15 PM

When Muchen wakes up as an orphan living a hardscrabble life in a world of magical kung fu, he immediately starts working towards the obvious goal: to get rich! Money can make ghosts work hard, let alone cultivators. He can worry about immortality once he's secured a comfortable standard of living.

Unfortunately, on the Qianzhan Continent, it takes a clever mind to earn a fortune... but it takes strength to defend it.

A Dearth of Choice (Dungeon Core)

A Dearth of Choice (Dungeon Core)

Original Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy LitRPG Reincarnation Supernatural Non-Human Lead Magic GameLit High Fantasy Dungeon
2,815 Followers
339 Pages
170,017 Views
14 Chapters
Wednesday, June 22, 2022 8:54:54 PM

A young dungeon core forms next to a lovely village, full of lovely people who would likely understand its plight of not wanting to murder them all if only it had a mouth with which to speak. Instead, everything goes horribly, terribly wrong.

Its literally a crystal, it can't be having a panic attack, can it?

This is the story about a village, a dungeon, its desire to provide light and laughter and life. It tries to choose the talents and perks to bolster its life-mana alignment every time, to further its cause. So how is it that it wound up with an undead army and some insane boosts to death-aligned mana? How did everything go so wrong?

[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]

Epilogue

Epilogue

Original Drama Fantasy Psychological Contemporary Portal Fantasy / Isekai School Life Supernatural Male Lead Female Lead Multiple Lead Characters Secret Identity Magic Low Fantasy High Fantasy
1,866 Followers
354 Pages
468,503 Views
20 Chapters
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 8:41:12 PM

Revised version now available! Amazon paperback, ebook, audiobook, Kobo, B&N, Google

In the war-torn land of Cyraveil, four heroes strove to overthrow an empire. By cold steel and elemental sorcery, they brought peace to a warring land on the brink of destruction. As the flames died, the realm needed strong leadership, and who better than the champions who had saved the kingdom? But when the people sought out their saviors... they vanished.

Matt, Blake, Jen, and Carl: the four mysterious companions, who together had deposed an insane ruler and saved countless lives, were gone—spirited back in a whirlwind of magic to a sleepy suburb in Mellbridge, Oregon, never to return. The friends found themselves home in the real world, exactly as they'd been the night they were taken, as if no time had passed... except only three came back.

  


 

Hi there! This was my entry for National Novel Writing Month, because why only write one series at a time? The more the merrier! (meanwhile, my keyboard bursts into flames...)

I'm also the writer of The Last Science, an ongoing low-fantasy/speculative sci-fi series. If you're familiar with that, you know what to expect here: lots of character-focused drama and dialogue, not a whole lot of traditional action. However, I'm writing a bit differently than usual here, and in a very different structure, so there should be some surprises for returning readers. I hope you enjoy it!

 [Discord] — for those of you who want to hang out and chat.

 

Cover art (fullsize): Path of Revelation, by taenaron (Tobias Roetsch), modified by Etzoli. Normally I like to do my own cover art from scratch, but I was in a rush for the contest. Might be replaced down the line if I get time.

[winner of the NaNoWriMo Royal Road 2018 challenge—Most Favorites]

Saltworld: An Apocalypse LitRPG

Saltworld: An Apocalypse LitRPG

Original Action Adventure Fantasy LitRPG Slice of Life Supernatural Male Lead Strong Lead Magic Urban Fantasy Mythos Post Apocalyptic Progression
5,739 Followers
321 Pages
620,688 Views
32 Chapters
Saturday, March 19, 2022 10:36:11 PM

August 18, 2018. Earth is at peace.

Then the sun explodes, and the world changes forever.

Sen Salazar, a third year in Dubai's renowned Belmont University, is thrust into a world where only monsters are found aplenty. Resources are dwindling, survivors are scarce, and safety is nowhere to be found. And when it's combined with an otherworldly system designed to bring out humanity's hidden potential? Sen's watched enough movies to know what to do:

Survive.

...He just has to figure out how to stop himself from turning into one of the monsters, first.


Discord link here.

Romantically Apocalyptic [discontiniued version]

Romantically Apocalyptic [discontiniued version]

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
1,452 Followers
0 Pages
37,688 Views
1 Chapters
Tuesday, August 4, 2020 12:08:21 PM

>Read the updated version HERE!<

Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 5: The Hunting Grounds

Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 5: The Hunting Grounds

Original Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy LitRPG Supernatural Male Lead Strong Lead Non-Human Lead Magic Strategy Grimdark GameLit Low Fantasy Dungeon Post Apocalyptic
6,940 Followers
24 Pages
188,491 Views
4 Chapters
Tuesday, January 7, 2020 4:00:02 AM

Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 1 is now on Amazon! 
mybook.to/dungeoncrawlercarl

Book 2 is also now available! 
mybook.to/dungeoncrawlercarl2

Royal 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 Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds—collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground.

