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When a new dungeon is born, it wants nothing more than to have the most vicious monsters, the most cunning traps and the most shiny of loot. There is only one problem, but it's a rather big one; it finished its first floor years ago, but it still hasn't been visited by any adventurers! In order to find someone or something to explore its floors, or perhaps just to find someone to talk to, this dungeon will have to go way off script. But it soon discovers that going off script brings problems of its own, and that adventurers are not the only thing this world is missing.

A shortish (40k words) story about a dungeons journey of exploration and self discovery in a devastated world. New chapters every 3 days. Cover made (poorly) with POV-Ray.

Published here and on scribblehub.

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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This story is a National Novel Writing Month/Writeathon entry.  The goal is to write it rapidly to completion as a rough draft at which point it will probably go to editing/Kindle (I.e. this story will likely disappear at some point).

[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]

Given this story's nature there will be no backlog, no patreon, no editing, and no mercy.

Thanks for reading along with me!

A young man stumbles into a deep, lost cavern, he seeks power and prestige, the ability to become someone, anyone, worthy of praise.

When he finds an ancient crypt festooned in jewels and precious things he thinks himself the luckiest man alive.

And then the lich in that crypt wakes up and kills him.

That’s me. I’m the lich. Honestly, I just want to go back to sleep, and there’s no one, no ‘god emperor,’ sect, or uptight martial artist that’s going to stop me. 

[Participant in the Royal Road Writathon Challenge]

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How I learned to stop worrying and solve my problems with demons until demons stopped solving my problems.

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A snarky villain and her heroic nemesis blow themselves up and land on a fantasy world. They find themselves faced with two prospects: learn to cooperate and respect someone they've fought against for years, or be swept away by the powers that be.

Because Pride always comes before the fall.

Lily Arvensdaughter is a teenager with a lot of problems.  The only commoner in an academy normally reserved for royalty and nobility, she's spent six months being tormented by student and staff alike.  When despair drives her to make a foolish decision, her life is saved by Rine, a mysterious entity who offers to teach her how to be a powerful wizard, in exchange for signing a familiar contract with the promise of helping him escape from the prison that holds him.

Rine quickly proves to be a generous friend and an effective tutor, being as knowledgable as he claims and providing training that rapidly provides incredible results.  However, as time passes, it quickly becomes clear that he is far more powerful than she imagined possible, even imprisoned.  As his power and influence increase with each step they take towards his liberation, Lily learns that Rine has far greater designs than simply regaining his freedom.  Meanwhile, dark and dangerous forces strike from the shadows, attempting to topple the kingdom and imperil everyone that Lily loves.  

Can Lily afford to trust Rine, especially once she learns what he truly is?  Can she afford not to as she becomes the focus of events that could doom thousands, if not millions, of lives without his aid?

After falling victim to the experiment of one well intentioned Ford Phalen our lead finds himself in an entirely unknown world and form. Without any guidance except from the robotic voice in his head, and many days spent experimenting he must find a way to survive as a Dungeon Core. His only allies, the monsters he creates and perilous ecosystems he constructs. Thus begins the creation, growth, history, and eventual fall of the Dungeon of Seasons.

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An old cripple awakes as his younger self, ready to right all the wrongs of his life.

Adrian was a man who'd tired of everything. He tired of pleasures, and he tired of pains. Boredom drove him to study the occult, and  curiosity got him killed. 

Now that he's reincarnated, he might as well put what he learned to good use. What could go wrong?

Updates: Mon-Wed-Fri.

The soul seeks eternity.
The conscious seeks existence.
The body seeks exemption.

Now an eerie and spectral existence, in an era centuries ahead of her own, Constance Nightingale finds herself tumbling toward a modern-day Earth on the verge of a system apocalypse.

Constance refuses to lie down and die, yet things are made ever more complicated as she realizes her survival relies on siphoning and collecting Essence from other creatures—a parasite some would term her. Nevertheless, in the concrete jungle, she scarcely understands, she shall struggle and endeavor to improve in hopes of someday becoming an extraordinary presence that Towers high above the deranged city she finds herself. 

