《The Friendly Neighborhood Nightmare Caller》Prologue
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My-Our name was Ai Nakamura. We were a Japanese girl, until recently. Confused? I can see why. After all, how can a single person be a "we"? The answer is simple: we **were** one person, now we are two.
Still confused? Well, let's start from the beginning then. Don't worry we'll be quick. Ai Nakamura, daughter of Kenji and Kazumi Nakamura; born in a small, peaceful village in the countryside. We were an only child. Mother died of an illness when we were seven years old; father started coming home drunk. **No**, he did not abuse us, didn't really take care of us either. Although he *did* leave us money so we could take care of ourselves.
Once we were old enough, Dad sent us to a pretty good middle school, in Tokyo. We didn't have many friends, and our school life was rather uneventful. Honestly, the most eventful thing that happened, occurred in our first year of high school. The resident school bullies thought it was a good idea to harass us during club activities. Well, we were a member of the cooking club, and it was our turn to cook that day. Let's just say the bullies didn't appreciate the scalding hot cast iron pan-to-the-face. The school couldn't really suspend us since we lived on campus, so we got detention for a month. Totally worth it, by the way.
Well, anyways a few months after graduation, some little girl came by and informed us of our father's death to some monsters the government calls Fiends. The Fiends had first appeared somewhere towards the beginning of senior year and had been attacking humans since, although they tended to avoid large population centers. Well, this little girl told us that we had also been chosen to be a hero if we wanted to be one. I think the term she used was "Defender of Humanity" but we honestly weren't listening to her speech. We were given a choice of races to be changed into and an extra perk, or "Tattoo" as she called it.
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We chose Kitsune and the "Split" tattoo. What? We always liked foxes and wanted a sister and best friend. Yes, we were lonely. So what if we are weaker than most of the other heroes? Now we go by Taiyo and Tsuki. I am Tsuki and I am a gray/black fox girl; my new sister Taiyo looks almost exactly like me except she has golden fur.
Well, we've just arrived at Savior Central for our training and to find a proper team. Seriously, who named this place? Sure it's catchy, but it's so unimaginative! Oh well, time for Boot Camp!
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The Ancient Core: A Progression Fantasy
The title of [The Ancient One] is bestowed upon an unassuming, forgotten Core. Hidden deep underground, it lies in wait, biding its time as it learns the rules of its surroundings. Roaming beasts and unknown threats surely threaten the little rock as it sticks to the darkness, its one true refuge. This is a slow-burning Dungeon-Core fiction with a LitRPG-System. You can expect an extreme amount of kingdom-building, an more in-depth Mana-System, and a Evolution-System. Chapters are between the length of 2-4k words, though the first 50 will likely be closer to 4k. Anything after will have the average be 2.5k. I personally like explaining how things work a lot, so do have that in mind if you decide to read this fiction. Cover is credited to [Asviloka] who can be found on this thread:https://www.royalroad.com/forums/thread/110578 [participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]
8 145Hero's Song - A Novel in Verse
Every child in every town has heard adventure’s callsongs and stories of the hero, known and loved by allbut every now and then a stubborn child will come alongwho will not rest until they’ve been the hero in a songAnd what awaits the child who chases dreams until their endthose who challenge fate with every day they have to spendwould they know the questions to the answers which they findwhat of all the family and friends they left behindShould this be a tale of good and evil, or of fatechoices made in moments lost and battles won too latesomewhere on the hero’s path he might just go astraymaybe it’s a simple song to those who know the way
8 533At The Precipice
