After Maxing

In the worlds of swords, magic and gods. Leon was cast out by those who summoned him. Now he just tries his best to not sink into despair.

Eldwyn Beldad sets out on a desperate journey to find a rumored cure for his ailing sister, knowing that time is running out. With little more than hope and determination, he heads to the bustling town of Gairo in search of the money he needs. But when he arrives, he is greeted by a foreboding silence—nothing like the lively place he had imagined. What happened to the town, and can Liam uncover the truth before it’s too late for his sister?

Leaving was supposed to be the end of her heartbreak. Instead, it became the beginning of a journey she never saw coming. Scarred by betrayal, family secrets, and a love that left her drowning, Elena walks away from the life she thought she wanted. But freedom comes at a price—and sometimes the past refuses to stay buried. Torn between memories of the man who shattered her trust and unexpected feelings for the brother she once tried to forget, Elena fights to reclaim her power. In a world where loyalty cuts like a knife and love demands sacrifice, will she ever find peace—or discover that leaving was only the first step toward becoming who she’s meant to be? A raw, emotional journey of heartbreak, resilience, and the quiet storm of a woman finding her voice.

Heartbroken after being left to marry without clarity, Audrey returns to her hometown. It is a village with a beautiful view of the mountains and vineyards. Two years later, the senior suddenly showed up at her inn with his wife. Two months later, they became neighbors. Chasing back the senior's reasons for playing with her feelings, Audrey was denounced by her neighborhood as a mistress. "I wasn't the one who took him. I was the one who was molested!"-Audrey Rosewood "Hello, Mr. Playboy. Stay away from Audrey!"-Vale Sigourney, the tall, eccentric, annoying neighbor. "Audrey, come have coffee with me as a good neighbor!"-Zavier Lawrence, NPD senior married with one child.

At the end of his 999th life, the system creator congratulated him by awarding enough points to max out all his stats. For his 1,000th life, something different happened compared to his previous lives. Will the Player be able to adjust to the changes?

Feng Zhaoyun—just as his name suggests, the only time he might’ve looked even remotely ugly was probably when he was still in his mother’s womb. The only misfortune in his life? Growing up without knowing who his parents were. But that didn’t matter, because luck had always been on his side. His life went so smoothly, so absurdly well, that he never once needed help from anyone. He once thought his life would continue like that—easy and boring—all the way to the end. Until one day, he saved a drowning child… and was dragged away by the river himself. When he opened his eyes again, he was in a completely different world, in a completely different body… Heavens! Was this the universe making up for his twenty years of monotony? Finally, a little chaos! He was moved to tears! “What?! I have to share a body with someone else?! Since when did transmigration systems become this stingy?! Crossing into another world and I don’t even get a body of my own?! Where are my human rights?!” Feng Zhaoyun roared in fury. The system coldly tossed a script at him: “Complete the mission faster, and you’ll get your body faster.” “Get out of my body!” A bone-chilling voice rang from the young man who now shared a body with him, hatred dripping from every syllable—he looked like he wanted to split Feng Zhaoyun’s soul in half with a single slash. Feng Zhaoyun just chuckled: “Hehe.” He happily embraced the chaos. Unfortunately… someone else clearly wasn’t enjoying it as much. Little did Zhaoyun know, this “twist” was only the beginning… . . . There are countless people who want to bring me down... But luck has always stood with me!

Every chapter is a different nightmare. In this collection of standalone horror tales, ordinary people stumble into impossible situations—haunted streets, cursed letters, vanishing friends, and doors that shouldn't exist. There are no heroes. No second chances. Just one story… one ending. Turn the page… if you dare.

Max Blake thought he hit rock bottom—28, broke, abandoned by luck, and haunted by debt he couldn't escape. A once-promising student, now reduced to taking sketchy day jobs, Max's life turns from bad to worse after a mysterious hotel gig nearly gets him killed. But death doesn't come... something else does. Max wakes up in a strange wooden room, chained, confused—and awakened. A sultry, mechanical voice echoes in his mind: “Beauty Harem System activated.” From that moment on, Max’s world shifts. No longer bound by the limits of his old life, he finds himself pulled into a world of power, temptation, and destiny. With every conquest, the system grows stronger—unlocking forbidden techniques, hidden truths, and unparalleled charm that makes him irresistible to the most enchanting women. Mystical priestesses, rogue assassins, cursed princesses, seductive sorceresses—they’re all drawn to him by fate and fire. But this isn’t just a life of pleasure. Behind each beauty lies a story, a curse, or a secret that could unravel him. The deeper Max goes, the more he realizes: this system didn’t come for free and who created it. To survive, he must master passion, power, and peril—because love is war, and his harem... is just the beginning.

