Alternate Universe

Loren, a young office worker stuck in a monotonous life, feels crushed by the weight of his workload and a toxic, unsupportive work environment. After being betrayed by his co-workers, he loses the job he once loved. At home, his partner Marie is demanding and unsympathetic, further isolating Loren and leaving him feeling lost and directionless. Struggling under overwhelming pressure and despair, Loren tries to end his life. Just when he hits rock bottom, a mysterious ancient manuscript unexpectedly responds to his despair, pulling him into a strange and dangerous world. Loren is now a participant in a “Holy War” where different races battle each other to claim powerful crystals that can grant any wish. Initially overwhelmed and confused, Loren struggles to understand the purpose of the war. But as time passes, he becomes intrigued by the challenge and begins to train, unlocking his potential. What began as a fight for survival transforms into something more. Loren now has a purpose, to save the world from evil power!

Dumped by his girlfriend, Ares Jones went to an ancient artifact excavation site with his uncle, a famous archaeologist, to distract his mind. Unexpectedly, an accident made Ares fall into the abyss. When he woke up, Ares was in a very different world, and he was in the body of a ten-year-old boy named Rex Hito. Over time, Ares realized that he was in a world where everyone had magical powers. Rex Hito was an orphan from the Flaming Totem tribe who continually failed to awaken his powers. Rex's father was considered a traitor and never returned after finding an heirloom called the Grand Flaming Core. Ares tried to return to his own world, but he was forced to face many dangers and conflicts, and fight many enemies. The mystery of Rex's father, the gods that invaded the Totem world, and the beasts that eroded the strength of the Totem Warriors will confront Ares on his journey to become the strongest Totem Warrior. However, can he return to his own world?

A goddess girl who loses everything she loves when she is attacked on a special day. After this, she will have to survive in a bloody multiverse where her only family will be a scientist woman and an arms dealer, who will teach her everything they know so she can learn to survive.

Sidereae is a senior high school student who became a 'Dreamer' after meeting a mysterious man named Oneiroi. It was after his father's funeral when he met Oneiroi, who mysteriously appeared in his room. He was responsible for convincing her to become a 'dreamer', someone who can travel into different worlds in a form of dreams while experiencing different lives. Oneiroi convinced her to become one and find the truth about her father's mysterious death. Sid who's desperate in escaping reality because of her father's death agreed after hearing Oneiroi's honey-like words and is determined to find the truth about her father's death. However, becoming a dreamer has a consequence and that is, the more she dreams the more she loses herself, making her to forgot her goal and move further from reality. Mathieu who noticed the changes in his childhood friend Sid began to observe her more closely and tried to not leave her alone. For he's the one keeping her from getting swept away from reality. Will Mathieu succeed in keeping her and help her to regain her sense of reality? Or will Sid be able to fight the current of her fantasy, and lose herself into oblivion?

Delaney Huang is about to embark on her greatest journey yet. Her mother has died and her uncle can no longer take care of her anymore, forcing her to leave and find her own path in life after seventeen years of depending on others. But her new life is more than she asked for… Thrown into the kingdom of the Faeries, Delaney learns that her missing father was once a friend to the king of these magical lands. Keeping his promise to his friend, Lucian Xanthias, keeps Delaney in his lands and away from the Half Blood hunters. But his heart is not all too pure when accepting Delaney into his court. Breaking Delaney’s lost father’s promise, Lucian places her in a match of death to prove to him and his court that she has what it takes to join the Crown. Will Delaney be able to conquer all the mind twists, betrayals, forbidden romances, walking nightmares, and trials set before her? Or will she crumble in the hands of a forgotten promise?

The human essence is unchanged from century to century. They are ready to destroy for the sake of profit what can help, save them from the coming catastrophe - witches. Creel is an ordinary person who fell victim to human deceit, his death was cruel and terrible. He hoped for eternal sleep, beautiful oblivion, but what did he get? He is the only one whose life is so closely intertwined with the witches, he was called to another world against his will, they placed hopes on him, endowed him with strength, gave him new opportunities and forced him to become the Shield of the Witches.

