Meet Rok Jekai, a 24-year-old combat engineer serving in the Australian Defence Force. Stationed at combat outpost Romeo in Korengal Valley of Afghanistan, disaster strikes when a massive Taliban force swiftly overruns the base, leaving destruction in its wake. Amidst the chaos, Rok's closest friend, Leon Zidarich is taken captive, and hope for his rescue diminishes as the US Army refuses to intervene. ... more>>

With this, Rok is given a difficult choice. Should he remain loyal to his country, or go out on a mind of his own and rescue his best friend?

On a perilous quest, Rok finds an illegal mercenary group, their name: the Lead Leopards. This mercenary band is intent on taking the war's efforts into their hands. He also gets mixed up in an ordeal with the Russians, leading to more trouble.

Prepare for an action-packed, andrenaline-fuelled ride as you follow Rok on his quest to reveal a global conspiracy. A thrilling tale, where the line between loyalty and justice are blurred. <<less

1574 years after the last battle of the great war, only few still know it was no mere word.
A groupe of men-at-arme come to the far away pike, to make an old fort there home.... more>>

(Hello, i am not a native English speaker, so if you find an error, tell me) <<less

Entry to The Second Tempest Contest. Category: Exploration of Space (Genre: Sci-fi)... more>>

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Space. A scary frontier. Yet, it is a frontier full of promise.

Ancient wrecks, asteroids with rich potential, expansive debris of old battles, and ruins full of wonder. Space is waiting for those who are willing to risk their lives to plunder its riches. And space has many surprises for those who dare brave the risks.

It is a tough job, yes. It is a dangerous job, definitely. It is also a lucrative job, of course! That's why only the toughest, the meanest, the best men and women step forward to be the first to brave the frontier and plunder its untouched resources.

They are the Space Wreckers! Join now!

Sign up with your team and receive a grant of H$50,000 to build your own ship to your specifications! Wrecker Administration Authority Group of Holdings (WAAGH) will provide all you need to start your very own exploration business. The first 100 applicants will get six exploration suits of your choice for free! What are you waiting for? Sign up now!

*Exploration suits are not given permanently but are rented to wreckers at a fee of H$500 a week each. Loans are available at a 28% interest rate.

Disclaimer: By signing up, wreckers agree to waive WAAGH of all indemnity and liability whether actual or imagined and that any risks taken 'on the job' are strictly the wreckers' own. Any injuries or conflicts 'off the job' is not the business of WAAGH and WAAGH will not be held responsible or accountable for any crime the wreckers commit whether on or off the job. Wreckers also agree that in the event of unpaid loans, WAAGH has the right to collect anything of value from the wrecker's ship, body, or corpse, if necessary.

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Cover attribution
Space image is 'free for commercial use' image from https://pixabay.com/photos/earth-moon-ache-sunrise-space-1388003/
Space ship is 'free for commercial use' image from https://pixabay.com/photos/space-ship-model-moon-base-alpha-1-2923803/
Photoshopped together by Ai-chan.
Cover image made on canva by Ai-chan.
Full size image at https://i.postimg.cc/vZ4MgKXm/Space-Wreckers.png <<less

The crown princess of the mighty kingdom of Vailen is hiding a terrible secret from her people. When her plans go awry, there’s no telling how far she’ll go to keep her name clear. Aided by her bookish younger brother, the two encounter trouble after trouble in an effort to restore their lives back to normalcy. ... more>>

(i.e. High fantasy, magic and mercenaries, gay romance, comedy, and a little bit of angst.) <<less

Have you heard the talk around town? It sounds like Ronin just took out another pirate ship. Just rushed in, head on with just those... more>> two swords. Have you ever seen him fight? He's like a terrible whirlwind cutting through flesh and metal. I've never seen a bullet touch his skin. If he ever does get hit, the bullet will just bounce right off, not a single burn. I still can't believe she's human under all that steel. <<less

John and Mary, these two desire to be the strongest in the world. They don't want to be bullied by others; they want a good house, money, and the luxury of living without worrying about anything.... more>>

However, they were both average and talentless, with nothing to their names.

Still, they struggled as much as they could, and they achieved some small successes. But at the end of their lives, they were just mediocre. They both died in a dungeon because their teammates betrayed them.

When they opened their eyes again, they found themselves back in time, 20 years ago, at the same place where they had started their journey.

