This story was written for the Royal Road Community Magazine Jan 2024 Ezekiel craved one thing: knowledge to become immortal. Each day he studies in a library worn down by time, hidden away past the forest. Each day, he returns with the same information. Immortality may have existed, but it can’t e...

Max Masters wants to get away from it all.  He wants to isekai, to get out of his mundane existence, just like what happened to all his heroes in the books he reads.  The problem is that it is easier said than done.  Yet he is certain that with perseverance he will meet a certain truck, and through ...

A goddess walks into a swamp and stubs her toe, inadvertently spawning a new species of monster. Brittle is a kindhearted bog log beast with a knack for wandering headfirst into trouble. After rescuing a knight, he uncovers a plot to kill the very goddess who gave life to his people. Brittle sets of...

January 2024 Royal Road Community Magazine Contest Entry Nico Caro is living out his fondest TTRPG fantasies. All the things he wasn’t strong enough for in his former “real” life, he can handle in this new one. All he has to do is level up until he’s basically a god, and then he’ll never need to tak...

This was supposed to be an entry for the Community contest in January 2024, but it didn't hit the 8000 word mark. Still, after writing what is there, I feel like the story is complete, and adding more words would probably ruin it. I might continue this one in the future, perhaps with some litRPG ele...

Olympus: A Power is Rising is the first book of this visionary series. This first novel tells the story of a mystery that will keep readers on the edge of their seats wanting to know how a powerful force is taking over the Universe. The biggest shock of all is why. Lost in a giant nebula in the most...

Why did no one ever say that the best way to recover from a deadly illness was by solving mysteries with a pretty ghost? Kayden Feronil, one of the empire's most promising cultivators, was supposed to be recovering from a deadly illness. Unfortunately—or fortunately, since he's bored out of his min...

This could probably be best described as magitech, with more emphasis on the magic than the tech. Dungeons, abilities, leveling, a little bit of base-building... The scope starts out small but should widen out. In the same vein there probably will be armored suits at first, and if the story goes on ...

Matthieu de Laval, a Capitaine in the Holy European Legions lies in hospital. After a heroic last stand at a stronghold along the Ninth Holy Crusade's front line, he escaped, missing his left arm and most of his Company. Despite a short-lived respite in the form of his nurse, Andrea Moretti, he is s...

The Highwayman leaves no survivors. He hasn’t in over a century of terror on the Old King’s Road. His reputation for ruthlessness and immortality is his greatest weapon.  When a dying noble begs him to spare his daughter, the Highwayman is faced with a choice; he can protect his reputation, or he ca...

To stop the four-dimensional monster Winceim Barbey from granting the whole world Immortality, the spell caster, operator, and fighter had to destroy the dragon's heart before Winceim Barbey. It was the only way for the three agents to save the world. Most of the magical items were shattered and the...

I returned to my hometown, in order to seek immortality from the dungeon that killed all of my friends. Join Tresh Farway in a journey though his past. Discover all the things that have changed, and the one witch who has not. The Eternal Dungeon remains, taunting him with the childhood dream that ne...

Things can last forever, but people don’t always want them to. [January 2024 Royal Road Magazine Submission]...

When Maruble, God of Fire, gets banished from Alta, he must prove he can live as a human to return home. But war is brewing in the godlands, and with Maruble’s banishment the center of political unrest, Alta is split into two sides: the Court of Balance and the Castle of Death. This is a story about...

There are humans, characters and monsters in the world. And gods, of course. And then, there is the Hollow God, whose cloak gives him the power to manipulate space and time itself. There are honest men and women in the world. And thieves, of course. And then there is Kafrim, the thief who attempted ...

There isn’t a dream Amelie can’t conjure. Those wishing to forget come to Amelie for the gift of oblivion; those wanting to remember come to remember, even entire lives that they haven’t lived; those wishing for love come to love, romancing an imagined partner within dreams that Amelie creates for t...

Viktor led a simple life. He tends the graves, helps protect the city against the filthy undead, and takes his duties as a Death Cleric seriously. But one night, everything changes when a mysterious explosion wrecks the fresh grave he made, and there's a young girl inside it. Viktor doesn't know wha...

Short story for the Jan 2024 Community Magazine contest. A story about the uncertainty of immortality. A human mage seeks information on his unique condition and on how other nigh immortal beings deal with their own immortality. Planning the length to be ~10k words, but could push 15K if I get some ...

Ardeus’s existence is a cycle of countless lives, each a wheel of death, choice, and starting anew. This latest death, ended by a sharp blade wielded by wild eyes, has unlocked an unprecedented choice. The Magnificent, the overseer of his eternal journey, presents Ardeus with reincarnation options n...

If you could become your favorite character, if only for a short time, would you hesitate? Would you stay true to the character, or would you make your own decisions, even if those did not fit the character? How long would you take until you got bored of the role? Join Mary as she struggles to find...