He wakes up alone. In ruins. In silence. Niko opens his eyes in a crumbling hospital with no memory of who he is or what happened to the world. His body has aged, the sky is stained grey, and the earth is crawling with nightmares. When a monster—a Nullborn, a twisted remnant of a failed human soul—attacks him, instinct takes over. He kills it. Something inside him awakens. — SOUL’S REFLECTION — [Nullborn Has Been Dispatched] Type: Stray Null – Grade Eta (Η) Essentia Acquired: “Mercy in Panic” Grade: Yod (י) Type: Reflective – Instinctual Fracture Note: “Strength born of mercy turns brittle in doubt.” Essentia Count: 1 / ∞ Now, hunted by creatures and people alike, Niko sets out to uncover the truth: What happened to the world? Who was he before it fell? In a world where survivors awaken strange powers called Essentia, his… doesn’t quite follow the rules.

After escaping an abusive home and a toxic ex, Mimi believes she's broken beyond repair—until she meets Itsuki, a mysterious and kind Japanese transfer student with secrets of her own. As their bond deepens, healing begins—but danger and past scars threaten their new beginning. A slow-burn WLW romance of pain, courage, and blooming hope.

Desan doesn’t know who he is. He only knows how to bleed. Waking in a tomb of ritual, impaled by memory and soaked in the leftover will of things he’s killed, Desan is thrown into a world already broken, drenched in fog, stitched with cults, and ruled by monsters in the skin of men. His only companion is a voice fused to his brain, snide and possibly insane, speaking in riddles and half-truths. As Desan fights to survive, he begins to see the truth buried in ash. He doesn’t just remember the things he slays. He becomes them. Every kill infects him. Every breath is borrowed. And something ancient watches from behind the fog, waiting for him to wake up fully. Waiting for him to fall.

https://www.royalroad.com/profile/654331/fictions They built the world on bloodlines, crowns, and ancient lies. But one man walks in—unchained, unknown, and untouchable. No prophecy foretold him. No throne birthed him. And no force can stand before him. Ann Zero is a being that defies record, rank, and reason. Armed with forbidden power and a name the stars themselves seem to recognize, he tears through the hierarchy of kings, mages, and monsters—exposing the rotted empires beneath. But this isn’t conquest. It’s correction. As nobles fall, dimensions fracture, and gods awaken, a single truth becomes clear: This world was never ready for him. And by the time it understands what he is… It will already be too late.

A scholar posed a question to a ruler: is it better to be loved or feared. That was the only thing that the tyrant king thought of as he watched his people kill him. Only death was not the end. The tyrant king now called Magnus deals with the hardest task being a baby. More specifically beings a baby with a loving family. Oh and i guess living in a new planet that has mana and was once ruled by six gods that betrayed their creator for power.