John and Mary met each other and decided to struggle once more. <<less

After the fall of earth, more than half of the world left for another world, leaving the unfortunate ones on a dying planet.
Kaiden Sith is one of the only seven gen-0 cyborgs, a rare type of cyborg with the purest 'mechonium' in their body.
After finding and saving a poor girl in one of the earth's former cities, Kaiden finds a new reason for his 700 hundred-year existence - to honor the mother of the girl's wishes.... more>>

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The series will update randomly. Would probably update once a day, or once a month (in bulk, of course.)
Not available anywhere else. <<less

Updates daily at 23:06 UTC. All books fully written. B3/3 currently serializing.... more>>

2/1/2021 NOTE! This trilogy is being published by Aethon Books starting with book one on 5/1/2021. At that time, the book will be removed from RoyalRoad, and eventually, the entire trilogy will be removed. I will post all of book three here before it is taken down, giving all readers a chance to read it for free.

Magnus Cromwell—MC to anyone but his little sister—kills for a living. He’s organized, professional, efficient. Like a machine. But when his family’s life is on the line? That’s something else. That calls for the kind of warm-blooded vengeance that scorches earth and summons tungsten rods from space, leaves a whole lot of melted flesh, and no one to tell the tale.

This should've been a blue milk run. As by-the-book as it gets. With Nina out safe and the opposition decimated by hypersonic gunfire, MC wondered where they got the guts to even try. Then something hits him. Lays him out cold, and leaves him waking up to a fantasyland with nothing but his armor and a half-written note to guide him. It's a strange place where even stranger predators eye him for their next meal. Where his life’s on a timer, and where the darkest horrors haunt his dreams, painting visions of death.

There's no right day to fuck with Magnus Cromwell. But the world sure managed to pick the absolute wrongest one.
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- MC is strong and gets stronger, but fear not as his life is anything but easy.

- LitRPG-lite. Expect abilities and progressions, but there will only ever be a handful of them.

- Science Fiction and Fantasy collide! There may or may not be romance in the future but there will never be more than one love interest if it does happen.

- The focus for the first book will be on MC. This will also be the case going forward, but the cast of characters will open up in the later books.

- Book one/100k words already written & edited. Book two of the trilogy is underway. This series will not be dropped. <<less

In a nearby solar system, on a planet called Zeta 04 orbiting a brown dwarf star, a war is presently being fought between two megacorporations over a rare resource named "Thykion" (tie-key-awn) that can be used as a valuable energy source. These corps are inner-sphere powerhouses, The Farren-Sieg Conglomerate, and Sigma Energy Dynamics.... more>>

This story follows the tale of an experimental mechanized unit, the Verdict Battle Group, that belong to a mercenary outfit, Metal Shell. <<less

Karen Jones, aka Kali, is a talented investigator living in Los Angeles. She also happens to be a mage and a superhuman with the power to teleport and generate four other bodies. She is a hive mind. Karen’s next door neighbor is a vampire. Her former boyfriend is a Fae Prince that she had to run away from with their daughter.... more>>

But now that she’s a well established Investigators and mercenary, her ex has finally found her and will stop at nothing to bring her back in the family.

A/N : This is a spinoff of Superhuman Princess, to keep tabs on what's happening on Earth. The chapters are shorter too and in the novel format compared to the web novel one. <<less

Peasant, king, or emperor, it matters not when there is a boot to their neck and a sword in their gut. They all bleed the same. Well, most of them do, but occasionally you get a surprise necromancer resurrection or a guy that regresses in time when they die, or a reincarnator with broken magic. It doesn’t matter though; I got broken magic of my own, and I can keep the dead well dead.... more>>

The Goddess Death and the God Reincarnation are in the middle of their cosmic spout, and whose job is it to clean it up? Death is tired of all these mortals playing fast and loose with the rules. It's time to put some of those escapees back in the dirt where they belong. The hounds of the underworld have come to claim the souls she lost. While they are at it, might as well take a few more people that the world would be better without.

Garmr, Cerberus, Anubis, and Tiangou, the former guardians of the underworld, were sent by Death to claim escaped souls released by her older brother, the God Reincarnation. However, when they arrived, they were betrayed and killed by Tiangou, one of their own. Ironic that the very divine assassins sent to kill the ones that cheat death were reincarnated by that very power. Derrick, the former Garmr, must gain the power to complete his divine mission and find the traitor that killed him.

