Heroic Journey: 404

Grimtorn | satire | Complete

Are you ready to Embark on a Journey of sheer Wonderment? Then join us in the Fantasy world of Fanswald where our hero is finalizing his grand entrance into this brave new Realm. Don't forget our brilliant heroine Melly who will have to keep her wits about her to deal with this rather odd hero. Oblivious to the truth, Clemiticus will explore this new realm with open eyes and a closed mind. Join him as he battles the forces of bright-darkness and explores a new crazy world of epic fantasy! Will he change the future of this crazy land for the better?At least one thing's for sure, Fanswald will never be the same again.

72.36 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-27 17:15

Illya: The Ruthlessly Violent and Slightly Sadistic Celestial Known as Illya.

IllyasArt | romance | Complete

What does an attractive reincarnated person do after they regain only a portion of their memories? First off, Kill monsters and bandits and have a little too much fun leveling various skills. Then maybe save beautiful women and possibly make a harem? Good? Evil? Can I eat it? Is it tasty? Illya: "Who cares! It doesn't matter as long as it is fun!" Join Illya on her "fun" slaughter-filled multi-dimensional adventure! This novel is finished, and you can purchase it physically and digitaly on Amazon, digitally on various sites here, or you can also donate $10 or to me on Patreon.

72.31 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 18:51

The Destroyer

michaelscottearle | action | Complete

After untold centuries of absence, the evil Ancients have returned. Their magic appears unstoppable and their hunger for conquest is insatiable. To protect the country of Nia, Duchess Nadea and Scholar Paug make a desperate journey to find a human legend: A man known to have destroyed these Ancient foes with a powerful army.But legends can lie.When Paug and Nadea revive their hero from sleep, his virtue is far from clear. Is he really their Savior or their Destroyer? Visit my website MichaelScottEarle.com to pick up Destroyer in eBook or Paperback (PST... The Destroyer Book 1 eBook is FREE)

72.19 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 13:55

Gnarlroot the Eld

RaccoonMage | mystery | Complete

Skeletal Minions aren't supposed to be sentient, but when a Spirit Mage called Azwold bends game rules to complete step 4/11 of his epic questline, he summons the only talking player pet in the game. Join the Eld, his player 'master', and a cast of unforgettable party members as they explore Realms of Lore and work their way through "Gnarlroot the Eld's Stolen Bones" questline.Can they thwart a mounting, game-breaking threat from the cult-like Telemoon guild? Will they discover how the Eld ended up stuck in the role of a video game player's skeletal minion? Or will the Eld remain trapped, forever hungering for answers?***Book One is complete. Finishing 2nd book Summer 2022***Thanks for reading!***Cover art by the lovely and talented Oona Machina***

71.74 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 12:05

The Labyrinth of Dreams

Labyrinthia | adventure | Complete

Currently aiming for releases around the 14th and 28th of each month (Local Time). Warning, this book is a sequel to Labyrinthia's Maze and while you can read it alone, several things won't make sense if you do. How do you deal with waking up every night for almost a year because of a nightmare? I guess it doesn't matter because I am certain my particular nightmare isn't a normal one. My Uncle even tried to use magic to guard my dreams and prevent the nightmares, but nothing is working. With my 21st birthday coming up, I honestly hope I can get a good night's sleep. Yet, I can't help but wonder why Labyrinthia, goddess of Dreams, insists on tormenting me so. Not only that, but mom and dad have been on edge ever since uncle returned from his latest travels. I hope everything is OK out there. Surely, my recurring nightmare isn't a bad omen or anything, right?

71.61 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 18:21

CALLSIGN: BLOODBATH FPS

TJ Lombardi | contemporary | Complete

In a world full of assassins, there are those who choose stealth and there are those who arrive violently and leave only a trail of blood. Awakened to excruciating pain and torment, Trevor Brinkworth discovers he is an agent of Scalpel LP. The only problem, he has no memory of ever joining them, nor the multiple missions he conducted as their assassin. A neurochip implanted in his brain provides him with super soldier abilities, but with the blank spot in his memory also comes the discovery of having to start back at Novice - Level 1. Trevor quickly realizes there is only one path to take, level up his skills and get back to doing what he did best. The long road of intensive training is ahead of him but when an old love interest reemerges, he dedicates himself towards being a better man and a better agent. No matter how hard Trevor tries to prove his past won't define his future, he cannot shake the dark reputation which still looms over him. Trever soon realizes the best way to survive in his new reality and get back to the love of his life is, shoot first, ask questions later. For every mission he is given, it always ends with bloodshed. Marvel's Punisher + John Wick = CALLSIGN: BLOODBATH

71.54 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 11:11

The Protector and the Peacemaker

ThisAdamGuy | romance | Complete

The secret war between the Slayers and Mythics is secret no longer. Porter the Slayer and Sarah the sphinx have, through their unlikely love, become the bridge between the human and Mythic races, and together they hope they can find a way to end the fighting without one side destroying the other. With incriminating evidence against the Master Slayer, Drake Mortoph, there may be a chance that they can disband the Slayers before the two armies reach each other. Mortoph has more secrets than Porter and Sarah realize, though, and he will stop at nothing to keep them from being revealed.

