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Tom Hardy

The Retired Hero is an Extra

[2024 JUNE WPC WINNER] Orphaned at ten and betrayed by his guardian at nineteen, the protagonist's life spirals into darkness, yet some light remains, only to be cruelly extinguished when his girlfriend sacrifices herself during a brutal demon attack. As a result, he is bestowed with a mysterious system that imbues him with the strength, making him dedicate himself to eradicating demons. Upon defeating the Demon King, he is granted a reward and chooses to reincarnate into a novel-like world with sealed memories until age thirteen. Reborn as the second son of a Duke, he yearns a peaceful life and respite from his tumultuous past. However, fate has different plans. In a world full of political games and supernatural dangers, he finds himself caught in conflicts involving a transmigrator villain and a regressor protagonist. Amid noble family ties, surprising friendships, and veiled threats, he must find his way through this new life, all the while dealing with lingering scars and the chaos that threatens to engulf him and those around him. Can he truly find solace in a world determined to pull him back into the fight? Will he succeed in forging a relaxed and slow life amidst the relentless anomalies at every step? Read to find out!! ====== Well, I am writing this novel to try a new style and get a temporary break from my first novel, which has become stagnant. As always, you can just ask any questions regarding the book, and I'll answer them without spoilers, of course.(⁠◠⁠‿⁠◕⁠) Reader's discretion: This novel is slow-paced, as all masterpieces need time to become a masterpiece, so don't dive in, hoping for it to be another fast-paced action-packed novel. It's a slice of life... for the most part. [All character arts were made using AI by a friend and author, lazy_pen_master] Formerly known as "Extra's Slice of Life" ////////////////////////////////////////////////// I have entered this novel for the June WPC contest, so if you like reading this novel, do give it some power stones, golden tickets, and gifts. Thanks for reading and for your support!! Extra Chapter Goals: 120 GT = 1 Extra Chapter Castle = 3-6 Extra Chapters Above castle... too dreamy... so 10 Extra Chapters?! Join my Discord for more character arts and some fun:  https://discord.com/invite/Qb86VeyvzP (You need to copy and paste the link to your browser.)
Hardy1j · 1M Views