A young boy named Robin Molth is normally living his life in the poorest places of Piterbern City when one day, he accidentally sets foot on a big, dirty drainage hole. There is nothing but garbage when out of nowhere, he hears small voices around. He walks farther into the darkness and surprisingly comes across an old trainwreck. Young Robin, who has never ridden a train before, is evidently mesmerized. But by the moment he gets on the train, the place suddenly lights up and a rumbling under the ground is heard. The train sets off on a new voyage, transporting the young boy to somewhere he can only imagine in his dreams before. What do you think will the otherworld bring him? A TRAIN TO KOKOSHI novel by Giona Lebraco Genre: Fantasy, Adventure

The god is dead, but its memory is hungry. Three thousand years ago, the god Tharos fell. Today, his fossilized remains—the Lorn Expanse—serve as the lifeblood of an empire. In the shadow of the Ribs of Lorn, the Empire of the Spine mines god-bone and harvests aetherich to power a civilization of brass and gears. But for those who toil in the dust, the cost of progress is madness. Kael is a survivor of the bone mines, forever changed by a catastrophic collapse in Chamber 19. While others died from the weight of divine essence, Kael woke with the "hum" in his blood. He now hears the frequencies of the dead god and tastes memories trapped in the dust—a gift that feels more like a slow-acting poison. He wants only to survive the grueling life of a scavenger, hiding the resonance that marks him as different. Everything changes when he encounters Ilara, a woman whose voice carries a power that shouldn't exist. She is a Vessel, capable of singing raw god-bone into life, and she is being hunted by the Empire’s mechanical enforcers. The Empire has spent centuries trying to stabilize divine energy, but Kael and Ilara represent something they cannot control: a living connection to a waking god. As the "Thrice-Born" prophecy stirs and the ground beneath the salt flats vibrates with a terrifying new rhythm, the two must flee toward the heart of the god’s corpse. In a world where technology is fueled by the sacred and bone-tech determines the hierarchy of man, Kael and Ilara must decide if they are the harbingers of a new era or the final echoes of a dying god's scream. GODGRAVE is a dark industrial fantasy that explores the intersection of faith, machinery, and the heavy price of remembering.

I've never wanted this life for myself—this life filled with perils and evil. It's like a dream I can never escape from—a dream which I'm forever stuck in. Heh, no one ever wanted this life or ever wished for it. You'd be either insane or extremely evil to wish for this kind of life—the life where you don't have a choice over anything—the life where you're bound by your deepest desires. I never wanted to enter into the supernatural world. I never wanted to come across the Crimsones[1], Lycanthropes[2], demons and the rest. I never wanted to be involved in anything pertaining to the dark and supernatural world. I had always yearned for freedom and not servitude. But of course I was wrong all along. I had been delusional, thinking I'd be able to escape it all—to escape from fate. I never knew I would be pulled into this mess, becoming one of those dark creatures which roam about in the ungodly night. I never wanted to be a merciless predator who was also a prey to another predator (what a food chain!). But all is good. No matter what I shall not alli myself to degenerate into a heartless monster who only knew how to tear flesh, spill blood and break bones. I cannot allow my desires to pull me down. I cannot be corrupted by the abyss! My name is Daniel Stark and what I'm about to tell you is a real life horror. I don't know what you call horror or romance or fa Intasy but this story I'm about to tell you, you need to listen attentively and not miss a bit of information. This is my story—one beginning with pain.

Mercy is a luxury when currency of survival is lifespan. Crackle . . . hiss . . . boom . . . rain falls on corpses. The storey opens on the mountain of the dead - the last battlefield of the human race. Li Wei, who is a broken man under the curse of accelerated ageing, stands among the ruins of the Ancient God. His shaking hands hold a divine artefact - The Eye of Judgement. His body decays. His breath comes out in broken gasps - huff, cough, splat. And then… betrayal. The only family he's ever had - his sister, Li Xue - looks coldly on as she drives the dagger deeper into his chest. Thud… hiss… crackle… She calls him "nothing but an adopted mistake." A man named Yang Xun, brilliantly like an idol of deceit, thanks him mockingly. That's when Li Wei realises - the world doesn't reward love. It rewards survival. When he dies, something ancient is roused inside The Eye of Judgement. And when he opens his eyes again - it's 2025, the day the god forsaken game, LYTABern, descends upon Earth.