71.49 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 16:19

The Arora Chronicles

storytopia07 | contemporary | Complete

Ever since childhood, Monica looked up to the heroes of her myths. So, when she discovered that she had a gift unique to her, she made a choice to become just like the heroes she once aspired to. Everyone remembered the white mask and the vigilante who wore it. They knew her as the Lady in White', whose watchful eyes made sure to keep the crimes of the country in check. But real life proved to be harsher than the stories. After a series of violent events, by those trying to imitate their hero, the reign of the superhero came to an abrupt end and everyone presumed that the Lady was dead. A year after her death as the Lady, Monica found herself returning to the world as a normal woman once again. She was determined to lead a normal life, but how long can one keep the soul of a rebel in check? As she tries to come to terms with her mistakes, the pull to don the costume once again is stronger than ever before. Only now the world and herself ask, should the alter-ego return?

71.06 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 17:00

Infinity's Frontier

Vachel Thevenot | sci_fi | Complete

Do you believe in ghosts? Flint does, especially since he is one. But, Flint's sense of purpose died along with him, and a century after his own death, he struggles to find meaning in his immortality. His galaxy's interstellar war has been at a stalemate for nearly a hundred years, and nothing that Flint does in the conflict seems to make a difference. But things change when Flint makes a shocking discovery that could give him the sense of purpose he seeks in his strange existencea discovery so great that its mere existence could bring an end to the galaxy's endless war. New chapters weekly on Sundays. Also available on Scribblehub and Webnovel. Feedback is welcomed and highly appreciated!

71.05 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 10:54

Tome of Stealth [A System Anti-Apocalypse]

DragonOfRochester | romance | Complete

When the Passivity Precept takes over the world it snuffs out all brutality, leaving its MMO-like Violence Simulator as humanity's only source of physical violence. Knowing how much she can make from selling epic gear, Grace Winston enters the simulation and discovers that it's more than just a game. Somewhere in there are the answers to who started the fire that killed her father. For far too long, Lorevinel Silvercat has been stuck as the Ravenborn clan's free-roaming prisoner. They've held a grudge against his clan and have used him to vent their hatred. Having planned his escape for several years, he has everything ready, but he needs a specific artifact from the Rogues Guild to finally start his journey. Will Grace find her answers? Will Lore gain his freedom? Can these two unlikely people, both alien to each other, find common ground and work together while dealing with an unasked for soul bond? ToS is a Lite LitRPG (meaning very few stats with a focus on story). Expect cursing, sexual tension, descriptions of breeding dungeon rats, and a little gore. TL;DR- The System Anti-Apocalypse forces everyone to be peaceful and only commit violence inside its Magical VR game.

70.96 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 15:14

Final Hope

JJPiedra | drama | Complete

Final Hope centers around Mikomi Saigo, who inherits Onyx Technology Ventures from his father. Mikomi succeeds in completing his father's work, but the day before he announces the completion of an advanced A.I., he is shot and killed in the parking lot of the company. He wakes up 10 years in the past with all of his memories intact where he meets Sebastian, a custodian of time. Mikomi has been given a second chance and decides that he wants to do more than just find his killer& he wants to change some of the more unpleasant events of his life, but the more he changes, the more the world responds.