Una Noche Salvaje

Lucinda Perry, una solitaria adicta al trabajo, se promete a sí misma desmadrarse en su vigésimo quinto cumpleaños e incluso tener una aventura de una noche si obtiene la tan merecida promoción en su trabajo. A pocos días de su vigésimo quinto cumpleaños, es ascendida no solo a una posición más alta, sino también a la oficina central en otra ciudad. Al tener que pasar su noche de cumpleaños en una nueva ciudad, va al club donde se encuentra con un atractivo desconocido, Tomás Hank, quien se ofrece a ser su aventura de una noche después de ver su lista de atrevidas metas, que incluía tener una aventura de una noche. Tomás Hank, después de haber sido utilizado por varias mujeres en el pasado, está decidido a conseguir a la mujer de sus sueños que lo amaría por sí mismo y no por su dinero. Así que cuando conoce a la adorable e ingenua Lucinda Perry en el club, decide ocultarle su verdadera identidad y averiguar si valía la pena mantenerla. ***Extracto*** ¿Qué puede ser más entretenido que un personaje secundario loco? Saluden a Sonia y Bryan. El corazón de Sonia dejó de latir por un segundo, y luego diferentes pensamientos comenzaron a volar por su cabeza al mismo tiempo. ¿Bryan Hank? ¿Su amor platónico estaba de rodillas frente a ella y le pedía que fuera su esposa? ¿La estaba confundiendo con otra persona? ¿Era posible que esto fuera una broma, o tal vez se trataba de una de esas bromas de celebridades y había cámaras alrededor esperando capturarla haciendo el tonto? ¿O tal vez estaba soñando? Sonia se preguntó mientras miraba a su alrededor, pero lo único que vio fueron curiosos mirones. —¡Por favor! Sé mi esposa y hazme el hombre más feliz del mundo —dijo en un tono de voz muy fuerte que atrajo la atención de todos. Su editor, al que había estado esperando durante más de una hora porque estaba tratando de cerrar un acuerdo con un productor de cine interesado en una de sus historias, apareció en ese momento. —Sonia, ¿conoces a Bryan Hank? —preguntó su editor realmente sorprendido al ver la escena ante él. Parecía que había pasado una hora desde que Bryan se arrodilló, pero sólo había pasado un minuto. Bryan sabía que ninguna mujer estaría lo suficientemente loca como para aceptar una propuesta de matrimonio tan descabellada, y aunque hubiera alguna que lo estuviera, pagarle y cancelar todo sería fácil ya que lo único que él quería era el escándalo que podría resultar de esto. Los titulares iban a ser sobre su propuesta de matrimonio rechazada o sobre su supuesto compromiso, lo cual sería suficiente para quitar a Sophia del medio. —¡Sí! —dijo Sonia mientras movía la cabeza emocionada y extendía su dedo para que él le pusiera el anillo. —¿Sí? —preguntó Bryan confuso al escuchar su respuesta. —¡Sí! Seré tu esposa y te convertiré en el hombre más feliz del mundo! —dijo Sonia con una risita y movió los dedos hasta que Bryan deslizó el anillo en su dedo. Sorprendentemente, el anillo era de su tamaño exacto y se ajustaba a su dedo como si hubiera sido hecho sólo para ella. Aplausos estallaron a su alrededor cuando Sonia se levantó con una gran sonrisa en su rostro y abrazó a Bryan antes de besarlo directamente en los labios. Bryan estaba un poco desconcertado por su atrevimiento, pero rápidamente se recuperó ya que él era el que había comenzado el juego y debía seguir la corriente. Después de todo, él había sido quien se había acercado a ella en primer lugar. Así que cuando ella intentó romper el beso, él sostuvo su barbilla y mordisqueó lentamente su labio inferior antes de separar sus labios con la lengua y chuparla de manera sugerente, provocando un gemido de Sonia. Sonia se sentía mareada. Esto era demasiado bueno para ser verdad. Tenía que ser un sueño. ¿De qué otra manera podría explicar que un momento antes estaba sentada en el vestíbulo de un hotel esperando a su editor y al siguiente estar comprometida con su amor platónico y besándolo en público?
Miss_Behaviour · 929.7K Views

