* Tale of Tales is a High/Epic Fantasy saga based on the motifs of ancient myths, legends, and forgotten fairytales *... more>>

Senka is no hero, but you never know what is coming for you. And if that burns down your house and family, while you are left blinded by your house’s guardian snake, the outlook becomes grim. So Senka clings to her dog’s back to survive, unaware of the fateful prophecy and the great changes to come. But when a wandering warrior becomes her protector and mysterious strangers join their hounded party through a series of seemingly chance encounters, they all begin to discover that all is not as it seems.

What is pursuing her? And why? Can the strange characters gathering around her on her desperate quest save her from doom? Are they mere puppets of a young, beguiling witch guided by her own hidden motives, or are forgotten shadows rising again from the immeasurable depths of time? A tale of folk fairytales and myths, of swords and sorcery and mythical beings – a unique story of dark times and unsung heroes who may light your way.

Book one, A Strange Bunch, features leading characters of various ages. This is a fantasy with their progression happening slowly throughout the series, with occasional spikes in character power after certain encounters that may or may not be random. Although the book series is written with adult and young adult audiences in mind, it is, in the tradition of such epics as “The Lord of the Rings,” suitable for all ages. Excerpt from the scene depicted on the cover of the first book:

“Above this hellish pack and the rider at the forefront, flurried a ghastly sight – a cloud of dark, endlessly bustling bodies and wings, a swarm of creatures that, through their almost infinite number, produced that great din which had first reached the ears…”

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Isaac was a simple man living a peaceful life. He'd lost his parents when he was young, but the village took care of him and raised him as their own. So he was as content as a human being can be. But a fateful encounter with the White Queen and the Sovereign Empire had changed the course of his life in a more drastic way than he expected. He'd been forcefully appointed as a King Candidate and now his first day on the job, he is now going on a quest that's very much likely to kill him. But hey, at least he gets the chance to ride a giant lizard.... more>>

Mild language. <<less

What's an abandoned catgirl to do when she has no friends? Make one, of course! A short side story from Reaver's Song.

This novel is more or less a draft, it is going to be rewritten.... more>>

In a little thing we like to call the game of life some people get lucky, but this person wasn’t one of them.

“The game of life is a fun little thing where you are lucky or unlucky, try to change your destiny in this game and it may come back to bite. So don’t screw around.” This was something Kismo was told in the start of her new life, she was told this by countless people after escaping slavery right after she fell into this world, and she took that advice to heart.

Because in a world with islands floating in the sky having been separated from the ground below for countless generations with wars at sea or even in the sky, our MC will find herself in many dangerous and peculiar situations!

Also praise my comedy... <<less

Under the desert hot sun to the tangled branches of green forests.
From the cold peaks of mountains to the dark depths of oceans.... more>>

What an extraordinary our world is, full of mysteries and wonders, loaded with spectacles and allures. Yet brutal and merciless.

This is the codex of creatures, contains epic tales of exotic beings; cruel, savage, sometimes tender, and merciful, but never careless or trusting.
This is the written saga of their struggle in this never-ending cycle of life and death.

***Salvation***

Innyana range, home, and a hunting ground for numerous beings. A place for predators where the inattentive can only be prey.

Something is going on in this tiny village near the deadly Crocotta's cliff.
Who is the newcomer who enchanted the inhabitants by his arrival?
And why some people can never get out of this place?

Author's notes :
1- English is not my first language.
2- I am a student and full-time worker, that's why I am slow at writing.
3- This is the first draft hence there is a lot of typos and mistakes, forgive me for this. I am working to be better.
4- This is a high and dark fantasy novel read at your own risk.
5- Enjoy. <<less

Join Yuuki and His group of Friends as they explore the sheer vastness of the video game world of Kyoryu online.... more>>

Kyoryu-online The Game is the long awaited Openworld VR-MMORPG Survival Game where you Explore a massive super earth where Dinosaurs and many Prehistoric creatures that ranged from the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Ice age! <<less

(tl;dr John Wick Isekai)... more>>

The deadliest assassin in the modern world is dead — but not for long! Jon Fuze has a new employer, and she can give him anything he wants, but as with most things,

... it doesn't come for free.

