You press the button.

Ding.

You've been dropped into a lovely bathroom. How nice.

You can just... go ahead and do whatever you like, I'm gonna run out for a latte.

Byeeee

Ertu enn með kristalinn?

Góður.

Ok, I'm baaaack! I went for a hazelnut latte today. Usually I stick with no flavor, but I felt like I needed a little bit extra sugar.

Anyways, have you had your fun with the bathroom? Yes?

Cool. Go ahead and push the button!

You press the button.

Ding.

The walls are now covered in bookshelves. And on those bookshelves?

This may come as a shock, but on the bookshelves are books. Wow.

There's also a very comfortable-looking chair, and a tray with a pot of tea and cookies on it. And a cup. Or maybe that's coffee in the pot. Or perhaps hot chocolate! Who knows! I'm sure it's whichever one you like best.

You pour yourself a cup of brownish liqui- yeah, that sounds bad. You pour yourself a cup of delicious smelling liquid and go to the wall.

Ok, let's look at those books, shall we?

To the Muse Bureau, Judy Windermere is not a person: she's the entrance exam that prospective muses must pass to attend its academy. And to working muse officers, she's not just a glorified dreamer: she's a natural disaster disguised as a sleeping girl. For when she sleeps, she's full of dreams and nightmares, unrequited feelings and envious thoughts, which spill into the waking world. But when she goes missing and reappears hours later during a week of exams, three dysfunctional muse officers must find out where she goes. And where Judy goes, like a natural disaster, havoc follows.

Promises are meant to be kept, but a promise to save a beloved sister leads a group of high school magical girls into a dream of many literary landscapes. Out of this dream of Carroll’s wonderlands and Poe’s nightmares comes a monster that threatens to invade the waking world. Their promise forms the opening act of a play they can’t stop, so to prevent this monster’s debut into their world, they must play their parts to the end at all hazards to their lives. If you love quirky magical girls, bloodthirsty femme fatales, fight scenes, love scenes, twisty plot lines, fantastic settings, the possibility of dreams, and the uncertainty of nightmares, this story is for you.

Mana Artists rule the world, and the path to power is a well-kept secret, restricted to state-approved programs and universities.

Akari Zeller will never be a Mana Artist. Not if society has its way. She's a Bronze with no money, no family, and no connections. But technology is advancing too. And to a skilled hacker like Akari, no secret is safe forever. The dark web holds the keys to true power, advancement, and her only chance of survival.

Aeons once ruled the world with a power called Ethermancy. They reigned for centuries until a human faction called the Templars overthrew them. Now, their empire lays in ruin, and the survivors hide in every corner of the world.

Nahlia is a librarian’s apprentice who’s obsessed with Aeon lore. Until now, she had only read of their powers. But when the Templars attack her family, Nahlia is forced to infiltrate a secret academy and rise beyond everything she’s ever known.

Everything has a beginning.

Dr. James Kurt is a young geneticist, tired of the daily slog and jumps at the chance to do something greater when InGen posts positions. Despite the vague wording and minimal information about the job, he isn't one to ignore a blatant opportunity. It's a decision that will ultimately lead to the modern day monster.

Even things most Murderous.

After being left on a doorstep by his birth mother, Joseph is adopted by a childless couple and raised as their own. In a world of magic, however, random babies who mysteriously appear are rarely human and he's no exception. Raised by his father who sought to teach him right from wrong, Joseph becomes a young man, ready to explore the world. However, after war breaks out and everything he's known vanishes in one fell swoop, he's left with nothing. Knowing only a bit of his heritage, Joseph sets out on his own..Not only to find his place in the world, but to discover more about who his birth parents might have been.

There were special people in this world, those worthy of being called heroes. People who, despite any difficulties encountered, were able to persevere and come back stronger. People who were convinced in what they believed and did not turn back. People who highly valued concepts like honor and loyalty and were never tempted by desire.

Jin was not that type of person.

Sheltered from the monsters and evil that lurked beyond the Hollow Forest on the order of his powerful father, Jin grew up as a naive and useless teenager. However on his 16th birthday— the time has come to set on a path to awaken his elemental magic and enhance his abilities further to become an honorable elemental warrior like his brother and his father before him.