Defenseless. Scared. Alone. That describes the life of Brock Carter as of late. Following his ‘death’ at the hands of a vicious magpie, Brock is rescued by the machinations of the newly instated, all-powerful System and thrust knee-deep into a brutal world catered only to the strong. Fluctuating between two states of being and trapped within a city ravaged by time, he is told to either seek out the mysterious ‘Source’, or die trying. He just hopes he can do it without scuffing his expensive suit in the process. ***** Honestly, I've just always wanted to write a story. I had a crack at it a few years back, but the entire thing fell apart before it even began. At The Precipice was originally written as a way for me to destress and play with System elements and characters, but eventually I decided that if I was gonna write, why not post it too? Writing's just a hobby of mine, so don't expect this to be at published novel level, I guess, or even anything of relative polish. Updates every Mon-Tues-Wed-Thurs-Fri Average chapter length is 2000 - 3000 words ***** What to expect: - A semi-comedic/light tone, mixed in with a gritty world and brutal survival (not ever grimdark though) - An MC that thinks about what he's going to do and why he'll do it, even if his internal logic is lacking. Is a rather rational person, not often influenced by his emotions, but can be in extreme situations. - A plot heavily focused upon the MC, but one that will branch off to envelope the other characters in the world at times. Often, it's just other people's perspectives of him. - A story of power growth. While the MC is certainly going to be powerful, even over 100 chapters in from what I've written, he still isn't the strongest being on Earth, let alone the entire Multiverse. - Lots of gore, vivid fight descriptions, and often times deaths of people, some even somewhat important to the story ***** Things this story will never have: - Harems - An edgy, villainous MC - An MC that does jackshit about things for 'plot reasons'
8 145Artisan
Hi everyone, really, really sorry for disappearing on you guys, illness lead to a deep depressive episode that I'm still struggling with. Been thinking about coming back to revamp/finish writing Artisan and noticed a kind reader pointing out my work has been stolen and published on Amazon. The offending novel is The Artisan by Jon Moremont - obviously a GoT fan who didn't even read the blurb properly and put a wizard on the cover. Just wanted to let everyone know that this book has nothing to do with me, and has no new content. Thanks, and sorry again - LF Superhero Litrpg Skills, level-ups, powers, crafting, and base-building. Releasing a chaplet daily, ~1,200 words. It is 2054 and unemployment is at an all-time high. In the era of the quantum computer, autonomous systems have taken over as the backbone of the workforce. Justin, 20 years old and unemployed, has nothing holding him back, and since his government stipend will cover the expense, he signs up to play Imagitech's brand new game: A Time of Heroes. Justin has never been that into multiplayer games, but for a full-immersion virtual reality where he can play a Superhero, Justin is definitely in. 'Superheroes and Villains are on the rise in an alternate America of 2020. Forces of good and evil must band together to control the future'. Justin plays Artisan, an alien AI trapped on Earth.Inventor, hacker, and gadgeteer to a team of heroes. Hope you enjoy. Please feel free to leave reviews and comments.
8 202The Sensible Knight
This story revolves around Maximilian Radcliffe, born in a world with status, magic, demon lords and summoned heroes. He has a very, very faint recollection of his previous life but is otherwise no different than any other kid around. Watch him grow and get recruited in the hero's party and travel around with his harem *cough* PARTY as they fight against the demon lord and corrupt humans. Watch him handle cliched events *cough* SERIOUS OBSTACLES in a calm and cool manner in a world which favours hot-headed, hot-blooded men...... Author's note :- Hello, readers. My first work here. After reading countless isekai stories online, here is my take on the genre. This story is about a cliched world with an unconventional MC .... cheers!!!!
8 175John's worries about his Harem
Synopsis:(John's worries about his Harem) - John, a boy who greatly mistrusts the sincerity of his unbelievable "harem", stumbles upon five mysterious men by accident. They captured and forced him into cooperating with them, signaling the start of his life's greatest change. [Author's Words as of January 5, 2017: I appologize to everyone for being gone without a word. I know it is inexcusable, but please forgive me. My laptop died so this happened. Right now, I'm done re-editing the available chapters. I plan to release chapters again once I've completed writing all of PART 1. I'll be releasing 1 chapter a day once that happens. I am already done with arc 2, and arc 3 will be short, followed by the finale.][September 2019]The story will continue soon.
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