When a painter died from overwork while painting what he didn’t realize would be his final piece, he unexpectedly woke up in a new world where magic and swords held great reverence. [Welcome to a New World]...

Jarn and Cass were members of an elite fighting force loyal to the Shire Reeve Martin Shalyn. This force is named Sword and Shield. They have been exiled from their home, from the Reeve’s service, and sent to the Wilderwaste to die because they dare to break the Reeve’s law forbidding members of thi...

The issue with being a Necromancer is that folks just don't want to trust you. People automatically assume you're about three steps from summoning an undead horde at any given moment, and even when you tell them it was "just the one time", funnily enough, no one ever believes you. Five years ago, I...

In the north, the World-Tree reaches the clouds. Its shadow covers mountains, and entire towns are perched on its branches. A keg of Yggdrasill's sap is worth a fortune to the Southern Gods. Tappers evade elves and dragons to steal the sap, risking the wrath of Odinn the Allfather. Crow was one such...

"Dead men tell no tales" was a saying that everyone in the Alteya archipelago knew but what if there was more to it? What if tales were the only thing that could save the world and an evil being from the deepest abyss was snuffing out humanity to make sure no one could tell them? Bones had lived his...

It all started with a bet, and ended with an adventure. Flying to the moon, braving the jungles of another world, staving off the dread machines that seek to drive him off the path... Perhaps he shouldn't have taken the challenge; but then, a scholar will do anything to prove his research true....

Kenric Wulf is a minor lord in charge of protecting the Kingdom of Yareth's Northern Border. It is a thankless, gruelling task. So, when instead of the reinforcements he constantly requests, he gets the duke's daughter, Elizabeth Fliangris, as a fiancé instead, he understandably doesn't care. He kno...

This is the story, the memoirs of a man who gave everything for what he believed in and in the end was betrayed by even what he believed in. All he has left are his memories. Memories that he conveys into pages to tell what he lived and witnessed. The only way for him to preserve what even the world...

Sometimes what the world needs is a little blasphemy. Everyone receives a holy boon from God on their eighteenth birthday. Except for Bran.  He receives a curse that no one else can see or believe. He becomes an outcast boonless. Fleeing his old life, Bran must find his way in a world of secret paga...

Jonas Grumby, shipwrecked on a deserted island in the Caribbean for almost two months, gets rescued by a passing freighter.  To pass the time as the ship heads back to civilization, Jonas and the colorful crewmembers swap stories about their lives, loves, and adventures.  But everything is not quite...

Dead Men Tell the Best Tales 2025 Community Magazine Contest From a young age Archer had a fascination for the unknown and mythical, and one day, when he was young, he was told a story of a city made of gold. Ever since, he would research and buy as many books and information as he could get ahold o...

Taryn Taylor, the son of a seeress, is mostly content with his lot. For generations, his family has made a living selling their mystic arts. He just wishes he didn't feel like a fraud. Even his mother would admit most of her predictions were nothing more than educated guesses and lucky breaks, assum...

In a future where death is but a minor inconvenience, doctor Qi Meifen is transfered to the industrial world of Maxproxemix as part of a cultural exchange. Downloaded into a locally generated clone body to Maxproxemix, she must labor tirelessly for the Admin Department if she wants to survive and pr...

In a world shattered by the merging of countless realms, Earth merged by thousands of planet to be it's anchor and became the center of a brutal new reality where strength means survival.  After losing everything to a Dungeon collapse, young Ken, haunted by grief, swears to never be weak again.  Joi...

Young Mikhil Opetlev, a prodigy of the the Opetlevs, a noble family of bastards, witches, and murderers, thrive not by honor but by deeds too dark to name. Their creed is simple: blood is currency, and survival is the only morality. Heir to this legacy of blood and betrayal, raised to lead with a da...

When Sergeant Clare Kerrigan wakes up in a nightmarish demonic realm, her first realization is horrifying—she's no longer human. Horns crown her head, a tail lashes at her back, and talons glint like obsidian on her hands. In the realm of the Dark Legion, soul energy is everything. Souls are both cu...

The Crownless Citadel rests at the center of the Iron City, a fortress of law and order and where mercy is seen as a weakness. He is marked by duty, and perhaps detachment, justifying actions in the name of protecting this city's fragile peace. But will the truth in the shadows fracture his moral ce...

In the days of peace after the fall of Sauron, Calen, a young fisherman, grows weary of his quiet life by the river. Yearning for more than the simple days of nets and waters, he sets forth into the wide world, seeking the lands and wonders of which he has only heard in tales. Guided by dreams of fa...

A man from the not-so-distant future 2026 is sent back in time to 2010 with a weird business system. Follow the story of a guy that should have an easy life, A goal in the bag BUT somehow mess up every time. I have been a part of the royal road community for years... this is my first attempt at writ...

A Battle among titans, mighty men who were fighting for a powerful artifact that will change the fate of the universe itself brings the artifact to a primitive realm where it fuses with a young incarnate called Shawn. Join him as he unravels the secrets behind the universe and fights for survival as...