Author Notes:

- This isn't a tower climber story.
- It's written as a first-person narrative. Experience the world through the MC's eyes, thoughts, and viewpoint.
- LitRPG elements introduced in Chapter 5. Start increasing Chapter 7/8.
- The MC speaks a tad archaically, but it's simplified. Still, if your English is not that good, this novel may not be for you. Archaic elements do ease up after the first few chapters.
- The cover was commissioned for use with this novel only. Artist (Possible NSFW Material)

I want to thank anyone who reads for their time. Any feedback, reviews, or support is appreciated.

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-It's a novel about second chance and time loops in a dark fantasy world. Is the story of a man and his struggle against overwhelming and hopeless threats, to save a world. -

When I was summoned to another world - I and all the other humans on Earth - to serve as a front-line soldier in a war against an invasion of nightmarish creatures, I knew right away that I was going to shit my breakfast on my pants. Especially when they said that with the powerful blessings of the Wizards and the Gods, they were going to turn us into superhumans and half-wizards, everything they said sounded like "you're a fucking cannon fodder!".

I was right. The war? We lost it so badly that all races became extinct. Me? I was a fucking veteran who survived until the end. Was I strong? Fuck yeah of course, I was, except... it was useless, I died like everyone else. 

The bad news? When I thought it was finally over, I woke up when I was summoned at the beginning of the war, 14 years in the past. That, and also the fact that every time I die, I restart at the beginning of the war. It sounds crazy, right?

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Zachary Trenner is a freshman at Burlington High School. Despite his mundane appearance and advanced course curriculum, something strange is happening to him. Every time he goes to sleep he switches worlds.

Portals are popping up everywhere, allowing access between Earth and the world of Vera. Now he must spend every waking and sleeping moment getting stronger to fight off the instance [Dungeons] opening on both Vera, and Earth.

But despite his best attempts, the governments of both worlds collide via the portal, upping the stakes in Zach's adventure.

Prepare for an RPG fiction full of magic, power leveling, adventure, action, a touch of romance, and the author's own dry humor.

When the modern technology of Earth meets the medieval magic of Vera, which culture will invade the other world first? When the army rangers of the United States collide with the members of the Hunter's Guild, who will win?

Author's philosophy:

I took an professional personality inventory (through a community college back in 2018) and was categorized as a "double-checker." I'm never satisfied with the work that I complete, and never want to share it with anyone. But this book is a challenge to myself! As a general rule of thumb, I will only add to the story. I can't change or remove elements I've already included (unless absolutely, absolutely necessary).

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.

For Jiyong, Bastion Academy is more than just a school for magic in the heart of the kingdom… 

It’s his chance to pursue the secrets of the ancient ones’ machines and get his family out of the poverty-stricken outer-city. His acceptance letter in hand, Jiyong is sure nothing will stand in the way of his dreams. 

When a street brawl lands him in a coma only weeks into the year, his chances of graduating are all but shot. With an unlikely digital companion, he’ll have to rebuild his magic core and catch up on all his classes, or risk being dropped from the academy at the end of the year. 

But kingdom life is not like the outer-cities, and kingdom kids are far more ruthless about who they’ll allow to climb to the top. Jiyong will have to train hard and fight for every score to make it in this wealthy academy for powerful families, all while supporting his own from afar.

Release Schedule:

Temporary haitus while Book 2 gets underway! Expect new chapters from book 2 in a few weeks.
(Want access now? My Patreon is getting super early chapters of the first draft starting Monday 11/23 9AM MST.)
https://www.patreon.com/jdastra

Participant in the Royal Road Writathon Challenge. RR should hook up with Nanowrimo! (Finished with 24 chapters/excerpts posted)

The cover is here! The Mick is on the job, in an old school Erol Otus style original!

This is the original set of stories where Sama Rantha came about. It's never been posted online, but I'm cleaning it up, editing it, and will post it as I do so.

