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18-year-old amnesiac, Lucen Rivers, lives by one philosophy: do good, and good will come back to you. He resides in Velstrea, a large city that promotes peace and solitude for humanity. However, beneath its creation lies a dangerous secret. Devils, once humanity’s enemies, were erased from human memory after a worldwide event wiped all knowledge of them. One night, when Lucen’s hand erupts into a blue flame, a mysterious white-haired girl approaches him, proposing a "Contract". Lucen blindly agrees and is unknowingly drawn into the new age of devils, learning that some have begun surfacing into Velstrea, threatening the city's promised peace. Thrown into a new world he barely understands, Lucen must uncover the truth of his new powers, the reason behind his sudden involvement with devils, and his forgotten past.

Hundreds of people across the planet disappeared for a week before returning with no recollection of the phenomena. The media, government response was nonexistent, life carried on quickly. A month later inside the Japanese apartment home of Paige Stevens, an old friend considered long dead, appears. He remembers everything, even seeing Paige there too. She’s a big a part of it too. With what he has seen lies a warning. There's war brewing and it's about to boil over. Only, there's more to Paige than she ever imagined.

When the dead stops resting someone has to remind them how. Itsuki Ririku was just a 17 year old high schooler with two annoying little sisters and a bad habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Then he stumbled into a world hidden beneath shrines and cemeteries—a world where graves are not memorials, but contracts. Where warriors, tyrants, and forgotten souls can be bound to the living in a pact called Gravebinding. Dragged into the secret domain of the Onmyōji, Ririku discovers that the dead do not simply sleep. They whisper. They hunger. They choose. And once chosen, you can’t turn back.

When Matthew comes to himself, he finds himself in his past self. As he contemplates the advantages of traveling back in time and how rich he'll become by copying future novels, songs, and business ventures, he realizes from the conversations of those around him that this world isn't his old one, and that instead of going back in time, he's transmigrated to another. A world where people have the opportunity to gain superpowers and devour devil fruits upon becoming adults. Matthew manages to obtain the Logia-type Flame-Flame Fruit from the Holly Land, where people gain their superpowers. However, after obtaining the Devil Fruit while he was observing others entering and exiting the Sacred Realm, he encountered a strange sight. Someone got Kryptonian Bloodline! "Why does everyone treat the Kryptonian Bloodline like a useless power? Oh, in this world, sunlight doesn't reach Earth. So, doesn't anyone know how the Kryptonian body is strengthened?" At that moment, Matthew makes a decision that will change the fate of the world he finds himself in. "Hey, can you exchange your Kryptonian Bloodline for my Flame Flame Fruit?" No one could understand why Mathew did that, but Matthew had a completely different thought. "So what if the sun's rays don't reach this world? I'm the only one who knows how to strengthen the Kryptonian body. As long as I know what I need, it won't be too hard to find. And then humanity will meet SUPERMAN." ---------- I do not own Superman or any of the other mentioned creations. This is a fanfiction. ---------- This is a translated story. Original Author: Ma La Liu Lian / 麻辣榴莲 Original Story Name: You don’t want god-level superpowers, so you choose the worst talent? / 神级异能你不要，你选最差天赋?

In the year 2035, the world is ordinary—until it isn’t. Kael is a nineteen-year-old who has learned to survive long before he ever learned how to dream. Living with his sick mother and trapped beneath the weight of poverty, his life is defined by sacrifice, responsibility, and quiet endurance. He is not special, not chosen, not powerful—just a boy doing what is necessary to keep going. That fragile normalcy shatters when a mysterious event grants superhuman abilities to people across the world, dragging humanity into an era of chaos, fear, and moral uncertainty. As heroes rise and villains emerge, Kael is forced into a reality where power is no longer rare—and choice becomes everything. At the center of this upheaval stands Zerathos, a centuries-old figure burdened with foresight and conviction, determined to reshape the world according to a future only he can see. As his actions spiral toward genocide and global collapse, Kael and those drawn into his orbit must confront a question far more terrifying than any enemy: what does it truly mean to save the world? The Paragon is a grounded, PG-15 superhero epic about responsibility, morality, and the cost of doing what is right when no one is watching. It is a story where power does not define heroism—choice does.

