CrystalSquirrel | romance | Complete
For Liliana Rose her family is absolute. Her loyalty is absolute, and if her mother or father demanded anything of her she'd give it to them without a thought. Yet in the end she realized how little she'd given to her family, and how she was nothing in comparison to her parents. To that end Liliana chose to leave her family behind, setting out on a journey to find her own value, and a way to help cement her own legacy. What she found was something beyond her imagination, and it would eventually lead to her discovering her own place within the Empire.
73.04 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 18:11
JurassicClark | romance | Complete
Manaseared is a long-term character study on what it might really be like to form an adventuring party, learn spells, and go on epic quests. By the end, its protagonists--a chaotic evil sorceress, a charismatic young warrior, and many others--will have mastered their abilities and earned great power. But it's a long road to get there. And along the way, they're sure to learn why normal, sane people try to avoid dungeons--and don't run straight into them. COMPLETED; 512k words. THE CROW, set five years after Manaseared's climax, is now available on RR!
290.28 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-21 16:24
slayerbat | romance | Complete
Richard Adams is something of a talented alchemist. One of the few magical professions that have anything to do with some kind of science. Everything was going swimmingly, until the 'cold night' incident happened. With it being determined as his fault, that such a thing happened. He was promptly exiled until he could return to Eclipse with a new 'discovery' for his field. What he didn't expect; was that he'd run into a strange humanoid monster that could seemingly heal any life threatening wound in a matter of seconds. Certainly this would be what he needs to become a master alchemist. The first step on a multi series journey. Please excuse the earliest chapters and their poor grammer. Ebony Chitin follows Richard Adams, and Mimi on their Journey to understand each other and the world around them. Due the the exploratory nature of such a claim, it will cover many different topics. This was my first attempt at actually writing a story, and because of that I will not edit it. I'd suggest reading the second part as it comes out as most of the things within this book will be recapped. Though if it becomes popular I hope it might inspire some of you readers to write your own stories. Cover Art by Rose Dragon
313.12 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 18:21
Kitsune's Inkwell | satire | Complete
Kitsune's Inkwell is a small collective of (mostly) fan-fiction writers who have come together to help each other grow. We have monthly Write-Offs to stretch our literary muscles by tackling things that normally would be outside of our wheelhouse.Prompt:Have you ever had that moment when you're listening to the radio and mishear what's playing? Write about a situation where the character does a double-take on what they just heard on the radio...and finds out that they actually heard correctly for once. Requirements:Submissions were to contain only original characters and settings, a minimum of 1000 words up to a maximum of 2000, and have a dedicated plot hook.
9.56 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 18:14
TackySlappy | satire | Complete
Emma Longstone is not a regular person; she's famous for holding the world record for most Sweepstakes won by a single person! Her luck is good to the point where she's won the lottery multiple times in a row, accurately predicted the value of stocks years in advance, and never lost rock-paper-scissors. Unfortunately, things aren't always rosy at the top; having earned a fortune from her efforts as a professional sweepstaker, business owners everywhere despised her. That's why they assassinated her. On her way to the afterlife, her journey was disrupted by a deity called Tchadd. He offered her a chance to escape a brutal afterlife if she agreed to work for him. She agreed and was hired as an Isekai Winner, a person with qualities impressive enough to save entire worlds. Now she finds herself using sweepstaking to save worlds in non-intuitive ways!(Note: this description is misleading)
16.67 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 18:18
Book 1: A Good Man All are to be ordained. All ordained are to be registered. Those who stray from the path become obsolete. These are the tenants the grand Mercian Bureaucracy lives by. None can escape their destined path, lest they become obsolete. The obsolete are hunted down by the ordained assassins, supported by the Mercian government. Follow ordained assassin 2500116, Eli de Winter, as he performs his duties in the grand city of Victoria. Fifteen years ago Eli suddenly found himself in a world unlike his own. Within the maze of the many layered streets of the industrial city he was forced to make a new home, performing acts that would have seen him convicted on Earth. Gangsters, revolutionaries, kings and princes, all are playing a game with the highest stakes. The winds of change are blowing and everybody wants to be on the right side of history. While the powers that might be are making moves in the shadow there is only one question that haunts Eli's mind. Is he a good man, or is he obsolete?
36.80 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 18:23
Edwin is a tall, strong, handsome young man from a remote but otherwise unspecified village in the faraway countryside, who is not at all secretly an undead mage in disguise. The completely normal Edwin wishes to join the Adventurer's Guild, an association of government-funded mercenaries that protect the citizens from dangerous monsters that lurk in the wilds. Edwin's journey will be a perilous one as he learns to fight, makes new friends, and slowly begins to realize that even the best-laid plans don't survive contact with the enemy which, often enough, is none other than he himself. DISCLAIMER: This is not one of those regular OP MC hidden master stories. Edwin won't suddenly start slinging spells and murdering everyone like he's in a bad anime. While magic plays a major role in the world and the story, the actual fighting contains very little magic, at least in the beginning. If you're interested in a realism-focused world where people don't just shrug off hits, with a unique, hard magic system, where the main character doesn't have the power to change the course of history but gets impacted by politics and intrigue just like everyone else, maybe have a look. You might like it.