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Books One and Two for Sama Rantha are at: Rantha Hags Forever!

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I always have Discord up if I'm online, although I may be busy writing and not see it right away...

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And join the Power of Ten Fan page! Tremble We Come!

Magic comes to the world, and it is a Day of Reckoning unlike anything anyone expected. But if there's one thing a Gamer is good at doing, it's taking advantage of the rules, and letting the creatures coming know what for!

Adventure, magic, swords, crafting, and a Hagchild who is the Tip of the Spear against the very unfriendly new world!

The hero woke up in his new body. He was no longer a human, a mage, a hero. He was a mass of nanites, the very same Doomsday weapon he should have destroyed.

An overpowered being made of nanites, forever hungry and starved for more, but with only the desire to return to his family.

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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.

Cover by Vitaly S. Alexius. 

I'm a (not so) humble alley cat that found a portal to a fantasy world. The system immediately gave me self-awareness and taught me the meaning of words. Now I can't seem to find my way back to my old world, but that's ok, because this world allows me to become a fearsome predator by earning levels and skills. Follow my journey as I wage a vendetta against the dog headed kobolds and any other dog-like creature I happen to enounter. Also, treats and chin scratches are used to bribe me into helping hapless cat eared people. Other shennanigans and adventures await! 

Cover Art: Picture of my cat is a placeholder

Tremendous wealth? Check.

Formidable background? Check.

Exceptional talent? Check.

An arrogance that can anger both gods and devils alike? Check.

Daughter? Err, c-check.

This young master has it all!

Yun Ling is a supreme genius born in a powerful clan in a massive empire. It is said that a genius of his caliber is only born once every ten thousand years. Aside from his exceptional talent, his father is no other than the clan master and the general of the empire which is why very few dared to offend him or challenge him.

Everything had always been smooth sailing for Yun Ling however, never did he expect that upon his return to the empire from his journey would he discover that he apparently has a daughter waiting for him at home.

Release Schedule: 5 days a week (Monday - Friday)

"Magic cannot create life."

This is one of the most basic tenets of magic. And yet, when Professor Adelyn Mackenzie investigates rumours of a talented prospective student in a small village in the middle of nowhere, she finds that he has managed to create the world's first living homunculus.

"Magic is miracle given form."

That is what Cadmus Guiles' sister always said. So, when she died, it was only natural for Cadmus to believe that he could bring her back to life through magic. Now, offered the resources he needs to pursue this path of research, Cadmus gladly accepts to go to the most distinguished school of magic on the continent: The Laurucian Academy of Magic.

However, the Academy is a place of intense competition, and only those who rise to the top may recieve the services and resources that the Academy has to offer. Cadmus believes that he can easily defeat his peers due to him already having broken one of magic's most basic tenets, but it's time for him to learn that talent comes in many different forms...

Every time I die I respawn as a trash mob at the very bottom of the dungeon. It's a rather troublesome existence but I think I've managed to adapt honestly.

(Updates daily!) (Slow burn)

Elaine is ripped from this world to Pallos, a land of unlimited possibilities made real by a grand System governing classes, skills, and magic.

An ideal society? What is this, a fantasy novel?

Adventures? Right this way!

A Grand quest? Nah.

Friends and loot? Heck yes!

Humans are the top dog? Nope, dinosaur food.

Healing and fighting? Well, everything is trying to eat her.

Join Elaine as she travels around Pallos, discovering all the wonders and mysteries of the world, trying to find a place where she belongs, hunting those elusive mangos, all while the ominous Dragoneye Moons watch her every move.

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Hey! Beneath the Dragoneye Moons is my first writing effort, so please be kind, but don’t hesitate to point out the flaws.

The story starts off slowly, more like a slice of life than action-adventure, but it gets there!

I’m going to be posting M-W-F at first, but I hope to increase the posting rate as I get better at this.

I do know how the story ends, and I promise if it ever gets dropped, or I stop doing this, I will post the ending. There will be no random “this is the last chapter” out of the blue.

