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Mythical Alter Beasts

GriMlak
As the two stars align, the legend begins… After becoming a test subject of new technology, Joshua has experienced a mysterious phenomenon that allows him to assume a new identity in a different world. In this world, humans consume potions that give them the ability to transform into humanoid beasts. They have Alter Beasts that they can use to battle. They are called Alterers! Alterers can wield the power of nature. They can use magical abilities that they use to protect the things important to them. They use their powers to fight and pursue their dreams. Becoming an Alterer is choosing the path that only the brave will walk. Despite this arduous path, Alterers still brave the challenges to become myths! Forced by his circumstances and to honor his promise, Joshua will walk the mythical path. He will battle the savageness of the wilderness and the human heart. With the help of the otherworldly tech assimilated in his soul and the mysterious shard fused in his heart, Joshua will forge a unique path that will bring dread to all creatures! Sink continents! Shatter the sky! Devour the world! ...... New chapters are posted at 6 pm (GMT+8). Also, check my page on this site. www.buymeacoffee.com/grimlak03 I'm posting images I used as inspirations, so if you're interested, you can see them anytime. You can also buy me a coffee if you like my novel! Maybe you can pity this poor me and give me some encouragement. I will greatly appreciate it. Thank you and God bless! ...... Note: The book cover photo is not mine. The image came from the Sega-developed PS2 game, Project Altered Beast.
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"A Smile Over the Abyss"

Title: The Void Behind the Smile A thousand years after a war that shattered the continents and rewrote the laws of reality, Earth survives in fragments. Fifty-five landmasses remain, each ruled by a Lord whose true nature defies human comprehension, each home to supernatural abilities that emerged from the ashes of the old world. It is a world of staggering inequality and ancient scars, where mythological beings once walked alongside humanity during its darkest century and where the ruins of civilization are still being scavenged by those living on the margins. The war is over. The damage is not. Rupson was a college student from Nepal who read too many web novels and knew exactly how transmigration stories were supposed to go. Then he died in a traffic accident and woke up in the body of Shiva — the legitimate son of one of the fifty-five Lords — in a sprawling capital city called Ashorkoat. He inherited the body's reflexes, its reputation as a generational talent, and its nickname, "Prince of Cold," but not its memories. He has the muscle memory of someone extraordinary and the emotional map of a stranger, and the people around him are far too sharp to be fooled for long. The transmigration itself was not clean. Something happened in the space between his death and his arrival — something that left marks on his body, a hollowness in his chest, and a coldness that makes animals flinch when he walks past. He doesn't know what it was. He isn't sure he wants to. This is not a power fantasy. Shiva knows the tropes, and he knows he isn't the chosen one. The abilities in this world are limited only by imagination, which means the ceiling is effectively nonexistent and the floor is a quiet, unremarkable death. There is no destiny guiding him, no narrative protecting him, and no guarantee that the people around him will survive the consequences of his mistakes. He cannot read people — he pattern-matches against frameworks from his old life, and he is visibly, consequentially wrong about individuals more often than he'd like to admit. Every advantage he carries comes with a cost he doesn't yet understand, and the body he inhabits is riddled with anomalies that predate both his arrival and the Awakening itself: eyes that no ancestor ever had, a birth omen that the scholars still argue over, and a physicality that shouldn't be possible for someone who hasn't even begun to Awaken. As Shiva navigates the treacherous politics of a Lord's household, the factional warfare of a fractured world, and the slow, grinding process of becoming someone he isn't sure he wants to be, he will build something from almost nothing — a network, a structure, a web of relationships that spans the pillars of power, information, and wealth. But power in this world is not the same as satisfaction, and the architecture he constructs will be tested by forces that operate on scales he cannot yet perceive and by moral compromises that no amount of genre-savviness can prepare him for. The world does not care about his backstory. The people he meets are not NPCs waiting to be recruited. And the chaos that underlies everything — the unconscious, indifferent substrate of reality itself — is not a tool to be wielded but a truth to be survived. The Architecture of Chaos is a seinen post-apocalyptic science-fantasy about what happens when an ordinary person is dropped into an extraordinary situation and discovers that the extraordinary is far more terrifying, far more morally ambiguous, and far less interested in his survival than any story ever promised. It is a story about the gap between knowing the tropes and living through the reality, about the small acts that reshape the world more than any grand battle, and about a single question that will follow Shiva from his first morning in a stranger's body all the way to the end: Was my journey worth it? Should I have done what I did?
Rohit_Chokhal · 6.2k Views

