[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]  The year is 2038 when humanity discovers they are not alone in the universe. Contacted by a civilized universe spanning Trans-Galactic Union, humanity is ready to embark out upon the stars in a vast new world of possibilties. Or they would, had it...

Arden thought it was going to be just another summer cookout. The biggest issue he was prepared for was ensuring the fajitas and burgers were done at the same time. Then a few gods crashed the party, asking for help. Now Arden and his friends have been split up and dropped into the magical world of...

Jean Coux, a merchant, and Aslan Hawthorne, a battle-hardened veteran, never expected their paths to cross with Rouvin Walker, a desperate researcher on a mission to hunt down the monster that destroyed his village. But fate had other plans. Drawn into Rouvin's quest, Jean and Aslan soon find themse...

I was such a loser in my last life that the gods gave me a second chance.  I wasn’t going to waste it.  The catch?  They sent me to another world.  A world still stuck in ancient history where status was everything.   Worse yet, I was born a lowly porter's son.  I was destined to be unremarkable...a...

Will had absolutely no idea what happened.The last thing he remembered was eating some Beef Stroganoff at his brother's place.And than he woke up in a grassland in the middle of nowhere.As a wombat, of all creatures.As strange blue boxes start appearing in front of the confused and newly-wombatized ...

A ruthless, cold and cruel ruler falls in love with his sworn enemy, a fierce, strong willed and hot-headed red-haired girl. She hates him with a passion, but will she ever realize that out of everyone she had thought, he's the only who sees her for who she is, not for what she'll give? _______ This...

In a world much like ours, a divine being named Zepharion disrupts reality as we know it, selecting one hundred individuals from across the globe for a grand experiment. Each chosen contestant is transported to a different fantastical world ruled by a unique deity, tasked with surviving a series of ...

Memories ... A blessing yet a curse, ever changing who we are as a person. Sweet ones we embrace and bitter ones we escape. Good or bad, it doesn't matter, both but  bringer of change. . . . . . . . . . . . . I have no knowledge of the world  I don't know anyone. I don't know who I am. A strange sys...

Victory... was the second worst thing to happen to you. The power of love and friendship was not enough. The plucky band of unlikely heroes failed. The prophesied child and the chosen of all the gods both fell beneath your mace, along with all their successors. There was no last-second intervention ...

Detroit, 2045. Warren, a lover of 1980s hair bands and denim vests, comes home from a dreary day working in a factory to find that his sister found them a new way to make ends meet — by farming gold in an immersive virtual reality fantasy game called Integration Online. After a blunder in Character ...

ORC AND THE LASTBORN is gunpowder sword and sorcery about the last free orc and the dwarf sworn to kill him. Warcraft 3 meets Red Dead Redemption. Orc is a pitfighter made to thrash goblins and execute undesirables in front of ecstatic crowds. The pit's [bookmaker] says his kind’s only good for kil...

Honored by countless victories grasped and foes vanquished, Sect Elder Liu Wei is one of the most prominent figures of the Lunar Peaks Sect. Known for his strict treatment of those below him and the harsh punishments he hands out to those who cross him, his name invokes both fear and awe to the sect...

Matthias Harding has an unimportant life.  All life is valuable of course, but ultimately he does not matter. If he disappeared off the face of the earth, there would be no real difference other than his job needing to find a replacement. With no family left, no close friends, nobody to really miss ...

On what was supposed to be a happy day for the S-rank, Riley Whitlock, it turned into hell. He was supposed to retire, but instead he regressed back to his youth. To make matters worse, he declined the System’s Awakening by accident. Now equipped with no System unlike his past, only experience can g...

Sir Francis the Brave, a Knight Errand of Rothrosia, was destined for greatness—or so he thought. Raised from humble beginnings, he climbed his way to knighthood through sheer willpower, determined to serve the kingdom and, most importantly, win the heart of Princess Alicia, the woman of his dreams....

In the world of power, where magic conquers the realm, Kiaran Voss finds himself under a curse of being powerless and unable to draw upon that very magic that defines his realm. In the relentless kingdoms of ruthless factions and woeful kings and queens, Kiaran's quest for revenge is doomed to be a ...

What happens in the shadows stays in the shadows—whether it's making friends with eldritch aliens, accidentally starting a cult, or giving the universe mild PTSD....Aliens conquered the world and left… The next day, it was business as usual, or almost. In their wake, they left Mana. Now there’s Supe...

The world she knew has changed a lot. Monsters roam around the world and Dungeons scattered throughout the world. Humans have obtained the power to fight them back but, for how long will it go on.  This is the story of Lizandra, a woman who came back to her world after eons. Only to find it turned u...

What makes a hero? To be powerful? To be selfless? To stand tall and do what’s right? One thing is certain—James Novak is certainly not a hero, at least not yet. But he could be one if he’s willing to put in the work. His big sister Harley could be too, assuming she survives. And so could Yoyo, his ...

Kaiz will be king. That tale is for the future, however. Today, Kaiz is not a king. He’s not a noble, not a lord, not even a liege. He’s a tanlar. It meant untitled, officially, but it also meant ungifted, unable, unworthy, unnecessary, unhuman. It was more a curse than a term. A badge only the damn...