Unfortunately, things did not turn out that way—Instead, a beautiful demon with crimson eyes offered Jin another path— an ancient pact that was so obscure and twisted that it had been forbidden centuries ago from being practiced. And so, for the first time, Jin was free to set on a journey of his own and carve out his mark in the world.

Golden prince, Surya, kind and brave, bright as the Sun. But a darkness lurked in his dreams, eroding his soul, his fate "unforeseen by the gods, a path converged by the paths of the past, present, and future."

Vidyut, hardened by the cruelties of life, embraced the dark art of Tantra, for which he was both rejected and coveted by the people of the five kingdoms.

Would their love endure the wrath of forces, both good and evil?

Princes, Spells, Gods, Spirits, Heaven, Mythical creatures, Wars, and Reincarnation, and so much more. It is based on Indian mythology, specifically Hindu mythology. But it is an original fantasy and focus is character arcs.

Family, love, a promising military career - Ragna Griffin's life was perfect. Well, it was, but when her kingdom brands her a terrorist, it all falls apart. Caught in the center of a conspiracy, she's forced to flee.

Thus, Ragna sets off on a journey to clear her name. Unfortunately, she'll soon realize the cruel and brutal reality of the real world. Each day, her mind and convictions drift closer to their limits.

In the end, will she persevere or break?

When twins are born their souls are braided together.

When tragedy strikes, when one is lost, their souls are split.

~

How can one convince people the other isn’t dead?

How can the other survive in a harsh world?

Alexander Moores, a young man with no future due to a horrible situation, finds himself at the center of an ancient prophecy about those who will bring ruin and chaos in a world not his own. A world where the one god had become shattered and left half mad fragments behind in it's stead. He has been cast as The Undying Hound of Sorrow. Unable to stay dead, the first herald of the dark age struggles against not only the world but destiny itself.

Death and Taxes.

The two insurpassable laws of the universe.

So long as humans exist in this world, these things will remain.

However, there is a 3rd law which has always, and will always implement itself on people.

Suffering.

Reincarnated in a new world, five people are forced to learn this the hard way.

Placed on 'Nightmare mode' and being reincarnated as monsters, they are forced to survive under incomprehensible conditions.

However it is only through suffering, that we grow as people.

And it is only through suffering, that we truly become monsters.

"Nightmare mode.... eh? Tell me, what exactly was this mode supposed to mean again? Were our lives supposed to become nightmares?"

Without suffering, there is no change in anything.

"Or were we supposed to become the nightmares?"

This is the story of the antiheroes.

This is the story of Chitra. A girl born blind, living her life in a world of darkness. This is a story of her and Finitum. The unique full-dive VRMMORPG that brought a new beginning to her life, brought her new meetings, partings, emotions, and adventure. A game that made light bloom in her dark world.

follow her journeys through the mysterious and magic-filled game that changed her life! The game…

The game...

Is Finitum really just a simple game?

The world is in ruins.

Extreme sub-zero temperatures suffocate the surface, making even simple survival an ordeal. Frozen derelicts of bygone eras span across massive ice wastes. And the elite few hoard any technology rediscovered within.

The only escape from the deadly climate is beneath the surface. But it’s another disaster underground. Monstrous machines lurk in the depths. Unhinged demigods war against them, dying over and over, treating it all like a game. The land itself shifts over time, more contraption than rock. And an ominous prophecy states that the key to everything waits at the last level - but nobody’s ever reached that far.

When an expedition into the far uncharted north goes terribly wrong for Keith Winterscar, he finds himself trapped - in a place from which nobody expects a simple surface scavenger to escape. Stumbling upon an ancient power struggle of titanic scale; Keith will have to contend against gods, legends, and the secrets of the realm that lies below.

Set in approximately the 29th century AD (or 3rd century UC) in a setting where humanity is united under an interstellar Federation past its zenith. The story follows a young Victoria Happ-Schwarzenberger through a first-person narrative as she follows in her father's footsteps and enlists in the Metropolitan Space Navy in events that will change her course forever.

Joining the narrative is Li Chou, known as the Madame Scarface. She serves as a lieutenant under a pirate republic ruled by her ruthless adoptive father nestled in the outer hinges of Federation authority. And Alexandra Descartes-Dolz, a colonial spacenoid with the aspirations of changing the decadent Federation's injustices. This saga tells of their intertwining destinies and the struggles they face along the way.

