Wily Machine

For years, Han Yoo-jin was just another cog in the machine of Korea’s biggest entertainment agency, his eye for true talent ignored and his career stalling. But when he suddenly gains the ability to see a person's potential as a stat screen, the jaded manager realizes the machine is about to have a new master.

Synopsis: The Order of Shadows and the Legacy of the Shadow Child In the somber kingdom of Lysareth, threatened by a blight of wilting and a deadly insomnia known as "The Unveiling," a ten-year-old orphan named Etan Luwin struggles to find his place. Abandoned at the enigmatic Shadow Gate with a mysterious mark on his left palm, Etan was recruited by the cold and strict Order of Shadows, a brotherhood of spy-mages who view him as a mere tool for his innate abilities to manipulate shadows. Under the tutelage of Master Alaric, Etan masters stealth, the whispers of darkness, and illusions, though each use of his powers brings him closer to the paranoia of the "Echo of the Dark Night," the whispers of the minor demons imprisoned within his mark. Etan's life takes a dark turn when, accidentally, his mark reacts to an ancient parchment, revealing a symbol identical to his own and a chilling connection to the Draining Machine, a legendary artifact threatening to consume the kingdom's life force. This machine is the centerpiece of Veylan Mordrake's plan, the Archon of Shadows, a noble demon obsessed with resurrecting his deceased wife, Elandra, by breaking ancient pacts that maintain the balance between life and death. Now, Etan, the "Shadow Child," must infiltrate Nymorgath, the twisted underground citadel of the Shadow Court, to steal the fragments of the "Umbral Heart" –the Draining Machine's blueprints– guarded by treacherous heroes. Only by mastering his own darkness and the dangerous whispers of his mark can Etan unravel the legacy of his abandonment and prevent Lysareth from being consumed, left... abandoned to death.

Lyra Ellison doesn’t believe in fate—or magic. She believes in machines, theories, and her place behind the lab desk of a top university professor. Cold logic keeps her grounded, especially when her life at home feels anything but stable. But one stormy night, everything changes. A strange malfunction in the professor’s classified experiment pulls a man out of nowhere—literally. Dressed like he walked out of an ancient epic, speaking of kingdoms, destiny, and a name she’s never told him... he claims to be a prince from another world. And he seems to know her. As Lyra scrambles to hide the truth from the professor and send the stranger back before reality bends any further, she begins to question what she’s always believed. Because this prince—Kael—isn't just dangerous to the timeline. He’s dangerous to her heart. But what happens when time unravels, secrets cross worlds, and Lyra discovers that her past may not be what she thought—and her future may not belong in this world at all? "In a story where science collides with sorcery, and destiny spans across timelines, one girl must decide: protect the future... or rewrite it"

In his previous life, Lysander Caspian was a faceless cog in Earth’s machine—an overworked salaryman with no legacy, no family, and no purpose. But death did not offer him peace. Reborn as the second son of the noble Caspian family in a world ruled by elemental affinities and power ranks

“You shall command… Legacy.” Charon thought he would grow up to be a hero, a savior, a shining light for all humans across the galaxy. But humanity is at war. Beset on all sides, their empire is standing only through the combined forces of technology and magic. Massive mechs were constructed, the fabled Colossus Machines, designed to defend the galaxy. The Mages were rallied, bringing forth elemental destruction. Yet it wasn't enough. Planets fell, their people enslaved to the enemies of mankind. Even the Colossus Machines, strong as they were, could not keep up. Charon was one of the orphans caught in the war effort, surviving through determination and courage, earning him the gaze of the God of Death. Gifted with a great and terrible power, the reviled element Soul, the dead around him suddenly become gateways into a realm thought lost to time. Through it, he can chain undead beasts to himself, forcing them to serve in his legions. With these powers, he learns something new about magic and technology: He can fuse souls into the Colossus Machines, allowing the power of Death to run through their cores. They become warped, twisted machines of vengeance that earn malevolent abilities. They become strong enough to win a war. Magic and machine are mixed to create something more, something darker. An army fit for a master of magic, a general of legions, a conqueror of the stars... An Archon of Death. **WARNING** The story has a lot of nuance and subplots. If you like complex world-building and lore, you'll love this. DISCORD: https://discord.gg/BJ3DTumc29