*This story has no release schedule! It will be updated whenever I get to it between other books.*
Take place in the same “universe” as “Chronicles of a Scalebound Sage: Reincarnated as a Hydra”. <<less

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"My name is Nixolas Zinn, I'm the commander of the Mercenary Group known as the Grimm Tails, and this is my story--"... more>>

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This is going to be a space adventure story... Wooo~.... At the start, it will be the fresh beginnings of our commander struggling to get funds to survive and the story will work itself up from there. There will be timeskips, there will be mistakes, this is a Grimdark world at times, and at times the story might be slow.

This is my first time publishing my work. I will be working on this in my free time, or when I'm bored.
I will probably add more tags and/or genres as I go along.

Finally, thank you for checking out this story.

This was Commander Nixolas Zinn, signing off~

(Do to Real-life Issues, The story will be on Hiatus. I'll try to sort them out as soon as I can, but it's troublesome... Also, I may just redo the first chapter, and rethink how I do the narrative for the story. When everything is said and done, I should be able to do weekly updates... maybe, idk, might just bulk release every month or so... I'll think on that) <<less

This is a revenge story of a woman who was traumatized by pirates, expect pain and failure all who read. This isn’t a story of peace or love but one for those seeking to understand motives and narratives. Sincerely yours. ... more>>

Aurorealis <<less

Jack awakens in a field, alone and in a place he neither knows or recognizes. In fact, all his memories seem a little... hazy, like they belong to someone else. Even more confusingly, he quickly finds out that he has some sort of... ability that seems to defy reality. However, Jack does not enter into a peaceful world, war and strife are endemic, and he will soon find himself in the middle of it.
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This is a rewrite of Grinder Isekai, as I found the litRPG style I was using too restricting to continue (I've had severe writer's block) and wanted to fix some things with the original story. ... more>>

I would love feedback, especially in ways I can improve, I'll probably going back and update and/or fix errors in the chapters as I go along. I am just writing as hobby and have work that I have to prioritize above this. I'm trying to get a chapter or two out a week. I'm sorry if the updates are irregular, but I'm going to try my utmost to keep this going. <<less

Daniel hates min-maxing. While other players are trying to speed run the tutorial of Edenquest Online as fast as they can to min-max time wasted in the tutorial, Daniel discovers an error in the tutorial...... more>>

This is a story about a main character who has curveballs thrown at him left and right, and must make on-the-fly decisions under pressure with incomplete information.

Sometimes his decisions are right, sometimes his decisions are wrong... <<less

Follow David through a life of crime, adventure, romance and unforeseen misfortune. As he navigates his unsteady life. This book will have short adventure stories... more>> following David each story is unrelated to the next. Hope you enjoy <<less

We all know that Ijin(001) was the strongest person at the camp, who, after working as a mercenary, returned home.... more>>

There he was expecting a quiet life, however, this changed when his younger sister was kidnapped.

Unfortunately, he encounters a ghost from his past in an attempt to rescue his sister.

Could he be a friend or an enemy? And was Ijin really the No. 1 at the camp?

2CH/Week <<less

v a multi-universal mercenary out to find the person that killed her and her family an kill them.... more>>

But inorder to do that she has to track them down and get her revenge.

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Not my cover art if the owner of the art wants me to take it down I will <<less

The year 2023 was remembered as the year that an object entered the atmosphere and changed the future of the planet.

In one moment, around the world we know as our own, a new fundamental force asserted itself. Magic, true magic, has come to Earth. Everything is different, but the problems are the same: food, safety, care and understanding... you know them. What has changed is three main things: the abilities and appearance of an individual, each person's place in the universe, and the appearance of portals to places outside of our world. New lines have been drawn, a few old ones forgotten. New excuses to dig up old grudges, and new targets for target-less aggression. ... more>>

But this isn't a story of those first days. This is the story of a man who found an ocean, and dove into it, not knowing if he could swim, and not caring how small of a fish he would become. <<less

Fire, screams, the scent of blood in the air. One man desperately strikes his chipped sword against a ghoul. Another two are slowly encircled by a dozen more ghouls. Siari has seen this too many times, a sight he's grown numb to. How did he get here? Why is he constantly throwing himself against these undead hordes?
A journey born from the ashes of his home, follow Siari as he travels the world of Thora attempting to end the madness that began all those years ago.... more>>

Currently, only a proof of concept. If people like the prologue well enough, it'll be continued as a full fledged series. Huge thanks to my friends Legendary Punmaster and Aceric for pretty much making the entire world setting based off Punmaster's custom DnD world. Couldn't have gotten this made without them.