• A world of powder and magic
• Dank cities, harsh deserts, icy mountains, lush forests, and fiery realms
• Magical martial arts vs. trash, elites, supermen, and dragons
• High-ranking targets—all the way to the throne!

How will someone who has always just been a pawn adapt against the motions of a much bigger world?

One man lured by a single hope and wish.

— One life for 10,000 —

How far is he willing to go?

Who does he need to kill?

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Totally Not a John Wick Isekai
Also on Royal Road as "A Journey of 10,000 Kills". <<less

Meet Kenji Ueda, 15 years old, an orphan in Japan. Liking technology to a certain degree, he's very carefree to anything that is not eye-catching(to him that is).
Like any other teenager, he was in school, and of course, as much to his surprise, he was transported to a world of Swords & Magic, where he is useless! Kinda. And to make it worse, his unique skill is Technomagic!
Shall we see what Kenji might do to this Fantasy world?... more>>

This Novel is posted here, on ScribbleHub and on RoyalRoad. <<less

By the orders of the Dynast, Wyrm Lord and the 3rd Army are to conquer the Ravaged Lands, before Iterna can set up another foothold... more>> in these lands. They are opposed by the Resistance, a gathering of various gangs and tribes in the Ravaged Lands, under the leadership of a mysterious person named King. Among the members of the 3rd Army is wolfkin Aranea, a former member of the Ice Fang order. She hopes to rise through the ranks and become a powerful person to avenge the death of her father and the madness of her mother. But while the war is raging, will she be able to stop herself from becoming the same person as the one who destroyed her life? Or will she become another monster? <<less

This is a story about a man getting isekai'd in a very unexpected way. The world he was transported to was a game that does not exist in his original world. Perhaps a different world's game? Will he survive in the world and find a way out or die trying?... more>>

[Update: Nvm... I'm done. See you all.] <<less

In The Chronicles of Krarshe, embark on a thrilling journey as Krarshe ventures beyond the comforts of home in search of excitement. Yet, destiny has other plans for him. Entrapped in a cataclysmic battle to safeguard the mortal realm's future, Krarshe must embrace his unexpected role as a hero. Sometimes, even against our own desires, fate impels to heed the call of destiny.... more>>

Inspired by the captivating stories shared by his free-spirited grandfather, Krarshe embarks on a journey to seek his own adventures, and finds himself enrolling in a prestigious magic school. But, his naïve expectations crumble upon discovering that this realm is far from the utopia he imagined. In this world, where corruption lives and magic holds unfathomable power, The Chronicles of Krarshe: The Hearts of Men weaves a spellbinding narrative of self-discovery, insidious machinations, and profound friendships. <<less

The world collapsed once the dead began to rise, and as people struggled, the very monsters that were persecuted long ago came out from the... more>> shadows and helped bring stability. This is story about all sorts of people whether they're friends, family or just complete strangers and how one's meeting or crossing is not just by coincidence. See the story of how witches, sorceress, cultist, vampires, half-bred, and even animal shape-shifters come together fighting one common enemy. The dead or each other. <<less

One crazy night, at a Halloween party, a magical spell goes awry and causes an event that transforms all manner of life across the globe. In Boston, this is just one of those significant incidents that gain more publicity than the countless others: a group of dressed up students putting together a unique attraction for a China Town kind of Halloween. (Based off of the events in “Monster Mash — a TG Mixtape” by various authors and edited by Trismegistus Shandy: http://www.tgstorytime.com/viewstory.php?sid=4838 )... more>>

Written by MrSimple
Edited by Trismegistus Shandy
Cover art by Aku-Usagi <<less

It is the Virtual 2040's, and Deedee Yeowoo is still trapped in the milleu of Another World Online, Mundus. Having escaped the tutorial island, the Shores of Awakening, with her guildmates in free company Dungeon-Crawling And Chill, they found that there's a growing refugee camp of player characters outside of the port hub city of Viacruz, in numbers that would dwarf a Roman Legion.... more>>

With only the goodwill they earned from fighting for the Mundanes against a group of Player Character slavers, they need to survive in what's becoming a rapidly more expensive city as sellswords, without upsetting the people or the politics of the city too much - or earning the displeasure of her mayor, the Contessa Desolar.

