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Demon System: Sin of Pride

In a world ruled by strength, I was branded a sinner by the very world I gave everything to protect. My sin? Pride. The gods I worshipped beyond my own life. The comrades I called family. The woman I loved. The commoners I bled to save. All of them turned their backs on me once my use was exhausted. As death closed in, I questioned the heavens with everything I had left. "What did I do wrong? What sin justified this fate?" No one answered... except for a demon. The very being I had fought my entire life extended his hand—not in pity, but with an offer. Unlike the gods, he did not demand that I kneel. Unlike my comrades, he expected nothing in return. Unlike the commoners, he did not wish to see me grovel. “Accept your pride,” he said. And with those words, he offered me a system—one that would allow me to abandon humanity and become a demon. [Once accepted, you will reincarnate into a different world.] Burning with rage toward a selfish world, I accepted without hesitation. Even if the worlds change… I will return. And when I do, I will make the heavens beg for death. *** Additional Tags: [Mature Content] [R-18] [Dark Fantasy] [Action] [Adventure] [Tragedy] [Mystery] [Revenge] [Divine Betrayal] [Demons] [Gods] [Cultivation] [Demonic Path] [Reincarnation] [Anti-Hero] [Villain Protagonist] [Ruthless MC] [Prideful MC] [No Mercy] [Morally Grey MC] [Overpowered] [Power Progression] [System] [Psychological Trauma] [Loss of Humanity] [Hatred-Fueled Growth] [Overpowered MC]
WanderingShadow1 · 1.4k Views

He Became A Monstrous Genius After Obtaining A Time Dilation Artifact

Kailen Darkhaven had a simple, happy life growing up. But when a sudden misfortune claimed the lives of his parents two years ago, his entire world collapsed. His heart broke, his grades plummeted, and worst of all, on his sixteenth birthday—his final chance at hope—he failed to become an Awakener. By his seventeenth birthday, hungry, exhausted, and alone, Kailen collapsed in an alleyway, regretting how pitiful his life had been. As he drifted toward what he believed was death’s embrace… something impossible happened. Instead of dying, he awakened bound to a mysterious artifact—an object of overwhelming, incomprehensible power that defied every known law of the universe. For the first time since losing everything, a spark lit within him. With this second opportunity, Kailen vows to never be weak again. In a world where strength determines identity, status, and survival, he will rise above every boundary placed upon him. He will shatter every perception of strength. He will seize control of his fate. He will climb until he stands at the absolute Pinnacle of the universe! --- Tags: #Psychological #Interstellar( with advanced technology) #Unrivaled #ExtremelyFastPaced #UndeadArmy #NoHarem #RuthlessMC #Urban #Apocalypse #Mythical creatures( elves, vampires, witches, dwarves etc) #IntelligentMC(High IQ, deductive , strategic, high functioning psychopath) Disclaimer: This is purely a work of fiction. Any resemblance to real names, places, or events is coincidental. This is an extremely fast-paced novel, and the protagonist becomes absurdly overpowered. He is not the usual “hero complex” type. The villain and antihero tags are not for show. If you are looking for a “goody-two-shoes” protagonist, this novel is not for you. Kailen is a morally grey character. Note for Readers (Please do not skip): Early on, Kailen awakens with a shadow affinity. Yes—it may remind you of popular works you've read… but this is only the beginning. As the story progresses, he will unlock and master multiple affinities, each adding a unique blend to his path. The shadow affinity is a nod to some of my favorite novels, but the journey, characters, and world are entirely my own. Join the Community: Care to interact with me and other readers? Help with things such as character art, fandom wiki, OSTs, and more? Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/d5yf4sgb3y
theartisan3 · 747.7k Views

The Quietest Knife

Willow wakes in a hospital bed injured, medicated, and alone. She is informed that her life, as she understood it, ended weeks earlier. Her fiancé is there. Calm. Controlled. He explains that they broke up before the accident and that the separation was mutual. He says he remained by her side only out of decency. He is already involved with someone else, his boss’s daughter, and speaks as though this version of events has always been established fact. No one in the room challenges him. The doctors attribute Willow’s disbelief to concussion and trauma. Nurses lower their voices and repeat the same explanation with careful reassurance until it becomes official, documented, and final. Each repetition strips away her certainty, replacing memory with doubt. When Willow looks to the one person who could contradict him, she finds no relief. Her fiancé’s closest friend, a man who has never hidden his dislike for her, says nothing. He offers a brief nod that confirms the narrative without words. With that single gesture, the past is closed. Every detail they present contradicts what Willow knows she lived. Weeks have been erased. Conversations have been rewritten. A relationship has been reassigned without her consent. If she resists, she will be labeled unstable, emotional, and unreliable. She will be the only one insisting that reality has been altered. So Willow stays silent. Within that silence, something colder begins to take shape. She begins to question why her fiancé needed the past rewritten at a moment when she cannot safely object. She begins to wonder why his closest friend chose this precise moment to agree. She begins to realize that decisions were made about her while she lay unconscious and defenseless. The Quietest Knife is a dark psychological romance centered on gaslighting, betrayal, and power disguised as care. It follows a slow, deliberate descent into manipulation, control, and revenge, where harm is inflicted quietly and authority wears the mask of concern. This is not a story about forgetting. It is a story about being rewritten calmly, professionally, and without resistance.
dr_ban99 · 109.2k Views

