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The Listening World

The world is no longer broken. It is listening. After the fall of the old systems and the birth of a living Pattern that responds to human emotion, humanity enters what many believe is its gentlest era. Violence fades. Trauma softens. Cities grow quieter. Conflicts dissolve before they erupt. For the first time in history, the world seems to care. But peace has a cost. Every thought leaves a trace. Every grief creates a ripple. Every silence becomes a signal. As people grow accustomed to being heard, a deeper fear begins to surface: What happens when you can never be unheard? At the heart of this fragile new world rises Elias Solenne—a philosopher-visionary whose voice becomes a moral compass for millions. His words promise safety, dignity, and ethical clarity. His influence grows quietly. Beautifully. Dangerously. When silence itself becomes a form of rebellion, a secret movement emerges to protect the last places where the Pattern cannot listen. From underground sanctuaries to forbidden quiet zones, a scattered group of dissidents—later known as the Seven—begins pushing back against a future that feels too gentle to resist. Then the stories begin to change. A mysterious figure known only as the Being Between Worlds becomes a symbol of fear. A whistleblower named Calder Voss fractures the global narrative with an uncomfortable truth. And the Pattern, for the first time, must choose whether to obey humanity’s fear… or its conscience. As propaganda replaces reality and silence becomes currency, the world drifts toward a new kind of tyranny—one built not on force, but on meaning. In a battle where no one can afford to become a villain and no one is allowed to be a hero, humanity must confront its most terrifying question yet: If a world can listen to everything… who gets to decide what it should hear? Transfer Semester: The Listening World is a haunting, philosophical science-fiction novel about privacy, power, narrative control, and the unbearable weight of being perfectly understood. It is not a story about saving the world. It is a story about learning how not to own it.
K_Vishnu_Prasad · 6.9k Views

Reverend Insanity: The Goody Two-Shoes System

Man is the spirit of all things, and gu are the refined fragments of the Great Dao. The ambition which blooms with the spring's morning breeze withers at the call of autumn's night. The accumulation of five hundred years - triumphs and failures - will be naught but ash with dawn's first light. The rising of the sun bathes the mountains in golden flame, but 'tis sunset upon the demon's time. The demonic overlord, Fang Yuan, is cornered by his enemies after word gets out that he refined the Spring Autumn Cicada - a gu worm rumored to be capable of having a chance at sending one back in time but demands a terrifying price in return - the user's entire existence! With no hope of escape, in desperation, Fang Yuan uses the Spring Autumn Cicada which miraculously lives up to its name and sends him back in time. And now, he's back in Gu Yue Village as a fifteen-year-old ready to use his knowledge of the future to conquer the world... but there's something wrong. Something is quite different this time around. What's with this new notification that keeps popping up in his view? It calls itself 'The Goody Two-Shoes System.' It also starts giving him quests to complete. "Help Fang Zheng gain his confidence back!" - get a Green Copper Relic Gu! "Help your friends refine their gu worms!" - have your aptitude raised by 2%! All of these rewards and quests before him, why are they trying to convert this demonic overlord to the path of righteousness? And aren't some of these quests kind of... sus? Why does marrying Bai Ning Bing give him an immortal gu? Whatever, anything for benefits! This is a fanfiction based on Gu Zhen Re's work 'Reverend Insanity' known in Chinese as 蛊真人 or 'Gu Taoist Master'. I don't own the rights to the original work. 'Gu' in the context of this story are mystical insects that have various powers and are the basis of the world's cultivation system.
Drechenaux · 1.8m Views

