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The Barbarian Villain Who Lives To Destroy Everything

In a world where kingdoms rise on pride and heroes are worshipped as legends, one man walks a different path—not to conquer, not to rule, but to erase. Michael Varkhal is not a savior, nor a tyrant seeking a throne. He is something far worse—a man born from betrayal, shaped by cruelty, and driven by a single, merciless truth: the world that created him deserves to be destroyed. Once, he was human. Once, he believed. But the same society that preached honor branded him and his kin as traitors, slaughtered his family, and buried the truth beneath power and lies. What remained was not a victim… but a force of reckoning. With a mind sharper than any blade and a will that bends even monsters, Michael does not wage war like kings or heroes. He whispers. He manipulates. He turns allies into enemies and cities into graveyards—watching as pride, greed, and fear consume humanity from within. Entire guilds slaughter each other. Nations crumble without ever knowing his name. At his side walks a group of broken souls—each bound not by loyalty, but by shared ruin. Together, they move toward one inevitable destination: the heart of power itself. But among the countless lives he has shattered stands one who refuses to break—Yelena. A woman who has every reason to hate him, for he is the one who burned her homeland, who turned her world into ash, who stole everything she once held dear. Yet, despite her hatred, she remains bound to him… because to Michael, she is not just another victim. She is the only thing in this collapsing world he refuses to destroy. Not out of mercy— But obsession. As ancient forces stir and the mysterious Children of the Abyss emerge from the shadows, the world begins to realize a terrifying truth— This is not a story about stopping a villain. This is the story of a villain who cannot be stopped. Because Michael Varkhal does not seek victory. He seeks annihilation.
Dark_inkwrites · 1.3k Views

Zombie Apocalypse: I Have Safe Zone Superpower

The beginning of the apocalypse brought chaos and disaster to humanity. It tore away the mask of society and revealed the cruelty hiding beneath. Ivy Ravencroft experienced it all firsthand. Her family was unfair and cruel, and they abused her so badly that she went blind. Her lover died trying to protect her, and she spent the next five years struggling to survive, until she finally died in the apocalypse. But then, Ivy woke up again, reborn in the first year of the apocalypse. At first, she felt hopeless. If only she had returned to a time before the apocalypse, she could have gathered food, weapons, and supplies to survive better. Still, she was grateful for one thing: she had kept her special ability, the power to create safe zones. This time, Ivy made a promise. She would protect her lover, find her real family, and take revenge on everyone who had hurt her. .................................. "Huh? Why is there a bento box lying here?" Ivy asked, confused. "What bento? Are you trying to trick me again?" Silas asked, sadness in his eyes. "This one!" Ivy said, holding up the packaged meal and waving it at him. "What the... where did that come from?" Silas stared at it in shock. Ivy’s eyes widened. She realized something, only she could see these items, and when she picked them up, they became real. "Can… I buy it from you?" Silas asked, unsure. "Of course. But I won't give it to you for free." Ivy smiled like a fox. Silas closed his eyes; he was ready for her to demand something sky-high and said, "Okay. Tell me how many gold bars you want." Ivy smiled and teased, "I don't want gold bars; they are way too cheap. I want one kiss." Silas: Blushing hard. His subordinates: "..." This wave of dog food was too unexpected! ....................................................... With the supplies, picking a superpower and a safe zone superpower, Ivy built her own residential area. She gained Kindness Energy and multiplied supplies with the help of Temporal Storage. While other bases struggled to make a simple house, she used her golden finger to make luxurious buildings and rent them out, becoming the big shot in the apocalypse.
LittleRabbit1111 · 1.4m Views