Can't be touch, see, hear nor taste. Can't be perceived by any normal human sense. Void beast came from another dimension and hunt human like invisible supernatural phenomenon. [ Open Deal ] "Currency convert, buy her ability!" [ Confirm ] "Invest on Sharp Slasher ability!" [ Confirm ] [ Invest into Atomic Edge : Slash that cut atomic bond. ] * [ Masterpiece ] by [ Kawada Mami ] as OP song Volume 1. * [ Montagem Coma ] by [ Andromeda ] as ED song Volume 1. --------------------------------------------- Author Note : I will make discord server if this story get contracted. So if you like it and want more, please help by add this into your collection and vote with power stone. It could increase the probability of getting contract. Don't forget to leave a review also. Thank you.

No one believes the city is changing. That’s what makes it dangerous. Shadows appear where fear gathers — classrooms, hallways, forgotten corners — and every time something goes wrong, Arav Malhotra is nearby. What begins as survival turns into a descent into a hidden world of fractured Gates, unnatural entities, and authorities who believe some awakenings should be contained before they spread. As control slips and memories begin to alter, Arav realizes he isn't being hunted. He is being evaluated. In Kalyuga, power does not create heroes. It exposes what was already broken.

The world was supposed to end at 3:17 a.m. It didn’t. When reality failed to collapse, it created something worse—surplus. Eren Vale was never chosen, never special… just left over. Now the universe is trying to correct its mistake—and Eren may be the flaw it can’t erase.

He prayed. He waited. He lost everything. When his pregnant wife dies under “unavoidable complications,” grief is supposed to be the end of his story. Instead, it becomes the beginning. As heaven remains silent, he discovers inconsistencies buried in medical records, erased test results, and a system that protects itself at all costs. The more he searches for the truth, the more resistance he faces—warnings disguised as kindness, intimidation masked as concern, and silence enforced by power. This is not a story about faith lost. It is a story about what a man becomes when silence stops being divine and starts being deliberate. Because when justice is buried, and heaven does not answer… someone must.

Aham Armstrong was born into power—but raised by loss. Orphaned at a young age and later adopted into the legendary Armstrong empire, Aham grows into a man determined to protect his parents’ legacy. When he marries Kelly, the woman he believes is his safe haven, he thinks he has finally won peace. He was wrong. Framed for massive financial crimes he never committed, Aham is arrested, disgraced, and thrown into prison as his empire collapses overnight. His wife vanishes. His name becomes poison. And the man pulling the strings—Don Pedro, a trusted family ally—steps silently into control of everything Aham once owned. Prison does not break Aham. It forges him. With the unexpected return of Clara, a brilliant lawyer from his forgotten past, Aham uncovers a conspiracy deeper than fraud—one rooted in murder, manipulation, and a decades-old betrayal that claimed his parents’ lives. As the truth emerges, a powerful shadow figure known as Jane Smith resurfaces, holding evidence capable of toppling empires across borders. But revenge is never simple. Kelly returns, wearing regret like a mask, while secretly carrying orders to finish what she started. Don Pedro grows desperate as his perfect plan begins to crack. And Aham must walk a razor’s edge—pretending to trust the woman who tried to kill him, while turning himself into bait to expose the monster behind it all. In a world where love is weaponized, loyalty is lethal, and power is taken—not given—Aham Armstrong must decide: Will he reclaim his legacy… or burn the empire down to reveal the truth? Because this time, survival isn’t enough. This time, the truth will own blood.

Someone who hates his good yet boring life finds his entire reality chanigng after being cursed with power given to him by a place that doesn't exist.

