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Gilded Rot: Leveling With Runes in a Dying World

In the Kingdom of Aurelias, gold does not rust—it rots. Long ago, the Sun Gods blessed this land with 'Eternal Light'. Now, that light has turned into a tumor that infects everything. Grand palaces are filled with gold-armored knights who have lost their minds, and the wilderness is overgrown with beautiful flowers rooting atop dragon carcasses. Kaelen awakens in this ruined world, not as a chosen hero, but as a 'Grave Walker'—the lowest class tasked with dragging corpses into incineration pits. Without memories, without weapons, and armed only with a rusty shovel. The only thing distinguishing him from the corpses he drags is the blood-red text floating in his retina: [SYSTEM INITIALIZED] [Current Humanity: 15/100] [Harvest Runes to Stave off the Hollow.] This System offers him a chance at survival. By killing monsters and absorbing 'Runes'—their soul remnants—Kaelen can grow stronger. However, in the world of Aurelias, power is not a free gift. Every time Kaelen increases his Strength attribute, his muscles tear and reshape painfully. Every point in Intelligence brings him maddening whispers from Outer Gods seeking to take over his body. Guided by the head of a mute nun hanging at his waist, Kaelen must climb from the deepest sewers of Aurelias to the Summit Throne shrouded in golden mist. He has no intention of saving this world. He only wants to know why he was sent to this beautiful hell—and if the 'God' who created this System is laughing at his suffering. When sanity is currency, how much are you willing to pay to become a God?
Vorlagh · 1k Views

Unclassifiable Mage: The Failed Heir’s Rivalry

Serenya Arclight was born into greatness — but was branded as a failure. As the youngest daughter of one of the Four Great Archmage families, she was expected to inherit a legendary command of elemental sorcery. Instead, her spells fizzled, backfired, or broke apart, earning her the title of the failed heir. In the academy’s history books, her role was already written, to become a laughingstock, a cautionary tale, and a shadow to be compared against her gifted sister. But when an ordinary woman from another world awakens in Serenya’s body, the story begins to unravel. At Arclight Academy of Sorcery, Serenya discovers she can wield a strange, “unclassifiable” magic that doesn’t bend to fire, water, wind, or earth. Instead, her spells warp the rules of magic itself — silencing flames, rewriting duels, and threatening to upend the very system that the noble families have ruled for centuries. Her greatest rival is Celestia Dawncrest, the radiant prodigy of the Dawncrest family, one of the best archmage families. Perfect, brilliant, and beloved, Celestia embodies everything Serenya is not. As whispers spread through the academy — of curses, forbidden powers, and a “failure” who refuses to fail — Serenya must fight to carve her own place in a world that has already cast her aside. Rivalries will deepen, alliances will form, and secrets buried in the void between elements will rise again. For her, this is no longer the story of a failed heir. It is the tale of the girl who dared to shatter magic itself. Expectations: Female MC but with Shonen Elements
talesofheaven · 125 Views

Desvalos legacy

Desvalos Legacy In a world where the eyes decide one’s worth… The Golden-eyed rule from their towering thrones. The Silver-eyed walk the fragile line of privilege. The Red-eyed are forged into expendable weapons. And the Blue-eyed fade into existence as if they were never meant to matter. Fifteen hundred years ago, a malformed demon was born— Skotíros Dysphálos, the most powerful being history had ever known. He never sought to rule the world. Yet the world bowed to him all the same. Then, without warning, he vanished. His disappearance ignited a merciless purge— an eradication meant to erase every trace of his bloodline. Tiflos Storgi, a young man raised within fragile certainties, is dragged into the heart of this blood-soaked legacy. Hunted by a world that despises him for reasons he cannot yet understand, bound to a family whose name carries both power and damnation, Tiflos is forced to confront truths buried beneath centuries of fear and lies. And then there is Cain— a shadowed demon who reshapes Tiflos through fire and pain, pulling him toward a path balanced between blood and annihilation. As the ancient words of Skotíros resurface—not as legend, but as prophecy— If the world rejects me, then I shall reject the world. Tiflos must face a question that no one before him dared to answer: Where does justice end, and where does monstrosity begin? Can people be condemned for sins committed long before they were born? From the ashes of a ruined city, a legacy once thought buried begins to awaken. And the world will soon learn— some truths are too heavy to be buried without drowning everything in blood.
AhmedKhalid · 15.2k Views