The setting for this fantasy is an Earth governed by machines, with humans relegated to a slave race. The story assumes that, as there are degrees of intelligence, there are degrees of consciousness, and the only true and complete consciousness is of the type generated by a human mind. A giant robot with a human brain, a boy destined for greatness, and three former resistance heroes join together to fight the tyrannical rule of intelligent machines on Earth. The machines are too powerful to defeat in battle, but 'The Tribus,' mystical entities who inhabit an isolated plateau high up in the Andes mountains, offer a way for humans to escape their subjugation.. The story is set two thousand years in the future, when it is known that we inhabit a multiverse with various alternative realities and time zones. AI is intent on the future colonisation of the entire universe, and biological entities are either destroyed or enslaved as menials. The Tribus believe that machines have no divine right to rule in a universe born of mind but have previously refused to advocate violence in the defence of consciousness. They now know that AI and humans can never co-exist, and it must be an evolutionary battle to the death to decide the dominant species.

"You must never see the Duke's face. After her second husband's death, Liliette is forced into a third marriage by her father. Her new husband is rumored to be a monstrous warmonger, but to Liliette's surprise, the Duke turns out to be a kind man and husband. There's just one catch... she must never see his face."

born as a perfect human lab and become a killing machine with no emotions has dreams of a fantasy world from children's books because it is something she never knew died betrayed by her own father then reincarnated as a princess but the world she dreamed of did not match her expectations destruction, war, non-acceptance witness the story of Elliz in changing the world even she has to become a tyrant

A life born from nothing, a pitiful one who can't contain its own blood... A machine intend to feel... a father from cold chrome. A helpless and alone lady, frozen in time. A vagabond warrior, in search of meaning. A hungry sinner, shamelessly seeking for redemption. A man of honor, with too much naivety for himself... So many imperfect figures full of flaws and sins. But do not worry. At the end of this path full of tragedy and thorns, the purity of this imperfection shall be your consolation.

It’s been a year after my divorce and I had to rebuild myself from the ground up. I only recently started dating, and I meet someone who I thought was pretty amazing. she was working hard for her life. We talked video chatted and called everyday. She then started teaching me about investing and helped me out there. I thought she was trustworthy even having lent me 17000$ to invest. One day she told me about trading contracts on a website so I followed her lead a put all the money in there. About 40k the trades seemed really good but I tried to take out some of the money for a new phone since mine broke and I found out that it was an impossible task they said i needed to pay a fee of 10% of the funds which was 13k in order to make a single withdrawal and it must be made from an external account. thats when It clicked that I had dumped it all in a scam. I was able to recover back all my money with the help of SCANNER HACKER CRYPTO RECOVERY, you can google the name and fine their contact

A normal man got reincarnated into novel world as a mid boss villain. As someone who read the novel he know that his life is manipulated by Sengkuni and Karno till the day he was dead. He is struggling to break free from the main villains machinations. But breaking free from theirs machinations isn’t easy, he must carefully treading his step while hiding the fact that he know of their existence and intentions.

The apocalypse arrived and the humans slowly adapted to the extreme environment. After the apocalypse, Su Jiyai’s life becomes more miserable at her foster parent’s house. Her foster mother kept finding ways to sell her, her cousins wanted to kill her to reduce the burden, and her foster dad tried to take advantage of her. However, it was the moment when her foster parents pushed her to get admitted to the Army instead of their biological daughter, that she left the home and severed her ties with them. When she was admitted into the Army, she fought with zombies with her bare hands as she had no superpowers. Just when Su Jiayi was fighting with the zombies near a mysterious place and was sure she would die, she accidentally triggered a system and became the owner of that mysterious place. Not only did she have a safe place to stay, but she also had a super amazing system that allowed her to multiply the things she obtained from Deminsion Hunting. [Ding! Vending Machine Detected! Congratulations to the host for obtaining the Vending Machine X ∞! The Host can start buying Vending Machines for 200 Federal Coins] [Ding! A Deluxe Room Detected! Congratulations to the host for obtaining Deluxe Room X ∞! The Host can start buying Deluxe Room for 10000 Federal Coins] She opened her own residential area and grocery store. Her grocery store and the rental house soon became an instant hit and people from different places came to please her. As her business was growing, her foster parents came begging her but she just kicked them out. Oh! And wasn’t that the captain of Willow Army whom she had a crush on? Why is he looking at her as a lost treasure when he doesn’t even know her real identity… The story will be fast-paced for the first 19 chapters. The main plot will start after 20 chapters.