Tokyo, 2045. For most, a future costs more than they’ll ever earn. For Rin Kazehaya, it costs everything: crushing debt, a mom kept alive in a hospital bed, and twin siblings plus Chiyo trying to hold the apartment together while he works himself sick. The only things he has left are a scooter, a busted first-gen pod at Sakura Arcade, and a desperate plan. When Hero’s Glory Online launches its Crystal League expansion, one tagline fills the feeds: “Bring your business here.” One week. Discounted entry. Real cash for every win and every captured territory. Anyone can queue. Not everyone walks away ahead. Rin throws in the last of his savings and logs in through a battered first-gen pod his father built. He’s betting everything on one miracle run. Unfortunately, fate has different plans. A glitch locks him into the weakest, most-mocked race in the game: Goblin. Despite this Rin is going to prove them wrong. With nothing left but his game sense, a gambler’s nerve, and a dream nobody believes in, Rin is ready to see what happens when the weakest race in the game crashes the world’s biggest stage. Updated Mondays and Fridays, with occasional Wednesday chapters. This story is officially published only on Royal Road and Webnovel. If you spot it anywhere else, it’s stolen, please flag and report it.

Brody Kingston and his gang of privileged predators thought they’d broken Marcus Reed for good — beaten bloody, filmed for their amusement, left to die in a dark parking lot as a warning to anyone who dared step out of place. They were wrong. Marcus woke up bound to the Harem Ascension System — cold, unforgiving, and designed for one purpose: total ascension through absolute conquest. The system doesn’t just rebuild his body into a weapon of raw power and irresistible dominance. It grants him the ability to turn any woman into a desperate, cock-hungry slut — craving his dick, spreading wide anywhere, begging to be fucked raw and filled with his hot cum until they’re dripping, trembling, and completely owned. Proud student presidents. Ice-cold CEOs. Untouchable heiresses. Strict professors. Bored trophy wives. Innocent freshmen. Rival gang leaders’ girlfriends and fiancées. Every beautiful, high-status woman in his path — they all fall. One taste of him and they’re addicted: screaming his name, opening their tight pussies in offices, classrooms, luxury cars, public restrooms, anywhere he demands. They drop to their knees, throats eager, bodies shaking as he pounds them senseless and pumps them full, marking them as his. The system rewards every filthy conquest: explosive points, cash, new powers, and an ever-growing harem of loyal, cum-craving sluts who live to serve and please him.

Makoto Yoshida is a novice game developer working at a major company in a world where creating games means crafting entire realities. With advanced virtual reality tools, developers shape vast and vivid worlds using only their thoughts and imagination, yet the process is both more effortless and infinitely more complex. In this era, game development is one of the most prestigious careers in society. But despite Makoto's education, passion, and potential, he's stuck creating forgettable mini-games and ad mascots, until everything changes. When his company launches a program to promote new talent, Makoto stumbles upon a genre in the selection list: Survival Horror. That single term shatters something deep within him. In a surreal burst, a flood of foreign memories pours into his mind, entire franchises, characters, plots, mechanics, and music from another world. Armed with this mysterious knowledge, Makoto enters the SeedNet system and begins his project. His brilliance shines through character design, voice direction, game balance, and realism. And as the days pass, his legend begins. Makoto would go on to become the visionary mind who redefined the Survival Horror genre, with masterpieces like Resident Evil, The Last of Us and Outlast. He was the soul behind the emotional brilliance of To The Moon, revolutionizing the RPG adventure/visual novel experience. He reimagined what storytelling meant with the noir-fantasy drama The Wolf Among Us, pushed the boundaries of cinematic action with Uncharted, touched the world with the emotional weight of Undertale, and breathed life into Pokémon, the beloved franchise that captured generations. Makoto Yoshida was not just a developer. He was the creator who made us feel again. --- @GamerSoul99 > "I still remember the first time I played Resident Evil. It wasn’t just scary, it was art. The mansion, the atmosphere... chills every time." @MoonlitDev > "To The Moon literally changed my life. The way Makoto writes about love, regret, and memory... he’s not just a dev. He’s a poet." @OutlastedMe > "How the hell did one man manage to reinvent horror and give us that brutal Outlast trilogy? He’s insane, in the best way possible." @WolfAmongFaithfuls > "The Wolf Among Us made me believe in storytelling again. Bigby’s voice, that style... the man’s a genius." @ChocoPika88 > "Makoto’s Pokémon Origins made me cry. Like, actually cry. He gave so much heart to a world I already loved." @Undertouched > "Undertale was perfect. The choices, the music, the FEELS. Makoto is the only game creator who tells stories with such passion." @DevWatch_Journal > "We witnessed history. Makoto Yoshida isn’t just a developer. He’s a generational artist. A legend."

