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...

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...

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...

Elves are supposed to be immortal. Eternally beautiful, graceful, witty, and immortal. They're not supposed to keel over and die for no reason. That's what Darrien Salthani thought prior to a chain of events that convinced him otherwise. In this alternate world of colossus trees and a mix-and match ...

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...

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 ...

Contractors, entities which deal in mortal souls like commodities. A stock, a bond, a lifetime. And our main character, Albert Carol, is about to lose his. When Death comes knocking, all is not what it seems. Death isn't some omnipotent psychopomp, he's a businessman with a penchant for calling hims...

Normal life was out of the question for Adira. From her very childhood, her parents were taken from her. She received an abnormal class when she gained the first level. However, she was too immature to properly understand and use the power of the Godslayer. Hunted by nightmares and alien to others, ...

Jack Walker, still hurting from what happened to his father, has been thrust into the same fractured reality that broke his father. Can Jack survive long enough to find friends and allies in a place that is at best indifferent to his survival....

Famous poet and self-proclaimed adventurer, Orion Auslandin, sets off on a journey to find the mythical Valley of the Salt Sparrow Heart and prove that there is more to him than simply being the son of the Pirate King. Inspired by ancient poetry and a journal entry from a long dead author, Orion hir...

/// BOOK I of the Starshrouds and Nervesbane series \\\Chloe was never one to stand out in a crowd. She found comfort in being overlooked. Before starting her senior year of high school, she moves to California, hoping for a new, fresh start. But soon, everything changes for the better – and the wor...

Corbin's ordinary life is ended, when a portal from another dimension opens up. The encounter ends with him in a jail in a strange land with no way of going back home. He has to adapt to the new world and uncover its mysteries with the help of sympathising locals....

Soulless is a series of books that describes the clash of a modern-day Earth with an epic fantasy world. It focuses on exploring their differences in culture, mentality, and philosophy, highlighting misconceptions and misunderstandings that arise between the two. In this book, a human diplomat finds...

A short tale, serving as a Prelude, an Alpha of Days, The Beginning of All Beginnings......

The mortal children of the Red Dragon live in the north, the Blue Dragon clans live in the south, and an uneasy border divides the continent. Both sides fear unimaginable violence from the other. Felix is a Draconic Paladin from the north, oath-sworn to the Red Dragon. Shane is a man between two nat...

In a fiery act of liberation, Karlo causes havoc and burns down a corporation to break free from his ex's persistent control.  Karlo is desperate to end things with his ex. She still has control over him and has been ruining his life.  Karlo has tried every way to rid himself of this woman, but just...

Set against the enchanting backdrop of mid-18th century England, "The Cadre of Embers" unfolds the extraordinary journey of Althea Lezant, a young and unmarried woman disillusioned by societal constraints on women. Althea's life takes an exhilarating turn when she discovers her unique ability to man...