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 ...

By the grace of the Three, may their blessings touch you. May all around you prosper, as shall you. When you depart, may the only sin staining you be death. May your legacy not be forgot. This is very different from my usual writing. Hope it does not disappoint. Participating in January 2024 RR mag...

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...

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...

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...

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

After centuries of peace, the independent City-State of Brunswick is threatened by impending war. Lieutenant Adams, a high-school teacher turned leader, must adapt to the modern nature of warfare and ready himself to command his men in a battle unlike any his people have ever seen. Will the valor an...

Do you think there's a chance for a  frat boy to fall in love? Ron has been in Greek life ever since he started college; he's gone to the wild parties, wined and dined the most beautiful girls on campus and had done things that his mother definitely would not approve.  However, Ron is fed up with al...

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 ...

In the depths of an abyss, a young man awakens to a world of strange images and inky blackness, his memories lost to amnesia. With hope gone, he finally succumbs to his solitary new life when, out of the blue, a voice calls to him. "Hollis!" With hope ignited, he finds himself venturing into the unk...

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...

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...

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...

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....

Nathan Williams, a newly hired company employee, begins to notice that sand has been appearing in their office every morning following the mysterious resignation of his peers. Not paying attention to these events, he, along with other colleagues, suddenly gets assigned to a major project to be compl...

When Yaitweh, the World Tree whose roots make up all of Asceria, erupted beneath the earth’s surface, it birthed numerous plants of bizarre and dangerous natures. Alongside them came Abminus, humans able to fuse with these roots, giving them extraordinary abilities. It took years to remove the surro...

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...