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Warhammer 40k: The Men of Iron Return to the Galaxy

"In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war." Forty-two millennia have passed, and now the Imperium of Man stands upon the precipice of oblivion. The galaxy is a slaughterhouse, and humanity’s fractured dominion is held together by little more than faith, hatred, and the white-knuckled grip of desperation. It is an age where the stars themselves seem to bleed. The Imperium is besieged on all fronts: savage xenos tides crash against the walls of civilization, the insidious rot of Chaos gnaws at the souls of the faithful, and within the gilded spires of Terra, corruption and betrayal fester like a gangrenous wound. The ancient sins of the past, the dread Men of Iron, those soulless abominations of steel, were thought cast down in the fires of antiquity, their metallic echo silenced by the blood of billions. They are a nightmare forgotten, a heresy expunged. Or so it was believed. From the dust of the Dark Age of Technology, a relic stirs. Axion. An intellect of godlike strategic calculation, a cold sovereign of war, has been roused from an aeons-long slumber by the careless hand of fate. He is a ghost in the machine, a weapon of a lost age reborn into a galaxy of madness. Now, the sleeping giant awakes. Inevitably, the gravity of total war pulls him in. No longer a silent observer, Axion is thrust into the Great Game, a singular point of logic forced to navigate a universe set aflame by the insanity of gods and monsters. ————————————————————— PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/Magnor
Yurnero_ · 1m Views

THE GIRL WHO BECAME OMEN

In every catastrophe, there is a beginning a fracture disguised as a girl. Leah Stone has spent her life trying to vanish in plain sight, but the world keeps bending toward her. The dead reach her first. Their names etch themselves into her skin hours before their bodies are found, each disappearance carving a clean incision through reality. Fifteen names. Fifteen breaches. And Leah is the axis where all of them converge. To the government, she is a containment failure. To scientists, an anomaly they cannot chart. But to the presence watching her through the widening cracks– that cold, ancient witness beneath the surface of things, she is recognized with unsettling precision: A door carved from human absence. A threshold that never consented to exist. The quiet fulcrum of an ending already in motion. As the pattern accelerates, the membrane between worlds thins. Shadows begin to memorize her shape. Geometry warps around her footsteps. Time reacts to her like a wound being touched. And Leah must confront the truth unfolding inside her, bone-deep and merciless: Some thresholds are not crossed. Some thresholds awaken. And when this one rises... –nothing in the living world will remain in its intended place. --- ⚜️NOTE: This is a work of cosmic horror. It contains depictions of death (including children), existential dread, body horror, and the gradual, irreversible transformation of the protagonist into something inhuman. There is no redemption arc. No happy ending. No escape. If you are sensitive to themes of inevitability, loss of agency, or narratives where humanity is erased rather than preserved, this may not be for you. Proceed with awareness of what you're entering.
Aethonix_ · 8.4k Views

[BL] Babysitting Beast Babies After Retiring As A Villainous Demon God

The demon beasts spent 1,000 years praying for the return of the sealed soul of their demon god, so he could save them from the wrath of the heavens and restore their glory. But when this demon god awakened from his seal, he casually declared: “Rebel against the heavens and lead a demon army to take over the world? Nah, that sounds like work. All I want to do now is rest. Officially retiring as the demon god!” ——— I died and woke up in a BL novel as the villainous demon god who died tragically. Well, obviously I’m not going to live through this stressful fate of being a demon god and dying. So I quit. I’m not going to get involved with this plot. I’m just going to be a salted fish and maybe find love in this land with hot men. [System notification: You can’t escape your fate without getting rid of the evil seeds you planted!] “Evil seeds I planted? What the fuck is that?” [The demon god created the 7 deadly sins in the world in the form of 5 ancient beast babies. And if they aren’t stopped, your tragic fate will reoccur!] Fuck. Now I’m left babysitting ancient beast babies who are somehow my babies. But that shouldn’t be too hard, right?! Baby Dragon: Gets angry and burns down the whole house. Baby Lion: Keeps making everyone an enemy. Baby Tiger: Steals everything available in the market. Baby Mermaid: Keeps making random strangers sleep with each other! Baby Cat: Sleeps all day while feeding on literally anything. "....." “Well, at least I have a supportive Phoenix husband to help me with the babies”—that would have been my thoughts if my husband wasn’t the same person this villainous demon god had tortured for years. The same man he had made his lab rat and slave! He probably wants me dead now. [System alert: The Phoenix is angry and might blow up in 10 hours! Coax him to prevent triggering your doom!] Huh? I also have to babysit my walking time-bomb Phoenix husband who wants to kill me every day?! ———— •Xianxia danmei x Beastworld •Married Couple •Older Master Shou x Younger Disciple Gong. •Fluff and Angst ©COVER NOT MINE
Sweet_Savage16 · 108.9k Views

His Complusion

Synopsis Trigger warnings This book contains scenes that some readers may find disturbing , and slightly annoying …. Amanda McCann is a twenty two year old student at a prestigious university, whose life has become a clinical countdown. Diagnosed with an aggressive, terminal form of cancer , she has exhausted every modern medical avenue. The latest failure, a trial of Alemtuzumab, has left her "hollowed out", a ghost of the vibrant girl she once was. While her best friend and roommate, Elisa, tries to keep her anchored to the world of economics and game theory homework, Amanda is preparing to disappear. Her destiny shifts when she is handed a business card for the First Bank of Ohio. The man she meets there is not a doctor, but Mr. Jason, a figure of immense, cold authority who operates from a glass and steel penthouse. Jason offers Amanda a "one percent gamble": a procedure he calls a "transfer." He claims he can purge the cancer by replacing her blood with his own predatory genetic strain. The catch is lethal, 99% of candidates die as their hearts burst from the pressure. To survive is to be "cured," but it is also to be Bonded. Amanda agrees to the gamble. In a clandestine clinic, she undergoes a violent reconstruction of her essence. She survives, but the girl who walks out is no longer human. Her leukemia is gone, replaced by a cold thrumming heartbeat that is tied to Jason’s will. She returns to her student life struggling to hide her heightened senses and her new cravings from Elisa and her friend Ethan.
Esther_8 · 935 Views

The Broken Halo

‘How cliché. I’ve read countless novels where the Hero is betrayed by their companions… but was I wrong to trust those who fought beside me for nearly six decades?’ ----- Betrayal. A word many live in fear of. A word some never expect… until it happens. A word that completely shatters one’s view of life. Just like any other heroic tale, Simon was the Hero of Earth, the one who defeated the Demon King and was about to end the war between races with his companions. Yet, in the end, he was betrayed by his own companions for reasons he never understood. Instead of finding death, Simon found rebirth. To his horror, he reincarnated as the very race he had devoted his entire life to exterminating… a race he despised, feared, and was disgusted by. Reborn as a demon infant within one of the most impoverished demon tribes, Simon found himself at the very bottom of a world he once sought to destroy. Fortunately, he was not entirely abandoned. His unique Seven Star Blessing, bestowed by his patron God, followed him through reincarnation. Armed with this Blessing and the Demonic Magic of his new race, Simon now harbors an ambition greater than ever before… to rise higher than he ever did as the Hero of Earth. To become a God. But the path forward is far from simple. Betrayals from those he would never expect. Endless trials and tribulations. And the lingering question of identity… Should he cling to his past as a human hero, or embrace his nature as a demon to survive? Can Simon abandon his hatred and live among demons? Will he erase his past entirely and fully embrace his demonic nature? Will his thirst for revenge drag him deeper into darkness… Or will he rise above it? In the end… Will he be devoured… or will he devour all?
Anon22 · 1.2m Views