Now Launched! Daily Chapters through the end of September. After spending fifty lives as the prophesied Lord of Dusk, Corbin is officially done trying to stop the Hero of Legend. He's tried everything he could think of. Fighting. Surrendering. Killing the Hero early, late, and just about every point in between. Somehow it almost always ended with Prince Frederick standing over his corpse and Corbin's unique Escape Artist trait resetting him back to the day it all began. So this time, he's trying something different. Heâd do without all of his usual things. From the armies and forbidden relics, all the way to that stubborn, annoyingly inevitable prophecy. This time heâd make do with just an Alchemist class, a hundred acres at the edge of nowhere, and a dream of brewing ale that doesn't taste terrible. Unfortunately, farming requires workers. Workers need roads. Roads bring merchants. Merchants bring settlers. And the failing hamlet Corbin chose specifically because nobody cared about it is suddenly becoming a thriving little town. The real cherry on top that made it worse? Corbin is starting to care a bit too... And somewhere out there, the Hero of Legend is still looking for the last member of his prophesized party, not knowing that the missing companion and the Lord of Dusk were one and the same. Escaping destiny was supposed to be less of a headache than this. What To Expect: -Chapters between 1500 and 3000 words, with the general average being around 2200ish (there's some that need some more leg room while others benefit from brevity!) -A regression/loop premise on the MCâs 51st attemptâbut this story follows his attempt to break the pattern, rather than repeatedly replaying the same timeline. -LitRPG mechanics with classes, levels, skills, system windows, property management, contracts, and businesses, without heavy stat-sheet crunch. -An extremely experienced, but exceptionally traumatized morally gray protagonist who is deliberately trying not to become powerful again. -Slow-burn settlement development, farming, alchemy, brewing, construction, trade, and the increasingly complicated consequences of trying to live a âsimpleâ life. -Character-driven slice-of-life and dry humor punctuated by monsters, violence, old trauma, and a prophecy that refuses to stay ignored. -A very slow-burn romantic subplot. The chemistry exists, but it's not the major plot driver and there's absolutely no harem! -A protagonist who's already been the final bossâand would really, really rather not do it again. Read 10 Chapters Ahead on Patreon! Come on over to my Discord to talk about the story, see advanced news, and just talk nonsense! https://discord.gg/4sSUCQewa3 If you are reading this anywhere other than Royal Road or my Patreon, it has been stolen and reposted!
Magic was chaos. Now itâs chemistry. Through Stoichiomancy, power is measured, quantified, and controlled. Ascension follows a strict ladder, each tier with a fixed number of sanctioned seats. There are no anomalies. Until Arielle Blacksoil. Born to a bloodline without magic, Arielle should have been invisible to the system. Instead, an accident reveals the impossible: Sheâs an unsanctioned archmage. If discovered, theyâll strip her power or turn her into a weapon. To survive, Arielle enrolls in the Academy and pretends to climb the ranks while hiding magic that eclipses her professors. For the first time in her life, she has rivals, teammatesâŚmaybe even friends. But hiding overwhelming power isnât easy. Pretty soon, sheâs embroiled in faction conflict, foiling villainous plots and hunting a mysterious primordial that lurks in the dark. --- - Updates M, T, Th, F (4X/Week) - 2500 - 3500 word chapters - OP MC - Hidden Genius at a Magic Academy - Magic System Blending Cultivation and Chemistry
The Voice gave Mark a second life and sent him to a world where people like him are burned at the stake. It just forgot to explain what the priests would be looking for. Mark had already survived the worst years of his life. Then he wasted the ones that came after them. He had plans. Good ones, even. He just never got around to starting them. Instead of waking up as a legendary hero, however, he finds himself trapped in the body of a nameless infant in a dirt-poor farming family. To claim this second life, Mark must survive the temple's tests and prove he isn't Abyss-touched. All he has is the promise of a System that refuses to fully awaken, and a Trait hidden behind a blacked-out name. No powerful mentor waiting to guide him. No legendary artifact falling into his lap. No power without effort. In a world shaped by Traits, Professions, and power, most people spend their lives trying to become someone. Mark's problem is figuring out what he already is. A character-driven slow-burn progression fantasy about second chances, family, mystery, and power earned one step at a time. Three books and 140+ chapters already written.