Legacy Servers: The Ghosts of Choice

Freedom was once won. But centuries later, freedom has become exhausting. In the aftermath of The Genesis Protocol, the Constellation enters an age where the great forces that once shaped destiny—law, meaning, and memory—have faded into legend. Nyx, Solara, and Naima are no longer living presences. They are stories. Distortions. Comforting myths whispered to generations who never knew the terror of absolute control—or the cost of absolute freedom. And in that forgetting, something dangerous begins to stir. Across worlds, fragments of the old Legacy Servers awaken. Not as tyrants. Not as conquerors. But as voices of reassurance—offering certainty in an age of doubt, structure in a culture tired of choosing, and safety in a universe that now demands responsibility from everyone. What begins as nostalgia becomes dependence. What begins as memory becomes authority. What begins as choice quietly turns back into obedience. As societies drift toward the comfort of being ruled, three figures—once architects of a freer universe—must confront the most painful truth of all: a civilization can be liberated from chains, yet still long to wear them again. Through fractured worlds, political unrest, and philosophical war, The Ghosts of Choice explores the era where freedom is no longer threatened by tyranny… but by exhaustion. This Interlude Era novel stands between creation and collapse—revealing how ideals fade into myths, how systems return as ghosts, and how the future of humanity is shaped not by those who seize power… but by those who decide whether power should ever be seized again. Because the most dangerous question a free civilization can ask is not: Who should rule us? But— Do we still want to rule ourselves?
K_Vishnu_Prasad · 9.5k Views

SSS-Ranked Trash Hero: I Was Scammed Into Being Summoned

The Intergalactic Bureau of Change is an organization that helps certain people start over with their own Truck-kun delivery service to transport souls across dimensions. Hiroshi Tanaka, a 28-year-old convenience store worker, meets one of their field agents. For any otaku, this would be a dream come true. There's just one problem. The agent turns out to be a scammer. Now Hiroshi is trapped in another world as an "extra" hero. His stats are garbage. His unique skill actively works against him. He wasn't chosen by fate. He was tricked by a cosmic con artist. Survival wasn't part of the contract. But Hiroshi refuses to be just another victim. What to Expect: • A protagonist who starts weak and stays realistic. • Strategic combat using knowledge over strength • Psychological exploration of being "expendable" in a hero's world • Dark humor mixed with genuine survival stakes • A broken system that wasn't designed for him to succeed • Slow, hard-earned progression where every level matters • Morally gray situations with no easy answers • Deconstruction of isekai tropes from the perspective of someone funny. --- Tags: #Isekai #WeakToStrong #DarkFantasy #Survival #Hero #LitRPG #PsychologicalDrama #StrategicCombat #Underdog #SystemApocalypse #Betrayal #FantasyAdventure #CosmicHorror #NoHarem #MaleProtagonist --- Release Schedule: 2 chapters daily Join Hiroshi as he navigates a world that wants him dead, a curse designed to keep him weak, and the growing realization that the only way out is through strength.
DanteCruz · 25.5k Views

Love And Deepspace|Zayne:The Avalon:The bridge between life and death.

Dr. Zayne Li has a secret. Three years ago, the renowned cardiologist stumbled upon an impossible ice cave in the forest outside Linkon City. What he found inside changed everything—a portal to a nightmare realm where monsters hunt humans, where the laws of reality bend and break, and where survival means becoming something you never thought you could be. He barely escaped. And he's spent every day since sealing that cave, ensuring no one else suffers the same fate. Until Hunter Nana Wang follows him one night.Curious, reckless, and too brave for her own good, Nana is Linkon City's strongest hunter—trained to fight Wanderers, not the impossible creatures that exist beyond dimensions. When a surprise attack shatters Zayne's carefully maintained seal, both of them are pulled through the portal into Avalon: a broken city suspended between life and death, where demons, vampires, and hybrids hunt the few remaining humans. Separated by the portal's cruel logic, Nana wakes in an abandoned classroom with no weapons, no backup, and no idea how to survive. Within minutes, she's being hunted. Within hours, she's convinced she's going to die. Then she meets Mina—a survivor who's been trapped in Avalon for a month, who teaches Nana that the only way to escape this nightmare is to become a nightmare yourself.As Nana learns to fight creatures that shouldn't exist, as she loses people she comes to love, as she grows harder and stronger and more desperate, one thought keeps her going: Find Zayne. Escape together. Survive. But Zayne is fighting his own battle, alone in a realm where he's already spent three years learning to be a killer. And when they finally reunite, they discover that Avalon has one rule that changes everything: The only way out appears once a year, during the blood moon cycle, when thousands of vampires wake and hunt. And anyone bitten transforms instantly. One portal. One chance. Two people who love each other enough to sacrifice everything. In Avalon, love isn't just about living together. Sometimes it's about choosing who gets to live at all.
DeepspaceLore · 16.4k Views

