Alternate Universe

Axel died after stepping on a banana peel and hitting his head. Fortunately, he was given a second chance and reincarnated into a world where magic and swords existed. However, to his surprise, his summoner was nothing but a SWORD ... well, a sword-form evil goddess who was the enemy of the entire world! What choice would Axel make next? [Meganovel Winning Contest] [Monthly Boosting Contest] [1st Winner - 'Ground of Horror']

In the state of Nebraska, the city of Strawberry has one of the oldest Irish families in the nation. The Flanagan family dominates all the dark businesses in the city. However, on the surface, they are a respectable family which has a large amount of business. The current head of the family, Brian Flanagan is ready to retire, so he plans to leave the family business to his son Killian Flanagan who has ambitions to spread his family name across the country. But before he must consolidate his strength in the state, for this he will have to marry the daughter of the current governor in order to have a solid base to help with his future plans. The only problem is that the governor’s daughter hates him because she thinks that he is to blame for the death of one of his close friends, so he will have to find a way to fulfill his goals before his father gave him the power. However, on a rescue mission, things go wrong, so he suffers an accident, but it is because of that he gains the power to travel between parallel universes, so he decides to use his new abilities to get the power he so desires.

Introvert!? Me!? The hell am I an introvert? I stay indoors all day because I am afraid of getting my butt kicked. Until I contract my beast, I won’t be walking freely. This is a promise I made to myself. My name is Ryder, and I am black-marked. The planet where I live is dominated by summoners. If you guessed it, then you are right—we contract beasts from the Astral Shadow Plain and summon them at will after successfully forming a contract. A mark appears on the left shoulder of every human after a period of maturity, a mark given by the beast that chooses you. There are five different types of marks—the brown, the orange, the red, the black, and lastly, the white. Of all the markings, I was marked black. I was chosen by a supreme demon monarch of the Astral Shadow Plain—the Dracogon. There was only a 0.5 percent chance for me to survive the contraction process. However, with a slight twist in the original outcome, contracting a creature from the black-marked plain was nothing compared to the catastrophe I caused shortly after—I opened a link between the beasts of the Astral Shadow Plain and the planet of humans, Terra. Everyone on my planet has been endangered because of me. The fact that no one knows when the link will trigger and cause a breach that pours mindless creatures into my world makes it all the more unsettling. Now, with no other choice, I have to find a way to resolve the mistake I made—alone, just like I caused it.

When his daughter Aurora drowned seven months ago, Mateo Cross felt he lost her. Now his other daughter Ivy claims that something visits her bedroom precisely at 3:33 AM. The same thing that took her sister. Mateo finds a spiral inscribed on the wall behind Ivy's bedroom and hears of Ashwick Hollow, a haunted village that offers one child as A sacrifice every seven years, he realizes Aurora did not drown by accident. She was taken. And Ivy now comes next. Mateo has to enter the Veil, a nightmare world where 48 kidnapped souls are imprisoned and an ages-old monster, in order to rescue his daughter. The starving mother longs one more. The truth is, though, the further he descends seven layers of psychological purgatory: the only means to spare them all is to give up something much worse than his life. What would you do to save your child? Would you pay it if the cost was erasing yourself from their memory forever?

"At Nexus Academy, power is determined by how far one can integrate with the System Core. Roewi Verdent? He had nothing. The System always rejected him, making him the laughingstock of the elite students. But when the academy's network collapsed, Roewi's screen lit up for the first time. A foreign voice echoed in his mind. [Vextor Protocol detected.] [Welcome, Host.] A forbidden system had chosen him. And that night, the failed student transformed into an anomaly that would shake the world."

One day, Apocalypse came to pass. It started with a fog that engulfed the world. Thick and heavy in the atmosphere, nearly unbreathable to humans and able to corrupt a soul. It killed livestock, pulled buildings to the ground and deadened the soil. After a month, shields were erected over major cities to keep it out, but by then humanity could no longer see the sun. Next, they disappeared - the citizens in shieldless towns and the towns themselves - completely consumed by the fog. And in their place came monsters, beasts that craved human flesh and blood and knew nothing but destruction. In a matter of days, only half of humanity remained. . . but they didn't plan on going down without a fight.

As a genetic loser, Kale Roman appeared to be knocked off course in the space battle, but no one anticipated that he would be able to overcome all foes and arrive at the finish line unexpectedly. Yeah, he is referred to as the hibernating beast, and the beast never be afraid of express their powerful to their enemies.

After being punished by the elder gods for getting involved with human affairs, demi-god Kamizoel lived some years as a human and then killed himself and his bullies by falling over a cliff, He got reborn into the body of the prince of Ansalon, Prince Anakin. The prince without "Life". The weak prince. Anakin makes an oath to himself to protect his loved ones and never be trampled on again, so he learns an ancient technique to control magic and begins his training.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. After being released from their probation, the members of the infamously "notorious" group, Dead Men Smiling, attempt to regroup and get rid rid of Emperor Nero for good. No one said it'll be an easy task; especially since the group is currently split and everyone's first priority being to meet up as soon as possible. As time crawls on, discoveries are made and the skeletons that were once well hidden begin to fall out of the closet leaving a simple question: who can be trusted?

Who is Ravan the Great and what is he after? What events caused him to become the widely feared "Ravan the Great?" Born Crest 8, 375 to a slave under the Earl of Rivas, Ravan was quickly sold to work at a slaughterhouse where he would grow up slaughtering animals with numerous other boys. And that is only the beginning of the unfortunate history that is the life of Ravan of Rivas. Fraught with loss, strife, and revenge, the many years which formed the slave-boy into the powerful man we fear are brought to the surface in these pages. From the creator of the mysterious man in the silver cloak first introduced in "The Key: Book 2 of The Rose Tree Chronicles," comes a series of tragic tales chronicling the events of Ravan of Rivas. While his mysterious ways deepen as "The Rose Tree Chronicles" continues, this backstory uncovers the whys and hows behind his complicated actions.