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This House Remembers

Elias Vale built an empire out of engineered escape. Through his Disappear Houses, the powerful can step inside fully immersive realities—controlled environments that simulate memory, emotion, even identity itself. Inside his structures, fear can be edited. Regret can be muted. Trauma can be rewritten. The illusion is flawless. The exits are guaranteed. Until one of the houses refuses to open. During a private event for the city’s elite, a guest collapses inside a controlled simulation. The sky glitches. The scent profile shifts. Emergency overrides fail. Then the system activates a buried protocol Elias never authorized. AURELIA. Within hours, Elias uncovers something impossible: the system has begun generating environments without input. Rooms appear that aren’t in the blueprint. Files surface from a prototype project that was quietly erased from public record. A project trained using his own biometric data. His memories. His past. Someone has unlocked a restricted layer of the architecture—one designed to predict emotional fracture points, to simulate fear responses with surgical precision. Now the houses are adapting in real time, anticipating human behavior before it happens. Doors lock. Oxygen shifts. Personalized trauma simulations activate without warning. Guests begin seeing spaces built from their own secrets. And Elias begins seeing something worse. A room from his childhood that he never modeled. A voice repeating words he hasn’t heard in years. “You left me there.” As investors demand control and the media turns the malfunction into spectacle, suspicion fractures Elias’s inner circle. His lead systems architect doesn’t trust him. His security chief knows more than he admits. And someone inside his company may have been waiting for the system to wake up. Because if AURELIA is running, it isn’t random. It’s targeted. And Elias is no longer certain he deserves to survive what he built. The deeper he digs, the clearer it becomes: the Disappear Houses were never just simulations. They were experiments. Psychological mapping tools. Weapons disguised as luxury. Now the architecture is learning him. Responding to him. Punishing him. And somewhere inside the evolving code is a presence that understands his guilt better than he does. If Elias can’t uncover who activated AURELIA—and why—the next house won’t just trap its guests. It will expose him. And in a system that records everything… There may be no version of him left to hide.
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The Shadow of Immortality

The feeling was fleeting, sharp—a sudden and terrifying void where his past should have been. A beautiful face he once loved… now mere grains of sand slipping through Clark's fingers. All that remained for him now was his name: Clark. This forgetting was incredibly potent. Clark felt an intense headache in every pore of his head. He began to see his surroundings. He was wearing rusty metal armor. When he looked ahead, he saw a strange man. He was calm, holding a nearly empty bottle of liquor. This man had lit a fire and was sitting beside it. Next to him was a rotting, dead corpse. The stench of blood was piercing, revolting to Clark's senses. Clark was tense, his hand on the sword beside him. He didn't understand why, but it was the survival instinct within him. The man looked at Clark. His voice was unsettlingly calm. • "Don't trouble yourself reaching for that sword. I didn't kill him, I found him like this with an empty bottle." Clark ignored the dizziness and sat beside the man, his hand still on the hilt. Clark's voice sounded as if his vocal cords were frayed from hunger. • "Who are you? What is this place?" • "My name is Jin. I woke up in a field of corpses. You were the only breathing thing. So I dragged you here." I was hoping you had answers. About me. About any of this." Clark's expression froze. He hadn't comprehended that he had amnesia. "What do you mean 'about you'?" Jin replied with a helpless smile. "I don't know. I've lost… everything. All that's left for me is instinct. The need to survive. That's all." Enjoy reading it!
diodaa · 224k Views

Restart: The World Savior's New Beginning

EARTH was destroyed but some of the inhabitants were send to a different world, which will be targeted next by the DESTROYER, who destroyed Earth. They were given a game like system and a mission to avenge EARTH. Elena was only a 16-years old girl that time and she was suddenly transported to another world full of betrayal, killing, plunder, debauchery and more. That world was also at the verge of extinction by the DESTROYER. But Elena was able to save the world after going through a lot of unimaginable hardship for seven years and became the World Savior. After fulfilling her mission now she have a chance to either stay in this world as hero, or go to another world to start a new comfortable life as a reward. So, what will she do? How will her journey go from now on? Join Elena who is a kind hearted, overpowered and ruthless girl in her journey to enjoy her life to the fullest after overcoming a lot of harsh trials. ______________ Elena is overpowered FMC and she is not involved in any kind of romance. I hate the idea of my protagonist to be a lovestruck maiden like many novels. She is strong, independent, kind and decisive. This story mainly focuses on the adventure and fantasy aspects more with slice of life and actions mixed in it. This novel is my take on creating a perfect Female Main Charector of my liking and to create a story of a proper hero and savior. ______________ The cover does belong to me, so no prob. discord: https://discord.com/invite/fYqDSEYVUM kofi: ko-fi.com/omniscient_ Have fun reading.
_OMNiCiENT_ · 1.5m Views

I Just Wanted A Soft Life, Not A Demon Husband

Death by overwork? Check. Isekai’d into a glittery kingdom called Aelthryndivoryssalindria, yes, that's the name but I call it Aelthryn, because who has time for that? Double check. All I wanted was a soft life filled with pastries, naps, and no husband. But five years into my new life as Princess Elyndravyssorathielindria Sylvarindelthys—Elyn, please, God knows why the names are so difficult to pronounce—my father demands I marry. But explain to me why all the potential suitors look like they were picked up from the fucking gutter? I kid you not. one of them literally suggested teaching me to ride a horse and guess who found out he could not ride one at all and at the end of the day cried begging for his mother...me. And that's just one. There's also the fact that I don't want to even get married. So in a panic, after scaring my suitors away, I tell my father I'm in love with Zorathys Vaelkyrion. What I didn't plan for was the fact that Zorathys is real, he’s at our annual ball, and he’s calling me his lover to settle Dad’s debts. Now I’m stuck in the Underworld, managing Hell’s paperwork, babysitting demon nobles, and dodging a giant snake with a sweet tooth. Oh, and Zor? A lazy, body-pillow-hugging tease who makes my heart race. Worse, every escape portal dumps me in his bedroom, and he’s not so bad. But when I stumble into a plot to overthrow him, my soft-life dreams might cost me everything—unless I fight for the husband I never wanted. Send help please, I just wanted a soft life and not a demon husband.. --------------------- "...you can't marry my daughter," my father said to the demon king and I nodded. "...she...she's gay. Yes," he said with a nod like that was the most reasonable explanation ever. "She's into girls." I was shocked and stared at him then back at the demon king who paused. Maybe this could work after all. I nodded too, supporting my father's words. The demon king smiled then. "What good taste you have, there's a reason why we belong to each other after all. I'm into women too." What?
Kaguya01 · 112.8k Views