Brave

In a world ruled by the iron law of Beast Taming, your summoned spirit is your entire worth. A high-ranking beast guarantees luxury, power, and respect. A low-ranking beast condemns you to a life of servitude. For seventeen years, Leo lived in the shadows of the city elite, waiting for the Day of Summoning to change his fate. Instead, it became his living nightmare. Humiliated in front of thousands, mocked by the person he trusted most, and left with a trash-tier ranking, Leo became the joke of the city. But when the elite discarded a dying, mutated defect beast and sentenced it to execution, Leo felt a strange, ancient resonance. He chose to form a soul pact with the creature, drawing the ultimate ridicule from the crowd. They thought he had sealed his own doom. They were wrong. What the world saw as a broken defect was actually a dormant, forbidden myth from the dawn of time. As the blood pact activates, a terrifying power begins to wake, and the people who trampled on Leo’s dignity are about to learn that some gods should never be angered.

A blind librarian inherits a mountain of dead gods, and the world wants to steal their ghosts. Li Ming was born to be nothing. Then he became the Keeper of the Azure Archives—a secret library holding the screaming ghosts of ten thousand lost martial arts and fallen legends. He cannot see, but he can listen, and the dead won't stop whispering. A brutal sect hunts him for his secrets. A screaming sword begs for release from a prison of silence. A dying forest entrusts him with its last memory. And deep within his archive sleeps a ghost that remembers how to kill a god—a ghost everyone wants to steal. Li Ming can’t fight, but he can listen. And in a world where the greatest power is what’s already been lost… a quiet librarian might be the most dangerous keeper of all.

For centuries, the Free Kingdoms of the North stood unbroken beneath the bat-crested banner of House Von Caerstein. But peace shattered the night the enemy kingdoms unleashed a forbidden horror, the Malcor, a vampiric beast born of ancient sorcery. When the Malcor slaughters King Hadrian and his Hungarian-born queen, Isolde of House Zalvári, the realm is thrust into chaos. At the height of the invasion, the four royal brothers, Cassian, Edric, Darius, and Aurelius rode into battle to defend their homeland. Victory comes with staggering loss, and though the Malcor is driven away, only Aurelius discovers the truth of how to wield their family's sacred crest against the creature. Threatened by the revelation that Aurelius may be the rightful king, the brothers conspire in darkness. They use his beloved, Betrothed Maria, as vengeance to claim the crown. but the plan spirals into tragedy when Maria is brutally killed by the Malcor. Consumed by grief and vengeance, Aurelius hunts the beast alone and slays it, but not before he is bitten and cursed by its dying fang. Aurelius returns to the castle forever changed no longer human, but the first of a new breed of vampire. Driven by betrayal, rage, and the Malcor’s corruption burning in his blood, he unleashes a massacre within the castle walls, wiping out his brothers and every living soul who once called him kin. Now, atop the Carpathian Mountains, the ancient fortress stands drenched in the ghosts of its past ruled by a king who was made, not born. A king forged from love, loss, and bloodshed. A king whose legend will echo through the ages. Thus begins the rise of Aurelius the 1st the last prince of Caerstein, and the first vampire of the North.

Tristan Asher died on the floor of the Apex Gate, betrayed by the one man he trusted, while the world he'd spent five years trying to save burned around him. Then he opened his eyes in his own apartment—twenty-three years old, five years younger, fourteen hours before the sky cracks open and everything begins again. This time, he's not here to be a hero. He's here to win. He has a list. Every gate, every betrayer, every mistake that cost him everything—he remembers all of it. What he doesn't expect is her. Kira Knight should be a stranger. Instead, he already knows her coffee order, the way her voice drops when she's trying not to cry, and exactly how she died in the life he's not going back to. He can't tell her any of that. He can't tell her he's already loved and lost her once, or that the System itself has a name for what he is—and a warning waiting underneath it: *you are not the first.* Someone else came back before him. Someone else had the same plan, the same knowledge, the same fourteen-hour head start. It didn't work. Now Tristan has seventy-two hours to become someone the apocalypse hasn't already beaten, a woman he isn't allowed to love yet, and a truth he's terrified to find out—why every version of this story before his has ended the same way.