In a normal ongoing world (earth), people going on there daily tasks and working place as normal. Life continues as usual!!! Suddenly!! sky blue view slowly taken a drastic turn and slowly turns into red color like evening sky. 'Hah?? (Someone notice) Is it already 5:00 PM or what??' (While looking sharply at the sky) 'Hey! Mom look at the sky. Its kind of weird.' (A little girl noticed and calls her mother to look at the scenery.) 'Oh! Yeah it's a bit weird.' (Her mother responses) Hmm!?? Is it a hole or what?? (She looks something with wide eyes) Suddenly!! *Crack! Split!! (like a broken mirror) red sky got break like a hole in space-time fabric and...... *Whoooosh gradually taken a shape of a big blue WORMHOLE in flat horizontal way on sky and like from a complete void, some thing -- appeared.... from other side of that portal and obviously not a humanly figure but... something which we can only assume in our old fantasy stories. (Want to know?? Then go read the *PROLOGUE of this story) However in short... this sudden extraordinary and otherworldly phenomena led to a disruption in the sky, causing by some unknown huge force a pathway in space-time fabric of various distant spots to be connected with each other, leading to the interlink between foreign worlds we never even get to know through our various space operations that led to the emergence of, what we can only say is by its whole structure and function, 'A DUNGEON' throughout the whole world in different countries, places and landscape which is still hidden from human eyes. And most biggest danger these unknown and illogical things brought upon whole world is, that it filled with various malicious and deadly unknown and some unseen but heard at least once in our childhood stories, beasts or say monsters. That by there way of actions, can only be waiting to cause havoc and bloodshed over the whole of humanity, like the once done by the very 1st "Magical Beast" appeared and land his foots on this world, through the very 1st of these magical wormhole. (The one I mentioned earlier) But as there's the equal and opposite reaction of every action, there's also the emergence of a powerful enhanced group of humankind, came to be known as 'HUNTERS' that effectively have enough potential and ability required to kill the ones that are any threat to whole mankind. Though they all are itself different from other humans too. Well, How? 'Mana/Qi/Chi/Prana/Aura' as many names as clouds in sky, you can think of this kind of energy that only can be understandable in spiritual field, leaks out in open environment of earth like thin air through these gaps in space, that somehow later acts as the main source of defend line against these insane bloody creatures, along with such other extraordinary things in play too, which those who play stimulated games of offering quests and rewards upon success of that, kind of applications knows very well. And so, with this the world enter into a new phase of revolution, as with a whole new source of clean, effortless, less cost-effective and nearly in infinite amount of energy (Mana) that can also acts as a long-running fuel in many fields of mechanics and development, many new technologies and research development goals able to be achieved and developed, in just few years of that very 1st dungeon incident in the world. The overall human society! prevailing hierarchy, class, demands, requirements and goals in life, also changed and flipped in the whole different way, which fits more of a 'brute power, strength and courage to do so', rather than just how much money one have in there pocket to do so. This is a story of a one such normal human (our MC), who in human terms at now with a new prevailing way of society, is at weakest of the food chain but still solely continued his struggle to reach at the top, for achieving his own personal goals in his life. So, let's enjoy his journey in textual form.

With the help of the gods, humans on the brink of extinction from their pointless wars have been given another chance to redeem themselves, and with the restrictions on earth gone the planet is open to invasions from other worlds. Heroes emerge in New Earth to stand against their foes. While the gods prepare to face an unknown force lurking in the shadows.

Pada tahun 2030 terjadi sebuah penggabungan dimensi yang menggabungkan dimensi nomor 0000 yang kita tinggali saat ini dengan dimensi nomor 2037 yang sangat berbeda dari dimensi yang kita tinggali.

Lai Zhiyun had graduated from university, was not interested in romance, and only wanted to focus on her career. Yet her dad was particularly worried that she had limited experience and was susceptible to being obsessed with love. Therefore, he utilized his "financial power" to get her to go on arranged dates. Her dad said, "It's fine not to date, and it's fine not to marry and stay single forever," but you must get out and see the world. So as not to have too little experience and be easily carried away by love. Thus, the candidates for the arranged dates were very reliable, with high educational backgrounds, good family circumstances, as well as being tall, handsome, and having long legs. 【Highlight One:】 It's often said that the relationship between a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is a major issue, Mother-in-laws aren't mothers, and it's okay just to keep up appearances and get along on the surface. Therefore, after getting married, Lai Zhiyun wanted to keep her distance from her mother-in-law, but the mother-in-law wanted to become her best friend. Before the marriage, the mother-in-law was a noblewoman of distinguished temperament, difficult to approach and aloof. But after the marriage, Lai Zhiyun realized that her mother-in-law was one of her online friends. And they both were fans of each other's careers. Because of this, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was good, and the son became less important. Before the marriage, Zhou Liao was his mother's precious firstborn son, but after the marriage, the son wasn't as cherished as the daughter-in-law. ** Zhou Liao thought his understanding and reasonable mother would be his love bodyguard, but he never expected to have to guard against his own mother undermining him. 【PS: This story primarily offers a light-hearted healing experience; the heroine is sober-minded, the hero is a paragon of virtue, without deadbeat dads or problematic moms, with few extreme characters, and not melodramatic.】

Anna gave Dave everything—her love, her loyalty, and six unborn children. But when she thought their future was finally secure, he betrayed her in the cruelest way: leaving her for another woman named Lisa, and silencing her with a bullet by the riverbank. Left for dead and erased from his life, Anna vanished. But death did not take her—fate did. Two years later, Anna returns under a new identity, her face changed, her heart hardened. Hiding in plain sight, she takes a job as the nanny in Dave and Lisa’s home. While they believe they’ve built a picture-perfect life, Anna begins to unravel it from within—piece by piece. Lisa's pregnancies end in tragedy, her health failing without explanation. Dave’s mind spirals into guilt and paranoia. And all the while, Anna watches… waiting for the final strike. But revenge is never clean—and Anna soon finds herself haunted by memories, torn between justice for the child she lost and the growing darkness consuming her. In a tale of betrayal, obsession, and cold-blooded retribution, Reborn for Revenge asks: How far will a woman go when love turns to ash… and vengeance is all she has left?