Princess Lillia Ashvalin was supposed to inherit a throne, not fight a giant bug for the right to wear its skin as a dress. Lillia has spent five years under her murderous auntâs rule, and the worst part was supposed to be politics. Sadly for Lillia and readers of regency romance, her aunt had her thrown into the bowels of a SSS-Class Dungeon. Now our princess has fallen into a worldâand genreâshe was never meant for. Armed with a dead knight's sword she isn't allowed to equip and a class nobody's ever heard of, Lillia must fight her way through spooky monsters, elite bosses, deadly traps, and other deeply unaristocratic problems. Down here all the knights are dead. Down here nobody saves the princess. What to Expect: - Lillia tries her best. - Lillia does not understand how any of this works. - Progress is being made. Slowly. Against her will. - Lillia does not like this. At all. - A princess. A dungeon. A very poor career transition. -------- Chapters Monday, Wednesday and Friday
What does it take to climb out of the trash and into the sky? The very heavens had decreed his death. He should have died in the womb. Or in infancy. Or when his family was murdered. Or when the house burned around him. Or when he woke up in the dump suffering from innumerable diseases and missing fingers. Even the magic ring with a ghostly grandpa trapped inside of it was sabotaged. A reasonable person would roll over and die. Tian isn't that reasonable. And as it happens, neither is Grandpa Jun. In a world where immortality can be cultivated, miracles are things you make for yourself. A broken boy will defy the heavens, and soar. What to expect: -1 chapter a day M-F. Volume 5 is already complete. -2k words per chapter (aprox, some run long) with a longer first chapter. -No Harem -Earned power growth -An MC who isn't a goodie two shoes OR an edge-lord psychopath -A power system based on actual Daoism -Sects, giant monsters, natural treasures, flying swords, spells, talismans, secret arts, and a gentle sprinkling of young masters whose face need rearranging.
Zorian is a teenage mage of humble birth and slightly above-average skill, attending his third year of education at Cyoria's magical academy. He is a driven and irritable young man, consumed by a desire to ensure his own future and free himself of the influence of his family, whom he resents for favoring his brothers over him. Consequently, he has no time for pointless distractions or paying attention to other people's problems. As it happens, time is something he is about to get plenty of. On the eve of the Cyoria's annual summer festival, he is killed and brought back to the beginning of the month, just before he was about to take a train to Cyoria. Suddenly trapped in a time loop with no clear end or exit, Zorian will have to look both within and without to unravel the mystery before him. And he does have to unravel it, for the time loop hadn't been made for his sake and dangers lurk everywhere... Repetition is the mother of learning, but Zorian will have to first make sure he survives to try again - in a world of magic, even a time traveler isn't safe from those who wish him ill. ********************************** Mother of Learning is now available for sale on Amazon. The story will remain available in full here on Royal Road and on Fictionpress, but if you're more interested to read the story as a Kindle Edition e-book you now have a way to do that. The audiobooks can be found on this link here. The physical edition is available through a Kickstarter campaign, which can be found here. I will keep you all updated on that as things develop. ********************************** If anyone is interested, I have a story-related worldbuilding site that can be found here. I don't update it as often as I should, but there is a fair amount of content there already. It also contains a page with all the fanart, fan translations, audio books and the like - you can reach it directly by clicking this link. I have a patreon account for those kind people that want to give me money. It also contains info for those who want to donate via paypal. The story was originally posted on fictionpress, back in 2011. When I reached chapter 91, I started uploading the story to RoyalRoad, one chapter per day. The Fictionpress version of the story can be reached by clicking on this link if somebody is interested, though at this point there is nothing there that isn't also on RoyalRoad.