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Cover art by Lee Kent: https://www.artstation.com/leekent

High-res image of the cover: https://imgur.com/a/7MDQQC6

This story is being published on Royal Road and Scribblehub.

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Have you ever wondered how wonders are made? Thought about the stories behind a flying mountain, a desolate castle, or an underwater labyrinth; all filled to the brim with monsters, traps and treasure?

            This is the story of a lonely tree using everything at its disposal to live long enough to become one of the greats.

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Elania’s life is about to change in ways she could have never expected.

Summoned to a strange new world by demon-worshipping cultists, she flees before she is bound to their will by an unbreakable contract. 

Forced to fight for her survival against creatures she thought would only exist in a D&D manual while adjusting to her new body, what can a girl do when status screens and system elements have the power to change her very being?

In this action-packed LitRPG Fantasy Adventure, we follow Elania as she tries to find her own way back to the surface while seeking a way home.

Updates are scheduled for Monday and Friday, on RR and SH.

If you are interested in advanced chapters, there are up to 5 available on my Patreon! Check it out!

Discord: https://discord.gg/J4VtqMw

Cover by Tithi Luadthong

When a man finds himself in the presence of absolute power, what will he do? Dying has already happened, but he wasn't given permission and the creature responsible finds his tragedy amusing. Forcing him to continue his life in a new world, he is given an unknown task that must be completed if he ever wishes to rest.

Daniel hates min-maxing. While other players are trying to speed run the tutorial of Edenquest Online as fast as they can to min-max time wasted in the tutorial, Daniel discovers an error in the tutorial...

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This is a story about a merchant class main character who has curveballs thrown at him left and right, and  must make on-the-fly decisions under pressure with incomplete information.

Sometimes his decisions are right, sometimes his decisions are wrong... 

This is a story about two sisters, Jun Arai and Jun Sana, and their friends who make their living as members of the Hunter Bureau, an organisation dedicated to dealing with the terrifying flora and fauna of the forbidden zones across their home realm of Eastern Azure Great World. When they get dragged into a grand scheme to unpick the secrets of one of the foremost Forbidden Zones in their world, the Yin Eclipse Mountain Range, they must all try to survive the dark undercurrents and eldritch remnants entombed within. All the while trying to escape the inexorable claws of a terrible conflict both ancient and modern that is trying to re-emerge into an unsuspecting universe that had kind of hoped it was done with that kind of thing a few eras hence.

Update schedule: 1 chapter/day weekdays, release ~8 pm UK time / 1 pm PST with weekend breaks. For the week of the 23rd to 29th Nov there will be less chapters due to work reasons.

Genre wise, this is a bit hard to pin down. it's technically a Xianxia (because cultivators!), but it also veers towards Xuanhuan and has more traditional High Fantasy elements and a bit of Gods and Monsters and All Myths Are (on some levels) Valid. It also has a fairly large, ensemble cast, so if multiple point's of view are not your thing I am sorry.  It won't ever really be considered 'grimdark' by any real measure of that definition but it does go to some complicated and fairly places dark occasionally, which i will note in author pre-chapter notes when expedient!.

About the Author

I mainly write fiction for my own hobby, it makes a nice change from academic scribbling! I started writing this quite a number of years ago. It has grown somewhat organically out of a bunch of different interests in all kinds of Mythology, World Building, Drawing Maps, Archaeology, Anthropology, History and Epic Fantasy fiction into what it is today.

So i hope you enjoy the story and thanks for reading!

Other stuff

The cover is made by the author, using photos taken by the author.

It was just like any other day, or so I thought at least. The birds were chirping up on trees, clouds were rolling by the bright blue sky and Elves were dumpster diving in the alleyway.

Okay, one of those three didn't sound right...

I had a boring life once. Recently though, it has become less boring... to put it one way.

Finding a random Elf in the dumpster? Heh, must be a Monday.