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. https://www.royalroad.com/profile/869094/fictions

Ryker Vale lives a life small enough to be ignored. Eighteen. Lanky. Quiet. A boy people overlook before deciding he doesn’t matter. At home, he endures an abusive father. At school, he is mocked and erased. In the city, he is replaceable. When his mother is murdered and his sister disappears, Ryker is pushed past survival and into desperation. He submits to human testing at Clark Industries to keep himself and his sister alive—only to be declared dormant and thrown away. That should have been the end. Instead, a system awakens inside him. Power answers his will. And something ancient begins to stir. Ryker does not know he was once Theros, a god of war erased from history. He does not know the system was built to cage him. But as Clark Industries tightens its grip and the truth bleeds through his memories, Ryker begins to understand one thing clearly: They tried to erase him. They failed. And now, he's going to control everything.

The world didn't end with a nuclear explosion or an alien attack, but with the "Great Silence." Blind monsters called The Sleepers emerged from the bowels of the earth, slaughtering anything that made a sound louder than a breath. Raka, a paranoid night-shift barista, is trapped in his cafe as a massacre unfolds. On the verge of death, a blue hologram appears on his retina. It's not a guardian angel, but the [Doomsday Streaming System]. This system has the personality of a "Toxic Netizen" who craves drama and is sarcastic, and uses Raka as an Avatar for the entertainment of an entity from another dimension. To survive, Raka discovers that caffeine is his power source. The stronger the coffee he drinks, the faster his heart beats, and the slower time passes in his eyes (Bullet Time). Raka becomes the fastest man on earth, but at a fatal risk: if his heart rate reaches 450 beats per minute, his heart will explode. Accompanied by Baginda (the fierce Mutant Swan and System's golden boy), Luna (the mute archer), and Dr. Vanya (the mad surgeon), Raka must run through this silent hell. He fights not only to survive, but to satisfy the "Audience" in exchange for points to upgrade his dying heart. This is a story about a man running against time, fighting monsters, and arguing with a supernatural admin in his head, towards a bitter but relieving finish line.

Orion died due to an accident from a young age, leaving a permanent scar on his face that couldn't be healed. Years later he gains a power able to change the course of the whole world itself. With his new powers, he decides to reshape his fate himself but the world starts shifting, going through a series of transitions, each changing the Earth itself and everything in it. Humans are forced to either adapt to the new era or fade away with it. Huge monstrosities capable of taking down human armies singlehandedly appear all over the world, humanity is forced down the food chain while Orion is caught amidst all these with a power that could be the solution to the calamity but with a severe drawback. --- The story feels a bit slow paced in the first thirty chapters but it will pick up momentum afterwards. Add to library and read the free chapters before you decide to drop or read on, thankss.

Ethan Bennett was the perfect son-in-law—humble, quiet, and willing to endure every humiliation from his wife, Sophia Steele, and her arrogant family. They mocked him, treated him like dirt, and tossed him aside without a second thought. But they never knew the truth. Ethan is no ordinary man. He is the hidden heir to the world’s most powerful conglomerate. And now, after Sophia’s cold betrayal, he’s done playing the fool. When Ethan walks away from the Steele family, he disappears into the shadows—only to return as their worst nightmare. With wealth, power, and ruthless determination, he will dismantle everything they hold dear, piece by piece. The once-mighty Steeles will crumble, and when they finally realize who Ethan truly is, it will be far too late. They called him a nobody. Now, he’s the one pulling the strings. And this time, he won’t be silent.

In a world thriving on freedom and technology, the first full-dive VR game was launched and within a month over half of the world's population is immersed in it's boundless digital realm. Among them is Henry Williams, an ordinary highschool student with a frial body and a life plagued by bullies in the real world. But in the virtual world Henry was a legend know for breaking records, defying limits, and earning global fame. Henry find's in the game what real life never gave him: Power, purpose and happiness. On a single day everything twisted while he was fleeing away from his real world tormentors, he was hitten by a truck but his life didn't end there. Instead, Henry awakens inside the very game he once dominated, but not as a hero he was. Now he's the lowest of the low: an FF- rank golbin, despised, disposable and destined to die. Then comes a sound that sparks hope. *Ding!* [The Endless Evolution System has been activated] Armed with a mysterious system that promised growth beyond limits, Henry embarks on a new journey. if he can fight, envolve and survive, he may uncover the reason for his reincarnation and the dark truth behinds the game that's becomes his new reality.