Time Gap Queen and the Alpha Apex Predators

Completed but under editing. Continues in: Reign of the Time Gap Queen The plot thickens as you read. MATURE CONTENT! Free Reading. Give it a fair read before disregarding it or you'll miss out on a lot, or at least read the second novel and come back after editing is completed. No love-triangle. Vol 0: 1-15 "What else did you find?" "Well, I found our first female pregnant corpse but..." I paused not sure if I wanna share this with him or not. "But?" Orlando repeated. "I don't know something is odd about how she died. Her neck wasn't broken but it appears to be crushed. On the side of her neck, I saw two round holes resembling to look like fangs or some sorta sharp pointed teeth." I finally just told him. He first looked at me weirdly before bursting out into laughter. "Fangs like a vampire?" He teased and I should've seen this coming. I burst into a hard enough uproar to pee myself. "You are so mean!" I chuckled. "Alright, I'll be nice to my vampire nerd," he said winking at me. "You haven't found anybody else that lived in the city?" He asked just wondering. "Oddly enough, we haven't," I shared. Yet Orlando does it again. "Yup, that definitely sounds like a vampire to me!" 24-year-old Victoria Perkins is a trainee archeologist and paleontologist. On her way to earning her first degree with the best outscoring records in her class. Victoria was given a lifetime opportunity to excavate in Egypt. Many team members were chosen and hired by Mr. Collin who is funding the excavation to find a Pharaoh. During the excavation, her psychic gift to mentally travel between past and present was triggered. By using her time-gap gift she found the clues the Pharaoh had left behind for his love to find him. Which made her team leader and boss named Tom envious that she keeps finding these artifacts. Following each clue, Victoria found the Pharaoh but was fired by Tom the next day. So her team carried on without her to study this mummified Pharaoh. Something about his remains didn't seem natural. Before any questions could be answered the whole team was Murdered. All but Victoria. She was blamed for the crime and arrested. Without trial, she was found guilty and left to rot in her cell awaiting execution. ~ Vol 1:16-377 Kai strides up and embraced his hands around my waist. "Humm," Kai hummed so poetically that I found myself captured by how sexy he is. He leaned forward into my ear whispering seductively. "Or maybe it's because deep down inside. You like me more than you are willing to admit." His words breathed into my ear like an easy-flowing breeze. I found myself melting in goo for this man who kidnapped me. ~ One of the most powerful multi-billionaire Empire CEOs of the world was the Collin Royal family business. Kai Collin came to Egypt and bailed her out and paid for her Freedom. Well, her Freedom from jail but not from him. Victoria learned the hard way she was now the property of Kai Collin. But who was this mysterious Kai Collin? Everybody knew the Collin family but Kai Collin's name had submerged from out of nowhere. Yet that wasn't half of the mystery. Victoria was trapped by this mysterious attractive man who acted strange; Kai didn't know how to drive or what a cell phone was. Even though her heart belongs to her fiance, Orlando Mill the son of an equally powerful Empire CEO family too. But this doesn't stop Kai from becoming possessive of her enough that he steals her away from Orlando. Between her lover, kidnapper, and much worse that lurks within the shadows; How much heartbreak and loss can Victoria face? Who is the real villain creeping into Victoria's life only to kill everyone she's dearest to? Vol 0: Is about the excavation in Egypt and Victoria's relationship with Orlando. Vol 1: Kai joins the story. Murder will happen. There will be some hot steamy love scenes. Things will get dark, sensitive, emotional, creepy, and a bit bloody for some viewers.
Sara_Weber_9938 · 293.3K Views

History Academy Arco 5: sufrimiento y redención.

Tras una batalla épica entre Xal'Azar y Víctor, el universo quedó al borde de la destrucción. Cada golpe de su enfrentamiento resonaba en todo el cosmos, dejando un rastro de caos y muerte. Ni un solo ser había sobrevivido a la furia de Xal'Azar. Fue entonces cuando Jehová, conocido como Dios, intervino. Al ver la devastación y el vacío dejado por el enfrentamiento, tomó una decisión crucial: junto con Víctor, desataron un golpe con tal magnitud que desencadenaron un nuevo Big Bang, pero este no creó una nueva realidad, sino que revirtió el tiempo, restaurando todo lo que había sido destruido. El poder de Dios y Víctor permitió que muchos seres vivos volvieran a la vida, aunque algunos no pudieron ser restaurados. A estos les dejaron un homenaje eterno, su memoria reflejada en las estrellas del firmamento. Este acto no solo restauró el universo de Víctor, sino que reveló la verdadera naturaleza del Omniverso, una creación infinita y compleja que va más allá de cualquier multiverso o archiverso conocido. Jehová explicó que el Omniverso, que él y Víctor habían ayudado a restaurar, contenía todas las matemáticas, la física, las filosofías y los conceptos que sustentan la realidad. Los seres más poderosos, como Jehová, Víctor, Daiki y otros, podían atravesar los límites del Omniverso, y así como Xal'Azar había roto todas las leyes para llegar al universo de Víctor, otros seres podían cruzar esos mismos umbrales. Aunque creían que Xal'Azar había sido destruido, su desaparición dejó una inquietante duda. Mientras tanto, Dios se mantuvo vigilante, observando desde los cielos. Por ahora, el universo disfrutaba de paz y tranquilidad, con un sentido de normalidad sin la amenaza constante de villanos, aunque el misterio de los poderes más allá del Omniverso seguía latente. Esta historia es un relato de sufrimiento, destrucción y la redención de un cosmos que casi lo perdió todo.
Victor_Jose_Perez · 4.1K Views