Carter Brooks is your average 19-year-old—funny, kind, goofy, charming, smart, sneaky, romantic, hardworking, and a shameless food junkie. He's always dreamed of being isekai’d into a fantasy world, where he could explore vast lands, battle powerful enemies, and maybe even build a harem like in the stories he loves. But when a freak lightning strike—courtesy of a bored god—accidentally zaps him to death, his dreams take a hilarious and unexpected turn. Instead of ending up in some afterlife limbo, Carter finds himself face-to-face with eight powerful goddesses, each representing a fundamental aspect of existence: Strength, Wisdom, Magic, Luck, Love, Time, Creation, and Nature. Amused by his weird death and bold personality, they decide to reincarnate him into another world—with maxed-out stats and a divine blessing that makes him an overpowered Level 1 human. On his very first day, he saves two twin princesses from danger, unintentionally launching himself into a legendary journey filled with action, adventure, comedy, and chaos. From joining an adventurer's guild and exploring dungeons to freeing villages, slaves, and entire kingdoms, Carter builds a reputation as the most powerful (and most unpredictable) man in the world. As he travels, he gains loyal companions—and a harem of women from every walk of life: demon queens, princesses, nobles, adventurers, slaves, goddesses, and more. Even the eight goddesses who gave him his second chance can’t help but keep visiting him... and maybe falling for him. But with power comes problems. From corrupt churches, scheming nobles, ancient monsters, and cults, to other gods and cosmic entities, Carter constantly finds himself dragged into conflict—sometimes because he seeks it, sometimes because trouble just has a way of finding him. Whether it's political marriages, divine misunderstandings, or full-scale wars, Carter faces it all with a grin, a punch, and a snarky remark. He's not a hero. He's not a villain. He’s an antihero—a one-man force of nature who answers to no one but himself. And if you mess with those he loves... well, let’s just say you’ve never made a worse mistake. Join Carter Brooks as he turns the world upside-down in the hilarious, romantic, and action-packed legend of the maxed-out stats human who never asked to be a hero—but became a legend anyway.

I logged into Heartbound: Aeviria just to relax. Romance quests, cute NPCs, no danger. Until… I woke up inside the game. Now I’m stuck inside my own character’s body — Elysia — with zero combat skills, no magic, and barely any gold. The only thing maxed out? My romance bars with three of the most dangerous, powerful, and dangerously charming NPCs: Kai. Cassian. Lucien. They remember every quest I completed with them. But for them, it wasn’t just a game. It was real. I need to survive in this world with nothing but my affection stats… And maybe avoid falling too hard for the people I once thought were just pixels. System warning: Romance progression — irreversible.

Raka Wright had just turned 18, it was supposed to be a joyous day. Filled with joy and laughter, instead, the sky split into two. They called it The Merger. That day, a second sun bled through the clouds and stitched the fantasy realm of Arche to Earth. Skyscrapers swallowed by mountains, coastlines vanished in fire, and entire countries burned to ashes. A silver-tongued deity dangled salvation before Raka’s family, then dropped them to their deaths. Where other survivors stretched trembling hands toward divinity, Raka met the gods’ gaze and did not flinch. “If heaven will not mourn with me, let it tremble before me.” Somewhere in the shattered world, time holds its breath around a sleeper wrapped in humming light—an unfinished weapon awaiting its cue. Behold the one forged in the fires of the end of the world, destined to kindle the first light of its rebirth. Things to expect: - Magic mixed with technology - Weak to strong, gets a boost in the beginning but its a hard climb from there. - Slow pacing, like pretty slow - Post Apocalyptic-ish - Action scenes that make sense - God vs Mortal and rewriting fate themes Note: SLOW PACED STORYTELLING! *********** I will also be posting on RoyalRoad . com u der the same name. https: //www . royalroad . com /profile/707226/ fictions **********