Progressive Stories

Esra Veyne. Most only know of her as the 'White Ghost', a Duke's Daughter who never even leaves her room. A girl fated to die in obscurity, if only someone didn't reincarnate into her body. The 'new' Esra has no interest in being a ghost. She wants to enjoy her new life. There's just one problem: Everywhere she looks, she finds something that needs fixing, and she can't just let someone else do it. Even if it means breaking fingers to get answers. Even if it means using a traumatized girl as an assassin. Even if it means never getting to enjoy being a Duke's daughter in the first place. Hopefully, she doesn't have to solve every problem with violence. This Esra Veyne was never very good at staying in her room. What to expect: 1: A clever protagonist with blind spots/gets smarter over time. 2: A found family that slowly grows over time. 3: Decently fast power progression. 4: Arcs that focus on action and arcs that focus on more traditional 'otome' tropes. 5: A timeskip, likely after Volume 2/3. 6: Yuri. (After the timeskip). There will be a new chapter every day. This story is much further along on RoyalRoad/Scribblehub. I will be posting multiple chapters a day until this catches up to those platforms. Yes, the cover is AI. It's something I'm looking to change as I head into Volume 2/3.

Chapter 1

MoXuan only wanted a stable life. Instead, he got rivals, missions that escalate too fast, talismans that shouldn't explode indoors, a void that answers back, and Jiang ZhenLei, a swordsman who keeps choosing to stand at his side. The road to immortality is ruthless. Attachments are dangerous. Please mind the formations. And the feelings. The Hollow Monarch is written as a long-form cultivation story. MoXuan and ZhenLei begin as young disciples in the Hidden Profound Sect, but their journey will expand far beyond the mountain where the story starts. Expect: • sect life and inner sect classes • rival disciples and faction politics • cultivation systems and magical techniques • eccentric elders and strange sect traditions • slow-burn romance between MoXuan and ZhenLei • a growing world of clans, sects, and ancient forces This story is meant to unfold over many arcs and hundreds of chapters, allowing the characters, relationships, and world to develop naturally over time. MC: Lian MoXuan ML: Jiang ZhenLei Genre: Xianxia / Cultivation Fantasy / Danmei Story Type: Long-form progression series Romance: Slow-burn relationship between MoXuan and ZhenLei Releases every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

For five years, Valence Milwalk has been the Wizardry Order's most embarrassing failure. He understands magic better than almost anyone - every theory, every spell, every construct - but he cannot cast. Not once. After five failed examinations, the Order gives him one last chance. He fails that too. What nobody knows - what nobody alive could know - is that Valence is not a failed wizard. He is something the world has not seen in centuries. Something the world has decided to call a myth. Far to the north, beyond a Wall so ancient no one remembers who built it or why, something is waking up. The monsters have always been there. So has their king. But the Wall is cracking now - and the reports coming out of the ice cities carry a fear that even seasoned wizards struggle to name. Between a kingdom on the edge of betrayal, a war it doesn't know is already coming, and dreams that feel less like dreams and more like memories of someone else's life, Valence is running out of time to figure out what he actually is. The last mage in a world of wizards. The only kind of person who has ever stopped what is coming before. They thought the Wizard of All Ends was dead. He wasn't. And he remembers everything.

In a world of divine Helms and ancient technology, Vyrel wanted the power of a warrior. Instead, he found the secret of a creator. Now, he must survive a desert of canyons and a world of enemies with a power everyone considers "weak."

In a world where Dungeons are a business and S-Rank Hunters are gods, Zeyar is the man who scrubs the blood off the floor. As an F-Rank "Sweeper," he is invisible, disposable, and ultimately betrayed. Left to rot in a high-level Abyss, Zeyar is summoned by the God of Death, not to save the world, but to police it. Granted the [WARDEN SYSTEM], Zeyar no longer kills-he incarcerates. Every monster defeated becomes a sentient prisoner in his "Shadow Prison," forced to serve his sentence as Zeyar's private army. From a zombie knight who just wants to bake to a thunder dragon with an ego problem, Zeyar's squad is chaotic, lethal, and the only thing standing between Earth and a manufactured apocalypse orchestrated by the world's greatest heroes.

When Dante turns eighteen, he begins having dreams of a power-using fashion model from 500 years ago, Giorgio Valentine, and his journey to stop Nero Leonelli from opening the Apostles' Cabinet and becoming an immortal Thread: a person who lives between the land of the living and the dead. But the dreams are just the start for Dante. His legacy entails mortal fights against deadly power-users and joining the Midnight Spire Conspiracy, a group determined to protect the public from Yokai. Dangerous plots are all around, and the name Nero Leonelli has resurfaced, along with the location of the Apostles' Cabinet, which has the power to unleash chaos onto the world.

