no game no life

In the midst of his busy life as a hard worker stuck in a tiring routine, Adam, a 40 year old man, finds escape in the world of online gaming that he loves. For Adam, gaming is the only way to escape the stresses of the real world and find true joy. However, one day, after prolonged exhaustion and stress, Adam died. When he opened his eyes, he found himself no longer in the real world, but in his favorite game, "Realm of Arcadia". Not only that, but he also realized that he was trapped in the body of his own character that he had created in the game. Adam must learn to navigate his new life in this gaming world, facing challenges he previously only faced through a computer screen. On this journey, he meets various fantastic characters and creatures, and discovers that the game world is much more real than he ever imagined. Meanwhile, Adam also realizes that life in the game has consequences that are just as real as in the real world. He must choose between returning to his old life or going on an epic adventure in the game that might lead him to a deeper understanding of the true meaning of life and happiness. With challenges, adventures, and unexpected encounters, Adam embarks on a journey that changes him fundamentally, taking readers on a story that combines the magic of the fantasy world with the wisdom of the real world.

" I can't believe you would do this to me, after everything I have done for you," Frederick said with a sad face looking at Davina Davina was one of the hottest girls on campus and she had used Frederick for her self-gain. She made him do most of her assignments and also do her laundry. " Do you think I would love a guy like you? You are broke and can't afford me." Davina taunted as she looked at Frederick who looked at her as she cheated on him with Jonas. " Scram off! I don't want to waste my time having to deal with paupers like you." Jonas shouted at him Frederick was at his weakest point. He woke up the next day feeling rejected and took his phone. A mysterious app downloaded itself and automatically launched. Asking Frederick to input his name and play the game. " Woah! This is so cool." Frederick replied as he added his initials and played some games. After winning the first level, a message was shown on his device. " Will you cash out a sum of $450000 or do you want to keep playing? You are to spend all the money within a week if you want to keep playing." Frederick was lost, he decided to cash out the money and an alert of $450000 was credited to his bank accounts. Will Frederick use the gaming system to his advantage to defeat Jonas and get his girlfriend back? Read about how the system served as a life changer for Frederick as he tackled the most dangerous guy on the school campus.

Kageyama Kage, a boy who wants to die but stuck in the vicious loop of living. A living, walking contradiction. He has a past, a dark history that is not to be revealed at any cost. Hiding or at least trying to hide his demons, he enrolls at Asuka High School in Tokyo where no student knows of his disturbing past. There he meets various people his age carrying similar darkness within their teenage bodies. Just what will happen when he comes across them and will there ever come a day when his past will be revealed? WARNING! MATURE CONTENT! I DON'T OWN THE COVER ART.

Constantine was once the God of Mercenary, feared and revered by all who knew him, but an accident on the battlefield cost him his reputation and stripped him of his title. Now he is simply Constantine Easton, a low rank security guard and the estranged son of a billionaire father that didn't want him. He is a man who likes staying at the bottom and living his life without the struggles of being at the top, but what happens when the only way to protect all the beauties around him is climbing to the top? "You think you can take what is mine because you're stronger than me? You don't know who you're dealing with." If life throws a bullet his way, he'll pick it up and shoot the hell out of whoever dares get on his nerves. If he had touched the sky before, then he'll go past the stars now. "Only I will be king."

Discovering that he is the last man… … he realized his life might not be so bad. But what’s the point if he’s trapped on that godforsaken planet? After a long bad day ending in the most unexpected way, a young man wakes up in an unknown location with most of his memories missing. Saved from dying as a pickled corpse by a strange alien he's then told that "Humans are a unisex species." and that he looks nothing like them. Apparently the human male population went extinct while he was asleep, leaving only females behind. Not only that but it seems he's stranded on an uninhabited planet with an alien as his sole companion. A new life. The burdens he has to shoulder couldn't outweigh his happiness at the chance to restart. But the more he learns about the universe around him the more he realizes. It's not always rainbows and sunshine.

“What is right and what is wrong in a world where survival is all that matters?” Stuck in an unusual game of survival, Mikaila has these words keep repeating in her mind. Out of necessity, Mikaila was forced to participate in a massively multiplayer role-playing game that features a very unique gameplay; players have to use their real physical bodies to enter the fantasy world. Due to the harrowing nature of the game, Mikaila’s morals are continuously challenged as she progresses in this brutal world. Can she hold on to her principles? Or will the infectious cruelty of this world tarnish her soul? Note: This is the second book of the story Utopian Fantasy: "A Fair Game". It's better to read the preceding story first to better understand the context of some events. You can read the first book on the same platform. Art Cover by @kuma_chan28 Contact him for commissions: kumac215@gmail.com

Would you believe it if your best friend told you that he has been living in the world for four hundred years? What is the reason for this - a wonderful gift, which he acquired at a terrible price and continues to pay for it to this day? That he was familiar with Catherine de Medici, Stefan Batory, Nostradamus? That's what I didn't believe at first. But he told me such details that I could not help thinking: what if this is true?

In the quiet town of Crestwood, nestled deep within the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, a chilling legend had haunted the residents for generations. It was a tale that sent shivers down spines, a story spoken in hushed tones around flickering bonfires on the night of the autumn equinox—a night when the boundary between the known and the unknown blurred, and the very air seemed charged with an eerie energy. The legend spoke of the "Footprint," an enigmatic and unsettling phenomenon that occurred like clockwork, as reliable as the seasons themselves. Every year, on that fateful night, the Footprint would reappear, etching itself into the rocky soil near the edge of town. It was a single, enormous footprint, larger than any man's, with distinct arches and toes that appeared impossibly human. And yet, it was a relic from the past—a past filled with mystery, uncertainty, and dread. What secrets did the otherworldly glow and the reemergence of the Footprint hold?

Valhallah, the game that is expected to revolutionize the world with its full-dive experience which basically takes players into a new world is set to launch their beta test. A talented professional gamer, Wesley Kingston is one of the few people who had the opportunity to join the beta test program. However, an incident that can only be expressed as nothing less than a miracle threw Wesley into the world of Valhallah. He soon finds that Valhallah was very much real. This raises the stakes of his predicament. The world was brimming with many dangers lurking in every corner. Trapped in a world where gaming is no longer a pastime but a fight for survival, Wesley must use his past gaming experience in this new world if he hopes to survive and reach the very end.

What is the role of those third-rate villains in games or novels? I asked this question to myself quite a number of times. They don't have major screen time, but some of them have a huge effect on the storyline. And, if one of them hadn't played their role correctly, what would happen to the storyline? It seems like I am going to answer those questions since I became the third-rate villain in an RPG game. ------------------------------0----------------------------------- Chapter length 1000-2000 words.