As A Mafia Boss, I Refuse To Be An Extra

In the year 2350, Earth changed forever. Portals tore open across the skies, unleashing monstrosities no human had ever faced. But with the monsters came awakening – humans gained power, ranks, and a status screen that defined their place in the new world. Two centuries later, power no longer belonged to politicians, but to the awakened. Damian Valcor, a bored 15-year-old, only cared about passing the entrance exam for an academy. But on the eve of the results, his life was overturned when he awakened the memories of his past life. A past life where he was not an ordinary man… But a ruthless mafia boss. To his shock, the world he now lived in was nearly identical to a novel he had once come across in his previous life. Although he remembered the world, he didn’t remember any of the characters of that novel. But he was sure of one thing. Damian Valcor was not one of the main characters. He was just a random Extra. With underworld cunning, ruthless ambition, and the knowledge of what lies in the future for this world, Damian must make sure to protect his loved ones, the loved ones he never had in his past life. He will make sure to snuff out the existence of any being who dared to endanger them. But for that… He needs to rise as the one pulling the strings. And to do that, he needed… Power. "Power isn’t granted, it’s taken – and I’ve had a lifetime of practice." ________________ PS:- Schedule:- 2 Chapter/Day for now. Make sure to add this novel to your collections and give reviews if you like it :)
Whispering_Sloth · 40.3k Views

Heaven's Withering Script

I don’t know when stories began to die. Not loudly. Not in flames. They didn’t collapse like kingdoms or scream like gods falling from the sky. They simply… slipped away. The kind of stories no one remembers. The ones that never made it into books. The lives that ended without witnesses. This novel begins there. Somewhere beyond the world, something that was never meant to feel begins to fail. It was created to remember everything—to watch over every story that could have existed. But even it cannot hold on to what is forgotten. And then, a boy is born. There is nothing special about him. No prophecy follows his footsteps. No power awakens in his blood. He just feels things too deeply, too sadness without reason, grief without memory, loneliness that doesn’t belong to this lifetime. He doesn’t know it yet, but forgotten stories are clinging to him. Every pain he carries belongs to someone who was erased. Every emotion he cannot explain is an echo of a life that never got to be remembered. Slowly, without choice, he becomes a place where lost narratives gather, a fragile shelter for things the world has abandoned. This is not a story about saving the world through strength. It is about carrying weight. As the line between existence and nothingness begins to blur, the boy must walk through memories that aren’t his, lives that never finished, and truths that were never meant to return. The more he remembers, the more he risks losing himself. Because remembering hurts. And yet, forgetting hurts more. At its heart, this is a story about why stories matter. About why even the smallest life deserves to be remembered. About how humanity, in all its weakness, might be the last thing standing when even systems and gods begin to fail. I wrote this for the stories that were never told. And for the people who feel like they were forgotten.
Harmonious_moose · 1.7k Views

When Time Loved Us Unequally

When love defies the laws of time itself, the universe trembles. Arin Valence is a chrono-engineer from Aethermoor, a realm where time moves at a blistering pace—50 years compressed into a mortal lifetime. Driven to find his lost father, he tears open a forbidden Rift and falls into Everdeep, a realm where time flows like honey, where immortals measure their lives in centuries. There, he meets Liora, a 312-year-old Keeper of Echoes who has learned to guard her heart against the pain of loss. But when their eyes meet, something ancient awakens: the Soulbound connection, a force so rare it's become legend. The problem? Time doesn't care about love. Every week Arin spends in Everdeep costs him a month in Aethermoor. His family mourns him as dead. His world moves on without him. And Liora, haunted by watching her first love age and die before her eyes, knows this can only end in heartbreak. But fate offers one impossible choice: the Convergence Ritual. A forbidden magic that could merge the realms and balance time itself. The cost? Their memories. Their identities. Their very souls. And if they fail, both realms collapse into oblivion, erasing millions from existence. Hunted by the Timekeepers—ancient entities who guard the fabric of reality—Arin and Liora must navigate a realm between moments, face trials that tear apart their deepest truths, and sacrifice everything they are for a chance at everything they could be. Because some loves are written in the stars. And some are written in the space between seconds. When Time Loved Us Unequally is a sweeping fantasy romance about sacrifice, destiny, and the moments that define us—perfect for fans of The Time Traveler's Wife meets Howl's Moving Castle.
Shanto_97 · 9.7k Views