The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot. A dungeon so enormous, it circles the entire globe.

Only a few dare venture inside. But once you're in, you can't get out. And what's worse, each level has a time limit. You have but days to find a staircase to the next level down, or it's game over. In this game, it's not about your strength or your dexterity. It's about your followers, your views. Your clout. It's about building an audience and killing those goblins with style.

You can't just survive here. You gotta survive big.

You gotta fight with vigor, with excitement. You gotta make them stand up and cheer. And if you do have that "it" factor, you may just find yourself with a following. That's the only way to truly survive in this game—with the help of the loot boxes dropped upon you by the generous benefactors watching from across the galaxy.

They call it Dungeon Crawler World. But for Carl, it's anything but a game.

DCC Discord! 

10/01/20

The first several chapters of DCC are now off of Royal Road because the book is on Amazon. I want to thank all of you for 9 months of amazing support. This is and Patreon will always be the place for the newest chapters and content, but to comply with Amazon's Kindle Unlimited policy, I can't have more than 10% of the story up here. 

 

 

This is a work in progress. Major editing will be done after the book is complete, so there will be egregious typos and parts that make no sense whatsoever. Please, please feel free to point any and all of these things out. Chapters WILL get edited, and that editing might break earlier chapters. I will attempt to keep readers apprised of all changes. Updates one-two days a week. 

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
3,788 Followers
580 Pages
700,314 Views
61 Chapters
Thursday, October 28, 2021 12:13:57 AM

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.

[Disclaimer: Book 1 of this story will likely be published in KU by around the start of 2022, so please keep that in mind. Book 2 and onwards will continue here until they are published as well.]

A Practical Guide to Sorcery

A Practical Guide to Sorcery

Original Adventure Drama Fantasy Psychological Gender Bender School Life Supernatural Female Lead Strong Lead Secret Identity Magic Anti-Hero Lead Low Fantasy High Fantasy Urban Fantasy Progression
2,270 Followers
1,454 Pages
720,180 Views
112 Chapters
Thursday, August 11, 2022 11:04:19 PM

In a world where magic is a science, Siobhan Naught is a genius.

But even geniuses need schooling.

Siobhan has just been banned from the country's only magical university.

As the unwitting accomplice to the theft of a priceless magical artifact, she has suddenly become a wanted criminal. There are fates worse than death, and if caught, she will face them. Unwilling to give up on her dream of becoming the world's most powerful sorcerer, she resolves to do whatever it takes to change her fate.

Even if it means magically disguising herself as a boy and indebting herself to a gang of criminals to pay for University tuition.

With the coppers after her, the pressure of trying to keep her spot in the devilishly competitive magic classes, and the gang calling in favors to repay her debts, Siobhan will need every drop of magic she can channel.

My Children From Another World

My Children From Another World

Original Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Reincarnation Portal Fantasy / Isekai Martial Arts Gender Bender Slice of Life Supernatural Male Lead Strong Lead Magic High Fantasy Ruling Class Progression
1,277 Followers
401 Pages
238,613 Views
63 Chapters
Tuesday, July 5, 2022 3:35:19 PM

With souls and issues from a world very unlike his own, Rakta Velbrun must raise his children right, train their strange abilities, and keep the world from swallowing them whole.

A fantasy tale of a ex-adventurer father taking care of his beloved children in the wake of his wife's death. He must tend with noble politics, new enemies, old allies, and the realization that his children come from a world very unlike his own. 


I post Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Cover by KittraMcBriar

Peculiar Soul

Peculiar Soul

Original Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Supernatural Male Lead Magic Grimdark High Fantasy Urban Fantasy
4,754 Followers
1,141 Pages
830,754 Views
69 Chapters
Wednesday, August 10, 2022 4:06:31 PM

Not everyone gets a soul.  The rise of industry and mechanization has sent the world's population booming upward, striving relentlessly for the fixed handful of souls that level armies and steer the fate of nations.  The remnants of a crumbled empire fight in a grinding, bloody war against their ancient enemy.

Not everyone gets a soul, but Michael must - for he is the scion of a lord, and the soulless cannot hold such a title.  For five years he has tried to tempt one of the souls freed by its vessel's death.  Five years of pain and failure, earning only his father's contempt.  At last, one more opportunity to earn his soul has come.

But not everyone gets a soul quite like his.


Updates weekly on Wednesdays.

Cover art by Harry Rowland.

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