Elizabeth Doyle y el misterio de los inhumanos

Desde hace más de 100 años se conoce la existencia de “Monstruos” al rededor del mundo. Pese a suponer un problema, las personas aprendieron a vivir con ello y adaptarse con el paso del tiempo. Sin embargo, tras un misterioso atentado a nivel global se esparció un virus que dotaba de genes inhumanos a sus portadores, volviéndolos agresivos y regresando a sus instintos más primitivos. Con el tiempo se descubrió que dichos genes eran derivados de aquellos “monstruos” que habitaban el planeta. Ya han pasado 20 años desde aquel incidente y la humanidad tomó medidas contra aquellos denominados “inhumanos”, capturándolos o en el peor de los casos erradicándolos. Pese a suponer que todo está bajo control, en una de las ciudades del sur, un grupo de inhumanos logró escapar de una de las bases de confinamiento. Al poco tiempo apareció un inhumano apodado “Whisper”, que fue visto en varias ocasiones luchando contra otros inhumanos fuera de control. Este vigilante llamó la atención de una joven estudiante llamada Elizabeth, una autoproclamada detective aficionada al estudio de inhumanos. Tras descubrir la identidad de Whisper, deciden unirse para juntos resolver el misterio que aborda a la primera aparición de los inhumanos hace 20 años, convencida que este suceso tiene relación con la desaparición repentina de su padre hace 8 años, sin saber que al adentrarse en aquel misterio acabarían envueltos en algo mucho más grande y peligroso.
Aliskandar · 1.2K Views

One Skill To Dominate The World : Spazanova

Tom Levy is at a point in his life where he urgently needs to level up and climb out from the bottom ranks of the hunter society. After spending years as a low-ranked hunter, he decides to take a risk and pursue greater power by stealing a thousand-year-old medallion from the Ancient Dragon Spirit Pavilion in Shang City. The heist does not go as planned; during the attempt, he is ambushed by members of his own guild, Iron Gradient, who aim to seize the treasure for themselves. In a desperate, last-ditch effort to save himself, Tom activates the medallion, despite having no idea what its effects might be. In the blink of an eye, he finds himself transported to another world, where he meets an enigmatic old man called Long Beard Ancestor, a self-proclaimed Dao seeker. The Ancestor grants him an unparalleled ability called Spazanova, telling him they will meet again before disappearing. Tom is then returned to his own world, now armed with this mysterious power. Back in the present, Tom activates Spazanova and easily overwhelms his opponents with minimal effort. However, he quickly realizes that he still doesn't fully understand the nature of the skill, as its effects seem to change. His life can no longer return to normal, as hunters from all over the world begin to pursue him for possession of the medallion. Yet, Tom isn’t discouraged. Conflict only fuels his ambition, and he sees this as his chance to rise. Though he may lack the multiple SSS-ranked abilities of elite hunters, he is determined to conquer all with this one skill: Spazanova.
Ozen_Ice · 2.1K Views

Reborn as a galactic superstar

"Reborn as a galactic superstar" is a tale brimming with adventure and drama, chronicling the journey of protagonist Zheng Xize, who, after an unexpected accident, transcends time and is reborn in a distant future. In this technologically advanced era, where humanity has spread across the galaxy, Zheng Xize assumes a new identity—Xize, a third-year student in the prestigious performing arts department of Soluo Academy, and a rare, pure Eastern-featured Asian. Xize not only possesses enviable looks but also has the potential to rapidly rise in the entertainment industry. However, his path to stardom is far from smooth, fraught with challenges and conspiracies. During an audition, Xize unexpectedly showcases extraordinary acting skills, capturing the attention of renowned director Tom and seasoned talent agent Jane Anning. Jane, with her keen eye and extensive experience, becomes Xize's agent, guiding him steadily through the treacherous waters of the entertainment world. As Xize dazzles in the show "Player" and in Tom's film, he quickly becomes the focus of media and fan adoration. His collaboration with superstar Arnold propels his popularity to new heights. Yet, this meteoric rise also attracts envy and defamation, including slanderous reports from the "Independent Voice" media outlet. In the face of these challenges, Xize relentlessly proves his worth through his talent and hard work. Throughout the story, Xize's collaboration with Zhou Yang in the web drama "Kelin" and his cliff-fall scene in the movie showcase his professional dedication and artistic passion as an actor. The relationship between Xize and Arnold sparks endless speculation and discussion among fans, their interactions crackling with chemistry and leaving readers intrigued by their complex dynamic. "Reborn as a galactic superstar" captivates with its rich plot, multidimensional characters, and fast-paced storyline, transporting readers to a future world full of unknowns and possibilities. It is a story of dreams, growth, and self-transcendence, imbued with a powerful and inspiring message.
lucky_white_8413 · 9.5K Views