Uploaded here and on RoyalRoad under the same name. <<less

Tyra Blood-Fire didn’t want just any crew.... more>>

Bandits never built Great houses. They have no structure, organization, nor legacy. They had few tactics in the field and little design for the future. Worst of all they had no loyalty beyond filling their own pockets. A bandit clan was a pack of stray dogs fighting for scraps, willing to bite the hand if it dared to feed them.

Growing up in Balmora, Tyra knew that the Great Houses of her world were built on blood. Yet as an orphan child and a Human amongst Dark Elves, her concept of family was one forged from experience. It wasn't the bandits and cutthroats, but the loners and outcasts she identified with most. So when she picked out the crew that would become the Crimson Dirks, she sought out the qualities that best defined herself.

What she wanted were survivors. <<less

Sky and Winter are both two loners that lead very different lives in very different times. Sky is an orphaned high schooler from the year... more>> 2018 while Winter is a fierce mercenary from the year 3000. Fate seems to draw them together when their phones, despite the time difference, connect through FaceTime. Will it create a friendship that overcomes time and space? <<less

Professional assassin Ernest Crump was one in the small group of known individual assassins who strove to be the best and complete his tasks no... more>> matter what the risks-without succumbing to defeat or danger. While obeying the many rules of professional assassins, Crump always managed to come out on top. But when Colombian narcomafia hire him to kill the president of the United States, Crump knows he must do extensive research in order to successfully complete the assassination-and not get caught.
While in disguise, Crump befriends a White House gardener who reveals lesser-known secret of the White House and its itineraries. And when he meets the president`s mistress, Elizabeth Tribe, he realizes she is the key to gaining entrance into the White House inconspicuously. But how will Crump successfully pull off the assassination while, at the same time, attempt to keep his true identity hidden?
IF THE IMPOSSSIBLE CHALLENGES YOU
IF ROUTINE BORES YOU
IF COURAGE RUNS IN YOUR DNA
THAN THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU
ASSASSINATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A.
LEARN THE RULES OF THE MAN WHO ASSASSINATED THE PRESIDENT
The many rules the assassin applies to his job, could be applied to the preparation of any task we set ourselves
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The void of space has always been a point of intrigue for humanity. It's driven us to go to great lengths to reach out to it. After many centuries, we finally touched it. Humanity expanded into the open, endless expanse of first the Sol System and then into the Milky Way galaxy itself. Other species were encountered and Humanity answered the lingering question of whether or not we were alone. After first contact, Humanity and the various Races created the Council. A central government to bring the civilizations together and forge peace across the Milky Way.... more>>

A peace that did not last and was shattered by rebellions, war, instability, distrust, and greed. The Council collapsed and factions formed. In the battles leading to its isolation, several systems were destroyed and entire races were wiped out. With no central police force, the galaxy became a festering pit of violence, deceit, and piracy.

The war was known as the 'Galactic Fracture' by many. After the war as the Council's influence crumbled, many people struggled for work. Some became mercenaries, corporate traders, pirates, or basic laborers to support themselves and their families. Due to the dangers of space, the average individual looked for safety within their system and refused to look elsewhere.

However, where there were cowards, there were several brave souls who dared risk the challenge of the void. Merchants, Transporters, Couriers, Escorts, Miners. For every scared soul there were four more willing to race outwards into the nothing, chasing dreams, wishes, hopes, and the impossibility of something more than the boring life stuck on some random planet.

One of those people is an man named John. A man who likes to remain hidden and who takes pride in his small, low threat jobs. Well, usually. His last job turned out to be bigger than he was told. After exiting a jump, he was ambushed and his ship was damaged heavily, leaving him stranded on the planet Louxier Seven. A desolate forging world with a pitiful shipyard that would take months to get the repairs done for him, and would leave him in crippling debt afterwards.

John had accepted his fate and elected to work part-time locally while waiting for the repairs when he finds himself visited by a strange woman. A woman with a job.

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This book is a side-project. Updates will be irregular. If it gains traction, I'll give it more focus. <<less