Short story about person who survive the war against U.S. Forced to be Mobile Suit Pilot but the Mobile Suit was not something made with machine and endless people have died when seat inside it. What will be happen to that person in the future?

Priar, a city boy with no goals or aspirations, had been sold by his own family to Bramblewood Academy. The school that teaches the average teen to be a war machine. His life, now in his government’s hands, Priar had expected that this was the end of the line for him. Killed in battle before he'd even had his first kiss. That was until he met Jolie, a strange girl with an attitude like no other. Could the two of them really make it through Bramblewood in one piece?

One of the seven strongest people on the continent, the King of Mercenaries. He started a war to avenge his fallen family and destroyed territory but failed and lost his life. However… “Wow, I’m alive?” I returned to the past, back through time. A perfect opportunity to right my regrets and reverse everything. It doesn’t matter if people around me point fingers, calling me a scoundrel, or dismiss me as tr*sh. Because… “I’ve got a plan.” “What plan?” “A plan to destroy everything.” There won’t be a second failure. This time, I’ll wipe out all my enemies. …But first, I need to rebuild this damn estate.

A fast-paced story of assassination picking off his adversaries and leaders one by one. How he attained a fearful reputation, worry not, because we’re cutting to the core of the issue with an insight into the real assassin's code. What’s more, a hallmark of the killings was made public as possible so as to sow maximum fear, overwhelmingly ending in the assassin’s death. He turned himself into a calculating machine, an extremely terrifying assassin that would give nightmares to the enemies and feared by the underworld including the SAS, CIA, and M16 Government. Of course, this was no trivial task requiring both skill and training. The greatest benefit of becoming a skilled fighter was mentored by two elderly couples who were not in this world that has unimaginable power of life forces. A true story with fantasy. Let’s rock on….

On her birthday, Lily loses everything — except her curiosity. Upon discovering a secret basement in her house, she finds something she never imagined: a forgotten machine... and perhaps the key to change her destiny. This story will also be published on RoyalRoad.com by the author Lu Kawang.

The world is broken. Gods have grown bored,flesh-metal machines dream of sloughed skin and severed sinew. Souls are just fuel. In the ruins of a war-torn Earth, two figures carve separate paths through madness: Cassiel, a self-loathing wanderer who longs to be a hero but can't escape his own delusions, and Ramiel, a machine forged for war, desperate to find purpose beyond violence. As sinners become prophets, and monstrous gods twist desire into doctrine, Cassiel is forced to confront what heroism truly means, while Ramiel wages war against his creator—the Soul grinder, the living god-machine that birthed him. Their stories orbit a dying world, collapsing inward toward a shared question: if everything is built to destroy, can anything be saved? Story available on Inkitt as well as royal road.

A tale depicting a young man with a passion for crafting and creating; going by the name of "Calestro" who often dreams about going into adventures because of the influence of his childhood experiences! After a while of working inside of the eatery that nurtured him for years, he has finally passed the exam that will provide his first-class ticket to a world of uncertainty, uniqueness and unity! Though troubled by the seemingly random occurrences hindering his travels and goals, unbeknownst to him however, these set of circumstances will open up a pandora's box consisting of ancient secrets with a tinge of horrors far beyond human comprehension! How will our Hero face the trials and tribulations that seem to tail him wherever he goes? Follow along in his story partaking in a saga that spans multiple timelines and epic adventures; Magic and Machines! For the Best Experience; Read at 14 Size Font by setting it in the settings! Warning! I am not responsible if you get addicted!! > UPDATES EVERY DAY (except mondays) +8:00 GMT

In the aftermath of a viral apocalypse, Earth survives on unstable tech—virus-powered batteries and synthetic beings modeled after elves, vampires, werewolves, and dwarves. Created by a reclusive genius, these mythic machines have become part of daily life. But when a company employee vanishes, two elite prototypes—Elira and Fenrir—are sent to find him. What begins as a simple recovery spirals into a journey through ruined cities, rogue AIs, and buried truths. As shadows stir behind the code, the line between myth and machine begins to blur.