In a world where dragons are hunted and feared as calamities, one soul awakens in the body of the most terrifying existence of all-a Void Dragon. A being said to devour magic, shatter reality, and bring an end to kingdoms. But he remembers something no dragon should... A past life. A human heart. Branded as a monster before he could even speak, hunted by empires, and feared by gods, he faces a choice: Become the disaster the world expects... Or defy fate itself. Choosing peace should have been simple. But peace is a luxury the powerful are never allowed to keep. As kingdoms plot, heroes rise, and ancient forces awaken to erase him, the "Dragon of the Void" must decide- How long can a monster choose mercy... Before the world forces him to become ruin?

He is a stranger among humans. Every day he learns how to live in this strange and unpredictable world-because he has a mission, and failure is not an option. This is a side story from the Taemi universe. If you want to discover the full story of Taemi, the novel is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GFW4RY6K

Reborn from a life of suffering, Harrison Wells awakens in a powerful family within a world of magic and war. Guided by a mysterious system, he rises beyond all limits-facing monsters, rival prodigies, and threats from higher realms. But as his power grows, he must choose: remain human... or become something that transcends existence itself.

THE SHATTERED GRID [SYSTEM ALERT: CRITICAL ANOMALY DETECTED] [STATUS: UNKNOWN] [ACTION: DELETE IMMEDIATELY] The world is a perfect machine. Every life is a line of code, every death is a scheduled format, and every soul is just data waiting to be recycled. For a thousand years, the System has maintained perfect order. But the System made a mistake. It didn't delete Ren. Ren was supposed to be a glitch-a fragment of corrupted memory left over from a world that was never meant to exist. Now, he is the only person who can see the wireframes of reality. Armed with a forbidden power and a soul that refuses to be rewritten, Ren begins a war against the very laws of existence. He isn't just a rebel. He is a virus. Season 1: The Anomaly - Ren discovers the truth and breaks the first law. Season 2: The Sovereign - The cost of rebellion is high, and the world is ready to reset. In a world of perfect logic, the only way to be free is to become the ultimate error. The world was formatted. He was the only file that wouldn't delete.

The world remembers her as a myth. Her enemies laughs at her downfall. But the modern age is about to meet her as a fracture. Is she a savior or an enemy? After eight centuries of exile, the Luminary has returned to a world that has moved on without her. But this is no glorious homecoming. Her soul has been anchored to an imperfect Vessel-a human form that was never meant to house the weight of a God. To the shadow government known as The Consensus, she is a "High-Energy Asset" to be contained. To herself, she is the Glass Sovereign: a Queen whose overwhelming life force is slowly shattering her borrowed skin from the inside out. In this fragile state, her divinity is her own executioner. While her wounds can be mended through the presence of her Lover, the relief is only a stay of execution. No amount of healing can stop the structural decay caused by her own power; every use of her Crimson Arts widens the cracks in her soul. To truly live, she must reclaim the original, immortal body she left behind in Caelum-Vera. The path home is blocked by her greatest creation and her deepest betrayal: Kamille K'vslana. Once her most loyal servant, Kamille has spent the Queen's absence transforming the realm into a cold, mechanical Hegemony. While the 1/3 Loyalist Quarter waits for a miracle, Kamille rules the remaining 2/3 with a logic of steel. Trapped in the neon-soaked sprawl of the City, the Queen must navigate a world of digital warfare and corporate gods. She must fight her way back to the borders, dismantle the machine that wears her servant's face, and merge with her true divinity before her current body turns to dust. In the game of gods, the Queen is the most powerful piece on the board. But a Queen made of glass must win before she shatters.

One roll. One city. One chance to survive. Elin was just an ordinary girl living a normal life - until she was suddenly pulled into a deadly game. The rule was simple: a single roll of the dice would determine her fate, assigning her a unique city of her own. Now, she must rebuild her civilization from the ashes and survive against the heirs of rival cities. Who will emerge victorious in this game of power? Are you ready to hear the story through the eyes of every player?

It's the last week of school, and all Kevin Veyron wants to do is make it to May 18, his birthday and the last day of school. However, strange phenomena begin to flicker within him and around him during his finals week. As he searches for answers, unbeknownst to Kevin, he is already walking down his path as an Elemental. Kevin will soon find out this path he walks down isn't for the weak. It is the way of fate for an Elemental such as himself to struggle to find his way in this coming-of-age action adventure in Saga 1- The Rise. I will be posting this story on Royal road and webnovel as well

Summoned after an unfortunate accident in hopes they could protect the world from a coming threat, Ben and his classmates are gifted another chance at life. With fame and fortune promised to whoever is willing to fight for the sake of the world it doesn't seem like a bad deal, there is just one small problem. Ben wasn't blessed with any magic or combat skills, just crafting and enchanting. While the skills themselves aren't useless they also aren't seen as being necessary to the coming war. Now not needed and alone Ben tries to find a place in the world while meeting some of its colorful characters along the way. ------------------------------- Well people, I found this jewel at Royal Road app, is from the author PROBABLYATURNIP all the rights to him, I just put it over here for the sake of comfort. I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did. 🤗

