“Kill your hound once the hunt has ended, lest you one day find its fangs in your neck.” This was the creed of all that desired power, be they moral or not. It was a law of the jungle for self-proclaimed "civilized people," who lived in abundance in a hidden land known as the Jianghu. This was a pla...

[Winner of the Royal Road writathon challenge April 2024] Alexander Ortega is an outlaw, a man wanted by the Military Police in a world of islands interconnected by the nightsea. That's what the papers say, anyway. Really, he's a man from Buenos Aires who woke up on a beach after being consumed by a...

Tallah means to end an eternal empire and take the head of an empress. Her enemy is nigh immortal and wields power only few really understand. To take her down, Tallah's going to need power of her own. Lots of it. But time is not a friend, not when a mistake has brought the empire's attack hounds on...

At level 2, most people unlocked their first talent; those who didn’t were considered fortunate, as they had the potential to unlock rarer talents requiring higher levels. The world's most rare and powerful talents were revealed at level 5. But what if someone didn't obtain a talent? Luck quickly tu...

It is said that humans are adaptable, but I'm pretty certain that whoever said that didn't consider being thrown headfirst into the world of One Piece as a possibility. Especially not with a start date in the middle of the canon timeline. Join a former physicist turned pirate, as he tries to navigat...

What would you do if you found yourself trapped in a video game as an NPC with seemingly no hope of returning to the real world? The web novel, Hacking The Game Didn't Go As Intended, puts our main character in this exact same scenario.Having grown up without parents, Daisuke finds himself in a perp...

Jason knew how he was going to die next. He's been Yagura for a month now and there's a Tailed-Beast living inside him, he knew how he was going to die next.Nobody wants to die, not even those that have done it before. Navigating the world as Yagura Karatachi, Elite Jounin of Kirigakure and Jinchuri...

Steven awakens to a nightmare. Transported to a brutal medieval kingdom on a faraway world, he wakes up as Kivamus, the exiled third son of a Duke. Now he's the newly made Baron of a crumbling village called Tiranat, in a bandit-ridden frontier located within untamed forests. Here, survival is a dai...

Trapped inside the memory world of his former friend, Adam uncovers the secrets of his own troubled past. Maybe Adam should’ve known better than to return to his hometown. Yet, after years of exile, how could he resist the opportunity to see his trusted friends again? Or the slim chance to clear his...

Second Volume & First Arc Completed. The world of Ra is a world ravaged by an endless war for conquest and dominion. The powerful fight for more power while the weak are forced to either cater to their whims or pay the ultimate price. It is a world where personal power is regarded as the ultimate cu...

Fuyuki Tamaneko is a Nekojin, a cat girl. After her family is murdered in front of her and her village burned down at a young age. Tama is taken in by a an old man who trained her to be the as she would put it "the best ninja EVER". One day, shortly after her 16th giving. Her sensei sends her out in...

"When a storm awakens, a sea of trouble stirs."  Aodhán is an orphan from a backwater city in Laos, who has lived nearly all his life in a monastery surrounded by wise monks. When he stumbles upon the legacy seed of an Ascendant and awakens the element of storm within himself, he unwittingly invites...

Dread Mage Vellichor; feared and old; and someone who has mastered wizardry at its core, is bored of life and the strenuous actions of the bigger picture. He just wants small, but meaningful interactions with life. And he starts with a little dead girl he called Sonder.---The chapters are what I cal...

Objo’s reverence for her god is challenged when she discovers a hidden truth...

Desire was raised in a cage, kept as a living drug for the euphoric poison her body produces. Then she was left to the lycans, massive canines that inspired the old world’s tales of werewolves.  They made a monster. She returns as the ruthless Lady of the Lycan Mountains, ready to unleash her bloodt...

I am a Queen.  Well, I was a Queen before the aristocracy betrayed me and I was abandoned to die.  As my life faded, I reached across worlds, searching for a soul that might resonate with mine. And I found one. A little, tiny beat that matched the thrum of my soul. It was far. In a distant world far...

Wind. Water. Ice.Who am I? What am I?At first I thought I knew the answer to these two questions, but then, after that dream, and after that visit on my fifteenth, everything changed in my life.I thought it would be amazing to have power, but now I wish that I didn't have it.Who am I?I am Water. I a...

Eydis, once the feared Queen of Shadows, has crash-landed into the worst nightmare imaginable: high school. Reborn as a magic-less teen, she’s now stuck with a body that whines more than a banshee on Halloween night. And her familiar spirits? Vanished. Now she's left with a bank account that reads "...

[ Participant in the Royal Road Fall 2024 Writathon ] The Earth, year 2049. Monstrous invaders have occupied the world. And then came the Saviors – mysterious benefactors descended from the heavens, offering hope for survival... at the cost of our freedom. The protagonists find themselves at the epi...

Experience the journey of Marcus Luna, a fresh face in Year 11 Class 1 at Hachin Academy—a prestigious school known for its exceptional students. Marcus's unconventional entry into the school quickly puts him in the spotlight, drawing attention from all corners. And things really heat up when he man...