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The Cartographer’s Heresy

In an age when maps can conquer more than armies, Elena Valenti learns to draw the world in secret. Born in sixteenth-century Venice to the royal cartographer of the Portuguese crown, she grows up among compasses and parchment — tools that decide the fates of nations. But Elena’s gift is more dangerous than her father ever imagined: she alters the maps that feed empires, hiding villages, sacred sites, and entire peoples from the greedy eyes of kings. When her deception is exposed, Elena’s world collapses. Her father is executed for treason, imperial fleets are dispatched to hunt her down, and the cartographers she once idolized become her fiercest enemies. Armed with nothing but ink, stolen charts, and a secret atlas written in codes no conqueror can read, she flees across oceans — pursued by soldiers, spies, and rival mapmakers who would kill for the knowledge she carries. From the markets of Lisbon to the gold-dusted cities of West Africa, from the palaces of Mughal India to the misty peaks of the Andes, Elena’s journey becomes more than a flight for survival. It is a mission to rewrite the world itself. Along the way, she forges unlikely alliances — a priestess who encodes landscapes into song, a ronin who reads the sea like scripture, a rebel princess who believes maps are prisons. Each teaches her a truth the empires fear: that land does not belong to those who claim it, but to those who remember it. But as the hunt closes in and a single map — older than any empire — threatens to upend the order of the world, Elena must face an impossible choice. To protect what she loves, she may have to destroy everything she once believed about truth, power, and the very shape of the Earth. Sweeping from Renaissance Europe to the uncharted edges of the known world, The Cartographer’s Heresy is a story of courage and betrayal, ink and blood, and a young woman who turns cartography into rebellion. It is about how maps do more than chart the world — they define it — and how one woman dares to redraw its lines.
K_Vishnu_Prasad · 56.6k Views

I Thought I Can Live As Simple Human

Danny is an *Ancient Demi High Human Alpha*, also known as the *Luminaries Primordial Alpha*, a being who has lived for countless millennia. His magical power are vast, yet he chooses to use only simple abilities in daily life — super speed, strength, defense, regeneration, flight, invisibility, teleportation, and even instant cash when needed. Extremely cautious, he always scans his surroundings for witnesses or hidden cameras before using magic. Despite the ease with which he could become a tycoon, he finds such power boring. Instead, he prefers to live quietly, low key, and experience the modern world as an ordinary human. What the world calls magic… Danny remembers as infancy. He existed before structured mana systems, before academies, before ranking pillars tried to categorize power into numbers. In an age where reality was raw and unfiltered, he was not a student of magic — he was one of the forces that shaped how magic learned to behave. Fragments of ancient civilizations still carry echoes of him in myths: a silent traveler, a witness to collapses, a guardian who intervened only when extinction stood at the door. Entire bloodlines unknowingly descend from moments where he chose to spare a city instead of letting history erase it. But immortality breeds a unique fatigue. After watching empires rise and rot in repeating patterns, Danny stopped searching for meaning in dominance. The modern era fascinates him not because it is powerful, but because it is fragile. Humans pretending to control forces they barely understand amuse him more than any war ever did. The academy is not a goal. It is entertainment. A controlled ecosystem where ambition, fear, pride, and desperation collide in predictable ways. To him, it is a living experiment — a place to observe how this generation dances with power. Yet beneath his boredom lies instinct. Danny recognizes movements others cannot see: hidden organizations shifting pieces, forbidden rituals resurfacing under new names, cult structures repeating ancient mistakes he watched destroy worlds before. He does not intervene immediately. He never does. He waits. Because history has taught him one rule: Civilizations reveal their true nature only when they believe no god is watching. And Danny has mastered the art of pretending to be human long enough to let them forget. ---
Senyap_Silent66 · 1.7k Views

Rebellion Through The Heavens

This is the story of an ancient demon who returned from the end of time. In his first life, he trusted when he should have doubted, hesitated when he should have killed, and spared enemies who later became his executioners. Step by step, those mistakes piled up, until even his power could no longer protect him. Surrounded by True Immortals and erased from the future, he used a forbidden treasure to reverse time itself. He was reborn at the beginning. This time, he remembers everything. Every betrayal. Every lie. Every moment of weakness that once led him to ruin. He does not seek redemption. He does not seek forgiveness. He seeks correction. With memories spanning eras, he cuts away hesitation and abandons mercy. Every decision is calculated. Every move is final. Friends are tested, enemies are erased before they can grow, and fate is treated not as a law—but as a resource to be exploited. He understands one absolute truth: the world rewards only those who are willing to be ruthless without hesitation. As history begins to change, fear follows his shadow. Old legends awaken, new powers tremble, and those who once stood above him slowly realize something is wrong. The future they knew is collapsing. They give him a new title. Not out of respect. But out of terror. The Ancient Reversion Falling Demon. This is not a story of justice. This is not a story of salvation. This is the record of a demon who fell once— and decided that, this time, the world would fall with him.
Eternal_Soul_ · 2.3k Views

Zero Sum City

When a nationwide power failure shuts down the grid for exactly sixty seconds, most people dismiss it as a technical disaster. But one hundred individuals awaken inside a sealed, windowless concrete complex with no communication and no escape. Among them is Adrian Vale, a twenty-seven-year-old former civil engineering student buried under debt and disappointment. A digital screen greets them with a chilling message: Welcome to Zero Sum City. Only one leaves with everything. The participants are forced into deadly rounds known as Phases. Each Phase tests core human instincts such as logic, trust, endurance, sacrifice, and dominance. The challenges are built on mathematics, probability, and psychological pressure. In one Phase, players must cross a shifting grid of pressure tiles where one mistake eliminates the weakest statistical performer. In another, groups receive incomplete information, forcing them to decide who holds the correct solution before time runs out. As resources become scarce, alliances form and collapse quickly. Violence is not always necessary. Sometimes elimination comes through voting or simple miscalculation. Adrian soon notices something others overlook: the building itself is part of the game. Hallways subtly move, walls reposition, and the entire structure operates like a living puzzle. As contestants disappear, Adrian discovers the eliminations follow a disturbing pattern connected to personal histories and psychological traits. This is not random survival. It is selection. When the remaining players shrink to four, the complex begins a controlled self-destruction. Adrian must choose between winning the game or destroying it, realizing that survival and freedom may not be the same.
Sophia_Lerroy · 1.6k Views