Meanwhile, things about the situation aren't adding up, and the locals are rather more able to pass a Turing test than they were before the disaster that stranded a server full of minds on Mundus. And the answers to the questions Deedee's party are seeking about how the Translation happened might be found in the same place that the Contessa desperately needs a small group of Adventurers to investigate...

Volume 2 of a queer cyberpunk MMO isekai story about a gamer just realizing they're transgender.

I/O is by Talia Belser and the Other Worlds Tourism Bureau, made available under a Creative Commons 4.0 BY-SA-NC license <<less

Sabine has spent the past decade hiding from the Wild Hunt. But when a charismatic stranger recruits her to retrieve an invaluable artifact, she’ll have to finally reveal her identity… and her dark secrets.... more>>

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The darkness holds more than just secrets...

Marked for death, Sabine escaped from her home more than ten years ago.

But the Wild Hunt will never give up.

It should have been easy to stay hidden. All Sabine had to do was keep her head down, avoid telling anyone about her past, and above all else -- not let her glamour drop.

Even the best-laid plans eventually fall apart.

When a charismatic stranger arrives in the city, Sabine finds herself unwittingly drawn to the power she can sense hidden within him. Keeping her distance is nearly impossible, especially after a life debt is called due and she’s tasked into helping steal a rare artifact.

Sabine is the only one who can break the magical barriers protecting the item, but that means revealing the truth about her identity and exposing her darkest secrets.

Unfortunately, the Fae aren’t the only ones hunting her.

And the most dangerous monsters aren’t always confined to the dark. <<less

Zach walked out of a grocery store but was suddenly run-over by a runaway drunk driver.... more>>

He spent months in the hospital, paralyzed from the waist down with no hope of ever walking again.

However, he chose not to be sad by this, still believing that one day he would walk again.

During his stay in the hospital, he befriended a nurse who had taken a liking to him due to the stories he read and retold to her.

However, the nurse asked him a weird question out of the blue.

“How would you feel if you ever got the chance to be transmigrated into a fantasy world?”

Zach replied but he didn’t know the nurse was actually a Goddess.

The next thing he knew, Zach woke up in the body of a cursed villain of a novel he read recently.

In the novel, Zach Darkmoor was fated to lose not only his life but that of those he held dear as well, but with the help of the system, gifted to him by the goddess, Zach used his knowledge of the novel to not only change his fate but that of those he cared about as well.

This allowed him to be viewed as a genius in this fantasy world. <<less

The young man remembered.... more>>

Through flames and ocean, he fought, all to be the symbol of hope. He started with a fist, then a gun, now a psychic blade. Some say the merging of his planet with this beautiful hell was a curse — that the Earth was doomed.

As an optimist, he disagreed. They weren’t merged into a world with monsters and tyrants. The monsters were locked in the same world with a hero. What happened next was a tale as old as time.

A sound of fighting was heard in the distance. He felt the presence of an old foe and several old burdens. It appeared Chronicler’s victory didn’t drill the lesson into that psychopath’s brain. Fine. He stood. He didn’t mind hard-carrying those idiots on his shoulder again.

The hero vanished in the blur, speeding to save the day.

…

How did we get here? Well, let's go back a few hours before shit hits the fan. To a young porter who didn’t know that fate had a greater plan for him.

Plans which involved comic wars, slaying outer-gods, and grenades.

So. Many. Grenades. <<less

I had to add the colon and such because it turns out there is already a book called In The Moment.... more>>

This is a seprequel (I do not think there's a term for this, thanks to flashing back and forth, it is both a sequel and a prequel) of Town of Winter and Oracle of Tao. To a less extent, it also relates to Tales from the Reaper. The story begins with the creation of the universe, and ends with... well the end of it all. Basically, it was the finale of the main series, so I wanted to wrap things up cleanly. It's sorta got the feel of someone going senile, which is kinda the point. Ambrosia has finished her quest, and thanks to memories from three different lifetimes, she has some seriously disjointed sense of past and present.

