“And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." - Freidrich Nietzsche *** Leon Estes once had the best life. With perfect grades in school, popular, handsome, and with a loving family, Leon was living the very example of perfect. But it apparently could not last. His lovely ...

Reincarnated people tend to not be mentally well off, and their love of slavery shows that pretty clearly.Slavers far and wide flooded earth after it's own world ending encounters with Monsters, and our portagonist... is not one of those, he's on the other side of the dynamic. Normal people can only...

This is a fantasy revenge story that takes place in a semi post war world. Humans once ruled this world as their technological advances propelled them to the top. This was until the elf race, which was seen to be equal to humans, left the motherland of Isha in hopes of finding the "new world". They ...

Everything was fine, until they were not. Forewarned only by ringing noises, the System integrated with Earth, killing 20% of its people upon arrival. Raven Dawn, a college student who secretly loved drawing and writing stories, survived, and the System gave her a powerful Class: Storyteller. But wh...

1st person POV, with a twist or three. There is only one MC.  Nobody likes the tax collector, not even intergalactic AIs. So when they show up and draft 4 billion people, I get caught in the crossfire. Now dumped onto an inhospitable world, where the air itself want's to give me cancer I must figure...

A short collection of stories with the prompt alien societies. Royal Road participation. Has fantasy and sci fi societies/civilizations. I am mainly writing this because of overexposure to really bad hfy....

After a millennium of cultivation, Ning Shan—Patriarch of the Unfettered Immortal Pavilion—stood at the apex of his realm. Through unending conflict, he rallied all under the same banner—his own—until no one dared to challenge his rule. He soon set his sight on something far greater: breaking the sh...

Wrongfully accused. Ruthlessly hunted. Fighting to survive. Just as Aiko Takahashi begins to rebuild the fragments of her shattered life, she is thrust into a waking nightmare—wrongfully imprisoned for a crime she didn’t commit. As she navigates the confines of its shadowy labyrinth, the prison com...

Fiction Life Support System is my history in the fictional works of my reality and my growth in there. My name is Kyx Kantyrox and this is my account of my adventures in the fictional works I consume. With my personal system, which I've named the Fictional Life Support System, I become the main char...

"Adaption" is a thrilling sci-fi saga that follows five extraordinary youths—Barrako, Shadow, Voice, Stwar, and Ace—who are torn from their home and teleported to a hostile planet by the mysterious Celestial Drift. Stranded in an unforgiving universe, they must navigate deadly terrains, outsmart rel...

Tantamount to this world is the energy that ebbs through the cracks of its streets, the moonbeams of its skies, and the blood of its people. Within the meadow of this place lay stories untold of those who will themselves fight against unimaginable odds and claim victory with their steadfast steps an...

[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge] Halonar En este mundo, hay dos tipos de personas: los que han sido invocados desde otro mundo, los aldarianos, y los que han vivido allí durante milenios, los anivors. Jack es un granjero muy trabajador. Tiene una esposa y una hija amorosas. Ha ...

Framed for killing his father the son of the count gets sent to an underground cave with no escape with the help of the voices in his head he has to survive by making allies fighting off monsters and delving deep into the cave to find his means of escape....

In a distant future where humanity has colonized the stars, Earth's cities are sprawling hubs of technology and innovation. Beneath one such city lies a secret hidden for centuries: an ancient, magical realm where mythical creatures and forgotten legends still live. Protected by a fragile barrier, t...

In a world reduced to rubble, Muji, a lone mangaka, lives as if the apocalypse is just another day. While monsters roam the streets and destruction reigns, he quietly creates, focused only on his manga. This unshakable indifference infuriates Kallus, the architect of humanity's end, who becomes obse...

Björk was an ordinary man, living an ordinary life. working as a blacksmith in a nation plagued by recurring civil wars, Growing up with divorced parents, a feeling of being born in the wrong place or time, and a burning desire to live a life of more excitement. Any kind of excitement. A desire that...

In the year 125 of the Singularity Age the Nevermore Institute is a worldwide, and extra-planetary, network of agencies dedicated to the study and understanding of a series of strange events related to the decay of the laws of physics in the universe called the Dark Events.  Their special agents tra...

In the spring of 199x, Arron Wynterz traveled to the Megacity Neo-Tokeyo for a new job opportunity, so that he can send money back to his parents to keep the family farm running. The new Megacity is the capital of Nippon and was born after the many disastrous decades known as the [Troubles]. Built w...

Would you save a world that doesn't want you in it? In a world that treats the Gifted; the ones with mysterious abilities, as pariahs or even as second-class citizens; that is the question that Sera Kroix soon started asking herself, especially after she started a group consisting of the Gifted that...

It's eat or be eaten in this godforsaken world.  The year is 2169, society is on the brink of collapse, every professional sport has long since become amateur only.  Except of course, for Competitive Vore....