Bullet-Casing Necromancy: The Leviathan Fleet
By @john1208
The sky over Akkadia Prime bled toxic green, and a dying courier drone dropped a basalt lockbox at my feet. Inside? A vial of swirling black shadow, an antique revolver, and a clay tablet etched in my own handwriting: 'Drink the shadow, shoot the first thing that knocks, and smile. The Xar-Kutu are here.' I always knew I was a genius, but apparently, my past self triggered an alien bio-apocalypse just to give me a head start. When the Xar-Kutu spores began melting the population into silent, screaming bio-horrors, I found my true calling. I don't just raise the dead - I arm them. Why give a skeleton a rusty sword when you can fuse its ribcage with a heavy machine gun? Now, I'm leading a trigger-happy undead platoon through a terrifying, fog-choked nightmare to keep my little sister, Nia, safe. Toss in a grumpy sniper named Zadira who can't decide whether to kiss me or shoot me, and we're having a grand old time. But as we prepare to conquer a massive, ocean-dwelling bio-leviathan to carry my undead army across the poisoned seas, I have to wonder... what exactly did my past self do to cause this, and what is waiting for us on the other shore?
6
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?
2