More than 30 stone of muscles and bones, the best of goat, cat, and squirrel (do not underestimate them) merged with a stale soul using outlawed magic; appearing on a battlefield, with more strength and endurance than the centaurs. The next step for the Kwal armies. The signs were clear. But the cap...

Ketsuna and Vixia Wynstar are a married adventurer couple that decided to settle down in a seaside city. However, their skills are needed to help defend the kingdom of Zaledrid from frequent dragon attacks. This does not settle well with the Ironscale Slayers, the queen's very own dragon-slaying gui...

Garassk, a reptilian varanian, is on his way home, when he's attacked in a war-torn village. Desperate for a place to rest, he seeks refuge in an allegedly haunted castle. The strange lord of the castle challenges him to a hunting competition, which he reluctantly accepts. Over the course of the nig...

Warning: If you are not reading this story on Royal Road, it has been stolen, and this constitutes copyright infringement. Stella wakes as a Dungeon Core in a fantasy world with all the exuberance of an avid LitRPG consumer. Before she can properly acclimate, she is mortified to learn that something...

My dear friend, I have sent you a transcript of a most curious find I bought from a street peddler. In this package you may find a weird, dateless diary where the most lively and mad servant of "Lady Scarlet" details his day to day working in her impossible palace: organizing balls that have a gende...

Inero-ie wants to die and there is only one reason he still has not killed himself, the promise he had made forces him to do his best to survive. Life has been a monotonous cycle of repeatedly throwing himself into direst situations, somehow surviving, returning to the settlement, and then setting ...

A side story for The Heart Grows, in which romance and intimacy within the dungeon is explored. The main story is to be considered required reading to follow this. When Ludmiller gets outplayed by a dungeon and becomes one of its minions, she thinks the man she loved is lost to her forever. Now livi...

The magic of Andrysfal is depleted.  The once bountiful stream of energy that lifted the seven kingdoms to wealth and prosperity has been cut off, leaving the people to fend for themselves.  Now, Anaya Wildseer is on a mission to find what was stolen from her and her people. All she has to do is loc...

A humble blacksmith has to become a dragon's personal bard to save his daughter's life....

Tighyt Sasomac is a normal person on the world of Kantala. Sure, he's a powerful human, and basically the leader of a city, but a normal human, at least for his level during the current regime. He went to bed like any normal decade. He woke up on another planet. One named Earth. And there, no one ha...

Ciyradyl Asters, defeatist former thief and mercenary, has been out of the game for years. His quiet life of consistency and woodcutting is interrupted when his former partner Brutus comes knocking with the job of a lifetime: Confirm the existence of a legendary feral wyrm in the country of Avalon. ...

All gunslingers of Gilead must prove their worthiness to carry their father's guns: before securing that honor, they engage in ritual combat with their own instructor to prove that they remember the face of their fathers. Daniel Bryne has forgotten the face of his father, and must be sent out into t...

The first anthology from Absurdist Press chronicles the origins of several heroes throughout our shared universe...

Isekai'd into a world they created, what happens when the story ends? A short. Art by littlemandyart...

Oud is a young Immanis man eager to start his first assignment as a Harii, the elite protector class of his city. But things turn dark quickly as he learns he may not be cut out for this job after all....

Luna only has one more heist left until she can put her life of crime behind her. When she accidentally gets caught up in the schemes of rival nations, this girl from the slums will need to use every last trick from her troubled past in order to save the ones she loves most. Cassian is the prince of...

It is an honored tradition for young ones aspiring to become hunters to go on a long and dangerous journey, to venture into the dark forests and return with a trophy worthy of the Worldsinger's blessing. A boy dares to undertake the treacherous task, hoping to return with the best trophy, or perish ...

A classic tale of knights and battle! A sorcerer, unjust in his deeds, gathers one hundred knights bold and mighty to work his will and carries them to a faraway land. There they have such adventures as are worth telling from how uncommon and full of knightliness they are....

Nathan Seldon was on what he thought was a normal date. He didn't expect to be mugged, he didn't expect to be fatally stabbed, and he certainly didn't expect Maggie, his date, to deal with their attacker using magic. In fact, what she did was so shattering that it cracked open a doorway between worl...

Voua Azrain, that fiendish sorcerer!  Too long has he inflicted his insidious atrocities upon Zretaia, the secret city where terrified citizens cower beneath thousands of warring sorcerers.  Tonight, while Voua Azrain is embroiled in the creation of a cataclysmic spell, a raving alchemist, Mathras, ...