Just a warning, it is kinda religious, and very very experimental. <<less

With a robot built to dance, they'll sweep the crowd off their feet... more>>

When chased through the Junkyard by an old foe, Jester finds a unique combat robot of his own.

Programmed for dance over fighting, he'll need new allies, old friends, and a passion for performance if he wants to drag himself out of the virtual gutter.

Posts: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9:00 AM AEST <<less

Loukas is a young collage student with a little problem...... more>>

Okay more than just a little problem and the only thing he thinks he can turn to is more or less summoning a demon for help.

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Warning: R18, NSFW, sex, self hatred, teratophilia, masochisms gore and blood,

I swear this is a very fluffy short story... Just a different kind of fluffy.

This is a steamy au to my MUCH more serious series Demon's Nook. This is more self indulgent crack fanfiction than anything else and pay mind to my warning and tags. <<less

Lone survivor of a genocidal war, the Man--thought doomed to wander the plains of Kelengan until death--survives with the help from one of Humanity's many enemies.... more>>

This short story/borderline novella was created as a restricted exercise that I forced upon myself a few years back:
1) Only gave myself 2 hours to write each day across 7 days; 14 hours total to write, proofread, and edit.
2) Challenging myself to create a story with characters whose names aren't given (this was inspired by Mamare Touno's Maoyuu Maou Yuusha and written before Goblin Slayer was first fan-translated into English).

Contains: Oppai Loli, Bunny Girls, Bad Writing <<less

"The catgirls have nothing to lose but their collars. They have a world to win.
WORKING CATS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!"... more>>

Japan is an island by the sea filled with volcanoes, humans, and bipedal, humanoid cats. Known as the “cat paradise”, the nation boasts an impressive population of around nine million domestic catfolk with even more unaccounted-for strays. The “nekonomy” of Japan is the largest in the world; many would assume that such a large economy would trickle down to bring prosperity to the catfolk.

Prosperity for the common cat is nothing but a dream in a catpitalist system rife with fat-cats and nekonomic exploitation.

Cats, those that are “domestic” at least, are second-class citizens who can only freely travel with government-issued certification in the form of a bell around their neck. Those who don’t have a family are less than second-class citizens; strays (which compromise a majority of the cat population) are forced into workhouses and exploited as cheap labor. Those who cannot work in a profitable manner are kicked out of the workhouses and left to die on the harsh streets.

Despite these abysmal conditions, most people pay no mind to the horrors of the nekonomy. Many go about their day, enjoying cheap products manufactured from the blood and sweat of the catfolk.

Who do mind are the exploited catfolk themselves; a specter is haunting Japan – the specter of total nekonomic collapse, aided by another specter from a century past. <<less

Ratcatcher had a happy and stable life. Loving parents, a little brother to care for, deadly dangers, and familiar tunnels all around. Nothing seemed out... more>> of the ordinary, and she was content with it. And one day a sudden finding ends up throwing her and the lives of her people into turmoil, and a very small adventure awaits her. Can she make it back to a happy and stable life once more? <<less

The Technowar has taken a toll on it's soldiers. Jump into the life of Hunter, a freshly captured prisoner forced to play along with a... more>> group of other prisoners not only to survive one another, but also to endure the depraved imaginations of their cruel overseers. Will they survive? Or will their spirits break? <<less

Michael decided to play a VR game with his daughter one day. Helping her create her character, he temporarily changed his avatar’s appearance to give her a better idea of what she wanted. It was just his bad luck that it was at this exact moment that thousands of people, including them, were all taken to another world in the forms of their avatars, exactly as they were at that moment.... more>>

Discovering that the game he had been playing for years was actually based on a real world was one thing, but suddenly having to live in that world and raise his daughter there was another.

On top of all of that, he’s a mom now instead of a dad. And the weird part is that he actually doesn’t hate it.

Additional tags: Genderfluid, Nonbinary, Polyamory, Polycule

Note: I put bars between paragraphs of dialogue spoken by one character as another way of connecting the paragraphs. It's something I've been experimenting with. <<less