A normal person would have walked by. A normal person would have ignored it. I must be a pretty weird guy, then. Now I have this Elf swearing her allegiance to me. What's next, vampires?

Better not jinx it.

(For new readers: LITRPG elements don't take effect until Chapter 10)

At twenty-years, Nicholas has lived his life to fulfill a vow. With the obligation settled, he yearns for answers to the mystery of his own origin. To solve it, he will need to venture to the old continent, the Ancient Capital, and to the midst of the war waged to reclaim it from the monsters that have driven humanity from it, countless millennia ago. He has planned for this, with years of effort in the making.

Yet not all plans survive, and with the advent of heathen invaders, he swears another promise and finds himself alone in the wilderness of the old continent. With enemies, both monster and human, surrounding him on all sides, he draws on ancient powers that may finally provide the answers he was looking for all along.

However, the night is long and he must tread carefully on his newfound powers, because he may turn into something that even monsters fear.

Updates Weekly

Cover Art Credit: ELEX @ELEXART

Aiden Neve, a CEO of a construction company wakes up inside an Attack Ball that is headed on a course straight back to earth, and it only gets stranger from there. Updates every Friday.

Build a Dungeon. Slay Heroes. Survive Finals. 

Wounded Army vet Logan Murray thought mimics were the stuff of board games and dungeon manuals… right up until one ate him. 

In a flash of snapping teeth, Logan suddenly finds himself on the doorstep to another world. He’s been unwittingly recruited into the Shadowcroft Academy for Dungeons—the most prestigious interdimensional school dedicated to training the monstrous guardians who protect the Tree of Souls from so-called heroes. Heroes who would destroy the universe if it meant a shot at advancement.

Unfortunately, as a bottom-tier cultivator with a laughably weak core, Logan’s dungeon options aren’t exactly stellar, and he finds himself reincarnated as a lowly fungaloid, a three-foot-tall mass of spongy mushroom with fewer skills than a typical sewer rat. If he’s going to survive the grueling challenges the academy has in store, he’ll need to ace the odd assortment of classes—Fiendish Fabrication, Dungeon Feng Shui, the Ethics of Murder 101—and learn how to turn his unusual guardian form into an asset instead of a liability.

And that’s only if the gargoyle professor doesn’t demote him to a doomed wandering monster first… 

The day she turned 18, a breach in the northern sky flooded the world with unknown particles, altering humans and animals alike.

On her 22nd birthday, societies collapsed, and the monsters took control.

From humans to beasts, Amy Sullivan fights the nightmares behind every door and hunts the person who left her behind, the person who killed her sister.

Additional tags: Survival, Unreliable Narrator, Unstable mindset.

This story focuses on survival. Humanity is on the brink, so there are periods of isolation (namely the first act) where Amy struggles alone, and times when she fights to survive with others. I hope you enjoy.  

I will be posting two chapters each week. 

When you wake up in a new world, you expect a certain kind of… reception. So what happens when the perfect opportunity turns out to be the last thing you ever wanted?

The world of Ænerith is one of adventure—where anyone can cultivate to gain Skills or a Class. It’s a place where wars are waged over resource-producing Dungeons, and Monsters threaten deadly, otherworldly incursions. Grandest of all is His Majesty’s Immortal Academy: a mobile bastion and center of learning for the best aspiring Immortals of this, or any, age!

For one young girl, however, this world is far from grand. When her congenital illness leaves her without much longer to live, she goes down the only path left to her. Taking a mysterious offer, she uses a cursed Tome to reach across the Expanses—pulling on the only hope she could find.

But in the end, she failed.

Now, a poor fool finds himself in an unacceptable position. Worse still, the unlikable sod is stuck with no way out, all while something seems to be screaming in the back of his mind. If only he could hear the voice?

No, that would be ins—

Wait, what was happening again?

Okay, fancy intro done! I’ve updated it too, based on feedback (I hope it’s better). New chapters release on Tuesdays & Fridays.