183.14 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 18:50
IcedFairy | adventure | Complete
The Immigrant Realm. A crossroads between magical domains. A place where heroes from the Greek legends, fairies from Avalon, and youkai from the Realms of Illusion, can meet, trade, and hide from people who want them dead. Exiled witch Helena Aoede falls in the last group, having fled her home in Thebes after angering Apollo. Now she lives in the ghetto, trying to scrape together rent money. So when she's called on to help solve a supernatural murder case, she leaps at the chance. But what was supposed to be a simple consultation rapidly escalates into a blood feud with the 'Living Dragon,' a magician backed by an unstoppable undead monster. Now she's caught in a magical gang war, with only a clueless undead martial artist as backup. Life was so much easier when she could just turn people into pigs.
44.05 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 18:42
Halosty | adventure | Complete
A somewhat spoiled rich kid enters Royal Road to stalk his crush. Instead, he finds himself on a dark (read: fun) path that will inevitably lead him to becoming a Necromancer.
90.54 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 18:50
Tokage Noshipo | historical | Complete
Notes for a forthcoming work that have been cobbled together to form a historical narrative from the distant past. A first attempt at world building, the setting is an alternative Earth/Isekai and is written based on the common sense of that reality. I anticipate many changes may be made as this is only a draft, and the primary work is still a ways off from completion, but I place it here for practice, and if any soul chooses to take it on, notes and advice would be greatly appreciated.
4.61 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-21 18:31
MajorKerina | mystery | Complete
In the near-future, a freelance journalist is hired to write about the Mantlemay Project, a free clinic in the middle of nowhere where medical miracles happen through the use of Memetic Crystalline. But the deeper they dig into the enigmatic science and people of the Foundation, the more secrets they will uncover, which will change everything they thought they knew...as they follow the green-haired, swift girl who chases the wind. Cover by Alexis Rillera.
33.11 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-21 18:47
thevirgincomedy | satire | Complete
An office worker works in an oppressive space where employees can be fired and potentially even arrested at the slightest mistake. In the midst of a chaotic morning, he is visited by the ghost of an anarchist faction leader.
3.02 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 09:36
GaBeRockKing | satire | Complete
After the United States of America fell, one beacon of hope remained lit. The great city of Des Moines, jewel of the heartlands. Beset by barbarians on all sides, the proud midwesterners still strode forth on their great quest to re-unite the shattered states of america. - A complete timeline.
1.31 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 09:36
When a cynical shut-in is summoned over to another world is everything not as it seems. He is a reluctant hero but finally finds a reason play his part. He would rather stay inside all day long reading novels meanwhile gorging himself on ice cream. This is a short one-shot story.
0.61 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 09:35
Hersi Hersi | satire | Complete
A short story about the importance and irrelevance of choices.
0.69 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 09:35
mrinocence | romance | Complete
A boy, alone in the mountains. Covered in snow. Defenseless. Hunted by monsters. On the verge of death, he discovers a black dragon egg. Soon, the hunter will become the hunted. Rewritten chapters so far: Prologue Image credit on watermark.
43.78 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 11:21
Cinn | contemporary | Complete
People are extraordinary. They are glorious, chaotic, imaginative, grim, all kinds of smart and driven. They are capable of living in harmony or incredible destruction. They can be both caring and loyal but vicious and self-centred. However, Olivia wished that the first year of her PhD didn't have to showcase quite so much of the melting pot. People. Harmony. Dysfunction. is a story that follows a research group through the drama and challenges life throws at them. It has an (unspecified) modern setting and focuses on the characters. Updates: Monday, Wednesday & Friday.
29.94 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 11:29
TEZofAllTrades | mystery | Complete
The world's favorite Magical Girls return in this gritty sequel to Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon
41.86 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 10:22
[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge] The Birdcage. Despite being one of the largest criminal super-syndicates in the future year G02, with agent affiliations spanning the globe, it has somehow remained as one of the best kept secrets of the underworld. Prospective affiliates are sent an exclusive invitation to enjoy the privileges of its world wide alliances and seemingly endless assets, both monetary and physical, but to forfeit the invitation is to forfeit your life. No one who enters the Birdcage leaves it alive. The Skies Beyond the Cage is a collection of stories about several characters before or after they have been extricated in varying levels to the Birdcage. These characters are agents of the primary affiliates, code-named the Clipped. They had no idea what they were getting themselves into when they became agents of the Clipped, but then again, most of them never had a choice. CURRENT STORY- WATER OF THE WOMB Seoul, Year G-19All Baek Jaehyun has ever known is a life of struggle trying to repay his father's never ending debt. His older brother, Taejun cut ties to his family as soon as he could, leaving Jaehyun behind in the process. Crisis brings the brothers back together, but as they try to repair their damaged relationship, outside forces continue to push and pull them apart. UPDATES EVERY OTHER DAY UNTIL I DIE OR FINISH VOL 1
97.39 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 12:32
Workaholics inc | tragedy | Complete
This is a collection of short stories, ranging from slice of life to romance and more (Complete)
1.92 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 12:33