A mute who doesn't know sign language isn't common. A mute who also doesn't know of his origins is even more rare. Advay is a university student and meets the mute boy. He is then involved in a counter chase of protecting the boy and finding information about his identity from the villains. How do the two interact with eachother and deal with different situations and how will fate unfold for them, dive in to know.

The story of a little soul that ends up tangled in the games and bets of entities that utilize beasts of any primordial planet as a game avatar to make the Perfect Primal. This tale is not only its story because it will also share its destiny with the entity that will help it in its journey, and together they will rise from their particular situations one way or another.

When the crew's exogeologist finds himself trapped in a perfect stranger's body, Terra's first settlement beyond the solar system begins to wake up to the fact that they're far from alone in the universe.

Rish Patton and fellow settler, Faya Moore, weren't even expecting company - never mind the identity-scrambling, planet-hopping, time-warping adventures and mysteries they're dragged into when visitors start showing up.

Civilization ended for Seph a long time ago. She learned well how to survive after being driven deep into the forests to hide from her enemies, That should be enough!

Then what has her looking over her shoulder more and more often? Even her most comforting dreams are full of strangeness lately and she's soon convinced her days are numbered, that there's no escape.

But there are things Seph doesn't know about. Things like holes... And as for escape, she's really only had a taste.

Plagued by the power of a divine artifact, Chen failed his life-defining awakening. For many years after that, he lived as an outcast, a cursed soul among his own people. His terrible fate appeared to have changed for the better when he became a chosen of their patron goddess. But as the mortal affiliate of a deity, Chen was thrown into the chaotic, never-ending, battles of the immortals. And in this world, dead souls tell no tale.

Leaving a peaceful life in the village behind, Lianne and Amra, friends since childhood, have been travelling for months. They are heading up north, seeking a town hidden in haze. Lianne has lost a part of herself, the empty space within her now occupied by something dark. They have to find the town and redeem what Lianne is missing, before she is entirely lost to the Shadows.

After being arrested for treason by the Council for choosing to ignore their orders and try to rescue the inhabitants of a doomed planet, Aries and her crew (Space Corps Trainee crew 761) try to piece their lives back together before the Council makes good on their promise to destroy them.

When Darcy makes a deal to become a thief for a crooked pawnshop owner who has the power to save her sister, Sen, they are thrown into a world of magic, mystery and romance. Once the guards discover they can wield magic, they're uprooted from their home in Ring Nine and brought to the Magician Lodgings within the Palace compound. They must learn to control their powers and stay safe in their new and unfamiliar realm.

Sixty people have awoken at the bottom of a one hundred floor dungeon. Together they must confront the terror of monsters and seek the answers to why they are here.

Every person is unique and each carries different skills and talents that others lack. These skills and talents add their flavours into the lives of others to make it something truly remarkable.

Embark on a journey with a bunch of adventures, who will try their best to make sure everyone has a story worth retelling.

When a body appears at a celebration held in their honour, the Jellybeans are forced into a murder investigation. As the political tension rises and a need for immediate answers looms ever closer, the odds of them getting a noose around their necks tighten by the second.

Much time has passed since the great war between The Coalition of Demons and their enemy The Alliance of Light. History is bound to repeat its self because war, war never changes. The Coalition of Demons faction , the Vampires of Algia have sent spies to their neighbors the Human province of Havens capital, to lurk in the shadows and report back. One day the Lord of the province Algia is interrupted as some of the spies he sent long ago returned with important information, this information will lead them down an adventure nobody was prepared for.

"When are we gonna go home?" says the guy in skeleton form.

An Isekai about Politics, Strategy and War. Players suddenly got transported into an Isekai world. Our cast of people are forced to accept the new world and adapt or die. They have the means to do damage and commit war, but are now forced to face the music of morals as now, they're not playing with Code. But actual human life. What will they do? What choices and mistakes will they make in their attempt to go back home?

Humanity has made it to the stars and it's awfully empty up there. That is until a Surveyor working for the Vesuvian Mining guild stumbles onto a race about to make thier first steps into space. And where there is one sentient life form, that tends to mean more await.

Well, that's certainly... A collection.

Go ahead and read a few! Or all of them! I'm gonna get another latte and maybe an apple fritter, so take your time! Hell, take all night if you want!

Have fun!