Disclaimer: Prior knowledge of the Halo video game and universe is not required to read this story. ___________________ When the Aliens, the Covenant, invaded, it seemed as if Mankind had no hope. Then the Spartans came to the rescue. These genetically modified super soldiers, originally meant to qu...

An ofice worker named Jonanthan, nicknamed Jon, has died by sliping on to a banana peal and falling down the stairs.He wakes up to find that his soul has become a Dungeon. With a game like sistem he tries to survive in a world witd unexpected things. WARNING, not nativ english speaker, soo a lot of ...

One moment, Oliver Grace is mowing the lawn while his pregnant wife cooks dinner. The next, he's standing beneath an alien sky. His Marine Corps training keeps him alive and his father's heart calls him home… but it's the engineer in him that first recognizes just how powerful this world's magic can...

When a dungeon starts behaving strangely, aspiring Dungeon Keeper Aster steps in to unwind its troubles. After fighting his way through deadly monsters, he finds a young girl at the dungeon's heart--a young girl with a dungeon core. Stella has just lost her mother, and on top of that, only now disco...

In a universe where rebirth is as unavoidable as death, to be ripped away from the circle of life and forced to live in limbo is a fate that no soul would wish ever to befall itself. Yet, that is the story of Raxyas. His is one of the many souls confined to indefinite imprisonment in Mortmundus, the...

The Kemet Intelligence Agency is tasked with overseeing the Hittite king Muwatalli's northern campaign in Cimmeria and making sure it goes as expected. The mission is vague and simple. Too simple, it appears.  [4th short story following the March of Deshret in The Bronze Horus universe.]...

The pharaoh Ramesses XI has been ruling his realm for over a decade. However, the situation, after all the revolts, wars, and treaties, has changed quite a lot since his accession to the throne. He has thus tasked his highest ranking officials with preparing reports, on their respective spheres of w...

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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...

He was supposed to enjoy his afterlife catching up with his wife. Instead he finds out she got bored waiting for him and took a job on a world that was being systematized to save it from the damage it inhabitants had done to it. Rather then wait around for her, he takes a job as well. As a starter d...

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, ...

Superpowers have appeared, spreading faster than the world can handle. As politics and society violently adjust around them, a prickly observer develops their own power - a potent but destructive one. Cover art drawn by frenzyarts. Beta readers: theorigiamiphoenix, asododsteel, and fipindustries. Ge...

Eva Ganakos is known as a monster with no regard for human lives, a woman who will kill for her own entertainment no matter how young or old the victim is. There is not a single soul in the empire who hasn’t heard of her deeds, with some going so far as to scare their children with her name. When th...

Eren is a young mage with trust issues. He longs to gain access to the famous library of Odin’s Eye and find out why his magic failed him when he needed it most. To do this, he’ll have to survive the infamous Trails of the Valkyrie, a series of tests designed to test a mage’s strength in combat and ...

For centuries after the fall of the Indus Valley civilization, the nascent kingdoms and tribes in northern India have been warring for control of the region. Yet this presents an opportunity for many outsiders, including merchants and mercenaries, but most notably the Eastern Coalition, which sends ...

My name is Dr. Alevia Devron. I was one of the team leaders of the Exo-Science Department of the 436th Expeditionary Fleet at the time of the discovery of the Piets. I took part in almost every aspect of research in the First Contact Project. From the satellite probing of the planet’s surface, to th...

[A failed Participant in the January 2023 Community Contest: I forgot to fill the form] The world ended. Bam! The Apocalypse opened the gates of Hell, demons killed everyone. Including me. But I got a second chance of life. Though it was as an apple. Which was eaten by a starving survivor, not that ...

Three cities. Five stories. One hope. Atlantis, Tartarus, and Olympus are mankind's last cities as a time capsule, El Dorado, is discovered hidden away under a massive lake. What's contained within could doom mankind, or open the way to space. And all at the behest of a will with a hidden agenda. 33...

"𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐞."  Those words, traverse through space and time only to bring us what's called "inevitable" -  a designated end that awaits right from the start of every new journey. How unfair... to have no control over the course ...

Denarrow B. Ace comes from the rural mountainous country to the modernistic concrete jungle of Midcity in search of a purpose in life. To begin this ambiguous journey, he enters a fighting tournament where his opponents can level whole city-wide blocks with little to no effort. Without any powers al...