In the quiet moments before the world awakens, Luke's life takes an unexpected turn when he stumbles upon a portal to the abyss. What he finds on the other side is beyond human imagination, an unspeakable terror that beckons him into its dark depths. As Luke grapples with the horrors that defy reaso...

Saving the world should be everyone's highest priority, but everyone has goals and the slack can just be picked up by others. Right? Louis wanted to become a royal knight, but people in higher positions had other plans. He cannot be certain who thought the group he would end up with was had a good c...

A young woman named Rita has taken her 1st steps into The Beyond.  That is to say, she began wandering the Wilderness of The Beyond without proper preparation, and she's not lost forever because of her competent Master who was able to create a respite in the In-between of all things.  "Do not go far...

[Season 1 finished. On Hiatus until further notice. Season 2 coming soon!] Celia had fought creatures called "Visitors" for as long as she could remember. Together with Pan, a Visitor of Special Grade himself, her single goal was to survive. Yet after dying an unexpected death one day, she woke up a...

The story had been published only on royalroad.com and if you're reading it anywhere else it has been stolen. Death comes quickly and without warning. Even for such little personage as him. It's quite hard to start as a dungeon core. Quite harder when divine bureaucracy simply dumps you in the a** e...

The veil thins between two worlds, as a cataclysmic event threatens to engulf a world teeming with monstrous creatures and magic. A bizarre dimension of unique existences and a vast amalgamation of energies is starting to bleed through to this world.  Kimarya, a Bigfoot enthusiast, is reborn in this...

It's recommended you read through Book 1 (Creation: The Wolves That Are Us) before this, however Book 2 could also be read first without the knowledge of Book 1, you'd be missing out on references and character reveals but that's all. This isn't a tale depicted from the recent past, this story doesn...

Topher Bailey has been summoned to a magical world, given a special power, and confronted with a call to destiny! The problem?  His power is dumb.  Even the other denizens of this mystical realm agree -- it's completely worthless.  Also, Topher is, like, forty-three, with a boatload of health proble...

Carlos was an ordinary software engineer on Earth, up until he died and found himself in a fantasy world of dungeons, magic, and adventure. This new world offers many fascinating possibilities, but it's unfortunate that the skills he spent much of his life developing will be useless because they don...

Many years ago, two worlds had merged together, forming a brand new world known as Shin. Though they had made peace for quite some time, they had been completely unaware of what the future would hold. None of them had known the destruction that would unfold in the future, after a certain tragedy had...

It has been three months since the Black Sun.  Three months since the way was opened for the gods, angels, demons, monsters, and other legends of mankind to begin the return from their long exile from the mortal plane. This is what the world has become.  A world where gods can take over countries, r...

Books 1 and 2 are complete! Book 1 - Sins of a Dying Empire Molam longs to return home after successfully stealing from the Empire. But the enigmatic Oracle dangles it just out of reach, assigning him another task: to steal wood from the sacred World Tree from the Empire. The task sends Molam to an...

A nameless prisoner had only known a world of darkness and pain. The reason for her capture was a mystery, and the event itself, something she did not remember. For years, she had endured, but time gnawed on her will and sanity.Then, one day, a group of strangers — fellow prisoners — helped her esca...

(Book 3 Oathmaker has begun. Chapters currently posting every Sunday) It has been an age of peace between the Holy Paladin Order and the Mage Alliance, nearly five hundred years since the last major war on Contenmere, smallest continent on the world of Reath. But the peace remains an uneasy one even...

Matt's life changed when he unexpectedly gained a system that allowed him to level up and complete quests in real life, believing it to be the ultimate gift.But little did he know, everyone in the world would soon unlock their own systems, turning the world into a chaotic, power-hungry playground.Wi...

[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge] Still Active!!! Warning this is considered a draft and is subject to drastic change. Trigger warning this is a dark fantasy novel recommended for 16+. Murder, R*pe (will be implied but not described), likely slavery, and much more dark themes (it w...

He was just trying to survive his day-to-day existence when fate decided to throw him into a multiversal blender. Now he’s got a Wii-like controller that does everything except what he wants, a title that may or may not involve pickles, and a cosmic destiny that makes about as much sense as a flying...

Dungeons? Cultivation? Core Cards? Other Worlds? Dirt Roads?! In a world where cultivation has long been the practice of the powerful, magicians fight the natural order. But when a failed summoning puts the soul of a beloved truck into the body of a potential hero, the fate of the world must take a ...

Moyosore realizes he has no time to waste as he has been thrown into a new world, his current reality has been erased with the coming of the Archailect. with danger lurking at every corner, he has to get strong and fast or lose his life in this game-like reality.......

{Book 1: Guardian}  A grown-up Red Riding Hood and her wolf bond must save a conceited Crown Prince from assassins from another world. What could go wrong? Aria Rosen loves her family, pointy objects, and fighting to protect her beloved city. In that order.  But when assassins threaten the crown pri...