A quick note to everyone: I’m a new writer and quality is rough in the beginning. It’s slow, introspective, uses bright colors (first few chapters only), and is something that I’ll seriously reconsider if I come back to re-write the story later (I won’t do so while the story is in progress). The length was overly long as well, so I split the early chapters into parts. I get better about that after chapter 16. Lastly, my story does use a lot of LitRPG elements, however menus and the like don’t start actively playing a role until chapter 19.

Still, all the mistakes helped me learn so I can’t regret it!

I will warn, however, that this story contains sensitive topics such as mental illness, self-harm, loss of loved ones, and body-dysmorphia. Please avoid if these are triggering you. Also, the sexual content tag is for language used, mostly due to the crude protagonist—who starts off very unlikable (that does change during the story, and his lack of agency picks up around chapter 16).

Finally, I decided to be a [participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge] because it looks like I can do that?

Texas Lawman Cash Renshaw gets pulled into a world of magic and mysticism that he never knew existed but finds himself uniquely suited to handle.

Alhambra Sheriff's Office Detective Cash Renshaw is about to wake up.  He learns that there is another world out there where all the creatures of nightmare and magic are real.  Not only that but he finds that he is a special type of person called an "Archetype" that derives powers from the collective power of human imagination.  Now he will join his new partner in the Agency for Metanatural Investigation to investigate a strange new type of Runic Tattooing that allows normal humans to tap into magic powers, at the cost of their lives.  Cash will learn that his new reality is as deadly as it is mysterious, and his first case might be his last.

Skills, Attributes, and Experience. These are familiar elements to any tabletop RPG. Jack is intimately familiar with these terms from years of playing games, so he is shocked and excited when the entire world is integrated into a system governed by those elements. 

Follow Jack as he works to understand and navigate the new world around him. From heartbreaking losses to amazing experiences, Jack's life will never be the same.

A slow build, slice of life. Blue Mage MC who learns skills from monsters. Skills are not intuitively known and must be trained to be able to use properly. This is not a rapid rise to power story. 

It's more of a pseudo-Isekai. As the setting quickly changes to a Fantasy one. (with elements of steampunk and sci-fi but not until much later)

The story does not get very adventure-y until chapter 17.

[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]

Jared Jotter book entuthsiast extreme, found himself in a place not quite like his home, and with mysterious Forces playing with his Fate.
Everything he wants is for people to stop bothering him and to read a good book, that is if he coulnd't find a more exciting hobby in this new World .

I have rewritten some of the story's parts and changed the characters' ages. For those who have been reading the story before the rewrite, please take note of this. :D

Raven had always opposed the traditions of their criminal organization, which made him lose his interest in becoming the next head of the faction. Upon meeting his end in an ambush, Raven was reincarnated as the third child of a peasant couple. Poverty-stricken and abused by lords, Raven began doing minor crimes. There, he realized a world of swords and magic, in its dark age, was a perfect place to found a new crime organization.

From being a peasant thief to becoming the most feared warlord, Raven lead the largest crime organization that had existed in the world of Altyria. He was then nicknamed Raven the Terrible.

Hey there! English is not my native language, but I am trying my best to improve my skill! If there are any mistakes/errors throughout the story, please point them out to me. I'm very willing to accept any criticisms as long as it will improve my skills! Thanks! Also, enjoy reading! 

Also, I upload twice a day so please look forward to the chapters every day. Thanks! :D

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.

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In this world, one must realize that we are not born equal. Intrinsically, the value of each individual being is unquantifiable. However, when we are born, we are born in many varying positions- sometimes at the bottom, sometimes at the top. Thus, we strive to reach a higher place in life. Though try as we may, we must realize our lack of equality. Only in death, are we truly equal. The young, the old, the rich, the poor, the humans, the animals, sane and insane, all find equality in death. This inescapable law, allows all of us to reach the same destination.

So what can be said of someone who cannot die…? Surely, they’d never be able to rest, they’d carry on about their life attempting to reach that end point that they were robbed of. 