70.65 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 17:07

Petrichor: Act One

PublicApology | contemporary | Complete

In the eerie town of Darkwood, situated deep within the dense forests of Washington, a tragic incident shatters the lives of six teenagers at the heart of it all. As the new girl, unsocialized and sheltered, Grace finds herself thrust into a tumultuous world of confusion and torment, grappling with the aftermath of the tragedy. She struggles to find understanding behind the tragedy and wants to uncover the events and truth that led up to it. As she pieces the puzzle together, she grows close to her equally tormented friends and embarks on a jaded coming-of-age journey to discover who she can be. Cody and Emily are childhood friends, deeply in love, and are torn apart by guilt and insecurities. Cody blames himself for the tragedy and has been pushing Emily away as an excuse, unable to face the real sinister reasons. Emily has her own guilt and masks it by trying to ignore it while trying to fix the crumbling relationship with her childhood love. Amidst their struggles, both Cody and Emily embark on transformative journeys, seeking self-forgiveness, discovering the meaning of acceptance, and moving on. Twins Andrew and Sara carry the weight of their hand in the tragedy, haunted by the trauma that lingers within them. Andrew, a rebellious force of nature, delves deeper into the criminal underground. Tormented by his involvement, Andrew descends into self-destruction intending to cause as much chaos around him. Sara battles with depression and copes with hard drugs to escape the pressure of the secrets she keeps, slowly succumbing to them. Both siblings teeter on the edge of despair, desperately trying to hold on. Among this group of tormented souls, there is Chris, an enigmatic and brilliant young mind who believes he possesses the ability to foresee the future. Chris's tenuous grip on reality makes him relentlessly pursue an answer with no question. Along his journey, he encounters someone who shares his unique perception of the world, prompting both Chris and the reader to question his own sanity as he tries to prevent another tragedy from occurring. As these six friends persevere through their struggles, they uncover the tangled web of tragedy and uncover the malevolent curse that looms over them all. (This is a redux of Petrichor. I was unsatisfied with how the story went. I rushed things and left things to happen off-screen a lot. So I'm rewriting it, this time dividing the acts into their separate books to allow the characters to properly develop. The story will mostly stay the same but I'll fix all the plot holes I found and change some character motivations here or there.)

70.64 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 13:49

Tamer: King of Dinosaurs

michaelscottearle | action | Complete

Control dinosaurs.Tame women.Rule the world. Victor Shelby ends each day wondering when his life is going to get better. His parents are dead, he struggles to pay rent, and his boss at the animal control shelter has him cleaning cages instead of working in the field. His dream of helping animals seems destined to end in a mop bucket.Then Victor is abducted by aliens and deposited in a prehistoric world filled with hungry dinosaurs and beautiful alien women.He doesn't know why he is here or what his purpose is, but he finds himself fighting for survival. Most men would have been lizard kibble in a few moments, but Victor's natural ability to empathize with animals has grown stronger, and he finds himself able to control the most docile of the terrible lizards.Victor will have to use his taming powers to provide food, water, and shelter for the three women that he has sworn to protect. Success means they get to live another day, failure means a horrible death in the jaws of Earth's most deadly predators. Read the full story @MichaelScottEarle.com(Book 1 eBook and Audiobook areFREE)

70.51 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 12:38

The World That Was

J3P7 | historical | Complete

Planet Earth is broken. Civilisation was plunged back into the Dark Age when the Sun spewed forth the largest solar flare in recorded history. But amidst the ashes, a lone physicist made humanity's greatest scientific breakthrough  time travel. A decade later, the fledgling technology is ready to send a pair of daring pioneers on a one-way journey into the past. When the portal shuts there will be no communication. And no coming back. Even then, Matilda and Harry were enthusiastic volunteers, eager to impart their futuristic knowledge so a subsequent civilisation might mitigate the inevitable celestial cataclysm. But when the inaugural mission goes awry in its opening heartbeats, Matilda finds herself trapped and alone in 12th Century England . She is Chronomad One. Humanity's first time traveller. Check out my website to pre-order a physical copy and see how the book was written, how the cover was designed and how physical copies were hand-bound.

70.48 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 11:35

Time Flies [Time Travel Airship Piracy LitRPG lite]

Aest Belequa | action | Complete

Is it child labor if they're in charge? Twila loves the Hourglass, but hates that its captain keeps letting it fall apart. When the run-down airship finds itself ownerless, she jumps at the chance to steal it. On board, she finds a fancy pocket watch and a mysterious map to a legendary pirate's treasure. It's hers for the taking if she can brave horrifying monsters, a powerful trading company, and a hostile sky full of fierce pirates. - - - - - What to Expect - - - - - - Child Labor. Obviously. - Slow Burn Time Travel. It'll get more and more important as the story goes. - Item-Based LitRPG with crafting and combining. - Kids acting like kids. - Kids getting in dangerous situations where they could get hurt. - 1 update/week. I'm going to finish this story for sure.