As a Bayern youth player, Lu Xiao/ Lance awakens the superstar system. If you stay at the Bayern base for 1,000 days, you can activate the system to extract the top football players template. With 3 days left for activation, he was expelled by the 2nd team coach Erik Ten Hag after his contract expired. No, I have to stay here until the system is activated! Wait, where are the Ronaldo and Kaka templates? Absolute Control? Who is Nagi? (There is no Blue Lock in this world) …… From this day on, a true monster was born in world football! The outrageous moves that can only be seen in comics are reproduced one by one in reality! Guardiola, Ancelotti and Klopp were all stunned! Messi and Ronaldo feel inferior to him: Lance is the only GOAT in the world!

Nascent Soul True Monarch failed in his celestial tribulation and returned to his student days. 2013, when the mobile internet was just emerging, amidst the surging tides of the era, a cultivator's daily life.

Ten years ago, a blade of impossible energy ripped through the sky, leaving the world forever changed. Powers awakened in some, twisted in others, and darkness spread where fear reigned. Amid the chaos, Neriah rose—not as a conqueror, but as a hero determined to protect the innocent. Yet even the strongest resolve can falter. Though he battles tyranny and despair, the world refuses to heal, and Neriah discovers that heroism comes at a cost higher than he ever imagined. Every victory carries the weight of what he cannot save, and every failure chips away at the hope he fights to uphold. Now, caught between the remnants of a fractured world and the promise of a brighter one, Neriah must decide: will he continue to fight for a peace that may never come, or will he forge a new path, guided by hope, trust, and the courage to face the impossible? In a city where heroes shine like fragile flames against encroaching darkness, one boy must discover what it truly means to be human and what it means to be a hero.

Ethan Blake, an expert at fixing what everyone else throws away. Scrap metal, dead computers, exploded drones… unfortunately, he can’t fix his own self-esteem. Quiet, hardworking, and stuck in a monotonous, depressing routine after failing to pay for college because of money issues. His life takes a turn the day he discovers the S.E.X. System — Seduction, Expansion, eXecution. An intergalactic system that turns desire into power, and female conquests into vital energy capable of saving humanity from a cosmic threat. His mission: Seduce women.

Jordi "Narrador" Lloret. The Narrator. The Little Shadow. The GOAT. At six years old, he dreamt himself into the shoes of Johan Cruyff. Then came Paulo Maldini, Carles Puyol, . . ., and finally, Lionel Messi! Join Jordi on his journey from a little boy to a storied man. From a young culé to a legend of FC Barcelona and football. The story of Jordi Lloret is one of passion, perseverance, and, most of all, it is a story of his unyielding love for football. **** If you would like to support me, below is a link to my Patreon ($5, $15). There is no extra content there for now, so you can contribute there only if you really wish to. Otherwise, keep interacting with the story on WebNovel, Royal Road, and Substack! https://www.patreon.com/cw/PenFound **** DISCLAIMER: The content of 'The Footballer of Dreams' is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters, and businesses portrayed within this book are either the products of the author's imagination or have been used in a fictitious manner.

From a violent end to a quiet beginning. ​Reborn in the world of Woolace, former gangster Tobey is given a rare opportunity: a life free from suffering. Tasked by the gods to simply "exist," he is gifted with abilities that handle his survival, leaving him free to pursue a passion he once thought impossible—art. ​Determined to leave his dark past behind, he retreats to the sanctuary of the forest. He doesn't want wealth or glory; he just wants to be left alone. But in a world he is sworn to watch over, true isolation might be the one luxury he can't afford.