The Villain Returns!

A boy loved reading and hearing fables of 'Heroes' to the point of idealizing them meets the harsh reality of the unfair world. The same boy was bestowed the title of 'Villain' for taking vengeance for his loved ones and protecting those others deemed beyond saving... Out of his ventures, he got blessed by the Heavens with a second chance at life, but not without its cost... In his second life, he faced the moral dilemma of whether to defy fate and become a hero, fall deeper into the abyss and become a true villain, or just ignore everything and isolate himself from the world. This is the story of a boy who was born in a cultivation world where might is right, strength reigns supreme, and he was deigned weak. Yet the world had no place for the weak, be it his family, his fellow cultivators, commoners, powerful elites... Against all odds, the boy reigned supreme, only to fall at the ploy of fate... He returns to the past, with the item he was being hunted for in the first place. Now, what shall his destiny be? This story is anything but a cliché, where a kid fights the world's strongest and saves the world from doom. No, he might as well be the one bringing the world to its doom. ====== Reader disclaimer: Please read the *Important: Read Before the Novel* in the Auxiliary Volume. Warning: Read at your own risk!! R18: gore, violence, deaths, tortures, indirect or direct references to explicit scenes. The MC is a villain, not some anti-hero or anti-villain, so it might be a bit brutal for some of the readers. ====== Well, I know what I have in mind for this novel. So, I am hoping I can continue the novel to its end, and you can just ask any questions regarding the book, and I'll answer them. I am a newbie author, so do tell me about any errors, and please bear with me! Thanks!! 1000~1300 words per chapter with 2 chapters daily minimum ~100,000 Words Free!!!! [All character arts and covers were made using AI] ////////////////////////////////////////////////// I have entered this novel for the WSA 2024 contest, so if you like reading this novel, do give it some power stones, golden tickets, and gifts. Thanks for reading and your support!! Join my Discord if you like: https://discord.com/invite/Qb86VeyvzP (You need to copy and paste the link to your browser.)
Hardy1j · 580.2K Views

Biology of Monsters

' Regarding monsters, the first thing to consider is their tenacity, second is their cunning, and third should be their cruelty. ' What defines monsters? Nothing in particular, the definition is blurred by both apathy and empathy for those beasts... anything sentient that means harm is a monster, that is what researcher Dr. Umbra has decided. Dr. Umbra has decided one other thing, ethics will no longer be considered. _________ Set in a world purged of humans... Violent Monsters, Demons, and Ferocious Beasts have take over. The strong rule, and the weak die. That is just how it is on this new world, but with every disaster comes survivors. Evolution was not about to abandon Humanity. The stragglers of civilization drastically changed and developed to survive. Some Humans who bunkered down in giant halls of stone and iron became smaller and more hardy to survive the cramped environment and limited diet. Some Humans hide amongst the trees, their reflexes and perception vastly improved to suit the hostile environment. Some Humans became monsters themselves, after all if you can't beat them, join them. Though, there remains one. Either through some form of Immortality Drug, Complex Bio-Machinery, or maybe even Magic, there remains one Human. Hidden away under some corner of the Earth lies Umbra's laboratory, a bunker made of alloy strong enough to resist extinction. Alone, he continued his studies on and on... until finally, he deemed the world safe enough to leave once more. Maybe now he will have some live samples of these so called ' Monsters '.
BreathingMoon · 9.8K Views
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