The Grand palace

In the year 1833, the crown prince of England paid a visit to Norway, and fell in love with their only princess. It is love at first sight for both of them, and after several visits, the princess conceives a child without a betrothment even. What else is shame? "BASTARD and ILLEGITIMATE" Those were the first words Reginald heard coming into the world. It was since then he understood he was his mother's plague. After suffering for a long time and denied his human right, Reginald finally becomes the crown prince. But that didn't stop the criticism he gets for being an illegitimate child, his self esteem is lost everyday. Not just criticized, but rejected by his both his paternal and maternal extended family. No one wants a child born out of wedlock, as Reginald was conceived in his mother's womb before she became married to king Jonathan Hanover. The royal court would not accept an illegitimate king as well, especially not one thought to be a bastard. Their lot connive with the Grand duke who wants the throne for his nephew; prince Arthur and Reginald's life becomes threatened by petty looking threats. It turns out the threats on his life were built to look loose and weak, enough to make him put his guard down. He is assassinated a second time. In the bustle, he meets Charlotte Brumble. The ever curious and intriguing apothecary. Charlotte Brumble is a young and aspiring orphan apothecary living with her grandmother in the quiet and poor Ramsbottom. Acquiring her knowledge from her late grandfather who once served in the castle as a professional medical officer, she makes earnings from selling medicine and medical services to the folks of Ramsbottom. Having had a rather unfriendly experience from a young age, Charlotte has been molded into an unfeeling person, and has no time for vain worries except for money of course. She bears the plague of being unfortunate, possessed and crazed as a result of too much knowledge for a girl her calibre. Charlotte meets Reginald unaware of his status, and they bond as friends. Reginald knowing who is responsible for his assassination sets to find evidence and on doing that he returns to the castle and the culprits face justice. Charlotte first welcomed Reginald to her world, then he welcomed her to his. Life in the castle was living on a pedestal, there were a lot of people who needed to be satisfied and they didn't mind eating human flesh and blood to gain that satisfaction. From Reginald's love problem to the reason why her father was framed and kicked out of the castle Charlotte solves as many mysteries as she can. To the admiration of the Grand prince, Reginald's zealot of a brother who just didn't know when to stop. Grand Prince Mason learned something he was not willing to pass by; Charlotte is the only person alive who can carry out the rigid test and prove to everyone that Reginald is his biological brother and the only one fit for the throne. Charlotte would not carry out a test that could cost the extinction of many lives including her's. What if Reginald really is not the king's son? What would befall her and her grandmother who was all she had, or Reginald, his own family, his mother, his sisters...or the Mason whom she was already losing herself to In a world where saving the crown prince could also mean ending him, Charlotte is faced with two options; take the risk or ignore the problems at hand. It would have been an easy one for the old Charlotte; cold, hard hearted and selfish, but surrounded by people she wanted to stay forever after experiencing new loss, Charlotte is at the deep end.
UGLITHUG_89 · 4k Views

Global Awakening: Everyone Thinks My Ability Is Trash

In a world where the sun has become an ancient legend, and the earth is plunged into darkness filled with nightmarish creatures, survival is an everyday battle between life and death. Everyone who enters the Sacred Land on the day of their coming of age receives a single chance to obtain supernatural power. Among all possible rewards, the most desirable is considered to be a powerful ancient heritage that grants incredible physical strength, invulnerability, and other legendary abilities. Fire, on the other hand, is considered an ordinary and even mediocre power. Li Wei, who has transmigrated into this body from the Blue Star, faces a choice. When two options appear before him — the ability to control flames or the rarest “Perfect Physique” — he, without hesitation, chooses the second. At that very moment, a wave of ridicule and contempt from the entire school crashes down on him. “Choosing the most useless physique instead of fire? This guy has definitely gone crazy!” “Haha, what an idiot! Now he’s just a piece of useless meat!” “The dumbest choice in the history of mankind!” After all, in a world where the sun disappeared hundreds of years ago, the “Perfect Physique,” which was once considered the strongest, has lost all its value. Without sunlight, it has turned into a joke. Everyone is sure that Li Wei has made a fatal mistake and doomed himself to a miserable existence. However, no one knows one important secret. Li Wei did not come from this world. And his knowledge is completely different. What if the “most useless” choice actually turns out to be the strongest?
OctoDrowse · 8.4k Views

To Make Him Fall...or not

“I gave you my soul in my last life. In this one, I’ll settle for your crown.” ~ In my first life, I was the devoted Queen. I waited two months for my husband, King Lauren, to return from the front lines—only for him to walk through the palace gates with a beautiful young maiden by his side and a decree in his hand: ‘She would be the new Queen’. And because of that evil beauty he brought to our kingdom, I died a discarded "nobody," executed for a crime I didn't commit. But death didn't take me. It sent me back. I woke up on the morning of his return. The crowds are cheering, the flowers are blooming, and my husband is about to humiliate me in front of the entire kingdom. But he doesn't know I've changed. He doesn't know I've returned with a special skill that makes me the most dangerous woman in the room. Before he can introduce his "New Queen," I hand him the one thing no one in this kingdom has ever dared to ask for: Divorce papers. In our land, a Queen asking for divorce is an abomination punishable by stoning. But Lauren thinks I’m bluffing. He looks me in the eye, tears my petition to shreds, and growls, “You are my wife. I will never stamp those papers.” He thinks he is keeping me trapped. He doesn't realize he has trapped himself in a palace with a woman who knows every one of his secrets—and is prepared to burn his kingdom to the ground just to see him sign his name. My goal is simple; I will make him fall... not in love, but to his knees. Since he spent my first life making me cry. I’ll spend my second making him bleed.
FaeyVor5651 · 72.9k Views