Book Blurb Echoes of the Shattered World: Inheritance of the dead. The world survived the apocalypse. That doesn't mean it healed. Long ago, a desperate act saved the River of Souls and shattered reality in the process. The world splintered into broken realms, mana bled into the land through ancient wounds, and every power meant to protect humanity began demanding a terrible price. Paladins guard the mana wells and fight horrors no one else can survive. Cities praise them as heroes... and quietly resent their control. Movements like Bright Step rise, promising freedom and self-defense for ordinary people, unaware that darker forces are already twisting that hope into something dangerous. Between them stand the Netherborn, poisoned by a broken world and desperate to survive it. Into this tension is born Kai a boy who was never meant to matter. In a world where every person is bound by invisible soul strings that connect them to power, memory, and consequence, Kai's soul is different. Fractured and sealed, it resonates with echoes that should be gone. He doesn't command magic. He doesn't bind the dead. He connects to souls from the past, to unfinished lives, to voices history tried to bury. As soul beasts emerge from failing boundaries and factions push the world closer to another collapse, Kai is drawn into a conflict that wants to use him, fear him, or erase him. He is not a chosen savior. He is a living anomaly proof that the world still remembers what it lost. But connection comes at a cost. To heal a broken world, Kai may have to give up pieces of himself his certainty, his identity, his future. And the deeper he reaches into the past, the more he must decide: Can the world be healed without repeating the sins that shattered it... or does saving it require becoming something he can never undo?

Yehya Etehad has been dying for nine years. Every night, he dreams of a stone body in an endless dark cavern. Every night, something finds him. Tears him apart. He wakes up screaming, and the System that awakened the rest of humanity has only one label for him: F-rank. Aberrant. Useless. His father runs mana tech for a major guild. His sister is a rising B-rank celebrity. His brother fights on the front lines. Yehya hides in his basement room, surviving on his mother's meals and strategy games where he can build factories and command armies from a safe distance. Then one night, he doesn't run. He fights. He kills. And for the first time in nine years, the System speaks: [Level Up. Blueprints Unlocked.] Kilometers below Earth's surface, in caverns no human has ever mapped, Yehya discovers the truth. His "dreams" were real. His "useless" talent was never broken-it was waiting for him to stop being prey and start being an architect. While Players above ground fight a losing war against an alien empire, a shut-in is building an army in the dark. Mining rigs. Turrets. Factories. A civilization from nothing. The empire thinks Earth is weak. They have no idea what's growing beneath their feet. From the stars above, an empire reaches down. And from the darkness below, a nobody discovers that nothing can build everything. Disclaimer: This story was written with the assistance of AI (Deep Seek) based on concepts and direction provided by the human author.

A college student, on his way home for the holidays experiences a strange phenomenon late at night. The world around him changes quickly as he tries to survive his new reality. Alone and pushed towards an uncertain goal to claim the center of the so-called 'zone', he struggles with all his might to continue breathing just one more day. Floating islands, monsters, system shenanigans, magic and a bit of tech to top it off. Also posted on Royal Road under the same username AlanInTheClouds.

Thirty years have passed since the Great War, where demons fell and the world entered an age of peace. Aldric lived all fifteen years of his life as a farm boy in a quiet village - until the day a glowing stone revealed him as a Water Elemental mage. Pulled from everything he knows, Aldric begins a journey that will take him far beyond his village walls. But the world is not as peaceful as it seems, and the further he walks, the more he feels it shifting beneath his feet. This is a story of adventure, friendship, enemies, and a boy learning who he is in a world that may not give him time to find out. What to expect: ► A main character shaped by what he lacks, not what he has ► Progression that's earned, never handed ► A layered magic system across four schools and seven elements ► A world where empires, guilds, and hidden threats move behind the scenes ► Characters who feel real - flawed, quiet, and never safe ► No chosen one speech. No heroic sacrifice. Just the road ahead.

For this cyborg, power is just an upgrade away. Emmett was used to being caught between college and his engineering internship, but when he gets caught between a powerful hero and an even stronger villain, he becomes collateral damage. Instead of dying, he wakes up a cyborg. Turns out his boss wasn't just an eccentric inventor, and the old man just gave him a shining opportunity to be a hero. Except that's just the beginning, and things are about to get a lot more complicated. His boss has his own agenda. The boss's daughter has her own power armor. His roommate works for an evil corporation. And Emmett is small fry. Just a Class 1 hero. Superheroes aren't just masks-some work for corporations, or for the government and the military, and even as mercenaries in wars. Shadowy cabals pull the strings of hero and villain alike. The city of Belport might be peaceful for now, but most of the world is in turmoil. If Emmett is going to have any chance at making a difference, he needs to get stronger. A lot stronger. How much of his humanity will he hold onto and how much will he trade away? If you're a fan of Cyborg, Winter Soldier, Iron Man, or Batman Beyond, then you don't want to miss this series! What to expect: Superhero Sci-fi Progression Fantasy STUB NOTES: You can find books 1-5 on Amazon: Initialize, Execute, Flux, Delta, and Threads. New chapters will continue to be released here MON, WED, and FRI, each being roughly 1.5-2.3k words. Read up to 30 chapters ahead on Patreon, with goals up to 50 advanced chapters. Stop by the Discord and get release notifications at RealityLocked Worlds.