To live opposite of humanity, with just one single wish in their heart. This wish can be heard from the bottom of their heart:

             -“I want to die.”-

Freya Evenkey is the shaman of Safka. Her mundane life includes helping townsfolk and exorcising demons. Until one day she almost loses her life during a routine house call. After picking up a mysterious item she discovers there is more to her world than she ever thought before!

Some call it a game, or is it a curse?

Author's Note: This is a litrpg story that focuses more on adventure than stats. No harem, no romance.

Release Schedule: every Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 9 pm ET

Special thanks to aphin123 for the awesome book cover!

©2020 MintyMintyMilkTea. All rights reserved. This story is also being published on Webnovel and Tapas.

Lex, solder turned guard for a group of scientists, is not having a great day. The research vessel he works on comes under attack and the scientists are forced to use the object of their research, a portal to realize faster than light travel, to escape. Staying behind to make sure the portal is destroyed so it doesn't fall into the hands of the enemy, Lex finds himself thrust into a world he couldn't imagine, and that's not the only problem. He is now a she, curtesy of the alien that fused with him. 

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Sometimes, a hero hatches from the unlikeliest soul…

Merl Sheepherder is a shepherd, as his name suggests. Except, he isn’t really a good one. He’s often distracted. You see, Merl can see things other folks can’t. For instance, he can see words and numbers hovering over buildings, and if he studies an item hard enough, a golden plaque full of scribble appears. Most every one of his friends, and his enemies for that matter, has three letters over their head. If you asked Merl what they say though, he won’t be able to tell you because he can’t read.

It doesn’t bother Merl too much, but it does his dad. So, when a wizard camps out in a nearby wood, his dad drags Merl to see him. No one could truly predict what happens next, after all, medieval zombies aren’t really a thing, and surely a simple farmhand can’t hold the fate of the known world in his calloused hands?

That would be unheard of.

This is the first book in the series Dead Server 7. It is complete at 200,000 words and chapters will be posted every Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday until all are published. It has also been professionally edited.

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AI creation is something that has been on the minds of the people for decades. The concept of artificial minds learning just like us. Maybe even better than us. This idea is something people have strived to make more than conceptual. But, they have failed.

Until now. 

This story will focus on the first few years after the first AI being born. We will see, from different perspectives, it growing up, and what adversaries it will face

Fair warning:

Slow pacing, bad language, and several mentions of France.

Owari considers himself to be quite average, because of that he works much harder. He is an up and coming hunter and beast tamer, a person who tames magical beasts and uses mystical martial arts to fight alongside them. What their job entails is as diverse as there are hunters. However, in the overall sense, they are meant to protect the people and hold back the ever-flowing tide of monsters looking to trample humanity. Owari hopes to take up a job as he feels it is the only job that fits him, and he happens to be right. But how well does it fit him and how far will he go in this line of work where mortality rates are high and stories of success are not? Only one way to find out. 

Author's Note: I have some backlogue chapters but they are slowly dwindling so I will be posting one or two chapters a day from now on, I'll update this note when this changes.

Ouroboros Ascendant is a story about friends you meet on the internet, and then spend entirely too much time together hunting monsters, doing quests, earning experience, and risking your life. Except for Jack, Erin, Rory, and Layla, the video game they play together every Saturday isn’t nearly as real or as threatening as the primal world of Ayrgard. A mysterious force has drawn them across the darkness between realms for its own purposes, and they’ll need to survive monsters, politics, and a lurking threat they can’t yet imagine.

Releases on Tue/Thu/Sat at 1815 CST. 

On November 28th, the release time will be pushed back to 1900 CST. The Tue/Thu/Sat schedule will remain consistent. Thanks for your patience.

If you're hungry for more chapters, there's always Patreon.

NOTE: I just finished a large scale editing with the chapters. From now on, the world is no longer a 1000X Earth. I have added my original element. From here on, with a few exceptions, no similarity can be found with our Earth. Thank you. 

The change has been applied from chapter 1. So if anyone finds any missed places or traces of my previous world-building, please comment and notify me. 

