[Entry for the June Royal Road Community Magazine Contest] A prisoner named Gemmei is gifted a chance to put her life on a better track after being transferred to the Hibiya Correctional Complex, a lower security prison allegedly intended for less violent offenders. However even though the walls kee...

Fortuna Sands is a popular Virtual Reality Game where everything is determined by a turn of deck of cards called the Deck of Fate. Cee is new player in FS learning the system allows the most fantastic of outcomes simply by drawing the right hand again the Luck of the Draw. With real world money on t...

[Otherwise known as Runesoul: Circus Loser Overcomes Weak Naivete] From lawyers to firefighters, politicians to store owners, especially store owners, everyone is a Duelist at the core of their being. Runesouls, the ancient and beloved card game, is the foundation of the magic and mad science that p...

The Academy doesn't have a name. It doesn't need one. Everyone knows how honorable it is to attend the school--and how dangerous it is. Since the beginning of civilization, the school located in a completely separate dimension from our own has been producing world-saving prodigies known as Knights. ...

Books 1 and 2 complete! Thirty-five years ago, the world ended. A small subsection of humanity was sent to a brand new world with a game-like system that 'ensured' our survival, and the rest simply disappeared. I fought my way to the upper echelon of levels, made and lost friends over the years, and...

Roger Cunningham tells the story of Kitchener, and the adventures he had on that distant world of the British Empire. After being summoned to the planet by his old friend and mentor with the promise of a discovery of immense importance, Roger was horrified to find that Dr. Nelson had been kidnapped ...

Disaster strikes, the end of the world. After being thrown into a freezer and sleeping for three hundred years, and then waking up, the world has come to the era of cataclysm! Cold-blooded here, twisted here, lost here, mourning here, singing here, lonely here... Here, with the wisdom of a modern ma...

An author, stranger, interloper or worse? The Mudgway Super Cluster - The Station, home to Shay and Elise - brought to chaos. An attack on the station flips their world upside down. Will the two be able to find the man behind the button? Through coup’s and boiling civil war, change will come to thei...

A God, nothing more than fiction or maybe even just a normal person who has more power than others, but what if gods are reality?What if you wake up your regular life have your regular morgen routine and get interrupted by the end of the world or how some would call it the end of the first act. What...

I’m writing this all down because I don’t know what else to do with it. This whole experience has been so completely insane that I must record it so people in the future can understand what is going on. Maybe someday someone else can make sense of it. Maybe that person is you, I have no idea.  JR aw...

A miracle has been achieved: non-avian, Mesozoic dinosaurs have been brought back to life - not by a technical university or a government programme, but by a venture capitalist concern, for reasons of profit. The social, economic, and political ripples of this development will do much more than enab...

Long has Mika, an otherwise devout princess of the Deep, dreamed of the wonders of the surface. Of endless oceans of trees, feathered carnivores and magical lightning. But the Overworld is a dangerous place, populated by warlike peoples who dwarf her already diminutive species in both size and bruta...

In the cold, bitter blanket of night, feathers flutter above the snow, and bloodstained earth-like petals of flowers are ripped off their stems by the wind of warfare. Eagles soar overhead, watching as the dogs pick from the bones of the fallen. A crow perches above the snow with eyes unmoving from ...

Nine Gods. Nine Ordeals. Last Chance.  Life as we knew it has ended when Nonary Gods kidnapped humanity to a new reality. All just to play a game. A deadly one.  The goal is simple enough. Overcome Nine Ordeals, reach Divine Throne, ask for a wish. Each Ordeal is a world of itself, filled with secre...

The first in a series of 4 books, called "Out of Bounds". In this one we are firstly introduced to Dandelion, who will narrate not only to the reader, but to a bunch of people in the Storyteller Fest who are willing to listen to the story he has been commanded to tell by beings beyond his understand...

Katheer, Golden and Glorious, the once-proud Jewel of the East isnow the Oasis to a thousand souls who still cling upon hope. But now, those souls lay appetent with thirst as a verminous presence threatens to cut the life-giving waters of the city's only open water source, the Azure Canal. With the...

He was just a young thief caught by the City Guard, whose life took an unexpected turn when his own victim "invited" him to learn Magic at a Magus School There, in a flying iron city, he would find himself involved into a new life full of politics, magic, actions and romance Could he survive the mac...

After the explosion of the Federal Star Submarine, the fourth Chameleon Princess arrives in the Light's Domain. Among the branches of the Heart-Tree she meets a young human girl and learns about Earth existence. The princess manages to obtain the bio-energetic code of the young woman's body thus sta...

The year is 2055. For over 30 years, humanity has been trapped in a war for survival against a race of enigmatic aliens. Only the theft and reverse-engineering of the invaders' secret weapon, Air-Core technology, has allowed mankind to stem the tide. Enter Ivan Miller. Ivan was content with his life...

Faced with sudden death and loss of memories, Lyle Verdino has no choice but to accept his new life as a King of a backwater space-fairing civilization near the uncharted part of the galaxy. Will he, as the new King of a failing civilization because of rampant corruption and abuse of power, find a s...