70.37 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 18:38

Hobo Hero (Xianxia/Wuxia)

ElitheHill | action | Complete

You don't have to be smart to make it into magic school, you just have to come from the right family.Poor and dirty, Sparrow comes from the wrong family. He must fight his way into the top school in the land where he's bullied, beaten and thrown out on the street.But Sparrow was born hungry and will stop at nothing to learn the secrets of the universe. You can expect: - Cultivation - A fantasy setting - An underdog hero. Chapters are uploaded weekly. (Formerly The one who walks alone)

70.03 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 15:41

The Ill-Favoured Five: Children of Discordia (Grimdark Fantasy)

Sivios | mystery | Complete

Set in an alternative, dystopian future In 2017, two worlds, Earth and Lumina, seemingly merged. Entire countries were wiped off the face of the planet, tsunamis the size of mountains crashed into deserts, and monsters immune to gunfire rampaged through the survivors. This was known as the Great Merge. As millions were displaced across the new world, the kings from Lumina herded the survivors into enormous cities. This story begins 40 years after the Great Merge, following a mercenary team in New London tasked with intel gathering on a recruiter for a supposed terrorist organisation. However, all is not what it seems. Secrets are being withheld and a certain team member has a complex history. Join them as they butt heads with the Children of Discordia, a group hell-bent on creating chaos while unravelling a puzzling mystery. This story is not for those who are faint-hearted. You have been warned. Sivios.

70.01 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 12:08

Fantasy World Epsilon 30-10

Phillip Rayne | comedy | Complete

New Dive Assignment: 0B5 Personnel: Citizen of Gamma G-037-072 Jonathan Kelly World Designation: Epsilon H-037-072-030-010 Classification: Pre-industrial Exotic World, significant outliers in biosphere including atypical flora and fauna. Quarantine protocol in effect pending more data and acclimation testing. Further anomalies include populations of morphologically distinct humanoids, and aberrations in otherwise normative physics laws. Causal chain appears provisionally stable. For the purposes of delaying onset of collapse as well as above mentioned factors, only one subject is cleared to Dive. Initial mandates shall proceed with scouting and surveillance. Further details are classified. Warning: All other qualifying personnel are currently dispatched. Refusal will result in deployment delays and possible unsupervised causal decay. Do you wish to accept this assignment? Note to Readers: This is not MC isolated in a new world. This is new world joins the multiverse. What I'm tentatively coining Subverted Isekai (Formerly I used 'reversed' but, as pointed out, that would be fantasy MC goes to the modern world. Hey, there'sidea! Not this book though.). There is plenty of scientific and philosophical stuff; I know that can be a turn off for some. It has a strong bearing on the story, but is mainly covered in the 'Comments & Calculations' section (optional reading of course). If you are looking for an extreme suspension of natural laws with no technical considerations, you will not find it here. Formatting Notes: Audio chatter from characters that are not currently in the scene I format in "inverted commas and italics". Given the layered nature of modern communication, I thought this distinction was best denoted visually in my prose. Critique is welcome. Language Notes Jon is a South African ex-pat. As such he will use some Afrikaans colloquialisms plus a dash of Japanese. Most importantly he says "Ja" meaning "Yes". Pronounced with a J sound like "yo" and an A sound like "bar". As in: "Yo, let's go to the strip bar." "Ja." And not the Rastafarian /jya/. Other words: Nee - /niya/ : no Juffrou - /yif-row/ : Miss Lekker - /lacker/ : nice, good, delicious Nooit - /noit/: never The rest is mostly swear words. Indisputably the most useful words in any language and simultaneously holding the least innate meaning. Fok - "fork" without the "r": fuck Bliksem - /Bluksim/: darn, damn. Also common noun meaning damn person or thing. Donner - "Dorner" without the "r": originally meaning thunder, can also mean darn or damn. It is often used as a verb meaning: to hit hard' Kak - /kuck/: shit Voetsek - /foot-sack/: go away

69.93 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-27 18:38

Gray Wolf.

Not_Important | contemporary | Complete

Ray is an aspiring artist trying to live the best he can after he became persona non grata from his rich family and after two dramatic events of his past. Sadly for him, a particular evening where he decides to go out for a drink on his own brings him truths that a normal human being should not have to face, and one particular truth that decides it'll just eat him. This is the story of his survival, and of the fallout of chaos it brings (Version 2, Proofread)

69.67 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-27 15:31

A Horcrux's Fate

Khauro | drama | Complete

(COMPLETE) Harry Potter triumphed over the final battle against Lord Voldemort, but just as everything appears peaceful, he soon realized that it isn't over as it seemed. Something deep inside him feels wounded and is drastically withering awaya sign that his life is in grave danger. The truth of being a Horcrux will set off a chain of events that'll test his strength and will to survive. But the question is, how far will Harry have to go before he accepts his grim fate? Timeline: Post-Hogwarts Pairing: Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione Canon compliant Disclaimer: All of J.K.Rowling except the plot

69.67 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 18:35