Andel lived in a world where those with powers will have the final say in everything. In his world, having no aptitude to either magic or Ki means you are even worse than ants. Unfortunately, he didn’t have any aptitude to either.

His life should have been hell, but due to being the son of two powerful parents and descendant of a powerful family saved him from a wretched fate. Life was harsh, but Andel wasn’t one to mourn and do nothing. From his childhood, he learned all kinds of close-combat styles and martial arts, proving himself to be a genius at close combat as long as ki isn’t involved.

As genius as he was, there was no way he could match those with powers, right?

Wrong!

Andel had another identity. He was originally a person from Earth who got transmigrated after an accident. Moreover, during his transmigration, he also gained a system that gave him resistance to various things in exchange for experience points.

With the Immunity System in hand, Andel decided to finally step into this magical new world and make a name for himself, after spending twenty years in training.

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Kevin, a normal man in his 20s with a mundane office job, yet his life took a worse turn. In just a split second, the norm is gone, replaced by a new world that might seems familiar. Armed with extensive knowledge of a discontinued game, he'll use it to fight against the very people that he once calls his own since he has no choice but to face them head-on. He will use everything at his disposal, tips, tricks, and bugs. It will all be for the sake of Kevin reaching the apex. He has the perfect plan in mind with a specific class already decided, but then "That" appears. A new unknown, yet it promises a path that will bring along great glory and astonishing power.

An adventure of a lifetime as Kevin unravels the secrets of Dunia with his precise planning taking step by step heading towards the apex, all for the sake of staying alive and protect those who need it the most. His boundless wisdom might have helped him, but who knows, there might be some times he will slip up.

Since childhood, Sorath has been able to sense emotions and hear thoughts of those around him. He is the first soul in recorded history with a psionic affinity, and he is either feared or laughed at for his abilities.

As an eighteen-year-old Hexblade, he takes on the King's bounty lists to pay off a half-million gold debt he inherited from his presumably deceased father. If he fails to make repayments, he will be taken into forced labor. If he flees, he himself will become a bounty target.

Outside faction boundaries in the lawless wild, bandit gangs run rampant, and Sorath quickly discovers that many of his past schoolyard tormentors and rivals are on the King's bounty lists—and that far more sinister influences are at work driving the kingdom's descent into crime and corruption.

A LitRPG set in a dark fantasy world with innate game systems.

[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]

Dear reader,

This story starts in 2035, on a planet Earth that was turned into a well managed utopia by the Knowledgeable, Marc Russel decided to accept The Offer. A unique chance to discover strange and wonderful worlds.

This is Marc’s tale of what he lived in the S.T.U.D.Y., of how he faced it and how it changed him.

A glimpse in the head of a man who wasn’t quite ready to be thrown in at the deep end.

But we're getting ahead of ourselves, let’s just... get comfortable, settle in an armchair, pick up a cup of tea or something, and see things as they come, shall we?

~x~x~x~

I’m Marc.

The sun is rising, the date is February twelfth, of 2035, and today, I’m entering the Study.

********* Author's note *********

I solemnly swear I will make sure to give this story an ending and not drop it into an indefinite hiatus.

For now, going for short (1000-2000 words) bi-daily chapters.

I'm very open to any feedback, I will take it into account so let me know what you think !

I do read every single comment even if I don't always answer, it's super satisfying to see readers engaged in the story.

Most importantly of all, enjoy !

(Cover credit : Kellepics for the image (no attribution required but I still wanna do it) and myself for the text. Not sure why it's slightly blurry, I think it's a RR thing.)

A capricious master of the past is saved by an unsuspecting girl. When told to pick her reward, she merely asks for his friendship.

“If so, then I will be your friend. The best damn friend there ever was!”

As such begins the journey of a kind hearted girl and her capricious friend. However, the more they learn about the world, the crueler it seems.

Will the girl’s light lift it out of chaos, or will her friend’s hidden darkness bury it completely? What is light and what is darkness anyway? In the end, strength conquers all.