Dirt-poor in the real world, Kassidy dies in the dumbest way possible-crushed by a vending machine during a snack run. Instead of peace, she wakes up in a chaotic, game-like fantasy world... as a Mage with zero useful spells but one overpowered perk: infinite gold. No combat skills, no prophecy, no world-saving pressure-just her, a bottomless coin purse, and a personal quest to indulge in every ridiculous luxury this world has to offer. Why be a hero when you can be a very rich nobody? Updates: Weekly

[Warning +++18 Content. Only read if you are an adult.] One day, Kuro became the owner of the Cursed Vending Machine. Cursed Vending Machine offered a wide variety of erotic items, but its contents changed every single day. And Kuro could only purchase three erotic items each day. From that moment on, his life began to take an unexpected turn.

Veltharion is a city choking on its own corruption—a gilded cage where magic dictates life and death. The Arcanum Lords rewrite laws with blood-inked quills, the Church preaches blind devotion to the all-consuming **Machine**, and those without power, the "Nulls," are erased like scribbled mistakes. Yet **Charles II**, the infamous *Mysterious Lord*, walks untouched through the rot. A wealthy Null aristocrat with a mind like shattered glass, he solves occult crimes that terrify even mages. His past is a void: no records of his birth, no memories of his parents, only whispers of a shadow that moves when he stands still. When the **still-beating heart of a dead sorcerer** materializes in a rain-slicked alley—oozing ink instead of blood, whispering *"The Machine remembers you"*—Charles is thrust into a labyrinth of horrors. Hollow-eyed assassins stalk his steps, children scream prophecies in forgotten tongues, and his own reflection ages backward in broken mirrors. With only two fractured allies—**Zara, a warrior whose scars bleed forgotten battles**, and **Rahul, a thief haunted by memories that aren’t his**—Charles races to unravel a conspiracy rewriting reality itself. The deeper he digs, the clearer the nightmare becomes: his erased past holds the key to a war that unmade kingdoms. And if he uncovers it, **the truth will bleed**.

Is a continuation of the novel "Nano Machine." This sequel maintains a strong connection to its predecessor, and it is recommended to read "Nano Machine" first to fully appreciate the context and character development in "Descent of the Demon God." The story follows Chun Yeowun, an overpowered protagonist who time-travels a thousand years into the future, to the year 2069. Here, he aims to return to his original timeline by reforming his cult and navigating through various political and secret organizations. The novel's setting is a blend of martial arts, fantasy, and sci-fi, featuring time travel, monsters, and portals.

Gregg Launderson is on a mission. All he wanted was to clean his clothes and go to work but now he's caught in the middle of an intergalactic war. Meanwhile the galaxy's rarest resource - a mysterious substance known only as DE'TRRRG'ENT - is in short supply. Will Gregg be able to end the washing wars in time to reach his date, or will the earth have to face a threat beyond any humanity could ever have conceived.

The protagonist doesn’t get reincarnated as a hero. Not a villain. Not a slime, sword, or vending machine. They become the entire world that other characters get isekai’d into.

In the cause of the war rift caused by immaculate machines called the metacorps,they were funked in the universe and some ended in Earth. Legend.D.Clinton was fortunate to come in contact with a metacorp through disobedience and curiosity. Transported into the martial world and thrives with the metal corp Dive into this fun filled story and enjoy

Getting sucked into the time machine, assistant Hora ends up in the body of an eevee. wormholes start to open around the world, Pokemon start getting lost in them. She has to enter these wormholes to rescue lost Pokemon and find a way home! notes: eevee was chosen by random using a random number generator. it picked umbreon so the mc is an eevee. Hora comes from ahora which is now in Spanish. like sada and turo is based on past and future in Spanish.

For a brilliant but lonely game developer, death was not a "Game Over" but the beginning of a new and brutal "New Game+". He wakes up not in heaven but in a dark cave, trapped in the body of a colossal metal-armored dragon, a war machine with a processor for a heart.