Fantasy

Derrick Stones is the kind of manager everyone despises. Feared by his employees and respected only for the results he delivers, he believes compassion is for the weak. Long hours, unpaid overtime, salary deductions, and public humiliation are just another day's work. To Derrick, people are nothing more than tools to be used and discarded. Until the day he crosses a line. After attempting to harass a young intern during a company dinner, Derrick is struck in the head with a wine bottle in self-defense. He should have died. Instead, he wakes up to a glowing blue screen. Borrowed Time System Activated. Remaining Lifespan: 45 Days. Every cruel act steals days from his life. Every genuine act of kindness earns him more time. But there is one catch... The system cannot be fooled. Fake apologies, forced smiles, and charity done for selfish reasons earn nothing. The only way to survive is to become the kind of man Derrick has spent his entire life mocking.

Vaedrik Mornath awakens as a Dungeon Core with one goal: build the ultimate death trap. After his lethal obstacles only result in annoying adventurer complaints, he pivots to luxury hospitality. Now, he must balance the delicate art of dungeon maintenance with the demands of five-star guest services.

THE RISE OF THE BELITTLED: MARCUS HALE Betrayed by his boss, cheated on by his wife, and nearly killed after his greatest invention was stolen, Marcus Hale was left for dead. But death awakened the power of his ancient bloodline. Now Marcus is back—and the man they once called a nobody has become someone even the most powerful fear. They stole his work. They betrayed him. They tried to kill him. Now, Marcus Hale is coming for everything.

They called him the Dao-Slayer, the chosen one destined to shatter the corrupt gods and free humanity. But prophecies are written by the victors, and sometimes, they are written by the monsters themselves. When a lowborn swordsman named Kenji rises from the slums to wield a legendary blade, he believes he is fighting for the freedom of the mortal realm. Every god he strikes down is a victory for the oppressed. But as the heavens bleed, the truth begins to unravel. The prophecy was never a promise of liberation; it was a blueprint for a cosmic trap. The gods he is killing are not dying, they are being reborn into something far worse. Caught in a web of lies where his mentors are enemies, his allies are monsters, and his own identity is a terrifying paradox, Kenji must decide how far he will go to break a loop that has already consumed him.

In his past life, Leonidas Vance was the Supreme Marshal of the Northern Front—a commoner who fought his way to the pinnacle of military command, only to be betrayed and executed by the corrupt Solar Emperor during the Great Demon Siege. Opening his eyes 10 years in the past, Leonidas finds himself back in his 18-year-old body: a disgraced, mana-less cadet exiled to the bleak Frostpeak Fortress. But this time, he didn't return alone. Bound to his soul is the Interstellar Sovereign Arsenal—a military system connecting him to the automated weaponry, orbital drop pods, and ballistic technology of an advanced sci-fi civilization. While arrogant noble mages rely on slow incantations and sword saints boast of bladed aura, Leonidas arms his starving garrison with armor-piercing assault rifles, anti-materiel sniper rifles, and heavy artillery. In a world where magic reigns supreme, the Reborn General is about to teach the empire that nothing breaks a spell barrier faster than a high-caliber round.

Seventeen-year-old Jackson “Jack” Carter has always believed he is an ordinary teenager. At school, he keeps a low profile, struggles with bullies, hangs out with his closest friends, and quietly falls for a girl who seems completely out of his league. His life is normal—until one brutal encounter pushes him to the edge of death. That is when something inside Jack awakens. Suddenly, he possesses strength beyond human limits, senses sharper than they should be, and abilities he cannot explain. But Jack isn’t the only one who notices the change. Hidden among ordinary people are the Nephilim—an ancient supernatural bloodline that has survived for thousands of years. Some are his classmates. Some are watching him. And some would rather see him dead. As Jack searches for answers, he uncovers a terrifying secret about his family and a bloodline connected to Azazel, an ancient name buried beneath centuries of lies. Jack isn’t an ordinary Nephilim. He is something the supernatural world thought had disappeared forever. And now that he has awakened, the Elders who rule the Nephilim have begun to fear what he might become. Caught between love, friendship, betrayal, and a hidden war older than humanity itself, Jack must learn to control the power within him before those hunting him find him first. Because sometimes, the blood you inherit isn’t a blessing. It’s a death sentence.

Prince Valerian Morcant is cursed. Every strong emotion unleashes chaotic, magical disasters that turn banquet halls into neon glitter and ballrooms into musical wine cellars. Hunted by the Council and mocked by his rivals, Valerian seeks a cure, only to find himself tethered to Isolde Veyrana, a mysterious woman whose touch is the only thing that calms his storms. But as the truth of his origins as a 'living weapon' unravels, Valerian must decide if love is a salvation or the final piece of a dark, cosmic puzzle that will shatter the world.

Reborn after death, Long Tian is determined to rewrite fate, protect his master and those he loves, exact his revenge, and conquer the martial world in pursuit of true redemption.

