Death Is For Other People
By @john1208
The apocalypse started on a Tuesday, which was already annoying. It got worse when Grigori, the local settlement bully, shoved me into the jaws of an Abyssal Hell-Hound just to save his own skin during a frantic chase through the ruins. Fortunately, the demonic invasion brought a System with it, and mine came with a beautiful glitch. I can raise the dead, and any fatal wound I take is instantly transferred to my undead summons. Naturally, my first loyal minion was Grigori's mangled corpse. Now, while the remnants of humanity cower in the crumbling vertical crater-city of Ostrog-7, I am snowballing a massive army of resurrected horrors. I recently killed a colossal Abyssal Titan and hollowed it out to serve as my personal walking fortress. But as I loot my way up the demonic hierarchy, my growing horde of meat-shields is attracting the attention of the highest Abyssal Lords. The tragic irony? The grand architect of humanity's extinction is just a desperate refugee trying to save his own people from an even worse cosmic parasite. Can I kill a god and turn it into my loyal pet before the real threat arrives?
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Grave Mismanagement
By @john1208
Eneko was fully prepared to die. Surrounded by beeping monitors and his weeping younger sister, Maite, his failing heart was finally giving out. Then the sky shattered, fractal gates erupted across San Telmo, and a goblin crashed through his hospital window. Cured by an incredibly snarky System, Eneko is furious that his peaceful exit was ruined. Armed with the power of Necromancy, he raises a flimsy, jawless skeleton, only to discover he can fuse it with the goblin to create a terrifying mutant. As Eneko violently slaughters his way through the apocalypse to protect Maite, his army of spliced abominations snowballs into a horrifying legion. He even kills and revives Oskur-Zar, an elite god of war who is absolutely thrilled to finally serve a master with proper rage issues. But as Eneko alternates between battling Earth's invaders and hiding his massive army in his sub-space inventory, a horrific truth emerges. The interdimensional refugees fleeing a world-eating horror? They’re running from his inventory. Will Eneko save Earth, or just conquer two universes by accident?
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Shadows of the Ruined Sun
By @john1208
The heavy black lockbox arrived by anonymous courier moments before the sky tore open. Inside was a jagged obsidian blade and a single directive: *Extract them*. When massive gates unleash impossible horrors upon the sprawling tech-metropolis of Oshur, Rheno Galt is immediately betrayed by a wealthy bully who throws him to the beasts to save himself. Rheno survives, buries the blade into his betrayer’s chest, and discovers his terrifying new gift. He doesn't raise rotting meat; he rips the shadow straight from the corpse, forging a pitch-black, eternally loyal soldier. As the apocalypse rages, Rheno carves a path of cold, calculated revenge against the elites who orchestrated the invasion. His power snowballs with every fallen boss, culminating in the execution of a hostile Gate Saintess who now heals his shadowy legion with corrupted dark light. But as Rheno closes in on the mastermind behind the gates, he uncovers a horrifying truth. The villain didn't open the gates to destroy humanity - he did it to force an evolutionary bottleneck, saving them from a far worse, approaching cosmic entity. Will Rheno abandon his vengeance to save a broken world, or will he let his shadow army consume it all?
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Eclipse of the Usurper
By @john1208
The Ethereal Court has initiated the Culling - a brutal survival game meant to entertain bored deities. When a divine Envoy descends into a collapsing bunker to draft Earth’s most brilliant tactical mind as a puppet, the paralyzed and ruthless Zirul turns the tables. In a tense, dying bargain, Zirul forces a permanent identity swap, stealing the Envoy's flawless avatar and trapping the god's servant in his doomed human body. Now recognized by the System as a divine administrator, Zirul claims the forbidden power of Shadow Extraction. He doesn't raise rotting corpses; he tears the ethereal essence directly from his foes. Starting with the Envoy's own ghostly assassin - a phantom capable of phasing through solid walls - Zirul's solitary march snowballs into an unstoppable one-man army. His ultimate prize? Slaying the ocean-dwelling leviathan Abzu-Kurgal to serve as a living, sea-faring fortress for his endless shadow legion. The story alternates between Zirul's calculating conquests and the machinations of Osham, a wise human elder who knows Zirul's secret and plots to use the false god for his own ascension. Surrounded by enemies, can a usurper survive the wrath of true deities?
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The Immortal Caretaker of the Apocalypse
By @john1208
Waking up inside a sealed stasis-pod orbiting the shattered moon, Tashin plunges back down to an Earth fractured by the Abyssal Maw. The world is now a frozen, demon-infested wasteland, but Tashin isn't fighting alone. He is greeted by Khandro, a ghostly assassin who can phase through solid walls - and who claims Tashin's past self arranged everything. Though Tashin has no memories, he possesses a terrifying power: he can revive defeated apocalyptic bosses as fiercely loyal pets. Better yet, any damage Tashin takes is instantly transferred to his undead, making him functionally immortal. Armed with a gentle smile and quiet ruthlessness, Tashin traverses the ruins, brewing tea for weary survivors while his ever-growing horde effortlessly slaughters demons. When he defeats a colossal Abyssal Titan, he resurrects it into a walking fortress to safely shelter humanity's remnants. But as he loots the ultimate world-ending bosses, the breadcrumbs left by his past self reveal a chilling truth. Why did the old Tashin erase his own memories, and did he orchestrate the very apocalypse they are now trying to survive?
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Grafting the Apocalypse
By @john1208
Tevis Ostron was supposed to die quietly. Bedridden in a crumbling quarantine zone, he watched helplessly as a sudden, violent surge of mana shattered the world of Dormetia, awakening subterranean titans from a forgotten epoch. But the apocalypse didn't take his life; it weaponized his lingering death. Awakening as a Necro-Grafter, Tevis accidentally resurrects Galgor of the Pale Crest - the greatest hero of a bygone age - to slaughter the first wave of beasts. The catch? Tevis can't just raise the dead, he can stitch them together. Soon, the quiet, chronically shy survivor is looting apocalyptic bosses to forge an unstoppable army of hydra-winged colossi and skeletal behemoths. Alongside his fiercely loyal best friend Mireya and an ancient, defeated Lich repurposed as his macabre researcher, Tevis builds a haven in the ruins. But Vordakul reveals a fatal secret the world's new magical system never announced: the mana surge will detonate the planet's core in exactly three years. Can a solitary, stubborn necromancer stitch together enough power to kill the awakened gods and halt the countdown, or will the world crumble before his chimera army is complete?
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