The Dark Side Of Fate

In the aftermath of the N-23 virus outbreak, humanity teeters on the brink of extinction. The virus transforms its victim into hyper-aggressive predators known as Ragers, driven by an unsatiable urge to attack and infect. Amidst the chaos, a diverse group of survivors forms an unlikely alliance. Jake, a seasoned leader, and his team battle daily for survival. Their lives change when they meet Mason, a brilliant research engineer armed with a sonic cannon, a weapon capable of disorientating Ragers. Mason’s primary goal is protecting his daughter, but fate had other plans. As they join forces, they encounter Ryan, a rebellious kid, and Mason’s daughter, forging bonds in the face of adversity. Together, they navigate a world ravaged by the virus, battling evolving mutations and facing unimaginable horrors, trying to find a cure to the virus while surviving countless attacks. Everything goes south when one of the mutations creates a rager with intelligence like that of humans, changing the tide of the war.

Thousands of years after the eruption, people with abilities known as curses rule the world and they do so with an iron fist. A war rages between two kingdoms and a dark force stirs in the deep.

As the King of Death in his previous life, Ainz Dorak was a formidable and fearsome ruler. He commanded an army of dark and terrifying creatures, instilling fear and awe in all who crossed his path. His power was unmatched, his reign absolute in the underworld. Despite his immense power and influence, Ainz Dorak could not escape the treachery and betrayal that ultimately led to his downfall. His enemies conspired against him, and so, he met his end, his power and glory fading into memory, so he thought, but something else happened at the point where he thought he had lost everything. Ainz suddenly woke up in a different place, another world to be precise, a world as cruel and twisted, and similar to his previous world, yet different. In this world, Ainz was rebirthed as an abandoned child of a noble, where he learns of the cruel fate of his reality. However, by chance, he was reincarnated with a system; The Shadow Monarch System, through the system, he lives the life of a Shadow Halfing turned Monarch, while making power his only reason for living. Following the path that has been laid out for him through the system, he would pave his path with his army of dark and terrifying creatures, as he snatched the lives of his enemies until he was once again called the king of death. ----------- [Congratulations! You have accepted Mark of the Shadows!] [You now bear a faint scent of Shadow!] [Shadows now recognizes you as their own!]

You are forced to watch your family get killed in front of your eyes when death is also approaching you. You want to save them, but you can't. You refuse to accept this fate at the same time. During your last breaths, you are approached with a system that gives you an option to save your family, but you have to sacrifice something bigger. You must accept the darker side of the soul if you are to accept the help. What will you do? Will you accept the condition and save your family, or will you accept the fate?

Kageyama Kage, a boy who wants to die but stuck in the vicious loop of living. A living, walking contradiction. He has a past, a dark history that is not to be revealed at any cost. Hiding or at least trying to hide his demons, he enrolls at Asuka High School in Tokyo where no student knows of his disturbing past. There he meets various people his age carrying similar darkness within their teenage bodies. Just what will happen when he comes across them and will there ever come a day when his past will be revealed? WARNING! MATURE CONTENT! I DON'T OWN THE COVER ART.

Luther Cain was the long-lost heir to Cain Global, a billionaire empire run by a father who would do anything to keep power. Luther is framed, disowned, and forced to go into hiding. He disappears from the world and is thought to be dead. But he trains, learns, and builds the Shadow Syndicate in secret. This is a secret network that can take down the most powerful people. He thinks carefully about every move he makes, every alliance is a weapon, and every betrayal makes him want to get his legacy back. Celeste, his childhood friend and ally, breaks free from her father's grip and joins Luther's mission. She risks everything to tell the truth about the dark side of the Cain empire. Luther learns that beating his enemies is just the beginning; staying alive in the chaos he has caused will be much harder. Corporate wars turn into street fights, and ambition and family loyalty are at odds with each other. In a world where power can bend reality and secrets are worth killing for, Luther’s rise from the shadows becomes more than a fight for inheritance it’s a war against fate itself.

In a silent hall, confused voices rose, expressing disbelief and recounting tragic deaths—stabbing, plane crash, shooting. Amidst them stood a man, contemplative. Memories surfaced, hinting at a shared fate. Recognizing a pattern, he scanned the room, finding an angelic figure named Aurelia. Ethan, one of the survivors, felt a surge of fear and hesitation. What fate awaits our hero?

O Bored Prowler of the white pages stained in dark ink. Do ye tire and lose interest in the scrolls of endless writers that tell the dry tales of Systems? Of modern men who traverse through time and space to arrive in fantastical worlds where they achieve naught but baseless journeys? Of tasteless worlds with no intrigue, failing to grasp thy mind? If that be the case, hearken unto me, O Prowler! Let me appeal to thy desire for adventure and darkness, bringing thee into the world of LEASTRIA, where ye shall follow the story of foul men born from distorted shadow! Where selfish Stars toy with fate from their Odd Demesnes! Where the Enlightened, the Sorcerers, the Cradlers and the Genuine Accursed roam and rend the Sheltered Lands with their obscene lust and greed! Where ye shall follow the story of the Cursed Child as he seeks ‘The Bringing’ and rises from meagrehood to significance under thy eyes. Hearken unto my voice and begin this tale, if ye fear not to prowl in Mythology. Do ye dare, O Prowler, to be lost in true Fantasy? ---------------- I will be posting this story on Royal Road under the name Shade Arjuun

Death, as the guide of all the souls leaving the physical world, takes the form of a human to speak with them. He has been wandering for a very long time that he, himself, doesn't know about his own existence. Ferrying billions of souls of humankind to the other side has been his job in a forever state that he can't escape. He considers himself a mere bystander, a storyteller—seeing histories unfold before his eyes, witnessing eras and wars end, watching humankind thriving. Endowed with a power of bringing deaths to humans upon touching them, he constantly seeks the feeling of physical human touch. Not until he meets Fivrelle, an immortal lady who desires death. The world is continuously evolving and growing. But to what extent? No matter what the world has become, Death will always be there, waiting.

Lloyd Blanc was an ordinary boy from Earth whose life changed forever after a mysterious accident transported him to a world ruled by mana, cultivation, powerful clans, and mythical beasts. Awakening in the Viridescent Empire, Lloyd discovers that he is connected to the prestigious Blanc Clan and that his arrival is tied to secrets far greater than he could have imagined. With a mysterious pendant at his side and enemies waiting in the shadows, he must grow stronger to survive a world where the weak are easily crushed. As Lloyd walks the path of cultivation, he will face betrayal, powerful enemies, ancient mysteries, and a destiny that seems to have already been written for him. But Lloyd refuses to accept a fate chosen by others. “If fate has already decided my ending, then I’ll defy fate itself and write my own.”