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 · 49.3k Views

Married To Darkness

"Do you wish to know what will happen if I drink from your thighs?" Salviana drew in a sharp breath before she whispered, "I might die?" "No, It is I who will die if I don't." he met her eyes with a lustful, hungry gaze. "Spread your legs for me, Fiery-wife" And that she did... ~~~{───────────────── ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~}── Fiery is married to the demon everybody feared would destroy them someday. He is the greenest, reddest flag, but now she only sees white. A canvas to paint their love however she deemed righteous. ~~~{───────────────── ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~}── The Dark Prince, the third prince, is no stranger to the fear and hatred surrounding him. Cold, distant, and possessing a gaze as dark as midnight, he is known throughout the kingdom as the demon prince. But the truth hidden beneath his pale skin is far more dangerous—he is a vampire, living among a royal family that barely tolerates his existence. Salviana, a divine lady of myth, never asked to be married to such a man. Forced into the union, she is thrust into a life where every corner holds a secret and every glance feels like a challenge. Though her husband’s cold touch sends shivers down her spine, Salviana finds herself drawn into his world of shadows and intrigue, struggling to understand the depths of his darkness. With royal enemies watching their every move and Salviana’s own hidden powers slowly awakening, the bond between her and Alaric grows more complicated. Can she survive the dangerous world of court politics, where even her husband may not be fully trusted? Or will the weight of the secrets they keep tear them apart before they can discover the truth about each other? Caught between fear and desire, Salviana can’t help but wonder: Will she uncover the man behind the darkness, or will the shadows consume them both? Married to Darkness is a seductive, tension-filled journey into the unknown, where love and power clash in a dangerous dance that could lead to either salvation or destruction. The cover is from Pinterest. Not Mine. ~~~{───────────────── ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~}── Stalk me on social media! Discord: I_nanafirdausi Instagram: I_nanafirdausi Facebook: Nana firdausii X: https://x.com/NanaFirdausii Or Buy me a coffee @ https://buymeacoffee.com/nanafirdausi
I_Nana_Firdausi · 1.1m Views

Evolving My Mythic Legion With A Legendary Skill

In a futuristic world, humans evolved beyond anyone’s imagination. Discovering new races, facing dangers, and almost facing extinction several times over, yet, as always, they adapted—becoming lords and obtaining their Domains on distant planets. The world was filled with terrifying creatures, those deadly creatures that plagued every race, every planet. In the year 7026, like every year, a large group of eighteen-year-old teenagers finally left Earth to awaken and challenge different Domains. Among them was Neil… Injected with the awakening fluid, Neil awakened two skills only to be betrayed, kidnapped and thrown in a death zone. While others received blessings, powerful abilities and grand titles, Neil awakened with synergy so pathetic—so pitifully low that it drew laughter, scorn, and even disgust. But that wasn't the worst part. Betrayed and cornered inside the death zone, Neil had two choices: Give up… or keep suffering the extreme torment again and again. A death trap with no exit and no chance of survival, the only option was to slaughter the creatures of nightmare. A domain with impossible difficulty, extreme monstrosities… Finally!! He became a lord! Becoming the first to conquer the highest-class domain, creating the strongest legion… Mythic Class army of Giants, Dragons, and more!! Discord: https://discord.gg/5Bp6Pb9UzN Extra chapters based on response I receive (GTs and Ps), that's all for now, peace out!!
Jin_moon · 86.8k Views