A legendary general, once a master of war, finds himself reincarnated as a simple village butcher. While he yearns for peace, his ingrained combat muscle memory turns every chop of meat into a legendary sword technique, leading the world to mistake him for a retired grandmaster of the blade.

On the night he was supposed to be crowned vampire prince, the heir to the crimson throne, prince Kael Draven was betrayed and, wrongfully accused for the massacre of his whole family, and killed by the people he trusted the most. Reborn five years into the past during his days at the brutal yet prestigious Blackthorn academy, Kael is determined to change his fate, get his revenge on his enemies, and uncover the truth behind his downfall. As he begins getting his revenge, he realizes he wasn’t the only one reborn. The woman betrothed to his best friend who secretly loved him in his previous life, his best friend and the woman he thought he would spend the rest of his life with, all returned pursuing a hidden objective. And beneath the academy terrifying supernatural beasts start to emerge. Entangled between betrayal, supernatural beasts, and political conflicts threatens to destroy the entire world. Kael must decide between taking his revenge, or become the king he was always meant to be. But who said he can’t wear the crimson crown, and take his revenge?

"Drink up, brother," they said, passing me the poisoned wine. In my first life, I was the fool who conquered an empire only to hand it to my family on a silver platter. My reward? A silver goblet laced with nightshade, a dagger between my ribs, and the sound of my own brothers laughing as I choked on my own blood. They seized my throne, slaughtered my loyalists, and completely erased my legacy. Then, I blinked. I wasn't lying on the cold stone floor of a locked treasury. I was standing in the middle of the Grand Pavilion, ten years earlier, holding the exact same golden chalice. Julian was right next to me, patting my shoulder with his fake, loving smile. The universe had hit rewind. My body is ten years younger. My vast mana pools are gone, reduced to a flickering spark. I am physically a weak, untrained prince surrounded by apex predators. But I remember everything. Every hidden treasure, every forbidden spell, every upcoming disaster, and exactly how each of my brothers breathes. They think I am still their naive, easily manipulated pawn. They have no idea that the gentle prince died in that treasury—and a monster woke up in his place. I’m not going to fight them for this rotting kingdom. I'm going to let them starve. I will cross into the forbidden lands, awaken a dark system, and build an empire so terrifying it will swallow theirs whole. My name is Kaelen. They wanted my throne, but they will drown in their own blood to reach it.

James Carter was never the strongest student at his hero academy — just the most reliable one. His ability, Bond Link, let him sense his teammates' condition and quietly sharpen their coordination from the shadows. He trusted his team completely. He protected them. He helped them grow. Then, the moment after their biggest victory, they threw him away — deemed "too dependent on others" to be worth keeping. As James walks away from the team he built, Bond Link awakens into something no one ever told him it could become. It isn't a coordination skill at all. It's the power to read — and bind — a person's true potential. And the deeper the bond, the more James can reshape someone's future entirely. At first, all he wants is answers. But when he turns his newly unlocked ability on his former teammates, he uncovers something far more disturbing: their potential has been suppressed all along — deliberately, by someone who got there before him. Someone who understood Bond Link's real nature long before James ever did. Betrayed, awakened, and now hunted by a truth buried in his own ability, James must decide what kind of power he's willing to become — before whoever created this system decides for him.

The phantom heartbeat in Xavier Ford’s chest is not his own, and it is slowing down. Every agonizing pulse carries the distant, dying roar of the dragon he was forced to rip from his soul during the Cleave War, a catastrophic betrayal that fractured the continent of Eldoria and left Xavier a mutated exile. Half-human, half-dragon, and entirely hunted, he is the last of the Dragonbound, living on borrowed time as his soul slowly unravels from the severed ancient pact. The Immortal Empire and the Shadow Dominion have ground the world to ash in an endless war, both desperate to hunt Xavier down to weaponize his forbidden bloodline. When a pragmatic spy from the Dominion offers him a path to stabilization through a hidden artifact known as the Silent Blade, Xavier is dragged out of the shadows and forced into a lethal game of shifting alliances. But the blade is not a salvation. It is a cosmic executioner that requires sacrificing the entire future of either humanity or dragonkind to stop the impending world-ending darkness.

Jason never sought power, legacy, or immortality. Yet when an ancient sword awakens—one that predates names, fate, and even history—it chooses him. Severed from the world by forces that fear what they cannot control, Jason becomes something unprecedented: a bearer without identity, unclaimed by karma, unseen by destiny. Cultivation sects hunt him. Ancient watchers observe him. And the blade within him stirs with a hunger that once erased its previous wielder from existence itself.