The Reborn Sovereign of Ruin, Bound by His Star

Revenge is, by all means, one of the most guaranteed things to happen when a warlord with dragon blood in his veins and ether at his side is betrayed, poisoned, and reduced not to death but to decades of obliterating pain as his ether channels burn from his very soul. Only one remained. One channel, thin and fragile around his heart, survived long enough for him to endure, to wait, to plan, to manipulate, and, eventually, to return to the world with one clear purpose: to burn down the nation of the traitor who thought he had erased him for good. But then came a fortune teller at a street stall. And with the fortune teller came a dare Arik accepted for fun, a spread of cards drawn with no real expectation beyond momentary amusement. Instead, he found something far more dangerous than revenge waiting for him. His mate. A story of rebirth, revenge, enemies-to-allies-to-lovers, political ruin, ether, and the deeply unfortunate reality that the one person tied to Arik’s fate may be the very last person he should ever want. — Warnings, disclaimers, cries for help… call them whatever you want. This is the third book set in the same universe, but it can be read on its own. The world will be fully presented, so nobody needs to do homework before stepping into the chaos. For anyone curious, the first two books are: Bound by the Mark of Lies Shadow Unit Scandal: The Commander’s Omega This universe is ABO dragged directly into etherpunk, political fantasy, violence, bad coping mechanisms, and my ongoing inability to let powerful people make emotionally healthy decisions. There will be violence. There will be gore. There will be smut. There will also be vengeance, terrible restraint, worse impulses, emotional damage, and at least one man reacting to fate like it personally insulted his bloodline. Good luck.
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Douluo Comparison: Dragon God Douluo Yu Xiaogang

Transmigrating to the Douluo Continent, became young Yu Xiaogang, the Master, but this time he refused to accept his fate. Through hard work and research on martial souls, he defied destiny and eventually became a Limit Douluo. Just then, the heavens descended. [Comparison of the two Douluos, first: Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang and Dragon God Douluo Yu Xiaogang] Grandmaster] Yu Xiaogang awakened the martial soul Luo Sanpao, with only half a level of innate soul power. He cursed the heavens all day long, expending a huge amount of his family's resources to force himself to reach level ten. Then, based on his own theories, he selected a pig-like soul beast, depriving Luo Sanpao of the opportunity to evolve, leaving his soul power at level twenty-nine without any further progress. Dragon God Douluo Yu Xiaogang, with the same martial soul and innate soul power, contributed the secret of whale glue in exchange for growth resources. After reaching level ten, with the thought of dying if he didn't succeed, he absorbed the soul ring of a pure-blooded dragon-type soul beast, defying destiny and allowing Luo Sanpao to gradually transform and evolve into the Holy Light Dragon. And it wasn't just in cultivation, research, or even personal conduct that Dragon God Douluo Yu Xiaogang completely overwhelmed Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang, letting everyone know that such a vast difference could exist even within the same person. Bibi Dong: "Why can we be together in that world? Xiaogang, why can't you try harder?" Yu Yuanzhen: "This kind of person should be my son!" Ning Fengzhi: "Compared to Dragon God Douluo, Yu Xiaogang doesn't deserve to be called a Grandmaster at all!" Flender: "I've already become a Title Douluo over there? Honestly, can we switch brothers?" Later, the comparison between Blue Silver Entangled Tang San and Ultimate Life Tang San was introduced, and only then did people realize that under the influence of Dragon God Douluo Yu Xiaogang, the entire continent had already undergone a dramatic change. Support Me at Pat Reon 60 Advanced chapters at: [email protected]/AVRKingsTL Replace @ with a.
AVRKingsTL · 2.7m Views