In the Nine-Fold Abyss-Heaven, destiny is a game rigged by the powerful. Ten years ago, a ruthless transmigrator named Victor claimed the "Sovereign System," ascending to godhood by consuming the luck and souls of everyone in his path. To the cosmos, he is a righteous savior. To those beneath his boot, he is an inescapable nightmare. When Julian transmigrates into the body of a discarded, talentless mining slave, Victor instantly flags him as a cosmic threat. Instead of granting a quick death, Victor inflicts absolute suppression—slashing Julian’s experience gains by 90%, shackling his soul, and publicly subjecting him to suffocating humiliation. To the world, Julian is a broken, unranked insect destined to crawl in the toxic spirit-ash. But Victor’s arrogance blinds him to the true nature of Julian’s interface: The Ashen Balance. Unlike standard systems, Julian cannot level up through easy victories or safe cultivation. His cheat triggers only at death’s door, converting raw agony, suffocating despair, and cold fury into irreversible Defiance Attributes. Forced to cultivate backward by strengthening his mortal flesh against the very laws of heaven, Julian turns his suffering into an unyielding weapon. From the suffocating depths of the slave mines to the grand, mocking colosseums of the higher realms, Julian undergoes a grueling, weak-to-strong ascension. He will bleed for every single attribute point, rally the broken outcasts of the realms, and systematically dismantle the False Hero’s empire. Victor stole the heavens, but Julian will burn them down to pay the debt.

At eighteen, every human receives an Awakening—a chance to gain a powerful combat class and climb the ranks from F to the legendary SSR. Leo has spent his entire life dreaming of becoming a great hunter. But on the day of his Awakening, his dreams are crushed. F-Rank. Scavenger. Trash-tier potential. Humiliated by his peers and abandoned by the guild that once promised to protect him, Leo is thrown into a low-level dungeon as nothing more than expendable bait. Surrounded by monsters with no chance of survival, he prepares to die. Then something impossible happens. His worthless Scavenger class glitches. A forbidden system awakens within him—the Infinite Trial System. But it isn't a gift. The system rewards Leo only when he survives pain that should have killed him. Every broken bone, every wound, every agonizing battle can become strength. To grow, he must endure what others cannot. The stronger the enemy, the greater the pain. The closer he comes to death, the faster he evolves. While the world continues to see Leo as a pathetic F-Rank failure, he begins a secret journey of unimaginable growth. He hunts monsters, challenges powerful guilds, survives impossible trials, and slowly uncovers the terrifying truth behind his system. But becoming powerful comes at a price. When Leo finally challenges the corrupt forces controlling the world, he becomes humanity's most wanted enemy—and the Infinite Trial gives him a quest with a 99% mortality rate. Leo has spent his entire life being treated like trash. Now, he's going to show the world what happens when trash awakens as a sovereign.

Adrian has perfected doing absolutely nothing. While dark sorcerers battle and hidden groups fight for control, he builds unlimited strength just by existing, the ultimate shortcut to power. When a hunted noblewoman stumbles into his peaceful morning, he finds that helping her is surprisingly easy. But as Isabelle learns to use her hidden gifts through his lazy approach, they uncover something horrible: the Faction has been controlling everything, and Adrian himself is what they really want. In a world chasing power, the most dangerous person is someone who doesn’t care, until they have to.

Step into the magical and dangerous realm of Cadearus... The malevolent Green Spirit once manipulated kings like pawns, sparking wars that scarred the land for generations. Imprisoned by a council of mages led by the dark sorcerer Tesior, the spirit lay dormant... until now. Richard, an unsuspecting youth, becomes the vessel for the spirit's resurgent power. As he struggles to control dark abilities, Tesior's sinister plans threaten all of Cadearus. A story of magic, prophecy, betrayal, and adventure, perfect for fans of dark fantasy, supernatural mysteries, and epic YA fiction. Formats Available: eBook PDF download (instant digital delivery) Physical paperback - if you'd like a printed copy, send me a message or check my Instagram @za_id_jr Perfect Gift For: Fantasy readers aged 14+ YA and adult fiction lovers Fans of The Hazel Wood, Strange the Dreamer, or The Bone Season Enter Cadearus... and face the Green Spirit. I will be posting this story on RoyalRoad

Bayu, an elite royal tracker, and Galang, a notorious thief, have spent their lives hunting one another. But when they are cursed by a forbidden violet tether that links their lifespans and heartbeats, they become trapped in a deadly dance of survival. Hunted by the ruthless Vanguard and caught in a web of imperial deceit, the pair must choose between killing each other to break the chain or uncovering the dark secret behind the throne that threatens to consume them both. In a world of magic and betrayal, they discover that their greatest enemy might be the growing bond they can no longer deny.

For centuries, civilizations have risen only to be harvested by the "True Founder's" automated extinction protocols disguised as gods. When the brutal civil war within their ancient valley shatters their world, siblings Japh and Lira are thrust into a desperate fight for survival. To defeat the corrupted High Warlord, Japh executes a dangerous Complete Divine Fusion with the legendary core—saving his people, but losing his human memories to a cold, unfeeling godhood in the process. Now, anchored only by Lira’s soul-weaving light-tether and her newly forged solar arc-weapon, the siblings must cross the treacherous, monster-infested Storm-Severed Ocean aboard The Aegis Vanguard. Their destination: the celestial capital of the enemy empire. There, they must uncover the terrifying truth behind the divine core, reclaim Japh's lost humanity, and unite their bloodline to shatter the planetary extinction grid before the world burns in eternal dark